Sentences with phrase «large survey study»

My colleagues and I recently conducted a large survey study as part of our ongoing efforts to understand the writing lives of college students in order to better support student learning.

Not exact matches

One 2014 study in the Journal of Family Issues found through online surveys that daters «were not always able to articulate a clear reason why they possess their given height preference, but they somehow understood what was expected of them from the larger society.»

This year's study surveyed more than 240 human resource professionals from large employers (3,000 + employees) at the close of 2016 to identify the most notable trends companies are employing to improve the health and well - being of their employees.

The Edelman study also notes that distrust of media and government is part of a larger theme in the U.S., with most of those surveyed saying they don't feel that the U.S. political or social system as a whole is serving their needs.

The same study (which surveyed 1,017 businesses in the U.S., Canada and Mexico that use NAFTA, including 669 small businesses, 234 medium - sized businesses and 114 large businesses) shows only 15 per cent of small businesses and 16 per cent of medium - sized businesses are closely following the negotiations, and are aware of the key issues and potential outcomes.

The survey is part of a larger study conducted by the Princeton Review, a Massachusetts - based educational services company, for its new book, «The Best 376 Colleges: 2012 edition.»

The study comes from student surveys, which means the number may actually be larger than 36 percent, but it lines up with the numbers universities have independently reported.

Only 30 percent of the megachurches with denominational links said their congregation «expresses [its] denominational heritage» and 49 percent said that denominational leadership was «of no importance,» according to the survey related to the large Faith Communities Today (FACT) study, which was released earlier this year.

These studies show little difference between epidural and nonepidural (usually opiate - exposed) babies in terms of Apgar score and umbilical - cord pH, both of which reflect the baby's condition at birth.78 However, a large - population survey from Sweden found that use of an epidural was significantly associated with a low Apgar score at birth.79

Large scale random probability surveys, such as the Labour Force Survey, The National Readership survey and the British ElectionSurvey, The National Readership survey and the British Electionsurvey and the British Election Study

In a study that surveyed the nation's 100 largest school districts, New York City scored an A-minus on school choice and competition.

These facilities, most notably the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) set to debut in 2020, promise to revolutionize the field of «transient» astronomy — the study not of steady - shining stars and galaxies, but of the things that rapidly move and change: exploding stars, whirling asteroids and comets, and anything else that goes «bump!»

The survey was part of a larger study that included questions about other topics not included in this report.

The study was a collaboration with IBM and offers a large - scale survey of the commonly used container management framework known as Docker, a platform that facilitates the deployment of microservices by providing a registry service that acts as a central repository for software components focusing on specific functionalities called images.

«More broadly, seismic surveys for oilfield exploration or earthquake investigations tend to rely on length scales that are usually much larger than those used by our study,» she added.

The study uses data from 2,345 one - hectare forest plots that were surveyed throughout the Brazilian Amazon, containing some 129,720 large trees.

«The extent of fault creep, and therefore locking, controls the size and timing of large earthquakes on the Northern San Andreas Fault system,» said James Lienkaemper, a co-author of the study and research geophysicist at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

The results were drawn from a survey of 1,854 men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer between 2004 and 2009 in North Carolina and in Louisiana as part of a larger study called the North Carolina - Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project.

To further investigate the prevalence of the phenomenon, the researchers carried out the first large - scale online study of this barely - known effect, and recruited 4,128 participants to answer a survey, with 1,058 of these also answering additional trait - related questions.

Willett's plan is based on the largest long - term dietary survey ever undertaken: the 121,700 - participant Nurses» Health Study, begun in 1976 by Harvard Medical School professor Frank Speizer, with dietary assessments supervised by Willett since 1980.

The study included 126,233 participants from two large long - term studies — the Nurses» Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow - Up Study — who answered survey questions every 2 - 4 years about their diet, lifestyle, and health for up to 32 ystudy included 126,233 participants from two large long - term studies — the Nurses» Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow - Up Study — who answered survey questions every 2 - 4 years about their diet, lifestyle, and health for up to 32 yStudy and the Health Professionals Follow - Up Study — who answered survey questions every 2 - 4 years about their diet, lifestyle, and health for up to 32 yStudy — who answered survey questions every 2 - 4 years about their diet, lifestyle, and health for up to 32 years.

[2] This quantity is in fact much larger than the numbers quoted by previous studies which surveyed smaller regions, leaving out many of the cluster's stars that lie further from its core.

The small study, based on a survey of 236 cardiologists and internal medicine physicians and trainees at a large tertiary academic medical center, found that although physicians rate nutrition to be as important as statins in terms of reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, only 13.5 percent agreed or strongly agreed that they were adequately trained to discuss nutrition with patients.

