Sentences with phrase «year survey using»

In a new paper published in Journal of Apicultural Research, official journal of the International Bee Research Association (IBRA), Zhiguang Liu and Wei Shi from the Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing and colleagues, report on a three - year survey using standard questionnaires developed by the international COLOSS Association.

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Twenty percent of those surveyed said that using all of their earned vacation days in the next 12 months was a top priority, up seven points from last year.

Sixty - seven percent of those over 65 years of age reported using their phone or tablet for new, according to the survey, up from just 43 % last year and only 22 % in 2013.

Companies that aim to gauge employee happiness and engagement through an annual survey — the blunt HR tool used in many corporate environments — may capture how a workforce feels on polling day, but they fail to document the dips and rises that occur throughout the year in response to hirings and firings, swings in the business cycle or even news events and weather.

The RSPH conducted a survey of 1,479 14 - to 24 - year - olds in the U.K. about their use of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and YouTube.

The study, released Monday, shows performance shares were used as CEO rewards by 51 % of companies surveyed last year, up from 47 % the previous year and 41 % in 2011.

For this first - of - a-kind study, Pew surveyed adults who use prepaid cards at least once a month and found that 59 percent currently have a checking account and 45 percent had used a credit card in the past year.

According to Jobvite's 2014 Social Recruiting Survey, 93 % of recruiters use or plan to use social recruiting, and 73 % plan to increase their investment in social this year.

According to the Capital One Rewards Barometer, a quarterly survey of U.S. consumers, half of respondents planning summer trips will pay at least some of their travel expenses using rewards, compared with 42 percent last year.

UAF has worked extensively with both institutional and commercial partners in Alaska and in recent years, using drones to monitor sea lion populations in the Aleutian Islands, conduct ice flow and environmental surveying missions for NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, inspect pipelines for oil and gas giant BP and assist a Russian tanker during a dangerous late - season fuel delivery to the remote Alaskan outpost of Nome.

While D.C. was also near the top of the list for coke use (3.78 % having used it in the last year), Alaska residents were found to be the nation's top pot users — 11.5 % smoked marijuana in the last month before the survey.

Earlier this year, ThePointsGuy.com commissioned Princeton Survey Research, which interviewed 1,003 American adults, to see how people use travel rewards cards and what they do with those rewards after earning them.

Some corporations use customer surveys to impress their stockholders, others, such as public utilities, show the information to regulatory commissions, while still more use it to track trends over years.

The mission aims to identify planets ranging from Earth - sized to gas giants, using an array of telescopes to perform a two - year survey.

A recent survey conducted by Right Management, a Philadelphia - based management consulting firm found that of 667 employees polled, 66 percent had not used all of their allotted paid vacation days this past year.

The survey was conducted by Pollara using online interviews with a random sample of 2,000 Canadians 18 years of age and over conducted between Feb. 25 and March 5.

The survey found that while respondents said they took most (but not all) of their vacation days each year, many are not used for relaxation.

A survey last year by International Customer Service Association and e-Satisfy Ltd. found that just 4 % of Web sites used live chats.

Gicheva conducted the study using GMAT Registrant Survey results, which were collected over the course of seven years from almost 2,000 U.S. workers.

Follow - up interviews conducted up to 13 years after the original survey were used to track the number of deaths and serious illnesses among the participants.

As a result, according to a survey conducted last year by Focus Research Systems Inc. of West Hartford, Conn., less than 7 % of American small businesses (those with fewer than 500 employees or less than $ 25 million in sales) used on - site computers.

When asked about the best way forward for Canada's economy in an Abacus Data public opinion survey last year, just one - third suggested Canada should prioritize promoting the use of Canada's oil and gas.

In the two years that followed, Mr. Bolton's super PAC spent nearly $ 1.2 million primarily for «survey research,» which is a term that campaigns use for polling, according to campaign finance records.

Some 5.1 percent of Wal - Mart shoppers said they used Walmart Pay in June, compared with 5.5 percent of iPhone users at stores that accept Apple Pay, which launched more than a year earlier, according to a survey by Pymnts.com and InfoScout.

About 38 percent of millennial savers in the T. Rowe Price survey have employed an advisor in the past five years, including 11 percent who have used robo - advisors.

For these reasons the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Statistics Canada base their calculations on surveys: the Current Population Survey in the United States and its Canadian counterpart, The Labour Force Survey, are conducted monthly and use a sample of between 50,000 and 60,000 households to represent the working age population in each country, those 15 years of age and older.

The notion that central banks might have to adopt increasingly unorthodox measures has been mooted in recent weeks, but on the whole, survey respondents did not expect them to resort to using «helicopter money» this year.

