Sentences with phrase «survey study group»

In the end, what also needs to be said is that the actual number of people who had been part of the survey study group is just 200.

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These numbers were determined by the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS), conducted by the advocacy groups the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality, and reported in the UCLA study.

Austin and his team selected a nationwide group of 100 bankruptcy filers meant to represent a cross-section of the U.S. population, studied their paperwork, then followed up with a survey asking filers, basically, «Why?»

Professional market researchers generally divide their work into qualitative studies (interviews and focus groups, with free - flowing and open - ended discussions) and quantitative studies (usually surveys).

A recent Temkin Group study found that 84 percent of companies surveyed expected to increase their focus on customer experience metrics for this very reason.

From studying the surveys he concluded: «While professional forecasters as a group have had some ability to assess the probability that GDP will decline in the next three months, they have exhibited no ability to do so a year in the future.»

The Barna Research Group, an evangelical Christian organization that does surveys and research to better understand what Christians believe and how they behave, studied divorce rates in America in 1999 and found surprising evidence that divorce is far lower among atheists than among conservative Christians — exactly the opposite of what they were probably expecting.

Based on anonymous surveys and focus groups involving 1,320 soldiers and 447 Marines, the study revealed that only 56 % of soldiers would report a unit member for injuring or killing an innocent noncombatant, while a mere 40 % of Marines would do so.

Charles C. Hewitt summarizes his findings, in «A Personality Study of Alcohol Addiction,» as follows: «Alcohol addiction, in the group studied in this survey, seems to be associated, with but few exceptions, with deep personality disorders.

The program's main features arise directly from the study group's reading, conversations and informal surveys of core constituencies.

This study's findings are consistent with an analysis commissioned by FDA and updated in 2012, as well as a published ILSI survey of more than 37,000 people which shows that caffeine consumption in the U.S. has remained stable during the most recent period analyzed, while coffee remains the primary source of caffeine in most age groups.

Last year's survey studied generational buying habits of U.S. households, and found that Millennial parents — parents in the 18 - to 35 - year - old age range — are now the biggest group of organic buyers in America.

20 % of the survey respondents were Asian (primarily Hmong), a group which had lower representation in other recent studies;

Steering group — This study was planned and coordinated by Jean Davies, research midwife, Newcastle; Pat Davies, health visitor, Sunderland; Alan Fortune, general practitioner, Alnwick; Linda Hedley, senior midwife, Berwick; Edmund Hey, consultant paediatrician, Newcastle; Barbara Hinchcliffe, health visitor, Hexham; Maureen Hodgson, community midwife, North Durham; Ann Kirkpatrick, midwifery supervisor, Darlington; Jane Lumley, National Childbirth Trust, Hexham; Norma McPherson, community midwife, Barrow in Furness; Diane Packham, Association for the Improvement of Maternity Services, Newcastle; Willie Reid, consultant obstetrician, Carlisle; Marjorie Renwick, regional maternity survey coordinator, Newcastle; Margaret Robinson, community midwife, Cockermouth; Laura Robson, director of midwifery education, Newcastle; Sheila Smithson, community midwife, Middlesbrough; Ann West, senior midwife, Penrith; Margaret Whyte, the Society to Support Home Confinement; Jane Wright, community midwife, Teesside; and Gavin Young, general practitioner, Penrith.

We thank the North American Registry of Midwives Board for helping facilitate the study; Tim Putt for help with layout of the data forms; Jennesse Oakhurst, Shannon Salisbury, and a team of five others for data entry; Adam Slade for computer programming support; Amelia Johnson, Phaedra Muirhead, Shannon Salisbury, Tanya Stotsky, Carrie Whelan, and Kim Yates for office support; Kelly Klick and Sheena Jardin for the satisfaction survey; members of our advisory council (Eugene Declerq (Boston University School of Public Health), Susan Hodges (Citizens for Midwifery and consumer panel of the Cochrane Collaboration's Pregnancy and Childbirth Group), Jonathan Kotch (University of North Carolina Department of Maternal and Child Health), Patricia Aikins Murphy (University of Utah College of Nursing), and Lawrence Oppenheimer (University of Ottawa Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine); and the midwives and mothers who agreed to participate in the study.

It has been observed by several clinical studies and surveyed by awareness groups that this product is no longer safe to be used in small babies.

Statistics from the Infant Feeding 2000 survey, however, suggest that rates of breast feeding in the UK20 are similar to those of Singapore.7 Our results were also consistent with the results of PROBIT study in Belarus, in which 36 % of women in the control group were breast feeding at all at six months.21 Around 90 % of the women in our study had monthly household incomes of less than Singapore $ 5000 (# 1630, $ 2413, $ 3294).

A study by the Pew Charitable Trusts» Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project, also expected to be released Monday, said that 91 percent of school food officials the group surveyed said they face challenges in putting the standards in place, including problems with food costs and availability, training employees to follow the new guidelines, and a lack of the proper equipment to cook healthier meals.

Second, we have assumed that within each local authority the variation in turnout between different demographic groups will be the same as that which pertained in last year's general election across the country as a whole (as measured by the British Election Study, a major academic high quality survey of how people voted in last year's general election).

Methodology: the research had two main components: an interview, survey and observation based study of senior managers in public and private sector corrections; and a mainly ethnographic and survey - based study of four matched public and private sector prisons and three additional establishments involving observations of and interviews with prisoners and staff, and the administration of quality of life surveys to both groups.

The BES Stakeholder Group compliments the input on the study from BES survey consultation events held in Edinburgh (in December 2013) and in Cardiff (in January 2014).

«It is untrue that non-religious people do less for charity; various studies and surveys have confirmed this and is insulting to hard - working secular charities and voluntary groups (which make up two thirds of the voluntary sector) to suggest otherwise.

