Sentences with phrase «as an ecosystem play»

As an ecosystem play, however, it could be huge.

Not exact matches

As the chart shows, the focus for products and making money during the next three years involves Facebook's ecosystems, while video, search, groups, and the family of apps such as WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram come into play in the next five yearAs the chart shows, the focus for products and making money during the next three years involves Facebook's ecosystems, while video, search, groups, and the family of apps such as WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram come into play in the next five yearas WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram come into play in the next five years.

Klass Capital plays a vital role in the local tech ecosystem and as a tenant and member of our community it will bring fresh opportunities and resources to our network.»

For some teams, ETH's short time in existence played a bigger role than others, while some saw the potential for Ethereum to become a major player not only as a currency, but also in part because of its unique ecosystem.

Accelerators and incubators play an important role within a startup ecosystem, as they provide a platform for young teams and startups to connect with successful entrepreneurs, allowing them to learn from the bests while securing funding and connecting with potential investors and partners.

ShapeShifts simple - to - use exchange plays an important role in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, and its extensive API is used by many third parties as the back - end to power services helping to provide liquidity to cryptocurrencies.

The University of Washington's CSE program plays a vital role in our region's technology ecosystem and is a recognized leader in education, as well as diversity in tech.

Coyotes are part of our ecosystem and play a vital role in controlling smaller populations such as rodents, squirrels, mice and even Canada geese.

By considering the changes in these natural areas over time, students will evaluate the roles humans play as a part of these prairie and lawn ecosystems.

Species that live in these regions, such as krill and salmon, play a critical role in supporting global marine ecosystems, said Kathryn Sullivan, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA's Administrator.

Such resources, known as ecosystem services, were the subject of a symposium held at AAAS» headquarters in Washington, on May 19 where experts explored the role played by the natural forces of ecosystems in protecting adjacent lands and local communities.

Frogs and toads also play an important role, serving as both prey and predator, in wetland ecosystems and are considered indicators of environmental health.

He says the finding demonstrates the role that large mammals like elephants play as «ecosystem engineers» providing resources and habitat to much smaller animals.

«It will also inspire people to take better care of our planet as they learn about the challenges facing park ecosystems and get excited about the science that will help protect them — and the role that each individual can play.»

Fish consumption emerged as playing an important role in future ecosystem declines.

Too much debate treats temperature (and especially the most recent global average) as the sole indicator, whereas many other factors are at play including sea levels, ocean acidity, ice sheets, ecosystem trends, and many more.

Ants play an important role in the ecosystem of forests, dispersing seeds and keeping soil aerated and as a food source for other animals, Pelini said.

The role played by biodiversity in the ability of ecosystems to continue functioning during extreme weather events, which are increasingly frequent as a result of climate change, remains poorly understood.

Birds play an important role in a wide variety of ecosystems as both predator and prey, in controlling insect populations, pollinating and seed dispersal for many plants, and in releasing nutrients on to land and sea in the form of guano.

«The real story here is that we probably need sea otters more than they need us, as they play key roles in the functioning and resiliency of kelp forest and estuarine ecosystems that provide a wide range of services to human societies,» said Dr. M Tim Tinker, a research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey who is presenting an overview of the latest research on southern sea otters and is coauthor of several other new studies presented at the conference.

We will also undermine ecosystem functions (e.g., pollination which is critical for food production) and ecosystem resilience (when losing keystone species in food chains), as well as reduce functional diversity (critical for the ability of ecosystems to respond to shocks and stress) and genetic diversity that plays an important role for development of new medicines, materials, and sources of energy.

A healthy microbiome is a diverse microbiome, and there's no better way to diversify your microbial ecosystem than to spend time outdoors in nature, play in the dirt, and hang out around animals as often as you are able — all will contribute valuable additions to your resident populations of microbes.

However, as research on the human microbiome (the ecosystem within the body) progresses, scientists are coming to realize that fermented foods, which are rich in «good» bacteria, also play an important role in maintaining and optimizing our health.

An emerging success story from Pittsburgh's Remake Learning Network that has played just this role may bolster the case, as it appears to be one of the few clusters that has greatly accelerated innovation in education along a variety of metrics — and helped unearth emergent, critical gaps in the ecosystem for new organizations to fill.

In much the same way that vendor adoption of developer standards such as LTI would improve interoperability in a plug - and - play ecosystem, a similar standard - driven strategy for learning data could ensure 3rd party apps, the Learning Management System, and Student Information Systems (SIS) all deliver uniformly structured data events to a central location, like a Learner Record Store (LRS).

