Although private industry outspends Washington in total research and development dollars, the federal government is far and away the most generous supporter of basic research.
Prior to that he headed Harris Interactive and Total Research.
World at Work, a total rewards research and trade organization, reports that the use of recognition programs to motivate specific employee behaviors has increased from 9- to 34 percent between 2008 and 2011.
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Past innovation prizes show that the total spending on research is many times the total prize winnings.
The research found a total of 7, 337 closures, compared with 5, 558 new openings during the year.
The total world spend on energy research is about 0.5% of this -- strikingly low.
More than four decades of research puts the total estimated volume of slaves exported at roughly 11-12m between the 15th and 19th centuries.
Our friends over at Total Car Score, a research site for auto buyers, came up with a bevy of 2013 models that already feature great fuel-saving technologies.
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Through close cooperation with Iran's state-owned National Iranian Oil Company, Total is involved in joint research projects and contracts for the development and operation of numerous onshore and offshore oil fields in Iran.
"It's part of our research into a total ubiquitous technology society, and activity recognition is an important part of that, " said Hiroyuki Yokoyama, head of web data research at KKDI's research labs in Tokyo.
Palatin Technologies, in partnership with King Pharmaceuticals, is in middle-stage trials (Phase II of a total of three) to research another nasal-sprayed chemical, PT-141, which stimulates the hypothalamus' melanocortin receptors, which are responsible for hunger and may have a more potent arousal effect.
Research has suggested that total advertising bans can cut consumption by more than 6% in high-income countries.
Carmakers sold 3 million fleet vehicles in 2002 out of 16.8 million total, according to CNW Marketing Research--almost 18% of all sales.
The number of women-owned firms grew 17% between 1997 and 2004, according to the Center for Women's Business Research, while the total number of firms rose only 9%.
Worldwide sales of mobile phones climbed nearly 32 percent to 1.6 billion in 2010 while smartphone sales jumped 72 percent and accounted for 19 percent of the total, according to information technology research firm Gartner, Inc.
But Forrester, an Internet research organisation, reckons the total market is just 2m.
The research group anticipates a record total for 2011, and expects the investment growth to continue in the long term.
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), an intergovernmental advisory and research organization, recommends a total number of mackerel allowed to be caught in order for fish stocks to remain sustainable.
Desmond-Hellmann claims she isn't worried about competition from companies whose research budgets rival Genentech's total annual spending.
As the manufacturer of the device sometimes nicknamed "CrackBerry, " Research In Motion once enjoyed near total dominance over the smartphone market.
And banks themselves are exposed: paper issued by the mortgage agencies accounts for roughly half of their total securities portfolios, estimates CreditSights, a research firm.
The UK-wide figures, which were compiled by construction research body Glenigan, indicated a total of 29, 100 residential units were approved during the second quarter of 2011.
Mobile phone app downloads will grow 144% this year, to a total of 18 billion, according to the research firm Ovum, up from 7.4 billion apps in 2010.
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U.S. video game sector retail sales fell 9% in December from a year, according to market research firm NPD, and the total would have been even lower had it not been for the new Kinect hand- free motion controller for the Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360.
During research, 63 families - with a total of 125 children - were interviewed across seven local authority areas.
Projections by Asian Demographics, a research organisation, show China's total population, which hit 1.3 billion in January, inching up to 1.31 billion in 2019 and declining rapidly thereafter.
According to research firm StatCounter, the percentage of total internet page views on mobile phones was 10.1% in May 2012, almost doubling the 5.8% that it had posted for the same period in 2011.
"While the new physical retail channel still generates the majority of industry sales, our expanded research coverage allows us to assess the total consumer spend across the growing number of ways to acquire and experience gaming, including mobile apps and downloadable content, " said Anita Frazier, industry analyst, The NPD Group.
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Research firm Genesus Genetics estimates China's total pig population at more than 470 million.
The same turns out to be true for the total demand for Afghani opium, according to a new research paper from economist Jeffrey Clemens of the University of California at San Diego.
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