This is a story that goes right to the heart of Facebook's role in civil society, a role which it actively courted for years, talking up Facebook's political advertising's effectiveness in official case studies and giving researchers special access to company
data for studies on how the social network could influence people.
Not exact matches
Study the surroundings
for data on the pace of change.
A
study by Forbes Insights and Turn revealed that more than 70 percent of marketing executives expect to rely more and more
on data for decision - making within the next three years.
And Marathon barely did any actual clinical legwork to get the drug cleared
for Duchenne — it relied
on 1990 - era clinical trial
data before tacking
on just enough
study material to win an approval that doesn't even address the root cause of the disease.
And the giant that makes the platform he's building
on, Apple,
for example, is running large - scale medical
studies using its software, and is said to be looking to handle clinical
data as the first step to a real attempt to break into the medical market.
For obvious ethical reasons, many public health
studies can't be repeated — not if they'd entail intentionally exposing people to toxins — and raw
data on individuals» health histories usually can't be disclosed.
Oceanic
data is valuable, but
for decades the only way to
study the world's hostile waters was to deploy a stationary buoy, launch a satellite into space, or send a government research vessel that runs hundreds of thousands of dollars a day to operate —
on top of its initial price tag of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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on Form 10 - K
for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
on February 26, 2018, and is available
on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Though only 9 % or so of consenters (4,552 people) uploaded a full week of reports
on their physical activity, that's still a big sample size
for an objectively measured,
data - driven research
study.
Allyson Hugley, president of Measurement & Analytics
for Weber Shandwick, notes that the
data from the
study could add another layer to the modes of evaluation that are already available to advertising and marketing agencies, building
on traditional surveys and more recent technology such as beacons and RFID chips that are used during live events.
For instance, women in the U.S. spend 150 % more time
on housework than men do, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics
data, which the
study notes.
With a new lens and some added direction from a research
study on collective intelligence (abilities that emerge out of collaboration) by a group of psychologists from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and Union College, Project Aristotle's researchers went back to the drawing board to comb their
data for unspoken customs.
While the asthma trial
data is just one point, the
study's results could go a long way in assuring scientists that information generated through the platform (at least
for certain kinds of
studies) is
on point.
One of the Mount Sinai researchers who worked
on the
study said that ResearchKit was «particularly suitable
for studies of short duration that require rapid enrollment across diverse geographical locations, frequent
data collection, and real - time feedback to participants.»
Studies relying
on self - reported
data have come to even more alarming conclusions; a survey conducted by the U.K. branch of Weight Watchers,
for example, found that people were sitting an average of 14 hours and 39 minutes a day.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues
for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement
for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required
on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding
for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications
for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all,
for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy
data from clinical
studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact
on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
Details
on these and other findings are contained in a new industry
study, which presents historical demand
data for the years 2000, 2005 and 2010, plus forecasts
for 2015 and 2020 by product and market.
For this
study, NerdWallet used an estimate of more than 126 million U.S. households based
on December 2017 Census Bureau
data.
He also posted testimony apologizing
for Facebook's role in false news,
data privacy leaks and foreign interference in elections, as his company announced that it would form an independent commission of academic researchers to
study social media's impact
on elections.
Launched in 2012, the annual
Study on Nonprofit Investing (SONI) seeks to meet the need
for timely, relevant, actionable
data about how nonprofits invest their reserves and how their investments perform.
Economists Grace Lordan of the London School of Economics and David Neumark of UC Irvine
studied 35 years of government census
data for their working paper, which was released in August, titled «People Versus Machines: The Impact of Minimum Wages
on Automatable Jobs.»
Written by NCEO founder Corey Rosen, this issue brief discusses as of mid-2016 the extent and growth of employee ownership; survey
data on ESOPs and corporate governance as well as ESOPs and executive compensation; research
on the effect of ESOPs
on corporate performance; the 2012 shared capitalism
study of Great Place to Work applicants;
data on employee ownership and employee financial well - being; the NCEO's analysis of
data on ESOPs and default rates; trends in broad - based equity compensation plans; equity compensation and corporate performance; the impact of ESOPs and other broad - based plans
on unemployment; legislative and regulatory issues
for employee ownership; and international developments in broad - based plans.
The
study drew
on data from nearly 6,000 millennial renters (age 18 to 34) at a time when homeownership
for Americans under 35 years old is at its lowest point in the history of Census recorded
data dating back to 1984.
Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build
on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that
studies the reasons
for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses
data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to
study the differences in rates of job creation
for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor force.
Our empirical
studies on the analysis and assessment of entrepreneurial attitudes were conducted
on the basis of
data published by the Polish Agency
for Enterprise Development within the framework of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)
study.
Last year, the FDA issued final guidance
on the use of real - world
data for the development of devices, and FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has pledged to issue guidance
on real - world
data for both pre-and post-marketing drug
studies.
It also asks
for data on studies comparing the proposed drug to the approved brand - name drug, called the «reference drug,» and asks
for data from
studies conducted
on the generic drug.
According to a
study from Hanley Wood
Data Studio at BuilderOnline.com, assuming median income, median home price, and median rental costs, today's typical first - time buyer would require more than 8 years to save ten percent
for a down payment
on a home.
