They then analysed the responses to generate an estimate of a person's tendency to act altruistically and compared each person's level of altruism against their fMRI brain scan.

They used a calorimeter to estimate the heat evolved per unit of carbon dioxide produced, eventually finding the same ratio for a flame and animals, indicating that animals produced energy by a type of combustion reaction.

They estimate that there has been a dysgenic decline in the world's genotypic IQ ( masked by the Flynn effect for the phenotype ) of 0. 86 IQ points for the years 1950 – 2000.

They are very prevalent in the Japanese media and operate internationally with an estimated 80, 900 members in 2009, the last year for which an estimate is available.

They each combine demographic and laboratory data to estimate severity or probability of death.

They burn very predictably, and with some practice a builder can estimate how long they will last.

They developed the Drake equation to estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy.

They estimate that more than half of the $ 907 million preexisting taxes could have been eliminated by auctioning off the permits rather than grandfathering them.

They estimate receiving ten requests per week for assistance from additional orphanages and children's homes, but some of these are repeat requests.

They settled along most of the coastline of Southern Britain between about 200 BC and AD 43, although it is hard to estimate what proportion of the population there they formed.

They estimate a representative-agent DSGE model on the basis of the aggregate data implied by their heterogeneous-agent economy, and show that the estimated coefficients are inconsistent with the true parameters of the heterogeneous economy.

They assert that " many traditionally Christian populations know nothing of a personal faith, true repentance, and a trust in the finished work of Christ for their salvation ", and estimate that 1. 2 billion people are " nominal and non-practising ' Christians '.

They reflected the best information available, but unfortunately, one estimate concluded that the Chinese would not intervene in Korea, another major intelligence failure.

They conclude that: " The effect is not large over the sampled region … our estimate of the change is about two centuries.

They also argued that, based on the results of their studies one can estimate the total number of the victims of the Communist abuse in between 65 and 93 million.

They estimate that the scaling properties of the hazy-sighted link state family of algorithms provide the ability to scale to thousands or tens of thousands of nodes in a densely packed metropolitan network.

They extrapolate from this figure to reach their estimate of 655, 000 deaths.

: Professor Sheila Bird of the Biostatistics Unit at the Medical Research Council said: " They have enhanced the precision this time around and it is the only scientifically based estimate that we have got where proper sampling has been done and where we get a proper measure of certainty about these results.

" They defended the results of their survey saying, " It is unlikely that a small survey with only 47 clusters has provided a more accurate estimate of violence-related mortality than a much larger survey sampling of 971 clusters.

They are often an alternative to the Extended Kalman filter ( EKF ) or Unscented Kalman filter ( UKF ) with the advantage that, with sufficient samples, they approach the Bayesian optimal estimate, so they can be made more accurate than either the EKF or UKF.

They estimate that 690, 000 carcasses / skeletons of the 9 largest whale species are in one of the three stages at any one time.

They can be used temporarily in the glasswork process to hold together two pieces of glass to estimate the spacing of the finished project.

They combined the numerical results from several meta-analyses of the individual effects of these medications to produce an estimate of the overall combined effect on morbidity and mortality.

They estimate that the closest approach will happen in 1, 360, 000 years when the star will approach within 0. 337 ± 0. 177 parsecs ( 1. 1 light-years ) of the Sun.

They were further stripped of old wive's tales by seeing the slender, lovely Russian girls performing feats requiring tremendous strength and with not one bulging muscle.

They argue further ( and somewhat contradictorily ) that our knowledge and resources in preventive medicine would make it possible to control such an outbreak of disease.

They can be further classified as homogeneous ( consisting of a single phase ), or heterogeneous ( consisting of two or more phases ) or intermetallic ( where there is no distinct boundary between phases ).

They may be further heated to initiate a cross-linking reaction and increase molecular weight.

They continued their study in 2003 using newly developed bismuth ( III ) fluoride ( BiF < sub > 3 </ sub >) targets, used to provide further data on the decay data for < sup > 262 </ sup > Bh and the daughter < sup > 258 </ sup > Db.

They are followed by a further wicked king, or " little horn ", who subdues three of the ten ( 7: 24 ), speaks against the Most High, wages war against the saints, and attempts to change the set times and laws ( 7: 25 ); after ' a time and times and half a time ', this king is judged and stripped of his kingdom by an " Ancient of Days " and his heavenly court ( 7: 26 ); next, " one like a son of man " approaches the Ancient of Days and is invested with worldwide dominion ; moreover, his everlasting reign over all kings and kingdoms is shared with " the people of the Most High " ( 7: 27 )

They were further ordered to join a " spontaneous " demonstration demanding Pasternak's exile from the Soviet Union.

They further signed a petition to the Politburo, demanding that Pasternak be stripped of his Soviet citizenship and exiled to, " his Capitalist paradise.

They further maintain that Jesus bodily ascended into heaven where he rules and reigns with God the Father.

They further argue that government encouragement of content filtering, or legal requirements for content-labeling software, would be equivalent to censorship.

They were codified by Francis Bacon, and developed further by John Stuart Mill and consist of controlling several variables, in turn, to establish which variables are causally connected.

They had a bow lengthened above the water, a drawing out and sharpening of the forward body, and the greatest breadth further aft.

They are not to be confused with the Aleuts, who live further to the southwest, including along the Aleutian Islands.

They appear to have split into old Persian peoples, Nuristani, and Indian groups at an early stage, possibly between 1500 and 1000 BC in what is today Afghanistan or much earlier as eastern remnants of the Indo-Aryans drifted much further west as with the Mitanni.

They further called for an increased application of the gospel to the sociological, political, and economic areas.

They noted, however, that their data included a wide range of products, and the degree of competition in each market varied significantly, and offer that further research on this issue should be conducted to determine whether these findings remain the same when purchasing the same product for both small and high volumes.

They further believe that any attempt to implement central planning will result in more disorder, or a less efficient production and distribution of goods and services.

They declared that Son of Golden Turkey Awards " is our last word ... we hereby solemnly pledge that the years ahead will produce no further Golden Turkey publications by the Medved Brothers ... we now pass the torch to whichever brave souls feel ready to take up the challenge.

They were also able to detect a further 29 atoms of < sup > 265 </ sup > Hs.

They further argue that UV light also is poorly reflected from soil and dull surfaces.

They refused to work for less than 10 shillings a week, although by this time wages had been reduced to seven shillings a week and were due to be further reduced to six shillings.

They further identified members of a group that had been marginalized ; women who had been rejected by most of society had an inside view of an exclusive group of people that took a high amount of knowledge to function in.

They exist to further the foreign and domestic policies of their governing body, and to defend that body and the nation it represents from external and internal aggressors.

' They see the presentation of the English language as international as a further feature of Anglophone dominance.