Surveys Sentence Examples
Surveys were also made along the Indian coasts.
The cadastral surveys in Canada are carried on by a commission of Crown-lands in the old provinces and by a Dominion land office, which lays out townships as in the United States, but with greater accuracy.
In the Rocky Mountains surveys photographic apparatus is successfully employed.
Since that time, however, valuable maps have been published by an Oficina de mensura de tierras, by a seccion de geografia y minas connected with the department of public works, by the Oficina hidrografica, and more especially in connexion with surveys necessitated by the boundary disputes with Argentina, which were settled by arbitration in 1899 and 1902.
It need hardly be said that hydrographic surveys have been of great service to compilers of maps.
Macneill, working chiefly on surveys, harbours and railroads, and was appointed in 1855 to the chair of civil engineering in Glasgow, vacant by the resignation of Lewis Gordon, whose work he had undertaken during the previous session.
Industrial surveys, having for their object the granting of land to the peasants to the extent of 40 acres per each male head, with 8 additional acres of wood and 8 acres as a reserve, were started many years ago, and after being stopped in 1887 were commenced again in 1898.
In such cases preliminary surveys should be made to determine the thickness of rock over the proposed workings.
Reports of state geological surveys have been published by most of the states east of the Missouri river, and some of those farther west (California, Washington, Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming) and south (Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana).
Among the more important productions of more recent times, may be mentioned a map of the empire, said to be based upon actual surveys by Yhang (721), who also manufactured FIG.
AdvertisementThese charts are based upon estimated bearings and distances between the principal ports or capes, the intervening coast-line being filled in from more detailed surveys.
In the case of Japan, the earliest reference to a map is of 646, in which year the emperor ordered surveys of certain provinces to be made.
The maritime discoveries and surveys of that age of great discoveries were laid down upon so-called " plane-charts," that is, charts having merely equidistant parallels indicated upon them, together with the equator, the tropics and polar FIG.
In no other country of Europe was there at the close of the 16th century a geographical establishment capable of competing with the Dutch towns or with Sanson, but the number of those who produced maps, in many instances based upon original surveys, was large.
Among other French works of importance deserving notice are Le Neptune oriental of Mannevillette (1745) and more especially the Carte geometrique de la France, which is based upon surveys carried on (1744-1783) by Cesar Francois Cassini de Thury and his son Dominique de Cassini.
AdvertisementC. Mailer's Bavaria, both based on trigonometrical surveys.
The geological surveys of Great Britain and Ireland were connected from 1832 to 1853 with the ordnance survey, but are now carried on independently.
The surveys for this map were begun in 1905.
The map produced on this large scale numbers over 5000 sheets, and is used as a basis for the geological surveys carried on in several of the states of Germany.
The original surveys, carefully revised, have been published since 1870 as a Topographical Atlas of Switzerland - the so-called Siegfried Atlas, in 552 sheets.
AdvertisementIn Denmark, on the proposal of the Academy of Science, a survey was carried out in 1766-1825, but the maps issued by the Danish general staff depend upon more recent surveys.
Modern surveys in Sweden date from the organization of a corps of " Landematare," known since 1874 as a topographical department of the general staff.
Of Russia in Europe only the more densely peopled governments have been surveyed, since 1816, in the manner of other European countries, while for most regions there R are only so-called "military surveys."
Surveys in Asiatic Russia are conducted by the topographical departments organized at Orenburg, Tashkent, Omsk, Irkutsk and Tiflis.
For maps of the Balkan Peninsula we are still largely indebted to the rapid surveys carried on by Austrian and Russian officers.
AdvertisementIn Asiatic Turkey several districts of historical interest have been surveyed, and surveys have likewise been made in the interest of railways, or by boundary commis- Asia.
The settlement of boundaries in northern Afghanistan (1883) and in Seistan (1870) has necessitated surveys of some interest.
The surveys are made on scales varying according to the necessities of the case or the nature of the country, and they have been extended since 1862 beyond the boundaries of India proper.
In French Indo-China surveys have been in progress since 1881.
There are good survey maps of the British colony of Hong-Kong, of Wei-hai-Wei and of the country around Kiao-chou, and the establishment of topographical offices at Peking and Ngan-king holds out some promise of native surveys.
A similar map has been in progress for Sumatra since 1883, while the maps for the remaining Dutch Indies are still based, almost exclusively, upon flying surveys.
In the British colonies of tropical and of South Africa' surveys for the most part are carried on actively.
Surveys in British Central Africa were taken up in 1894; a survey of Lake Nyasa, by Lieut.
In the states of Australia cadastral surveys conducted by surveyors-general have been in progress for many years, as also trigonometrical surveys (Western Australia excepted), Australia.
