Critter News

MAY 15, 2009

Around 12 million animals are used each year in the European Union (EU) for research purposes. This became clear from a report addressed at the European Parliament (EP) session on May 5–7, which seeks to vote on a directive concerning animal research. I really hope this passes.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. In this experiment, scientists tested whether lighting can cause depression. Aren't there better things to research? Whether intentionally or not, the title of the article catches the frivolity of the research."Don't

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

Another animal experiment I would not support as a US taxpayer. The research project, led by Jack Bergman of McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate in Belmont, Mass., was one of 12 awarded radiobiology research grants through NASA's Human Research Program, the space agency announced October 27.

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SalesFuel

OCTOBER 25, 2024

If they are not sure where their campaigns are having an impact, brand lift research can help. Not surprisingly, researchers report that marketers can boost consumer attention through multiple strategies. For example, researchers say “ad frequency drives attentive reach.” Researchers found a 4.7

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Dutch researchers carried out 592,665 experiments on animals last year, a 2.5% The increase was largely due to new EU rules on chemical compounds, which have led to an increase in testing on rats, the inspectors said. Tags: animal research Netherlands. From the DutchNews.nl.

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SalesFuel

AUGUST 13, 2024

This focus marks a shift from when hiring emphasized college degrees or years of experience. But you can easily test for technical skills by asking them to complete a project. Personalizing the Work Experience One of the most contentious issues in 2024 centers around work location. The COVID-19 pandemic opened Pandora’s box.

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Critter News

JULY 26, 2009

experiments were performed on animals last year, a rise of 454,000 or 14% on the previous year, the Home Office said. The increase marks the greatest leap in animal use in medical research since 1986, when the government introduced new auditing procedures.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2023

As usual, my experience with such boardwalks was somewhat underwhelming, as was Eshowe as a whole, but there were still a few birds worth mentioning at the forest and in the area surrounding Eshowe. In 1964, two researchers described a new species, the White-chested Tinkerbird, and brought a specimen back to the UK.

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Critter News

MAY 31, 2010

A Malaysian government official defended an Indian company's plans to build an animal testing medicine lab in his state, saying Monday that God created monkeys and rats for experiments to benefit humans. The activists say Malaysia has no regulations on animal research, which could lead to test subjects being abused.

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2010

You heard it right.sheep decompression tests. The university stopped conducting the experiments last fall when it learned that it may have been violating state law, said Eric Sandgren, who oversees animal research at UW-Madison. Tags: animal research sheep PETA university of madison-wisconsin.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Here are ten titles (it could have been more) selected for their uniqueness, excellence in writing and research, and giftability. Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Their is a proposal to ban testing on apes in the EU. Europe's environment chief plans to ban laboratory tests on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans -- in a clampdown on animal testing by the drugs industry and other laboratories. Is this a solution to a problem that doesn't exist?

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SalesFuel

MAY 20, 2024

What participants heard and what they read were considered by researchers to be “one and the same.” Researchers hypothesized that audio commercials did better than written ones because of urgency. They tested this theory by showing participants text ads that made each word disappear shortly after it was shown.

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Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing. It's from a Reuters article from last May.I

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Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

In addition to troubling questions about its legality, such a facility would also place Puerto Rico behind the curve in the current context of scientific debate about laboratory research involving live animals. Tags: animal experimentation puerto rico animal research primates medical research.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2015

New research suggests that the phenomenon of contagious yawning can also be seen in birds. In one experiment, yawns were observed when birds in neighboring cages could see each other, and again when views of adjacent birds were blocked. Click here to go directly to the study.).

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Companies that kept their pulse on changing customer attitudes and strove to deliver an outstanding experience during the Great Recession showed three times higher return than customer experience laggards, according to a McKinsey study. This pandemic has been tough and a hard test of sales organizations’ resilience.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Evaluate your data and the power it provides, then get ready to test your theories. Perform a pilot test. Peform A/B tests with different employees and user groups. Booking.com used A/B testing on its employees to develop many of its tools and processes over an eight-year period. Bank of America did this.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 19, 2017

Author: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Research Officer, Corporate Visions When it comes to enabling salespeople to be great “in the moment” across the different types of selling situations they face, the technology is there. Apply tested and proven frameworks – A salesperson is only as effective as the story he or she tells.

