Because light takes so long to reach the earth from distant galaxies, astronomers were able to study the value of alpha in light from the distant past.
My co-researchers and I in our IBM Institute for Business Value study, Collective Intelligence: Capitalizing on the Crowd, we have pointed to intrinsic motivation as well as a strong factor to drive not just individual work but collective crowdsourcing.
Professor Burt said their study highlighted the value of long-running datasets from the uplands in order to identify long-term changes in weather patterns, because such changes in rainfall were not recorded at lowland sites, such as Barrow on the west coast, and Durham on the east.
Entitled The Sustainable Value Chain the study seeks to identify which management practices deliver the greatest value both in sustainability outcomes and ROI.
He said the DoE had commissioned a study of the economic value of Northern Ireland's historic environment.
To demonstrate, Andy cited a study of the iPad value chain conducted by the Personal Computing Industry Center of the University of California.
Evelyn Bromet, professor of psychiatry at SUNY Stony Brook, says the study's real value may be in the picture of mental health that emerges over time.
The energy sector continues to see merger and acquisition activity (See a previous discussion in Case Study: Buyouts Crystallize Value in the Market).
However, he said the study did not question the value of viral load measurements for assessing how well antiretroviral therapy was working.
In 2011, the results of the AIM-HIGH study called into question the value of niacin in the treatment of cardiovascular disease in light of their inferiority to statins.
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The government should commission a "Total Value Opportunity" study of the five best hospitals to see how close to perfection they can get, so that other institutions can measure their own performance against them.
"Afinitor is another example of the value of continuing to study drugs in additional types of cancer after their initial approval, " said Dr. Richard Pazdur, director of the FDA's cancer drug office.
The study clearly points to significant gains in value to the business whether you implement social business within the organization, beyond it or both.
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For example, the study is documenting a shift away from value-driven spending with more than 30 percent of respondents skeptical of the value of consumption itself.
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The only good thing about Motel 6 is its potential value as a Cornell case study about the direct relationship between bad hotel sales and marketing and bad hotel security.
The particular value of Helen Junz's study is closely connected with its origins.
The study, by the IBM Institute for Business Value, surveyed more than 2, 600 industry participants and government officials across 84 countries.
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As an independent analyst, I use both fundamentals and technicals as I study stock price movements between what I call Value Levels and Risky Levels.
Connected learning is the effort to explore the added value of distance in our programs of study, with our students acting as agents in wider communities beyond the campus ivy covered gates.
The study detects a shift from field crops towards higher-value horticulture and livestock farming.
Scotland's off-site construction sector could nearly double in value over the next five years, a study has suggested.
This study is the most comprehensive assessment to date of the value of the natural world to global economic development.
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The study reveals that what marketers consider to be high-value engagement is not always thought of in the same way by consumers.
Instead, the press has reported the findings at face value, and as if this is a study about the health benefits of reduced soda consumption.
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Two drug companies, Merck and Pfizer, ranked third and fourth in value-creation of the 200 companies in the study.
But none of the U.S. CEOs has spent a year in China to study the market and ask questions of how they can bring value to local people.
Perhaps the most remarkable case study to date is the Occupy movement, which demonstrated the value of public spaces as well as some of the more ingenious ways these spaces can be designed for public experience.
Another option--which can also increase your fossil's value--is to lend it to a museum for study.
According to a recent study by economists at the International Monetary Fund, sterling's equilibrium value at the end of 1998 (when it actually bought DM2.77) was around DM2.45.
The new finance director has already commissioned a study which shows that about a quarter of Boeing product lines fail to create value.
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