Another big problem Capital Research is that its funds are equity heavy and these days investors are seeking safety and yield.
One problem this research faces is that in order to determine whether the nerves are regenerating, they have to actually cut out a piece of spinal and then cut that into ultra-thin slices, which are then placed under a microscope.
When I first began looking into the increasingly vexing problem of irreproducible scientific research I assumed that the bulk of the problem was caused by sloppy science.
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The other problem with basic research is that its benefits are almost impossible to measure.
The problem is that research medicine generates financial conflicts by its very nature.
Khatib decided to share a longstanding problem in AIDS research in the form of Foldit, a program that reframes scientific challenges as a competitive multiplayer computer game.
Both executives raise a problem with fixing research and development that should scare executives at less productive companies: Sometimes trying to fix things can just make them worse.
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Before genomics data was offered in the cloud, researchers had to download all the data for a given human sample and discard those portions not applicable to their research problem.
The Japanese technique circumvents the major ethical problem that has made research using embryonic stem cells controversial.
An increasing amount of them, from simple consumer purchases to complex business needs, research their problem on Google.
The problem is that most research in this field, including my own, focuses almost entirely on how people make sense of, judge, and respond to the interactions of unrelated strangers.
The dinosaurs were not wiped out by a comet or asteroid impact or some other planetary catastrophe but by a serious flatulence problem, according to research quoted in a Chinese news report.
The report compiles the bulk of the peer-reviewed research available on the subject, and the result is a single document that illustrates the problem, the gaps in the research, and the potential solutions.
But in this industry, the bigger problem is not doing the research at all.
His own research identifies another problem: Neither investors nor bankers were likely to be considering worst-case scenarios.
The problem, notes Zacks Equity Research analyst Grant Zeng, is that the drug's growth rate is slowing.
The work in the journal Cancer Research suggests the problem is too much of a gene called FGFR1.
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Differential pricing will not deal with the problem that drug firms' research concentrates mainly on ailments affecting rich people.
According to the research, the problem is being caused by a combination of factors - a commitment to education and lack of outdoor light.
Rubin approached the problem with the method, research and precision of an artful academic and in the end, she argues she really did make herself happier.
It so happens that Exxon Mobil has been funding research into this problem at Stanford University for almost a decade now without a major breakthrough.
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More surprisingly, there is little peer-reviewed research documenting the problem.
And while Reuben is through as a scientist the problem lingers on, as his research papers were among the most heavily cited in the field.
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Part of the problem is the way that management research like so many areas of knowledge tends to explore ever more obscure topics as scholars seek out an unvisited niche.
What seems simple has taken years of research to overcome the problem of reading different eye colors and allowing for head movement so people can relax while using the systems.
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This is part of the problem, according to the Medical Research Council, which recently established the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Unit to help write policies that would benefit those in this sector.
There are areas of science where the impetus for further research is not so much the inherent scientific interest but rather the mobilizing of public anxiety, which creates a demand for research to assess the problem.
The problem is, as they state, research has crystallized a third component that is essential to educational policy.
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