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As more and more business owners retire over the next decade, the search fund model will become a meaningful part of the private investment ecosystem and a more popular choice for existing owners.

As we highlight on this report, with the right actions at the right time, our model suggests Barcelona can generate in between $ 1.7 billion and $ 3.2 billion in ecosystem value in the next few years.

-- three times as many as other ecosystems that are also in the Activation Phase of Startup Genome's Ecosystem Lifecycle Model.

Incorporating ecosystem thinking into the crafting of a Buyer Experience Strategy can mitigate the confusion as well as the complexity while at the same time transforming the organization to a model of high regard in providing memorable buyer experiences.

As such, our partnership with Alibaba will allow Nestlé to develop an innovative business model, as it not only provides online sales solutions but also builds up an ecosystem where brands can intrinsically combine branding, marketing, sales and customer care togetheAs such, our partnership with Alibaba will allow Nestlé to develop an innovative business model, as it not only provides online sales solutions but also builds up an ecosystem where brands can intrinsically combine branding, marketing, sales and customer care togetheas it not only provides online sales solutions but also builds up an ecosystem where brands can intrinsically combine branding, marketing, sales and customer care together.

Territories that includes creating new social interaction models, new roles as members of a social ecosystem, and advancing social business models that may very well alter the structure and business operations they have been wedded to for decades — in ways they could not have dreamed of just a few short years ago.

«Kin will fuel new experiences in communications, information, and commerce inside of Kik, and will also serve as a foundation for a new decentralized ecosystem of digital services, bringing a fair and sustainable business model to the market.»

Once this ultimate structure of divine - human communion has been actualized in the life of Christ, tried, purged, and refined in the crucible of the Way of the Cross, and given the double - sided efficacy to which we have referred subsequent to the events of Resurrection and Pentecost, the new aeon is present with a power and certainty as great as the size of God and the constancy of the divine love — that is to say, as great as a process - relational model of real contingency in the divine - worldly ecosystem will allow, given God's excellence and pre-eminence within that ecosystem.

In his remark, the Chief Transformation Officer of MTN Nigeria Olubayo Adekambi identified «the expansion of E-commerce into a dual business model that blends the physical and the digital to create an ecosystem between brands and consumers across the two worlds», as among the major factors fueling the increase in adoption of smartphones.

This model is widely used by both UK and international groups for research into ocean circulation, climate and marine ecosystems, and operationally as part of the UK Met Office's weather forecasting.

This type of conclusion raises the possibility of using mathematical models as an early warning system that catastrophic changes in the ecosystem are imminent, enabling appropriate action (such as reduced grazing).»

The CCZ serves as a model for how future deep - sea ecosystem management could unfold.

In their model herbivory is greatest in relatively unproductive environments, with predation more important and the impact of herbivory reduced as ecosystem productivity increases.

Furthermore, climate models for every ecosystem need to better account for organisms such as termites and mussels that «engineer their own environment,» Huisman said.

Williams and his team used computer models to predict what will happen to the world's ecosystems as temperatures rise.

The researchers paired MIT's global circulation model — which simulates physical phenomena such as ocean currents, temperatures, and salinity — with an ecosystem model that simulates the behavior of 96 species of phytoplankton.

• The models generated time estimates needed for both unregulated and partially regulated coral reef fisheries to recovery; a moderately fished coral reef system can recover within approximately 35 years on average, while the most depleted ecosystems may take as long as 59 years with adequate protection.

In a study published today in the journal Nature, the researchers refer to this alternative model as «piggyback - the - winner,» and it could have implications for phage - based medicine and ecosystem resilience in the face of environmental disturbances that promote microbial blooms.

Today, analyzing and editing genomes, proteomes and metabolomes has become a standard for many model systems; imaging beyond the diffraction limit of light and new technologies for studying protein structures provide insights deeper than ever before; the characterization of large populations of cells or organisms brings unprecedented statistical power; and studying nearly all organisms of an ecosystems as a whole allows generating comprehensive models.

development of a regional scale earth system model that includes coupling WRF with other earth system components such as ocean, sea ice, land surface hydrology, ecosystem, and chemistry; and

The study is commissioned by the U.S. National Geospatial Agency to help U.S. Department of Defense agencies understand and model the interaction of complex adaptive systems such as natural ecosystems, individual organisms, and human communities, organizations and families.

To establish CINAR as a leader in promoting «rational ocean stewardship» and serve as a model for development of similar ecosystem approaches to management in other regions;

What is also not commonly discussed as being part of the models is the effect of having diminished the ability of the ecosystem to respond to stress because we have altered the entire system.

These forces are re-shaping the industry as it is with every passing day, and this is why all innovative ecosystems are needed in order to keep up with the ever changing models which will shape the new tomorrow.

Learning how software is developed and how the ecosystem of computer technology really works helps us understand the new models through which we'll be working and living as a society.

For those who aren't wedded to Amazon's ecosystem, though, the Google Nexus 7 keeps its place at the top among compact Android tablets, and the iPad Minis hold sway as the only compact tablets for iOS, at $ 160 more for an equivalent Retina display model or an extra $ 70 for the basic, much - lower - res 2012 iPad Mini.

