Dr. Edmans is a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute.
Mr. Tata is President of the Court of the Indian Institute of Science, Chairman of the Council of Management of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and a member of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University and the University of Southern California.
Scott Kenemore, author of "The Zen of Zombie" and a member of the advisory board of the Zombie Research Society, said the zombie apocalypse can represent a validation of sorts for people awaiting their particular extinction event.
The Potential Gas Committee, a research arm of the natural gas and petroleum industries, has said that this country has a natural gas resource base of nearly 2, 000 trillion cubic feet more than in the last 46 years.
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Last year nine automakers and a pair of auto suppliers, in a rare example of industry solidarity, formed a research consortium with the goal of creating a single, comprehensive digital human.
The impact of month of birth on a wide range of child and adult outcomes is currently the subject of a major research project conducted by the Institute of Fiscal Studies, which is expected to report in May.
He is also a board member at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Board of Directors of Kraft Foods, a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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"We see these developments as tremendously useful in defeating the remaining lights class actions scattered around the country, " Campagnino said in a research report of the expected difficulties plaintiff lawyers may have in cherry picking litigation-friendly states for lawsuits.
Yet this piece of research offers a clear example of the possible benefits of scientific research methods: rigorous research which reveals unintended consequences to expose the true nature of a business practice.
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The academic was also a Founding President of The Scottish Society for Psychical Research and a member and past president of the London-based Society for Psychical Research.
The CDC offers a comprehensive list of links to a slew of scientific research on the chemical none of which point to any serious human consequences.
Relevant Disclosures: I am a Research Associate of the NBER (through which the study above was released) and Associate Director of the NBER Retirement Research Center (through which the authors have received some funding for their study).
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That is part of how research is conducted, and it's justified by relying on the concept of informed consent from research subjects and a requirement that the distribution of the risks and benefits of research are appropriate.
The Business, Innovation and Skills Committee (9.30am) continues its inquiry into Open Access, the practice of providing unrestricted access to research via the internet - a host of witnesses from the publishers of peer-reviewed journals and research institutions will give their views.
The Gamelan Project is part of a growing body of research into the effects of music on the brain.
Dr. Castillo-Chavez is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Banff International Research Station and served as a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Council and Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute Committee.
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Late last year Intel published, The Future of Knowledge Work, a whitepaper resulting from extensive internal and external research and a Future of the Workplace Summit held in Haifa, Israel.
For most critics it's about devaluing the primary purpose of a research library by reducing the accessibility of its resources.
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Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the PalmPilot and the Treo mobile phone, used a chunk of his money to fund research into understanding the nature of consciousness, and he even wrote a book on the topic.
It said in a statement that the target was a military research centre northwest of the capital Damascus.
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The approval comes amid a flurry of research showing broader promise for the approach in a range of disorders, from a rare form of blindness to hemophilia to heart failure.
The head of a prominent cancer-research institute at the University of Pittsburgh sent a memo to all employees urging them to limit cell phone use because of a possible risk of cancer.
Figuring out what will happen to the universe isn't a new area of research, but the math becomes a lot more telling once you have the approximate mass of the Higgs boson.
Mersenne primes are most relevant to number theory, but most participants join Gimps for the fun of having a role in real research - and the chance of finding a new Mersenne prime.
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There has been a lot of research about the optimal duration in a health-care setting, such as a hospital.
In a blog post earlier this year George Colony, the boss of Forrester, a research firm, noted that the fortunes of companies such as Sony and Disney faded after their charismatic founders departed.
While each year the heads of state sing from the same hymn sheet in praise of scientific research as a vehicle to achieve the objectives of growth and full employment, the first cuts proposed to the future European budget under negotiation yesterday were in this field.
The breakthrough aspect of the research was a vastly improved understanding of the business case for financial capability answering the question of how to financially sustain education programs that previously had been thought of as an expense.
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That is pitifully weak, especially for what is supposed to be the fourth year of a recovery (the National Bureau of Economic Research scored the recession as officially over in June, 2009).
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