Sentences with phrase «does focusing research»

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Franklin, then just shy of her 32nd birthday and working as a research chemist at King's College in London, had to rush off to a meeting at the Royal Society and so didn't wait around for the full image to come into focus.

When it comes to financing business growth, the stats are grim: «Women raise 50 % less capital than men do,» explained Geri Stengel, president and founder of digital media and market - research agency Ventureneer and a Forbes columnist whose writing focuses on successful female entrepreneurs, during a breakout session, «And, often, capital means success.»

By comparison, marketing research tools like focus groups can be expensive and may not target the right people, while market questionnaires or surveys generally do not give potential customers a chance to try the product.

Apple would have done better to focus on China's regional trends rather than develop the payment service for a global market, says Kitty Fok, managing director of the China group at the market research firm International Data Corporation.

In doing research for my upcoming book, Revealing The Invisible, one aspect of social media came up consistently, the obsessive focus of social media companies to develop a highly personalized understanding of users and their behaviors.

«Ultimately, there does not seem to be a systematic problem associated with failure (or fraud) on Kickstarter, and the vast majority of projects do seem to deliver,» says Professor Ethan Mollick, who has a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship, in Kickstarter's statement announcing the results of the research.

Still, new research shows that productivity and profitability more often follow those leaders who don't sweat the small stuff and focus more on guiding the highest - level vision and strategy for the company:

As such, when we talk about what we do, our focus is on how VR can speed up their store concept development, research, planning and activation processes.

In a perfect world, you would probably do both, using qualitative research to create a survey, the results of which might in turn be interpreted using another focus group.

Focusing on your finances, doing some research now, and drilling down to action items can make 2018 a financially fit year.

To determine for whom and when to adjust prices, you can observe customer buying habits and do consumer research through interviews and focus groups.

«When we first started Wrappup, our vision was to put back the focus on conversations itself, and let AI do the hard work,» added Ayush Chordia, co-founder and CTO, Wrappup, who will now be Director of Engineering and Applied Research at Voicera.

«It is a very risky pricing approach, and it definitely doesn't work for everyone,» says Ayelet Gneezy, an assistant professor of marketing with University of California, San Diego, whose research focuses on the «pay what you want» structure.

When young adults do ask parents for their two cents on saving, they often do so with a heavy dose of skepticism, says Lisa Szykman, associate professor at William & Mary School of Business, who has run focus - group research exploring young adults» personal finance behavior.

Previous research that focused on adolescents» use of the drug in the wake of medical marijuana laws didn't find an increase in that age group, she said.

Commerzbank's head of commodity research Eugen Weinberg said oil market fundamentals «do not justify the current price, but unfortunately the market is focusing more on the politics and ignoring some of the warning signs, especially the hike in U.S. oil production.»

But what made this company so special was how focused they were on perfecting the customer experience and the massive amounts of research and experimentation they did to find that sweet spot.

What does new research need to focus on?

The three things you should do before choosing a focus keyword are; 1) choose a keyword that people search; 2) research the search volume; and 3) Google your proposed focus keyword.

Some entrepreneurs arrive at a final decision by going with their gut or by doing consumer research or testing with focus groups to see how the names are perceived.

Many scientific studies, including research by renowned psychologists Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough, have found that people who consciously focus on gratitude, experience greater emotional wellbeing and physical health than those who don't.

The research focuses on portfolio returns versus benchmarks but does not provide similar focus on investor outcomes.

When doing keyword research, one of the best ways to drive organic search traffic to your website is by focusing on expanders and variations of keywords.

The primer offers investors advice on how to make intelligent decisions by doing their due diligence and researching their target investments in order to avoid «schemers and fraudsters seeking to capitalize on the current attention focused on virtual currencies.»

The macro approach to keyword research is necessary for content heavy websites (and optimizing for traffic), but not ideal when doing intent - focused keyword research, as would be the case for Ecommerce, software, or other scenarios where some keyword phrases are going to carry significantly more qualification.

Instead of labeling the chart with a neutral title such as, «Mortgage Rates By Race,» like I did with this article, the Pew Research Center decided to focus on the negatives and entitled it, «Blacks, Hispanics More Likely To Pay Higher Mortgage Rates.»

In order to focus on providing objective, conflict - free research and analysis to our clients, we do not discuss our policies or recommendations with issuers during the solicitation period (which begins on the date the notice of meeting is released and ends on the date of the meeting), unless we decide to conduct a Proxy Talk with the company, which we record for access by our clients.

And what is important, you don't have to be an SEO or spend hours on keyword research — HitTail works in the background, constantly giving you new keyword ideas, while you can focus on other stuff.

My focus has been on using qualitative research to understand how buyers are developing social oriented ecosystems and how does this map to conventional thinking in B2B marketing and Sales.

