An increasing amount of them, from simple consumer purchases to complex business needs, research their problem on Google.
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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Professor Paul Younger from the Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability at Newcastle University says the "fundamental problem is that it has a tendency to be strongly alkaline".
Differential pricing will not deal with the problem that drug firms' research concentrates mainly on ailments affecting rich people.
Professor Michael Jensen of Harvard Business School (along with Bill Meckling of Rochester) did some formidable research now almost 40 years ago on the agency-principal problem in modern corporate America.
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Now I have no problem with the federal government backing basic research on energy technology the national labs have made myriad breakthroughs over the decades, many of which have been commercialized.
The Child Poverty Action Group said research conducted in 2008 had suggested less than 7% of those on benefits were problem drug users.
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 the administration would still have a problem with "dirty hands" -- public monies would be spent on research that required and relied on the destruction of embryos.
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.
Critics of the newer research say that the idea that running can harm the heart is based on research showing only an association meaning that exercise may not be the cause of the problem.
Entitlements are at the root of the problem and need to be trimmed, and research has shown that although spending cuts weigh on growth in the short run, they hurt less than higher taxes.
Research on food allergies has been slow because "for a long time, people thought this was a small problem, " Munoz-Furlong said.
The problem, as Knowles saw it, was that the company was too focused on exotic basic research and neglected the less glamorous work of concocting compounds with the right combination of efficacy, safety and convenience to become big sellers.
Jeffrey Sachs, a Harvard economist, has drawn attention to the scale of the problem: poor countries cannot afford expensive medicines, and drug companies naturally tend to focus their research on finding cures for the ills of the rich (see Jeffrey Sachs on development and Medicines for poor countries) rather than the afflictions of the poor.
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