In meticulous detail, Issenberg shows how politicians are way ahead of companies in not just learning our secrets and predicting our actions, but in using data to change behavior.
Similarly, when I do a Google search I know that Google is now using my past search behavior, my online presence and connections, and relevant algorithms to serve up information that is personalized for me.
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Behavior is dictated using powerful symbols, organizational rituals, shared experiences, charismatic leadership, and vision statements.
Mr. Bonds deserved prison because his misstatements were part of a pattern of behavior that included using performance-enhancing drugs and cheating on his wife, he said.
He pitched the idea of using game mechanics to motivate behavior to a Princeton Business Plan competition and in the summer of 2008, he left to start SCVNGR based on that plan.
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Two marketing professors say their research shows that using online social networks can influence behavior by reducing self-control.
And one of my favorites, the Volkswagen fun theory, inspired some positive social re-engineering by using play as the motivator to behavior change.
And its sales people monitor how these downloading companies are using the software and only call on the companies when it looks like they are getting serious about using it based on their online behavior.
"At this point, we aren't in need of volunteers, as we are using zoo staff members who have ape behavior knowledge and experience, " she said.
Caroline Schnakers, who carried out the research with Laureys, told CNN that one probable reason for the high rate of misdiagnosis is that doctors often base their diagnosis on observations of a patient's behavior, rather than assessing patients using standardized tests.
This is a contrast from many of the exoplanets discovered using Kepler, which exhibit much more bizarre orbital behavior.
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She is also on the lookout for emerging trends, using social media as a means to research consumer behavior and trends.
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They are also working with medical epidemiologists, using focus-group data among teens to analyze dating behavior and father-daughter relationships to see who is most vulnerable to sexually transmitted disease.
Companies are also improving technology to enhance inventory tags, and are using CD-ROMs to train employees interactively on spotting suspicious behavior.
If the two Senators have a shared determination to stop U.S. companies from using foreign subsidiaries to engage in such "truly outrageous" behavior, they part company over how to do that.
Muth credited the program for reducing risky driving behavior and said teens tend to embrace the technology after using it.
Ithai and Jim examined these tactics constructing and using an elaborate database on 1822 top executives, measuring their ingratiation behavior (assessed through questionnaires) and various other variables.
But it quickly became a mantra that the unsuspecting public applied equally to every aspect of life, using it as a justification for unexceptional, and even careless, behavior.
University of Maryland biologist Daphne De Freitas Soares and biology lecturer Hilary S. Bierman discovered the guppies' ability while using high-speed videography and digital imaging to analyze the jumping behavior of nine guppies from a wild Trinidadian species, Poecilia reticulata, related to the familiar pet-shop fish.
The study suggests not just that humans are tuned to watch for subtle hints of sketchy behavior, but that future humanoid robots could foster trust by using the right gestures.
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It does this by using an algorithm that analyzes cookies and matches people based things like location, behavior, time and preferences in types of web pages.
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But black hat hackers may stay away from the tool for fear that using a cloud service for illegal activity could allow law enforcement to track their behavior.
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We changed the argument from one about the "rights" of so-called private clubs to one about the "wrongs" of a cadre of industry titans using the fig leaf of such memberships to exclude women, the standard this behavior sets in corporate America and damage it does to women at all levels.
Analysts caution that it is possible North Korea is simply using the existence of the missile to feed concerns about the isolated state's provocative behavior and won't proceed with a test firing.
Try to explain that concept using other words and you quickly discover that the term is so amorphous that any kind of subjectively offensive behavior can fall within its scope.
'It appeared he started using LIVESTRONG as a brand to elevate himself and as a shield to cover or dodge criticism of his unsportsmanlike behavior.
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