Sentences with phrase «field surveys of»

The ten indicators of climate change include measurements of sea level rise taken from ships, the temperature of the upper atmosphere taken from weather balloons and field surveys of melting glaciers.

Field surveys of coral bleaching and mortality included at least the following quantitative data: 1) measures of coral bleaching as coral cover bleached (%), number of coral colonies bleached (n) and total number of colonies surveyed (N), or both; and / or 2) measures of coral mortality as coral cover dead (%), number of coral colonies dead (n) and total number of colonies surveyed (N), or both; 3) average observation depth (m); 4) observation date; and 5) observation location, including latitude, longitude, and reef site name.

Field surveys of bleaching and mortality exceeded prior efforts in detail and extent, and provided a new standard for documenting the effects of bleaching and for testing nowcast and forecast products.

While, the newly discovered galaxies are 100 times more numerous than their more massive cousins, they are 100 times fainter than galaxies detected in previous deep - field surveys of the early universe, and normally too faint for Hubble to see.

The team's field surveys of coral health showed a twofold reduction in coral disease near seagrass compared with areas with no seagrass (Science, doi.org/bzzg).

But wide - field surveys of the sky have yielded surprises.

Subsequent field surveys of more than 16 square miles of Big Woods forest around the area in which observers initially saw the bird failed to turn up any occupied roost holes.

Together with the Galactic Archeology study based on the HSC wide - field survey of the Subaru Strategic Program, we hope to establish the presence and nature of satellite galaxies, and determine the large - scale structure and stellar content of halos of spiral galaxies in general.»

NGTS resides at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile and is carrying out a wide - field survey of small K - and M - type stars.

Recent Historic England lidar and field survey of Warton Crag Hiltop enclosure in Lancashire offers a possible reinterpretation of the site.

The 2.0 CFM / W or 0.5 W / CFM median figure comes from a 2005 California field survey of 60 furnace systems (Wilcox et al.; motor type not specified), and is a reasonable representation of installed efficiencies of air handler fans.

Back in 1986, Adams was performing a field survey of North Carolina's endangered crustaceans when, in just one pond in the state, he came across some ramshorn snails — a species which had only rarely been observed in the wild since its discovery in 1908.

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Major consumer products companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year constructing, assigning and fielding market research projects and then summarily reviewing and incorporating the survey and research results into proposals, pitches, and other internal presentations to a variety of audiences.

Even so, parents and students alike are optimistic: 64 percent of parents surveyed expect that their children will be able to find a job after graduation — though not necessarily one in their field — within six months, and 67 percent of students agreed.

In an April survey of 600 HR decision makers conducted by Field Nation and Workplace Trends, 93 percent said they have a blended workforce in which freelance workers and full - time employees team up and complete projects together.

For one, half of American defense contractors believe that the fields they play in — unmanned technology, cybersecurity and satellites — are ripe for commercial - sector disruption, per a recent McKinsey survey.

Before brands license products into new categories they need to conduct market research, including a review of secondary research, focus groups, interviews and field surveys to clearly understand what consumers believe about the brand and what their expectations are.

The pistol — a well - named adaptation of the shotgun — allowed Manning to survey the field from a few yards behind the line of scrimmage.

That observation is echoed by the Federal Reserve Board, which fielded its Enterprising and Informal Work Activity (EIWA) survey, which concluded that 36 percent of the adult population has undertaken informal paid work activity either as a complement to, or substitute for, more traditional work arrangements.

According to a press release issued jointly by several South Korean government agencies on December 20, the country's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has sent representatives on a three - day «field survey» of the country's 13 «major» cryptocurrency exchanges.

One portion of the giant field, known as the Wolfcamp formation, was found to hold 20 billion barrels of oil trapped in four layers of shale beneath the desert in West Texas, the U.S. Geological Survey said in a report on Tuesday.

The amount of federal money will largely be determined by FEMA and state teams that will go into the field, survey the damage, and write reports about what needs to be fixed and how much it may cost to fix it.

A 2010 survey by the American Medical Association found that half of OB - GYNs had been sued before the age of 40 — a higher proportion than doctors in most other medical fields.

Integrating the fields of finance and business economics finance, its faculty surveys both theoretical and applied concepts in the related areas of corporate business economics finance, investments, speculative and financial markets, real estate, insurance, banking, industrial organizations, and public policy towards business.