The
study, based
on Trade in Value Added
data recently released by the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development, shows that between 1995, the year after NAFTA went into effect, and 2011, U.S. content of manufactured goods imported from Canada dropped significantly — from 21 percent to 15 percent.
Other crucial discoveries that were made under the
study include 281 apps that collected the location or contact
data of children without asking
for permission from parents, and 1,100 apps that shared persistent identifying information that can be used
for behavioral advertising methods that are banned to be used
on children.
Though the Q1 report of Akamai
on Internet security pointed to third - party plugins to be the malicious actors and explained the same, the Q2 report has taken the widely used
data exchange platform WordPress
for a case
study.
The social media platform made such
data grabs easy
for app developers — though it began severely restricting them in 2015 — and Wylie saw it as a powerful way to
study an entire nation
on a scale at once broad and precise.
While one new
study on voice assistants compares the quality of different providers» answers, the other drills into Google's
data sources
for 22...
For example, a recent
study by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office used income tax
data and other sources to improve
on the census estimates.
Somewhat dubious, I searched
for the
data, which reveals the pro-lifer was right
on the facts but offering an unsupported interpretation: The
study showed that the maternal mortality rate declined after abortion was prohibited in 1989, but that it had already been declining
for more than a decade, probably as a result of rising levels of women's education.
With funding from the Lilly Endowment, the Leonard E. Greenberg Center
for the
Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford undertook the massive task of assembling scholars and
data and producing eight books, each containing both demographic overviews and focused essays
on the features that distinguish each region's religious life.
@Donovan... I speak only
for my experience and not to convert anyone... I
study biochemistry, I work
on a membrane protein that requires proof, it requires pictures of gels and actual empirical
data... I have no problem with this fact based way of seeing life...
(Despite some methodological inadequacies, this
study is useful
for the
data it provides
on the use of various media of communication in a practical church situation.
It can take the form of simply spreading the word about university closings, deportations, house arrests or house demolitions, or it can mean developing
data banks
on violations of human rights —
for example, in the careful documentation of the more than 500 Palestinian villages that have been destroyed by the Israelis since 1948; this information has been compiled by the Arab
Study Society in East Jerusalem.
These class actions referred to, and relied
on, the
data and underlying
studies cited by the Bloomberg story as a basis
for their misrepresentation and false advertising claims.
The Organic Trade Association has spearheaded and underwritten two significant
studies on organic trade in its effort to build a sound set of
data for organic stakeholders and policymakers when they make their business decisions and design policy.
In terms of own price elasticity values, a recent meta - analysis estimated an average own price effect
for carbonated sugar sweetened drinks (a near equivalent of the category non-concentrated sugar sweetened drinks, which predominantly includes carbonated drinks) of − 0.93, larger than our value of − 0.81.51 Our estimated value is also at the lower end of the range of own price elasticities frequently cited
for sugar sweetened drinks of − 0.8 to − 1.0, based
on one large review.52 Our own price estimate is comparable to experimental
data (a 25 % reduction
for a 35 % price rise) in a canteen
study.53 However, all these estimates may be influenced by US
studies in which higher estimates may reflect higher levels of consumption.
Among 11
study participants
for whom
data from the oral food challenge were either inconclusive or not available, a diagnostic algorithm based
on clinical history, the results of a skin - prick test, and the values
for peanut - specific IgE were used to determine whether or not a participant should be considered to have peanut allergy (Fig.
Improved postharvest practices: A recent research
study undertaken by WFLO with funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provides an great assortment of
data on the results of 12 past projects, postharvest losses %
for 26 crops, a description of the value chain
for 30 crops in 4 countries (Rwanda, Benin, Ghana and India) and 21 field trials of postharvest technologies suitable
for helping small farmers reduce losses and improve their incomes.
The authors» responsibilities were as follows — CNM: had leadership responsibility
for the research planning and execution, wrote the manuscript, and had primary responsibility
for the final content of the manuscript; CNM, HE, and BN: formulated the
study idea and designed the research; EV and JM: managed the day - to - day conduct of the
study and oversaw the
data collection; YJ: performed statistical analyses of the
study data; and all authors: provided critical review and commentary
on the draft of the manuscript and read and approved the final manuscript.
The
study into a vegan America, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and based
on data on what Americans ate and how they farmed between 2000 and 2010, looked at how much US soil is given over to raising animals to create food
for humans, and then worked out how much food Americans could create if they cut out the middle - cow — and simply grew food to eat themselves.
«I have great respect
for the researchers at Harborview and think this was a good
study, and was great to see somebody providing
data on youth younger than high school age,» said Dawn Comstock, an epidemiologist at the Colorado School of Public Health who has
studied extensively sports injuries at the high school level.
Because ACOG has created its position
on home births based
on much of the
data from Wax's meta analysis, the researchers warn that physicians and women who are considering home births and using this
study as a reference
for their decisions are not getting reliable information and may not be making a well informed decision.
You'll help us work
on our 7 year
study tracking the spawning season of these crabs, recording
data and scouting
for spawning beaches in Barnstable Harbor and Sandy Neck.
For their report, Hauck and her colleagues looked at
data from a large infant feeding
study and they focused
on about 1,800 mothers who were breastfeeding when their baby was two weeks old.