Focus group research studied two groups of customers who waited exactly two minutes to be served.
"The growth rate is declining, and that means fewer opportunities for Andersen and others, " says Dean Davison of the Meta Group research firm.
Focus group research presented in the report, The Smart Way to Display, shows a consumer preference for simplicity in visual displays of energy use.
Fluid Interfaces Group Research Assistant Pol Pla i Conesa presented several such scenarios for his Display Blocks, which consist of 128 x 128-pixel OLED panels.
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But your focus group research is completely free!
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The recent news accounts of how the Bush team will be emphasizing values after his vacation make quite clear that this bunch does every bit as much polling and focus group research as the Clinton-Gore team ever did.
Last year Chinese energy drink sales reached 5 billion yuan, registering an annual growth of 45%, according to the market research group China Investment Research Consultant.
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"Microsoft and many other companies realize that since it is, after all, people who use technology, it's critical for the company to understand how people adapt to technology, " notes Kentaro Toyama, who leads the Technology for Emerging Markets research group at Microsoft Research India.
Dr Huw Jones, research group leader at Rothamsted Research, one of the leading UK institutions in the field of GM crops, agreed.
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That's the goal of a project under development by Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Media Presence Research Group at the Bay Area Research Center in San Francisco.
According to market intelligence group ABI Research, Android is positioned to take 45% of the smartphone market by 2016.
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Much of the technology has been developed jointly by the Volkswagen Group Electronics Research Lab in Silicon Valley and Stanford University.
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The Child Poverty Action Group said research conducted in 2008 had suggested less than 7% of those on benefits were problem drug users.
The 1994 Group of research intensive universities said that figures showed that some UK students "have obviously been wary of applying this year".
"This is positive news and demonstrates that higher education is still an excellent investment, " said Alex Bols, executive director of the 1994 Group of research intensive universities.
Economist Richard Murphy, director of campaign group Tax Research UK, said it did not appear to be fair that a profitable company was not paying any UK tax.
John Lechleiter, chairman of the trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and CEO of Lilly, said Monday that the new program will supplement Interpol's existing efforts.
Professor Paul Wellings of the 1994 Group, research-intensive universities, welcomed the review of postgraduate education, saying "there are a number of issues that need urgently to be examined".
Alex Bols, executive director of the 1994 Group of research intensive universities, agreed in principle with the idea that universities needed to engage with potential students at an earlier age.
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Alex Bols, executive director of the 1994 Group of research intensive universities, said that earlier figures showing a fall in applications from UK students could be because students were applying later in the admissions cycle.
It was co-founded by Patri Friedman, a grandson of Milton Friedman, a Nobel laureate in economics, and until recently executive director of the Seasteading Institute, a group producing research on how to build ocean-based communes.
The members of the Russell Group of research-led institutions are: Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, Liverpool, King's College London, London School of Economics, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield, Southampton, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff, Warwick, Imperial College, University College London and Manchester.
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Each group should research the location of the river, its benefits to people and animals, the current condition of the river and the potential effects on the river's ecosystem and the local community if the river were to become contaminated.
Paul Wellings, chair of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities, called for the review to abide by two principles - to ensure that the cost does not stop people from attending university and the need to improve the student experience.
And the European Foundation and the European Research Group are doing important, well, research.
They show a philosopher so unfamiliar with the state of the Internet and the kind of research into usage produced by analysts such as Gartner, Forrester Research, the Yankee Group, the Pew Research Center, Jakob Nielsen or Ethan Zuckerman, that he takes these claims as givens, not as claims requiring amplification, clarification, and examination.
But the research group has been criticized for agreeing to a number of constraints on the research that other universities refused to accept.
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My company LRN conducted an independent statistical analysis of how things actually work at companies, small and large, derived from a lengthy and rigorous empirical study of observations from 36, 000 employees in 18 countries conducted by the Boston Research Group, The Center for Effective Organizations at University of Southern California and Research Data Technology, Inc.
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While a study is currently in progress at this point in time with the same research group linked below, specific to those with autism spectrum disorders, the linked research suggests that language development delays in the general population are associated with high levels of prenatal testosterone among males but high levels of prenatal testosterone among females provides a protective effect for language development.
"By 2015 households which today routinely consume 1TB of data a month are expected to generate 20 times the amount of data than they currently save, " said Richard Doherty, research director of the Envisioneering Group, a technology research and consulting company.
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