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Exploratory research - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Exploratory research is a type of research conducted because a problem has not been clearly defined. Exploratory research often relies on secondary research such as reviewing available literature and/or data, or qualitative approaches such as informal discussions with consumers, employees, management or competitors, and more formal approaches through in-depth interviews, focus groups, projective methods, case studies or pilot studies. Exploratory research is not typically generalizable to the population at large. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Exploratory_research   (224 words)

Research Exploratory cartography is a cognitive process in which maps are used as tools for discovery, to solve the problem of gaining insight into unknown geographic relationships. The objective of this research was to investigate the selection and use of maps in the process of exploring geographic data, leading to hypotheses that could be tested in further map use research. Exploratory cartography is not as interactive, private or demand-driven as assumed, at least not when it comes to regional exploratory studies. www.itc.nl /personal/elzakker/researchsummary.htm   (1792 words)

Published Research - WestGroup Research Second, to warn you that it is paramount that the both the client and researcher be aware of the reason a research project is being considered and or requested. The research will not reduce the uncertainty associated with the decision that needs to be made or the cost to reduce the uncertainty exceeds the benefits of reduction. Exploratory research is done to determine the if there is any potential or likelihood associated with the potential or actual occurrence of a marketing activity of the firm or a change in one or more of its internal or external environments. www.westgroupresearch.com /publish/process1.html   (2422 words)

Intel Research Intel researchers throughout the world are working at universities, in labs, and in the field to create technology to improve every facet of life — from agriculture to manufacturing, microbiology, space exploration and beyond. Intel Research is focused on a vision of essential computing: simplifying and enriching all aspects of work and daily life through application and system technologies that collectively empower individuals, connect them to each other and into the fabric of networking society. Researchers at Intel and the University of California Santa Barbara have developed a new hybrid silicon laser that could pave the way for tera-scale optical interconnects. www.intel.com /research   (224 words)

Audience Research Basics In the initial stages of program development, exploratory audience research is used to learn about potential audiences and the types of incentives and barriers that the audiences perceive exist to adopting a new behavior (or ceasing an existing one), as well as which incentives and barriers might be addressed effectively by a communications effort. The results from exploratory research are used to create preliminary concepts and/or messages to achieve communications objectives, such as increasing knowledge, changing attitudes, enhancing motivation to change behaviors, and increasing the perceived benefits of new behaviors. Audience research using a national sample of a specific population group should not be generalized to a local population or variant of the original sample. www.health.gov /communication/primer/aud_res_prim.asp   (2974 words)

Exploratory and Advanced Seminars Exploratory Seminars at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study are intended to offer resources to Harvard faculty and their colleagues around the world to develop new ideas across the social sciences, sciences, and humanities in a congenial atmosphere. Exploratory Seminars are short-term "brainstorming" sessions intended to explore new frontiers, jumpstart collaborations, or initiate future research plans. Colleagues, including at least one Harvard ladder faculty member, who are prepared to develop original research papers with a shared focus or topic are invited to the Institute for one to three days to meet as a group to present their papers for discussion and analysis. www.radcliffe.edu /research/adv-expl.php   (1073 words)

EPA: ORD: NCER: Research Opportunities: Exploratory Research to Anticipate Future Environmental Issues Research conducted under the STAR program is an important mechanism for promoting a sound scientific foundation for environmental protection, one that addresses current problems and anticipates future problems. Research is needed to demonstrate the utility and value of nanoscale science and technology in environmental science. Research may be considered “high risk” or deal with fundamental principles, but should lead to creative or innovative solutions to potential high risk environmental problems. es.epa.gov /ncer/rfa/archive/grants/01/futures.html   (2324 words)

Marketing Research Exploratory research can be performed using a literature search, surveying certain people about their experiences, focus groups, and case studies. When surveying people, exploratory research studies would not try to acquire a representative sample, but rather, seek to interview those who are knowledgeable and who might be able to provide insight concerning the relationship among variables. Descriptive research is more rigid than exploratory research and seeks to describe users of a product, determine the proportion of the population that uses a product, or predict future demand for a product. www.quickmba.com /marketing/research   (4304 words)

Exploratory Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) As the term suggests, exploratory research is often conducted because a problem has not been clearly defined as yet, or its real scope is as yet unclear. It allows the researcher to familiarize him/herself with the problem or concept to be studied, and perhaps generate hypotheses (definition of hypothesis) to be tested. Exploratory research can be quite informal, relying on secondary research such as reviewing available literature and/or data, or www.ryerson.ca /~mjoppe/ResearchProcess/ExploratoryResearch.htm   (247 words)

