One evening a few weeks ago, several members of a television film crew crammed themselves into a tiny examination room on the seventh floor of the Research Medical Center, in Kansas City.
The most efficient companies in China are new privately owned domestic firms, which make an average return on equity of 19%, according to research by the City University of Hong Kong.
Mr Schramm, who, as head of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City pays for a lot of research into the subject, argues that America needs to do more to maintain its entrepreneurial edge.
In a report released on Wednesday, the Regional Plan Association, a nonprofit urban research group, said many of the city's largest projects, from Battery Park City to the revamping of Columbus Circle, have dragged on for years longer than initially projected.
They also funded the stem cell research program at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
The growth in Manchester was also welcomed by the city's Chamber of Commerce, whose research manager Christian Spence said it could "boost the tourism, retail and hospitality sectors and result in further increases in investment in these areas".
That's exactly what the whiz-kids from the City College of New York, Rice University and the US Army Research Laboratory have done with a new lithium-ion battery powered by red dye extracted from madder roots.
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In 2009, NCR's Dundee factory closed with the loss of hundreds of jobs but it maintained its research and development facility in the city.
The joint venture, Changan Ford Mazda Automobile, or CFMA, also signed a letter with the city to explore the expansion of its research and engineering capability there.
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The company will be sharing the results of its research so far, as well as archival images from Plymouth City Museum.
Liu Zhi, director of the municipal commission for population and family planning, told China Daily on Saturday that the city plans to start extensive research into the characteristics of the urban population.
The largest, the 6-meter Large Zenith Telescope (LZT) operated by the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, stands on a hilltop in a research forest some 40 miles east of the city.
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According to data from GMI, the New York City corporate governance research firm, only 3% of the largest publicly traded Japanese companies have majority independent boards.
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Professor Susan Golombok, director of the Family and Child Psychology Research Centre at City University in London, explained why families with IVF children might be more stable and contented.
Back home in Pittsburgh, Heinz in September opened its first central research lab, the Innovation Center, just north of the city in Marshall Township, Pa.
Courtesy of Joe Jamail Amongs Joe (R) and Lee Jamail's charitable works are donations to UT, Rice, Texas Southern, the city of Houston and medical research.
"If you're a university professor you get in line with everyone else, and some bureaucrat is going to decide whether you get their attention, " says Robert Litan, vice president in charge of research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City.
In lieu of manufacturing, the city wants to expand tourism and to create a "research-and-design" sector composed of young professionals drawn to the area for its beauty.
Sami Angawi, a Saudi architect who founded the Haj Research Centre, which aims to preserve the history and architecture of Mecca and Medina, Islam's second city, is apprehensive about the plans, reasonably pointing out that in order to design a mosque, you have to visit it.
But Matthew Green, head of research at CBRE, also notes that the city is vulnerable to economic shifts.
His research uncovered 315 reports of ghosts and poltergeists in the city - an average of 14 sightings per 10, 000 members of its population.
Researchers from The Research Alliance for New York City Schools out of NYU were one group conducting a study to help School of One learn, and they recently produced a helpful and measured study, which they also released on their website.
The Council of Great City Schools, a research and policy group that represents large districts, commissioned a study that found districts making the most progress had stable leadership, high academic goals for students, quality professional development for teachers and data analysis that helped alter teaching.
This research compendium aims to advance knowledge and research on the right to the city concept for a better understanding of inclusive societies and a better dissemination of good practices and initiatives, as well as to raise awareness among key decision-makers on the need to adopt a right-based approach to urbanization for a better inclusion of marginalized and vulnerable population in Indian cities.
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He was told the idea would be pitched to Spec Research, a City of Industry, Calif. maker of PC peripherals.
Lourdes Basabe-Desmonts is a Research Fellow at the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, Dublin City University, her location of choice since 2006.
The city has long been a center of health-related research, having given rise decades agoto medical-device maker Stryker Corp.
In this context, Princess Sumaya presented the objectives of El Hassan Science City to foster scientific knowledge and research.
That's up from 15% of 485 respondents in 2008, reports the Ponemon Institute, a research firm in Traverse City, Mich.
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Spotify's own research shows Edinburgh to be the UK's top city for streaming in terms of per-capita usage, followed by Cardiff and Southampton.
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