Except in the neighbourhood of Aden, no regular surveys exist, and professional work is limited to the marine surveys of the Indian government and the admiralty, which, while laying down the coast line with fair accuracy, give little or no topographical information inland.
Surveys were completed in 1909 for an extension of the Oroya line from a point on its Cerro de Pasco branch eastward to the Ucayali, and another transandean line frequently discussed is projected from Paita across the Andes to Puerto Limon, on the Maranon-a distance of 410 m.
There has also been a certain amount of geographical sketching combined with trigonometrical observations; and there are the route surveys of native explorers.
The western part of the Indian Ocean has been shown by the surveys of H.M.S.
The surveys and reports of Captain Moresby in 1874 brought home to Queensland (and Australia generally) the dangers possible to her commerce were the coasts opposite to Torres Strait and the entrance to the splendid waterway inside the Barrier Reef to fall into the possession of a foreign power.
The proceeds of land sales are applied to surveys and public works.
In 1830 Admiral (then Commandant) BouetWillaumez (1808-1871) began a series of surveys and expeditions which yielded valuable results.
In 1820-23 he sent out at his own expense i Professors Amos Eaton (1776-1842) and Edward Hitchcock to make extensive surveys, results of which were published as An Agricultural and Geological Survey of the District adjoining the Erie Canal (Albany, 1824).
This latter was the continuation through southern Siam of the line already constructed from Bangkok south-west to Petchaburi (110 m.), with funds borrowed, under a recent agreement, from the Federated (British) Malay States government, which work, following upon surveys made in 1907, was begun in 1909 under the direction of a newly constituted southern branch of the Royal Railways department.
In 1905 the government started preliminary surveys for a system of irrigation.
He was nominated professor of hydrography at Marseilles in 1685, and in that capacity carried out various coast surveys.
With him, in 1604, Champlain was engaged in exploring the coast as far south as Cape Cod, in seeking a site for a new settlement, and in making surveys and charts..
The development of the coal and iron interests, and the increasing importance of the gold product of the Appalachian auriferous belt, and also of the lead product of the Mississippi Valley, led to a more general and decided interest in geology and mining; and about 1830 geological surveys of several of the Atlantic states were begun, and more systematic explorations for the ores of the metals, as well as for coal, were carried on over all parts of the country then open to settlement.
In 1899 and subsequently surveys were made with a view to connecting the Georgian Bay through the intervening water stretches, with the Ottawa river system, and thence to Montreal.
Meanwhile the surveys and construction were carried forward not by a company, but as a government work.
Its main disadvantage is the lack of harbours - Honolulu and Pearl Harbor are the only ones in the archipelago; but under the River and Harbour Act of 1905 examinations and surveys were made to improve Hilo Bay on the island of Hawaii.
Ugyen Gyatso undertook another journey in 1883 to complete and extend his former surveys.
His careful observations concerning the meteorology of this region are of great value, and his surveys between Kopa and the' Naichi Gol were in a country not previously explored.
From the point where the rivers of the Great and Little Pamirs join their forces at Kala Panja to Ishkashim, at the elbow of the great bend of the Oxus northwards, the river valley has Surveys.
All this part of the Oxus, until the river once again emerges from the Bokhara hills into the open plains bordering Badakshan on the north, falls within the area of Russian surveys, with which a junction from India has been effected both on the Pamirs and in Turkestan.
In the catalogues of Ptolemy, Tycho Brahe, and Hevelius, eight stars are mentioned; but recent uranographic surveys have greatly increased this number.
His father, Peter Jefferson (1707-1757), of early Virginian yeoman stock, was a civil engineer and a man of remarkable energy, who became a justice of the peace, a county surveyor and a burgess, served the Crown in,' inter-colonial boundary surveys, and married into one of the most prominent colonial families, the Randolphs.
The second Afghan war of 1878-80 afforded an opportunity for the extension of wide geographical surveys on a scientific basis.
As is shown by the Hundred Rolls, the Domesday of St Paul, the Surveys of St Peter, Glouc., Glastonbury Abbey, Ramsey Abbey and countless other records of the same kind, the customary conditions of villenage did not tally by any means with the identification between villenage and slavery suggested by the jurists.
There are also no surveys of London, Winchester and some other towns.
Surveys were carried out to De Long Fjord, where they linked up with previous work of Peary.
In 1917 a detailed survey was made of the coast of Ellesmere Land from Cape Sabine to Clarence Head, which considerably altered the charts based on the rough surveys of Inglefield, Kane and Hayes.
Some further surveys of Nikolas Land were made, but ice conditions were bad.
