The richness of data made available through open data allows for a much more rapid research cycle, and hopefully a greater breadth of topics being researched.
Veteran market watcher Jim Stack, editor of Investech Research is bullish on stocks, and recent data from the Economic Cycle Research Institute showing leading economic indicators at their highest level in more than 20 years reaffirms his outlook.
Economic Cycle Research Institute report finds that 85% of the world's economy is slowing down.
The highly respected Economic Cycle Research Institute, for one, has been claiming the United States has been on an economic downslide since July.
First my environmental life cycle assessment research with Stanford and NRDC exposed me to a bunch of great data sets, which quantify sustainability impacts for most products and services.
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Christine Hitchcock, who works at the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulatory Research at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, worries that there is not enough research to show the long-term effects of the extended use of oral contraceptives on the breast.
The Euro area equivalent of the NBER, the Centre for Economic Policy Research, also has a business cycle dating committee (full disclosure, I have recently joined this committee).
In a company-funded study published last year in the Journal of Sleep Research, the Zeo predicted the same sleep cycle as professional sleep equipment in a lab about 75% of the time, compared with 86% agreement for two independent professional lab measures with each other.
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Based on research into dog sleeping patterns, there is a cycle of images that provide pets with stimulation, relaxation and gradual exposure to everyday sounds.
"It is hard to escape the conclusion that Citi is going to consume all of the TARP money and then some as the credit cycle troughs, " Whalen said in a research note Tuesday.
Nor will the official arbiter of American recessions, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
That could imply that the recession that the accepted authority, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the nonprofit National Bureau of Economic Research, pinpointed as commencing in December 2007, is still underway.
Gartner, an information-technology research-and-advisory firm, has coined the term hype cycle to describe exactly this sort of phenomenon: a new technology is introduced with enthusiasm, only to be followed by an emotional low when it fails to immediately deliver on its promise.
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We attempt to add value through our proprietary and time-tested research methodology, which presumes a long holding period over a complete market cycle.
The cycle for the vanilloid receptor-1 compounds, for example, took three years to complete, while the average cycle for the industry, according to the Centre for Medicine Research, is five years.
The data, from NASA's TIMED mission, show that Earth's thermosphere (the layer above 62 miles or 100 km above the Earth's surface) "responds quite dramatically to the effects of the 11-year solar cycle, " Stan Solomon of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.
On the technology front, Internet video is in its third or fourth cycle, according to Mark Hardie, a senior analyst at Forrester Research Inc.
"There is other research out there pointing out that this storage may be part of a natural cycle that will eventually reverse, either due to El Nino or the so-called Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, and therefore may not imply what the authors are suggesting, " he said.
Our research indicates that during the past five years, the first week of a five-week expiration cycle has had a negative bias.
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"We're concerned that the cycle may be on its last legs, " says Bart Mosley, co-president of Trident Municipal Research in New York.
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