Yet this piece of research offers a clear example of the possible benefits of scientific research methods: rigorous research which reveals unintended consequences to expose the true nature of a business practice.
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The number of doctors who are educated in research methods has shrunk as the way in which universities are funded and doctors are trained has changed.
The research is published in the Journal of Immunological Methods.
In the research I conducted I surveyed methods and data in use in national statistical offices in sub-Saharan Africa.
Last year, a study by the Welsh Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) also suggested undergraduates completing the Welsh Bacc fare less well at university than those who have not.
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More worrying, from the scientists' point of view, is that new areas of bioscience may become classified, that the government is considering reviewing work prior to publication (with an option on refusing permission to publish) and that it might insist that the methods sections of some research papers are removed.
Arguing that focus groups were never really all that effective in the first place, agencies and research facilities have introduced a variety of methods aimed at shaking up the traditional focus group approach.
The research on artificial meat has been prompted by concerns that current methods of meat production are unsustainable in the long term.
In the book, I sketch out a few of the early examples of anti-leaking technologies, including those described in a request for proposals launched by the Pentagon research arm known as the Defense Advanced Resource Projects Agency in 2010 that suggested methods of monitoring all employees in a firm or agency for leak-like behaviors.
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They speculate that some paddlefish may have eluded the research team, avoiding its nets and capture methods.
The study, conducted by research firm InsightsNow, combines qualitative, quantitative and ethnographic methods, and tracked user behavior and clickstreams in the US, across mobile web, apps, and other mobile services.
While the trend in psychological health has been increasingly to increase the drugs and decrease the therapy, research continues to show that various talk therapy methods, like cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) are extraordinarily effective.
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Early on, after graduating from Harvard with plans to become a psychoanalyst, he detoured into research after becoming fascinated with new methods for probing the electrical activity of brain neurons.
It is the biggest Sunday night audience on record since 1992, when current research methods began.
It undertakes staff development and training programmes in peace pedagogy and peace research methods at partner universities and is working to lead the establishment of the first ever African Peace University.
These shorter studies have been based on methods that are very different from the Harvard-OSU research, but in the 2, 000 years that they overlap, the results have been basically the same.
Monsanto's limited safety research, excessive claims, and business methods which signal the possibility of controlling large parts of world food production through an unproven technology, have been exposed to public scrutiny by a wide range of well-informed critics.
And we're carrying out an intensive amount of research to find better methods than PSA to distinguish between the minority of cases that are life threatening and do need treatment - the vipers - from the majority of cases that don't - the grass snakes.
All research and portfolio management is done by Axa Rosenberg using exactly the same methods as it does for its institutional accounts.
Whatever new methods journals decide to undertake for scientists submitting cloning research, the Nature editorial made it clear that any decisions needed to be clearly thought through.
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Even though people who own gaming consoles are not representative of the general population (and many are not even of voting age), David Rothschild, an economist with Microsoft Research, geeks out over the possibility of using new weighting and de-biasing methods to extract more meaningful insights from his sample.
The main purpose of the seminar was to give an general idea of current state of ground water in Uzbekistan, scientific-educational activities and the area of usage of underground water and determination of future trends relating to improvement of research methods and educational approaches with development of practical recommendations.
Unlike earlier research, which often used video clips or other methods to simulate crimes and witnesses, the Illinois study was the first and only one to compare the two methods in the field using actual cases.
In 2006 a review by America's National Research Council endorsed points Mr McIntyre and his colleagues made on some methods used to make the hockey stick, and on doubts over a specific set of tree rings.
But the Obama Administration has kept the door open to recycling, suggesting that safer methods than those used in France may emerge from current research.
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But the study's authors, Professor Edzard Ernst and Dr Max Pittler from the University of Exeter warned that more research needs to be done to establish whether acupuncture or conventional pain relief methods were more effective.
The Center for Orthopedics Research and Development (CORD) works closely with Nemours Department of Orthopedics to develop devices and methods that directly impact children with musculoskeletal and orthopedic disabilities.
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Other companies are also in the business of making DNA for drug companies and other research organizations, which save time by using newer DNA synthesis methods instead of laboriously copying cells and inserting or deleting bits of genetic material.
Research on procedural methods for narrative, behaviour, and motivation exist, they just haven't had the time and investment to develop into stable commercial systems.
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