Along with the usual technical imperatives involved in designing an oval movement, this timepiece incorporates the results of fundamental research by Breguet into the acoustics of chiming and repeating watches.
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The research of the 2013 Laureates demonstrates exceptionally original approaches to fundamental research in the Physical Sciences, from contributing to better understanding climate change to advancing research on neurodegenerative diseases and potentially uncovering new energy sources.
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They also love to point out that Tata created many of India's greatest institutions, such as the Indian Institute of Science, the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and the Tata Memorial Hospital.
While, like all other academics, we may extoll the virtues of fundamental research we do, what pays the bills is the education service.
According to the Institute, the research is fundamental for the painting's future preservation, with similar artifacts in India and Tibet having been irreversibly damaged by modern cleaning methods.
To those who disagree about the need for fundamental research, let me offer some responses now, and we can continue the discussion in the comments section.
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Mr. Tata is President of the Court of the Indian Institute of Science, Chairman of the Council of Management of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and a member of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University and the University of Southern California.
The payoff from fundamental research does not turn up in a quarter or a year, or sometimes a decade, and sometimes at all, he notes.
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Higher correlation also hurts the few managers that still engage in fundamental research: what is the point of forecasting earnings and understanding businesses if all stocks, good or bad, trade as one?
Therefore, if you are following their fundamental advice, you need to do the necessary research to assess whether their fundamental argument makes sense or not.
New fundamental research by the consultancy McKinsey sheds some light on why that should be.
These chemicals may speed one of the most fundamental reactions in genetic research, called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), by allowing scientists to perform it at higher temperatures.
Professor Paul Younger from the Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability at Newcastle University says the "fundamental problem is that it has a tendency to be strongly alkaline".
This is a fundamental break from the way legal research has been performed since the mid-1700s, when Sir William Blackstone revolutionized the practice of law by putting English common-law cases into categories.
Created in 1994, the MOST Programme aims to put social and human sciences at the service of sustainable development by encouraging research directed towards the formulation of policies which respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, to face the main challenges of the contemporary world.
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As scientists try to understand this, the research is also driving forward some more fundamental questions about intelligence.
NEC's Fundamental Research Laboratories and Fujio Shimizu of the University of Tokyo.
In 2001, we spun off iolo Labs as an independent research arm to understand more specifically the fundamental issues in personal computer performance and stability.
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Gene outlined the fundamental building blocks -- the education, infrastructure, research and development -- that it rests on.
He, in fact, violated a key rule that Benjamin Graham would espouse a decade later in The Intelligent Investor: any investment must be made on fundamental research that you conduct yourself.
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Lacking a control group is a fundamental no-no in social science research across the board.
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This allows us to explore the promise and potential of stem cell research without crossing a fundamental moral line by providing taxpayer funding that would sanction or encourage further destruction of human embryos that have at least the potential for life.
But the decision to put government money into A123 was missing two fundamental pieces of research that any respectable venture capitalists would do.
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His insect research on the surface looks like quite a leap from previous projects in fundamental science.
Isn't research on the anatomy of violence a step toward a world where our fundamental human rights are lost?
And start here, with the 5 key practices that, according to Lars and his industry research, are fundamental to a High Velocity Sales model.
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This time line is inherent to fundamental innovation, even when done optimally, for the process is not linear from research to development to product in the market.
There is perhaps a more fundamental point, made this morning by Jonathan Portes of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research - which is that one of the main reasons the government can borrow more cheaply than for a century is that the economy is so weak that investors expect interest rates to remain incredibly low for years.
As bottom up, fundamental research driven analysts, we seek to uncover stocks of excellent companies, mispriced by the market due to a lack of analyst attention.
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