Surveying the field, most analysts think Stratasys is only capable of growing its earnings at about 21 % annually over the next five years, which isn't enough to justify that valuation.

Some regions of the U.S. are confronting labor shortages in construction and other high - skill fields, according to the Federal Reserve's «beige book» survey of economic conditions.

This survey, called the «Hubble Ultra Deep Field,» (in 1995 and 1998) was targeted on a region of the sky that was nearly devoid of known objects, so as to be (hopefully) representative of conditions in the distant Universe.

(CNN)-- Even though former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, one of two Catholics in the race for the GOP nomination, was helped by an evangelical bump in Iowa on Wednesday, his support among Catholic Republicans is near the bottom of the field, according to a new Gallup survey.

The historical development of process philosophy in the field of theology, and a survey the main thinkers» emphases.

He had an efficient organization which surveyed the field of labor, made a definite financial agreement with the local churches, handled the advertising — which was terrific — and trained the ushers and musicians.

«2 Some texts have gone so far in this direction that they have become books «about science,» or present a smattering of so many fields that they end as superficial surveys.

Yet a survey of the mission field highlighted the various efforts for Christian unity occurring in different parts of the world.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

For Islam in modern times, Modern Trends in Islam, by H. A. R. Gibb, is a thoughtful survey by one of the most competent scholars in the field, giving the student the benefit of his extensive experience.

In the field of psychology, too, it is interesting to note that Professor D.S. Browning of Chicago (especially in his «Psychological and Ontological Perspectives,» which appeared in the Chicago Journal of Religion in October 1965) surveyed the dynamic and gestalt psychologies, along with the so - called depth psychology of the psychoanalytic school, to show a convergence upon a view of human behavior and human self - awareness that is similar to the organic pattern stressed in process thought.

If you had a doctorate in any sort of research field you'd know that «there are no atheists in fox holes» is a claim that would need to be supported by, at a very minimum, a properly conducted survey of people who have been in foxholes.

American Catholic history may not be so booming a discipline as biblical studies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and education.

When we survey the whole field of religion, we find a great variety in the thoughts that have prevailed there; but the feelings on the one hand and the conduct on the other are almost always the same, for Stoic, Christian, and Buddhist saints are practically indistinguishable in their lives.

Out of nearly 400 volunteer respondents (drawn from Prepared Foods magazine and NutraSolutions.com readers) with direct involvement in formulating with or specifying ingredients for functional products, a field of 166 survey completers provided information on nutraceutical or nutritional ingredients, as well as their frequently used sources of information on new nutraceutical or nutritional ingredients.

Our comprehensive, independent survey of grocery prices out in the field reveals which supermarket chain offers the greatest savings.

Recent research has been conducted by third - party university professors and affiliated laboratories, and included a field survey and controlled laboratory studies that investigated and provided evidence to support the cleanliness of corrugated packaging.

The article discusses a survey conducted by culinaryvisions.org where they asked people in culinary education, both students and instructors, on aspects of the culinary field.

In Romania, a weed survey in maize fields showed a significantly higher diversity of weed species in the organic maize field.

Silo - King ® has been field proven, laboratory tested and university - researched and is highly - ranked in national marketing surveys of dairy producers.

At the direction of the U.S. Fish andWildlife Service, Crossley, S - D Surveys, Inc. of New York sent field workersinto some 20,000 homes, where they interviewed 6,220 individuals from 12 yearsof age on up who fished in 1955 and 3,108 who hunted.

The latest annual survey of country club finances byHorwath & Horwath, an accounting firm that specializes in the club andhotel field, reveals that for the 12th straight year private country clubs areoperating at a loss.

That golden left arm, cocked like a pistol, holding the ball back, his eyes, somehow both calm and frantic, surveying the field for a flash of silver and black and a sliver of space that said «fire.»

According to a 2012 survey by the National Federation of State High School Associations, volleyball is the third - highest sport for female participation at the high school level behind basketball and outdoor track and field.

At Challenge Success, we summarize data from our school surveys, along with findings from other experts in the fields of education, psychology, and medicine, so the research can be put to use immediately and effectively.

Mary Kalou, assistant superintendent for business, said that at the beginning and end of each season the 11 fields involved will be surveyed to determine their condition.