InvestorWords.com - Online Investing Glossary. A credit card that is branded for a specific retail establishment, manufacturer or special interest. For example, a Sears credit card issued by Visa that applies only to purchases at Sears retail stores.
Basic Concepts: Research, Bus. Research; Methods and methodology; population and sample; census and sampling; variable and attribute; Operational definition; Data, information and knowledge; Research is a process of identifying the status of a phenomenon through deploying various methods in a systematic manner.
For the study of the development of science, see History of science. Historical method comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence, including the evidence of archaeology, to research and then to write histories in the form of accounts of the past.