Our research, along with academic research, shows that 90% of the variability of the returns of any individuals portfolio is explained by asset allocation, so it is much more important over the long term to identify the right asset classes than it is to pick the best stocks or mutual funds.
Evaluation of treatments for chronic health conditions requires studies of both effectiveness and cost effectiveness over the long term to identify how best to use the available budget.
Because of the long life cycles for woody plant species, it is necessary to conduct long-term studies to identify their (asymmetrical) local adaptation using reciprocal transplant experiments.
Officers said the elaborate nature of the scam suggested it was a long-term plan to "identify and abuse vulnerable victims".
Beginning what is expected to be a long-term project to identify and record endangered languages, Dr. Harrison has traveled to many parts of the world with Gregory D. S. Anderson, director of the Living Tongues Institute, in Salem, Ore., and Chris Rainier, a filmmaker with the National Geographic Society.
Public health researchers, struggling to determine the emotional and physical aftereffects of the attack, have begun a series of long-term studies to identify and track a wide range of people who lived through the nightmare of dust, smoke and terror when the towers collapsed.
Public health researchers in New York, struggling to determine the real dimensions of the health threat at the World Trade Center site, are beginning an ambitious series of long-term studies to identify and then track a wide range of people who lived through the nightmare of dust, smoke and stress when the towers fell.
Strategies to reduce incidents have been undertaken for long-term solutions, to identify that errors occur (culture) are highlighted and the causal factors are pro-actively, preventively and systematically analysed.
Our approach yielded insights how advanced spatial analysis can be integrated with biological data available from long-term datasets to identify actual transit corridors and predictors of species distribution.
The Living Ash Project (http://livingashproject.org.uk/) for example aims to counter the effects of Ash dieback disease by calling for members of the public to tag and regularly monitor ash trees with the long-term objective to identify pest-resistant trees.
Although there is not enough long-term data to identify a trend, Mann said, that this mass of cold water may be disturbing the normal current cycle that moves heat away from the US northeast. .