US NSF - NSF 05-053: Small Grants for Exploratory Research: Hurricane Katrina BES is interested in funding research on environmental impact assessment, including public health and disease effect, petrochemical and other contamination, damage to the potable water and wastewater systems, damage to municipal solid waste and hazardous waste containment facilities, and erosion. In addition, CMS is interested in supporting research into issues of emergency management, including effectiveness of disaster planning, effectiveness of warning and evacuation systems, social vulnerability analyses, establishment and operation of emergency shelters, infrastructure restoration management, search and rescue and the delivery of medical care, and urban versus rural effects of the storm. Researchers are also encouraged to submit standard grant proposals dealing with responses to and effects of Katrina if data collection need not begin for some months. www.nsf.gov /pubs/2005/nsf05053/nsf05053.jsp   (863 words)

PA-03-107: NIH EXPLORATORY / DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH GRANT AWARD (R21) Section C of the research grant application instructions for the PHS 398 (rev. 5/2001) at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html includes step-by-step guidance for preparing modular grants. All investigators proposing clinical research should read the "NIH Guidelines for Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research - Amended, October, 2001," published in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts on October 9, 2001 (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice- files/NOT-OD-02-001.html); a complete copy of the updated Guidelines are available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/women_min/guidelines_amended_10_2001.htm. All investigators proposing research involving human subjects should read the "NIH Policy and Guidelines" on the inclusion of children as participants in research involving human subjects that is available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/children/children.htm. grants.nih.gov /grants/guide/pa-files/PA-03-107.html   (2722 words)

Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) Awards This exploratory research will focus on a set of experiments using the atmospheric component of the NCAR CCSM to test the behavior of the model using different parameterizations of deep convection. This research is important because, if successful, it will enable more credible projections of climate variability and change, which is a requirement for assessing the impacts of climate variability and change on regional spatial scales. Exploratory Research on the Causes of Salinity Errors in the CCSM Coupled Climate Models with Focus on the Subpolar North Pacific. www.cgd.ucar.edu /csm/management/SGERS/SGERList.html   (5284 words)

Research - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The term research is also used to describe an entire collection of information about a particular subject, and is usually associated with the output of science and the scientific method. Applied research can be carried out by academic or industrial institutions. Most funding for scientific research comes from two major sources, corporations (through research and development departments) and government (primarily through universities and in some cases through military contractors). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Research   (1179 words)

Research Awards for Grad Students: Envi Sci Dept, UVA Exploratory Research Awards are merit-based prizes for proposals from graduate students submitted in the spring. Graduate students, prior to the defense of their research proposals, may apply for financial support for exploratory research leading to a thesis or dissertation proposal. A research award proposal, should not exceed three pages of text and must be accompanied by a committee research proposal that has been defended and is signed by the committee. www.evsc.virginia.edu /grad/funding/resawds.shtml   (854 words)

X-15 Research Results: Chapter 4 This research approach requires preflight analysis of all constraints on aerodynamic and stability-and-control characteristics, on structural loads, and on aerodynamic-heating effects to determine the boundary within which the flight can be made with confidence. And flight research requires a certain wariness for unanticipated problems and the inevitable fact that they become obvious only when a system or component is exposed to them at a critical time. During the exploratory program, the capability of the simulator to duplicate controllability at hypersonic speeds and high angle of attack was an important factor in determining the magnitude of each subsequent step up the flight corridor. www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-60/ch-4.html   (4216 words)

VERB - Research Exploratory research is conducted to help better understand the behaviors and mindsets of tweens, parents, and other influencers. Exploratory research also helps to identify different subgroups within the tween market as well as motivators and barriers to tween participation in and parental support of physical activity. Results of this formative research are used to develop an authentic “by kids, for kids” campaign that truly connects with the tween audience and resonates with the parent and influencer audiences. www.cdc.gov /youthcampaign/research/formative.htm   (487 words)

Models in the Research Process Exploratory research means that hardly anything is known about the matter at the outset of the project. The purpose of informative exploratory research is to extract a structure from the source material which in the best case can be formed as a rule that governs all the observations and is not known earlier (per the definition of exploratory study). Similarly, in the initial stage of action research all often agree that the present mode of working is unbearable but all known remedies seem inapplicable, and the participants therefore start making a descriptive model of the work to be used as a basis of development. www.uiah.fi /projects/metodi/177.htm   (2737 words)

NWRC - Development of Chemistry-, Biochemistry-, and Computational-based Tools for Wildlife Damage ... The Exploratory Chemical Research Team is part of the Analytical Chemistry Project at the National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC). A variety of sophisticated analytical techniques are employed to investigate the role of chemicals in such animal behaviors as foraging preference, prey seeking, and flavor aversion. Research conducted by the team is often in collaboration with fellow NWRC scientists, researchers from other federal agencies, and university faculty. www.aphis.usda.gov /ws/nwrc/research/chemistry/exploratory   (337 words)