Virginia and Maryland promised such a cession; President Washington was known to be in favour of a site on the Potomac, and in July 1790 Alexander Hamilton, in return for Thomas Jefferson's assistance in passing the bill for the assumption of the state war debts by the Federal government, helped Jefferson to pass a bill for establishing the capital on the Potomac, by which the president was authorized to select a site anywhere along the Potomac between the Eastern Branch (Anacostia) and the Conococheague river, a distance of about So m., and to appoint three commissioners who under his direction should make the necessary surveys and provide accommodations for the reception of Congress in r800.
Recent exact surveys have shown these originating marshes to be no more than 665 ft.
During the eighteen years in which he held this post he rendered valuable services to the territory and to the nation; he extinguished the Indian title to large tracts of land, instituted surveys, constructed roads, and explored the lakes and sources of the Mississippi river.
In 1881 he began a long series of important surveys and excavations in Egypt, beginning with the pyramids at Giza, and following up his work there by excavations at the great temple at Tanis (1884), and discovering and exploring the long-lost Greek city of Naucratis in the Delta (1885), and the towns of Am and Daphnae (1886), where he found important remains of the time when they were inhabited by the Pharaohs.
The large number of English names on this coast is due to the fact that the earliest detailed survey of this region was made by English naval officers; the charts prepared from their surveys are still in use and form the basis of all subsequent maps.
Some preliminary surveys have been made by the United States government with a view to establishing a naval station on the island Kiska, in the western part of the Aleutian Chain.
After partial and inadequate legislation in 1891 and 1898, the regular system of land surveys was made applicable to Alaska in 1899, and a generous homestead law was provided in 1903.
Captain James Cook in 1778 made surveys from which the first approximately accurate chart of the coast was published; but it was reserved for Vancouver in 1793-1794 to make the first charts in the modern sense of the intricate south-eastern coast, which only in recent years have been superseded by new surveys.
Not only have many travellers of many nationalities directed their steps towards the Bam-i-dunya ("the Roof of the World") in search of adventure or of scientific information, but the government surveys of Russia and India have met in these high altitudes, and there effected a connexion which will help to solve many of the geodetic problems which beset the superficial survey of Asia.
Since then other travellers have visited the Pamirs, but the junction of the Russian and British surveys (the latter based on triangulation carried across the Hindu Kush from India) disposes of any further claim to the honours of geographical exploration.
The department of public safety controls the bureaus of police, detectives, fire, health, electricity and building inspection; the department of public works controls bureaus of surveys, construction, highways and sewers, city property, water, assessment of water rents, parks, deed registry, bridges and light.
In other cases small surveys among these fjords have shown that several of the larger islands are cut by channels which separate them into smaller ones, while elsewhere the low valleys which unite the mountains and hills are the result of post-Glacial deposits that have filled part of the former channels, these islands being the summits of an old continuous half-submerged mountain chain.
To these admirable surveys is due most of the present geographical terminology of the archipelago.
Besides the report mentioned above, General McClellan wrote a Bayonet Exercise (1852); Report on Pacific Railroad Surveys (1854); Report on the Organization, &c., of the Army of the Potomac (1864), a government publication which he himself republished with the addition of a memoir of the West Virginian campaign.
But the maps and surveys for the railway were given to the war office, and proved most useful to Lord Wolseley in his Nile expedition.
It fills a shallow depression which is drying up with astonishing rapidity, so that the process of desiccation can be shown on surveys separated by intervals of only ten years; large parts of it, like Aibughir Gulf, have dried up since the Russians took possession of its shores.
About 3000 acres (nearly one-half in the narrow extension in the N.W.) were already irrigated in 1909, and surveys had been made by the Federal Reclamation Service with a view to irrigating about 100,000 acres more-10,000 to 14,000 acres in Beaver and Woodward counties, under the Cimarron project, and 80,000 to ioo,000 acres in Kiowa and Comanche counties, under the Red River project.
Surveys made since 1909 showed that the part of southern Angola suitable for European colonization was larger than had been supposed and that the plateau, which is free from tsetse-fly, was well adapted to stock raising.
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The most satisfactory surveys are those given by Erdmann, Versuch einer Gesch.
The marine surveys of these islands are still meagre and unsatisfactory, but the whole of the Nicobars and outlying islands were surveyed topographically by the Indian Survey Department in 1886-1887, when a number of maps on the scale of 2 in.
In this capacity he gave most valuable assistance in the collection and preparation of agricultural surveys of the English counties.
Subsistence peasant agriculture was not the subject of any systematic statistical surveys.
Work was carried out at various scales, from regional reconnaissance surveys or appraisal, to the drilling of a geochemical or geophysical anomaly.
The obvious answer is to work it out for themselves and ignore the rainforest of surveys opposing their view.
