Sentences with phrase «field surveys with»

By combining field surveys with this airborne mapping and high - resolution satellite monitoring the team has been able to detail myriad ecological features of forests around the world.

Findings presented in this report are primarily based on extensive field surveys with teachers, principals, and district administrators involved in the LDC (and MDC) initiatives.

The team combined field surveys with airborne mapping and high - resolution satellite monitoring to show that the geographic extent of mining has increased 400 % from 1999 to 2012 and that the average annual rate of forest loss has tripled since the Great Recession of 2008.

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Survey methodology: MFS Investment Management partnered with CoreData Research, an independent third - party research provider, to design and field a study among financial advisors, institutional investors and professional buyers in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia - Pacific.

We're currently in the field with this year's On - Demand Economy survey.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

One point of contention during the April election was the number of parks and athletic fields, but land planner Matt Doede said a survey conducted by the Batavia Park District comparing resources with three similar districts, including New Lenox's, indicates that the New Lenox Park District's 420 total acres exceeds the other districts» average of 384 acres.

She began her work in the birth field with the Coalition for Improving Maternity Care Services (CIMS) as a grassroots ambassador for The Birth Survey.

YouGov, in cooperation with BabyCenter, fielded a survey among its national panel including 1,100 online adults.

With the help of YouGov and as part of an ESRC - funded project on UK party membership in the twenty - first century, we (Professor Tim Bale and Dr Monica Poletti (Queen Mary University of London) and Professor Paul Webb (University of Sussex)-RRB- have conducted a new survey of Labour's new members, fielded just after the May 2016 local, devolved and mayoral elections.

COURTESY PHOTO Jen Stress, a former program assistant with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County, drags a flagging cloth through a field to survey area tick numbers.

But a CNN / WMUR survey conducted by the University of New Hampshire also indicates that the race is far from settled, with nearly nine in ten potential Republican primary voters saying they haven't come close to making up their minds and more than four in ten saying they're not satisfied with the field of GOP candidates running for president.

Working with NASA on its Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission, due to launch sometime after 2020 (see «Mapping the Dark,» page 47), Perlmutter will help choose between the different models by studying groups of supernovae that lie farther out in space than any yet studied, following the universe's expansion history back in time.

Morse said that the number of NASA astrophysics missions in operation had peaked at 15 in 2010 and was now in decline with the phaseout of spacecraft such as the Wide - Field Infrared Survey Explorer and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe.

These surveys combined spectroscopy with visible and near - infrared imaging by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Ssurveys combined spectroscopy with visible and near - infrared imaging by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for SurveysSurveys.

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Field says her team did not identify the cities surveyed because they are concerned that doing so would discourage other municipalities from cooperating with her research team in the future.

In the study, which included a series of laboratory experiments, field surveys and mathematical modeling, the presence of various species of dragonfly larvae reduced the infections in frogs caused by parasitic flatworms called trematodes, said Val Beasley, professor and head of the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences, Penn State, who worked with Rohr and whose research group collaborated with Lucinda Johnson, senior research associate and director of the Center for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota Duluth, to complete the field study.

Science Careers conducted its annual web - based survey of individuals familiar with pharmaceutical and biotech employers to determine the best employers in the field.

Respondents in this year's survey pointed to five main causes of the field's less than favorable reputation: drug and product recalls such as the withdrawal of Avandia; safety issues such as the discovery of problems with raw material from China used in medical products; scandals, including evidence that pharmaceutical companies have failed to release data from trials whose results cast doubts on their drugs» safety and efficacy; lawsuits brought against companies that failed to warn patients of problems with their products; and ethical issues such as kickbacks for physicians promoting specific medications.

«With this record we have more biological data today than has been collected by all previous field surveys and ship cruises,» says Gene Carl Feldman, SeaWiFS project manager at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

And next decade, spacecraft such as NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope and ESA's Planetary Transits and Oscillations will join the hunt, alongside a new generation of enormous ground - based telescopes with mirrors 30 meters across or more.

