Opinion Poll

Opinion polls showed that Aunerican anxiety about the atomic bomb ebbed and flowed in response to geopolitical events. Concerns ran high in the late 1940s in the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan... 

The reality is that Americans who favor nuclear energy clearly outnumber those who are opposed Let me give you results of national public opinion polls that were conducted for NEI. 

The increasing demand by citizens and environmental organisations for cleaner rivers and lakes, groundwater and coastal beaches has been evident for considerable time. It has recently been reconfirmed by a representative opinion poll Euro barometer in all 25 EU countries. 

Most opinion polls show that the motorist s infatuation with automobiles does not include internal-combustion engines. Many drivers would trade in their current car for an electric vehicle, if it could perform as well and not cost any more. One poll of California new car buyers conducted by the University of California at Davis in 1995 found that almost half would buy an electric vehicle over a gasoline car, but they wanted a 300-mile range and a more reasonable price. 

Exercise. Show that P(x) must be a monotone non-decreasing function with P(— oo) = 0 and P(+ oo) = 1. What is its relation to Exercise. An opinion poll is conducted in a country with many political parties. How large a sample is needed to be reasonably sure that a party of 5 percent will show up in it with a percentage between 4.5 and 5.5 ... 

Many prominent people and organizations have supported the legalization of medical marijuana, including the American Public Health Association, former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, national associations of prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys, and the editorial boards of numerous newspapers, among others. Public opinion polls conducted by TIME/CNN in October 2002 report that approximately 80 percent of the American public supports patient access... 

Pharmacists are uniquely positioned to become involved in DM activities for several reasons. First, within the community, pharmacists practice at the interface of care and therefore have the ability to interact directly with patients. In addition, public opinion polls reveal that pharmacists are consistently ranked among the most trusted professionals. Figure 17.1 illustrates how the drug prescribing process places pharmacists at the interface of patient care. Because pharmacists, like physicians, have the ability to directly deliver DM services, they can serve as conduits for implementing DM programs developed by health insurance providers, PBMs, pharmaceutical companies, wholesalers and distributors, and employers. 

Thirteen other factors were also considered in evaluating each option (1) capital costs, (2) operating and maintenance costs, (3) liability cost rating, (4) timeliness, (5) transferability, (6) revenues, (7) equivalent annual costs, (8) pollution prevention mode, (9) net release reduction, (10) recovery costs, (11) cost effectiveness, (12) resource utilization, and (13) effects of secondary emissions. Finally, data Ifom public opinion polling in the community near the refinery were considered in evaluating potential public support or opposition to different pollution prevention strategies. 

These theorems are useful for assessing the uncertainties of sums obtained in public opinion polls or in replicated laboratory experiments. In... 

The next few years offer an unprecedented opportunity for the chemical industry to acknowledge the need for more transparency and accountability for urgently supplying the much needed environmental and health data on chemicals they market. It also provides an opportunity to actively promote green chemistry, safer substitutes and innovation in the development of chemicals that are not persistent and do not bioaccumulate in living systems. The truth will reveal itself by the time the new EU chemical policy is adopted - in whatever form it has been shaped into by industry lobby and public campaigns. That will be the time to conduct a new opinion poll and see if public confidence has indeed risen. 

Opinion polls or surveys should just report the opinions of those surveyed on their attitudes and behaviour. 

The advertising message for a medicinal product, primarily based on the results of opinion polls, is in principle not allowed, except if the results of these polls match the marketing authorisation, Transparency Commission opinions and the proper use of the medicinal product. 

One other important point that was mentioned earlier is that the parameters of the state of the system are not necessarily direct perceptions, such as displacement, but may be other measures such as probability. For example, if an opinion poll is taken on a sample of 1,000 people and each person is asked whether they will vote for the Labour Party, the Conservative Party, the Liberal Party, then the number of states of this system is 3 ° °. As this figure is too high to handle the state description may be replaced by just one state with three parameters of Pi. Pa. Ps. which represent the probability of the population voting Labour, Conservative or Liberal respectively. If this poll were taken many times, it would be repeatably stable in the sense now being discussed, on condition that all the opinions were in favour of either Labour, Conservative or Liberal and no other. In other words, there are repeatably only three parameters for one state. If another party were introduced, or another category such as don t knows into some of the polls and not into others, then the experiment would not be repeatedly stable. 

It is unfortunate that there is so much concern about radiation since there are many beneficial effects, but because of the dramatization of the concerns, many individuals fear radiation out of all proportion to any known risks. In an opinion poll in which members of the... 

Noni would most probably end up among the best known herbs in a pubhe opinion poll. This new-found popularity is quite surprising as the plant was imknown outside its native range in some Paeifie islands a mere 25 years ago. Advertisers have made major efforts to introduee noni and its supposedly unique active ingredient, xeronine, into modem life. 

Opinion poll by Russian Public Opinion Research Center Environmental situation in Russia challenges and priorities (Russian), http //www.mnr.gov. ru/regulatory/detail.php ID=132085 (accessed February 2014). 

The problem of the difference between objective risk and subjective risk perception is avoided by the so-called psychometric models which aim to directly record subjective evaluations as a basis for decision-making processes. The expressed preference method [9-10], which uses opinion polls, did, however, show the change in the way the population evaluates technical developments. 

An empirical correlation was established between the factors listed in Table 2 and these foiros of corrosion. Fifteen recognized corrosion experts agreed to complete an opinion poll listing the main subfactors and the common forms of corrosion. The responses were then analyzed and represented in a graphical way, such as illustrated in Fig. 2, for... 

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