Survey Astronomy Surveys for astronomical objects over large areas of the sky are the foundation on which much research in observational astrophysics is based.
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We will also endeavor to make available any site surveys, obtain outline planning consent and make it available to the winning bid.
To measure krill biomass acoustic surveys have been done by BAS scientists at least once a year for the last 6 years.
Between these two surveys the number of wintering blackcap showed a substantial increase.
Business surveys suggest the recovery is becoming more broad-based.
Kennet and Avon canal Samuel Simcock He, Samuel Weston and James Barnes made surveys for narrow and barge canals from Newbury to Bath.
We don't use a calcium carbide meter in our damp surveys.
Surveys These will continue to be run in partnership with the school caterer.
Silurian Surveys The HWDT research vessel Silurian is the perfect platform from which to study Hebridean cetaceans.
Bryn Jones works on wide-field and spectroscopic and imaging surveys of galaxies, particularly for dwarf galaxies and compact galaxies in nearby galaxy clusters.
The farm is also used for a range of research purposes, including variety testing, pest control and composting trials and bio-diversity surveys.
Similar surveys will also cover major conurbations, such as Liverpool and Merseyside.
A new report published this week highlights trends in the religious demography of Northern Ireland using a variety of surveys from 1989 to 2004.
Public opinion surveys has persuaded the developers to reduce the planned height of the turbines to 100m.
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Geophysical surveys have traced the causewayed ditch for a distance of about 80m in a generally south-westerly direction.
The use of management plans based on sound ecological surveys to co-ordinate economic, environmental and social objectives should be standard practice.
Its root has been noted on seismic surveys in connection with the oil exploration of the Moray Firth.
Minutes and a report of the geodetic Arc Committee containing reports by Gill and Ardagh on geodetic surveys in Africa, 1900.
This is by far the highest number of seven-figure golden goodbyes traced in regular surveys conducted by the magazine.
It has started sea turtle surveys and a conservation program for them in India, including a sea turtle hatchery.
So these surveys are pretty inconclusive as far as Iâm concerned.
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Applications include the measurement of induced and remanent magnetism and use in site surveys prior to the installation of MRI equipment.
It's time we debunked the myth that buyers won't accept sellers ' surveys.
The total cost of both surveys is £ 65k and they are being funded by One northeast, through the TyneWear Partnership.
Collated and personally chosen by Donald Clark, the tables are not built from surveys, and therefore are quite opinionated.
Indeed, opinion and attitude surveys tend to suggest the opposite.
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For these surveys you need to get technical information from a suitably qualified person.
Researchers have also asked teachers to report their classroom practices using surveys.
We have surveys using ground penetrating radar of the Treblinka camp looking for mass graves.
Assumed to be the same for medium urban radial as for large urban radial The Vicario work was based on surveys of 2000 travelers.
For screening surveys at Stage II, gravimetric samplers or portable monitors can be used.
Worse for Mercedes, the customer satisfaction surveys backed the gossip.
The government says that surveys show three quarters of children are wearing adult seat belts before they are tall enough to do so safely.
Two proprietary consumer cargo tank radar surveys by Zelos Group reveal promising market segmentation, pricing and packaging strategies.
Interests in exploration seismology include ocean-bottom surveys, Q estimation, anisotropy, converted waves and AVO studies.
The incidence of daily heroin use remained similar to that found in both previous surveys at under 1% .
There is a remarkable similarity in the results emerging from both surveys.
The negative skew is also important & ties in with market sentiment & RICs surveys over the last quarter.
For contemporary surveys and descriptions see primary sources in print.
Subsample surveys In addition to the full cohort studies, four subsample surveys In addition to the full cohort studies, four subsample surveys have been carried out.
We may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys or contests.
We do not propose to carry out household surveys.
Follow-up surveys should be carried out each year on a more limited basis, in order to monitor the changing situation.
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Surveys in UK and US Universities show that about 10% of the student population suffer suicidal thoughts to some degree.
Volunteers will work on an extensive array of projects from beach surveys of endangered turtles to the building of wells in remote villages.
Numerous surveys worldwide report growing public unease about GM foods.
Surveys have shown that humans are essentially visual learners.
Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information.
Hashem surveys the wreckage of his ' nice house ', its walls imploded, its roof collapsed.
In 1902-1903 French officers under Colonel Destenave made detailed surveys of the south-eastern and eastern shores and the adjacent islands.
From these surveys were constructed the well-known maps which were forwarded to Duhalde, and which D'Anville utilized for his atlas.
When it became evident that, under present conditions at least, the navigation of the middle Euphrates was impracticable, attention was turned, owing to the peculiarly advantageous geographical position of its valley, to schemes for connecting the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf by railway as an alternative means of communication with India, and various surveys were made for this purpose and various routes laid out.
