The phrase
"previous estimates" refers to the guesses or calculations made before based on the available information or data. It means the earlier assumptions or predictions that have been made in the past.
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A 2014 study showed that we can distinguish at least 1 trillion different odors — up
from previous estimates of a mere 10,000.
The new study suggests that the impact may have released around three times as much sulfur and much less carbon dioxide compared
with previous estimates from 20 years ago.
Due to environmental factors — more sedentary lifestyle, processed foods — the study says each generation is obese for a longer period than the former, a factor not considered
in previous estimates.
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Previous estimates based on county - level census data would have suggested about half as many households didn't have enough food or adequate access to food,» she said.
Previous estimates didn't take into account the carbon footprint of the goods and services related to tourism.
No standards currently exist for determining exactly who qualifies as working poor,
so previous estimates vary widely in their results.
Previous estimates provided a 10 - year range of maturity and we have been able to pinpoint exactly when the whale in the study hit sexual maturity.
And comparing their estimate with
previous estimates decade by decade, the researchers conclude that «there is no evidence» for a decreasing trend in war - related deaths since the 1950s.
There's nothing average about the amount of trash the average American produces every day, which is actually twice more than
previous estimates report, says a study.
Alternatively, the reported attendance rate at parenting programmes may reflect a broader increase in provision and attendance across the country in the years
since previous estimates were generated.
The organization now expects the global economy to grow 2.9 percent this year and 3.3 percent in 2016, down
from previous estimates of 3.6 percent for both years.
As a result,
previous estimates of the odds of having a second child with the disorder may have made the risk appear lower than it actually is.
The transition to a low - carbon energy society will require more renewable energy sources
than previous estimates if current levels of energy consumption per capita and lifestyles are to be maintained.
As a proportion of the total oil and gas produced at these fields, this represents a leakage rate of about 10 % for both fields, in good agreement with
previous estimates for several other leaky formations around the United States.
The study, initially made public in draft form last July as a «discussion paper» so it could be circulated ahead of the Paris climate talks, holds that multi-meter sea rise could happen within a matter of decades, rather than centuries
as previous estimates suggested.
The team finds that M87 is about 10 billion years old, a number that agrees with
previous estimates using different techniques.
The latest report departs from
previous estimates pegging the company's value during an IPO at $ 25 to $ 35 billion, higher than the $ 20 billion valuation Snap received when it raised funding earlier this year.
While
previous estimates about a 450 - hp Mazda RX - 7 with a turbocharged rotary engine arriving as soon as 2017 don't look promising, Autocar speculates that a new Mazda RX sports car could debut in time for the original RX - 7's 40th anniversary in 2018 — that is, if Mazda's rotary development is going as well as Kogai says it is.
Last year, Smallwood was in the news when he published a paper that put annual bird deaths from wind power in the United States in 2012 at 573,000, well
over previous estimates.
«About four percent of solar - type stars are in quadruple systems, which is up from
previous estimates because observational techniques are steadily improving,» said co-author Andrei Tokovinin of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
Recent surveys have also found that woodfuel consumption is considerably
above previous estimates in several industrialised countries (Steierer et al., 2007).
The team figures that this threshold at which countries will begin to start gaining forest is around a gross domestic product per person of $ 20,000 — almost four - and - a-half
times previous estimates.
A new estimate of Earth's total tree population
shows previous estimates were seven times too low, and there are implications for efforts to understand the nature of life here and elsewhere in the universe
«It was warmer than previous estimates [for the mid-Pliocene Arctic], but it seemed to make more sense,» says Ballantyne, now a climate scientist at University of Montana in Missoula.
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