Sentences with phrase «times the estimated size»

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However, the latest estimate of its size, published Thursday, is between four and 16 times larger than previous reports: a whopping 1.6 million square kilometres, or 617,763 square miles.

They tend to order baskets three to four times the size of the average Instacart order, with Ganenthiran estimating the service fulfils one in every two to three of this segment's stock - up grocery orders.

The exact size and growth of this workforce is debated, but workers employed under precarious work conditions make up a significant portion of the larger workforce, with estimates that 4 out of every 10 workers are now employed in precarious situations.49 These workers typically face higher income volatility than workers in traditional employment relationships because they spend more time unemployed or underemployed and some have low earnings.50

Thus the size of the total short physical position continues to stir controversy, with Gold Fields Minerals Services sticking to its estimate of 4000 to 5000 tonnes notwithstanding the mountain of research by the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee and its associates suggesting an amount two to three times as large.

«Despite an estimated $ 3 trillion of art assets in the world, only $ 44 billion trades in a given year — and less than 2 percent of qualified buyers participate in this market due to high transaction costs, long lead times, and limited transparency on pricing and value,» Artsy will bring this last major consumer category online and thereby substantially expand the size of the global art market.

The amount of time it takes to create the reduction will depend on the liquid used and the size of the pot, estimate 20 to 30 minutes.

You'll have to estimate what you expect your baby's size to be in a year's time.

This is a serious enough policy question; certainly the military and police are interested both in estimating, (and perhaps at budget or election time mis - estimating), crowd sizes.

As a result, an estimated 20,000 black holes, each about the size of a city and containing a few times the mass of the sun, are thought to be circling Sagittarius A *.

In these maps, each area represents the final estimated crater size and location of a collision from roughly that time, with redder spots showing older impacts and bluer spots younger.

Ricker estimates that TESS may discover some 500 to 700 planets that are Earth - size or a few times larger, of which a handful will be potentially habitable.

But everyone agrees that sea levels will rise, and every time they update estimates for the size and speed of that rise, they predict it happening faster and higher.

Although Lenstra's number is close in size to those used for online security, he estimates that it would be more than a thousand times as difficult to crack a random 1,024 - bit number.

Kepler 452 b is estimated to be 1.6 times the size of our own world, and resides in a clement, life - friendly orbit around a star in the constellation of Cygnus some 1,400 light - years away that is eerily similar to our own sun.

By examining bits of DNA called microsatellites, which mutate rapidly, Goossens was able to trace individual genetic differences back to a common ancestor and estimate the size of the orangutan population at different times in the past.

To estimate changes in the size of the orangutan population over time, Voigt, along with Serge Wich from Liverpool John Moores University in the UK and their colleagues representing 38 international institutions, compiled field surveys conducted from 1999 to 2015.

A conservative estimate by Field and his colleagues suggests an area at least the size of India is available globally, and others suggest there is several times that — plenty to support a robust BECCS industry.

But the size of the observed bloom could mean that current estimates of the rates of so - called primary production — the production of organic molecules that results from phytoplankton consuming nutrients and photosynthesizing — on the Arctic continental shelf may be as much as 10 times too low, the team reports online today in Science.

By some estimates these habitats and their so - called blue carbon stocks — in the soil and the plants themselves — store up to five times more carbon than tropical rainforests the same size.

Here's how we know: astronomers can estimate how many asteroids of a given size are out there, even if we haven't seen them all, by looking at the rate of re-detection, or how often we see the same asteroid a second time.

Astronomers estimate that around 2000 stars reside within Trumpler 14, ranging in size from less than one tenth to up to several tens of times the mass of the Sun.

American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliates) nests are sparsely distributed, time - intensive to find, and often in remote locations, all adding to the challenge of estimating the size of their breeding population.

Surprisingly, this estimated size is more than 10 times smaller than previously thought.

Although the distances between the gas condensations are now several times the size of our solar system, the authors estimate the gravitational attraction between them is sufficiently strong that the new stars will comprise a quadruple star system.

In the subsequent Marine Mammal Science paper just out, the catches were among the key pieces of information used to model the size of the California blue whale population over time — a model previously used by other groups to estimate populations of hundreds of fish and various other whale species.

Their analysis shows that this planet, which is 1.7 times the size of Earth, lies just outside the inner edge of the zone, making it more of a Super Venus than a Super Earth, as previous estimates indicated.

Even ignoring password - protected and other private sites, the deep web is estimated to be at least 500 times the size of the «surface» web visible to search engines.

Between 2000 and 2012, the world lost more forest area than it gained, according to U.S. Forest Service researchers and partners who estimated a global net loss of 1.71 million square kilometers of forest — an area about two and a half times the size of Texas.

