To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms.
But if history is any guide, foreign policy as a political-science field experiment or what-me-worryism will yield some ugly results.
In the field experiment, the researchers divided batches of new call agents into an individual identity group, an organizational identity group, and a control group.
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As with the field experiment, some participants were placed in a control group, others engaged in activities that stressed individuality (creating personalized nametags, for example), and some focused on the identity of the organization (such as creating a logo for the research lab).
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His thought experiment suggests that researchers in the small but potentially significant field of quantum computing should be turning their attentions to game theory.
This experiment is one of a series of studies in the growing field of neuroeconomics, which investigates how people calculate risks and rewards.
When set to Manual, consumers can experiment with features such as slower shutter speeds, depth-of-field and even focus.
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The field then suffered a major setback when an Arizona teenager died in a gene therapy experiment in 1999 and two French boys with SCID developed leukemia in 2002.
But it was not regarded as a great success by the players - and the experiment was dropped after one season after no decisions made by on-field umpires were reversed.
It is an enabler for many companies to overcome the inertia of naysayers to experiment with scenarios where tablets can make add plenty of value (like field service, like sales, like meetings, like healthcare, like HR and general worker productivity).
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Tebow was waived by the Jets on Monday morning when he showed up at the team's facility ready to work out, the end of an embarrassingly unsuccessful one-season experiment in New York that produced more hype and headlines than production on the field.
Because a field trial with a genetically engineered plant may be 10 to 20 times more expensive than the same experiment performed with a plant that has identical properties but that was modified with less precise genetic techniques, genetic engineering with the best techniques has been vastly under-used for the past 25 years.
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Even before its existence was at last tentatively suggested by an experiment this week, many people had heard of the Higgs boson, the mysterious manifestation of the field that causes matter to have mass, according to a theory minted in 1964.
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