Capturing high-quality survey data is an arduous process for large-scale and extensive interventional studies. This paper presents the architecture, interface design, and an innovative form generation engine of a system called RE- Form: Refactorized Electronic Web Forms. REForm provides researchers the capability to design and manage surveys and the flexibility to organize them in a customizabl...

A large number of routing-related surveys are published so far for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) that exhibit either complete or partial emphasis on routing in WSNs. These surveys classify and discuss the relevant routing protocols published mainly in the fields of classical, energy efficient, secure, hierarchical, geographic, intelligent, Quality of Service (QoS)-based and multipath WSNs. Ho...

The present chapter reviews basic issues concerning the design of household survey questionnaires for use in developing countries. It begins with the first step of questionnaire design, which is to formulate the objectives of the survey and then modify those objectives to take into account the underlying constraints. After these broad issues are discussed, more detailed advice is given on many ...

A new Retail Commodity Survey was launched by Statistics Canada in January 1997, to obtain more information on commodity by sales in Canada. The survey is based on a two-phase sample design, where the first phase is the Monthly Retail Trade Survey, in place since 1988. Information from the first phase is used in all steps of the commodity survey in order to maximize the efficiency of the design...

Zigzag survey lines are frequently used in shipboard and aerial line transect surveys of animal populations. Analysis proceeds assuming that coverage probability through the survey region is uniform. We show that the two types of zigzag design that are in wide use do not generally have this property, and explore the degree of bias in abundance estimates that can be anticipated. We construct a z...

In 2010 a survey of ACPA contractors was conducted to determine the relative cost of selected design features. Three different surveys were used; a General Survey evaluating nine design features, a Saw and Seal survey evaluating four sealant types and four reservoir widths, and a smoothness survey designed to establish the cost to attain lower and lower roughness levels. To complete all three s...

We present an overview of the Southern-sky MWA Rapid Two-metre (SMART) pulsar survey that exploits MWA's large field view and voltage capture system to sky south 30 degree in declination for pulsars fast transients 140-170 MHz band. The is enabled by advent Phase II compact configuration, which offers enormous efficiency beam-forming processing costs, thereby making all-sky this magnitude tract...

BACKGROUND Randomised controlled trials have investigated aspects of postal survey design yet cannot elaborate on reasons behind participants' decision making and survey behaviour. This paper reports participants' perspectives of the design of, and participation in, a longitudinal postal cohort survey. It describes strengths and weaknesses in study design from the perspectives of study particip...

Understanding the effects of social determinants health on outcomes requires data characteristics neighborhoods in which subjects live. However, estimates these are often aggregated over space and time a fashion that diminishes their utility. Take, for example, from American Community Survey (ACS), multiyear nationwide survey administered by U.S. Census Bureau: small municipal areas 5-year peri...