Co-written with Bonnie Cheng, a Rotman PhD student, Prof. Ivona Hideg of Wilfrid Laurier University (who is also a graduate of the Rotman PhD program) and Prof. Daniel Beal of the University of Texas - San Antonio, the study surveyed a range of administrative employees at a large North American university.

«Jaguar scat study suggests restricted movement in areas of conservation importance in Mesoamerica: Noninvasive genetic survey on wild Mesoamerican jaguars is largest of its kind, reveals conservation priority.»

Up until now, large health studies have been expensive and time consuming, involving manual surveys in unrealistic laboratory settings.

From this survey data, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as well as large ground - based observatories will be able to further characterize the targets, making it possible for the first time to study the masses, sizes, densities, orbits, and atmospheres of a large cohort of small planets, including a sample of rocky worlds in the habitable zones of their host stars.

The findings come from the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal - 3), the largest scientific study of sexual health and lifestyles in Britain.

Their study uses data from the Cosmic Evolution Survey, or COSMOS, the largest galaxy survey ever conducted with NASA's orbiting Hubble Space TeleSurvey, or COSMOS, the largest galaxy survey ever conducted with NASA's orbiting Hubble Space Telesurvey ever conducted with NASA's orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.

Seismologist Austin Holland of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, who was not involved in the study, says there could be a large number of factors playing into the quakes.

Dr Jason Chapman, Co-author at Rothamsted Research, said: «This study utilises large amounts of long - running data collected by volunteers through schemes such as the Rothamsted Insect Survey, run by Rothamsted Research, and the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, run by Butterfly Conservation.

The study — the largest ever conducted on the African forest elephant — includes the work of more than 60 scientists between 2002 and 2011, and an immense effort by national conservation staff who spent a combined 91,600 days surveying elephants in 5 countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and the Republic of Congo), walking over 13,000 kilometers (more than 8,000 miles) and recording over 11,000 elephant dung piles for the analysis.

A study conducted by the University of Kent's Dr Amy Hinsley and Dr David Roberts, and published by Conservation Biology, represents the first large - scale global survey of wildlife trade via a social - media site, using the orchid trade as a case study.

To conduct the new study, the Hawaiian team, led by astronomer Istvan Szapudi, combined two large - scale observations of the cosmos that already had been completed: the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which represents the last, dying embers of the big bang, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which comprises images of millions of galaxies.

A new study finds that while a blood test that helps to screen for prostate cancer remains common, only 30 percent of men in a large national survey reported having a balanced discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the screening with their doctor.

The puzzle first emerged when Rudnick, who had decided to study a large cold spot in the cosmic microwave background, found some strange data in a radio telescope survey of distant galaxies.

Results from one of the largest, most comprehensive studies of ADHD found that some of those who were initially diagnosed with mild ADHD were no longer diagnosed when surveyed eight years later.

«The Cebu survey is one of the only studies of its kind, in which a large group of men has been followed since birth,» Gettler says.

The star - forming dwarf galaxy in the new study was found during an ongoing, large - scale inventory of the heavens, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which revealed it as a possible point of interest.

In this study, researchers used blood samples collected several years before breast cancer development from two large UK cohorts of women — the MRC National Survey of Health and Development and the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening.

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.»

That pace promises to increase as NASA's Kepler mission carries out its multiyear survey of a large patch of stars; the campaign has already located several hundred planetary candidates for follow - up study and confirmation.

While Persian astronomers were the first to catalogue the Andromeda galaxy, only in the last five years that we have studied in exquisite detail the most distant suburbs of the Andromeda galaxy via the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey (PAndAS), undertaken with the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope and measured with the Keck Observatory, providing our first panoramic view of our closest large companion in the cosmos.

In the largest sample size of any methane study performed to date, researchers used infrared technology to conduct an aerial survey of over 8,000 well pads in seven geologic basins to characterize the prevalence of «super emitters».

It was then further examined using information gleaned from the Very Large Array (VLA) telescope, used in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey Project to study large sections of the visibleLarge Array (VLA) telescope, used in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey Project to study large sections of the visiblelarge sections of the visible sky.

Geoscientists can spend a large part of their time in the field, identifying and examining rocks, studying information collected by remote sensing instruments in satellites, conducting geological surveys, constructing field maps, and using instruments to measure Earth's gravity and magnetic field.

«This study from the US uses results from a large population survey to investigate associations between the use of e-cigarettes and quitting smoking.

The results from this study are broadly consistent with previous large, representative surveys in the UK.

I am also involved in the Colours of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (Col - OSSOS) a Gemini Observatory large program to study the surfaces of a well characterized sample of Kuiper belt objects.

This study also represents one of the largest surveys of breast cancer by next - gen sequencing, certainly by whole - genome sequencing.