China is also hosting the Global Botanic Gardens Congress in Wuhan this month, where the BGCI will launch a survey of garden collections of threatened species.

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In light of this new information, I may launch my own informal survey on the productivity of PP Forbes staffers and those who leave the confines of 60 Fifth for their afternoon sugar rush.

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Judging the capabilities of local access providers, the survey found that the worst place to launch a bid turned out to be Atlanta, where the average download time is 11.58 seconds.

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Lansky says readers from 50 different countries have completed the survey in the couple of weeks since its launch.

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Mr Bennett said the NFU is set to launch an environmental campaign with a survey which would show that 74% of people support giving farmers public money in return for managing the countryside.

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Palo Alto, Calif. plastic surgeon Steven Bates was so fed up with the inefficiencies, low response rates and expense of existing survey vendors that he and a few colleagues teamed up to launch DocsVox.

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As part of the launch of the process, the British Library has commissioned a survey of the top 100 websites that ought to be preserved for historians and researchers.

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The survey of UK parents with children aged five to 16 was carried out to mark the launch of a new website by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

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Amazon certainly has people talking about the Kindle platform. since the launch of the eInk based readers they have been coy about actual sales figures, with research firms and survey based analysis attempting to answer the popularity question.

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