Sentences with phrase «agent model of»

And those of us who hoped that the electronic publishing revolution would kill most of the writer / agent model of publishing have been wrong.

This human - agent model of disease dynamics can then be used to provide reproducible empirical analyses, yielding greater insights into the behavioural reactions and individual responses of people threatened by outbreaks of disease.

Not exact matches

First, most real estate operations consist of independent agents trying to run their own business or operate on behalf of a larger agency on a franchise model.

In 2000, Dale launched a brokerage called Realtysellers that offered different levels of service and lower fees to home sellers, breaking from the old full - service model that saw agents involved in every part of the transaction, including advertising, showings and negotiating the close.

Until the company can move away from an ad - driven business model (which accounts for 90 percent of revenue), it will continue to make people's data available to advertisers and potentially bad agents.

There may be pressure on traditional commissions, but more important, there will be a realignment of agents» service model with their customers» needs.

Though Saber doesn't see realtors going the way of travel agents, «I do expect they'll have to significantly adjust their business model and their sales model and their strategy model and their service model.»

In 2009, he decided he wanted to do something more creative, and joined modelling agency Chic Management — which has worked with the likes of Miranda Kerr — with the goal of being «like [Hollywood agent] Ari Gold from «Entourage.»»

In 2016, CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. found that some of the most in - demand jobs included sales managers, insurance sales agents, heavy and tractor - trailer truck drivers, bus and truck mechanics, and diesel engine specialists.

For Tzell, that's been based largely on expanding its independent agent model into a form of consolidation that's really a partnership with other travel agencies, allowing it to leverage their volume without actually buying the partner's assets.

These «Blue Star» agents will be the first of their kind for MSI, and if successful, the model may scale across Marie Stopes» global system.»

Shiller is also an advocate of behavioral finance, the soft form of which proposes that real economic actors do not act like the agents in Marshallian economic models.

In fact, the traditional business model of a team, where the leader was the «rain - maker» and the other members acted as buyer agents, will no longer be possible in this new regime.

Similar to the Department of Labor fiduciary rule, the NAIC model would place limits on agent compensation, require more disclosures and set a «best interest» standard.

The model we should be using is rather that of action which issues from free choice, the voluntary action of an intelligent agent.

The Century editors were agents of interfaith amity and victims of an obsolete model.

Naturalistic models have in practice presented a closed scheme of cause and effect wholly autonomous to the investigating agent; whereas the actual process of discovery may lead to a change in the agent in the very act of becoming conscious of meaning.

Aristotle, in his Politics, described the workings of an economy using a household model in which economic agents distribute goods to maximize the flourishing of their loved ones.

A further element in this new conception of reception, and an inheritance from the classical model of reception, is that it understands the agents of this comprehensive process to include all of the members of the Church, while specifying g the particular roles of Church leaders, of the whole body of the faithful, and of theologians.

But if an ancestral chain model of the self is true, then when a person does an immoral deed at time t1, if we punish a person - stage in the «same» chain at time t2, later than t1, we are not really punishing the responsible agent who did the deed at t1.

On this model God's finite partners are the sum total of agents in the world, and all join in the process of creation.

In the process model of God the persuasive ordering principle coordinates the creativity of a multitude of creative agents, each with its own degree of freedom.

Then is discussed several models of God which have been employed, particularly two which have recently been developed under the influence of philosophical thought: the agent model and the process model.

Four models of God's relation to the world have been mentioned, patterned respectively after an absolute monarch and his kingdom, a clockmaker and a clock, a dialogue between two persons, and an agent and his actions.

But the most serious objection is that the agent model does not preserve the independence and freedom of creatures in the world.

The Whiteheadian model thus leads to a metaphysical analysis which allows for the actions of a multiplicity of agents.

This is the agent model which has been developed under the influence of recent work in linguistic philosophy.

We will see that in the process model more than one agent may influence a given event, so that both God's action and that of other agents can be represented.

It appears that the strength of the dialogic model lies in its ability to depict God's relation to man, whereas the agent model is most valuable in depicting God's relation to nature.