GFI's science and technology department is involved in the development and promotion of the science of plant - based cultured meat, dairy, and egg technologies.33 They are currently focused on core foundational work — making connections with organizations and writing white papers and «mind maps» — and as such they do not yet have a significant track record.34 They have produced Technological Readiness Assessments — documents detailing the current state of technology, and evaluating where more research is needed.35 All the research GFI does is published, so that the industry as a whole can benefit.36 One of their biggest successes over the last year are the presentations that Senior Scientist Liz Specht gave to various venture capitalist firms.

«We do not find it surprising that tensions have emerged as a management team like RBI, which is focused on efficiency and fewer, large - scale franchisees, would come at odds with the tenured, mostly single - store franchisees who are invested in the communal appeal of the Tim Hortons brand,» he wrote in a research note.

But an emerging body of research is suggesting that spending time alone, if done right, can be good for us — that certain tasks and thought processes are best carried out without anyone else around, and that even the most socially motivated among us should regularly be taking time to ourselves if we want to have fully developed personalities, and be capable of focus and creative thinking.

I will do two presentations in Atlanta: one focused on the research from Comeback Churches and the other looking at best practices in church planting.

Ross told reporters, «[We're done with] that kind of «what if» scenario that previous shows sort of played around with from a storytelling perspective, [so] we're just looking forward now, and focusing on science and research.»

Appropriately, faith is relatively uninterested in historical - Jesus research, because such research does not focus on the central source of faith: the witness to Jesus Christ proclaimed by the church and contained in Scripture.

The judge was focused on whether other people would be offended, but she didn't do her research to learn how common it was or discover if it would be seen as offensive commonly.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

I promise I do have other new recipes waiting in the wings... I have just been busy with my coaching work and researching content for a new book I'm writing focussing on «creativity» that I haven't had as much kitchen time for cooking and photography.

Steve Mellalieu, Professor in Sport Psychology and the Associate Dean for Research for the Cardiff School of Sport, notes that the nature of elite sport — specifically the intensive focus on training and performance and the eternal demand for complete commitment — means that players have little opportunity to contemplate what might lie beyond; Garner has confessed, «I never thought about what I'd do after playing.

[1 - 9] As a 2013 research paper [7] and a number of other recent studies [12 - 15] show, education alone (or at least that which focuses on educating athletes about the signs and symptoms of concussion and not changing attitudes about reporting behavior) does not appear capable of solving the problem, because the reasons for under - reporting are largely cultural, [2,3,9,10, 12 - 15] leading the paper's author to conclude that «other approaches might be needed to identify injured athletes.»

I was simply unable to focus on high - level writing or research for any extended amount of time, and I was too exhausted by the time my husband got home at night to do much of anything.

Dixie did not divorce, but it took having a supportive husband and a lot of self - awareness on her part; it's easy to put all your focus on your child — who legitimately needs so much more — instead of your relationship, which was a familiar theme I came across in «parents of special needs kids» chat rooms while researching for the HuffPo article.

Many studies that have been done have focused on the safety of co-sleeping for the child, but there isn't a lot of research on how co-sleeping affects parents.

So a 1991 study of marriages that were unhappy and in which spouses did not consider divorce concludes, rather gloomily, that future research should «focus on... possible consequences for being in an unhappy marriage for which one sees no real alternative.»

In looking over the Feingold site, it looks like they've done lots of research on additives, which is great stuff to know, but it doesn't look like they've focused on the economic and political realities of the massive school lunch program.

But new research from a spate of economists, psychologists, neuroscientists and educators has found that the skills that see a student through college and beyond have less to do with smarts than with more ordinary personality traits, like an ability to stay focused and control impulses.

Dr Moberg's fascinating research on oxytocin is central to what we do in fostering bonding through babywearing, and Dr. Swain's focus on fatherhood speaks directly to our desire to see more and more dads comfortably engaging in our community — we are incredibly excited to learn from them, as well as the other wonderful speakers.

The various speakers were academics speaking about research they have done for their respective institution's rather than HIPP organic and I did not necessarily feel they were giving formula the hard sell; however, the topics were obliquely related to formula feeding the most recent being «Food, mood and children's behaviour» led by Dr Alex Richardson of Oxford University this focussed on the benefits of Omega 3.

«I did a lot of research beforehand, so when we went to register, I was focused on exactly what we needed.

After spending over 6 months reading about, researching the systems, While I had been quite fond of the Peg Perego which offers an amazing line of products, however, I found myself beginning to focus on safety, reputation, product / consumer ratings and quickly discovered Britax was getting some of the absolute results for safety, which to me was most important, and I then saw their products were high quality, had a high quality look and was very competitively priced next to other products that did nt quite measure up.