The space agencies of Europe, the US, Italy, the UK, Japan and India all contributed to the latest research, each one using their own experts and methodology to model the future space environment.

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Meraki combines a high-velocity software development methodology with a tightly linked inside sales and channel model that will form the new Cloud Networking Group.

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Robust methodology: Active GRP is calculated by a statistical model that combines aggregated panel data and anonymous user data (either inferred or user-provided), and will work in conjunction with Active View to measure viewed impressions.

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An executive at one leading bank, who declined to be named, said the RiskMetrics model's transparency enables him to replicate its methodology and make comparisons among clients.

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We use a field-tested methodology with our clients that is supported by a proprietary analytic model for forecasting population and income distribution annually through 2020 in urban and rural China.

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Gene Fama and Ken French popularized this methodology for investors during the 1990s by introducing the Fama-French Three-Factor Model.

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In the case of Realty Income, the power of the exceptional investment model is the differentiated risk-managed operation that turns the intelligent investing methodology into repeatable sources of revenue.

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Winner's view is shared by Simon Kuper, journalist and co-author of "Soccernomics, " a book about football's truths, who subscribes to the view that England's methodology was spawned from a notion that the soldier was society's greatest role model.

CNN: June 29, 2012 -- Updated 1447 GMT (2247 HKT)