Gregory S. Berns, a psychiatrist at Emory, is using brain imaging to demonstrate the effects of peer pressure on individual perception, with the idea of explaining the development of fads, from investment trends to the popularity of Burberry plaids and belly button rings.
In other words, trends regarding total economic damages from extreme weather events largely reflect trends in property values and geographical patterns of development rather than trends regarding the frequency and severity of extreme weather events.
Duncan said the strongest trends his company sees in these development initiatives are in the growth of service-oriented software architectures, subscription-based software sales and industry-specific standards in areas such as radio frequency tags and cellular telephony standards.
Mobile telephony in Africa would undoubtedly follow the general trends of other developing regions, said Craig Barrett, Chairman of the UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development and Chairman of the Board of Intel Corporation.
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.
Tremendous population growth, changes in government policies, development of new technologies, urbanization trends work the same way.
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They also monitor trends that indicate the need for new products and services, and oversee the development of those products.
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Prato still remains the world's fabric development leader - a sort of laboratory where future fabric trends are tested out.
That might appear one unlikely new development, but the pattern of mobile phone growth has always bucked the prevailing trends, analyst Ben Wood said.
Research and development of the toys and phones is carried out largely in the U.S. and Europe, where marketing and development teams have their fingers on the pulse of consumers and the latest technology trends.
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