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The World Values Survey uses the sample survey as its mode of data collection, a systematic and standardized approach to collect information through interviewing representative national samples of individuals. The basic stages of a sample survey are Questionnaire design ; Sampling ; Data collection and Analysis.

Sampling theory provides methods for calculating the probability that the poll results differ from reality by more than a certain amount, simply due to chance ; for instance, that the poll reports 47 % for Kerry but his support is actually as high as 50 %, or is really as low as 44 %.

The journal is divided into the following sections: Morphology, Systematics, Evolution ; Sampling, Distribution, Dispersal ; Development, Life History ; Population and Community Ecology ; Behavior, Chemical Ecology ; Population Biology / Genetics ; Molecular Biology / Genomics ; Neurobiology, Physiology, Biochemistry ; Vector Control, Pest Management, Resistance, Repellents ; Arthropod / Host Interaction, immunity ; Vector / Pathogen / Host Interaction, Transmission ; Vector Borne Diseases, Surveillance, Prevention ; Direct Injury, Myiasis, Forensics ; Modeling / GIS, Risk Assessment, Economic Impact.

1211th Test Squadron ( Sampling ) Martin RB-57D-2 Model 796 53-3979 collecting atmospheric data during Juniper Nuclear bomb test ; Operation Hardtack I 22 July 1958 at Bikini Atoll.

NERA ’ s economists are experienced in a broad range of industries and specialize in practice areas including: Antitrust and Competition ; Auctions ; Bankruptcy ; Class Actions and Class Certification ; Commercial Litigation and Damages ; Communications ; Consumer Protection in Financial Services ; Corporate Governance and Compliance ; Employment and Labor ; Energy ; Environment and Climate Change ; Financial Institutions and Banking ; Financial Risk Management ; International Arbitration ; Health Care and Life Sciences ; Insurance ; Intellectual Property ; Mass Torts and Product Liability ; Postal Services ; Regulatory Economics ; Risk Advisory Services ; Securities and Finance ; Statistical Sampling and Analysis ; Survey Research, Design, and Analysis ; Transfer Pricing ; Transport ; Valuation ; and Water.

Business loans generally are repayable in regular installments -- usually monthly, including interest at the rate of 5-1/2 percent per annum on the unpaid balance -- and have a maximum maturity of 10 years ; ;

The impact rate on 1958 Alpha for 153 events was Af for particles of mass greater than Af ( Dubin, 1960 ) ; ;

for the next two days, the impact rate was Af ; ;

rate of growth both before and after this crucial stage ; ;

What data there are on growth indicate considerable variation in rate ; ;

This is the rate of projection ; ;

Even English has general, albeit complex, rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful most of the time ; rules to predict spelling from the pronunciation have a higher failure rate.

Also during his reign taxes were lightened ; literature, art and science were encouraged ; the lot of the soldiers was improved ; and, for the convenience of the people, loan offices were instituted for lending money at a moderate rate of interest.

At any rate affairs in that region, including the future of the church of Ephesus ( 20: 28 – 30 ), are treated as though they would specially interest " Theophilus " and his circle ; also an early tradition has Luke die in the adjacent Bithynia.

Native Americans however, have a significantly higher rate of alcoholism than average ; it is unclear why this is the case.

Altair possesses an extremely rapid rate of rotation ; it has a rotational period of approximately 9 hours.

# An asset with a known price in the future does not today trade at its future price discounted at the risk-free interest rate ( or, the asset does not have negligible costs of storage ; as such, for example, this condition holds for grain but not for securities ).

The steeper slope of the municipal yield curve allows participants to collect more after-tax income from the municipal bond portfolio than is spent on the interest rate swap ; the carry is greater than the hedge expense.

The bet in this municipal bond arbitrage is that, over a longer period of time, two similar instruments — municipal bonds and interest rate swaps — will correlate with each other ; they are both very high quality credits, have the same maturity and are denominated in U. S. dollars.

One simple version of adaptive expectations is stated in the following equation, where is the next year's rate of inflation that is currently expected ; is this year's rate of inflation that was expected last year ; and is this year's actual rate of inflation:

Xiph. Org considers Speex obsolete ; its successor is Opus.

; Quality: Speex encoding is controlled most of the time by a quality parameter that ranges from 0 to 10.

; Complexity ( variable ): With Speex, it is possible to vary the complexity allowed for the encoder.

There is already a large base of applications supporting the Speex codec, from streaming applications like teleconference ( e. g. TeamSpeak ; many servers prefer Speex due to its good quality ), to VoIP systems ( e. g. Asterisk ), to videogames ( e. g. Xbox Live, Civilization 4 ) and audio processing applications.

; Audio formats: AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR, DTS, DV Audio, XM, FLAC, MACE, Mod, MP3, PLS, QCP, QDM2 / QDMC, RealAudio, Speex, Screamtracker 3 / S3M, TTA, Vorbis, WavPack, WMA ( WMA 1 / 2, WMA 3 partially ).

; Audio formats: AAC, AC3, DV Audio, FLAC, MP3, Speex, Vorbis

Too many people think that the primary purpose of a higher education is to help you make a living ; ;

The strong feeling is certainly there ; ;

Since the Supreme Court's decision of that year this is more doubtful ; ;

Their own easier, slower tempo is especially dear to Southerners ; ;

BMEWS intelligence is simultaneously flashed to NORAD ( North American Air Defense Command ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for interpretation ; ;

They include the Navy's Atlantic Command at Norfolk, Virginia, which is in contact with the Polaris subs ; ;

The aborigine is not deceived ; ;

In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; ;

For one thing, there is a natural belt of rock across the river bed ; ;

for example, the mode of bravery to this anonymous folk poem: `` They brought me news that Spring is in the plains And Ahmad's blood the crimson tulip stains ; ;

`` It is easy for you to talk '' ; ;

It is interesting, however, that despite this strong upsurge in Southern writing, almost none of the writers has forsaken the firmly entrenched concept of the white-suited big-daddy colonel sipping a mint julep as he silently recounts the revenue from the season's cotton and tobacco crops ; ;

This is not to say that the South is no longer agrarian ; ;

Courses are provided mainly for post high school day programs ; ;

To interpret, indeed, the era from 1000 to 800 as a period mainly of consolidation may be a necessary but unfortunate defect born of our lack of detailed information ; ;

They lived mainly in the kitchen ; ;

Unlike its relatives, the aardwolf does not hunt large animals ; instead it eats insects, mainly termites-one aardwolf can eat about 200, 000 termites during a single night by using its long, sticky tongue to capture them.

This class is something of a wastebasket ; its ambers are not polymerized, but mainly consist of cedrane-based sesquiterpenoids.

The flowers are catkins with elongate male catkins on the same plant as shorter female catkins, often before leaves appear ; they are mainly wind-pollinated, but also visited by bees to a small extent.

The general ground-plan is a parallelogram, with irregular outlines, one side overlooking the Tweed ; and the style is mainly the Scottish Baronial.

The main objective of the mission, however, was to secure the return of Edward ; but this failed, mainly because Henry III's relations with the Hungarians were strained, and the emperor was unable or unwilling to help Ealdred.

They were perhaps not named " Angles " at that time ; however, the territory of the Teutones probably included the Vorpommern and the region south to the Elbe ( mainly Holstein ), accounting for the implied larger range of the Angles in later sources.

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

He felt that he could not always rely on the local populace in providing a loyal army ; and therefore bought a massive standing army consisting mainly of Berbers from North Africa as well as slaves from other areas.

These early print advertisements were used mainly to promote books and newspapers, which became increasingly affordable with advances in the printing press ; and medicines, which were increasingly sought after as disease ravaged Europe.

This is mainly due to the limited extent of burrowing activity ; as such bioturbation became more prevalent throughout the Cambrian, environments capable of preserving organisms ' soft parts became much rarer.

After World War II, Bulgaria followed the Soviet model of economic development more closely than any other East Bloc country with becoming one of the first members of Comecon ; the new regime shifted the economy from mainly agrarian type towards industrial economy and much of the labour force from the countryside to the city, providing workers for new large-scale industrial complexes.

Glucose is mainly metabolized by a very important ten-step pathway called glycolysis, the net result of which is to break down one molecule of glucose into two molecules of pyruvate ; this also produces a net two molecules of ATP, the energy currency of cells, along with two reducing equivalents in the form of converting NAD < sup >+</ sup > to NADH.

Intramembranous ossification mainly occurs during formation of the flat bones of the skull but also the mandible, maxilla, and clavicles ; the bone is formed from connective tissue such as mesenchyme tissue rather than from cartilage.

* concentrated alcohols ( mainly ethanol, 1-propanol, called also n-propanol and 2-propanol, called isopropanol and mixtures thereof ; further, 2-phenoxyethanol and 1-and 2-phenoxypropanols are used ),

The ballads do not have any known author or correct version ; instead, having been passed down mainly by oral tradition since the Middle Ages, there are many variations of each.

The Americas collection mainly consists of 19th and 20th century items although the Inca, Aztec, Maya and other early cultures are well represented ; collecting of modern artefacts is ongoing.

The 2005 edition of Ethnologue reports that there are some 2. 2 million speakers ; 90 % of those live in Pakistan, mainly in the region of Balochistan.

Benzodiazepines share a similar chemical structure, and their effects in humans are mainly produced by the allosteric modification of a specific kind of neurotransmitter receptor, the GABA < sub > A </ sub > receptor, which increases the conductance of this inhibitory channel ; this results in the various therapeutic effects as well as adverse effects of benzodiazepines.