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He directed surveys of curriculum practices in several school systems, and wrote several books on the subject.

Digital elevation models may be prepared in a number of ways, but they are frequently obtained by remote sensing rather than direct Surveying.

Lovell (1986) reviews around a dozen papers which have carried out tests of the rational expectations hypothesis using direct survey data.

Without adequate, comprehensive observational data from direct surveys, many of the statistical inferences made are simply not truly verifiable.

He directed surveys in the Soviet Union, like one taken for Newsweek magazine on popular views of superpower relations before a 1987 summit conference.

He directed surveying parties throughout the Adirondacks and determined the altitudes of most of the highest peaks, becoming obsessed with his task.

Also, a direct survey for galaxies in several one-degree-square fields within the Cold Spot found no evidence for a supervoid.

Other research techniques, such as direct observation, photography, checklists, interviews, direct surveys, focus groups are utilized to supplement traditional design research methods.

For legal and financial reasons, preference is given to the systematic use of existent data rather than to new direct surveys with the ensuing burden on those interviewed.

Self-stated importance method is an alternative method in which direct survey data is used to determine the weightings rather than statistical imputations.

Political Wellness: Indicated via direct survey and statistical measurement of political metrics such as the quality of local democracy, individual freedom, and foreign conflicts.

The rivalry with Reformers and, maybe, more direct survey from Rome caused, that attention, paid to Lithuanian language by Jesuits was greater, than before or after it.

Older methods of generating DEMs often involve interpolating digital contour maps that may have been produced by direct survey of the land surface.

Mr. Jensen joined the Aero Service Corporation in 1946 and spent the next four decades directing surveys of every continent except Antarctica with ever more sophisticated instruments.

Unit process data are derived from direct surveys of companies or plants producing the product of interest, carried out at a unit process level defined by the system boundaries for the study.

Directed surveys to be made between Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Cape Girardeau, Missouri to ascertain and determine the best method of securing flood relief in addition to levees.

Using company balance sheets, tax data and direct surveys as a basis, government statisticians estimate total investments and assets for the purpose of national accounts, national balance of payments and flow of funds statistics.

From 1986 until 2005 he directed survey and excavation at the site of Hawara (modern Humayma), a Nabataean, Roman, and Early Islamic centre in the Hisma Desert of southern Jordan.

Even though remote sensing has greatly sped up the process of gathering information, and has allowed greater accuracy control over long distances, the direct survey still provides the basic control points and framework for all topographic work, whether manual or GIS-based.

In areas where there has been an extensive direct survey and mapping program (most of Europe and the Continental US, for example), the compiled data forms the basis of basic digital elevation datasets such as USGS DEM data.

"The medical team wanted to show the proportionate change of child mortality in Iraq in the most current period, and the best way to do that is through a direct survey," said Sara Farnsworth, a spokeswoman for the team, adding, "But that doesn't necessarily produce a reliable number of overall deaths."