• Brazil spends a paltry 1.1% of its GDP on research and development compared with 1.4% in China and 3.4% in Japan.

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  • Only 27% of Democrats support keeping troops in Iraq, according to a recent poll by the Pew Research Centre, compared with 81% of Republicans.

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  • It also points to your place on the food chain: People who are high-status tend to look longer at people they're talking to, compared with others, says a 2009 research review in Image and Vision Computing.

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  • The most detailed study of night work, carried out by Daniel Hamermesh, an economist at the University of Texas at Austin and published by the National Bureau for Economic Research, compared 1991 with 1973 and found a marked decline in work between 7pm and 5am.

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  • In 2011, Northamptonshire courts gave custodial sentences in 6.5% of cases, compared with 1.5% in Warwickshire, research by the Howard League shows.

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  • While the individual market has been relatively small (about 19 million people, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute) compared to those with employer-based coverage (about 156 million), most honest analysts expect millions of employers to drop coverage and dump their employees into the individual market.

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  • The revenues Twitter raises from advertising are expected to almost double this year compared with last year, with further big rises anticipated in future years, according to eMarketer, a research consultancy.

    BBC: Twitter secures advertising deal with SMG

  • The Kindle Fire has so far failed to keep pace with the iPad, which commanded 68% of global tablet shipments in this year's second quarter, compared with Amazon's 5%, according to research firm IDC.

    WSJ: Amazon Unveils New Kindle Tablets

  • Shahar Maor, an information-technology analyst at Israeli market research firm STKI, estimated that compared with large companies associated with defense or critical infrastructure, lower tier Israeli companies hire one-fifth as many information-security employees relative to computer users.

    WSJ: Israel's Businesses Losing the Cyber War

  • Only four firms, compared with about three dozen in 1970, have contraceptive-research programmes.

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  • Global sales of mobile phones fell in 2012 compared with the previous year, according to a report from research company Gartner.

    BBC: Mobile phone sales fell in 2012, suggests study

  • Hydrogen research is a drop in the bucket compared with the annual cost of, say, engineering new vehicles and getting plants tooled up to build them.

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  • Those who heard angry attacks had a harder time remembering later what the customer said or calling on working memory to solve problems, compared with those who heard respectful exchanges, according to the research, co-authored by Amir Erez, an associate professor of management at the University of Florida.

    WSJ: Anger's Effects on Those Who Witness It

  • Online banking now accounts for 53% of banking transactions, compared with 14% for in-branch visits, according to research from AlixPartners.

    WSJ: After Years of Growth, Banks Are Pruning Their Branches

  • That program was used by 45% of adults as of last year, compared with just 10% who use RealPlayer, according to Forrester Research.

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  • That program was used by 45% of adults as of last year, compared with just 10% who use RealPlayer, according to Forrester Research (nasdaq: FORR - news - people ).

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  • For the second quarter, average daily shares traded on the NYSE and Nasdaq Stock Market are down 1% and 10%, respectively, compared with the same period a year earlier, says Credit Suisse research.

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  • The Galaxy S III shipped 18 million units worldwide from July to September, compared with 16.2 million for the iPhone 4S, according to research by Strategy Analytics.

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  • The Galaxy S III shipped 18 million units worldwide in that three-month span from July to September, compared with 16.2 million for the iPhone 4S, according to research by Strategy Analytics.

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  • The research found a total of 7, 337 closures, compared with 5, 558 new openings during the year.

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  • What does it matter, then, if the average Frenchman still according to yet another piece of social research has only one bath a week, compared with the average Briton's three?

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  • By the end of this year 33% of Western Europe, 25% of Japan and 1% of the rest of Asia will be wired to the web, compared with 47% of the U.S., according to the research firm IDC.

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  • By then, Mr. Ticknell says, prices at the complex are expected to have more than doubled, compared with a 73% growth forecast for all of London, according to research commissioned by his firm and conducted by the Centre for Economics and Business Research.

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  • While they posted a loss, Research in Motion revealed a 27 cent loss per share, compared with the 46 cents expected by analysts.

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  • The research team at the University of East Anglia compared the risks associated with each drug by analysing 16 studies of more 800, 000 patients.

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  • Yet the scientific value of Mr Chilingarov's expedition was negligible compared with its political value, says Lev Savatyugin of the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.

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  • They squeeze 9 cents of profit out of every dollar of revenue, compared with an average closer to 7 cents since 1979, according to Goldman Sachs research.

    NPR: Earnings Report: Good Profits, Bad Revenues

  • Zhang Hanya, director of the Investment Research Institution with the National Development and Reform Commission, said compared with the past two years, the delivery of central government funding had significantly improved.

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  • In the Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, author Nitin Nohria points to research findings that 60% of women felt excluded from networking opportunities compared with 4% of men.

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  • Research indeed shows that gays are significantly more likely to attempt suicide compared with heterosexual youth (21.5% vs 4.2%), and that among gay youth, the risk of attempting suicide is 20% greater in unsupportive environments compared with supportive environments.

    CNN: Why bias puts young gays' health at risk

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