Sentences with phrase «systematic surveys of»

More transparency can be achieved through systematic surveys of experts.

No previous systematic surveys of whales have been conducted in Wilhelmina Bay or in the northern WAP region during autumn.

We anticipate that systematic surveys of cocoon fossils coupled with advances in non-destructive analytical methods may open a new window into the evolution of minute, soft - bodied life forms that are otherwise only rarely observed in the fossil record.

After reviewing the GLO surveys, Hanberry's team compared results to systematic surveys of present day forests and found that historical forests generally had fewer but larger trees and thus, likely were more open or parklike beneath the main canopy.

An international group of computational number theorists has completed a systematic survey of «candidate» congruent numbers up to a trillion, extending earlier work that had stopped at a billion.

One of the interesting things to study, we know Central Park is important for migratory birds and we know that they depend upon the food resources that are here, but no one has ever really done a systematic survey of what actually they are feeding on, like we have never done a canopy study of all the invertebrates up in the trees to see what's coming out when and what is the predominant part of the diet of different birds and sort of quantifying; but what they have done — people have done — with shore birds and sort of gauging, weighing them, you know, catching them, weighing them, seeing how much weight they gain over time while they are rather resting and feeding before they depart on their northern trip.

«Our ultimate goal is to create the systematic survey of protein interactions in the brain,» says Akira Chiba, professor of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at UM and lead investigator of the project.

A different approach is offered by Donovan Wylie, who photographed the borderland watchtowers in Northern Ireland, creating a systematic survey of the towers, their positions and perspectives within the landscape.

Not exact matches

According to the Data - Driven Marketing Survey by Teradata, 50 % of marketers agree that data is the most underutilized asset in their organizations, with less than 10 % actually using the data they have in a systematic way.

The GEM survey offers a systematic measure of this.

He writes: «We need only survey the chronic and significant differences of opinion over the systematic grounding of natural law today, as well as the extraordinarily complicated and controversial skirmish lines over questions of moral theology, to see that this is so.»

We need only survey the chronic and significant differences of opinion over the systematic grounding of natural law today, as well as the extraordinarily complicated and controversial skirmish lines over questions of moral theology, to see that this is so.

Despite the comprehensive tone of its subtitle, The Twilight of the Intellectuals comprises a series of set pieces rather than a systematic survey.

A survey published in 1997 by the Interagency Group on Breastfeeding Monitoring (IGBM) called Cracking the Code, produced independently of Baby Milk Action and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) found systematic violations.

Soo has used a wide range of methods, in her research, including trials, surveys, systematic reviews (metasynthesis and meta - analysis), ethnography, phenomenology, and participatory action research based on appreciative enquiry.

Development of the ResQu Index involved five distinct phases: 1) generating items and a weighted scoring system; 2) conducting expert content validation via a quantitative survey and a modified Delphi process; 3) testing inter-rater consistency; 4) assuring compatibility with established research quality checklists and 5) piloting the ResQu Index in a large systematic review to assess instrument usability and feasibility.

On the basis of those findings, we went back that summer to do a more systematic survey.

«The surveys are sweeping the sky in a very systematic way, but amateurs can look outside of the survey paths, and they also have the flexibility to look closely at small patches of sky,» Chesley says.

Durant, working with staff from the Office du Parc National de l'Ahaggar (OPNA), says the photographs were taken as part of the first systematic camera trap survey across the central Sahara, covering an area of 2,800 square kilometres.

A combination of aerial survey methods (systematic surveys and recce surveys) were employed with a total of 17,934 km flown (98 hours of flight time) and an estimated 20,845 sq. km surveyed systematically.

«Data collected by RLS divers during the world's first systematic global survey of marine life show this is not the end of the story.

Others simply attributed the surprising results to sweeping statistical extrapolations being made from very small numbers of events, or to systematic weaknesses in the MOA survey's observations and analyses that the 2011 paper's authors had failed to account for.

Last June, thanks to better equipment and higher visibility, students from the University of Hawaii Marine Option Program — a field school that teaches students how to survey shipwrecks underwater — were able to map the entire site and produce the first systematic photos and video documentation.

To address the need for systematic studies, within Project EOS we have launched ACCESS (PIs: Mercedes López - Morales, Daniel Apai, Andrés Jordán), a collaborative survey between EOS members at the University of Arizona, the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and the Carnegie Institution for Science.

For this study, the researchers used photos from a systematic aerial survey of Greenland's glaciers conducted from 1978 to 1987.

We are conducting a systematic survey to monitor genome stability, including transcriptional activation of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) in the human genome following iPS reprogramming and differentiation.

The systematic lack of magnetic field detection reported in recent spectro - polarimetric surveys of Be stars is consistent with the absence of strong magnetic wind braking in these fast spinning stars but put strong constraints on the possible origin of the magnetic field.

Prior work had revealed some of these interactions in particular fjords, but Josh and his colleagues are now conducting systematic radar surveys of all of Greenland's outlet glaciers, combined with sensors parachuted into the fjords.

Abstract: The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), one of the programs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS - III), has now completed its systematic, homogeneous spectroscopic survey sampling all major populations of the MilkSurvey III (SDSS - III), has now completed its systematic, homogeneous spectroscopic survey sampling all major populations of the Milksurvey sampling all major populations of the Milky Way.

Using the simulations we also quantify the systematic biases of our shapelet flexion and shear measurement pipeline for deep Hubble data sets such as Galaxy Evolution from Morphology and SEDs, Space Telescope A901 / 902 Galaxy Evolution Survey or the Cosmic Evolution Survey.

To address this need in a systematic way, we have undertaken a multi-band survey of all types of star - forming galaxies in the local Universe.

The pointed observations will be used for deep surveys of selected sky areas and systematic observations of important astronomical targets.

It was found using radial - velocity measurements obtained as part of the the NASA - UC Eta - Earth Survey by the California Planet Search (CPS) group, a systematic search for low - mass planets between three and 30 Earth - masses orbiting the nearest 230 G -, K -.

This study provides the first systematic review and meta - analysis of survey data on scientific misconduct.

In chapters 3 through 6, we'll survey some of the more systematic wrongs inflicted on animals — factory farming, animal fighting, and the abuse of pets and wildlife — and we'll see how some of these evils are being confronted and overcome through the power of democracy and the rule of law.

Innovative past exhibitions include Stephanie Leitch's «Untitled Apogee» which focused on the space between architecture and gravity with her on - site installation, and Raivo Puusemp's «Dissolution» described as «a survey of aesthetic structures and systematic processes».

This present scholarly survey of Cragg's work distinguishes systematic and chronological aspects, reflects on ways of working and material resources, and makes apparent associations, interconnections, and evolutionary strands.

The systematic surveys covered 100 % of the «tower area,» which includes the power block and a radius of 154 acres of the heliostat field surrounding each tower, as well as 100 % of the project's perimeter, transmission lines and common area.

It would probably benefit from somebody first working out a set of question to measure the full spectrum of possible positions, and then to do some systematic surveying to find out the number of adherents to each among climate scientists, scientists generally, and the general public.

The very young children of unemployed mothers experience child care on a regular basis too.3 Figures from the National Household Education Survey in 2001 indicated that 53 % of 1 - year - olds and 59 % of 2 - year - olds received regularly scheduled child care in the United States.5 Are there systematic effects for young children of early child care experiences in the first two years of life?