Sentences with phrase «survey by researchers»

The locations were chosen following a preliminary survey by researchers.
Sixty - seven percent of Americans «strongly» or «somewhat» trust family and friends for information about global warming, according to a survey by researchers at Yale University and George Mason University, released in March 2015.
Over half of teachers in a survey by researchers at the University of Rochester's Warner School of Education said they thought the exam matched their «conceptions of good teaching.»
A new survey by researchers shows that secondary students don't really know how many days they miss from school each year, or how their absence rate compares with their peers.
A recent survey by researchers at Alfred University revealed that about 23 percent of high school students said they used illicit substances such as alcohol in initiations, and three years ago, a young high school student nearly died in a Santa Fe hazing tradition.
Nearly 7 in 10 Americans support mandated coverage of birth control medications, according to a new national survey by researchers at the University of Michigan Health System.
Australian shoppers are motivated to change what they eat if they experience a health crisis, according to a recent survey by researchers Mobium Group.
The market for top - flight talent is now so tight that nearly 100 directors of Fortune 250 companies estimate that fewer than four people — including those both inside and outside their company — would be capable of stepping into the CEO role today and running it at least as well as their current CEO, according to a survey by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Rock Center for Corporate Governanceat Stanford University.
When surveyed by researchers, school administrators said they participated for reasons relating to their school's mission, service orientation, or finances.
But as a study published in Preventive Medicine shows, it pays to determine the level of government intervention people will accept — Americans surveyed by researchers were not willing to accept general soda portion size restrictions, but they were more likely to approve of removing sugary drinks from school environments.

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Researcher Ruta Aidis, a fellow at George Mason University, gave Canada (and Australia) an overall score of 69 out of a possible 100 — just two points less than the No. 1 - ranked country, the United States — in the 31 - country survey, commissioned by Dell.
A survey of 22 people conducted by the researchers found that 77 percent would be interested in downloading the battery monitor app, the Wired report said.
A little - known data company, now embedded within Cruz's campaign and indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed psychological profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey.
Surveys can be created by students, small business owners, journalists or for specific educational researchers.
The Gay Report, published by h0m0seual researchers Jay and Young in 1979, revealed that 73 percent of h0m0seuals surveyed had at some time had intercourse with boys 16 to 19 years of age or younger.
Researchers asked 1,000 Americans in a phone survey, «Should student religious organizations, recognized by publicly funded colleges, be allowed to require their leaders to hold specific beliefs?»
A 1987 survey of the reasons given by women for having abortions made by researchers with the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which is very much pro-abortion, demonstrated this fact.
Researchers undertook two extensive surveys in 2007 and 2014 and found that the number of Americans who identify with no religion grew by more than 6 percentage points during those seven years.
These are among the questions researchers and I tried to answer by surveying over 2,000 working Ameri cans and conducting in - depth interviews with more than 175 of them (some of these respondents are cited by name in the remarks that follow).
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Created by researchers at SMU, the survey is voluntary, confidential, anonymous and takes around 40 minutes to complete.
In a national survey published by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2006, researchers found that paying for formula was one of the top three barriers preventing hospitals from achieving the baby - friendly status.
Created by researchers at Southern Methodist University in collaboration with API, the survey is voluntary, confidential, anonymous and takes about 40 minutes to complete.
In June, you were asked to help tell your story through a survey created by Southern Methodist University (SMU) researchers in collaboration with API.
That study was based on work by researchers Fred Baldassare from Echelon Applied Geochemistry Consulting, Mark McCaffrey of Weatherford Laboratories, and John Harper from the U.S. Geological Survey who conducted an analysis of groundwater in the same area.
The survey of 1200 people, conducted by independent researchers Mass1 for Unite, exposes deep unease over plans to spend millions of pounds on privatising core police services, including 999 call handling, prisoner transportation, crime investigation and forensics with:
By Steven Ayres, Researcher, House of Commons Library Since 1964, the British Election Study (BES) has been surveying voters at each General Election in an attempt to establish who votes for who and why.