Albany's survey is the latest chapter in an ongoing study: the city's «Broadband Initiative Working Group» was launched back in July in an effort to empower its fledgling wifi system to expand beyond downtown borders.

Working with NASA on its Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission, due to launch sometime after 2020 (see «Mapping the Dark,» page 47), Perlmutter will help choose between the different models by studying groups of supernovae that lie farther out in space than any yet studied, following the universe's expansion history back in time.

, 1968 Zick Rubin, «The Social Psychology of Romantic Love», 1969 Elliot Aronson, «Some Antecedents of Interpersonal Attraction», 1970 David C. Glass and Jerome E. Singer, «The Urban Condition: Its Stresses and Adaptations — Experimental Studies of Behavioral Consequences of Exposure to Aversive Events», 1971 Norman H. Anderson, «Information Integration Theory: A Brief Survey», 1972 Lenora Greenbaum, «Socio - Cultural Influences on Decision Making: An Illustrative Investigation of Possession - Trance in Sub-Saharan Africa», 1973 William E. McAuliffe and Robert A. Gordon, «A Test of Lindesmith's Theory of Addiction: The Frequency of Euphoria Among Long - Term Addicts», 1974 R. B. Zajonc and Gregory B. Markus, «Intellectual Environment and Intelligence», 1975 Johnathan Kelley and Herbert S. Klein, «Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: The Bolivian National Revolution», 1977 Murray Melbin, «Night as Frontier», 1978 Ronald S. Wilson, «Synchronies in Mental Development: An Epigenetic Perspective», 1979 Bibb Latane, Stephen G. Harkins, and Kipling D. Williams, «Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing», 1980 Gary Wayne Strong, «Information, Pattern, and Behavior: The Cognitive Biases of Four Japanese Groups», 1981 Richard A. Shweder and Edmund J. Bourne, «Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross Culturally?»

In addition to dark matter studies, WFIRST would «complete the demographic survey of planets orbiting other stars, answer questions about how galaxies and groups of galaxies form, study the atmospheres and compositions ofplanets orbiting other stars, and address other general astrophysics questions,» according to the statement from NASA.

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.

Parents of the math group were also given a survey at the beginning of the study, probing their comfort level with the subject.

The authors note study limitations including the size of the student group and the lack of a validated survey tool.

In total, 245 physicians completed both pre - and post-CT surveys for 1,280 patients who comprised the study group.

Without the Ludwig money, the Hopkins group would not have been able to do the cancer genetics studies they're famous for, he notes — for example, the duo has used exome surveys to identify genes associated with colon and breast cancers.

The study, published online May 19 in Prevention Science, surveyed 808 adults (parents and nonparents), a group the SDRG first identified as fifth - graders at Seattle elementary schools in the 1980s as part of a long - term research project.

The study analyzed data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, exploring which demographic groups, medications, and reasons for visiting the emergency room may account for this change in prescribing rates.

One study, led by Chris Funk of the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of California, Santa Barbara's Climate Hazard Group, looked at long - term warming of the sea surface in the North Pacific.

The pilot study — an autumn 2014 online survey complemented with focus groups — looked into the career paths of some 500 young scientists who had obtained a Ph.D. in the previous 7 years and done at least one postdoc with one of a small and diverse range of research and funding organizations.

The American Academy of HIV Medicine funded the study and asked the Group Health team to conduct the survey to assess some of their members» perspectives on using PrEP in their practices.

A comparison group of 210 siblings without cancer also responded to the survey and were used as a control for the study.

The academics surveyed a total of 238 people in two studies using traditional measures of risk and new questions which included more activities which were rated as feminine by a group of 99 men and women.

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The survey began with a group of some 3000 women who were pregnant in 1983 and followed the general health, nutrition, medical care, and survival of their children; it has since expanded into an intergenerational study of health, education, and sexual behavior as those children grew up and are now having children of their own.

«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 study focuses on two groups of adolescents who were asked to complete seven surveys between 2008 and 2015.

In this multinational study a cross-section of three athletic groups — cyclists, swimmers, and runners — was surveyed using Facebook ads and outreach to sporting clubs for athletes.

Americans» Responses to the Great Recession,» the study relies on data from the 1984 - 2010 waves of the nationally representative General Social Survey (GSS); the GSS 2006-2008-2010 panel, which tracked a group of people over several years; the 2001 - 2011 Gallup surveys; and the Evaluations of Government and Society Study surveys from 2011 and study relies on data from the 1984 - 2010 waves of the nationally representative General Social Survey (GSS); the GSS 2006-2008-2010 panel, which tracked a group of people over several years; the 2001 - 2011 Gallup surveys; and the Evaluations of Government and Society Study surveys from 2011 and Study surveys from 2011 and 2012.

The study used the results from the health and behaviour survey Professor Lohi's group had previously conducted on nearly 6,000 cats, currently the most extensive cat behaviour database in the world.

«The Group is concerned that no action was taken on its findings last year regarding a Uranus mission study,» he would note in his study, urging NASA «to initiate such a study responsive to Decadal Survey science goals for the ice giants.»

It undertakes practical conservation projects, surveys and scientific studies, conducts annual monitoring of seabird populations, rescues wildlife in trouble, publishes guides and information on many aspects of the Falkland Islands environment, and involves islanders of all ages in its activities, including running a WATCH group for children.

Through the Task and Finish Group the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) were commissioned to conduct a feasibility study.

In all three of the following studies that Iâ $ ™ m about to link, conducted by the National Academy of Sciences, Energy Watch Group and the United States Geological Survey, labor productivity is perceived as a strong marker of the economic recoverability of remaining coal reserves.

For the study, the researchers surveyed a group of English, Scottish and Welsh women to establish their nutritional patterns with respect to 217 specific foods.