Sentences with phrase «base function in»

The secure - base function in a therapeutic community for adolescents.

Cramer could count the winning stocks — almost all involved in cloud - based functions in technology — on two hands.

Not exact matches

Twitter also said it is enhancing the «mute» function that it introduced in November that allows users to block tweets based on specific keywords or phrases.

The company, which is based in Austin, Tex., and also operates a networking service for professionals and a friend - matching function, is donating $ 100,000 toward a nationwide protest against gun violence planned for later this month.

• Stateless, a Boulder, Colo. - based firm allowing network functions to be consumed through the «as a service» model, raised $ 1.4 million in a seed round led by Speedinvest and was joined by investors including Techstars, EVO Venture Partners, PV Ventures, and Service Provider Capital.

These methods include deploying payroll software in - house, moving to a Web - based system that lets employees enter much of their own data, or outsourcing the function to a third - party.

Zenefits, which Conrad and Laks Srini launched in April 2013, aggregates a multitude of HR functions into a single cloud - based dashboard.

«The cover layer of a non-flight suit still performs an important function in ground - based testing.

At its core of this first hackable product will be a durable aluminum profile, made of 40 percent recycled material, which creates a flexible base to build seating or bedding «where comfort and functions can be altered to meet the changing needs in a home,» IKEA said last year.

Google's search engine service remains banned in China, but the firm has a joint investment in Chinese live - streaming mobile game platform and mobile apps with map functions based on Google data can now be accessed in the country.

Cloud computing — on - demand, internet - based computing services — has been successfully applied to many computing functions in recent years.

Becker cites knowledge of AngularJS — an open - source JavaScript - based framework (collection of common JavaScript functions) developed by Google — as an example of an in - demand open - source skill to have.

The advance is based on a technique that allows scientists to narrow in on a specific gene and cut - and - paste bits of DNA to change its function, known as CRISPR - Cas9.

As a result, I found it useful to articulate a framework for evaluating my direct reports that works across all functions, and provides each exec with a basis for understanding how they should expect to be rated in the future.

It will also allow people to report inaccurate, misleading or violent content seen in its autocomplete function, which shows suggested searches based off the first words typed into the Google search bar.

Social media marketers essentially perform two functions on their brand pages: They post content that their followers will like, and engage in conversations with followers on a one - on - one basis.

Mumbai - based Bizongo, which is owned and operated by Smartpaddle Technology Pvt. Ltd, said in a statement that it will use the fresh capital primarily to advance its technological platform and design functions.

Based in the U.S., Recurrent Energy is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc. and functions as Canadian Solar's U.S. project development arm.

Sales and marketing costs for the quarter rose to $ 7.6 million from $ 2.8 million last year, with the company saying that the added costs «include staffing and resourcing the marketing and sales functions needed in the coming regulated recreational and international markets, costs associated with the Company's medical outreach program, and the growing customer care center which interfaces directly with the Company's expanding base of customers.»

On the basis of the above facts, GEI acknowledged in its settlement agreement that the consulting agreements, even those pursuant to which no amounts were actually paid, violated the anti-bribery provision of the CFPOA, as they constituted agreements to provide, directly or indirectly, a benefit to a foreign public official so as to induce the official to use his position to influence decisions of a foreign state for which he performs duties and functions.

The increase was primarily due to a $ 7.7 million increase in unit - based compensation expense, a $ 3.5 million increase in executive severance costs, a $ 2.9 million increase in sponsor - related consulting fees for interim executive and international consulting services, a $ 2.6 million increase in legal and accounting fees, a $ 1.9 million increase in sponsor - related management fees and a $ 1.0 million increase in contract negotiation services, partially offset by a $ 2.4 million decrease in travel and corporate function expenses.

The budget for each organizational function is set based on its future costs, regardless of costs in previous years.

That is because in WordPress most things are based on functions and include files.

The market practices chronicled in this white paper show that financial firms and their sales - based financial professionals function as investment advice providers, despite financial lobbyists» legal claims to the contrary.

The decrease primarily resulted from a $ 175.2 million decrease in share - based compensation expense, primarily related to $ 183.4 million recognized as a result of the Merger, an $ 11.1 million decrease in Merger - related costs and a $ 2.3 million decrease in travel and corporate functions costs, partially offset by a $ 3.5 million increase in executive severance costs, a $ 2.8 million increase in sponsor - related consulting fees for interim executive and international consulting services, a $ 2.6 million increase in legal and accounting fees, a $ 1.9 million increase in sponsor - related management fees and a $ 1.0 million increase in contract negotiation services.

Search engines functioned using a keyword - based mapping system; they would identify certain keywords and keyword phrases in your query, then generate a list of the places on the web where those terms were used most frequently and most prominently.

