That means Flir, which does all its own manufacturing and funds most of its own research, designs its products with an eye on commercial markets and hundreds of potential customers.
The University of California, Davis' Research Expeditions Program designs trips to fill the needs of its researchers, often graduate students.
Research in Motion Ltd designs, manufactures, and markets wireless solutions for the mobile communications market worldwide.
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Research in Motion, which designs and develops the BlackBerry line of smartphones, is also expected to launch its PlayBook tablet in the first quarter of 2011.
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Saga's research and development laboratory invents new designs and materials, helping to keep prices up.
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Medical research commonly employs three kinds of study designs: observational studies, randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and metaanalyses.
Tablet shipments will reach 118 million units by 2015, while at least 100 new designs will hit the markets this year, according to research cited in the article.
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The designs had initially attached an LCD temperature display on the pouch but research showed that no one trusted the numbers precisely.
The US Army-funded research seems promising but is obviously still in its infancy -- one of the designs the researchers demonstrated is half the size of a penny but pumps out 120dB of noise (about the same as a siren), while another bumped out over 135dB, (which is roughly equivalent to a jackhammer).
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With all the billions spent on research and development, some 3, 000 individual patents have been issued for various processes and designs.
Alta's new military charger designs give a picture of how that world may look: according to the Army Research Laboratory, a soldier's load can weigh 100 pounds, over a third of which are batteries.
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