According to a life-cycle analysis, the land-based crops all were found to sequester more carbon than that incurred in growing them, while the contrary was true for growing algae, meaning that replacing fossil fuels by algal fuels could cause an overall increase in carbon emissions.
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Started in 1996, LiSim is a risk-analysis company based in Bogota, Colombia that uses statistics and behavioral analysis to determine the inherent risk in granting credit to a given client.
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The latest analysis by Washington-based PlanEcon Inc.
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While Bangladesh has become a poster child for what's wrong with Asia's factories, Myanmar, Pakistan, China, Indonesia and India are even riskier to brands for sourcing goods and investing, according to Maplecroft, a risk-analysis firm based in Bath, England.
Whereas traditional product development would involve making product decisions using business intuition and knowledge, Zynga turned decision-making on its head by hypothesis-driven product testing, quick analysis and agile roll-out based on how customers behaved.
This taste-based analysis may well explain discrimination in settings where individuals interact and so tastes matter.
And on the measurement issue, advisors would be well served to adapt some version of goals-based analysis.
The trend to sector-based analysis has intensified since the birth of the euro.
My colleague suggested that since there is so much data available for companies, this posed an advantage for company-based analysis.
Most money managers who had not made the shift toward sector-based analysis before the euro's launch have since revised their strategy.
Beane employs an approach called sabermetrics, which relies on evidence-based analysis in areas such as evaluating players, measuring game activity, and scouting.
He had also served as vice president of public policy at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a Dallas-based conservative public policy research institute.
To find out how much time phones spend keeping one ear open, Shin and Zhang conducted an extensive trace-based analysis of real WiFi networks.
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This analysis and our conclusions are based on bottoms-up analysis of each of the 3000 stocks we cover, including nearly every financial sector company.
Until recently, a fact-based analysis of these numbers would have involved months of pulling data from spreadsheets from hundreds of schools, departments, and government agencies.
Lundin also believes that large-scale digitization of all tissue samples will also allow for the development of a whole new field of image-based analysis methods.
Until recently a fact-based analysis of these numbers would have taken months of pulling data from spreadsheets from hundreds of schools, departments and government agencies.
Representatives from all provincial and district education offices participated in several capacity building trainings on evidence-based analysis and planning with clear priorities, realistic costing, efficient use of existing resource requirements, and mobilization of partnership.
Speaking at the project's workshop, Professor Liu Liqun, Director of the Media and Gender Institute and UNESCO Media and Gender Chair holder, highlighted that in her analysis three major gender-based inequalities appear in mass media.
Chunzai Wang of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has performed a very interesting data-based analysis of Atlantic hurricane tracks showing that increasing the area of warm water results in a significant lowering of the likelihood that a storm will strike the U.S., something that should happen with continued oceanic warming.
Finally, snapshot-based historical analysis is on top of the list for sales organization that want to understand pipeline movement and increase predictability.
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D. in political science at Stanford University in the mid-1960s, Nie became frustrated with the computer-based statistical analysis tools available at the time.
Datamonitor, a New York-based market analysis firm, noted in a report, published March 2001, of an industry shift towards "high-barrier-to-entry generic products, " or specialty generic pharmaceuticals.
Terry Bedford, a principal with Hamilton, Canada-based technical analysis firm Bedford Associates, is of the opinion that if the small investors who have propped up Internet stocks get spooked when they see insiders bail out of these stocks, they will follow suit, leading to sharp declines.
That is why the next wave of environmental policymaking will need to employ commonsense tools such as cost-benefit analysis, and make greater use of flexible, market-based instruments such as emissions-trading, rather than the tired command-and-control approach favoured by most greens.
One new force on the block, Appinions, provides contextual analysis, focusing more on topic-based comparisons, and less on creating an individual score.
The analysis by Equilar, the US-based pay research company, shows chief executive pay at several banks is still significantly lower than its pre-crisis high.
The resurgence of Austrian analysis is not merely a web-based phenomenon.
Finding a concrete, believable economic analysis that shows that an IP-based telephony company might have lower costs than a traditional telephone company has been very hard indeed.
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