Surveys of the archipelago were made by the American.
A Novus atlas sinensis, based upon Chinese surveys, was published in 1655 by Martin Martini, S.J., a missionary recently returned from China.
Topographical surveys are gradually extending, and explorers of recent years are better trained for their work than they were a generation ago, whilst technical processes of recent invention - such as lithography, photography and heliogravure - facilitate or expedite the completion of his task.
Great Britain has likewise taken the lead in those deep-sea explorations which reveal to us the configuration of the sea-bottom, and enable us to construct charts of the ocean bed corresponding to the contoured maps of dry land yielded by topographical surveys.
From Ordaz up to recent times the Orinoco has been the scene of many voyages of discovery, including those in quest of El Dorado, and some scientific surveys have been made, especially among its upper waters, by Jose Solano and Diaz de la Fuente of the Spanish boundary line commission of Yturriaga and Solano (1757-1763), Humboldt (1800) and Michelena y Rojas (1855-1857).
Immediately after the arrival of the first fleet, surveys of the adjacent coast were made; the existence of a strait between Australia and Tasmania was discovered by Surgeon Bass; and before the retirement of Governor King in 1806 Australia had been circumnavigated and the principal features of its coast-line accurately surveyed by Captain Flinders, R.N.
The maps of the Ordnance, Geological and Hydrographic Surveys delineate the configuration and geology of England and the adjacent seas with a completeness unsurpassed in any other country.
The Protocol requires Departments to commission specialist conservation consultants to conduct quadrennial condition surveys on all historic assets.
Third, the data they use varies from detailed qualitative interviews to opinion surveys.
It has also been involved with quasar surveys and more recently the discovery of over 20 planets around other stars.
Many redshift surveys are being undertaken to gain an understanding of the geometry of the Universe in three spatial dimensions.
These initial lists of types were then refined on the basis of new dedicated field surveys, data analyzes and field trials.
For water and sanitation provision, the emphasis is on more accurate and detailed national sample surveys.
Applications include academic tests, product knowledge tests, attitude surveys, personnel evaluations, self paced study guides, and many others.
Recommendation 7 Surveys should be carried out on the concentration of oocysts in sewage effluents.
The incidence of daily heroin use remained similar to that found in both previous surveys at under 1 %.
According to recent surveys, the number of speakers of these dialects i rapidly decreasing.
Soil surveys were carried out in the affected areas revealed that resting sporangia were detected.
Subsample surveys In addition to the full cohort studies, four subsample surveys have been carried out.
The new edition of " Guidelines for Surveys, Assessment and Repair of Hull Structures - Bulk Carriers " - supercedes the 1994 edition.
Surveys continue to show the same common causes of failure most of which are symptomatic of a lack of good project management.
Recent environmental surveys along the Norwegian coast indicate a six-fold increase in technetium concentrations in seaweed since 1996.
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Rentals and surveys also name the tenants of the manor and describe their individual holdings.
A substantial introduction surveys the past vicissitudes of the history of scholarship and its current expansion.
She has also conducted a range of evaluations, watching briefs and walkover reconnaissance surveys.
A number of the weaknesses exposed by earlier surveys continue to be an issue for us.
I wonder who sends out these " surveys "?
If your product focus is a website then you can run feedback surveys on your site.
Read comments on your site, talk to customers face-to-face, conduct surveys and make sure your product is priced low enough to be purchased by a sufficient number of customers.
Some offers require you to take surveys, while others ask for some other kind of sign-up, but some are just outright free once you know where to look.
You then fill out surveys to give information on your experience.
Purina Snack Lover's Club is a page where you can register with Purina to be part of surveys, pre-market product testing and more.
The majority of these offers require you to complete lengthy surveys, some of which involve hidden fees and sign-ups.
If you sign up to participate in online market research surveys, you may be able to do just that.
While you can't literally earn a living from taking surveys, participating in online surveys can be a great way to pick up cash or prizes in exchange for sharing your opinion.
Free online surveys tap into this need to tell people what you think.
Sometimes larger points-earning sites like FreeRide or MyPoints offer surveys as just one of many ways to accumulate points.
Intensive surveys may be worth as much as 10 or 25 dollars, but most will only be worth few dollars.
One added perk of completing free online surveys is that you may have a chance to take part in product testing.
MySurvey offers points for completing surveys, and sometimes asks users to test sample products.
PineCone Research is a highly regarded online survey company paying cash for all surveys, but they only add new members during online recruitment drives.
Yellow Surveys provides a directory of over 500 survey companies.
Paid Survey Portal offers another directory of available surveys.
This will help the company match surveys with their intended audience.
