Vitamin A Deficiency. Although not extremely common in the United States, a deficiency of vitamin A in the diet can have a significant effect on the body; vitamin A deficiency is associated with xerophthalmia, or dry eyes, and is also characterized by an increase in night blindness and can even lead to overall blindness.
A contract research organization (CRO) is an organization that provides support to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries in the form of research services outsourced on a contract basis.ne estimate had the size of the market set to reach $24 billion in 2010 and set to grow at a rate of 8.5% through 2015. The top CROs, according to outsourcing-pharma.com, are Quintiles, Parexel, Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD), INC Research, Covance, Medpace, PRA Health Sciences, inVentiv Health, and Chiltern.
Marketing research is used to determine why sales of a product, such as cereal, might have dropped. Qualitative data, typically gathered through interviews, can help market researchers determine the popular opinion. Marketing research is the research that companies do to study customers and other companies. Marketing research might include using social media to see what in trending within a particular industry. Giving away free samples in exchange for filling out a survey is one way companies conduct marketing research.