Sentences with phrase «old estimate»

But the other models used by the BICEP2 team are also highly uncertain and based on older estimates of dust that are not likely to be correct, notes cosmologist Uroš Seljak of the University of California, Berkeley, a co-author of another paper critical of the BICEP2 analysis.

The new Sixth Catalog of Orbits of Visual Binaries provides two very old estimates of orbital elements for 41 Arae A and its companion.

Here is an example of poor science: Soon shows a «solar radiation» [the heavy black curve] and outdated version of TSI [Hoyt and Schatten's old estimate].

Present estimates for the cost of improving Mochovce fall far short of a four - year - old estimate for bringing similar reactors in East Germany up to West German standards.

But by the end of the forecast period in 2019, we expect volume to reach $ 808 billion, or about 99 % of the old estimate.

That estimate adds some 4,600 kilocalories a day to the old estimate.

Some of the scientists most involved in producing the old estimates have admitted they had little or no validity.»

The old estimates were based on 20th - century data from the whaling industry itself, which estimated a worldwide sperm - whale population of about 1.8 million, a number that few scientists found credible.

Some experts say a decades - old estimate that six percent of cancers are due to environmental and occupational exposures is outdated and far too low

Thus, the older estimate likely is a «substantial underestimation.»

The new estimate of mortality from windows, based on statistical analysis of 23 local studies, comes close to an old estimate (100 million to 1 billion) that had been derided for its simple, back - of - the - envelope approach.

Older estimates have long suggested that 100 billion was the magic number, but some more recent research suggests that the brain actually contains fewer neurons than previously believed.

For example, the old estimates assumed that 20 % of pumpkins purchased are tossed before being eaten; the new estimates put that number closer to 70 %.

The ring is estimated to be 11,700 years old, making it one of the oldest

The old estimate was 47 mpg both for city and highway.

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In an interview a couple of days ago, he summarized the sobering news — that field work in the last few years has revealed that the reservoir of old carbon is three times larger than older estimates, and other work suggests that it could escape at a faster rate than previously presumed.

The new data, which provide the best assessment yet of the mass balance of the Ross Ice Streams, indicate the ice sheet is growing by 26.8 gigatons annually, in contrast to older estimates that there has been an ice mass shrinkage of 20.9 gigatons annually.

Other recent estimates for Greenland have ranged between 290 and 310 mm / yr so, accepting the Burgess number as more reliable, the older estimates were biased low by 10 — 18 %.