In their 1999 study of the Prime Ministers of Canada, which included the results of a survey of Canadian historians, J. L.

One way to study structure in the universe is to survey the visible galaxies, in order to construct a three-dimensional picture of the galaxies in the universe and measure the matter power spectrum.

In the United Kingdom, the pro-assisted dying group Dignity in Dying cite conflicting research on attitudes by doctors to assisted dying: with a 2009 Palliative Medicine-published survey showing 64 % support ( to 34 % oppose ) for assisted dying in cases where a patient has an incurable and painful disease, while 49 % of doctors in a study published in BMC Medical Ethics oppose changing the law on assisted dying to 39 % in favour.

A 2006 and 2007 study on superstition by the University of Iceland ’ s Faculty of Social Sciences supervised by Terry Gunnell ( associate folklore professor ), reveal that natives would not rule out the existence of elves and ghosts ( similar results of a 1974 survey by Professor Erlendur Haraldsson, Fréttabladid reports ).

2009 compared transcriptional profiles using short-oligonucleotide microarrays ( Affymetrix Porcine GeneChip ) to survey differentially expressed genes between parthenotes ( 2 maternal genomes ) and control fetuses ( 1 maternal, 1 paternal genome ) An intriguing study surveying the transcriptome of murine brain tissues revealed over 1300 imprinted gene loci ( approximately 10-fold more than previously reported ) by Illumina RNA-sequencing ( RNA-Seq ) technology from F1 hybrids resulting from reciprocal crosses.

In a privately funded study conducted under the auspices of the Irish Wolfhound Club of America and based on an owner survey, Irish Wolfhounds in the United States from 1966 to 1986 lived to a mean age of 6. 47 and died most frequently of bone cancer.

A survey of same-sex couples in the United States showed that between 2000 and 2005, the number of people claiming to be in same-sex relationships increased by 30 %— five times the rate of population growth in the U. S. The study attributed the jump to people being more comfortable self-identifying as homosexual to the federal government.

* The World is Bound with Secret Knots: The Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher: A survey of the fields of study, writings and inventions of 17th century Jesuit polymath who was the founder of the Museum Kircherianum in Rome

A recent analysis of survey data using principal component analysis was carried out in 2003 in the UK ; the results of this study yielded the same two dimensions as found by Eysenck's original research: the familiar " left-right " R-dimension that mixes economic issues and social issues, and a second T-dimension that is described as " pragmatism vs idealism.

Walter J. Ong's encyclopedia article " Humanism " in the 1967 New Catholic Encyclopedia provides a well-informed survey of Renaissance humanism, which defined itself broadly as disfavoring medieval scholastic logic and dialectic and as favoring instead the study of classical Latin style and grammar and philology and rhetoric.

However, using data from an internet survey based experiment performed in 2006 on a random sample of 574 adult university students, a study was conducted that examined public approval for the use of racial profiling to prevent crime and terrorism.

A dedicated survey for international comparison: A group of European criminologists started an international victimization study with the sole purpose to generate international comparative crime and victimization data.

A 2008 study of presidential rankings for The Times placed Harding at number 34 and a 2009 C-SPAN survey ranked Harding at 38.

In 2004, Hyundai was ranked second in " initial quality " in a survey / study by J. D.

In 2004, Hyundai tied with Honda for initial brand quality in a survey / study from J. D.

He co-authored a study of discrimination in university hiring practices, particularly in sociology departments ( Wolfe et al., 1973 ), again with a strong emphasis on statistics and survey methods.

Also noteworthy and problematic, in a 1996 survey, study respondents reported a significant decline in memory, attention, planning, and overall productivity from the period two years prior to Graves ' symptoms onset.

In larger study populations the frequency varies between 13 and 18 %, consistent with a recent survey of caregivers which found that 14 % of males and 6 % of females experienced seizures.

In a 2005 study of 127 world cities, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked the city first ( in a tie with Vancouver, Canada ) for the world's most livable cities ( in the 2012 survey of 140 cities Vienna was ranked number two, behind Melbourne ).

The act authorized Joshua R. Stone and Green Baker from White County, William Davis and Isaiah Warton from Overton County, John Brown and Austin Morgan from Jackson County, William B. Stokes and Bird S. Rhea from DeKalb County, and Benjamin A. Vaden and Nathan Ward from Smith County to study the Conner survey and select a spot, not more than two and one-half miles from the center of the county, for the courthouse.

The study of proper names is sometimes called onomastics or onomatology ; for a survey of detailed and pragmatic issues in naming see Name.

The Commonwealth Fund, in its annual survey, " Mirror, Mirror on the Wall ", compares the performance of the health systems in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and the U. S. Its 2007 study found that, although the U. S. system is the most expensive, it consistently underperforms compared to the other countries.

Some exploration, survey, economic study, and design work was done, but the government, in the midst of the Chinese Civil War, halted work in 1947.

From analyses of the survey data, the researchers determined that the variables concerning their study are statistically significant to the physical conditions of the school and classroom setting.

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.