Sentences with phrase «agency model between»

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A collaborative effort was developed between Erie County Department of Social Services Employment Division and community agencies to create the neighborhood hub site model.

«There's a fundamental trade - off between the complexity of individual agents and the size of the simulation,» says Jonathan Pfautz, who funds agent - based modeling of social behavior as a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Virginia.

Using data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Multiple - Cause of Death Files (2006 - 2015), US Census Bureau, US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, the study modeled associations between county - level drug - related mortality rates and economic, social, and healthcare environments.

The 3D model was created from data harvested by the agency's Dawn spacecraft over the course of its year - long stay in orbit around the asteroid between July 2011 and September 2012.

Deputy mayor Richard Buery on Monday defended the community school model's efficacy in improving student academic outcomes after the administration announced partnerships between social services agencies and 45 new community schools.

The Council proposes an equitable and sustainable model to extend support across both rural and urban school districts, leveraging resources through a new partnership between public education agencies, institutions and non-profit partners with flexibility for local contexts and priorities.

The surprise is not over the German native's sudden departure, which VW says was «through mutual agreement,» but that Horn was still on the job half a year after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency accused the automaker of using a «cheater» device that would make it appear, falsely, that more than 482,000 diesel models sold here between 2009 and 2015 met emissions standards.

But when I read the discussion that took place over the weekend at Paidcontent.org between Mathew Ingram and Laura Owen that is described as a «smack - down,» I scratch my head and wonder if anyone can make something more than an emotional and nostalgic argument to defend a practice (the likely illegal price - fixing scheme called «agency pricing «-RRB- that is just such a «subsidy» model.

I mean, Amazon had a very high percentage, around 90 percent, a few years ago when the agency model, as it's called, was introduced in these five or six publishers that agreed to set the price of e-books between $ 12 and $ 15.

While Amazon originally worked under the wholesale model, which afforded the retailer the opportunity to sell ebooks at less than their cost in order to push sales of their Kindle e-readers, the alleged collusion between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers actually refers to their switch to an agency pricing model, which allowed publishers to set the price of the ebooks for the retailers.

You don't have to memorize the contract differences between the agency model vs. the wholesale model, or read every blog on the subject, or track the negotiation proceedings between Hachette and Amazon like it's the World Cup.

It appears that Hachette and HarperCollins communicated with each other about moving to an agency model during the brief window between Mr. Cue's first telephone calls to the Publisher Defendants and his visit to meet with their CEOs.

The death grip of the fight, it seems, is that Amazon knows that if it allows Hachette to switch to an agency pricing model — which was at the center of the far - reaching ebook price fixing lawsuit between Apple and the Big Five publishers — that other publishers will quickly follow suit, stripping Amazon of much of its power as a discount retailer.

Under the agency model — one of the factors that led the investigators to believe that anti-trust violations had taken place between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers, including HarperCollins — publishers get to set the price of ebooks, rather than retailers; under the previous wholesale model, retailers could purchase books directly from the publishers, then turn around and sell those titles for any amount, even taking a loss on the books in order to boost sales of other products.

We have assumed that the new «agency model» will be used for all books sold on the iBookstore for split of revenue between Apple and the Publishers.

Between lower prices for indie and non-Big 5 publishers and Kindle Unlimited, I am reading a lot more than if I bought only Big 5 e-books priced under their modified agency pricing model.

In February, the book publisher Macmillan demanded that Amazon agree to charge customers between $ 12.99 and $ 14.99 for e-books while the Hachette Book Group announced that it would be transitioning to an «agency model» for the sale of its e-books to protect its prices.

The end of the love affair between Amazon and the major legacy publishers came with the agency pricing model.

I'm not saying I agree with the authors on every count, but the articles do clarify the differences between the agency and wholesale models.

Under the agency model, when the publisher mandated a retail price of $ 12.99 to $ 14.99 for an ebook, it stood to receive 70 % from Amazon or another retailer — or somewhere between $ 9 and $ 10.50.

The government complaint said the move to the agency model followed meetings between chief executives in «private dining rooms of upscale Manhattan restaurants», where «confidential business and competitive matters, including Amazon's ebook's retailing practices» were discussed.

We're often asked about the differences between the wholesale and agency models that govern ebook sales through retail channels.

NASA has just released two free e-books about the Hubble Space Telescope and its not - yet - launched successor, with interactive features that let readers watch a galaxy collision or manipulate a telescope model between pages, agency officials say.

