Sentences with phrase «big international surveys»

So are there any answers to be found in the recent big international surveys of educational achievement?

Not exact matches

The hitch is that big data doesn't automatically translate into big insights, says Robert Levy, president of Toronto - based research and branding firm BrandSpark International, which develops quantitative consumer survey methods.

The International CES is so big, such an assault on the senses, that it's hard to survey it all in just a few days.

According to an October 1996 survey by George S. May International Co., finding and training new employees is one of the biggest management challenges that the owners of U.S. and Canadian small and midsize businesses face.

In particular, more than half of those surveyed knew who ran the oil well that exploded in the Gulf, that the budget deficit is larger now than in the 1990s, that Republicans were the big winners on November 2nd (though fewer than half know that they'll only control the House and fewer still can identify John Boehner as Speaker), that the U.S. has an international trade deficit, and that unemployment is pretty close to 10 percent.

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Artist abandoned the conventions of brush and easel and played with new materials and methods of artistic gesture: commercial paints and housepainter's brushes, working on unstretched and unprimed canvases, moving the canvas to the floor, and applying paint with hands.This essential introduction spans the international breadth, conceptual depth, and seismic impact of Abstract art with a thorough survey not only of the big names such as Picasso, Klee, Kline, Rothko, and Pollock, but also lesser - known figures who made equally significant abstract contributions, including Antoni Tàs; pies, K.O. Götz, Ad Reinhardt, and Sophie Taeuber - Arp.

In 1970 he made a second, bigger splash with «Information,» an international survey of about 130 artists, filmmakers and collectives that explored the tangled strains of mixed - media, participatory and ephemeral works gathered under the umbrella of Conceptual art.

De Keyser was born in 1930 in the Flemish town of Deinze, Belgium, where he still lives, and his reputation was almost entirely confined to his home country and the Netherlands until 1990, when he began exhibiting regularly abroad, first in Germany and then throughout Europe and further afield, not only in one - person shows but in big international exhibitions like Documenta 9 (Kassel, 1992) and «The Broken Mirror,» an important painting survey in Vienna in 1993.

India announced the results of its new survey at the first international meeting on tiger conservation since the big Russian conclave last fall at which countries with tiger populations pledged to move from conferences to concrete actions on the ground.

«The change of phase from snow and ice to water is the biggest tipping point in the Earth's system and so, although International Polar Year covers a huge range of science, for me the big issue is climate change and the impact that it's having here,» said Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey, in a video message from Antarctica.

A team of international scientists is due to set off for the world's biggest iceberg, fighting huge waves and the encroaching Antarctic winter, in a mission aiming to answer fundamental questions about the impact of climate change in the polar regions.The scientists, led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), are trying to reach a newly revealed ecosystem that had been hidden for 120,000 years below the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula.In July last year, part of the Larsen C ice shelf calved away, forming a huge iceberg - A68 - which is four times bigger than London, and revealing life beneath for the first time.

As the remuneration at some big firms has jumped significantly during the past year, fuelled by a surge in the salaries offered by several leading Wall Street firms, the increasing divide between what the elite international players can offer and the rest has not gone unnoticed by survey respondents.