We regularly survey employees about their managers, and then use that information to publicly recognize the best managers and enlist them as teachers and role models for the next year.

Drawing on results from two surveys, Businessweek's ranking equally balanced the satisfaction of graduating EMBAs with the opinions of EMBA directors using three years of data.

A new LendEDU survey of Bitcoin investors shows that a vast majority plan to hold their investment for over a year, challenging the assumption that the cryptocurrency is mostly used by short - term investors.

In the May 2005 update of their paper entitled «Optimism and Economic Choice», Manju Puri and David Robinson use data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (conducted every three years since 1989) to investigate the economic decisions of optimists, including financial portfolio construction.

Case in point: Eighty - five percent of executives surveyed said they plan to increase their organization's use of independent freelance workers over the next year.

This year, individuals and organizations interested in reserving a presentation time, making a written, audio or video submission, or completing the online survey, will have the option of using the Parliamentary Committee's new consultation portal.

According to a recent survey by the Ponemon Institute, IoT security needs will drive increased use of public key infrastructure over the next two years.

The study was conducted using ORC International's CARAVAN Omnibus survey using both landline and mobile telephones on May 2-5/9 -12 / 16 - 19 2013 among 3020 adults, 1,507 men and 1,513 women 18 years of age and older, living in the continental United States.

I thought it was noticeable that only 22 % of the Citigate survey panel thought there would be a dramatic increase in the use of digital currencies as payment or money transfer methods over the next five years.

He and FSU fellow professor Marc Gertz concluded, based on their carefully - crafted surveys conducted in 1993, that there were more than 2.2 million defensive gun uses (DGU) each year in the United States.

In the most recent data, for 2015 - 16, «lockdown drills» — a broader category that NCES used for that year's survey — were being conducted in 94.6 percent of schools.

says James Bennett Jr., managing director of Greenwich Associates, who led a 12 - month survey of more than 100 institutional investors in the US on their use of equity flow derivatives, a category that excludes structured products, through June 30 this year.

According to national pollster Gallup, 64 % of respondents in its Oct. 2017 survey favored the idea of legalizing marijuana in the United States, which compares to just 25 % who felt the same way in 1995, the year before California became the first state to legalize medical cannabis for compassionate - use patients.

a. Due to the limited sample size of the Survey of Consumer Finances, we use households headed by 24 to 30 year - olds to ensure robust estimates.

The Church Urban Fund said more must be done to help hard - pressed Britons as figures from its food survey suggest almost a million adults used a food bank last year.

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.

They are acutely aware of their popularity — Hamm is by far the most recognizable American soccer player, male or female, according to a recent federation survey — and they have shrewdly leveraged that fame over the years, winning concessions from U.S. Soccer on several issues: the right of each player to choose which brand of shoe to wear; per - game salaries that equal those of the men's team; and clearance to stage a lucrative post-World Cup indoor tour in»99 using their own promoter.

According to a study done by the NCAA's quadrennial survey from athletes for the 2009 year, lacrosse players led all other sports in the use of amphetamines, anabolic steroids, cocaine, marijuana and narcotics.

Paul metropolitan area during the 2009 - 2010 school year to a series of five questions about muscle - enhancing behaviors, two healthy (changing eating patterns and exercising more) and three unhealthy (using protein powders or shakes, taking steroids, or employing another muscle - building substance such as creatine, amino acids, HMB, DHEA, or growth hormone), researchers at the University of Minnesota and Columbia University found that almost all students surveyed (90 % of boys, 80 % of girls) reported doing at least 1 behavior with this as the goal, and up to one - third reported the use of unhealthy methods.

A total of 73 percent of the women surveyed had used food stamps in the previous year, and 89 percent were receiving support from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), but neither of these resources can be used to buy diapers or other hygiene or cleaning supplies.

We calculated these transition probabilities using data from the longitudinal National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey, which assessed a cohort of women in 1987 and the same women again in 1992.25 Several limitations of these data affect our model: 1) because this national survey lacks data on women before age 35 years, women in our model could not develop hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or MI before age 35 years; 2) because longitudinal survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years and Survey, which assessed a cohort of women in 1987 and the same women again in 1992.25 Several limitations of these data affect our model: 1) because this national survey lacks data on women before age 35 years, women in our model could not develop hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or MI before age 35 years; 2) because longitudinal survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years and survey lacks data on women before age 35 years, women in our model could not develop hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or MI before age 35 years; 2) because longitudinal survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years and survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years and survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years and older.

When children surveyed were 4 months and 1 year of age, mothers were questioned in detail concerning breastfeeding practices, use of milk formulas, and other aspects of infant diet.

Surveys tell us that 92.2 % of 1 - year - olds have already used a mobile device, some starting as young as age 4 months.