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Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2010

An experiment in which anesthetized pigs were buried alive in snow to learn how humans live or die in avalanches was halted today in Austria after animal-rights groups denounced the research as cruel and useless. The two-week experiment involving 29 pigs began Tuesday in the Western Austrian Alps. From USA Today.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 10, 2019

a faulty experience with you. Prior to our latest research, apologies had been a reasonably well-studied area. There has been no research to determine the best order for these elements. Four different combinations of the five apology elements were created to test for the best approach. Response speed. Compensation.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 2, 2018

Evaluate your data and the power it provides, then get ready to test your theories. Perform a pilot test. Perform A/B tests with different employees and user groups. Booking.com used A/B testing on its employees to develop many of its tools and processes over an eight-year period. Bank of America did this.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 1, 2017

And failed tests aren’t efforts to be circumvented but embraced, as they ultimately enable curiosity, development, and growth by allowing a company to take risks, drive deeper thinking, and outmaneuver the competition. Why a Company Culture Built Around Tested Failure Succeeds. How to Develop a Culture of Tested Failure.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Digital can be a lever to both increase revenue and reduce operating costs, providing the unique ability to testing and learn new innovative ideas. Customers want an Amazon-like experience in all their digital interactions, even in the B2B space. Create the appropriate space to experiment with new ideas. .

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SalesFuel

JULY 1, 2024

It’s based on the idea that you let the prospect test out, or “take home,” your solution. This gives them a chance to be hands-on with your offering and experience it in action. Photo by Amy Hirschi on Unsplash SalesFuel - Sales Credibility | Sales Research | Sales Hiring | Sales Management | Sales Enablement

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2018

With teams working together from the start, you can determine the points of touch that communicate the brand idea with maximum impact and prove that it is different in a way people care about (the absolute litmus test for successful brands). Building and testing the brand experience via prototyping is not a formulaic process.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2018

Research has a way of begetting more research. Once our research revealed the best message for when you’re the outsider trying to defeat the status quo (“why change?”) But as we soon discovered, there were still gaps in the research—other key moments and questions whose buyer psychology profiles needed to be better understood.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 10, 2018

But research and case studies confirm AI’s capacity to drive transformative change in the sales function. In one case study, a sales group tested an AI-driven sales technology that recommended accounts, contacts and opportunities to pursue, products to focus on during sales calls and messages tailored to buyers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 9, 2020

That’s what we set out to find in our latest research study. In a simulation-based test scenario, the executives were told they were reading an email from an outside vendor sales rep they didn’t know and had never met with before. Executives in the known business initiative + ROI test condition were 9.5% still hold up?

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

I particularly question the use of chimpanzees in medical research. I recently was escorted through a large primate research laboratory by its director. The natural experiment must have been tried very infrequently, at least recently. Tags: animal experimentation animal research.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Have SDRs focus on research. Empowering your SDRs with the right automated software can help them thoroughly research your buyers before reaching out. Have your SDR team spend some time each month testing, recording, implementing, and retesting new ideas. If you’re always testing, you’re much less likely to get left behind.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2012

Knowledge is more likely to be shared via shared experience than the exchange of data, though both happen. Experiments had been done which involved strapping magnets to the heads of homing pigeons to see if you could confuse them. The same researcher then did the same thing but with big magnets strapped to the children’s heads.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 7, 2019

So far, so good; this is crucial stuff for all salespeople regardless of experience levels. But experience shows that, even now, the fourth key element, industry knowledge, is still missing. Forrester research. Only one in five execs say that meetings with sales people meet expectations.

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Critter News

AUGUST 19, 2010

Bill Richardson is asking to tour a former medical research lab in southern New Mexico that houses more than 200 chimpanzees. The contract expires next year and Richardson opposes a plan by the agency to transfer the chimps from the Alamogordo Primate Facility, where they are no longer used for medical testing. From the AP.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

So this new research is very interesting, and we applaud the scientists for their work. These researchers carried out two different major efforts that in combination advance our understanding of the evolution of the bird beak. Figuring that out would be a next step in this research, and will likely prove difficult.

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Critter News

MARCH 18, 2010

These chimps are currently at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Center. The Humane Society wants 9 chimps that are not being "used" as part of experiments to be released to a sanctuary. I just love the language used by the Research Center's spokesperson. “The Interesting. percent of our DNA.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Plasticity in humans is probably modulated primarily through experience and enculturation. As I’ve noted elsewhere, it was really Darwin’s experiences on the Falklands that first congealed many of his evolutionary insights. My research in the Congo supports this idea. The paper is in Natrure Scientific Reports.

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