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  • We all know that BP is strongly motivated to not contain the whole flow, since we would then know exactly what it's producing and back-calculate how much they have polluted the Gulf since the well blew out on April 20.

    Robert L. Cavnar: Government Awakens from Coma: Forces BP to Contain the Well 2010

  • Even if you're storing the J&Is and the ramifications you back-calculate from my responses, constructing a context, there's no mechanism for applying that to the J&Is I send you.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • The CDC also used the new methods to back-calculate historical trends in HIV infections.

    Number of new HIV infections top earlier estimates 2008

  • Even if you're storing the J&Is and the ramifications you back-calculate from my responses, constructing a context, there's no mechanism for applying that to the J&Is I send you.

    AI - Mark 4 Hal Duncan 2006

  • The CDC also used the new methods to back-calculate historical trends in HIV infections.

    Number of new HIV infections top earlier estimates 2008

  • What I notice is that for 1955 the missing months are not back-calculate from the quarterly estimates, and neither is the DJF quarterly estimate back-calculated from the annual estimate.

    Crossword Puzzle – Tuesday « Climate Audit 2007

  • Turning now to a tree ring from the field, one can measure the 12C/13C ratio in a ring, calculate the tree ring 12R/13R using the known atmospheric 13CO2 ratio, apply the known deltaEa determined from the greenhouse studies, and then back-calculate the temperature at which the cellulose and/or lignin was produced by the tree.

    Potential Academic Misconduct by the Euro Team « Climate Audit 2006

  • If all the metabolic reaction rates producing, e.g., cellulose were known along with their isotope effects, the ratio of C-12 to C-13 in the product cellulose ought to allow one to back-calculate the temperature at which the cellulose was synthesized by the tree.

    Positive and Negative Responders « Climate Audit 2006

  • Knowing the deltaEa derived from modern diatoms, would could apply it to the measured pristine 12C/13C ratio of ancient conspecific diatoms and back-calculate the ancient ambient sea surface temperature.

    Potential Academic Misconduct by the Euro Team « Climate Audit 2006

  • "Knowing the chlorine content, we can back-calculate the amount of hydrogen," Sharp said.

    SPACE.com 2010

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