Sentences with phrase «such estimates»

The error in such estimates can come from uncertainties associated with the number of cows or variations in how much methane each cow emits.
Nor do such estimates include the cost to local school districts, which have spent millions getting ready for the higher standards of the Common Core.
Of course, such an estimate depends on what public employees could otherwise negotiate.
Others, however, will feel some hesitation about accepting such an estimate; and others still will feel compelled to reject it as untrue.
Critics reject such estimates, with some of the more extreme claiming that mandated testing consumes nearly 20 percent of classroom time.
It is quite common for a stock to trade well above or below such estimated fair values.
With such an estimate of the importance of Christ most Christians, I have intimated, will readily agree — often, it will be granted, without much thought and therefore perhaps too readily.
As the country's leading research organization, the National Research Council, concluded: «VAM estimates of teacher effectiveness... should not be used to make operational decisions because such estimates are far too unstable to be considered fair or reliable.»
We find that, after adjusting for such an estimated number of missing storms, there remains just a small nominally positive upward trend in tropical storm occurrence from 1878 - 2006.
Regardless of high uncertainty associated with such an estimate, it does provide a lower bound of the time range for projections of seasonal sea ice cover.»
This orbital information depends on the strength of the gravitational field and can hence be used to deduce the mass of the cluster — astronomers call such estimates dynamical masses.
So, whereas Dauphiné and Cooper (and others) suggest increasing such estimates by factors of two and three («predation rates measured through prey returns may represent one half to less than one third of what pet cats actually kill...» [14]-RRB-, they should, in fact, be reducing them by half.
No precise estimate of the un-owned cat population exists for the United States because obtaining such an estimate is cost prohibitive, and feral un-owned cats are wary of humans and tend to be solitary outside of urban areas.
We find that, after adjusting for such an estimated number of missing storms, there is a small nominally positive upward trend in tropical storm occurrence from 1878 - 2006.
All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are statements that could be deemed forward - looking statements, including estimates of revenues, operating margins, capital expenditures, cash, other financial metrics, expected legal, arbitration, political, regulatory or clinical results or practices, customer and prescriber patterns or practices, reimbursement activities and outcomes and other such estimates and results.
One such estimate showed that the tax cuts would nearly double the number of AMT taxpayers by 2010.
The chart shows estimates by the International Monetary Fund of output gaps and credit gaps during that period; while such estimates are obviously imprecise, they suggest that in most of those countries, inflation targeting and financial stability may have been complementary, rather than conflicting goals.
You'd expect conservatives who have spent their careers decrying the dangers of the national debt to shudder at such an estimate.
Christian Marinoni and Adeline Buzz at the University of Provence in Marseille, France, realised they could fine - tune such estimates by observing distant galaxy systems in which two galaxies orbit each other.
Still, projections by NACE, which includes many universities among its members, are widely considered among the best such estimates.
As for how many people the planet can sustain, the first such estimate came from microbiologist Anton van Leeuwenhoek who calculated roughly 13.4 billion people back in 1679, based on the population density of his native Holland and its size relative to the rest of the globe.
Durgana emphasized such estimates are immediately valuable to those working to fight human trafficking in a given state, from law enforcement officials to nongovernmental organizations.
Researchers say the changes could be as much as 5 percent of costs in some states, but caution there is considerable uncertainty surrounding such estimates.
With help from Yale University biology student Ignacio Quintero, Wiens calculated such estimates for 540 species in 17 groups of living vertebrates.
More sophisticated models that offer a range of possible futures, such as different patterns of economic growth, could improve such estimates, says climate modeling specialist Steven Smith of the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, who is based in College Park, Maryland.
Such estimates relied on previous measurements of primate sleep.
Patients have become more complex, and those with multiple chronic conditions are increasing.1 - 6 Such estimates rarely include obesity, however, which affects nearly 40 % of American adults, 7 and incorporating these rising obesity rates means most patients have comorbid diagnoses.
The authors reject two widely used approaches to making such estimates despite the acceptance of these strategies by state legislatures and courts.
You might want to take a look at the research by Kapp and Defelice (2009) and their breakdown, but as Portny et al, (2008) claim such estimates are not 100 % reliable.
Hence, examinations of the the stability of such estimates over time provides essential evidence of the validity, and in this case predictive validity, of the interpretations and uses of such scores over time.
[9] Among their concerns, are the use of potential rather than actual impacts, and the validity of the underlying science — as well as the overall lack of rigor involved in developing such estimates.
«Although such estimates of future deployment of carbon - free energy sources indicate that it may be possible to achieve a decarbonized energy system, great uncertainties remain regarding the implementation of such scenarios due to factors such as costs, technology evolution, public policies, and barriers to deployment of new technologies (NRC, 2010b)»
Although we believe that even an end year of 2150 is still too far in the future to base meaningful policy, we compared such estimates to the baseline SCC estimates.
An early effort to collect such estimates started with empirical regressions that were used to relate multispectral Landsat signals to ZSD in lakes.
Unlike such estimates from DMA spectra, particle composition estimates are not needed because the CCN spectra are directly read out in terms of Sc.
Such estimates obscure the worst - case scenarios that Petersen warned about.
While he embraces Lackner's much lower estimates, it would be interesting to know why he thinks such estimates are more reasonable.
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