Chapter 1 The determination of the need for research centers on (1) time constraints, (2) the availability of data, (3) the nature of the decision that must be made, and (4) the value of the business research information in relation to its costs. Word association test: the exploratory research technique in which the subject is presented with a list of words, one at a time, and asked to respond with the first word that comes to mind. Third person technique: the exploratory research technique in which the respondent is asked why a third person does what s/he does or what s/he thinks about an object, event, person, or activity. home.pacbell.net /johanes/Applied_research_journal.htm   (2074 words)

Tyman-Space Online College He is not sure what are the relevant research questions to ask, so would simply ask each salesperson to describe her or his job history before going into the insurance business and about her or his personal work habits. From this exploratory research, we might then have some insights or evidence that can be used to speculate about factors associated with ADD and with a propensity for entrepreneurial quot;success," however we might define these. In focus group research, the research moderator uses a topic guide to lead research participants through a discussion that is designed to probe particular issues of interest to the researcher. www.sykronix.com /tsoc/courses/prin/pr_res.htm   (1345 words)

IQLogo - Marketing research Marketing research - Marketing research (also called "consumer research") comprises a form of applied sociological study which concentrates on understanding the behaviours, whims and preferences, mainly current and future, of consumers in a market-based economy. Advertising research - This attempts to assess the likely impact of an advertising campaign in advance, and also measure the success of a recent campaign. Secondary research costs far less than primary research, but seldom comes in a form that exactly meets the needs of the researcher. www.iqlogo.com /library/market-research.htm   (989 words)

Exploratory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Exploratory research is conducted on consumer needs, preferences and attitudes to provide insight for developing advertising strategy and to identify market segments where different types of marketing efforts will be most effective. BRC's success conducting qualitative research faster and less expensively online instead of in focus groups was featured in a presentation by Kaiser's Jack Bookbinder and Don Bruzzone to the Advertising Research Foundation in October 2002. The case history showed when this type of online research is set up correctly, verbatim responses and reactions in depth can be obtained faster, with greater accuracy and in great enough number to avoid concerns about the small number of respondents typically involved in focus group research. www.bruzzone-research.com /prod03.htm   (192 words)

Information for Grant Applicants: Exploratory Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Preliminary data from a successful exploratory project may be used as the basis for a subsequent R01 or other grant application. Although reviewers are reminded that preliminary data are not required for an exploratory grant application, they must still find some basis for evaluating the significance, innovation and feasibility of the proposed research. The standard for "innovation" in exploratory grants can vary considerably from one reviewer to the next and is frequently the topic of lively discussions at review meetings. www.cancerdiagnosis.nci.nih.gov /funding/exploratoryinfo.html   (1050 words)

Exploratory Research UOP’s Exploratory Research is focused on developing novel technologies both for new platform programs and for breakthrough technologies for catalysts, processes, and products. Our exploratory research is focused in such areas as new catalyst, adsorbent, chemistry, reactor design, process configuration, and separation technologies. One current UOP research project is dedicated to the conversion of natural gas to valuable chemicals and fuels. www.uop.com /overview/8011.html   (119 words)

NRC - Jan Chipchase I conduct exploratory human behavioural field research at Nokia Research Center splitting my time between running user studies and developing new applications, services and products that, if I do my job right, you'll be using 3 to 15 years from now. The presentation format is fixed at 20 slides with 20 seconds per slide with the text of the presentation appearing on last two slidses. Writing about life on the road, conducting user research related to the collision of people, cultures and technology here http://www.janchipchase.com. research.nokia.com /people/jan_chipchase   (657 words)

ETHICS IN MARKETING RESEARCH | MarketingProfs Marketing research is a service function that gathers and analyzes data and makes recommendations for the future direction of the organization being served. Exploratory research follows a format that is less structured and more flexible than descriptive research. For instance, exploratory research may indicate who the key decision makers are in a particular market thus enabling a more structured descriptive study to be targeted to this group. www.marketingprofs.com /ea/qst_question.asp?qstID=12192   (1916 words)

EPA: Federal Register: Office of Research and Development Office of Exploratory Research; Reducing Uncertainty in Risk ... This research is intended to support evaluation of cumulative exposure and dose apportionment and to demonstrate the application of the methods developed to estimate human health risks. An important aspect of this research is improving the scientific understanding of, and reducing the uncertainties surrounding, the relationships among indoor air quality, human exposures, and large building design and operation. Subcontracts for research to be conducted under the grant should not exceed 4012f the total direct cost of the grant for each year in which the subcontract is awarded. www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-WATER/1995/February/Day-09/pr-67.html   (3188 words)

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