Sentences with phrase «of magnitude estimates»

Cardinal Technologies, Inc. • Greenbelt, MD 10/2007 — 12/2008 Proposal Coordinator Managed and coordinated contract change proposals including rough order of magnitude estimates.

Munich researchers now combine two competing classical theories of magnitude estimates.

There could still be class - size effects in these nations, just not of the magnitude estimated by Krueger.

As best I can tell, the Howey model of author earnings is at best quick, back - of - the - envelope calculation, which is at best useful for an order of magnitude estimate.

I don't understand why you won't give your calculation or at least rough order of magnitude estimate, which I guess you must have in order to so strongly disagree with Lacis?

An employment of these datasets will lead to somewhat different values of the solar variability, which is, however, covered by our rough order of magnitude estimate of the overall uncertainty of the reconstruction.

An order of magnitude estimate for the risk adjusted cost for renewables is 10x the AETA's LCOE estimate.

Perform or contract others to perform prebuilding assessments, such as conceptual cost estimating, rough order of magnitude estimating, feasibility, or energy efficiency, environmental, and sustainability assessments.

Not exact matches

But the estimates came with a caveat: Almost half of the projects the PBO reviewed didn't have identifiable start dates, making it tough to determine the «actual timing and magnitude of their economic impact,» the report says.

«What this all suggests is that the level of precision at which a speaker chooses to convey a quantitative estimate — as «seven days» versus «one week» — signals to message recipients the magnitude of error around the estimate they should expect,» says Mason.

The proportion of energy lost is an order - of - magnitude smaller than the 5 % estimated for the main VT - deformation trend during the 1982 — 1984 episode of major uplift (see the section «Regimes of deformation in Campi Flegrei» in the main text).

To illustrate the magnitude of this, we can estimate the effects of a 100 basis point reduction in the cash rate on net interest payments (as a share of household disposable incomes; Graph 6).

In summary, we believe that the Institute's fiscal projections understate the magnitude of the federal deficit and that the some of the proposed restraint measures are unrealistic and will not yield their estimated savings.

Our first task was to estimate the magnitude of local rental and land values.

Additional stabilization from unemployment insurance, although smaller in total magnitude than that from the tax system, is estimated to be eight times as effective per dollar of lost revenue because more of the money is spent rather than saved.

For instance, the magnitude of government financial support for the public sector bank currently being restructured Banco de Poupança e Crédito (BPC) is estimated at around 1.5 % of GDP.

Estimates for longer - term rebuilding costs will take weeks or month to prepare, but the magnitude of the disaster could rival or exceed the damage from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which cost taxpayers $ 110 billion.

Whereas estimates from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey and Living Costs and Food Survey are broadly comparable (123 mL / adult / day versus 168 mL / person / day), the British Soft Drinks Association's figures are threefold to fourfold higher.48 61 The level and pattern of consumption will determine the magnitude of the public health effects of a sugar sweetened drinks tax, as well as its effect on health inequalities.

These rather dated estimates indicate the nature and magnitude of the problem.

The magnitude of this effect was surprising to us, though we are not estimating an amount of weight loss but rather changes in the fraction of children above a specific threshold.

«This estimate reflects the view that although receipts growth is expected to continue in FY 2017, a large degree of uncertainty exists as to the magnitude of this growth in light of the risks noted below.

@janh No comparison is perfect, but you use the best comparisons you have available to estimate at order of magnitude level in the absence of better comparisons.

Each volcano's magnitude and its impact on climate can be estimated from the amount of sulfate deposited in the ice.

The quake, estimated to have been at least magnitude 5.9, took no lives but damaged hundreds of buildings.

A recent government study estimated that $ 955 billion worth of damage and 11,000 deaths could result from a magnitude 7.3 earthquake directly under the northern part of Tokyo Bay — a monster quake many seismologists believe is long overdue.

The researchers acknowledge that their «estimate is imprecise,» but «the magnitude of the estimate and the health and development implications suggest that greater attention is needed to better understand and manage drinking water safety.»

