The 2% increase in retail sales in October to a 4-month high is encouraging in this connection as well as the most recent consumer survey by the National Industrial Conference Board, which shows a decided pickup in consumer spending plans.

What is missing is work that would answer, presumably by the use of survey methods and Guttman-type attitude scales, such questions as these: What are the components of the feeling-state described as alienation??

The report is based on a survey by Blyth & Company, investment bankers.

Staged by way of announcing the gift of a large and intimate Sloan collection by the artist's widow, Helen Farr Sloan, to the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, the exhibition presents a survey of Sloan's work.

A 2003 household survey conducted by the National Statistical Survey found that the real unemployment rate is about 33 percent.

* Scale analysis ( statistics ) – methods to analyse survey data by scoring responses on a numeric scale

The U. S. survey acre is about 4, 046. 872 609 874 252 square metres ; its exact value ( m < sup > 2 </ sup >) is based on an inch defined by 1 metre = 39. 37 inches exactly, as established by the Mendenhall Order.

Traditional survey methods of measurement and calculation have been replaced by inertial orientation and navigators and GPS.

A survey of children with pervasive developmental disorder found that 16. 5 % were taking an antipsychotic drug, most commonly to alleviate mood and behavioral disturbances characterized by irritability, aggression, and agitation.

* According to a 2006 survey of 1, 500 adults by Satio, a third of Belarusians use the Internet — 38 % of the urban population and 16 % of the rural population.

Their accuracy has been called into question, however ( e. g., by Chauncey Brewster Tinker in The Translations of Beowulf, a comprehensive survey of 19th-century translations and editions of Beowulf ), and the extent to which the manuscript was actually more readable in Thorkelin's time is unclear.

In 1794, this fortress was used by the French astronomer Pierre François André Méchain for observations relating to a survey stretching to Dunkirk that provided the official basis of the measurement of a metre.

Certain types of large random satisfiable instances of SAT can be solved by survey propagation ( SP ).

A survey conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion in June 2010 found that 61 per cent of Britons and 70 per cent of Northern Irish agreed with Cameron ’ s apology for the Bloody Sunday events.

Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years ( Viking ; 2010 ) 1, 161 pages ; survey by leading historian

An extensive survey of three genera of frogs in Montana show that they were unaffected by the K – Pg extinction event and survived apparently unchanged.

Because a geographically dispersed population can be expensive to survey, greater economy than simple random sampling can be achieved by treating several respondents within a local area as a cluster.

These data are then matched to census records and the number of people missed can be estimated by considering the number missed in the census or survey but counted in the other.

Another possibility is to present survey results by means of statistical models in the form of a multivariate distribution mixture.

In 1797, Thompson was sent south by his employers to survey part of Canada-U. S. boundary along the water routes from Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods to satisfy unresolved questions of territory arising from the Jay Treaty between Great Britain and the United States.

In 2002, the anime character was acclaimed as an Asian Hero in a special feature survey conducted by Time Asia magazine.

A biological survey by the Chagos Conservation Trust reported that the resulting inundation additionally washed away shoreline shrubs and small to medium-size coconut palms.

The 1967 survey, published by The Smithsonian is used as the most authoritative baseline for more recent research.

The claims of Hawkins were largely dismissed, but this was not the case for Alexander Thom's work, whose survey results of megalithic sites hypothesized widespread practice of accurate astronomy in the British Isles.

In 2000 KPMG reported in its survey of offshore jurisdictions for the United Kingdom government that over 41 % of the world's offshore companies were formed in the British Virgin Islands.

The depression is named after the British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Challenger, whose expedition of 1872 – 1876 made the first recordings of its depth.

Perhaps his greatest achievement with the novels is the magisterial A tour thro ' the whole island of Great Britain ( 1724 – 27 ), which provided a panoramic survey of British trade on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.

A 2007 survey of British Muslims showed that 61 % believe homosexuality should be illegal, with up to 71 % young British Muslims holding this belief.

" Forever Changes " was ranked 83rd in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time.

Hip dysplasia is uncommon in Salukis, with the breed ranking joint lowest in a survey by the British Veterinary Association in 2003.

In a 2006 breed specific survey conducted by The Kennel Club and the British Small Animal Veterinary Association Scientific Committee, responses highlighted several health issues.

* The British Geological Survey is founded as the world's first national geological survey.

Mount St. Helens takes its English name from the British diplomat Lord St Helens, a friend of explorer George Vancouver who made a survey of the area in the late 18th century.

Then, in December 1965 and March 1966, Nature and The Lancet published the first preliminary reports by British cytogeneticist Patricia Jacobs and colleagues at the MRC Human Genetics Unit at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh of a chromosome survey of 315 male patients at The State Hospital outside Carstairs, Lanarkshire — Scotland ’ s only special security hospital for the developmentally disabled — that found nine patients, ages 17 to 36, averaging almost 6 ft. in height ( avg.

Although the film does show that Lawrence could speak and read Arabic, could quote the Quran, and was reasonably knowledgeable about the region, it barely mentions his archaeological travels from 1911 to 1914 in Syria and Arabia, and ignores his espionage work, including a pre-war topographical survey of the Sinai Peninsula and his attempts to negotiate the release of British prisoners at Kut in Mesopotamia in 1916.

In January 1914, before the outbreak of World War I, Lawrence was co-opted by the British Army to undertake a military survey of the Negev Desert while doing archaeological research.

A survey on their maritime archaeology and topography from the Prehistoric to the Roman periods, British Archaeological Reports, International Series 1181, Oxford.

In 1856, General Alexander Cunningham, later director general of the archeological survey of northern India, visited Harappa where the British engineers John and William Brunton were laying the East Indian Railway Company line connecting the cities of Karachi and Lahore.

A survey approaching the scope and extent of the Domesday Book was not attempted until the Return of Owners of Land, 1873 which presented the first subsequent complete picture of the distribution of landed property in the British Isles and is thus sometimes referred to as the " Modern Domesday ".

* 2001-The 2dfgrs galaxy redshift survey by an Australian / British team gave strong evidence that the matter density is near 25 % of critical density.

A 15-month survey conducted in 2003-2004 by the British Big Cats Society gave the following regional breakdown, based on 2052 sightings: South West 21 %, South East 16 %, East Anglia 12 %, Scotland 11 %, and West Midlands 9 %.

The reason why the Aube sailed ahead of the Comte-de-Paris was to ‘ gain time for fear the British might get the start of them ’ Yet the New Zealand Company's survey ship Tory had sailed from Plymouth on 12 May 1839, before Langlois and his associates had made their first approach to the French government, and as early as June the British Government was considering sending Captain William Hobson to act as Lieutenant-Governor over such parts of New Zealand as might be acquired from the Māori.

In 2000 the BBC commissioned a genetic survey of the British Isles by a team from University College London led by Professor David Goldstein for its programme ' Blood of the Vikings '.

In a survey conducted by The Guardian in 2006, Peterloo came second to the Putney Debates as the event from British history that most deserved a proper monument or a memorial.

The Japanese legation staff managed to escape to Chemulpo and then Nagasaki via the British survey ship Flying Fish.

The disputants engaged an expert British team, astronomer Charles Mason and surveyor Jeremiah Dixon, to survey what became known as the Mason – Dixon Line.