In fact, the 16 GB $ 199 model is the same price as the 8 GB Amazon Kindle Fire ($ 199, 4 stars), although the Kindle Fire is a more capable media machine, with its nicely integrated, cloud - based ecosystem of books, music, and movies.

Apple, which faces a growing challenge in the mobile space from the dominant Google Android system, has been tweaking its business model as part of an effort to keep developers in its ecosystem.

Libraries and publishers, as well as authors, found themselves in this new digital ecosystem, with all the players trying to sort out business models that would work for them.

While the addition of cover art to the home screen seems like a welcome change and an easier way to browse books, Amazon does place a strip of «Suggested Books» or «Bestselling Books» at the bottom of the display — and this is in addition to the «Special Offers» below that if you opted for the cheaper model — which shows that Amazon is selling Kindles and Kindle Fires at very aggressive prices partially in the hopes that users will buy lots of stuff from their excellent and expanding content ecosystem, including Kindle Books and newspapers, as well as videos and songs and apps for the Kindle Fire.

to Dive conservation and other efforts leading to a healthy ecosystem at Turneffe Atoll supporting sustainable social and economic benefits for Belize and serving as a model for similar coastal marine environments throughout the world.

Approximately 30 miles long and 10 miles across, Turneffe has evolved as a model coastal marine ecosystem.

Newly added creatures include giant genetically engineered super soldiers and vicious killer fungi, and many towns have been completely rebuilt to take advantage of new building models and ecosystem options such as volumetric fog.

Our study once again emphasizes the importance of a realistic representation of ocean physics, in particular vertical mixing, as a necessary foundation for ecosystem modeling and predictions.»

When the climate model output is fed into ecosystem models, and these in turn are coupled to socio - economic analysis tools, the potential future scenarios that come out, assuming the world continues its business as usual, appear rather grim, see e.g. the very interesting final report of the European ATEAM project.

Permafrost modeling studies typically indicate a potential release of in the neighborhood ~ 200 PgC as carbon dioxide equivalent by 2100, though poorly constrained, but comparable to other biogeochemical and climate - ecosystem related feedbacks, such as the additional CO2 released by the warming of terrestrial soils.

Prognostic models of terrestrial carbon cycle and terrestrial ecosystem processes are central for any consideration of the effects of environmental change and analysis of mitigation strategies; moreover, these demands will become even more significant as countries begin to adopt carbon emission targets.

Disturbance regimes such as fire are also incorporated into the models, and these disturbances are essential in order to treat successfully competitive dynamics and hence future patterns of ecosystem.

Predictive models that can forecast biodiversity decline under anthropogenic climate change used to be too simplistic, as these ignored crucial biological mechanisms such as demography, dispersal, evolution, and species interactions (for instance species competition and ecosystem dependence).

«In almost all of our mathematical models of ecosystems and forests, drought is generally treated like a light switch,» says William Anderegg, an assistant professor at the University of Utah, and lead author on the study: «When drought stress is present, the switch is flipped and trees grow more slowly and die more often, but as soon as the drought disappears, the switch is flipped back the other way.»

Based on measurements of ecosystem CO2 flux, radiation absorption by plants, crop yields and a model simulating the terrestrial biosphere, a multinational team of researchers has found that during July and August 2003, 500 million tonnes of carbon escaped from the forests and fields across Europe as a result of extreme heat and drought.

The scientists modified a land surface ecosystem model called ORCHIDEE to account for how carbon behaves at different layers, such as at the surface versus 30 centimeters below ground.

Land cover information is critical for local, state, and federal managers and officials to assist them with issues such as assessing ecosystem status and health, modeling nutrient and pesticide runoff, understanding spatial patterns of biodiversity, land use planning, deriving landscape pattern metrics, and developing land management policies.

Warming on the scale of 3 to 4 oC, as shown in GFDL's high - resolution climate model, will cause more extreme effects on the ecosystem.

The regional effects of unexplained factors suggest that the next generation of ecosystem models will need to explore the impacts of forest demography, differences in regional management intensities for cropland and pastures, and other emerging productivity constraints such as phosphorus availability.

Hilbert says that the ecosystem feedbacks in global climate models are based on short term processes such as carbon fixation by photosynthesis or decomposition, whereas in the longer term stocks of carbon are controlled by tree demographic processes.

However, these models do not yet include many processes and reservoirs that may be important, such as peat, buried carbon in permafrost soils, wild fires, ocean eddies and the response of marine ecosystems to ocean acidification.

For us, natural communities and ecosystems serve as models of interdependence, with each member relying on and contributing to the well being of the whole.

He also studies the impact of changes in sea ice on marine planktonic ecosystems by developing biophysical models such as the coupled Biology - Ice - Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (BIOMAS).

While the primary contribution is in improving our ability to anticipate how earth system interactions will modulate the rate of increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the fact that the models require simulation of land and ocean ecosystems make them extremely valuable for a range of applications in ecosystem impacts and feedbacks as well.