Sentences with phrase «scale survey for»

A larger multi-object version of the Exoplanet Tracker will be used to conduct a large scale survey for planetary systems as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS III).

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The executives surveyed gave the Harper government high marks for its handling of the issue, with a mean score of 82 on a 100 - point performance scale.

For Cigna's report, survey respondents were evaluated on their loneliness using the UCLA Loneliness Scale, a 20 - item questionnaire that was developed to assess subjective feelings of loneliness and social isolation.

Every aspect of the survey can affect the outcome, including the phrasing used to pose the question, the order the questions appear on the survey and the options for how to answer, such as whether respondents are asked a yes - or - no question, or to rate their response along a scale.

Sandberg told LinkedIn cofounder and chairman Reid Hoffman for an episode of his podcast «Masters of Scale» that at one point her late husband Dave Goldberg, who was the CEO of Survey Monkey, gave her «the world's best advice» on working with Zuckerberg that put her mind to ease.

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[5] Longley op cit p254 [6] Humanae Vitae n. 17 [7] To date, the evidence for this claim is limited to small scale studies and nonrandom surveys.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, Haiti might experience aftershocks for months or even years, some of which might be over 5.0 in scale.

AFSA met with Agriculture Victoria prior to the public release and conducted a survey of small - scale livestock growers, sharing the 80 responses with the Department that showed how out of touch the stocking rates for streamlined applications were.

But we already know that answer: large scale surveys show us that cheating remains the norm for men (women are not much better).

Following the «Expert Consultation on Complementary Feeding (2001)», WHO commissioned this review to identify options for indicator development that could be used in large - scale, population based surveys.

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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.

The results of a large - scale survey of venom variation in the two snake species, published January 8, 2015 in the journal Genetics, challenge common assumptions in venom evolution research, provide crucial information for rattlesnake conservation, and will help coral snake antivenom development.

«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.

Most PDA surveys effectively use a variety of question formats — open - ended text, multiple choice, and Likert scales for opinions and evaluations.

Lacking definitive research on the optimal scale of a sustainable city, I've nonetheless made informal surveys of expert colleagues that suggest that four to 30 stories is the optimal range for buildings in a sustainable city.

The survey included clinically validated scales for anxiety and depression.

S: If you survey the sources for primary energy at the massive scale that we're going to need, there are only a few places you can find energy of that magnitude.

Those results are generally based on surveys that ask respondents, for example, to rate on a scale of 1 to 7 how well a statement applies to them.

The team mapped those political organizations to a 5 - point ideological scale — from — 2 for very conservative to +2 for very liberal — based on survey data.

That is the question the Hunt for Observable Signatures of Terrestrial Systems, or HOSTS, Survey was tasked with answering, albeit on a cosmic scale.

«This is the first large - scale gillnet ban to save a species from extinction, and includes provisions for the development of alternative fishing gear to replace gillnets,» said Barbara Taylor, chair of the Society's Conservation Committee, who recently returned from more than two months aboard a research ship surveying the northern Gulf of California for vaquita.

The team is running cosmological simulations for large - scale sky surveys on the facility's 10 - petaflop high - performance computer, Mira.

Today, results of large - scale surveys identifying individual and community risk factors for HIV and other infectious diseases can take years to show up, so having a real - time look at the conversations happening on Twitter could prove to be very advantageous, Albarracín, Ungar, and their colleagues discuss on their Health and Social Media Group page.

Adolescents completed a survey that contained a mixture of 20 negatively and positively worded items — such as such as «I felt sad,» «I enjoyed life,» «My appetite was poor,» and «People are unfriendly to me» — in the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES - D).

First, the research team asked over 200 volunteers to fill out a survey about «recent affective experiences;» what the volunteers didn't know was that a well - known measure of depression — the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES - D) scale — was embedded within this survey.

Two of them — a more extensive survey of luminous galaxies, intended to tease out more information about galaxy clustering on large scales, and a more sensitive search for the cannibalized remnants of dwarf galaxies — will extend recent findings from the second Sloan survey.

Now for the first time, information about winter losses from a large - scale survey carried out from 2010 - 13 has been published.

«In recent years, we've seen an increase in the use of seismic surveys for oil and gas exploration and research, and for establishing national resource claims on ever - larger geographic scales.

They will also use seismic and electromagnetic methods to determine the existence of a giant magma buildup, and in collaboration with the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology will carry out a large - scale underground survey, attempting to capture high - resolution visualizations of the magma system within the Earth's crust (at a depth of approximately 30 km).

This landscape - scale project involved surveying thirty sites for the presence of seven species of chaparral - dependent birds, beginning in a two - acre habitat patch created forty years earlier by development.

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.

Fisheries managers had their own bone to pick with the survey data, complaining that they aren't adequate for making decisions at the local scale.

But for the large - scale opinion surveys typically carried out in the developing world — many questions covering broad topics that are designed to identify the differences between communities — «this is exactly the appropriate method for detecting fabrication,» Kuriakose says.

For the first time, these numerous characteristics make it possible to compare a cosmological simulation in detail with large - scale astronomical surveys.

The research team used data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, a set of large - scale surveys conducted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to find and collect data on health care services, usage and costs.

UC San Francisco researchers have identified cells» unique features within the developing human brain, using the latest technologies for analyzing gene activity in individual cells, and have demonstrated that large - scale cell surveys can be done much more efficiently and cheaply than was previously thought possible.

At this angular scale, multiple sta... ▽ More The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project has been conducting a photometric survey for transiting planets orbiting bright stars for over ten years.

«Large - scale surveys of human genetic variation have reported signatures of recent explosive population growth, notable for an excess of rare genetic variants, suggesting that many mutations arose recently.

Their recommended balance of large, medium, and small - scale efforts highlights the need to maintain sufficient funds to support individual investigators, to continue a program of technical innovation, and to train the next generation of scientists, while also funding those facilities essential for addressing the decadal surveys» scientific priorities.

The accurate asteroseismic determinations now available for large number of stars in the Kepler fields can be used to check and calibrate surface gravities that are currently being obtained spectroscopically for a huge numbers of stars targeted by large - scale spectroscopic surveys, such as the on - going Large Sky Area... ▽ More Asteroseismology allows for deriving precise values of surface gravity of stars.

Finally, we comment on the size of the first Space Warps crowd, and how the system might be scaled up for future surveys.

TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture — A large - scale survey is under way to find «long sleepers» who require 10 hours or more sleep per night, and «short sleepers» who need five hours or less, potentially helping find a cure for sleep disorders.

For sure, this idea should be revisited after future large - scale exoplanet surveys begin raking in results.

Surely in this day and age, it would be a simple and low cost process to do a large scale survey, acknowledge the demand and go for it.

«Lovell's list of interviewees reads like a who's who of Hollywood and they obviously provided rich source material for this full - scale biography and career survey.»

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

Associate Professor Hunter Gehlbach led the development process for the parent survey, guiding a team of researchers, including myself, in designing these scales.

The study was based on a large - scale survey tracking Danish children that included the collection of mental health data for seven and 11 year olds.