Not exact matches
Small businesses flocked to social media in 2009, with their adoption of the
technology doubling from 12 percent to 24 percent,
says a new University of Maryland / Network Solutions
study.
«Employers don't just want their employees to do the same job faster, they want them to do a different job due to changing
technology, materials and structures,»
says Nancy Jackson, a recently retired associate professor in Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education.
The
study's analysis «challenges a simple narrative that the internet as a
technology is what fragments public discourse and polarizes opinions,» the authors
say.
Says Bapty: «If a CRO is nimble and can evolve
technology that can enable its clients to get a drug approved faster or to reduce the risk of a clinical
study, or even save them development money in the long run, that company will find it has a long - term business plan.»
«If you're vulnerable and isolated, the more important that cell phone becomes for you,»
says Mark Latonero, a fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute in New York, who has
studied technology and human trafficking.
«Most websites are built by
technology folks and then you slap a design on top of it,»
said Jeffrey Rubin, associate professor at the School of Information
Studies at Syracuse University and CEO of SIDEARM Sports, a major provider of college athletic websites.
Renewable
technology company Bombora Wave Power
says an independent
study has confirmed the viability of its first commercial project, a 60 - megawatt wave farm in Portugal, which it
says will cost $ 180 million to develop.
During the appointment — which the BoE
said was likely to last six to nine months — Van Steenis will help BoE staff
study new financial
technology, emerging market capital flows and the transition to a low - carbon economy.
«We the public should feel safe,»
said Wesley Cook, a structural engineer at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and
Technology who authored the 2014 bridge failure
study.
Four out of five travelers in Asia Pacific
said travel was a necessary part of life and that they're willing to prioritize time off work and set aside money for trips, according to a new
study by
technology provider Sabre and research firm The Futures Company.
Of the two - fifths of US consumers who
said they wouldn't have their next general consultation remotely, 57 % could be convinced otherwise, according to the Business Insider Intelligence Insurance
Technology Study.
«This
technology will allow us to paint a whole chromosome and look at it live and really follow it... as it goes through developmental transitions, for example in an embryo,»
study co-author Rebecca Heald, a molecular and cell biologist at UC Berkeley,
said in a statement.
«This is an important issue to
study because mental health problems and social isolation are at epidemic levels among young adults,» lead author Brian Primack, M.D., Ph.D., director of Pitt's Center for Research on media,
technology and health
said in a statement.
Apple is gathering advice on parts and production methods, focusing on electric and connected - car
technologies, while
studying the potential for automated driving, the source
said.
«While this is not a zero - sum game, it will be interesting to see what people gravitate towards at SXSW, a conference full of early adopters,»
says Allison Mooney, vice president for emerging trends at MobileBehavior, an Omnicom Group consultancy that
studies how consumers use wireless
technology.
Jet - drying
technology spreads infectious agents much further than paper towels,
says a new
study.
Ankumah
says he first
studied the «underpinnings of
technology» as a high school student at an all - boys boarding school in Ghana — all without access to computers.
North Korea has shown a persistent interest in computer
technology since the early 1980s so it is conceivable that a country, which has launched long - range missiles and tested nuclear weapons has also developed a smartphone,
said Kang Ho Jye, a research fellow at Ewha Institute of Unification
Studies.
In previewing the
study, Brown
said while
technology continues to affect the way consumers interact with banks, «the physical banking office still plays a very important role in the banking market today.»
In a speech last year, a member of the German central bank's executive board, Carl - Ludwig Thiele,
said the bank's «conceptual
study shows that blockchain
technology can be adapted to meet the current needs and requirements of the financial system.»
All the major oilsands companies are seriously pushing
technology to reduce emissions and costs, and have been doing so extremely seriously the past couple years since the price crash of late 2014 and the Paris Agreement,»
says Vredenburg, who also led a team of researchers that
studied open innovation among energy companies.
«A fake story claiming Pope Francis — actually a refugee advocate — endorsed Mr. Trump was shared almost a million times, likely visible to tens of millions,» Zeynep Tufekci, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina who
studies the social impact of
technology,
said of a recent post on Facebook.
«It would be very expensive for the government to build its own 5G network, and the government would have to find enough spectrum, which is in short supply these days,»
says Darrell West, vice president and director of governance
studies at The Brookings Institution and founding director of Brookings» Center for
Technology Innovation.
Now you can just take your phone out,»
said Tom Lin, a law professor at Temple University who has
studied the effect of
technology on financial markets.
Technology made the next wave of female power - players possible,
said Lynn Comella, associate professor of gender and sexuality
studies at University of Nevada Las Vegas.
