Sentences with phrase «agency model leveled»

Apple and publishers may argue that the agency model leveled the playing field for booksellers, forcing them to compete on hardware and software features instead of pricing.

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Prior to the earthquake and tsunami, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency had modeled a 54 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from 2000 levels by 2050, and a 90 percent reduction by 2100, with nuclear energy accounting for upwards of 60 percent of the country's total energy mix.

The report, which drew heavily on two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workshops held in 1995, also recommends more research on such topics as DNA biomarkers that can gauge an organism's exposure to endocrine disruptors; models for predicting how endocrine disruptors are metabolized; mechanisms of how endocrine disruptors act at a cellular level; and the effects of mixtures.

In the future, Orton says, improved storm - surge models could predict where flood zones should be drawn given future sea level rise, which is now done nationally by the Federal Emergency Management Agency with data from past storms.

For example, the simple inflationary models that predict observable levels of gravitational waves also suggest that hints of these waves should have been seen in the temperature fluctuations observed by the European Space Agency's Planck satellite.

For lead exposure, for example, they used lead levels in drinking water or soil, and a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency model that translates the data into projected blood lead levels.

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.

That's the conclusion of a new study by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Joannes Westerink, chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences and co-developer of the authoritative computer model for storm surge used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the state of Louisiana to determine water levels due to hurricane surge and to design levee heights and alignments.

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While the ever - expanding role of the U.S. Department of Education in state and local level matters remains a concern, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) acknowledges benefits of the proposed revisions to the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program, extending the grant period from three to five years, and allowing local education agencies to use SIG funds to implement, in one or more SIG eligible schools, a state - determined intervention model.

So, in the name of antitrust, the level playing field of the past two years — agency model e-books were priced the same whether sold by Amazon, Barnes & Noble or independent bookstores — will likely revert to a situation where a near - monopoly power determines pricing and most other retailers see their already - smaller market share shrink.

Under the agency model, a publisher sets a retail price for a specific book, which establishes a level playing field for all resellers.

With the agency model, Apple could offer the publishers the ability to set the prices at whatever level they liked, such as $ 12.99, $ 14.99 or $ 16.99.

The stated goal was to mandate retail prices for Kindle books, and all other ebooks under the agency model publishers» control, at levels that would be 30 to 50 percent higher than the $ 9.99 price that Amazon had previously set for Kindle Store new releases.

His Shatzkin Files have been chronicling the changing ebooks retailing landscape wrought by the agency model ever since Apple added ebooks to the iTunes store and demanded all publishers it works with change to agency pricing — thereby allowing Apple to sell books on a level pricing field with all other e-tailers.

If the retailer is paying a set price at the wholesale level and has the ability to discount, it is a wholesale model, else anything with an MSRP would be considered agency pricing.

Flight Centre injected an unprecedented level of expertise to the travel agency model in the UAE, delivering amazing travel experiences to our customers through a unique mix of unparalleled product and expert customer service.

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.

At one point someone in a government agency commented that they liked the model of a particular consultant because it yielded detailed manufacturing sub-sector predictions at the provincial level.

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.

In 2011 created Excel model of cash flow projection to estimate the level of credit line needed for transition from HRA to MCO; model was picked up and utilized by JP Morgan Chase Bank to estimate the level of funds needed by individual HA agencies to transition to MCO

As a result, I have recommended better coordination of programs at the state and territory level and that a national roundtable of government and community be convened to talk about how all agencies can work together to better support Indigenous women leaving prison and to also talk about the successful models that might be useful in other parts of the country.

This can be seen at the program level in collaboration across home visiting models; at the state level in which multiple agencies work together to implement the grant; and at the federal level in which grantees work across state lines to identify best practices and provide communities of support.

Strategies: Mobilise / promote action at local level; coordinate and broker assistance from other agencies; establish local role model project with emphasis on positive role models; increase community's awareness of services available to address family violence issues such as internet information and counselling; support Stolen Generation strategies aimed at dealing with family violence.

Strategies: Establish a community reporting system that can assist in implementing the regional plan; support the preparation of community plans that can articulate regional planning issues at the local level; facilitate development of community consultation protocols that all levels of government and non-government agencies should follow; develop and disseminate an options paper on regional autonomy that can assist communities in the region develop appropriate autonomy models; advocate the Torres Strait Regional Authority to establish links with Torres Strait Islander people of the region.

Perceived positive outcomes for the model include: decline in crime rate and level of violence; an effective community corrections program at Palm Island that has kept people from appearing before court and from possible incarceration; dramatic decrease in juvenile crime at Kowanyama; changes in social patterns; more effective government service delivery, leading to savings in time and money for government and community agencies, courts, law enforcement agencies and correctional centres.

I have been using Buyer Agency Agreements since 1995 and teach classes to real estate agents on their use and how to incorporate them in their business model to increase the level of their professionalism.