Modifying a child's behavior first requires an understanding of the underlying reason for the behavior.
Yet, if anything, the paper underscores two basic truths about understanding consumer behavior and social media.
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Better understanding of behavior, after all, makes if more likely Google can offer the appropriate advertisement.
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"This is about understanding consumer behavior in a new way, " Chief Executive Alejandro Muther said.
They help provide meaning, context and longitudinal understanding of behavior but they are not surrogates for listening.
Analytical services: By understanding customer behavior, Maritz helps its corporate customers to improve how their interact with consumers.
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"I got a dose of understanding human behavior, and I learned what the death penalty does to us, " she said.
Fashion trends will vary country to country but technology has become a ubiquitous tool for understanding consumer behavior and demand, regardless of borders.
An accurate understanding of behavior helps parents figure out appropriate responses that have a positive long-term impact on healthy social, emotional and cognitive growth.
In this way, Spanos believes those entrepreneurs may be able to get direction by understanding their buying behavior.
GutCheck: A focus group can be a critical way to get an understanding of customer behavior and as a result, build better products.
Although many family and educational factors can mold a man like Rice, you can be certain his experience in youth sports has played a major role in honing his understanding of acceptable behavior in sports as an adult.
Understanding yourself and your behavior is the key to creating an asset allocation that sticks.
Video over the Internet is rapidly becoming mainstream, and while this may not surprise the average online video watcher, it means big changes, with lasting ramifications, for understanding and influencing consumer behavior.
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His own work involves such things as understanding the makeup and behavior of less-understood critical components of cells, like lipids and glycols, and how a cancer cell might bind with a nanoparticle.
Recognizing and understanding this shift in consumer behavior is the first step in reducing shopping cart abandonment.
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Medicine is essentially starting to move from the traditional guesswork format to a science based on understanding and modeling the molecular behavior of the organic world.
"Understanding the fine-grained social behavior of a billion people is something no one has ever done before, " says research chief Prabhakar Raghavan.
The work of solar astronomer Mitzi Adams, left, has improved our understanding of the sun's turbulent behavior.
And more recently, advances in brain science have given us the beginnings of a true understanding of this essential piece of human behavior.
What distinguishes Baynote is the way it combines multiple sources of evidence, constructs a multidimensional model, and then allows that model to be put to various uses, an approach that points the way to a broader method for understanding many sources of evidence about consumer behavior in a coherent and useful way.
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Understanding the origin -- and the genetic behavior -- of a pathogen is the holy grail in the world of infectious disease.
By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people.
So then why are some people so good at recognizing, understanding, and even creating future trends and behavior (thinking Oprah Winfrey, Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett) and others not?
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One of the things that made the US program so successful, and what I expect to drive the continued success of PepsiCo10 in Europe, is a clear sense of shared purpose: both PepsiCo and our partner companies have a major stake in understanding the potential of technology to transform consumer behavior and engagement.
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The good news is that, in understanding both the strength and the disadvantage of such chameleon behavior, we recognize the value of it in the beginning to create the familiarity that builds initial trust.
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Understanding how they make decisions and participating in that process influences behavior while building meaningful relationships.
And no doubt one of the topics that President Sarkozy and President Obama will spend a lot of time on today is exactly what those sanctions look like moving forward, understanding that sanctions are part of an effort to get Iran to change their behavior.
Understanding the basis of criminal law makes it easier to understand why violent and possibly criminal behavior in perceived differently when the violence occurs in a sporting event.
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The real crux to answering that is this: Do we view autism only as a clinical diagnosis based solely on behavior and outward function, or do we talk about it as a neurobiological construct and identification, with an understanding of the context of the hidden disability and the hard work that those outward behaviors require?
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