That is the big difference between the agency pricing model that was struck down by the courts.

Now that big - six publishers are using the agency model, generally pricing e-books between $ 12.99 and $ 14.99, those e-books look relatively expensive in comparison to the physical books that Amazon still buys using the wholesale model and prices low (taking no profit or a very small one in many cases).

This new agency model is somewhere in between but will definitely put other ebook retailers at a disadvantage, especially if they're not as diversified as Amazon and unable to make a profit somewhere else.

I haven't researched the precise timing of events, but I wouldn't be surprised if the agency - model deal between Apple and the Big 6 pushed Amazon into starting its own publishing imprints or accelerated plans it already had to do so.

However, because the data each credit bureau collects varies, there may be significant differences between agencies» scores even if they are using the same scoring model.

● Gain a working knowledge of trail construction and maintenance with a highly respected non-profit organization, with a model partnership between two Federal agencies.

Some of the issues to be expanded upon are: research as artistic production; the problematic question of agency within co-production; professionalization versus the instinctual amateur; writing as curatorial practice; the exhibition as a form of research action; expanded notions of the curatorial and the role of research models and methodologies within these; art writing as a curatorial form, and the distinction between research into curatorial practice / exhibition histories and the curatorial as in itself a mode of research practice.

Transformazium aims to use the tools of the artist to call attention to existing wealth and strength in a place that is often considered under - resourced; to meet practical needs for information, communication and resource exchange among residents of a neighborhood and between neighborhoods; offer art and design consultation as a means for residents of a neighborhood to exercise critical aesthetic agency; exchange models of action and facilitate communication between neighborhoods and communities facing similar challenges.

We take our model of the drop here from the International Energy Agency, whose forthcoming World Energy Outlook 2009 projects a roughly 4 % drop between 2007 and 2009, and a subsequent return to 2007 levels by 2011 followed by a further 15 % rise to 2015.

Modelling from the Met Office in a 2012 report for the Environment Agency suggests that climate change could raise sea levels in the area between 20 and 90 centimetres by the end of the century, and warns that eventual sea level rise could be much higher if greenhouse gas emissions are not cut.

The Model Approaches to Statewide Legal Assistance Systems demonstration grant is a cooperative grant between the Vermont Agency of Human Services» Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living (DAIL) and Vermont Legal Aid.

Collaboration Between TANF and Child Welfare to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes Discretionary Grant Cluster Child Welfare Information Gateway Discusses projects funded that demonstrate models of effective collaboration between public assistance (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and child welfare agencies that will improve outcomes for children and youth who are in, or are at risk of entering, the child welfare Between TANF and Child Welfare to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes Discretionary Grant Cluster Child Welfare Information Gateway Discusses projects funded that demonstrate models of effective collaboration between public assistance (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and child welfare agencies that will improve outcomes for children and youth who are in, or are at risk of entering, the child welfare between public assistance (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and child welfare agencies that will improve outcomes for children and youth who are in, or are at risk of entering, the child welfare system.

Review of the Literature on Child Welfare Training: Theory, Practice, and Research (PDF - 4560 KB) Collins, Amodeo, & Clay (2007) Reviews macro issues impacting child welfare training, describes training practice and delivery approaches, discusses the development of partnership models between public child welfare agencies and institutions of higher education, and presents information on evaluation research.

The Collaboration Primer: Proven Strategies, Considerations, and Tools to Get You Started (PDF - 290 KB) Torres & Margolin (2003) Reviews considerations for forming and participating in interagency collaborations and presents models for collaboration between community providers and agencies.

While the shortcomings of this approach are increasingly becoming apparent [25] they are an important first model of the management relationship between Indigenous land holders and a conservation agency.

For example, models of engagement between departmental officials and communities under a lead agency approach are extremely vulnerable to changes in key personnel, and the conflicting priorities arising from multiple changes of government.

The mission of the OCCY is to improve services to children by: Planning, coordinating and communicating with communities and between public and private agencies; independent monitoring of the children and youth service system; testing models and demonstration programs for effective services.

By 1991, all three credit reporting agencies were using a FICO model to generate a number between 300 - 850 that quantifies an individual's ability to pay back money borrowed.

The strategic partnership between Black Real Estate and Keller Williams Realty Worldwide evolved after TT did some shopping around to learn about other agencies» business models and partnership opportunities.