The European Commission replied to the answers of the questionnaire sent to Croatia on April 20, 2004 with a positive opinion.

# Shooting himself in the forehead: As his mother reads the questionnaire for the dating service ( and answers it according to her preferences, not his ), Harold surreptitiously loads a revolver with live rounds, then wheels around and points it at his mother.

The program, called the Select College Consulting Program, was designed by him and compared thousands of different criteria about each college with questionnaire answers submitted by each student applicant.

In 1951 he published the book Der Fragebogen (" The Questionnaire "), in which he gave his rather ironic answers to the 131 point questionnaire concerning their activities under Nazism.

He completed the questionnaire on which Francis Galton based his English Men of Science ( 1874 ), and his recorded answers included the following comments:

Computer-assisted telephone interviewing ( CATI ) is a data collection technique in which a telephone survey questionnaire is stored in a computer, allowing the interviewer to read the questions from the monitor and enter the answers on a computer keyboard.

Some or all of her published surveys depended on wide multi-channel questionnaire distribution, opportunity for many long answers on a respondent's own schedule, enforced respondent anonymity, and response by mail rather than polling by telephone.

* Adaptive computerized questionnaire administration, where a selection of items is presented on the computer, and based on the answers on those items, the computer selects following items optimized for the testee's estimated ability or trait.

The case led to controversy during Bush's 2000 presidential campaign because Bush's answers to the potential juror questionnaire did not disclose Bush's own 1976 misdemeanor drunk driving conviction.

In an unprecedented move, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter and ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy also requested that Miers re-do some of her answers to the questionnaire submitted to her by the Committee, noting that her responses were " inadequate ," " insufficient ," and " insulting " because she failed or refused to adequately answer various questions with acceptable accuracy or with sufficient detail.

The software is able to customize the flow of the questionnaire based on the answers provided, as well as information already known about the participant.

Automated Computer Telephone Interviewing ( ACTI ) is a technique by which a computer with speaker independent voice recognition capabilities asks respondents a series of questions, recognizes then stores the answers, and is able to follow scripted logic and branch intelligently according to the flow of the questionnaire based on the answers provided, as well as information known about the participant.

A new, complex software technology not only evaluates the answers to the questionnaire but also each user's behavioral data such as average time spent on the site.

* Either the respondent or an interviewer sits at a computer terminal and answers a questionnaire using the keyboard or mouse.

For example, they may be used to estimate a student's reading ability from answers to questions on a reading assessment, or the extremity of a person's attitude to capital punishment from responses on a questionnaire.

As the subjects were filling out a five page questionnaire, the actor paced his or her own answers with the subjects.

Additionally if more questions on a particular subject area or topic are asked to create a larger sample then statistically their level of knowledge for that topic will be reflected more accurately in the number of correct answers and final results.

In part this also reflected people's search for answers to social problems during the drastic dislocations of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl years, when the inequities of American society seemed overwhelming.

This is reflected also in the move towards standardized and multiple choice testing, which measures students on the basis of numbered answers and against a uniform standard.

He was told he displayed, for example, a sense of superiority -- and he answered: `` Well, I am supposed to know all the answers, aren't I ''??

Although modern scholars have expressed surprise that `` the simple magic square of three '', a mere `` mathematical puzzle '', was able to exert a considerable influence on the minds and imaginations of the cultured Chinese for so many centuries, they could have found most of the answers right within the square itself.

The answers were recorded in the works of the prophets Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Second Isaiah, and in the Deuteronomistic history, the collection of historical works from Joshua to Kings: God had not abandoned Israel ; Israel had abandoned God, and the Babylonian exile was God's punishment for Israel's lack of faith.

If the experiment were done in English, since Searle knows English, he would be able to take questions and give answers without any algorithms for English questions, and he would be affectively aware of what was being said and the purposes it might serve: Searle passes the Turing test of answering the questions in both languages, but he's only conscious of what he's doing when he speaks English.

Although possessed of a genial personality, Clement Attlee was notably taciturn in his relations with the Press, sometimes offering only monosyllabic answers to reporters ' questions.

He was famous for getting quick and accurate answers to problems which would stump other people.

The grammatical description in the earliest books was somewhat vague, so a consensus on usage ( influenced by Zamenhof's answers to some questions ) developed over time within boundaries set by the initial outline ( Auld 1988 ).

Another factor on early ARPANET mailing lists was netiquette, wherein people asking questions typically " promised to ' summarize ' received answers.

Originally the term FAQ referred to the Frequently Answered Question itself, and the compilation of questions and answers was known as a FAQ list or some similar expression.

The answers to the puzzles were printed in invisible ink that only became visible with a special marker that was provided with each book.

Testimony from children in the case was extracted by Laurie and Joseph Braga, a husband-and-wife team who resorted to coercive questioning of the alleged victims when the desired answers were not forthcoming.

Scientology texts present this period in his life as a time when he was intensely curious for answers to human suffering and explored ancient Eastern philosophies for answers, but found them lacking.

One of these almost intelligent automata was attributed to Albertus Magnus, and it is said that St Thomas ( Thomas Aquinas ) destroyed it with one blow from a stick because he was perplexed by its answers.

It was Laplace who found the first answers explaining the remarkable dance of the Galilean moons ( see below ).

Writing in 409, Jerome remarked, " A great many years ago when I was helping Damasus, bishop of Rome with his ecclesiastical correspondence, and writing his answers to the questions referred to him by the councils of the east and west ..." If " east and west " do not betray the passage as an interpolation, Jerome spent three years ( 382 – 385 ) in Rome in close intercourse with Pope Damasus and the leading Christians.

The user's identity is verified by asking questions and comparing the answers to ones previously stored ( i. e., when the account was opened ).

" Daily Telegraph columnist Jasper Rees, likening the changes in explorers ' reputations to climatic variations, suggests that " in the current Antarctic weather report, Scott is enjoying his first spell in the sun for twenty-five years ". The New York Times Book Review was more critical, pointing out Crane's support for Scott's discredited claims regarding the circumstances of the freeing of the Discovery from the pack ice, and concluded " For all the many attractions of his book, David Crane offers no answers that convincingly exonerate Scott from a significant share of responsibility for his own demise.

After duly weighing the answers of the bishops, he judged that it was time to attack the problem of a general and systematic revision of the rubrics of the breviary and missal.

In 1669 Pepys had to prepare detailed answers to the committee's eight ' Observations ' on the Navy Board's conduct, and in 1670 he was forced to defend his own role.

Christian philosopher Peter Kreeft provides several answers to the problem of evil and suffering, including that a ) God may use short-term evils for long-range goods, b ) God created the possibility of evil, but not the evil itself, and that free will was necessary for the highest good of real love.

Upon the officer asking who is in charge, Ralph answers loudly, " I am ", and Jack, who was previously characterised as a powerful leader, is reduced to " A little boy who wore the remains of an extraordinary black cap on his red hair and who carried the remains of a pair of spectacles at his waist ".

She was once accused by a minister of asking questions in parliament that embarrassed South Africa, to which she replied: " It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa ; it is your answers ".

When challenged by those who question whether a priest with his own theological beliefs can minister to the spiritual needs of men and women of all faiths, Coughlin answers with complete honesty, admitting that he cannot, because he has his own " limitations.

The newspaper Vísir wrote about this in a jocular tone, noting that " the representatives of the Ásatrúarmenn got rather vague answers from the minister, — and apparently that's what Thor the thunder god thought as well, because as the visit was at an end and the minister stood up to follow the guests to the door there was a terrible thunder in the center of Reykjavík, causing damage close to the office of the ministry ".