Sentences with phrase «own field surveys»

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 campaign then did its own field surveys in battleground states to develop a more precise predictive model based on issues preferences.

Some organizations like Sony use Toluna's software for managing and fielding surveys for gathering feedback about new products.

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.

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.

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

New York could dramatically boost voter participation by holding elections on weekends, according to a new field survey by state Senate Democrats.

No longer will the communication team send a volunteer ask to people about the Second Amendment who said in a field survey they really care about education and have no interest in volunteering.

More than 500 seismologists and geologists worked for 6 years, using satellite measurements, field surveys, historical records of earthquakes, and geologic evidence of ancient ground motions to document the hazards for all land areas on Earth, says the project's director, Domenico Giardini of the Swiss Seismological Service in Zürich.

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.

A field survey found that from 1984 to 1986, collections of two of the most coveted species had dropped from 4000 to 200 kilograms, and exports have continued to dwindle.

Their field surveys reveal that Hispaniola, Jamaica, and other islands in the Caribbean sit atop a network of interlocking faults far more complex than geologists had earlier understood, according to a series of papers published last October.

«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.

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.

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.

Determining how such departures and arrivals influence complicated marine food webs will be difficult work, she says, involving laborious field surveys and careful counts of jellyfish stomach contents.

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

However, during winter field surveys over the last decade, lake ice has typically only grown to 1.5 meters (5 feet) thick, and has been as thin as 1.2 meters (4 feet),» said Christopher Arp, research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Water and Environmental Research Center and lead author of the new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

During our field survey, we found only one individual tree, located on a gentle sloping section of closed dense forest,» explains one of the authors Dr. Strijk.

Two decades after the war ended, field surveys done there turned up a large number of species unknown to science, including no fewer than five large mammals.

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.

Field surveys carried out at three sites in Panama showed that, after the chytrid fungus arrived from 2004 onwards, the populations of many species plummeted.

Anticipating the arrival of B. dendrobatidis in El Copé, Panama, as a wave of infection advanced from the northwest of the country, co-author Karen Lips, a biologist at the University of Maryland in College Park, began leading field surveys in the 4 - kilometer area in 1998.

To assess the accuracy of this model they conducted two field surveys in 2013 and 2014 and found that the model significantly played down the change rates in the vicinity of Imnaaluk.

Graves used playbacks of warbler songs to detect these reclusive birds during field surveys throughout the southeastern U.S. Future research will focus on the characteristics of pine stands and soils that promote the colonization of pine plantations by the Swainson's warbler.

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.

What made these wooded hills particularly special was that Millien also had access to museum specimens from the same locations, collected in the 1950s through a McGill field survey, and in the 1970s by Peter Grant, who did some work on small mammals at Gault while he was a biology professor at McGill.

But now, aerial thermography makes it possible to gather field survey data across a much larger area in much less time.

Species are more likely to be found alive if more than two field surveys are conducted.

But he points out that not all field surveys are done properly — for instance, using automated cameras — so even a series of unsuccessful searches doesn't necessarily mean the species has vanished entirely.

To do this, they used a variety of data, such as fuel consumption questionnaires submitted to the authorities of various countries, field surveys, and the results of research programs such as AMMA (West African Monsoon program) and POLCA (African Capitals Pollution program).

These results corroborated field surveys by others that turned up fewer butterflies in contaminated areas than would normally be expected.

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).

In addition to giving an overlook of common ethical issues, the guide describes the experience of scientists from different fields surveyed between 1999 and 2000.

Deep - field surveys are intended to look at faint galaxies; they point at small areas of the sky for a longer period of time, meaning the total volume of space being sampled is relatively small.

Surveys also offer challenges not faced by scientists who do field surveys, such as gaining fishermen's trust.

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.»

The flood of new data is only expected to rise with upcoming wide - field surveys like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), a National Science Foundation and Department of Energy project that will be based in Chile.

To confirm that wet weather was indeed behind the species switch - ups, Chang's team ran an experiment in addition to the 13 - year field surveys, taking panels from the marina and exposing them in lab to near - freshwater (wet year), near - oceanic saltwater (dry year) or medium - saltwater (moderate year).

Data reduction pipelines for time - domain wide - field surveys.

Hittinger's colleague, Diego Libkind of the Institute for Biodiversity and Environment Research in Bariloche, Argentina, and a co-author of the new study, has conducted extensive field surveys, combing the Patagonian landscape where the cold - adapted yeast that he discovered seems to occur at a very high rate.

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 predictions are based on Monte Carlo simulations of the nearb... ▽ More The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a NASA - sponsored Explorer mission that will perform a wide - field survey for planets that transit bright host stars.

The comparison of our near infrared spectrum with atmos... ▽ More Using the CFBDSIR wide field survey for brown dwarfs, we identified CFBDSIRJ214947.2 - 040308.9, a late T dwarf with atypically red J - Ks colour.

Abstract: Using the CFBDSIR wide field survey for brown dwarfs, we identified CFBDSIRJ214947.2 - 040308.9, a late T dwarf with atypically red J - Ks colour.

Abstract: Ground - based wide - field surveys for nearby transiting gas giants are yielding far fewer true planets than astrophysical false positives, of which some are difficult to reject.

With one or two objects, we can't uniquely identify the formation mechanism for the inner Oort cloud, but Trujillo and Sheppard find that the orbits of 2012 VP113 and Sedna are consistent with models for the Sun's birth cluster and previous constraints on the cluster model from other ground - based, wide - field surveys.

During the course of the Trans - atlantic E... ▽ More Ground - based wide - field surveys for nearby transiting gas giants are yielding far fewer true planets than astrophysical false positives, of which some are difficult to reject.

The team corroborated the satellite results with on - ground field surveys and Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO) data.