That figure will increase to at least 60% by 2003, according to Forrester Research, meaning some 15 million households will buy their first PCs in the next few years.
Research only has meaning when it helps transform social reality, when it contributes to the well-being of societies.
On average, audiences gave "Iron Man 3" an A grade, according to market research firm CinemaScore, meaning word-of-mouth for the film should be strong.
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Social scientists may, in turn, better understand the political meaning given to their research by policy-makers.
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On 9 August, 2001, President George Bush declared that federal funding would only be available for research using existing stem cells - meaning that no new lines could be created, whether from existing embryos or cloned embryos.
Critics of the newer research say that the idea that running can harm the heart is based on research showing only an association meaning that exercise may not be the cause of the problem.
In recent months, the U.S. Patent Office has put into motion proceedings that could lead key patents on embryonic stem cells to be struck down, meaning that companies that do research on the cells would not give up a share of future profits on their inventions.
Our research so far has shown that most well-meaning older people look at millennials in the wrong way.
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Well-meaning activists are dusting off their old strategies of research, regulation, and litigation to use against Big Food.
Along the same lines, Forrester research shows that women prefer to participate in interactive communities, meaning they share information and engage with others.
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Research recommendations have to go through a departmental approval process, meaning the decision to downgrade was reached days before the public disclosure, leaving time for the information to leak out.
Although the cost of developing drugs is accelerating, meaning that the number of drugs per pound invested in research and development is decreasing, there is a wealth of innovation in UK drug discovery.
Some of these stories are referred to as anecdata, meaning they don't count unless they're counted in research -- although there are plenty of studies to support these outcomes.
The split-brain research mentioned by Gazzaniga included showing a subject a different image in each eye, meaning the right and left halves of the brain were presented with different stimuli, with neither being aware of the other.
The research approach for most of the last 40 years studied gestures as if they had specific meaning.
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It is a novel argument that the only people who can interpret or assign meaning to scientific studies or surveys of opinion are the scientists who performed the research or the people who conducted the surveys of opinion.
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According to Westin's research, 75% of workers in the U.S. are on the move, meaning that for at least one day a week, they have no steady office.
Prof Dave Moore, the director of the Institute of Hearing Research in Nottingham, said the the workings of the ear were incredibly precise and constantly vibrating meaning rebuilding hairs was like trying to demolish and then rebuild a 15-storey building in the middle of a city, without damaging any of the surrounding buildings all in the middle of an earthquake.
Embryonic stem cells are advantageous in research because they can be grown more easily than adult stem cells in a culture, and are pluripotent, meaning they can develop into any of the various cell types of the body, according to the National Institutes of Health.
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