The estimated number of cells per fat pad was calculated using the average diameter, a density conversion factor (0.915 g/cc), and the mass of the fat pads, as previously described [22],[22].
In fact, if consumption is back-calculated from the levels of excreted products using an average drug-to-metabolite fractional conversion factor from multiple thorough studies, the accuracy of the estimate would be only marginally affected by this parameter.
A traditional two-step calculation scheme, lattice calculation followed by core calculation, is used to get the neutronic performance of the equilibrium cycle, including uranium enrichment, mass of fuel, effective multiplication factor, and average conversion ratio.
The average count for the HL muscle was converted into mean activity per ml using the conversion factor determined above, then normalized by the injected activity and the body weight of the animal to arrive at the standardized uptake value (SUV), a semi-quantitative indicator of the average glucose metabolic rate over the period from injection to measurement [ 23, 24].
Because vultures usually eat virtually all the soft tissues, knowing this conversion factor allows us to calculate the average diclofenac concentration in the food that vultures take from a carcass from that in the liver.
The conversion factor was derived by finding the average distance between adjacent columns and relating this distance to the two hour time interval required to form a new column.
Each interval's average LD-based estimate was multiplied by the chromosomal conversion factor to get an approximation of recombination rates in the units centiMorgan per Megabase (cM/Mb) per Chan et al, and comparable to the methodology followed for chimpanzee recombination conversion (Auton et al. 2012; Chan et al. 2012).
Average shallow groundwater residence time was estimated as: {text{RT}}_{text{sgw}} = frac{text{lp}}{(v + 360)} (10 where RTsgw is the average shallow groundwater residence time (year), lp is the average length of underground flow path (m), and 360 is a conversion factor (days per year).
The empirical chromosomal recombination average (cM/Mb) was divided by the total average LD-based recombination rate for a chromosome to get a single conversion factor for each chromosome.