A new survey of medical specialists by researchers in Springfield Massachusetts found many could not accommodate patients who use a wheelchair.
The results of a survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) exploring the financial situation of academic researchers are dismal indeed.
Researchers conducted 3,269 household surveys, more than 100 focus group discussions and open interviews about the economic, social and cultural losses incurred by a changing climate in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Micronesia, Mozambique and Nepal.
They supplemented their interviews with data from a survey of 273 rescuers done by other researchers.
Researchers from the Dark Energy Survey used the Victor Blanco telescope in Chile to survey 26 million galaxies in a section of the southern sky for subtle distortions caused by the gravitational heft of both dark and normal mSurvey used the Victor Blanco telescope in Chile to survey 26 million galaxies in a section of the southern sky for subtle distortions caused by the gravitational heft of both dark and normal msurvey 26 million galaxies in a section of the southern sky for subtle distortions caused by the gravitational heft of both dark and normal matter.
Researchers gathered data from aerial surveys and nets towed by ships, and fed it into a computer model.
A few years ago, the researchers surveyed a random sampling of parents about their attitudes toward vaccines and then showed the participants one of four kinds of information: written material from the CDC explaining the lack of evidence that the MMR vaccine causes autism; written material about the dangers of the diseases prevented by the MMR vaccine; images of children who have the diseases prevented by the MMR vaccine; or a dramatic narrative about an infant who almost died of measles.
So, 6 weeks after the event, they notified their more than 200,000 supporters that a survey developed by researchers at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, Virginia, was available online.
In a U.S. survey conducted in 1995 by Eric Campbell, a health policy researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and his colleagues, more than a quarter of life - science faculty members reported receiving support from industry through grant agreements and research contracts.
Reporting in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) explains that wind - driven incursions of warm water forced the retreat of glaciers in West Antarctica during the past 11,000 years.
Using data from a nationally representative sample of youth who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a group of researchers led by Dr. Kathleen Merikangas of the National Institute of Health Intramural Research Program, evaluated symptoms of ADHD and its subtypes in 1,894 participants aged 12 - 15 years based on parent reports of symptomatology.
Published this October in the International Journal of Science Education, the survey can be used by educators, researchers and program developers to «peek under the hood» of students» experiences in STEM classes.
The study, by researchers at University of Wisconsin - Madison, the National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey, focused on a nest - protection program that was based on the logical assumption that endangered birds would reproduce and prosper if people are kept away from their nests.
More than a decade of data indicates teens have become far less likely to abuse alcohol, nicotine and illicit drugs, and they also are less likely to engage in delinquent behaviors, such as fighting and stealing, according to results of a national survey analyzed by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Ole Johansson, a researcher at the Institute of Transport Economics in Norway, investigated these issues by surveying a large group of Norwegian high - school students and a group of Norwegian adults.
The researchers say they were amazed by the results of their survey.
The University of Utah - led team of researchers used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 1999 to 2006 conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics.
Their plight — which is likely familiar to early - career researchers around the world — is illustrated by a recent survey of the French research and higher education sector, including Ph.D. candidates and Ph.D. holders in a variety of disciplines and roles.
Researchers have hotly debated whether the puzzling discrepancy stemmed from reduced social pressure on kids to switch from left to right, a tendency for lefties to die earlier than righties or plain old fibbing by survey respondents.
To do this, Jansson and colleagues explored permafrost, active layer, and bog soil samples collected by researchers with the United States Geological Survey.
The discovery, which was accomplished by comparing data from NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, has enabled the researchers to uncover dozens of new blazar candidates.
Using a sample size of 11,860 adults in the United States (5,922 men and 5,938 women) obtained from the National Violence Against Women Survey's database, the researchers sought to challenge a sociological theory that explains that men are more likely to respond to sexual assault with anger and by engaging in criminal activity, while women are more likely to respond with depression and sadness.
A tree survey in the Amazon by more than 150 researchers led to an estimate that up to 57 percent of Amazon trees could qualify for threatened species status by 2050
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