When deciding whether to invest in a new technology, producers can often estimate only a broad range of potential cost and performance attributes for the technology, and the overall profitability of the investment depends on those attributes.
Since the 1970s, when a gang of hippies squatted its old military facility, Christiania has been a weed marketplace with more than 50 shops (that's a conservative estimate) selling a broad selection of cannabis products from all over the world.
They instead assume that the lengths of all fragments are within a predefined range, and based on this assumption estimate a (rather broad) range of equally likely breakpoints for identified duplications.
Ancestral range models estimate a very broad distribution range (TPOA/TPEOA; Table 2 and Fig. 4) for the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of the Formicinae, although without much support.
Second, while global estimates provide a broad overview of the health status in Belgium, it remains a question to what extent these estimates are grounded in the best available local data.
Street-Fighting Mathematics teaches a crucial skill that the traditional science curriculum fails to develop: how to obtain order of magnitude estimates for a broad variety of problems.
A simulation in the study estimates that a broad global trade agreement could increase world income by $263 billion by 2015, of which $109 billion would go to poor countries.
Until now, the suspended sediment load of the Madeira River was not well known and was estimated in a broad range from 240 to 715 Mt yr−1.
The variations of COP, cooling capacity and the heating power required to operate both systems have been estimated for a broad range of desorption temperatures.
Some estimates, taking a broad definition of Internet use, say that by 2000 the number could grow to 550m, or 10% of the world's population.True, few companies are as yet making any money online, but plenty are trying.