Even after you've filled out a preliminary survey, you may still need to answer qualifying surveys to see if you fit a particular profile.
You'll usually receive some payment for answering these qualifying surveys, although obviously a quick five-minute survey won't earn you as much as a full survey taking half an hour to complete.
You will usually receive email notification when a survey is available, although some companies ask you to log in to your account to find new surveys.
You're not going to get rich by filling out online surveys, but if you enjoy sharing your opinion, it can be a fun way to make a little pocket change.
Unfortunately, the online survey market is filled with companies asking for a registration fee before they will connect you with surveys and focus groups.
Try using surveys or have meetings with human resources to discuss if goals are being met.
If you are not looking from prom help or advice, then the Seventeen Magazine website also has many other activities, articles, and surveys you can participate in as well as their large prom section.
Plus, surveys show that those who use the aids shown above are twice as likely to quit smoking for good.
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According to various surveys, the majority of Aiken's fan base ranges in age from 40-59.
End of program surveys by the students showed that, even after finishing their entire degree program, students were still happy with the quality of the instruction they received in their courses.
Princeton Review student surveys go out every year to thousands of college students at hundreds of universities around America.
After tallying the results of the surveys, The Princeton Review uses them to determine and share information with current and prospective students about the "best" academic institutions in the country.
Princeton Review's surveys ask students more than 80 questions about dozens of different topics.
The Princeton Review goes to great pains to make sure that it surveys a very broad section of students from all kinds of institutions.
The Review won't invite students to take surveys unless school administrators have given them the OK, but the cross-section of approved colleges is quite varied.
Many people don't give the Review's student surveys a second thought, but they're vitally important for current and prospective students as well as educators, administrators, and college counselors across the country.
In The Princeton Review surveys, students most certainly do have a voice, and it's collectively heard in hundreds of outlets around the country and the world.
Old Jacksonville Fans - Old Jacksonville Ceiling Fans advertise a 99.3% customer satisfaction rate in surveys.
Consider designing and distributing surveys to find out which are the most favorite and least favorite playground equipment.
Keep in mind that most programs that offer those codes require you to take surveys, complete offers, and in most cases, solicit referrals.
At Gaming Lagoon, you can get a free Wii points card by completing offers and surveys and referring friends.
To get those Wii points, you have to complete offers and surveys and refer friends to the sight.
Some wallpapers were available only after completing surveys or finishing mini-games; they're quite a prize on their own.
Within these general areas, various surveys and tests have been conducted to determine if one cell phone provider is superior than another in that particular regard.
This is based on self-reporting from volunteer participants in the survey, however, so as with all surveys, the results should be taken with a grain of salt.
Your individual experience will definitely vary, but these surveys and other related information can help point you in the right direction.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied the health and nutrition of Americans in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys for more than 40 years, and the last data were collected in 2000.
In multiple surveys, 20 to 25 percent of females and 10 to 15 percent of males report that they were sexually abused by age 18.
About 1.1 million students were being home-schooled in the spring of 2003, according to the National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES), which was conducted by the United States Department of Education.
Some surveys show that the average home-schooling family has an above average income.
Surveys have revealed that about 0.1 percent of the general population, and 2-3 percent of the elderly, may have the disease.
In surveys of gay men and lesbians, most say they believe they were born that way.
The actual number of youngsters who masturbate is believed to be higher, since the use of the word "admit" in surveys can imply wrong-doing.
Surveys of lower-income families in the United States reveal that about 6 percent of infants are anemic, indicating a possible deficiency of iron in the diet (all anemias are not iron-deficiency related).
In the United States, shyness surveys typically show that shyness is highest among Asian Americans and lowest among Jewish Americans.
Kickit conducts surveys where members report which dances they know and which dances they like best.
These government surveys can provide information about families and individuals across many decades.
The site also has links to a variety of career information including tips on self-assessment, career guides, salary surveys and apprenticeship programs.
Another part of the job of a land surveyor involves spending time in an office planning surveys, going to court offices to get deeds for properties, and analyzing data.
Lenders may not require full inspections, surveys, or appraisals for refinances on home loans they already hold.
Geologic surveys were undertaken, construction plans began, and the Citadel was established in 1850 with the fortress manned with long range cannons and guns capable of taking out hostile ships entering the bay.
Recent surveys show that their efforts are paying off, and relatively few girls put up pictures of themselves in swimsuits.
Probiotic supplement review sites and consumer satisfaction surveys can provide feedback to help you make an informed choice the next time you go shopping for supplements.
Surveys are excellent projects for children.
Surveys help children organize data, and surveys can test different theories.
Surveys can be used to gather information to prove the statement true or false.
