The parents of children who didn't have desks or
study areas estimated that they spent 4 hours and 41 minutes studying.
Not exact matches
A 2013
study estimated about 1.4 percent of children living in an impoverished
area in the United Kingdom had an attachment disorder.
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.
«In our
study, the
estimates of carrying capacity for each diet are sensitive to assumptions about the
area available for cultivated cropping.
In this
study, researchers utilized national data on inpatient deaths in the United States to
estimate the potential supply of deceased organ donors, and used these data, in combination with State Inpatient Databases (SIDs) to develop new metrics of OPO performance that better reflect the true deceased donor supply in each geographic
area.
Even though the hotspots only occur on about 1 percent of the
area, they contribute 17 percent to the annual methane emission
estimate of the
study area.
They
estimated that the population of oystercatchers within the survey
area was 1,048 individuals, and comparisons with more exhaustive surveys in a subset of the
study area show that this number is likely accurate.
Based on data from 11
study areas across Washington, Oregon and northern California, a rangewide decline of nearly 4 percent per year was
estimated from 1985 to 2013.
That made the
study's approach unique in this branch of climate change literature, which typically relies on weather
estimates over broad geographical
areas.
Overall, the
study found that the more protective O3 standard accounted for about 75 percent of the
estimated health benefits due to a greater number of metropolitan
areas with O3 concentrations above the ATS recommendations.
Led by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Colorado, Boulder, the
study estimates that natural - gas producers in an
area known as the Denver - Julesburg Basin are losing about 4 % of their gas to the atmosphere — not including additional losses in the pipeline and distribution system.
In the
study, the team also
estimated that glacier
area will be severely reduced by the end of the century, to about a tenth of the 1986 values.
Most of the participants will come from a well -
studied extended Colombian family living in Medellin and its surrounding rural
areas that is
estimated to have 5,000 members.
The team is now working on expanding the
study area to the entire Corn Belt, and investigating further applications of the data, including yield and other quality
estimates.
In the field research, we
studied 225 plots (each 3,000 m2) in two large regions in an
area measuring 3 million hectares [30,000 square meters], which we used as a model to
estimate what occurred in the Amazon as a whole,» Ferreira explained.
«By
studying remote and marine protected
areas, we were able to
estimate how much fish there would be on coral reefs without fishing, as well as how long it should take newly protected
areas to recover,» said M. Aaron MacNeil, Senior Research Scientist for the Australian Institute of Marine Science and lead author on the
study.
Image analysis of the immunohistochemical
studies displayed in A (staining with an anti-IAPP antibody) was performed to
estimate the percentage of islets containing amyloid deposits (E) and the load of IAPP aggregates (F), calculated as the percentage of the stained
area compared with the total islet
area.
The model used in the
study could also help researchers
estimate populations of protected species present in others
area of potential impacts, such as from fisheries, energy extraction operations, and military exercises.
According to one
study that looked at eight fuel aridity metrics in the Western U.S. and modeled climate change's effects on them, human - caused climate change accounted for about 55 percent of the observed increases in fuel aridity between 1979 and 2015 (Figure 6), and added an
estimated 4.2 million hectares of forest fire
area between 1984 and 2015.7 Based on all eight metrics, the Western U.S. experienced an average of 9 additional days per year of high fire potential due to climate change between 2000 and 2015, a 50 percent increase from the baseline of 17 days per year when looking back to 1979.
For individuals marked as young, the probability of random temporary emigration and immigration was
estimated to be 0.6 (SE + − 0.19) and 0.68 (SE + − 0.32) respectively, before and after the age of 2 years, suggesting that an
estimated 60 — 68 % of young individuals emigrated from the
study area, potentially returning subsequently (Table 4).
Function lme in the nlme package was used to
estimate the effect of the
study area (with nest box identity as a random effect) on the pre-experiment baseline hair sample mass.
A US
study in the San Francisco Bay
area estimated the total costs.
A recent review of 22
studies of the effect of parental incarceration on child well - being concludes that, to date, no research in this
area has been able to leverage a natural experiment to produce quasi-experimental
estimates.
American Educational Research Journal, December 2015 In the first analysis to investigate claims of alignment in the context of fourth - grade mathematics using tools capable of
estimating the alignment of curriculum materials with the standards, results indicate
areas of misalignment; including that the textbooks
studied systematically overemphasize procedures and memorization relative to the standards, among other weaknesses.
Taking practice tests lets you
estimate how well you'll do on the AP exam, shows you the
areas you need to focus your
studies on, and helps you become more comfortable with the format of the AP exam.
Studies in this area include alignment studies, DIF, standard setting, and estimating different types of relia
Studies in this
area include alignment
studies, DIF, standard setting, and estimating different types of relia
studies, DIF, standard setting, and
estimating different types of reliability.
«This was clearly not realistic, as the
estimated maximum numbers of birds killed typically exceeded breeding density and productivity combined, such that the prey populations
studied would probably have gone extinct rapidly at a local level or acted as a major sink for birds immigrating from neighbouring
areas.»
