A 2009 survey revealed that 78 % of Croatians claim knowledge of at least one foreign language — most often English.

George Barna, a conservative Christian author and researcher, conducted a survey in the United States in 2009 that found gay and lesbian people having a Christian affiliation were more numerous than had been presumed.

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 Eurobarometer survey of EU citizens in 2009 showed that support for membership of the EU was lowest in Latvia, the United Kingdom, and Hungary.

A 2009 survey found that Europeans rated climate change as the second most serious problem facing the world, between " poverty, the lack of food and drinking water " and " a major global economic downturn ".

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 survey conducted by Monash University in December 2009, flybuys was ranked as " most worthwhile joining " among major Australian loyalty programs.

According to BBC, 17 % of computer science students could not find work in their field 7 months after graduation in 2009 which was the highest rate of the university majors surveyed while 0 % of medical students were unemployed in the same survey.

A similar survey was carried out in 2009 by New Zealand's Broadcasting Standards Authority.

The latest incarnation of the SERENDIP project is SERENDIP V. v, a commensal all-sky survey using the Arecibo radio telescope began in June 2009.

According to a survey of professional philosophers and others on their philosophical views which was carried out in November 2009 ( taken by 3226 respondents, including 1803 philosophy faculty members and / or PhDs and 829 philosophy graduate students ) 44. 9 % of respondents accept or lean towards correspondence theories, 20. 7 % accept or lean towards deflationary theories and 13. 8 % epistemic theories.

According to a survey conducted by BitDefender from January to June 2009, " Trojan-type malware is on the rise, accounting for 83-percent of the global malware detected in the world.

The UCSF drug and alcohol abuse specialty ranks fifth nationally in the 2009 survey, while family medicine ranks sixth, pediatrics tenth, and geriatrics ninth.

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

After a recent survey of global automotive sales, Hyundai is now the fourth largest automaker in the world as of 2009.

A 2009 Quinnipiac University survey found American voters opposed to the application of affirmative action to gay people, 65 over 27 percent.

According to its 2009 survey, the median salary earned by holders of either bachelor's or master's degrees in journalism and mass communication from colleges and universities in the United States ( including Puerto Rico ) entering the full-time job market in 2009 with $ 30, 000.

The domain sourceforge. net attracted at least 33 million visitors by August 2009 according to a Compete. com survey.

A 2009 Zagat survey named Subway the best provider of " Healthy Options " ( in the " Mega Chain " category ).

For three consecutive years ( 2009 – 2011 ), the human-resource-consulting firm Mercer ranked Vienna first in its annual " Quality of Living " survey of hundreds of cities around the world.

In the absence of official reports on the full cost of the monarchy, the Monarchist League of Canada regularly issues a survey based on various federal and provincial budgets, expenditures, and estimates ; the 2009 edition found that the institution cost Canadians roughly $ 50 million in 2008.

A Bank of Scotland survey in 2009 found that workers in Stirling had the highest average earnings of £ 716 a week.

Alan Bisbort's survey, Beatniks: A Guide to an American Subculture, was published by Greenwood Press in 2009 as part of the Greenwood Press Guides to Subcultures and Countercultures series.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

* Animal, a 2009 album by the London-based electronic band autoKratz

After a decade of double-digit growth, Armenia's economy declined by 14. 4 percent in 2009.

The AMD / USD exchange rate depreciated by 6. 1 percent in the first three quarters of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009, before it began to show the expected end-of-the-year appreciation.

The fossils of Ardipithecus have not yet been studied by researchers beyond the original ( 2009 ) group of describers, and the paleobiology and relationships of these creatures are the subject of controversy.

* Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations: Universalism, Constructivism and Near-Death Experience by Gregory Shushan, New York & London, Continuum, 2009.

Although, as of 2009, none of the extrasolar planets detected by ground-based astrometry has been verified in subsequent studies, astrometry is expected to be more accurate in space missions that are not affected by the distorting effects of the Earth's atmosphere.

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

It was signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H. W. Bush, and later amended with changes effective January 1, 2009.

In 2009, researchers hypothesized that smooth-edged holes found in the fossil jaws of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs such as Albertosaurus were caused by a parasite similar to Trichomonas gallinae which infects birds.

The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32. 960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.

Alberta was once the smallest of the three Prairie Provinces by population in the early 20th century, but by 2009, Alberta's population was 3, 632, 483 or approximately three times as much as either Saskatchewan ( 1, 023, 810 ) or Manitoba ( 1, 213, 815 ).

In September 2009 criticism over the seven-figure salaries earned by various coaches at Arizona's public universities ( including ASU ) prompted the Arizona Board of Regents to re-evaluate the salary and benefit policy for athletic staff.

" The Musician ", oil painting | oil on canvas by Tamara de Lempicka, 1929, stolen in 1 May 2009 from the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art.

image: Challenger 4x. png | Landing site, as imaged by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2009.

* André Weil, by A. Borel, Bull. AMS 46 ( 2009 ), 661-666.

* 215: 511 Philadelphia, PA was deprecated by state-wide use of 511 as road info in 2009 ; PA is the 36th state to adopt the system.

* Ark ( Baxter novel ), a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter ( published 20 Aug. 2009 )

In New York, the New Normannii Reik of Theodish Belief was founded in 1997 and is led by Dan Halloran, but in 2009 many members split off and formed the Arfstoll Church of Theodish Belief, White Marsh Theod, and Álfröðull þjóð.

In 2009 prior to a UK Tour, Nottingham Playhouse commissioned a play of the book by Robin Kingsland.

* President Obama's Speech to the NAACP on July 16, 2009 — full video by MSNBC

In 2009, American Media was taken over by its bondholders to keep it out of bankruptcy.

*" Amazonas " ( 2009 ), directed by Tuomas Milonoff.