Sentences with phrase «new estimation methods»

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For this reason, Professor Stork and his colleagues focused on asking how many species of beetles and insects there actually are, in the process applying a new method of estimation arising from a tendency for larger species of British beetles to be described before smaller species.

However, the new research shows that four current methods of estimation — dating from 2001 onwards — suggest much lower figures, namely a mean of 1.5 million for beetles (range 0.9 - 2.1 million) and 6.8 million for terrestrial arthropods (range 5.9 - 7.8 million).

J.D. Willson, an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, will validate his new method, Innovative Density Estimation Approach for Secretive Snakes (IDEASS), by estimating the number of southern hognose snakes and eastern diamondback rattlesnakes at Fort Stewart, Georgia, one of the Army's most active training installations.

Coupling dense genotype data with new computational methods offers unprecedented opportunities for individual - level ancestry estimation once geographically precisely defined reference data sets become available.

Here, we present a new method for predicting the descent time of the forthcoming solar cycle (SC); the method is based on the estimation of the Shannon entropy.

The new method reduces the bias between the TOMS UV estimations and ground - based UV measurements for snow periods.

The main improvements with respect to V2 version flux products (Bentamy et al, 2008) are related to the improvements of the specific air humidity estimation from radiometer measurements, to the assessment of the surface winds retrieved from QuikSCAT scatterometers, and to the use of the new objective method allowing the calculation of flux analyses over the global oceans.