Each of its 340 students receives a laptop, which they use to download textbooks, file homework and perform research.
It involves big and small companies, leading universities, and the state of Virginia and will perform research and development, train students and workers for advanced manufacturing careers, and deliver new "production-ready" solutions to existing factories.
Do so called journalists ever actually perform any research?
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The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, passed at a time when Republicans occupied the White House and controlled Congress, authorized the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to perform comparative effectiveness research.
In 84% of the 300 cases of undelivered lien notices TIGTA reviewed, IRS employees did not perform the required research to find a different address.
As the Entrepreneurs Challenge progresses in coming weeks, the YellTimbre group plans to perform some consumer research to see what other music lovers are looking for in a social music site, including talking to people waiting in line for concerts around the city, Stock said.
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As for myself, Texas Christian University contracts with me to teach, research, and perform service activities on a regular basis, and in exchange they direct deposit money into my account every month.
In a blog post Monday evening, Desautels laid out a recent hacking operation that his SNOsoft research team was hired to perform on a bank client.
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In a recent article, Joseph Turian observes that crowdsourced labor is already being used by many companies to analyze and code retail-store surveillance footage for customer visitation patterns, or by ad and marketing agencies to perform granular sentiment analysis and do keyword research, writing, editing and tagging images.
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Research indicates that emerging managers often perform better across asset classes, and with less risk than larger, more established firms.
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To make matters worse, Sanford C Bernstein Research downgraded the stock to market perform, which has weighed on sentiment.
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The budget cuts would force layoffs of scientists and engineers, shrink the capabilities of laboratories and universities to perform the most critical cutting-edge energy research projects, and, by cutting funds for highly leveraged loan guarantee programs, steer private sector funds away from American entrepreneurs and small businesses looking to demonstrate and deploy innovative energy technologies.
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"On average quant funds seem to perform about average, " says Jeffrey Tjornehoj, research manager at Lipper.
The study also cites academic research that shows companies with lower executive salaries perform worse than others.
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There is a large amount of research showing that typical mutual fund investors actually perform far worse than the mutual funds they invest in, because of their tendency to buy after a fund has done well and sell when it is doing poorly.
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Research In Motion shares are trading modestly higher Tuesday morning after Bernstein Research analyst Pierre Ferragu raised his rating on the company to Market Perform from Underperform, asserting that the company could now be an acquisition candidate.
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The Robonaut is designed to perform maintenance tasks aboard the space station to free up the Astronauts for more important research tasks.
These chemicals may speed one of the most fundamental reactions in genetic research, called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), by allowing scientists to perform it at higher temperatures.
Mr Morgan reckons that local firms would perform much better and would devise more new products if they made better use of the research labs of local universities.
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The study, which appears in the journal Psychology and Aging, confirms other research showing that multitasking can interfere with an older person's ability to perform everyday activities, says Adam Gazzaley, M.
Charter Equity Research analyst Edward Snyder this afternoon cut his rating on Intel shares to Market Perform from Buy, specifically citing his worries about how the company will be affected from weakening economic conditions.
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Accenture shares are trading modestly lower Monday morning after Bernstein Research analyst Rod Bourgeois cut his rating on the IT consulting firm to Market Perform from Outperform in what it basically a pure valuation call.
Some of its campuses continue to perform well in national rankings, it has significant non-state revenue sources, and it has a strong research record.
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"Forest Research has already suffered a 28%t cut in staffing which risks fundamentally compromising its ability to perform its functions, " said Malcolm Currie, Prospect negotiator.
Research by Art Laffer and other economists has demonstrated that over time states that have no income tax perform better than states with high income taxes.
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