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Automatic Music Search (AMS): A feature that allows a CD or cassette mechanism to skip forward or backwards to another track.

Program Music: Instrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial associations, especially popular in the nineteenth century.

Qualitative Research: Traditional analysis of firm-specific prospects for future earnings. It may be based on data collected by the analysts, there is no formal quantitative framework used to generate projections.

Pay Per Click Search Engine (PPCSE): Search engine where results are ranked according to the bid amount and advertisers are charged only when a searcher clicks on the search listing.

Organic Search Results: Most major search engines have results that consist of paid ads and unpaid listings. The unpaid / algorithmic listings are called the organic search results. Organic search results are organ . . . View Full Definition

Natural Search Results: The search engine results which are not sponsored, or paid for in any way.

Nielsen Media Research (NMR): A firm involved in local and national measurement of the TV audience: also involved in other research activities.

Quantitative Research: Use of advanced econometric and mathematical valuation models to identify the firms with the best possible prospectives. Antithesis of qualitative research.

National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRI): Generally referred to as the NRI, this program makes grants to scientists at both public and private laboratories for basic and applied agricultural research in priority areas as designated . . . View Full Definition

Research Department: The office in an institutional investing organizations that analyzes markets and securities.