Sentences with phrase «undercounting since»

Failure to photoactivate would lead to undercounting since a fraction of probes would be dark and never appear in the image.

Not exact matches

Puerto Rico's governor on Monday ordered authorities to review all deaths reported since Hurricane Maria hit nearly three months ago amid accusations that the U.S. territory has vastly undercounted storm - related deaths.

Facing mounting evidence that Puerto Rico has vastly undercounted the number of people who died because of Hurricane Maria, Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló ordered that every death on the island since the calamitous storm be reviewed.

But since dropouts are systematically undercounted, this default strategy paints an overly rosy picture of high school completion.

Animals used on farms make up the majority of those raised and used by humans, with an estimated 33 billion land animals alive at any given time.18 This estimate is more exact than any other we will consider, since governments conduct counts of livestock in order to understand and regulate local economies.19 However, this is a somewhat similar undercounting to what we saw for lab animals: fish and shellfish are not counted, and in some areas they are raised for consumption in large numbers.20 The estimates also neglect other animals used for food, such as wild fish or commonly hunted land animals, although these animals may be affected by some of the advocacy aimed at helping farmed animals through promoting diet change.

That number is almost certainly a vast undercount, though, since large parts of Africa, South America, and Asia have yet to be adequately studied.

Their data even suggests the share of international buyers has been on a downward trajectory since 2008 — but that data relies on a survey of realtors, and could be undercounting.