Another option--which can also increase your fossil's value--is to lend it to a museum for study.
Two drug companies, Merck and Pfizer, ranked third and fourth in value-creation of the 200 companies in the study.
Professor Burt said their study highlighted the value of long-running datasets from the uplands in order to identify long-term changes in weather patterns, because such changes in rainfall were not recorded at lowland sites, such as Barrow on the west coast, and Durham on the east.
In 2011, the results of the AIM-HIGH study called into question the value of niacin in the treatment of cardiovascular disease in light of their inferiority to statins.
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For example, the study is documenting a shift away from value-driven spending with more than 30 percent of respondents skeptical of the value of consumption itself.
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Following in the footsteps of a groundbreaking and widely-cited 2007 UC-Irvine study, which disaggregated the components of a Chinese-assembled Apple iPod and assigned its constituent value to the companies and countries responsible for their production, two researchers at the Asian Development Bank Institute applied a similar analysis to the Apple iPhone.
My co-researchers and I in our IBM Institute for Business Value study, Collective Intelligence: Capitalizing on the Crowd, we have pointed to intrinsic motivation as well as a strong factor to drive not just individual work but collective crowdsourcing.
The study detects a shift from field crops towards higher-value horticulture and livestock farming.
The study reveals that what marketers consider to be high-value engagement is not always thought of in the same way by consumers.
Scotland's off-site construction sector could nearly double in value over the next five years, a study has suggested.
For a business, the cost of stocking excess inventory averages 20% to 25% of the value of the goods, according to Lehigh University professor Lawrence Snyder, who co-authored a study on how traditional stores can benefit from integrating their inventory management with their online offerings.
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