But when scientists examined an enormous amount of
accumulated data on self reports of insomnia and people's actual sleeping patterns recently, that's not what they found.
Traditional insurers, with over a century
of accumulated data each, still enjoy a data advantage over newcomers.
But, to make optimal use of that
rapidly accumulating data, they need additional computer expertise, in databases, visualization, machine learning, and parallel systems.
Both devices use their listening skills to
accumulate data about you, not only for product - improvement purposes but also for marketing and advertising.
Third, did the researchers calculate in advance the sample size needed to show that they didn't
just accumulate data until they found something significant?
A much larger amount of information than this is routinely being generated by biomedical researchers, and the
rapidly accumulating data is often interpreted to mean that biological systems are extremely complex.
For the first two years of the study, the investigators
accumulated data from 2,000 Detroit area residents who were offered a multiplex genetic test for eight common conditions.
But as Ma illustrates with examples from the gambling and business worlds, it's a tricky problem to eliminate completely, and one that can compromise even the most
carefully accumulated data.
Even after social scientists had
accumulated data demonstrating that the optimistic predictions concerning the impact of divorce and single - parent families on women and children had failed to materialize, most mainline churches ignored this evidence, continuing to say little or nothing about the issues.
Accumulating data indicate, he says, that «you can probably ascribe over 100,000 new cases of cancer in the United States each year directly to excessive weight» — and that's independent of the role of poor diet or too little exercise.
«We have an aggressive schedule where we think it is important to get something built and
accumulate data so that we can eventually build them in the U.S. Breaking ground in 2015, with a startup in 2020, is more aggressive than our current [U.S.] regulatory structure can support.»
Using their computer method, called the Carnegie Landsat Analysis System, the team analyzed observations from three NASA satellites — Landsat 7, Terra and Earth Observing 1 —
which accumulated data on five Brazilian states between 1999 and 2002.
Although scientists later debunked the notion that it made your testicles shrink and your hair fall out, it is only in the 21st century that we have
enough accumulated data to show masturbation is harmless, while the orgasms it produces are beneficial.
It was events such as those that compelled me to want to find out if Redl and Wineman's observations about self - control deficiencies — published in 1951 — were still relevant in today's schools, so I enlisted the help of 15 teachers (they are listed on the back page of the book) and we spent three
years accumulating data on how and when students lost their self - control in classrooms.
The dashboard Eco
Guide accumulates data on driving patterns, so hypermiling drivers can analyze their history to improve driving strategies.
After I make my series of buys and sells, I throw all my work away, and
start accumulating data for the next quarter.
Panelists address a range of issues including computerized versus manual review, billing guidelines issues, use
of accumulated data and more.
Accumulating data from across the globe reveal a wide array of effects: rapidly melting glaciers, destabilization of major ice sheets, increases in extreme weather, rising sea level, shifts in species ranges, and more.
Overview Data Collectors are responsible for
accumulating data for the company that they are working for.
So, unless you're being a devout Luddite about this sort of thing, you've probably got some device hanging around that is
accumulating data about you, analyzing your personal data, or sending your data somewhere.
You accumulate data as people do business with you.
However, in the 1970s, some investigators began to reconsider this paradigm, and
accumulated data have since supported TOLAC as a reasonable approach in select pregnancies (5, 6, 13 — 15).
Between individuals, there's
no accumulated data for governments to spy on, or corporations to farm and sell stats for their profit, or even spouses to subpoena in a divorce proceeding.
Instead of evaluating scientists» ability to
accumulate data and divide it into the maximum number of densely worded journal papers, it rewards those who create brief, cogent descriptions that vividly convey their research's central idea and importance.
But
accumulating data is just the start of the painstaking process of particle discovery.
With his colleagues, he has been
accumulating the data to help investigators identify flammable liquids at fire scenes.
Overall,
the accumulating data lend support to the heretical notion of patients, in consultation with their doctors, stopping their pill - popping upon feeling better.
In total,
they accumulated data for approximately 400 individuals.
As ATLAS and CMS continue to
accumulate data, they will either discover superparticles or exclude wider ranges of possible masses.
What sets it apart from other books on conservation is that it shows that, in addition to
accumulating data on the animals, we have to come to terms with the complex mixture of science, greed, indifference, and cultural differences that have to be tackled if animals like the panda are to be saved.
Accumulating data have implicated the involvement of various components of P - TEFb - containing complexes in human cancer.
To conduct the study, researcher's
accumulated data on 940 people aged 70 to 89 who provided information on what they ate during the previous year, and demonstrated no signs of cognitive impairment.
Parthenon began gathering data on every student who entered New York City's high schools in 1999, nearly a quarter million of them, and by 2005, as education journalist Sarah Garland reported in a 2010 Washington Monthly story, had
accumulated data that were «shocking»: «Nearly 140,000 high - school - age youth in the city were at least two years behind where they needed to be to graduate on time.
States have been
accumulating data for more than a decade.
Using
the accumulated data, administrators can determine when student scores started to drop in a particular class.
«How do
you accumulate data?»
There are lots of ways that lenders can
accumulate data and evaluate borrowers on a case - by - case basis, and they did until the 1950s when Fair, Isaac & Co. was started.