Sentences with phrase «who authored the survey»

«I think that is a nonsensical response» that reflects «the religious right's point of view,» says Jon Miller, a science literacy researcher at Michigan State University in East Lansing who authored the survey 3 decades ago and conducted it for NSF until 2001.

Not exact matches

Shoppers» preference for bricks - and - mortar stores somewhat surprised the survey's author, who was expected to find a stronger affinity for online retailers.

As one of 12 keynoters, David kicked off our «UNlearn» conference and mesmerized 450 business marketers from 27 states, earning the # 1 speaker rating in our post-conference survey from among 55 keynoters and panelists in all, no small feat when you consider the many top marketers and authors who graced our podium.»

The survey's authors talked to a wide range of financial professionals and found that 56 % intend to buy more digital currencies over the next 12 months, compared to 31 % who plan to retain or reduce their exposure.

The authors report on the results of a survey of scientists and theological educators, asking about their belief in a God who intervenes in human affairs.

Dr Bex Lewis, who is a christian and author of, «Raising children in a digital age,» welcomed the survey's results and told Premier that parents need to look at their behaviour to better understand how it impacts their family.

A survey that William McKinney and I recently conducted invited 1,500 conservative and mainline Protestant denominational leaders to choose from a list of 63 contemporary religious leaders and authors the ten who have had «the greatest impact on your thinking about the church's life and mission today.»

CNN: My Take: More doubts about God doesn't mean religion is weakening Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» gives his take on a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, which shows a sharp increase in the number of millenials who doubt the existence of God.

Despite the fact that the authors surveyed only a small proportion of practicing midwives, who submitted data that was not validated, and despite the fact that they authors performed a variety of maneuvers that violated basic standards of statistical analysis, and despite the fact that they were intent on concluding that homebirth is «safe» regardless of what the data showed, they actually showed that homebirth has a minimum rate of death 5.5 X higher than comparable risk hospital birth.

'' [The authors] stitched together geological evidence, anthropological information as well as geophysical modeling to put together this story that is tantalizing for a geologist but it's frightening for people in Hawaii,» said Robert Witter, a geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Anchorage, Alaska who was not involved in the study.

«As much as we wanted to ask them every question we had, we had to design a streamlined survey to get a good response,» said Grier, the lead author, who collaborated with the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation where he became familiar with the patient perspective, which he wove into the survey design.

The authors caution that the study is a convenience sample in which respondents who have had a history of anxiety or depression may have been more apt to respond to the survey.

Studying survey data from 1,172 U.S. mothers, study authors Kelsey Mirkovic, Cria Perrine, Kelley Scanlon, and Laurence Grummer - Strawn found that 28.8 % of all women who intended to breastfeed for three months were unable to meet their goal.

Lead author Ramesh Raghavan, PhD, associate professor at the Brown School and of psychiatry at the School of Medicine, examined Medicaid records from 36 states for 1,921 children in the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well - Being, whom caseworkers had identified as having been maltreated, and who had received Medicaid - funded services.

«The silver that went into wastewaters when millions of people had their photographs developed taught us that small additions of silver to the environment make a big difference,» said Dr. Samuel Luoma, a former U.S. Geological Survey senior researcher who was lead author of a report by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies.

But there's no evidence that job opportunities are worsening, says Stuart Zweben, who directs the survey and authors the associated reports.

With most permanent researchers in the survey having a tenured position and most researchers on temporary contracts being postdocs, many factors, such as experience and age, could explain these differences in productivity, Siobhan Phillips, a senior science officer at ESF who was the survey methodology adviser and lead author, says in an email to Science Careers.

Dr Kristian Metcalfe, lead author from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation (CEC) at the University of Exeter who undertook the coastal survey with colleagues, said: «Conservation efforts for sea turtles can be hampered by their migratory life cycles, which carry them across jurisdictional boundaries and international waters.

The authors first conducted a random telephone survey of Lincoln residents to find some who held strong political opinions.

Many of the survey's findings confirm and deepen insights from previous research about who innovates, say the authors and other experts.

Analyzing survey data from almost 6,000 UK secondary schoolchildren (aged 11 - 16) from communities with traditionally low science engagement, the authors investigated who participates in science learning outside of the classroom.

After surveying 1,500 women, study authors found that those who used feminine hygiene items were three times more likely to have experienced a vaginal infection.

The author also thanks ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal ® editorial team, especially those who contributed to the original survey in 2006, Paul Couzelis, Ph.D.; John Jakicic, Ph.D., FACSM; Nico Pronk, Ph.D., FACSM; Mike Spezzano, M.S.; Neal Pire, M.A., FACSM; Jim Peterson, Ph.D., FACSM; Melinda Manore, Ph.D., R.D., FACSM; Cary Wing, Ed.D., FACSM; Reed Humphrey, Ph.D., P.T., FACSM; and Steve Tharrett, M.S., for their very important input into the construction of the original and subsequent surveys.

In particular, the author recognizes the important contributions of Dick Cotton, Kela Webster, Heather Drake, and especially Lori Tish who has worked tirelessly on this survey since it first launched in 2006.

The authors surveyed 871 women and men who were members of two online dating sites in the Netherlands.

