Word: nielsens
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...hour day, that would still be two hours and 40 minutes, a hefty chunk of time. Perhaps sensing that for once the high road might offer a competitive advantage in the Nielsen race, ABC news reported on its website today that its staff were being urged not to use the videos anymore. "Obviously, in the first news cycle, there's some breaking news value to that video," said Jeffrey W. Schneider, one of the network 's senior vice presidents. "Once that news cycle has passed, the repeated broadcasting of the material has little news value, and becomes pornographic...
...thirds of dreams are almost exclusively visual, a quarter feature sound and a smaller fraction smell and taste. Nine out of 10 contain emotion, most commonly mild anxiety or frustration. Our dreams tend not to be reproductions of past events but rather, according to research led by Tore Nielsen, director of the Dream & Nightmare Laboratory at Sacr?-Coeur Hospital in Montreal, reinterpretations of events that happened at two distinct time periods: yesterday and about a week ago. We also dream about upcoming events and conversations we'd like to have. Other times the content is so weird who knows where...
...these kinds of studies are needed, he says, "because as we learn to manipulate dream content, we can start to figure out what the rules are that the brain uses in selecting material for our dreams." Though not sold on the memory-consolidation theory, the Dream & Nightmare Laboratory's Nielsen sees merit in it. Of course, if dreaming does embed memories it's doing it in ways we don't understand, he says. "Perhaps memory needs to be sliced and diced and then reassembled in odd ways in order for consolidation to be maximized...
Strumpf and Liebowitz also disagree over the reasons behind the recent decline in album sales. Unit sales have fallen 14 percent since 2002, according to Nielsen SoundScan...
...from big companies who are focused on filling food at the cheapest price," says Friedrich from PETA. Some pet lovers are bypassing store food altogether, serving up home-cooked meals - everything from bone-shaped biscuits to homemade hamburgers. Sales of cookbooks for cats and dogs have increased dramatically, according Nielsen BookScan. But Goldstein of Cornell warns against cooking for your pet. "I would hate for people to stop using commercial pet food, because it's the healthiest diet in the long term for dogs and cats who need multiple vitamins at the proper ratios...