Instead of starting another endless argument about whether state banks should be privatised, foreign capital welcomed, and lenders forced to serve small businesses, he advocates a few experiments, such as selling some small, underperforming government banks.
Using a series of experiments on both business executives and a random selection of adults, Brescoll et al found that after the fact, firms that conveyed an empathetic, responsibility-taking message ended up losing much less public trust than those taking more defensive or noncommittal stances.
Mr. BRYAN CULLEN (Scientist, Duke University): There have been a number of experiments done in rodents, in particular in a mice, that have successfully shown that RNA interference does work at the whole organism level.
Dr Bell conducted a series of experiments, such as depriving infants of food for a time before returning them to their carers.
Unlike the old Shuttle program, which had launches a few times a year, scientists could use SpaceShip Two to conduct several experiments a week.
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So for his Ignite NYC talk, he performed a series of experiments to find just what sorts of obscuring techniques can defeat a common facial recognition algorithm known as Eigenfaces, testing an off-the-shelf implementation of that algorithm in a program called Neurotechnology.
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To suss out the characteristics of the most-compelling television ads, Harvard Business School professor Thales Teixeira conducted a series of experiments, in conjunction with the MIT Media Lab and Affectiva, a local emotion-tracking software company.
We've done a bunch of experiments with various bits of hardware, but we don't have a display that we can ship.
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The team conducted a series of experiments in which known quantities of five such chemicals were mixed with water and passed through a dishwasher, a washing machine, a shower head inside a shower stall or a tap in a bath, all inside a specially designed chamber.
If they prove a success, these experiments could spur the invention of a host of new designer materials.
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In a recent round of experiments, he gave the capuchins a choice between a researcher who shows them one slice and always gives two and a second who shows one and gives one or three.
The UNESCO Global Microscience Experiments Project aims to provide a practical approach to experiencing science for elementary and secondary school students (and in some countries, students in their first academic year), using kits designed especially with a textbook illustrating the various experiments.
If the signature of an element is found at a wavelength that is slightly to the blue side of what experiments in a laboratory show, this means the star is moving towards the earth, making the wavelength of the light it was emitting slightly shorter.
Traditionally research chemists carry out four experiments a day, mixing chemicals in bucketlike containers.
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Merzenich first realized how malleable the brain is in a series of experiments in the mid-1980s.
He therefore decided to conduct a series of experiments with waxed and unwaxed skis.
In a series of experiments, they found that Chinese investors overwhelmingly described themselves as more cautious than Americans.
As my friend Reuven Brenner has taught me, history is a series of experiments: The Human Gamble.
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Psychologists Nicole Mead and Jon Maner ran a series of experiments to unpick this counter-intuitive tendency.
They performed a series of experiments on 36 people - an even split of those in their twenties and their seventies.
In a series of experiments with mice, he and his colleagues found that drug-resistant patients actually had elevated (not lower) levels of androgen receptors.
Harvard neuroscientist Diana Tamir and her Harvard colleague Jason Mitchell conducted a series of experiments to explore why people like to talk about themselves.
In a series of experiments, he found that as foods he was cooking warmed up, the spiral sides directed the flow in a concentric movement.
They launched themselves like Superman, drank floating globs of water and tossed each other around like balls, in addition to performing a variety of experiments.
In the past year Snyder's lab has conducted a series of experiments that suggest D-serine acts in concert with glutamate to stimulate nerve cells to fire.
Even in 2005, Capital One was conducting as many as 30, 000 experiments a year by offering credit cards with different interest rates, incentives, and marketing techniques.
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Professors Roger Buehler from Simon Fraser University and colleagues designed a series of experiments to see if he could help people to improve their planning ability.
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In the past year his lab has conducted a series of experiments that suggest that D-serine acts in concert with glutamate to stimulate nerve cells to fire.
For the NFL, the Sprint phone-casts are part of a series of experiments with digital media aimed at discerning how fans will consume football in the future.
In this vein, researchers conducted a series of experiments to determine if people were more successful in negotiations that happened in their own offices than in unfamiliar locations.
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