Sentences with phrase «small area surveys»

Writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers outline how satellite imagery, geolocation technology, small area surveys, statistical methods and computing power can come together to map high - resolution national population estimates, comparable or exceeding the level of detail of those derived from census material and with the ability to interrogate information down to the local scale.

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Two Bureau of Labor Satistics surveys indicate that small companies are failing to provide competitive benefits, particularly in such important financial areas as retirement savings and medical insurance.

In a survey of the ways groups are used in mental health centers, psychiatrist E. Mansell Pattison found that one of the most frequent uses is in consultation services for those in the care - giving professions.24 In the Los Angeles area, for several years, small groups of clergymen met with consultants supplied by the community mental health centers to discuss counseling relationships in their parishes.

Between 2003 and 2006, Mass Audubon staff conducted extensive aerial surveys (visual counts from small aircraft) of the Sound to identify areas used by sea ducks during daylight hours.

The group still has not distributed $ 4 million in small - business grants, and a recent Community Board 1 survey showed that 66 percent of area merchants were not even aware they were eligible for the $ 25,000 grants.

The chamber surveyed many area small businesses in the past month and found 60 percent had concerns about the costs a living wage would have on their businesses, with pitfalls including slashing hours or eliminating positions.

Extensive surveys revealed that the coastal marten population is now restricted to two populations, one in southern Oregon and Northern California, and another small population in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, west of U.S. Highway 101 in central Oregon.

Small, remotely operated submersible vehicles with sonar were also looking for leaks, but the UNH - NOAA team surveyed the entire area at one time.

Most of the newly discovered objects are in the southern half of the DES survey area, in close proximity to the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud.

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.

Instead of conducting a narrow and deep study of a small area of the sky, the team broadened their scope to produce the widest survey of very distant galaxies ever attempted.

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT): a small robotic telescope for large - area synoptic surveys.

In the 2007 Education Next - Program on Education Policy and Governance survey, my colleagues and I found that just 33 percent of Americans would prefer to offer a larger salary increase to teachers «in subject areas where there are shortages, such as math and science» rather than a smaller salary increase to all teachers.

In addition, the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering using extant surveys to provide small - area estimates of the proportion of children eligible for free and reduced - price benefits.

Dick Turpin, I understand what you are saying but numerous reports, tests and surveys show your «facts» to be totally incorrect, if the speed linit is increased the average goes up by a small amount and most keep well below that limit even more so if they feel it is a fair speed limit, lets face it the same people who speed through a built up area at 90 + will still speed if the limit was raised but a massive percentage of the population will still stay below the safe limit, especially if the education (ie at 30 the kid would be hurt at 40 probably dead) but then I wouldn't want the lower speed limits altered they are fine as they are but the motorway....

Although few studies about the numbers of animals entering shelters and the numbers of healthy animals euthanized in shelters have been done and those that are available depend on a limited number of survey responses, all indications are that fewer dogs are entering animal shelters, more of the dogs that are entering shelters are leaving for new homes, and there is actually a shortage of puppies and small dogs in some areas of the country.

At the Crissy Field Wildlife Protection Area (west end of Crissy Field Beach), the population is much smaller than that at Ocean Beach, with averages hovering between one and six birds per surveying season (early July until the end of April or early May).

Rosneft started preparations for the survey last month near Sakhalin Island even though a small number of western gray whales mothers and calves were feeding in the area.

Climb the stairs above the reception where a small terrace is a terrific (but unshaded) spot to survey the surrounding area and spy Gunung Agung in the distance.

The survey missions are smaller side missions that take place in areas from the main story, but they are short and not very fun to play through.

Commanding totems dedicated to Scabrous are littered across the place, smaller outposts are there for you to loot, races and other car related missions are there to enjoy, and rounding out the types of side content is a bunch of balloons, which you can ride up and survey the area.

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Contributors to the Marrakech Biennale include curator Omar Berrada, who will present a specific show within the larger exhibition on the body of work and the archive of the late Moroccan critic and filmmaker Ahmed Bouanani; artists Yto Barrada and Mona Hatoum; a small survey of the art movement initiated by the Casablanca School; and architect Khaled Malas with documentation of his ongoing collaboration with a collective of artists and craftsmen in Ghouta and other areas of Syria to build windmills out of found materials to generate electrical power for hospitals.

The two areas of expertise in the survey with the smallest percentage of participants answering yes to question 2 were economic geology with 47 % (48 of 103) and meteorology with 64 % (23 of 36).

Another survey, by Farnsworth and Lichter (2009), found that 83 % of meteorologists surveyed were convinced human - induced climate change is occurring, again a smaller majority than among experts in related areas such as ocean sciences (91 %) and geophysics (88 %).

This time, the problem is with a species of bird that is staying put in the winter months instead of migrating south.A new report from the U.S. Geological Survey published in Arctic reveals the Pacific brant, a small sea goose, is now wintering in sub-Arctic areas.

Looking at SustainLane's very thorough overview of its methodology gave us a better sense of how and why some cities fared as well as they did.First, the only criteria for inclusion in the survey was the size of a city's population, so while the folks at SustainLane chose urban areas that represent a large proportion of the US» overall population, they immediately ruled out smaller cities, like Burlington, VT, and Durham, NC, that are doing wonderful things but didn't make the cut because of their size.

While statewide surveys have been conducted in the Sierra Nevada, smaller - scale research in coastal areas has also found that usually resilient oak trees are also dying from drought as tree roots can no longer reach falling aquifers.

The ABA Survey, Tech Survey is sort of broader in range, definitely more solo and small firm, you get more lawyers responding to it, gives you a cross-section and gives you a sense in a whole variety of areas, what's going on with lawyers.

The perennially small - margin practice areas of real estate and estates law remained the most likely for respondents to cut, according to our 2016 survey, with a number also considering cutting the amount of legal aid work they do.

Of course, D.C. is a smaller area than the states surveyed and is a major metropolitan area, so buyers should expect a competitive housing market.