One of the authors of the report said a survey of GPs suggested three-quarters of them had admitted signing off patients for reasons other than their physical health.
The WEF's own Global Risks 2013 report -- compiled from an annual survey of more than 1, 000 experts and industry leaders -- offers a pessimistic outlook, saying the global community's ability to address significant challenges, such as global warming, is undermined by the continuing economic weakness plaguing major economies.
The study, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, is the first report of a federally funded tracking survey of the mental health needs of about a thousand adult pre-hurricane residents of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.
They found the most pessimistic levels of confidence among American workers that RCS has ever measured, in more than two decades of this survey, says Jack VanDerhei, EBRI research director and co-author of the report.
Market research operation Forrester issued a report that one-third of the companies responding to a survey said they would be upgrading to the new version of Office in the next 12 months.
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And remember, this survey did not report that 40 percent of clients want to spend-down, only that 40 percent of advisers had clients who asked about it.
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According to the survey, 73 percent of C-level executives report that supporting the use of employee-owned technology is a top priority within their company, and 60 percent said that their companies are currently updating IT systems to make it easier for employees to use their personal devices at work.
Also included in the report was a survey of residents in Zone A, the city's most flood-prone areas whose 375, 000 residents were under a mandatory evacuation order during Sandy.
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The data, compiled from a survey of property developers and real-estate agencies, followed a report by another provider on Wednesday that showed transactions were up in some major cities in late May.
To be sure, more than 6 million students in the U.S. are now taking at least one course online, and 65 percent of higher education institutions say online learning is a critical part of their long-term strategy, according to a 2011 report from the Babson Survey Research Group .
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Such an increase amounts to 0.16 inches per year, but the eventual impact could mean that a small storm could "do the same damage that Sandy did, " said Peter Howd, co-author of a 2012 U.S. Geological Survey report that found the rate of sea level rise had increased in the northeast.
The report is based on a survey of 300 people, out of an estimated 263, 700 over-75s in Wales.
Earlier this year (February 2011) Modern Survey interviewed 1, 000 working adults as part of their bi-annual report titled, Employee Engagement in the U.S. Workforce.
The Society interviewed 1, 600 adults ages 45 to 60 (800 retirees and 800 pre-retirees) for the full 2011 Risks and Process Of Retirement Survey Report.
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Meanwhile, the NRDC report claims that a July survey found that only 4% of U.S. wastewater facilities were Y2K-ready.
The survey goes on to report that 30 percent of those who are currently healthy will develop a pre-existing condition in the next eight years.
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The employment report is a monthly survey is compiled for ADP -- which provides data from the large number of payrolls that it outsources for other companies -- by Macroeconomic Advisers.
David Kay, former Bush-appointed head of the Iraq Survey Group, talked to CNN Thursday about the report issued by his successor.
More than three-quarters of the respondents in a McKinsey survey of over 3, 500 companies worldwide report that they are using at least one social technology.
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