Survey Definition and 97 Threads

Hey all, I am doing a project in school and I need people to fill out this survey. Please only take it if you are in school and know your current GPA. Thanks a bunch guys. Thanks again. -Dayyou Edit: Changed the link so it works. Edit 2: Took down the link because I have gotten all the data I...

Hello fellow PF-friends. I'm in the works of doing a compressed air survey where we wish to look at the savings potential for our plant. As there's a lack of control and overview we're going back to the basics (which means I have to start from scratch). I'm physically tracking the largest...

This is brilliant. A new TV show in Australia sent out a press release about a new study which measured the relative gullibility of people in different Australian cities. The big question... how many of the news outlets checked the story? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMQCcOSfaYw

The Planck team have put out a press release their (very preliminary) results for the First Light Survey: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Planck/SEM5CMFWNZF_0.html The basic gist: the instrument is working, and it's already producing higher-resolution and lower-noise maps than WMAP offers at the...

For those of you aspiring scientists and engineers in the United States, here arehttp://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp" . This is the kind of information I wished I had when I was in school, so I wanted to share. For those with a bachelor's degree alone [such as myself] the...

1. what kind of computer needs did you have? (by "needs", I mean ANYTHING that is computer related) 2. who did you call for help with those computer needs and why did you call him/her?

Interesting survey done http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/30/religion.torture/index.html I find it highly ironic. Although the sample numbers are not large its still eye opening. None church goers still do have morals.

I'm collecting some data for school and need data from as many people as possible. Thanks! Who can solve this problem in one try without looking at the answer?A fool wants to tie a rope around the earth. So he buys a rope of 40,000 KM and ties it around the world. His neighbour, also a fool...

arXiv:0902.0229 [ps, pdf, other] Title: Large-scale fluctuations in the distribution of galaxies from the Two Degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey Authors: Francesco Sylos Labini, Nikolay L. Vasilyev, Yurij V. Baryshev Comments: 20 pages, 31 figures, to be published on Astronomy and...

I am a physics major at a school with a limited program and no astronomy of astrophysics options. However, my goal is to go to Grad school for a cosmology/astrophysics. I would bet I know most of what is covered in the one astronomy related course my school offers, which is basically a survey...

I'd like to take a poll to see how inclined to hands-on calculation we are, collectively, at cosmo forum. Generally speaking what I mean from scratch is from basic numbers most of us know like 71 and 0.73 (estimated current Hubble rate H = 71 km/s per megaparsec and current dark energy density...

I'm currently studying mathematics at the undergraduate level and am required to conduct the following survey. I apologize if 'Career Guidance' is not the correct section for this, but it seemed the likeliest fit to me. Any responses at all would be greatly appreciated. 1.Please state your...

I came across this interesting Havard article at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~huchra/hubble.plot.dat listing over 600 Hubble survey results dating back to about 1929 and up to 2008. I put all the data into into a spreadsheet and using over 500 Hubble estimates from 1960 onwards I got an average...

In writing a paper for my English class, I'd like to include a survey of the three main stances on religious beliefs. Religious (belief in a deity or deities), Agnostic (does not believe in the existence of or absence of a deity or deities), and Atheistic (does not believe in a deity or...

http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.0982 Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe Joshua Frieman (Chicago/Fermilab), Michael Turner (Chicago), Dragan Huterer (Michigan) Invited review for Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics; 53 pages, 18 figures (Submitted on 7 Mar 2008) "The discovery...

100 students are surveyed about their sports. Each play at least 1 of the following sports. football, cricket and rugby. 56 play football, 51 play cricket, 55 play rugby, 24 play football and cricket, 21 play football and rugby, 28 play cricket and rugby. How many play all 3 games? I tried to...

Huge filaments of dark matter have been detected in a survey of thousands of distant galaxies. The discovery supports the idea that dark matter drove the formation of galaxies and larger cosmic structures and resolves a discrepancy in previous studies about how much dark matter the universe...

Hey everyone, My friends and I are interested in improving the design of the free weight bench press. I would like to appeal to any weight trainers here to fill out a quick survey for us. We are interested in identifying user needs for the bench press in our survey. If you could please take the...

I'm doing a literature survey on high quality oscillators, and since this is peripheral to my area of specialization, I'd appreciate some help. I'm looking for a low frequency oscillator (~10Hz and up) with a frequency stability of about 30ppm/C, amplitude stability of about 3ppm/C and low...

Hi, The students of statistics in my high-school have to do a project. The topic we have chosen is Educational Performance in Kolkata Schools and Its Relation to Gender and Gender Interactions. I outline our goals below: 1)Collect data about Madhyamik results (a centralised exam organised...

hello to all at PF! As I understand that this is an international forum, I would like to post my group's survey here to gain an international perspective! It's about the self-service concept. Thanks for all your efforts! Have a nice day!

this just out: a survey of efforts to detect DM particles. http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.3345 Direct Dark Matter Searches N. J. Spooner Submitted to JPSJ, 20 pages, 5 figures "For many working in particle physics and cosmology successful discovery and characterisation of the new particles that...

Are you happy? Well apparently 87% of Europeans consider themselves happy. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070226/wl_nm/eu_happiness_dc On this last point, those percentages seem to similar to the trends in the US. Estonians are the EU's chief optimists, while Hungarians are by far the...