New estimates of the February 8, 1843, Lesser Antilles earthquake revise its magnitude to 8.5 (from 7.8), and maps reveal that parts of Antigua subsided up to three meters

Wirth simulated a magnitude - 9.0 earthquake, about the middle of the range of estimates for the magnitude of the 1700 earthquake.

Alerts issued by earthquake early warning systems, called EEWs, are based on several parameters: the depth and location of the quake's origin, its estimated magnitude and the ground properties, such as the types of soil and rock that seismic waves would travel through.

By plotting the lifetime incidence of various cancers against the estimated number of normal stem cell divisions in the corresponding tissues over a lifetime, they found a strong correlation extending over five orders of magnitude.

Stressed trees no longer store as much CO2 The U.K. - Brazil research team that produced the new study used satellite measurements of dry season rainfall to estimate the magnitude of the two droughts over a study area of 5.3 million square kilometers in the southwest Amazon.

Estimating magnitude for larger quakes also takes more time, because the rupture of the fault lasts perhaps several seconds longer — a significant chunk of time when it comes to EEW.

Some experts find the sink's estimated magnitude — 1.7 petagrams of carbon per year, plus or minus 0.5 petagrams — hard to swallow.

These estimates are orders of magnitude higher than those for the so - called general population in Britain, but comparable with figures for certain other groups at high risk of infection, such as gay men attending clinics for sexually transmitted disease.

Laboratory Models In 1975 Ari Ben - Menahem, a seismologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, analyzed the seismic waves triggered by the Tunguska event and estimated that the energy released by the explosion was between 10 and 15 megatons in magnitude, the equivalent of 1,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs.

After standardizing the Nordic Cochrane, USPSTF, and EUROSCREEN reviews to the scenario in the U.K. Independent Breast Screening Review, the magnitude of the difference between studies in the estimated number of women needed to be screened to prevent one breast cancer death dropped dramatically.

When we standardized all the estimates to a common scenario — i.e., the same exposure to screening, and a similar target population, period of screening, and duration of follow - up — the magnitude of the difference between studies dropped from twentyfold to about fourfold.»

A team of researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) published a study this week that estimated the probability of a Magnitude 9 + earthquake in the Aleutian Islands — an event with sufficient power to create a mega-tsunami especially threatening to Hawai'i.

The volume of ash deposited, and the estimated height of the eruption plume (43 kilometers above sea level) put the eruption's magnitude at a minimum of 7 on the volcanic explosivity index (which has a scale of 1 to 8)-- making it one of the largest known in the Holocene.

If a massive earthquake strikes near one of the heavily populated cities in the Ganges Plain, however, «such an estimate may be too low by an order of magnitude.

The earthquake — estimated at magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale — occurred in a total area much smaller than previous large earthquakes, such as the 8.8 Chilean earthquake last year, arguing that the slippage was much greater for the Japan quake, one of the four most powerful earthquakes on record.

There, however, activity did not correspond as closely with the magnitude of error in the participants» initial risk estimates, matching the poorer correction later.

The range of uncertainty is huge, with estimates of Europa's energy supply varying by orders of magnitude.

While his new study makes no use of the huge computer models commonly used by scientists to estimate the magnitude of future climate change, Lovejoy's findings effectively complement those of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he says.

To test this hypothesis, Roberts and colleagues used an approach common in psychophysics experiments — estimating relative magnitudes — to gauge how people's moment - to - moment experiences vary when they view different types of stimuli.

«We need at least 300 smartphones within a 110 - kilometer - by -110-kilometer area in order to have a reasonable estimate of the location, magnitude and origin time of an earthquake,» Kong said.

An order - of - magnitude estimate for capture and storage is something like $ 100 a ton.

The last megaquake to strike this region, one estimated to have been a magnitude 9 or greater, occurred the evening of January 26, 1700.

Whoever pays, the UN says $ 1 billion will be needed to stop the epidemic, an order of magnitude more than the World Health Organization estimated in July.

The researchers note that the most likely response from industry will involve a combination of the approaches outlined in the study, and although there is a high level of uncertainty in the estimates, the findings provide much needed evidence on the relative effects of different industry responses, and the possible magnitude of health outcomes.