Sentences with phrase «about research spending»

After some great exchanges on Twitter around the #climate2014 hashtag today, I asked Constantine Samaras, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, to amplify on this point about research spending:

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So when I first heard about Chicago - based KnowledgeHound, I was pretty excited because I saw it as a SaaS startup that was addressing a large and important problem: the inefficiencies in the way corporations were spending billions of dollars on market research and surveys.

To figure this out, the research team recruited 1,874 participants from business schools and online discussion panels, and then surveyed them both about time spent abroad and how those travel experiences impacted their self - knowledge.

But according to research, it's the other way round: People are spending because they feel good about themselves.

Research shows that approximately 40 percent of everyday speech is spent telling other people what we think or feel — basically, talking about our subjective experiences.

Global spending on digital commerce platforms is expected to grow over 14 percent annually to about $ 8.5 billion by 2020, Salesforce said, citing research firm Gartner.

You'll need to find the best topics to write about, optimize the headlines both for click - throughs and for search engines and spend time researching and writing a well - thought - out and detailed original piece.

This has sparked serious concerns about the future of corporate spending on basic research and development, and not without good reason.

«But then I did this thing called the Westinghouse Talent Search, now called the Intel Talent Search, where I spent about 2 years doing research on neuroscience lab and I ended up coming in third place in that nationally.»

U.S. digital video ad spending for 2014 is estimated at nearly $ 6 billion, while TV ad spending is about $ 69 billion, according to research firm eMarketer.

According to recent research, we humans spend 60 % of our time talking about ourselves.

In fact, the company spent more money building out new research about social media and television convergence and holding a virtual conference.

About a fifth (21 percent) think the answer is investing more money in IT systems, and 13 percent say they should spend more time planning and researching the best solutions for the company's needs.

What about the time you spend researching someone or a company, or the phone calls it takes to build a relationship?

The program has been a lucrative one for Amazon, with Prime customers spending an average of $ 1,300 annually compared with about $ 700 for nonmembers, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners.

Next time you need to make a decision, spend some time thinking about how much and what type of information you really need before getting carried away by your research and tripping yourself up by focusing on irrelevant data.

If Roberts's experiment confirmed the scientific consensus about why the internet is so compelling, it also confirmed another evolving line of research — spending time in nature is really, really good medicine for the human brain.

The Top 20 schools are spending on average about $ 450,000 per faculty member, on everything from research to career services.

In 2008, the National Institutes of Health spent $ 80 million on SCI research — about the same amount that went to inflammatory bowel disease — compared with $ 5.6 billion for cancer and $ 3.6 billion for infectious diseases.

Despite minimal investment spent educating customers about its brand, the company managed to double its revenue in 2016 and secured its spot as the number one functional beverage sold in natural grocery stores, according to market research firm SPINS.

Spend your downtime researching your competition and educating yourself about your target market.

Research shows approximately 40 percent of everyday speech is spent telling other people what we think or feel — basically, talking about our subjective experiences.

In this ten - minute talk, Norton shares fascinating research about the many ways pro-social spending can benefit you, your work, and other people.

And research shows that means you think less about the money you're spending as you tap your screen to buy.

Prime members spend an average of $ 1,300 annually compared with about $ 700 for non-members, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners.

Again, you might want to do additional research - even just spend a few minutes on Google - to learn more about and verify the backgrounds of everyone involved.

Our analysis reviews 30 case studies in 11 research papers published between 1992 and 2007 that provide estimates of the cost of turnover, finding that businesses spend about one - fifth of an employee's annual salary to replace that worker.

While this will be unique to each company ---- it depends largely on where your customers spend their time online ---- I'm going to go over the websites, tools and techniques that have proven most effective for me when conducting online research about a target market.

Oppenheimer Senior Research Analyst Brian Nagel said home improvement continues to attract the consumer at a time when Americans are more selective about where they spend their money.

That was about 5 percent less than those companies spent on new plants, research and development and other investments.

According to Clarke and Downing, the last few days have been spent on research groups with users who regularly remit money, asking them questions about their comfort level with using bitcoin for remittances, for example.

This week iSuppli, a research firm that specializes in breaking down devices to determine the cost of their constituent parts, reported that Google and its hardware partner Asus spend about $ 159 to make the entry - level Nexus 7.

Those moments often occur around the time that online shopping reaches about 20 percent of total national retail spending in a category, the research firm L2 has concluded after studying the evolution of e-commerce.

She's spent time in places you've never heard of... researched more markets, scrutinized more deals, and checked out more projects in the region than just about anyone you're likely to meet.Margaret is also the editor of Pathfinder's free e-letter, The Pathfinder Alert.

That may come as a surprise amid hand - wringing about the spiraling cost of health care, but two new studies, one from research company IMS Health and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of money Americans spend on prescription drugs went down in 2012 for the first time in decades.

For six years, they have lived in Cotacachi, Ecuador, but are spending this winter at Lake Chapala, Mexico, when not on assignment researching and writing about the world's best relocation destinations for International Living.

Private investments (4 % Short): After spending lots of time researching each private equity or private fund investment before investing, I tend to forget all about them until there is a quarterly performance update.

Founded in 2006, Canada 2020 has spent more than a decade hosting events, producing original research and starting conversations about Canada's future.

Regardless of whether consumers have bundled internet and television service or not, they spend on average about $ 103 per month on pay TV, according to Leichtman Research Group.

What may be surprising is by just how much: Our research suggests that the average couple retiring in 2017 could expect to spend about $ 275,000 on out - of - pocket health care costs during their retirement.2

Our office has spent the last eight years hosting the Climate Justice Project, a research and public engagement network that has produced a large volume of work about how to transition off fossil fuels in a just and equitable manner — an alliance that brings together a wide range of NGOs and academics.

Most people who become Christians, (if they are not born into it) don't spend any time researching [again, «reasoning»] the system they are about to commit to.

«Our research and development spending is about half the OECD average.

As part of our research for Transformational Groups, we surveyed regular group attenders and non-group attenders about their daily spiritual lives — specifically, the time they spend outside of church and church - related activities.

3 This appears to find confirmation in sleep research which has found that newborn humans spend about eight to nine hours per day in REM sleep whereas adults spend only one to two hours per day in that state.

Novelist Don Winslow has spent much of his life researching and writing about Mexican drug cartels and the horrific violence they are responsible for.

I had read about 1000 pages on the word, and spent dozens of hours reading and researching it.

About one percent of the twelve billion dollars spent annually on research in our country is spent studying people and their problems.

No, research and writing is not my full - time job, but I figure I spend about 10 hours a week or so in study.

Spend a little time researching the Mormon church, you will be amazed at what Mormonism is about.