The Blu - ray debut features all the supplements of that release: three commentary tracks (one by director Terry Gilliam, one by stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, and one by producer Laila Nabulsi and author Hunter S. Thompson), deleted scenes with commentary by Gilliam, the 1978 BBC «Omnibus» documentary «Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood» (with Hunter S. Thompson and artist Ralph Steadman), the ten - minute featurette «Hunter Goes to Hollywood,» an audio documentary on the controversy over the screenplay credit, a survey of the marketing campaign, selections from the correspondence between Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson (read on camera by Depp), an excerpt from the 1996 audio CD «Fear and Loathing» starring Maury Chaykin, Jim Jarmusch, Harry Dean Stanton, and Glenne Headly, background notes on Oscar Zeta Acosta (the real life activist and attorney who inspired the character of Dr. Gonzo), and galleries of storyboards, stills, and Ralph Steadman art.

After denouncing the «best practices» identified by the authors of Surpassing Shanghai on the basis of the methods we used, Greene appears to realize that his war on «best practices» has led him to inadvertently attack the kinds of studies done by people whose policy prescriptions he prefers, like Ludger Woessmann and Eric Hanushek, who have done well - regarded statistical analyses of survey data from OECD - PISA and other sources.

In a recent survey, a whopping 83 % of readers who boldly declared that when they finished reading your book, they wanted to know what else you, the author, has written!

Here's the best info I've gleaned from a dozen years of surveying authors who were generous enough to volunteer their figures.

It's getting easier and easier for successful digital - first authors to move into print and even bookstores without the help of a publisher, and the spread of e-book reading from dedicated devices such as the Kindle to tablets and smartphones (22 percent of Americans age 18 to 29 read books on their phones, according to the Pew survey) seems to offer new opportunities for those who get the format and pricing right.

I don't think anyone's listed all of them in one list, but if you read enough around the publishing industry, you will encounter multiple partial lists, several surveys, and quite a few shoptalk stats swaps that document these comfortably independent authors who may not be a household name, but don't care because they sell enough books to equal, exceed, or comprise their day job.

The survey was distributed to multiple indie author groups with thousands of members who were encouraged to share it.

How I Gathered This Information These survey results are based on my discussions with 47 authors who have written and published at least two non-fiction books.

Beverly Kendall conducted a survey with questions to dig into whether self - published authors who strive for professional quality find more success.

While 27 % of authors who took the survey advertised romance novels they represented 50 % of all authors who succeeded with Facebook advertising.

But a lot of self - published authors — especially ones who limit their work to Amazon or who think they're not selling enough copies to even register as a blip on Nielsen's radar — overlook the genuine information that can be gleaned from this survey data.

Authors responding were skewed farther more towards fiction authors, partly due to the involvement of writers» associations who helped promote the Authors responding were skewed farther more towards fiction authors, partly due to the involvement of writers» associations who helped promote the authors, partly due to the involvement of writers» associations who helped promote the survey.

The interview series with authors who participated in a survey about literary fiction continues with this intriguing conversation with author Kathleen Jones.

In fact, according to the results of the recent self publishing survey by Taleist.com, Authors who submitted to popular reviewers on Amazon received 25 % more reviews than average and earned 32 % more revenue for their latest release.

In a survey compiled by the 2013 Digital Book World and Writer's Digest, research showed that authors who identified as «hybrid» made more money, published more books, and achieved greater «success.»

Commissioned by the Authors» Licensing and Collecting Society and carried out by Queen Mary, University of London, the survey also found that in 2013, just 11.5 % of professional authors — those who dedicate the majority of their time to writing — earned their incomes solely from wAuthors» Licensing and Collecting Society and carried out by Queen Mary, University of London, the survey also found that in 2013, just 11.5 % of professional authors — those who dedicate the majority of their time to writing — earned their incomes solely from wauthors — those who dedicate the majority of their time to writing — earned their incomes solely from writing.

The most important thing I took from that survey was this: that the people who make the most self - publishing get their information from other authors, rather than books or pundits or conferences or individual websites.

If you're an author who wishes to join the ranks of other writers of literary fiction who have participated in the LitFic survey, click here.

Here are a few ideas that we heard from the authors who responded to our survey:

Some of you have heard from me a LOT lately, especially those authors who have expressed interest in my survey (under development) to promote your works to readers who enjoy independently published works of literary fiction.

Sexton — under whose direction F+W Media's springtime Writer's Digest Conference in New York will be staged April 5 - 7 (information to come soon)-- told us that self - publishing authors were the ones who, on the WD / DBW survey, demanded from publishers the highest royalty rates on e-books and the greatest advances on royalties.

It also becomes more clear in this article that the «aspiring authors» who took part in the survey, and accounted for approximately 65 % of the respondents, were just that — «aspiring» authors.

The survey results show that hybrid [authors are] achieving greater success with their self - publishing efforts than... authors who only self - publish, but they don't tell us why.

He points out that the majority of those answering the survey «were aspiring authors who had not yet published a manuscript.»

The survey notes that approximately 4,500 authors earn $ 25,000 or more from their Amazon sales, with 40 percent earning at least half of their income from self - publishing, while 35 percent are Big Five authors who receive the majority of their income from traditionally published titles.