«To the extent that Japan devalues, the nature of its trade with its neighbors is one in which Japan is selling lots of capital equipment that they need, and capital equipment becomes that much cheaper, that would be a gift to its trading partners,»
says Richard Samuels, Ford International professor of political science and director of the Center for International
Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
In a
study that comes as a surprise to approximately no Christian under the age of 40, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
says technology use among religious people is no different than among anybody else.
Flinders University received $ 100,000 for a project in cyber
technologies under NGTF, and even business
studies has been influenced by the needs of defence industry,
says Professor John Spoehr, director of the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute at the university.
This
study clearly shows that IoT devices and voice - controlled
technology are making their lives easier, and at the same time, helping them feel like better parents,»
said Julie Michaelson, Head of Global Sales for BabyCenter.
Additionally, as one of the most comprehensive surveys of Hispanic parents» attitudes concerning online safety, the
study indicates that Hispanic children are highly engaged with
technology (69 % of Hispanic parents
say their child has three or more devices that connect to the Internet, compared to 55 % of white parents who
say that about their child.
The
study provides what the authors
say is good clinical evidence that helmet design can lower the risk of concussion, not in a laboratory, but in games and practices, by showing that a helmet model introduced in 2000 provides better protection against concussion than an older helmet employing 20 - year - old design
technology.
On the issue of hydrofracking in New York, Gibson supported the Cuomo administration's seemingly interminable
study, welcomed its conclusion, but
said he would be open to permitting fracking in the future if
technology improves.
Dr. Nabil Nasr, Associate Provost and Director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability at Rochester Institute of
Technology said, «Through our Center for Integrated Manufacturing
Studies and more recently the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, RIT has built a strong legacy in becoming a world - class hub for sustainability research and education.
That innovation might take the form of altering product lines to suit emerging markets, such as wind turbines and solar
technology, the
study says.
In this Focus on Education report WBFO's Eileen Buckley
says the program works to encourages city school students to pursue
studies in math, science and
technology.
Describing the PDP as the only option for the people, Olayinka
said; «On July 14, the main choice before Ekiti people will be Olusola Eleka, a Professor of Building
Technology (Builder) and Fayemi, a holder of PhD in War
Studies (Warmonger).
The
study was spurred by a conversation about an untranslated book,
says Shahar Ronen, a Microsoft program manager whose Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) master's thesis formed the basis of the new work.
«If they scream publicly but can't back that up, they incur loss of status,»
says Howard Shrobe, a cybersecurity researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in Cambridge who was not involved in the
study.
There was an ancient paradigm about the «fitness cost of antibiotic resistance,» but the emergence of the new
technologies of high - throughput sequencing has changed the field, allowing researchers to
study bacterial pathogenesis at the genome scale,»
said Dr. David Skurnik, senior author of a new Bioessays article.
The trend toward transformative research is fueled by nations» efforts to use science and
technology to leapfrog competition in terms of innovation and economic development in a globalized environment,
says Robert Frodeman, a philosophy professor at the University of North Texas, Denton, and director of the Center for the
Study of Interdisciplinarity.
«When we first began this
study, there had not been a lot of experimental research done,»
said Prof Gail Tripp, one of the authors of the paper and director of the Human Developmental Neurobiology Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and
Technology Graduate University (OIST).
Several labs are using the
technology to
study topics such as cell migration and neuroscience, he
says.
«We believe a well - rounded science and
technology curriculum is based on a broad spectrum of
study, including fields not traditionally linked with the military,» Marks
says.
«This
study really deepens our quantitative understanding of human behavior,»
said Dashun Wang, assistant professor of information sciences and
technology, Penn State.
«Virtual house calls for chronic diseases like Parkinson's are not only as effective as in - person care but broader adoption of this
technology has the potential to expand access to patient - centered care,»
said Ray Dorsey, M.D., the David M. Levy Professor of Neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and lead author of the
study.
«Our lab specializes in developing novel genetic methodologies to
study T cell repertoires, but we had never applied this
technology to
study how the immune system responds to an infection,»
says Emanual Maverakis, M.D., associate professor of dermatology at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine.
Tracking the effect of these so - called smart pills on vital bodily functions will help doctors perfect their chemistry,
says Gartner analyst Wes Rishel who
studies technology for health care delivery organizations and hospitals.
That's really important,»
says Peter Savolainen, an evolutionary geneticist at KTH Royal Institute of
Technology in Stockholm who was not involved in either
study.
Researchers
said further
studies are also planned that use other methods to analyze the relationship between volume and outcomes, follow patients after discharge from the hospital, and assess how patient outcomes are affected as hospitals gain more experience with TAVR and the
technology is refined over time.
«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,»
said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss
Technology Development Fellow and first author on the
study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.