Diffraction hadn't been discovered in Galileo's time, so he was unaware of the phenomenon and believed what his eyes, or his telescope, were telling him and used the observations to estimate the size and distance of stars.

For the paper, «Transmission dynamics and control of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Nigeria, July - September, 2014,» published today in Eurosurveillance, researchers used epidemic modeling to project the size of the outbreak in Nigeria if control interventions had been implemented during various time periods after the initial case and estimated how many cases had thus been prevented by early initiation of interventions.

By measuring the size of the largest raindrop imprints (inset) in ash that solidified soon after an eruption 2.7 billion years ago (pocked slab, main image) and comparing them to the imprints made by drops of various sizes and momentums in lab tests, the team estimates that the density of Earth's oxygen - free atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago most likely ranged between 50 % and 108 % of today's air and was certainly less than twice its modern density — a thickness insufficient to offset the dimness of the sun at the time.

He's got big stars — Jodie Foster and a bald Matt Damon — and a big budget, estimated to be more than three times the size of District 9's modest $ 30 million price tag.

Based on the objects» temperatures and the age of the cluster, the researchers estimate in the 6 October issue of Science that the objects are between five and 15 times Jupiter's size.

Fomalhaut b is significant for its small size, estimated to be between the mass of Neptune and three times the mass of Jupiter, which would place it squarely in the realm of planets.

«We estimated their accumulation over time and measured their sizes,» Speyerer said.

Multilocus methods for estimating population sizes, migration rates and divergence time, with applications to the divergence of Drosophila pseudoobscura and D. persimilis

At the same time, an estimated 20 % of sun - like stars have earth - sized planets in the habitable zone, suggesting there may be plenty of solar - system analogues.

Applying high - throughput sequencing technologies to obtain sequences from most of the genome, we calculated that the passenger pigeon's effective population size throughout the last million years was persistently about 1/10, 000 of the 1800's estimated number of individuals, a ratio 1,000 - times lower than typically found.

January 2011 saw the Kepler mission confirm finding its first rocky planet, estimated at 1.4 times the size of Earth.

That's three times the previously estimated size, spanning from the Torres Strait to just north of Port Douglas.

Exceptions include a number of planets discovered orbiting burned - out star remnants called pulsars, such as PSR B1257 +12, [14] the planets orbiting the stars Mu Arae, 55 Cancri and GJ 436, which are approximately Neptune - sized, and a planet orbiting Gliese 876 that is estimated to be about six to eight times as massive as Earth and is probably rocky in composition.

The school bus — sized meteoroid that caused this destruction was estimated to weigh about 11,000 tons and was traveling approximately 60 times the speed of sound.

Estimates of current and ancestral population sizes (Ne1 = 1,600,000; Ne2 = 780,000; Nancestral = 470,000), divergence time (1,800,000 years and assuming a generation time of 1 year), and gene flow (2Nm1autosomal = 1.69; 2Nm2autosomal = 0.83; 2Nm1X - chromosome = 0.38; 2Nm2X - chromosome = 0.26) were obtained from previous studies and inferred using an Isolation - with - Migration model [21], [26].

(b) By optimizing the likelihood of the data under the model, we can estimate population sizes and split times.

They estimate its current size to be about one - tenth of a light - year, or 170 times the distance between the sun and Pluto.

(c) Applied to hundreds of European individuals, rarecoal estimates split times as indicated on the time axis and population sizes for each branch.

The 16 planetary candidates have estimated diameters within range of being super-Earths (1.26 to 2.0 times Earth's diameter), given error margins ranging from 25 to 35 percent due to the uncertainty in the size of their host star and of the «depth» of the observed transits (decrease in stellar luminosity) across the surface of the star.

The Pixar sequel far - surpassed its already Ocean - sized expectations to take in $ 136.2 million in North American theaters, making it the highest - grossing animated debut of all time, according to comScore estimates Sunday.

objectives include: Year 6 objectives • solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to 3 decimal places where appropriate • use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to 3 decimal places • convert between miles and kilometres • recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa • recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes • calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles • calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units, including cubic centimetres (cm ³) and cubic metres (m ³), and extending to other units [for example, mm ³ and km ³] • express missing number problems algebraically • find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns • enumerate possibilities of combinations of 2 variables • draw 2 - D shapes using given dimensions and angles • recognise, describe and build simple 3 - D shapes, including making nets • compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons • illustrate and name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice the radius • recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles • describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all 4 quadrants) • draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes • interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems • calculate and interpret the mean as an average • read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit • round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy and more!

According to their estimates, some of their favored programs (such as classroom coaches) are more than 10 times as cost efficient as others, such as class size reduction for K — 3.