Sentences with phrase «most general estimate»

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A. H. Boerma, director - general of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N., estimates that the critical shortfall next year will run from 8 to 12 million metric tons of grain in the five most severely threatened countries: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tanzania.

Labour seat level estimates in most of the poll analyses I have carried out in the years leading up to the recent general election were quite stark, highlighting the fact that our PR - STV electoral system is proportional but only to a limited extent.

Insomnia is one of the most common neuropsychiatric disorders, with an estimated incident of 10 - 15 % in general population and 30 - 60 % in elderly population.

The ripples in spacetime predicted by general relativity remain one of the most sought - after prizes in physics, and new research narrows estimates of their prevalence

NAFLD is the most common liver disease, with an estimated prevalence of 20 percent to 30 percent in the general population.

Summary estimates were calculated using a general variance - based method (random - effects model) with 95 % CIs.19 Because the potential confounders considered in multivariate analyses vary across studies, we used the parameter estimates in the most complex model, which typically include demographic, lifestyle, and dietary factors.

In general, the peer effects estimated in this study (and in most research) embody multiple channels.

All of these vagaries don't apply to the other major lists, like the Wall Street Journal list, which is based strictly on Nielsen Bookscan reporting (estimated to be about 75 - 80 % of the actual market on most general trade titles) and includes eBooks, without filtering out types of non-fiction.

While each dog is different, a general estimate is that most dogs should be altered somewhere between four and six months of age.

«In general hunting type breeds had the most protective estimates, while mixed breeds and toy breeds the least,» said Tove Fall, senior author of the study and Associate Professor in Epidemiology at the Department of Medical Sciences and the Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University.

The problem here is that estimates of changes in sea surface temperature and the depth of the warm mixed layer might be very unreliable, since the general behavior of the Atlantic circulation is only now being directly observed — and the most recent findings are that flow rates vary over a whole order of magnitude:

I believe the current length is about 2,000 years and for the earliest portion it is impossible to resolve fine scale questions — in fact only the most general questions can be informed by the sparse grid of data points available and some regions are white space — no estimate possible — and errors of estimation are large for the available points.

On a general point concerning inverse aerosol forcing estimates, most of these are necessarily estimating the forcing change from the late 19th Century or early 20th Century.

Many jurisdictions have a complicated formula for calculating support, and most also have websites that provide a general estimate of child support that a noncustodial parent pays.

Our study also has key strengths: 1) analyses were based on a community sample and we were able to estimate the burden of behavioural problems associated with food insecurity among children in the general population, while most prior studies focused on high - risk families; 2) longitudinal follow - up of children's mental health allowed us to distinguish different types of symptoms and their developmental patterns over up to 7 years of follow - up; 3) statistical adjustment for multiple individual and family factors potentially associated with children's outcomes.