He scoured databases of corporate results going back to 1965 and found only 11 companies that, on his definition, went through such a transformation.
We then simply went out and scoured databases - from the likes of the World Bank, the UN, the ITU, the World Economic Forum, Reporters without Borders, Freedom House, etc - to find indicators to populate these various components of the index.
He works with two analysts to talk with regional brokers, scour databases and review company reports, looking for rapid earnings and revenue growth in the last three months.
The Pentagon paid a private contractor, Omnitec Solutions, hundreds of thousands of dollars to scour databases for any trace of the analysts, be it a segment on "The O'Reilly Factor" or an interview with The Daily Inter Lake in Montana, circulation 20,000.
But repo men — sure, there are women in the business, but it is still largely a guy's game — can, at the cutting edge, be smooth-talking computer-savvy entrepreneurs who scour databases and digital maps to track down wanted vehicles.
When they heard about the rise in narcolepsy in 2010, neuroscientist Lawrence Steinman of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and rheumatologist Sohail Ahmed, who at the time was global head of clinical sciences at Novartis's vaccines and diagnostics division in Siena, Italy, began scouring databases for proteins expressed in the brain that might resemble those in the vaccine.
ScriptCheck, offered by ExamOne, a subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics, is yet another example of data mining — using sophisticated programs to scour databases in search of people's personal information and then selling that info to interested parties.
For months, the Jersey Girls scoured obscure databases, news archives and government documents.
Hazards associated with strudel scouring were assessed with strudel drain and scour databases developed for several industry projects.
Now every night the integrator scours databases for product information from Japan, updates from a Nebraska manufacturer, warehouse inventory at its four distribution centers, wholesale transactions with the dealers and local inventory and retail sales.
In order to determine with ever-renewing assurance that living donation is safe for the donor, we need to periodically review the literature, review the United Network for Organ Sharing database for donor characteristics that may put them in danger, and scour databases for donors starting dialysis and/or listed for transplant.
