To restore the banks to health, the sums expended would have to be enough to balance the banks' assets and liabilities, and provide a reasonable cushion to resume lending and absorb future losses.
Collectively then, a large number of man-hours and a substantial financial sum are expended on un-owned animals in the UK.
In the pharmaceutical industry, vast sums are expended coming up with clever medicines, but most ideas fail along the journey.
It's likely that the total sum so far expended – the cost of making the film, and marketing it in the UK – have already been exceeded by the distributor's profit from the box office.
Leisure-time physical activity was calculated as a weighted sum of kilocalories expended in specific physical tasks (20).
First, in a small market, the astonishing sums of money expended on new books, especially novels, have become unreal and unsustainable.
Using the activity log provided by the participants, EE values for the non-wearing periods were estimated using MET values based on the Compendium of Physical Activities by Ainsworth et al. After all data gaps were filled, daily TEE was calculated by summing the amount of EE expended by the participant over the monitoring period (14 days).
Total time expended: one half-hour.
That's almost certainly a smaller sum than the Justice Department expended sending a Gulfstream V around the world and deploying a platoon of FBI agents to Afghanistan for the sting operation that apprehended the Lebanese business executives.
This cost was added onto the synaptic energy cost calculated above, and the information transmitted was calculated relative to the sum of the energy expended on EPSCs and action potentials, as a function of the synaptic conductance scaling factor.