Children's science projects can cover everything from basic projects and surveys to detailed experiments.
If you've spent any time at all online, you've probably seen thousands of advertisements promising you money for taking surveys or reading emails.
By participating in surveys and subscribing to the newsletter, you'll receive advance notice on different promotions and sometimes a Sizzler restaurant coupon good for any location.
Some websites offer free sample offers, though parents may be asked to complete numerous surveys in order to qualify.
Finding offers for free stuff without surveys isn't easy, but it can be done.
Companies like to require surveys as a condition of freebie offers because it's an effective way to gather data about customers.
Surveys make it easy to determine the age, income level, and interests of the people who are likely to buy products in the future.
However, completing these surveys can be a time-consuming task.
If you're a busy person who loves freebies, you may find yourself searching for offers of free stuff without surveys.
Most of the deals do not require surveys.
Customer rewards programs are one popular way that companies offer free stuff without surveys.
Since downloadable products have no distribution cost, most of the offers for free stuff without surveys you'll find online are in the form of digital content.
In fact, many surveys reveal most adults wish their parents would have spent more time discussing smart money management with them when they were children.
Swagbucks is one of the cheapskate websites that lets you earn points for searching, completing surveys, or purchasing merchandise from selected retailers.
According to Yoga Journal surveys, the business of yoga is doing quite well.
Many people are getting paid to take surveys online.
This will hardly make anyone rich, but many people supplement their income by filling out surveys and making anywhere from $5 to $125 per survey.
If you're thinking about taking on several "work at home" possibilities, the surveys might be something to consider.
The main reason for including a list of objectives is that a good number of employers (almost half according to some surveys) have indicated they would prefer to see an objective statement on a resume.
Changes should be implemented quarterly in response to customer/lead generation success as reported by sales staff and customer satisfaction surveys.
If you're looking for part time work to do from home, online surveys promise to deliver the hours and money you're looking for, but you have to be careful.
If you plan to work from home by filling out online surveys, avoid free sites, and join a site such as Maximum Paid Surveys.
They offer quality opportunities and make it clear up front that you won't get rich by completing online surveys.
However, you can make $560 a week by completing four surveys a day.
This organization surveys owners of vehicles to discover how they feel about various aspects of their car.
One is that we have our consumer surveys, which basically has amassed the input of hundreds of thousands of drivers and provides impartial third party comments and ratings of the tires.
Guardian's patient surveys report an impressive 97 percent satisfaction rate by members who seek services from dentists within the Guardian network.
The trend in "mantyhose" is growing, according to a number of news reports and surveys, as well as company earnings.
If signing up for memberships and taking surveys are your thing, you can try the Free Music Library online or you can explore other avenues of downloading free sheet music.
Many women's magazines use reader surveys to compile a list of the best skin care products or cosmetics.
There are also a number of surveys college students fill out about each other or themselves that help them to get to know one another.
Sometimes these surveys are by way of a note containing a set of questions asking such things as favorite fast food and whether they're a morning or night person.
MakeMS.com has a list of MySpace bulletin surveys.
Surveys are very popular among Internet users and are a good way to combat boredom.
If you like surveys, MySpaceBulletins.com has a lengthy list of them for your perusal.
Check out the latest offerings, browse through the most popular ones, or look through the surveys organized by category.
One of the most common personality surveys for MySpace is posted places such as 123MyCodes.com.
MySpace surveys cover a whole gamut of subjects, from the trivia of fandom to the deepest feelings of the heart.
There's nothing wrong with that, and in fact you may come across some very serendipitous surveys that are great fun.
But doing it that way misses one of the true purposes of MySpace surveys.
This means that another way to find some good surveys is to visit your friends' pages and take a look at the surveys they've been trying out.
When you read the results of their surveys, you will learn something about your friends.
As you answer the questions, you are doing more than just tell other people about your views - you are also learning things about yourself, as the surveys ask you questions that you may never have thought of before.
Of course, you're going to want to share this great insight with your other friends, whether it's to compare your answers to theirs or encourage them to try out the surveys themselves.
Some surveys won't let you see other's results until you take the survey yourself.
Although sites like QuizCat or MySpace Bulletins have literally thousands of potential surveys, the real magic comes when you use their online tools to create your own surveys.
On the other end of the spectrum, though, are the surveys - whether created by a developer or a friend - that don't show much thought and seem meaningless or annoying.
It's better "netiquette" to simply let them find the MySpace surveys on your site and then choose whether or not they'd like to actually take part in them.
Adding interactive elements like lists, polls, and surveys will keep readers on your site longer and encourage them to share your post with others.
Facebook Survey Scams - Enterprising scammers find search terms that produce pages and pages of results on search engines and turn them into surveys on Facebook.