It also recommended several other projects — chief among them the Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST)-- to overlap with and complement Webb, the field's crown jewel, which was then planned to launch around Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST)-- to overlap with and complement Webb, the field's crown jewel, which was then planned to launch around field's crown jewel, which was then planned to launch around 2014.

To estimate changes in the size of the orangutan population over time, Voigt, along with Serge Wich from Liverpool John Moores University in the UK and their colleagues representing 38 international institutions, compiled field surveys conducted from 1999 to 2015.

In a recent survey, nearly 90 percent of stem cell scientists ranked California as one of the top three states for their field compared with about half of the nonstem - cell scientists.

Each year, Science Careers conducts a web - based survey of individuals familiar with biotechnology and pharmaceutical employers to determine the best employers in the field.

NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), slated for launch no earlier than 6:09 A.M. Pacific Standard Time on December 11, is charged with mapping the sky in the mid-infrared to create an atlas of objects whose emitted light is invisible to human eyes and largely absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.

To find out whether the population has indeed grown, ecological modeler Craig Pease of Vermont Law School and David Mattson, a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) grizzly field biologist, looked at 20 years of data on grizzlies tracked with radio collars or spotted by federal scientists in Yellowstone.

We sought to bring new tools for chemical analysis with us into the field, so we can do obsidian sourcing as we excavate or survey an archaeological site, not wait until months or years later to learn the results.

With sandy hair and a sun - bronzed face, he surveys his field on the outskirts of Bozeman.

A remote helicopter supported field camp was established in 2009, with a peak of 30 geoscientists working from the camp in 2010 as part of the Geological Survey of Canada's GEM Program.

For their local survey, Impey and Bothun used regular photographic film, albeit of a particularly sensitive kind, in a camera with a much wider field of view than a CCD can muster.

Combining genetics with nearly ten years of field surveys, biologists discovered 11 new species, only to find that five of them are already extinct in the area.

In a survey of nearly 6,000 doctoral students in a broad range of fields, more than a third of the students with plans to pursue postdocs said they had more interest in careers outside of academic research.

Informal surveys to identify the issues affecting organic rice production were conducted in California, South Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, he said, along with field days, workshops and meetings with farmers, millers and end - users.

In addition, the survey requests data on postdoctorates by source of support, sex, and citizenship, with separate data on those holding first - professional doctorates in the health fields; and summary information on other doctorate nonfaculty research personnel.

In field after field, the ability to collect data has exploded — in biology, with its burgeoning databases of genomes and proteins; in astronomy, with the petabytes flowing from sky surveys; in social science, tapping millions of posts and tweets that ricochet around the internet.

There is so much promise in my particular field, particularly with the advent of new astronomical facilities and surveys.

The initial discovery of this quasar (given the identity J1342 +0928) came to light thanks to the mining of three large area surveys: the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS) that is being carried out with the Dark Energy Camera on the National Science Foundations Blanco 4 - m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, NASAs Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (ALLWISE), and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey.

But cases like this and «[a] widely cited anonymous survey of anthropologists and other field scientists, called the SAFE study and published in July 2014 in PLOS ONE,» may highlight a problem with «how some academic communities deal with harassment.»

She has pioneered a field called molecular epidemiology, a hybrid science that melds urban surveys with subtle molecular changes.

In what might be a first of its kind study, University of Missouri researchers have integrated forest imaging with field - level inventories and landowner surveys to assess the impact of conservation payments in Ecuador's Amazon Basin forests.

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).

A survey of roughly 23,000 full - time undergraduate teaching faculty at four - year colleges and universities revealed that faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields leverage inclusive teaching methods less frequently than their non-STEM counterparts, said Espinosa, citing research by Sylvia Hurtado and colleagues with the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The study is based on a complementary methods approach consisting of a quantitative analysis of bibliometric and publication data, a global survey of 1,200 researchers and three case studies including in - depth interviews with key individuals involved in data collection, analysis and deposition in the fields of soil science, human genetics and digital humanities.