Maybe business investment based on improving capital expenditures numbers will lead the recovery.
"The strength of this capital expenditure number is in some ways borrowing demand from the future because it will wind down," he said.
These patterns should describe the customer's temporal habits highlighting when she typically makes a purchase in correlation with information about the amount of expenditure, number of purchased items and other similar aggregates.
Data on state academic R&D expenditure, number of doctorate holders in academia and number of papers published were taken directly from the State Indicators section of the Science and Engineering Indicators 2006 report [37].
The revised questionnaire collected information on household socioeconomic characteristics, income and expenditure, number of family members with chronic illnesses, healthcare utilization and healthcare expenditure.
The model input (explanatory) series were Quitline advertising expenditure, number of print media items, and other (non-Quitline) advertising expenditure over the same one-month periods.
Based on measurements of accelerometry, heat flux, galvanic skin response, skin temperature, near-body temperature and patient characteristics (gender, age, height, weight) proprietary algorithms will calculate energy expenditure, number of steps taken and sleep duration.
"We had been concerned that the level of overall growth prospects was weaker than the competition and that capital-expenditure numbers looked low".
More recent economic data, including sluggish capital expenditure numbers, have pointed to a slowdown in Japan's economy, the world's third largest, after those of the United States and China.