State policy and other ecosystem features have a significant impact on the role EMOs or CMOs play in a state, as evidenced by wide variation in the share of EMO - and CMO - run schools across states.

Android Auto is built around Google Maps, Google Now and the ability to talk to Google, as well as a growing audio and messaging app ecosystem that includes WhatsApp, Skype, Google Play Music, Spotify, and podcast players.

The company is currently battling a number of alternative ecosystems such as Google Play and Amazon.

Amazon's Fire devices, as I've said, play a crucial role in expanding its Prime ecosystem, which has become in many ways the very heart of the company.

Amazon Fire tablets are a bit more proprietary than other Android slates, as they hook directly into Amazon's content ecosystem rather than running raw, unadulterated Android via the Google Play content platform.

«The more ecosystems that we can play with and have available, the better we, as OEMs, can come up with developing the right hardware for the right consumer,» Tayar says.

Twitter and Facebook plays here very important role as they are natural ecosystems gathering people of all walks of life.

The market may have space for three music / video ecosystems (iTunes, Amazon, & Google Play), but B&N has little chance of breaking in as a fourth.

With over 30 species of coral, some of which are listed as endangered, Olowalu Reef plays an important role in the local ecosystem.

The outbreak of sea star wasting disease caused significant changes to the ecosystem as sea stars are a keystone species that plays an important role in controlling the numbers of other creatures.

«Arthropods are often feared, misunderstood, or labelled as pests — unjustly — despite the pivotal role they play in the Earth's ecosystems.

Heron has a Marine Centre where you check - in for diving and snorkelling, and as important, an Information Centre where you can learn how your Reef functions, but also plays a part in planet - wide ecosystems.

In treating a game's systems (mechanics) as ecosystems in which a player is free to use the mechanics at their disposal in a game world that is fully capable of reacting to them with depth and consistency (which, as counterintuitive as it sounds, often ends up creating interesting unpredictability for players), we start seeing games as true worlds for players to discover not just visually and thematically but in play as well.

But I hope it's clear that individual game experiences are comprised of player practices and the artefacts played with just as much as play ecosystems are.

The play ecosystem offers a more complete picture — but I still contend my argument applies to those individual play experiences as well.

Sony has played this console generation masterfully, with their marketing team putting in hard hours to make sure that the console succeeds and continues to grow as an ecosystem.

I'm kinda sick of people hating on indie games without seemingly ever having played ANY OF THEM, because there are a ton of amazing ones out there, especially on PS4 (the ratio of good to bad on PC is a lot lower, as there's no real quality control in that ecosystem).

But I did notice how it took too long for me to begin playing, I feel Nintendo still doesn't understand how things like online accounts and online ecosystems work, as the whole Global Mission fiasco on Pokémon Sun / Moon also showed.

But what if they already have the handheld as part of the home console they bought, and what if they didn't have to worry about two separate ecosystems of games, but could just continue playing the game they were playing at home while on the train to work?

As you can see in the Newzoo graphic above, Microsoft is the only competitor out of the big 3 in the console market to effectively tap into the market of console / PC gamers and creating a new ecosystem around these people that wish to play both and to have their games, friends, achievements, captures etc. on both will have that available to them whether they're playing on their console or on their PC.

Although when compared to other games in the market, there are still older titles that will be a little more pretty than World, but only slightly as the vast ecosystems, combined with the rich detail of the monsters makes playing the game a visual treat.

Instead and pressingly, even with wild up and downs, flaws and all, the 2017 Whitney Biennial is the best of its kind in some time for the multiple ways it reveals how — selected as it is, without overdetermined political and aesthetic dogma, and curators remaining open to the exigencies of pleasure and the mysterious ways that art mutates but doesn't play catch - up — a show of artists simply at work, whether making expressionistic paintings, idiosyncratic functional constructions, casting the further shores of socially activist conceptualism, or documenting collapsing ecosystems or family dynamics — that artists are always addressing and channeling issues of the day.

The Advisory Board plays an important part in establishing our long term thematic research agenda into global sustainability issues, such as poverty, climate change, ecosystem services, biodiversity, pandemics, demographics, migration, public policy and responsible lobbying.

They are a cornerstone of ocean ecosystems and play a significant role, as they die and sink, in taking carbon out of circulation and locking it away in rock.

«These pretty beach tokens play an important role in ecosystems; algae take shelter in shells, birds use them to build nests, and hermit crabs carry them as armor,» notes Conservation Magazine.