Sentences with phrase «useful life span»

There is nothing temporary about turbines other than their useful life span and intermittent productivity.

Amortized account is same like depreciation account which is used to reduce the value of intangible asset over it's useful life span through income statement.

Lautenbacher noted that engineers could bolster the test orbiter — it can already obtain 93 percent of the data that fully functioning satellites can — and could keep existing NOAA polar satellites flying past their average four - year useful life span.

Even though the aging station will likely outlive its useful life span by 2024, American companies hope to build its successor by mounting capsules to the ISS that could eventually serve as private space stations.

Not exact matches

The hazard is expressed in terms of the probability of exceeding a certain level of shaking in 50 years — not only because the hazard in places like California is not expected to change much over that time period, but also because 50 years — the typical life span of a building — is a useful period of time for engineers.

If you really want to know an animal, then it's useful to study at least one life span, which is, lions would be 18 years and elephants may be 60 years, not too many researchers spend the 60 years in elephants, but...

As Huber Warner, associate director of the Biology of Aging Program at the NationalInstitute of Aging, says, «If we knew what regulates life span inturtles, that might be useful in figuring out how humans age and how tointervene.»

This could be particularly useful, she adds, in treating MS, which typically spans many decades of life, and thus is likely to be influenced by age - dependent reductions in the ability of myelin to regenerate.