The
Studies In the first
study, Baker et al. distributed questionnaires to 3,494 households across a 4.2 km2
area of northwest Bristol (UK), and used responses to
estimate cat ownership and predation levels (via prey returned home).
In urban
areas in particular, cats are one of the most common avian predators (Sims et al. 2008), but their total impact on wildlife is difficult to
estimate and varies greatly between
studies (Fitzgerald and Turner 2000) and with
study methodology (Krauze - Gryz et al. 2012a).
The
study derives an
estimate of a total methane emission rate from the East Siberian Arctic shelf
area based on the statistics of a very large number of observed bubble seeps.
This week in the journal Nature, Csatho writes a «News and Views» analysis that comments on the latest research in this
area: A new
study in Nature by Kristian K. Kjeldsen, Niels J. Korsgaard, Kurt H. Kjær and colleagues, who used aerial photographs, remote - sensing observations and geological evidence to
estimate the Greenland Ice Sheet's mass loss during three time periods since the start of the 20th century: 1900 - 83, 1983 to 2003 and 2003 - 10.
Based on a methodology developed in a previous
study that
estimated wood supply on four National Forests in northern Arizona [33], we subtracted from the total
area of ponderosa pine in the watersheds — 0.68 million ha (1.68 million acres)-- those
areas that are typically excluded from mechanical thinning projects due to steepness, restrictions in land management, previous treatments, or considerations of soil, habitat, or wildlife conditions (Table 1).
The only comprehensive
study of the Antarctic Ice Sheet mass was a 10 + year
study based on continuous 24/365 satellite measurements over the period 1993 to 2003, covering 80 % of the AIS with
estimates from other methods for the remaining 20 %, which can not be measured by satellites (coastal
areas and polar regions).
Bridget Deemer, one of the
study researchers, said
estimates of methane emission per
area of reservoir are 25 percent higher than what they previously calculated.
The case
study planned was to send a team up to Anyox
area, and radiating outwards from the smelter, to assess the state of the surroundings and develop a baseline for
estimating the permanent to long term damage that metal smelting caused.
Another presenter at the session, Paul Chang, a project scientist who
studies satellite ocean surface wind data at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, Md., said that the current method that is largely used by U.S. scientists in this
area of research, known as the Dvorak technique, employs satellite imagery to
estimate tropical cyclone intensity but is imprecise and subjective.
A
study on 1981 to 1995 weather data (Pretlove and Oreszczyn, 1998) indicated that temperature and solar radiation in the London
area (UK) had changed significantly over the period, and climatic data used for energy design calculations could lead to 17 % inaccuracies in building energy - use
estimates.
These revised coal reserves
estimates include improved analyses of coal quality, accessibility, and recoverability in the
study areas.
The
study estimates around 40 percent of new impervious
areas came from
areas where trees used to grow.
These results, based on long observed time series, do not confirm earlier
studies claiming that the Hurst coefficient of temperature in continental
areas is 0.5, which would imply temporal independence of continental climatic processes (Blender & Fraedrich, 2003; Fraedrich & Blender, 2003); this was also disputed in a discussion by Bunde et al. (2004), who found values 0.6 — 0.7, whereas, more recently, Alvarez - Ramirez et al. (2008)
estimated even higher values in some periods.
An interim UN-World Health Organisation
study said that in the most affected
areas of Fukushima prefecture, thyroid doses from iodine - 131 were
estimated as between 10 and 100 mSv apart from one
area which was lower, at 1 to 10 mSv, and one that was higher for infants at 100 - 200 mSv.
This
study uses city
area, which they argue provides a more consistent
estimate and can be derived from satellite data.
Backup generation requirements are exaggerated; transmission costs for new renewables are four times as high as more credible, independent
estimates — in one
area after another, ALEC's
studies have a loose and biased relationship to empirical data.
A
study in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf region in 2005 revealed that this was not the case; now Shakhova and colleagues from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, US, the Russian Academy of Sciences and Stockholm University, Sweden, have used data from across the
area to
estimate how much methane the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is releasing each year.
Cities in the United States are increasingly seeing concrete in place of greenery as urban
areas lose an
estimated 36m trees annually, according to a
study from the Forest Service.
When used for the Peruvian
study area, the IPCC baseline
estimate for carbon storage is 587 million metric tons.
The
study estimates that protected nature
areas around the world receive 8 billion visits per year.
In a landmark
study in this
area from the early 1990s, researchers
estimated the heritability of divorce to be about 50 %.1 What does a heritability
estimate like this mean?
Most employed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander daily smokers (406; 88 %) reported that smoking was not allowed in any indoor
area at work, similar to the standardised
estimate in Wave 8 of the Australian ITC Project
study (88.5 %)(Box 1).
Current
areas of
study are techniques for
estimating effect sizes in small samples, statistical models and graphic techniques for analyzing data, and techniques appropriate for behavior genetics
study.