Sentences with phrase «focused its testing in»

After seeing a modified Focus testing in April, it's not surprising to see that Volkswagen is now bringing a similar model to the table.

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As the six - person Paladin crews, which were partaking in an exercise called Bulldog Focus, waited for the go - ahead to test fire, they showed me a dry run of how it loads and shoots.

He adds that many real - estate agents are also focused on a Chinese pilot program that's being tested in five cities, including Shanghai, that allows wealthy individuals to invest at least 50 % of their assets in foreign markets.

He realized it was time to bring a business person in to focus on growing the company and let him return to testing the product: «We want to make sure the Nymi wristband is very user - friendly so people would enjoy using it once it launches.»

Sandberg announced that Facebook will join an urban mobility test project in Munich with carmakers and startups and said it will also sponsor a new university in Berlin focused on digital product development.

Those lackluster test scores have caught the attention of the federal government, and the Trump Administration has proposed $ 200 million in STEM - focused grant funding.

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Levy reported that in a 2004 study of suburban rail commuters taking the train from New Jersey to Manhattan, «Wener and his coauthor Gary Evans found that the longer their test subjects» journey was, the higher the levels of cortisol (the primary stress hormone) in their saliva, and the more difficult they found to focus on the task of proofreading assigned them at the end of their commute.»

Once you outline several levels of criteria, you could have a focus group test a variety of shakers in different realistic situations to see which designs work best.

Instead of spending your time creating an elaborate business plan or relying on a focus group, entrepreneurs need to continuously test their business ideas and be willing to adapt quickly in order to stay competitive.

Even «Seinfeld» was panned by focus groups when it was first tested, and «Breaking Bad» struggled to drum up viewership in its first seasons.

Managers of ordinary ability, focusing solely on acquisition possibilities meeting these tests, have achieved excellent results in recent decades.

After the site rewrite was complete, the design team was ready to show off the product of more than a year of sketching, designing, focus - grouping and in - office testing.

Macedo says that Burger Kings nuggets can succeed where Wendy's failed because the chain tested a new nugget recipe, focusing in on what customers crave.

Gross says focusing on video games was as much about the science of tracking and collecting information about patients» vision, as it is about the psychology in having a testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.

After a year and a half of testing various brews in focus groups consisting of friends and potential investors, the pair had what Verzello calls «a really great - tasting light beer.»

Given limited resources, officials and observers said, the Commission's competition directorate is likely to focus on a fairly small number in the expectation that success — still to be tested in court — can deter others from going to extremes in reducing their global tax burdens.

To test how much meditation training you need to make a serious dent in your stress levels, J. David Creswell and his team from Carnegie Mellon University, looked at the payoff of three short 25 - minute mindfulness training sessions in which participants were taught to focus on their breath, focus their attention and be more in the moment.

Then all the volunteers were given a task designed to test executive function — a fancy term for skills like selecting tasks and staying focused, that help us get stuff done in the real world.

If Goliath had a slingshot, he might have applied a focus group and called in his lawyers before he'd bother even trying to test it.

To avoid offending your customers, test - market the name with focus groups or introduce a product line solely under the brand name, without including the parent company's name on packaging or in advertising.

Webb does not put much stock in those financial literacy tests, either, since they often focus on arcane issues that have little bearing on the basics of saving money.

Under Muhlhauser — who joined the company in 2005 and became CEO the following year — Celestica is focused less on such «commoditized» products and instead establishing itself in new, higher - margin fields where major players currently do the majority of design, testing, manufacturing and quality control themselves.

A MAJOR exploration drive by Australian Gold Resources Limited in the Murchison mineral field will not only focus on vanadium but also test the potential for gold and base metals mineralisation.

While individual VC's inside venture firms specialized in particular domains (PC's, peripherals, semiconductors, test equipment, operating systems, applications, etc.,) their investments had roughly the same time horizon and were focused around things that used electrons — primarily computing and computing infrastructure.

The BBC Science Focus magazine also reports that test runs are expected to begin in two years.

But he also would tell you to be consistent, focused, vigilant, and patiently looking to invest in yourself as well as other opportunities that will stand the test of time and stick to your investment philosophy through thick and thin.

