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Accessing hidden and hard-to-reach populations : snowball research strategies.
All of these studies found that low latitudes cool with large obliquities, and some cases achieve a 100 % snowball earth.
The respondents consisted of a convenience or snowball sample.
Bankruptcies will spread and a domino or snowball effect will follow.
In the dirty snowball model, the velocity is the result of jet action.
The simple procedure and tiny scar, are more likely to encourage relatives or friends to seek sterilization and accelerate the snowball effect.
Interviewers gathered data at retired people's clubs and associations, and by making personal contacts, following a 'snowball effect' type of procedure.
The relatively small population of medium and large-scale companies in the manufacturing sector in the study region led to purposive and snowball selection of participating firms.
While the demonstration or snowball effect has received considerable attention from 'third wave' democratization scholars, only recently have scholars begun work to determine the extent and magnitude of this phenomenon.
A "snowball" effect would accelerate the increase.
The sulfur isotopic composition of neoproterozoic seawater sulfate : implications for a snowball earth.
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