Grove also delves into the research he funds as if it were his own, questioning results, tracking down related research and proposing new experiments.
It now averages more than 270 million monthly users, according to AppData, a tracking service from research firm Inside Network.
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"Children aren't just little adults, and it's starting to resonate with people, " said Ashley Nellis, an analyst at the Sentencing Project, a research organization tracking sentencing patterns.
Global sales of PCs fell 14% in the first three months of the year, the biggest fall since research firm IDC started tracking the industry in 1994.
"If you make an assertion that an ETF is the most efficient way to invest in a particular strategy, you better have the numbers at your fingertips, " says Dave Nadig, head of research for ETF-tracking firm IndexUniverse, who has presented at several Qwafafew meetings.
"The expectations of a big exodus from bonds are way overblown, " says David Santschi, CEO of TrimTabs Investment Research, a fund-tracking firm.
The research, based on surveys tracking the actual spending of the same 5, 000 older households from 2001 through 2007, shows that median household spending declines steadily and dramatically as folks age.
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One in five youths between age 10 and 18 have been a victim of cyberbullying or participated in it, according to a survey of 4, 400 children conducted by the Cyberbullying Research Center, an organization tracking the internet bullying trend.
Jonathan Spira, chief analyst at research firm Basex , has been tracking the information overload phenomenon for years.
Unlike regulations promulgated by EPA, which are designed to punish those within the industry, FDA regulations encourage innovation in the field by fast-tracking life-saving new drugs and offering independent research for all drug manufacturers.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average has experienced around 20 bear markets, averaging a duration of one and a half years from top to bottom, says James Stack, president of InvesTech Research, a US-based market tracking firm.
It estimates that worldwide computer shipments in the first quarter of 2013 fell 13.9 percent to 76.3 million, which is the steepest quarterly drop the research firm has recorded since it started tracking PCs back in 1994.
According to data from Spin-Off Advisors, a Chicago-based research firm, the average overall return on tracking stocks since they each began trading is 30% .
Air traffic control in the UK could be in for a radical overhaul if research into a new way of locating and tracking aircraft gets the green light.
That's the word from the non-profit research group Kids in Danger, which has been tracking toy injuries and deaths among recalled products since 2001.
Game Developers Conference 2013 organizers have announced the recent addition of two talks from Valve that discuss porting Team Fortress 2 to VR goggles - plus research and development challenges for head-mounted displays and tracking systems.
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This type of tag, however, requires a buoy to carry the aerial, and this is attached to the shark by a ten-metre-long line. (The line is needed because the sharks themselves rarely break the surface, and the transmitter cannot signal to the satellite from under water.) Two American biologists, Scott Eckert and Brent Stewart, from the Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute in San Diego, have had some success with satellite tracking.
The Motor Insurance Repair Research Centre announced this week that it is to conduct independent trials of tracking systems and other advanced security devices to see how effective they are.
Catalyst, a nonprofit research and advisory group that studies women in the workplace, recently did a census tracking women executives in the largest companies and found dismal results.
Pictured at left above, Easton started working at the Naval Research Laboratory in 1943, and later helped develop MINITRACK, the very first satellite tracking system, which in turn led to the concept Easton dubbed TIMATION (short for "time navigation").
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