31.   Companies usually submit research to the agency that includes follow-up studies on how patients fare long after a course of medication or a procedure has been completed.

32.   Department officials say that shifting the focus of research to engineering considerations is natural.

33.   Dalton likens the research to a chess game.

34.   Elderhostel pairs socially-concerned elders with nonprofit organizations in need of volunteers, for duties ranging from tutoring children to ecological research to conservation work.

35.   E-Trade has experimented with several formats but is leaning toward a subscription plan that will promise IPO access and institutional research to customers for a fee.

36.   Firms provide research to institutions in exchange for their trading business and to help attract corporate clients who need to raise money through the sale of stocks and bonds.

37.   Funds earn these credits by directing their trades to full-service brokers who charge premium commission rates but, unlike discount brokers, provide detailed securities research to clients.

38.   He recently took his research to the environmental group Standing for Truth About Radiation Foundation, saying he hoped to prompt action.

39.   He sells his research to individual and institutional investors.

40.   He says the research to date has merely established that the building blocks for a biological computer can work at a fundamental level.