An exhaustive survey was made of the literature, and a primary reference file of approximately 600 references was catalogued.

This action was rationalized on the basis of a small survey which indicated that a high percentage of married freshmen women on our campus never become sophomores.

The expedition was under orders to make a swift survey of conditions and then to return to Earth.

Wakefield's idea was for the Government to survey and sell the land at a rate that would maintain land values high enough to be unaffordable for labourers and journeymen.

Light's survey was completed in this period, and land was promptly offered for sale to early colonists.

A cadastral survey seems also to have been instituted, and one of the documents relating to it states that a certain Uru-Malik, whose name appears to indicate his Canaanite origin, was governor of the land of the Amorites, or Amurru as the semi-nomadic people of Syria and Canaan were called in Akkadian.

He compiled a survey of mirror configurations in his work on remarkable mechanical devices which was known to Arab mathematicians such as Ibn al-Haytham.

It was the only way they could be mounted and survey the overall battlefield with safety from distant musket fire.

By 1987 a comprehensive survey of the phylum was completed: in all, 4516 species and 339 genera had been named.

In 2001, it achieved high rankings in the annual Maclean's University Rankings, including Best Overall for Primarily Undergraduate University in their opinion survey, and it received the Canadian Information Productivity Award in 1997 as it was praised as the first university in Canada to fully utilize information technology in the undergraduate curriculum.

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.

Some people even believe that this was the biblical event of Noah's flood, but despite their historical significance, the first spectacular images of these submarine channels were obtained in 1999 ( Di Iorio, et al., 1999 ) in the frame of a NATO SACLANT Undersea Research project using jointly the NATO RV Alliance, and the Turkish Navy survey ship Çubuklu.

In 2002, a new survey was carried out on board the Ifremer RV Le Suroit for BlaSON project ( Lericolais, et al., 2003 ) completed the multibeam mapping of this underwater channel fan-delta.

The survey was run and coordinated from the Institute of Marine Sciences research ship, the R / V Koca Piri Reis.

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.

Although the SDP was seen as being largely a breakaway from the right wing of the Labour Party, an internal party survey found that 60 % of its members had not belonged to a political party before, with 25 % being drawn from Labour, 10 % from the Conservatives and 5 % from the Liberals.

It was also a crossover smash, reaching No. 1 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart and No. 2 on Billboard's Country survey.

Starting from 1880 the Hungarian census system was based on native language ( the language spoken at home in the early life of the person and at the time of the survey ), vulgar language ( the most frequently used language in the family ), and other spoken languages.

A survey of papers on Chinese history in the early 21st century would reveal relatively little attempt to fit Chinese history into a master paradigm of history as was common in the 1950s.

The January 2007 estimated population of the island was 281, 000, while the figure for the March 1999 census, when most of the studies – though not the linguistic survey work referenced in this article – were performed, was about 261, 000 ( see under Corsica ).

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 February 1962, three years after the 1959 " US Special Survey Team ", a Fort Bragg top-level U. S. Special Warfare team headed by Special Warfare Center commander General William P. Yarborough, visited Colombia for a second survey.

Garfield, however, thought that part of the army had held and, with Rosecrans's approval, headed across Missionary Ridge to survey the Union status.

Results of the survey indicated the population is clearly headed towards extinction in Belize unless conservation measures are put in place.

General Black then headed for the forest to conduct a survey of his own.

He headed up a survey of properties in the Welsh Marches, Thornbury and Bedminster in 1500, audited the estates in Gloucestershire in 1502.

His survey crews headed out into the wilderness on the day the province joined confederation.

* Henry D. Washburn, American congressman and explorer who headed the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to survey Yellowstone National Park

In 1860, Echols headed another survey team through the Trans-Pecos that employed the Camel Corps.

A group of volunteers, headed by botanist Joseph Lai ( who first discovered Chek Jawa's rich ecosystems in December 2000 ), conducted a biodiversity survey months before the area was to be reclaimed in 2001.

In this position he headed an interdepartmental committee that was formed in August 1933 to examine the possibilities of air survey and aerial photography to further national development.

" In February 1962, three years after the 1959 " US Special Survey Team ", a Fort Bragg top-level U. S. Special Warfare team headed by Special Warfare Center commander General William P. Yarborough, visited Colombia for a second survey.

" In February 1962, three years after the 1959 " US Special Survey Team ", a Fort Bragg top-level U. S. Special Warfare team headed by Special Warfare Center commander General William P. Yarborough, visited Colombia for a second survey.

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.

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 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.