In the ecological model the persuasive ordering principle that coordinates the creativity of a multitude of creative agents is the divine Eros.

BuyMyPlace CEO Paul Heath said the growth of the company demonstrates that «the commission - free real estate model is resonating with many Australians who are no longer prepared to pay excessive and unnecessary commissions to agents».

Today, conditions seem more fertile.Unlike the NASL, the 12th - year, 13 - club MLS has seven teams (and counting) playing in soccer - specific stadiums; four new national TV contracts; a countrywith 42 million Hispanics, many of them soccer lovers; a base of competitivehomegrown players feeding a U.S. team that has reached five straight WorldCups; and a single - entity business model that prevents teams from spendingthemselves into bankruptcy by bidding against each other for free agents.

The current preoccupation of political theorists with formulating models of democracy means that they tend to assume the existence of readymade political agents — that individuals are willing and able to participate in political life (once its underlying rules and procedures have been clarified).

Social science has a long tradition of using computational and agent - based modelling approaches (e.g. Schelling's Model of Segregation), but the new challenge is to feed real - life, and sometimes even real - time information into those systems to get gain rapid insights into the validity of research hypotheses.

A republican model of economic governance sees the company as a self - governing association of members that incorporates owners, employees, users, and other agents that have an interest in the company's success.

Let's first give a very brief sketch of some of the main preoccupations of post-war liberal economic theory, which sought to understand the actual behaviour of economic agents under conditions of scarcity through the creation of predictive models.

Mulcaire admitted to hacking the messages of the five other victims: Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers» Association; Simon Hughes, a member of Parliament; the model Elle Macpherson; Max Clifford, a powerful public - relations agent; and Sky Andrew, who represented some of England's biggest soccer stars.

You are role models and agents of change and you also contribute to the socio - economic development of this nation and for that the government recognizes all your efforts.»

The group has devised a model that includes agents representing all 8.5 million New Yorkers, plus a smaller set of agents representing the entire population of individual mosquitoes, as estimated from traps.

The downside is that models like NPS1 tend to be big — each of the model's initial runs kept a 500 - microprocessor computing cluster busy for a day and a half — forcing the agents to be relatively simple - minded.

A plume of radioactive fallout (yellow) stretches east across Washington, D.C., a few hours after a nuclear bomb goes off near the White House in this snapshot of an agent - based model.

Because their goal was to simulate social phenomena on ordinary desktop computers, they pared agent - based modeling down to its essence: a set of simple agents that moved around a grid in search of «sugar» — a foodlike resource that was abundant in some places and scarce in others.

But epidemiologists are increasingly turning to agent - based models to include factors that the equations ignore, such as geography, transportation networks, family structure, and behavior change — all of which can strongly affect how disease spreads.

In an agent - based model published in 2011, sociologist Ben Aguirre and his colleagues at the University of Delaware in Newark tried to reproduce what happened in a 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire.

«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.

Only now, instead of following fixed story lines and predictions assembled ahead of time, they are using computers to play what - if with an entire artificial society: an advanced type of computer simulation called an agent - based model.

Unlike traditional traffic models, which used equations to describe moving vehicles en masse as a kind of fluid, Transims modeled each vehicle and driver as an agent moving through a city's road network.

«The study results elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying disease progression in multiple sclerosis models, providing a basis for future clinical trials to determine safety and efficacy of these chemical agents in humans with demyelinating disorders,» says Patrizia Casaccia, MD, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience, Genetics and Genomic Sciences at Mount Sinai and senior author of the study.

«We know that 70 - 75 percent of glioblastoma patients undergo surgery for tumor debulking, and we have previously shown that MSCs encapsulated in biocompatible gels can be used as therapeutic agents in a mouse model that mimics this debulking,» he continued.

Specifically, the Mount Sinai study was designed to test whether pharmacological compounds designed to block the function of XPO1 / CRM1 could stop disease progression in mouse models that exhibit some of the characteristics of MS. Researchers found that two chemical agents (called KPT - 276 and KPT - 350) prevented XPO1 / CRM1 from shuttling cargo out of the nucleus of nerve cells, which protected them from free radicals and structural damage.