Sentences with phrase «first field survey»

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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!

Democratic congressional candidate Gareth Rhodes Friday touted an online survey by an advocacy group that ranked him first among the crowded field of candidates vying for the nomination in the 19th district.

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.

For the first time the CIOB's Faculty of Architecture and Surveying is awarding a scholarship to support research in the field of architecture and sSurveying is awarding a scholarship to support research in the field of architecture and surveyingsurveying.

The torpedo - shaped robot, nicknamed Gudgeon after a Second World War submarine, spent the first month of the field campaign surveying the entire sea floor north of Crete's main harbour, Heraklion, for any lumps and bumps that might signal an ancient wreck.

To carry out the survey, Senn - Delaney first asked respondents to choose the companies that they regarded as having the best reputations as employers in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology field, as well as those firms that they regarded as average employers and the worst employers in their experience.

Bert Steffan, CEO of the just launched biotech start - up Thetis, gives us a first - hand survey of the booming field of marine biotechnology that has become a tempting stepping - stone for many young scientists.

Grais celebrates even the smaller of her team's accomplishments, like the completion of a field survey or the publication of an epidemiologist's first peer - reviewed article.

He grew up in Colombia and his first jobs were doing field surveys in Andean cloud forests.

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.

The new model is the first to document and quantify this new feedback — one that is not accounted for in climate models, says Jason Box, an ice scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland in Copenhagen, who has documented rising impurities at a local scale during field campaigns.

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 galaxy is shown here in an image from NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), which first spotted the rare galaxy in infrared light.

Last June, thanks to better equipment and higher visibility, students from the University of Hawaii Marine Option Program — a field school that teaches students how to survey shipwrecks underwater — were able to map the entire site and produce the first systematic photos and video documentation.

In 2012, for example, Willerslev's lab published an analysis of proteins, which are generally longer lived postmortem than genetic material, of 43,000 - year - old woolly mammoth bones.16 And last year, Willerslev, Orlando, and colleagues published a genome - wide nucleosome map and survey of cytosine methylation levels in the DNA they pulled from the 4,000 - year - old hair shafts of a Paleo - Eskimo, effectively launching the field of ancient epigenetics.17 Also last year, Pääbo's group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology published the first full DNA methylation maps of the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes.18 «For the first time we'll be able to address what is the role of epigenomics and epigenetics in evolution,» Willerslev says.

He participates in the HATSouth survey, a global network of automated wide - field telescopes dedicated to discovering transiting exoplanets, and is the PUC principal investigator of ACCESS, the Arizona - CfA - Católica Exoplanet Spectroscopy Survey, which will provide the first homogeneous database of ground - based exoplanetary transmission spectra in the optical using the IMACS instrument in survey, a global network of automated wide - field telescopes dedicated to discovering transiting exoplanets, and is the PUC principal investigator of ACCESS, the Arizona - CfA - Católica Exoplanet Spectroscopy Survey, which will provide the first homogeneous database of ground - based exoplanetary transmission spectra in the optical using the IMACS instrument in Survey, which will provide the first homogeneous database of ground - based exoplanetary transmission spectra in the optical using the IMACS instrument in Chile.

When geologists first surveyed Glacier National Park in the 1850s, approximately 150 glaciers existed; at present, only 25 of these glaciers or ice fields remain (Chaney 2016).

Indeed, it has proven challenging for our team to converge on a set of well - defined goals in its first meeting; but by the end of the meeting we did identify our next steps and, I believe, made progress forward in surveying the questions, problems, and goals for the field.

The process of merging between the two bodies will take millions of years; this particular shot from Hubble was first released in 2008, but the image seen above is an improved version using its Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

Examples of science projects enabled by the data in the High - Latitude Survey include: mapping the formation of cosmic structure in the first billion years after the Big Bang via the detection and characterization of over 10,000 galaxies at z > 8; finding over 2,000 QSOs at z > 7; quantifying the distribution of dark matter on intermediate and large scales through lensing in clusters and in the field; identifying the most extreme star - forming galaxies and shock - dominated systems at 1 < z < 2; carrying out a complete census of star - forming galaxies and the faint end of the QSO luminosity function at z ~ 2, including their contribution to the ionizing radiation; and determining the kinematics of stellar streams in the Local Group through proper motions.

In the first mode, using primarily 30 GHz receivers, a blank - field cluster survey was conducted.

«This first - of - its - kind survey serves as a proof of concept for NASA's Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), which will launch in the 2020s to conduct a larger and deeper microlensing ssurvey serves as a proof of concept for NASA's Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), which will launch in the 2020s to conduct a larger and deeper microlensing sSurvey Telescope (WFIRST), which will launch in the 2020s to conduct a larger and deeper microlensing surveysurvey.

According to the Scholastic Corporation, «The first edition, which was fielded in 2009 and surveyed more than 40,000 teachers, is widely considered the largest - ever survey of America's teachers.

The first edition, which was fielded in 2009 and surveyed more than 40,000 teachers, is widely considered the largest - ever survey of America's teachers.

A recent First Destination Survey of 2016 graduates conducted by Pratt's Center for Career and Professional Development shows that 94 percent were employed or continuing education within the first year after graduation, with 87 percent of new graduates employed in a field related to their area of study and 86 percent of respondents reporting satisfaction with their occupation after graduaFirst Destination Survey of 2016 graduates conducted by Pratt's Center for Career and Professional Development shows that 94 percent were employed or continuing education within the first year after graduation, with 87 percent of new graduates employed in a field related to their area of study and 86 percent of respondents reporting satisfaction with their occupation after graduafirst year after graduation, with 87 percent of new graduates employed in a field related to their area of study and 86 percent of respondents reporting satisfaction with their occupation after graduation.

LACMA's 2012 «In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in the United States and Mexico» added significant understanding to an essential overview of the field that began in 1976 with the museum's celebrated «Women Artists: 1550 - 1950» — the first survey of its kind anywhere.

First, your paper will likely be the only publication surveying the robustness of climate reconstructions, making you the expert in the robustness field and difficult to ignore.

By Nadya Anscombe The Sun's fluctuating magnetic field has a greater influence on our weather system than at first thought, according to researchers from the British Antarctic Survey.

Hear research findings from the first National Kink Health Survey and network with some of the greatest minds in the field of alt sex.

Over the course of the last 6 weeks, HiMama conducted the first half of its employee engagement survey for early childhood educators based on questions developed by Gallup Organization to identify feelings of job satisfaction and engagement in the field.

First American also plans to increase the average revenue per transaction through niche offerings such as the ExpressMap, a land survey that replaces the need for more expensive plat and field surveys that help companies obtain additional risk coverage on their title policies.

«Optimism in the real estate market and economy are at levels we have not seen since we first began fielding this survey in 2015,» says Gino Blefari, president and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices.