Detailed military surveys in Britain ( beginning in the late eighteenth century ) were called Ordnance Surveys, and this term was used into the 20th century as generic for topographic surveys and maps.

These standards are used for example in the European Community Innovation Surveys.

# Mission and Vision Statements and Customer ( Client ) Surveys are the most used ( by 77 % of organizations of 20 improvement tools, followed by SWOT analysis ( 72 %), and Informal Benchmarking ( 68 %).

In the United States, according to the 2002 National Surveys of Family Growth, sexually active adolescent women wishing to avoid pregnancy were less likely than those of other ages to use contraceptives ( 18 % of 15-to 19-year-olds used no contraceptives, versus 10. 7 % average for women ages 15 to 44 ).

Surveys ( stated preference techniques ) or market behavior ( revealed preference techniques ) are often used to estimate the compensation associated with a policy, however survey respondents often have strong incentives to misreport their true preferences and market behavior does not provide any information about important non-market welfare impacts.

Surveys were done using the metes and bounds method used in Virginia, rather than the Public Land Survey System established by the Land Ordinance of 1785 which was more used for the most of the Northwest Territory.

The Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys was used to photograph the crater in visual and ultraviolet light.

The Indices by the departments of Statistical Bureau or Economic Surveys may be used for the revaluation of assets.

This instrument was used in the National Geographic Society-Palomar Observatory Sky Survey ( POSS, 1958 ), the POSS-II survey, the Palomar-Leiden ( asteroid ) Surveys, and other projects.

( 2006 ) used data collected from the Demographic and Health Surveys and found that HIV prevalence was " considerably higher in urban areas and for women, especially at younger ages.

( 2006 ) also used data from Demographic and Health Surveys in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, and Malawi and from AIDS Indicator Surveys in Tanzania and Uganda to conduct his study.

The spelling Yalgu was used because of spelling rules for Aboriginal names adopted by the Lands & Surveys Department ( the letter u best representing the " oo " sound ).

Within a month the Lands & Surveys had decided reluctantly to use the original Yalgoo spelling, and this spelling has been used ever since.

The Social Weather Surveys are used for public opinion polls.

Surveys are used to determine the disparity, if any, between federal and non-federal pay in a given locality pay area.

He then became assistant chief of the Population Division and then the Special Surveys Division and chief social scientist.

Surveys indicate that modern spinsters feel a social stigma attached to their status, and a sense of both heightened visibility and invisibility.

She joined the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) in 1974, as a social survey officer in the Survey Division, where she stayed for 15 years, working on, among other things, two major surveys.

Surveys of the attitudes of Canadian and American psychiatrists ' attitudes towards dissociative disorders completed in 1999 and 2001 found considerable skepticism and disagreement regarding the research base of dissociative disorders in general and DID in specific, as well as whether the inclusion DID in the DSM was appropriate.

WVR publishes research papers of high scientific standards based on evidence from World Values Surveys data.

WVR papers present original research based on data from the World Values Surveys, providing new evidence and novel insights of theoretical relevance to the theme of human values.

Surveys provide important information for all kinds of research fields, e. g., marketing research, psychology, health professionals and sociology.

Surveys are a common example of how statistics and quantitative research are utilized to gather data.

The sale did not include Fairey Air Surveys or the works at Heston which was home to the weapon division, which had a contract for research into advanced anti-tank missile systems.

Surveys and research have shown that male students who either cohabit or live in a communal group are more likely to become involved in open relationships rather than females, and are still more interested in the concept than females even if not participating in open relationships.

Surveys of reversible circuits, their construction and optimization as well as recent research challenges is available.

He is also a former member of the Advanced Camera for Surveys Guaranteed Time Observation ( GTO ) team and postdoctoral research astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

He leads a research team studying cognitive ageing by following up the people who took part in the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947: the Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1921 and 1936.

Surveys in many countries show that temazepam, heroin, cocaine, MDMA, cannabis, nimetazepam, and amphetamines rank among the top illegal drugs most frequently abused.

Surveys of woodlands of County Kilkenny include A Woodland Survey of Kilkenny, undertaken in 1997 to identify woodlands in the county and A survey of broadleaved woodlands in three special Areas of Conservation, Barrow-Nore, River Unshin and Lough Forbes ( 2000 ) which covers some of County Kilkenny, and National Survey of Native Woodlands ( NSNW ) 2003-2008 which was one of the largest ecological surveys to be completed in Ireland and did its fieldwork in the county in 2003.

Surveys by the GNTB include perceptions and reasons for holidaying in Germany, which are as follows: culture ( 75 %), outdoors / countryside ( 59 %), cities ( 59 %), cleanliness ( 47 %), security ( 41 %), modernity ( 36 %), good hotels ( 35 %), good gastronomy / cuisine ( 34 %), good accessibility ( 30 %), cosmopolitanism / hospitality ( 27 %), good shopping opportunities ( 21 %), exciting nightlife ( 17 %) and good price / performance ratio ( 10 %) ( multiple answers were possible ).

In January 2009, GfK Audits & Surveys acquired The Nielsen Company's contact lens panel and expanded tracking to include Optics in America.

Sponsored and consultancy projects taken up by NIO include Environmental Impact Assessment ( EIA ), Coastal Zone Management, Resource Surveys, Biofouling & Corrosion studies, and development of marine instruments.

These services include Threat Assessments, Vulnerability Assessments, Physical Security Surveys, Security Master Planning, Policy and Procedure Development, Staffing Studies, etc.

" In general, measurement of time causes “ some of the most demanding aspects of unpaid work be unexplored and the premise that time is an appropriate tool for measuring women's unpaid work goes unchallenged .” Surveys have also been criticized for lacking " depth and complexity " as questions cannot be specifically tailored to particular circumstances.

* Patterns of Deceit Raise Concerns About Teenage Sex Surveys in The New York Times, about virginity pledges

Surveys indicate that kissing is the second most common form of physical intimacy among United States adolescents, after holding hands, with about 85 % of 15-to 16-year-old adolescents in the US experiencing it.

Staff from the Current Surveys Program conduct ongoing and special surveys about people and their characteristics.

Surveys indicate that 90 % of open clusters dissolve less than 1 billion years after formation, while only a tiny fraction survive for the present age of the Solar System ( about 4. 6 billion years ).

Fairey Surveys was absobred into what eventually became Blom Aerofilms in 2010 aerial photography specialist Bluesky acquired access to the Blom Aerofilms library which contains photographs dating from the 1950s, held on about 7, 000 original films, these will be available to purchase from www. oldaerialphotos. com.

When the Advanced Camera for Surveys ( ACS ) detector was installed on the HST, it was realized that an ultra-deep field could observe galaxy formation out to even higher redshifts than had currently been observed, as well as providing more information about galaxy formation at intermediate redshifts ( z ~ 2 ).

More information about the surveys can be found on the ESO-The VST Surveys website.

More information about each of the VISTA surveys can be found on the ESO — VISTA Surveys website and in the ESO — Public Surveys Projects webpage.

* The Economist-MBA, Surveys current participants and alumni about career opportunities ; personal development & educational experience ; salary increase ; and potential to network:

* Wall Street Journal-MBA, Surveys recruiters about their perception of the school ’ s graduates and the career services support:

Surveys can be a practical way to decide whether or not to carry out an excavation ( as a way of recording the basic details of a possible site ), but may also be ends in themselves, as they produce important information about past human activities in a regional context.

Surveys conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Society in 2006 and 2007 found about 125, 000 previously unreported gorillas have been living in the swamp forests of Lake Télé Community Reserve and in neighboring Marantaceae ( dryland ) forests in the Republic of the Congo.

Surveys have reported steep declines ( 60-70 %) over periods of about 20 years dating from the late 1970s in several places, including the main strongholds for the species: Serengeti, Masai Mara and Ngorongoro.

According to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, the 2007 and 2009 California Health Interview Surveys ( CHIS ) demonstrate continued mental health needs of almost two million Californians, about half of which were unmet in 2011.

Surveys were made of zoo visitors about the various plans, and Zoo New England has been using the results to direct their improvement and renovation plans.