Hi everyone, I'm working on a school project that is designing a new type of ankle brace. Our design group would like to know what usually people think about what an ankle brace should be. So if you can take a few minutes of your time to do this quite survey, that will be great! This...

... and as an engineering student and having no idea about the market... i don't know what to do, so i thought i'd ask you guys - as i don't have much time! my project has been to create a bluetooth <> zigbee gateway... but in the form of a home automation scheme. at the moment i have it all...

http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/Science/CFHLS/MidTermReview/CFHTLS-SNLS-SACreview2005.pdf http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/SNLS/ The SNLS survey consists of: A large imaging survey at CFHT The CFHT Legacy Survey aims at detecting and monitoring about 2000 supernovae with Megaprime at the...

For one of my homework questions, I need to ask 2 to 3 people a question regarding Newton, then write an essay on it. Newton's First Law states that an object will move with a constant velocity if nothing acts on it (but I'm sure you all knew that). This seems to contradict our everyday...

I am still trying to understand this, but the US Census Bureau is collecting very detailed personal information. I am still trying to understand if it is mandatory. Pattylou got one. http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Downloads/SQuest05.pdf What do you think? To learn more about it -...

I'm looking for a good survey text on aerospace engineering. I found this on Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071362290/?tag=pfamazon01-20 but there are no reviews posted. If anyone could recommend this text, or perhaps something with similar information I'd be appreciative...

SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Perceptions of One’s Own and Partner’s Cross-Sex Friendships My name is Marie-Claire and I am a fourth year psychology student at Swinburne University in Melbourne. This year I am doing my thesis on opposite-sex friendships in long-term relationships...

Just something I put together for discussion and to ponder as I'm learning about morphology. I'm interested in your opinion, so there are no right or wrong answers. It's informal, but please record your answers to the survey before reading further into the thread. If you read ahead and go back...

This one has about 50 questions on social and political issues. After you take the survey, your political compass is scored and shown relative to figures such as Ghengis Khan, Gandhi, GWBush, Chirac, Nelson Mandela, and so on. On another science board, all the scientists ended up in the same...

Hi guys, it would be great if you could answer this survey. its for a school project. 1) Which petrol station brand do you personally prefer/patronise? Caltex BP Mobil Shell Which petrol station brand is the most popular in your opinion? 2) What affects the most your descision to...

I would appreciate any type of feedback to this short informal survey. 1. True or False: Before visiting ecommerce sites do you have a preconcived idea on what you are going to purchase? 2. On ecommerce sites which do you use more often: Category Navigation or Search? 3. True or False...

The latest figures for baryonic mass etc.

Hi people, I'm new here and I would like to know your opinion about which theory explains best the origin of matter in the universe, giving as much information as possible about it, as I'm doing a little research project. Please try to answer these questions when posting your reply: -...

hey, I am doing a survey for my bike alarm. How thick is the biggest frames on your bike, and how thick is the smallest frame? a reply would be very helpful. Thanks

Survey Hi, I am doing a research on cloning. It would be highly appreciated if you could spend a few minutes completing this survey for me. Thank you! Basic Information: 1. Gender: 口Male. 口Female. 2. Age: 口Below 20. 口20-30. 口30-40. 口40-50. 口Above 50. 3...

Jim, The above statements are untrue. True, Chernobyl was a graphite moderated design - but that in and of itself was not the design defect. One CAN make a safe graphite moderated design - like the HTGR [ High Temperature Graphite Reactor ]. For years, the Peach Bottom Unit 1 HTGR...

Hi...I am making a bike alarm for my Design and Technology coursework...to design my alarm I first need to make a market research, so I can get peoples opinions about how the alarm should look like... could you please download the questionnaire, answer it and send it back to to me at...

Dear forum users, We are doing an academic research project on online service quality. We would be grateful if you could spare 3-5 minutes and complete our online questionnaire. The link for the questionnaire is provided below. http://www.uwe.ac.uk/bbs/osq/ Thank you for your help and...

bridges anyone? We're doing a project for my engineering tech class, and i need to conduct a survey, we'd be really obliged if u could answer the survey questions. 1. When thinking about bridges, what is the first bridge that to your mind? 2. Why? 3. If crossing a bridge, do you look over...

Barbon's brief survey of the state of String Theory STRING THEORY J.L.F. Barbon Department of Physics, Theory Division, CERN Geneva Abstract "This is a rendering of a review talk on the state of String Theory, given at the EPS-2003 Conference, intended for a wide audience of experimental...

Background Independent Quantum Gravity---new survey paper http://arxiv.org/gr-qc/0404018 this just out Background Independent Quantum Gravity: A Status Report Abhay Ashtekar, Jerzy Lewandowski 125 pages, 5 figures "The goal of this article is to present an introduction to loop quantum...

Hi, I am a student in TCHS located near LA, CA. I am currently attending a Pathways class; we are doing a career survey for our finals. I chose mathematics/physics as my career; I was wondering if you guys know anyone that has a career or profession in mathematics/physics that I can ask a few...

I am doing preliminary market research for a space tourism project. Could you please fill out this survey regarding the prospect of taking a visit to space? Since I will need to sift through the information, please post anything other than survey responses in this thread. Thank you...

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0202008 Here is a good overview of cosmology describing the evidence for the present model, the open questions, and what ongoing observations can be expected to resolve over the next decade. The writing is rigorous and for fellow profesionals (no effort at...