Wei Dai, back in 1998, created a proposal for an «anonymous, distributed electronic cash system» called B - Money, which was based on the proof - of - work function for the «creation» of money.

The chart below presents slope estimates, showing the 6 - month change in the S&P 500 as a function of the 6 - month change in the monetary base, at various leads and lags.

Anna Flach has been hired to scale the marketing function at EquiChain, a London - based FinTech specializing in blockchain technology for capital markets

Similar standards - based professional organizations have been critical to the functioning of our traditional economy, and there is little doubt that the DCC will play an equally important role in the emerging digital currency economy.

Such a gating function remains (from the USPTO's perspective) unavailable to the other exceptions based on its current guidance memoranda even though many claims in technology - focused patent applications encompass functional differences relative to the state of the art.

Additionally, it is difficult for the investor to verify the descriptions of how the tokens function based on the underlying program code (smart contract) outlined in the accompanying white papers or terms and conditions.

«Planned markets are sick markets, markets that are always in crisis, because their most - important social function — facilitating selection between competing pools of capital on the basis of what way of doing things in the real world works best in practice, distinguishing between real capital formers and fools — has been disrupted by the planner's clumsy interference.

He avers that the company is fortunate to have a large base of equipment installed in the mining industry that requires continued aftermarket components and servicing to function effectively, keeping FLSmidth healthy.

Hoffmeyer suggests there are many use cases for blockchain in treasury functions and capital structures, where companies can move secure tokens instead of using real funds.IBM, now the world's biggest employer of blockchain engineers, says more than 400 of its customers — including blue - chip names Walmart, Nestlé, Kroger, JD.com, Unilever, Maersk, DuPont and Dow Chemical — are currently running blockchain - based projects.

An algorithm learning the wrong lessons or formulating responses based on an incomplete picture, and the lack of transparency into what criteria are reflected in a decision model, are especially problematic when identified correlations function as inadvertent proxies for excluding or discriminating against protected classes of people.

Then there's a bit about how the «incentive program» in Alpha's plan is based on metrics so easily met that it functions as «a disguised retention program,» which is «prohibited in bankruptcy cases absent extremely specific and unusual circumstances that do not exist here.»

In short, the very medical benefits that California doctors believed could not succeed based on Jahi's loss of all brain function instead proved physically efficacious.

Functioning in the church, unity in the church, making it NOT about us, praying for those that are trying to lead the church and having to deal with defending Christ on a regular basis and being the targets they are, being a church member is in the family and showing them how to serve God in the family, that we being able to meet and gather collectively is a gift and even the apostles did it and encouraged it.

Now, this example is based on retrodictive reasoning, and it is full of traps; but in the context of nineteenth - century Britain, it might have functioned as a prediction.

Marriages were typically based on economic considerations, not love, with wives holding a higher position than slaves in the household, but still functioning in many ways as the property of their husbands, who could do with them as they willed.

To a notable degree even yet, the unmodernized Indian's life is corporate, and the individual exists only in his tribal relationships and functions, so that when the Government, even with good intentions, has tried to serve the Indian on a different basis, taking him away from home for education, discouraging old folk - ways as heathenish, assuming individualistic thinking in his treatment, the result has commonly been the disintegration of the Indian's life.

Sir Rudolf Peierls, another leading twentieth «century physicist, said, on the basis of quantum theory, «The premise that you can describe in terms of physics the whole function of a human being... including its knowledge, and its consciousness, is untenable.

Most of the specialized functions in the field of family counseling and family education have been organized on an ecumenical basis, especially in the developing countries.

A final pastoral function is the reconciling one — i.e., restoring the basis for belief in persons of faith despite their contradictory behavior; «turning the other cheek» in anomalous situations.

What the Girl Scouts decided was that if the girl in question believed in something that allowed for the same traditional Scouting function of religious education — religious and spiritual self - cultivation based on the principle of a moral order of which the Scout can be a part — she could substitute her preferred name for that instead of using the word «God.»

I would accept the notion that most persons in our culture, Christian and non-Christian alike, function in their daily lives, perhaps unconsciously, on the basis of the assumed absence of God in history.

That the new baccalaureate program at Cornell University would be thoroughly interfaith in character is not surprising, since the Cornell United Religious Work has functioned on an interreligious basis for many years.

In our work on Better Together, we discovered that computer - based communication contributed most to the building of social capital when it functioned as a supplement to face - to - face communication, not as an alternative to it.

The author sees the nature of the ordained ministry in terms of functions, or what the minister actually does, by examining the biblical bases and the historical development of ministry, and concludes that the church can only function with competent professional leadership.