During the remarkable voyage he then made to Timor, Bligh passed amongst the northern islands of the New Hebrides, which he named the Banks Group, and made several running surveys.
A'Court Ashe, History of North Carolina (2 vols., Greensboro, 1908) are general surveys.
These far extensions furnish the basis for a vast amount of exploratory survey of a strictly geographical character, and they have contributed largely towards raising the standard of accuracy in Asiatic geographical surveys to a level which was deemed unattainable fifty years ago.
There is yet a vast field open in Asia for this class of surveys.
Of scientific geographical exploration in Asia (beyond the limits of actual surveys) the modern period has been so prolific that it is only possible to refer in barest outline to some of the principal Indian expeditions, most of which have been directed either to explorers.
Meanwhile, the acquisition of Burma and the demarcation of boundaries had opened the way to the extension of geographical surveys in directions hitherto untraversed.
Miles made his adventurous journey through Oman, while Theodore Bent threw searchlights backwards into ancient Semitic history by his investigations in the Bahrein Islands in 1888 and in Hadramut in 1894 - 181n northern Asia it is impossible to follow in detail the results of the organized Russian surveys.
In Arabia progress has been slower, although the surveys carried out by Colonel Wahab in connexion with the boundary determined in the Aden hinterland added more exact geographical Arabia.
The result of trans-border surveys to the north and west of India has been to establish the important geographical fact that it is by two gateways only, one on the north-west and one on the west of India, that the central Asiatic tides of immigration have flowed into the peninsula.
After a highly useful career, under the presidency till 1813 of Sir John Sinclair, the Board of Agriculture was dissolved in 1819, but left in its statistical account, county surveys and other documents much interesting and valuable information regarding the agriculture of the period.
Railway Company was formed by the bank under this agreement, to construct and work the line, and surveys were made in 1897, the town of Harbin being founded as headquarters for the work.
These materials generally include reconnaissance survey of small districts, route surveys and astronomical observations supplied by travellers, and information obtained from native sources.
A cadastral survey for purposes of taxation was already at work in Babylonia in the age of Sargon of Akkad, 3800 B.C. In the British Museum may be seen a series of clay tablets, circular in shape and dating back to 2300 or 2100 B.C., which contain surveys of lands.
Having determined the difference of latitude between Alexandria and Syene which he erroneously believed to lie on the same meridian, and obtained the distance of those places from each other from the surveys made by Egyptian geometers, he concluded that a degree of the meridan measured 700 stadia.'
The map is supposed to be based upon actual surveys or rather reconnaissances, and if it be borne in mind that.
Leonardo da Vinci, the famous artist, while in the service of Cesare Borgia as military engineer, made surveys of several districts in central Italy.
The surveys which led to the latter were conducted by Sir Thomas Holdich.
He did much to advance stellar photography and its use in cataloguing the stars, and he was responsible for the geodetic surveys of Natal and Cape Colony, British Bechuanaland, German S.-W.
He visited the New Hebrides, Santa Cruz, New Caledonia and Solomon Islands, and made careful though rough surveys of the Louisiade Archipelago, islands north of New Britain and part of New Guinea.
Surveys were then undertaken in several directions.
But in the 19th century and after exploring work was so generally and steadily maintained in all directions, and was in so many cases narrowed down from long journeys to detailed surveys within relatively small areas, that i t becomes desirable to cover the whole period at one view for certain great divisions of the world.
In China he made extensive surveys which, however, were interrupted by the Boxer outbreak; and he, together with his wife, were among those besieged at Tientsin.
Ex Ploration The progress of geodetic surveys in Russia had long ago extended across the European half of the great empire, St Petersburg being connected with Tiflis on the southern slopes of the Caucasus by a direct system of triangulation carried out with the highest scientific precision.
But beyond the eastern shores of the Caspian no system of direct geodetic measurements by first-class triangulation has been possible, and the surveys of Asiatic Russia are separated from those of Europe by the width of that inland sea.
But while we have yet to wait for that expansion of principal triangulation which will bring Asia into connexion with Europe by the direct process of earth measurement, a topobetween graphical connexion has been effected between Russian Russ/an and Indian surveys which sufficiently proves that the and deductive methods employed by both countries for the Indian determination of the co-ordinate values of fixed points so surveys.
With the completion of the surveys of Baluchistan and Makran much light has also been thrown on the ancient connexion between east and west; and the final settlement of the southern galuch- boundaries of Afghanistan has led to the reopening of istan and one at least of the old trade routes between Seistan Makran.
Far more difficult is his task where no surveys are available, and the map has to be compiled from a variety of sources.
The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.
History surveys a presentation of man's life in which the union of these two contradictions has already taken place.