He relies on meetings, testing and focus groups with franchisees to gain insights and buy - in.

Uber began tests in China in late 2013 in the southern cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen, focusing on a service that would let people hail rides from licensed limousine companies.

At the core there just wasn't enough consistent traffic coming to the site to really split test different opt - ins, so I decided to focus on traffic building first by creating a stronger profile on Instagram.

TEMPE, Ariz. / DETROIT (Reuters)- Arizona officials said on Tuesday they saw no immediate need to tighten rules on the testing of self - driving cars in the state in reaction to a fatal accident involving an Uber autonomous vehicle that has focused attention on the safety of the new technology.

Korean leaders to meet at North - South border on Friday: BBC Chinese geologists say N. Korea's main nuclear test site has likely collapsed: WaPo China air force intimidates Taiwan with military flights around island: Reuters Conservative Supreme Court justices appear to back Trump's travel ban: The Hill French president expects Trump will withdraw from Iranian nuclear deal: BBC Rising interest rates keep Wall Street on edge: CBS Investors will focus on various inflation numbers in days ahead: Bloomberg A closer look at the 10 - year Treasury yield's rise to 3 %: Calafia Beach Pundit T. Rowe Price's assets under mgt top $ 1 trillion — a sign of active mgt growth: P&I World trade volume slumped 0.4 % in Feb, first monthly loss since Oct: CPB

Usethics has experience in different types of user research, from usability testing and one - to - one interviews to focus groups, large online surveys, home visits, etc..

He adds that many real estate agents are also focused on a Chinese pilot program that's being tested in five cities, including Shanghai, that allows wealthy individuals to invest at least 50 per cent of their assets in foreign markets.

As I was considering what type of content to write for this article, I decided to focus on the unforgettable seven tests prescribed by Graham in Chapter 14, Stock Selection for the Defensive Investor.

In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.

Skeptics have also focused on the company's board, which with one possible exception was notably lacking in people with expertise in medical testing.

The Bloomberg report also mentioned that Facebook had «already found in focus - group testing» that users were wary of a «Facebook - branded device in their living rooms,» which... well, duh.

While I have traditionally always invested in index funds in my SEP IRA, over the past few months I have been considering using my SEP IRA to also trade stocks, with a focus on building a dividend growth portfolio, as well as testing my own individual strategies.

We even tested a new cloth diaper — one of our editors swears by them — and while we focused on cotton, which was strongly preferred in previous tests, we threw in one synthetic microfiber towel (the fabric is known for wicking moisture).

In each regime, they test the ability of a lagged multi-indicator sentiment index to forecast equally weighted hedge portfolio returns, focusing on stocks most likely susceptible to mispricing (small - capitalization stocks, stocks without positive earnings, growth stocks and stocks that pay no dividend).

After launching a fresh beef test in select restaurants in 2016, McDonald's USA President Chris Kempczinski said of the nationwide rollout, «At the end of the day McDonald's is a burger company, and there's no more important place for us to focus on improving the quality of our food.»

Japan Gold has generated other compelling drill targets, focussing on high grade epithermal veins in and around historic mines and workings, and will seek to rapidly progress these targets to the permitting phase so that they can be drill tested in 2018.

Under Armour framed its involvement with Trump as focused on the manufacturing initiative, which complements its effort launched in Baltimore last year to test technologies for local production.

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After more than a year of testing with an employee - only focus group, Amazon Go opens to the public Monday in downtown Seattle, putting to the test the online retailer's technology that lets shoppers grab what they want and leave without paying a cashier.

Yum Brands Inc's (YUM.N) Taco Bell will begin testing an expanded, more upmarket menu that focuses on fresh ingredients — think Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG.N) on a budget — on January 26 in Louisville, Kentucky, and Bakersfield, California.

Based on the near - term outlook for real rates, as well as uncertainty over Brexit, rising populism in Europe and Trump's trade and foreign policies, Metals Focus analysts see gold testing $ 1,475 an ounce this year.

After going through the ritualistic Monday morning downside test on the back of rising oil drilling rig counts, WTI rallied around $ 2 towards $ 69.35 in NY, as traders remain singularly focused on the Iran nuclear deal.

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