The University of Rochester has turned research about predicting the spread of diseases with social media into a web application called Germ Tracker.

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Of course, Allen points out, IBM is not itself a healthcare company or a chemical company, so moving its research into the application phase is done through a network of partners.

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My favorite current application of Fisher's principles, supported through the Atlas Economic Research Foundation , is the work of James Shikwati, a young Kenyan trying, with his Inter Region Economic Network in Nairobi, to help that fledgling democracy and other African nations escape one of the 20th century's most tragic political failures.

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Paul Bloom at IBM research said the first application will be around call centers which have to handle millions of calls a year, some of them very complex.

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When I asked if RtI was a research-based model and what the research says about system wide application of RtI, I heard very little.

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It is popular among users of SAP, Oracle and IBM, according to a recent survey by the Business Application Research Centers (BARC).

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As Joey would later recount in his college-application essays, he had immediately taken the initiative to research the wholesale source of this watch and the price of a thermo-embedding press.

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"Similar technologies are limited by cost of materials, use of noxious chemicals in the application or loss of effectiveness after a few washings, " said Gennaro Gama from the University of Georgia Research Foundation (UGARF).

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