Sentences with phrase «best model the world»

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«With our analysis and predictive models, Own the Podium will be able to make new funding decisions that will better help Canadian athletes train, compete and dominate on the world stage,» said Canadian Tire senior vice-president Duncan Fulton in a press released this week.

The world's largest publicly - traded oil and gas company by market value has ridden out a collapse in crude prices better than most, its vertically - integrated model allowing downstream businesses to capture the value that upstream operations lose when oil prices are low.

We've always looked at professional sports, not because we want to model exactly what other sports do, but even when you're attempting to innovate, sometimes there are things that already exist in the world that work really well and work for a reason, and we shouldn't be afraid to use some of that.

And that should have given it the world - topping medal haul — just as the Canadian Olympic Committee predicted — had two other countries not punctured holes in the best - known and, till now, highly reliable medal - forecasting model.

With one recently - auctioned 14 - bedroom, two - pool mansion on Park Lane Circle being modelled on the Palace of Versailles, it's clear that the residents of Bridle Path have a cultured eye for the world's best things.

He also did some good by designing a World AIDS Day shirt with model Naomi Campbell.

«The asset management business model is the best business model in the world,» Lee - Chin says.

He invests long - term in a limited number of well understood businesses, a model he says emulates the behaviour of the world's super-rich, who don't constantly churn their portfolios and who don't flip their investments when markets dive.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

«I find it important for Japan and the EU to cooperate with the United States as well to show to the world the flag of free trade as a model,» Abe told reporters before a meeting with European Union leaders in Brussels.

Under Gupta's guidance, Mitacs has worked with 60 universities and more than 6,000 companies to solve real - world challenges — from building better tools to locate lung tumours to modelling the spread of forest fires.

Better quality comes when you have more resources or liberty with capital, but you will realize that once your business model is world class, capital will follow.

Musk writes that the Model 3's design tolerances, which refers to the variations in gaps and panels from one vehicle to another, will soon be the best of any vehicle in the world.

Chinese companies now have a level of self - assurance and success on the world stage that is allowing them to experiment with their own ways of working, and they are well placed to bring together the best of the American model with the best of their own unique cultural heritage.

In the beer and pizza model, there are only two components (GDP and the terms of trade), but since StatsCan is obliged to work in the real world, it takes other factors into account as well.

These new - school companies don't just donate, they've developed a business model that inherently makes the world a better place and it's not all kumbaya and granola.

Premier Li Keqiang's plan to have slower but better balanced growth has run into difficulties and Beijing's struggle to transform its economic model has prompted fears that the world's second - biggest economy could be the source of the next global downturn.

Todays cutting - edge businesses understand that making the world a better place can also be a great way to make money - in fact, its an essential aspect of a sustainable business model.

Hawkers Model Volleyball Tournament, in its eighth year, featured top modeling agencies as well as some of the top professional volleyball players from across the world, competing in a coed beach volleyball tournament Feb. 17 - 18 in Miami Beach.

AMD said the new processors, which are optimized for gaming, have the world's first 12 - nanometer process technology and offer up to 15 % better performance than AMD's first - generation models.

In the early 1990s the models that most economists used to analyze and explain Chinese economic growth were good enough, like the Newtonian bridge in the slow moving world in which humans operate.

Though Wall Street may provide some of the best research in the world, the potential and actual conflicts are obvious, have always existed and are inherent in the sell - side business model.

SAN FRANCISCO — The past few months have been good to Uber — the world's most valuable startup raised a record - breaking $ 3.5 billion in June and in April escaped a high - profile trial that threatened to upend its entire business model.

Combining safety, performance, and efficiency, Model S has reset the world's expectations for the car of the 21st century with the longest range of any electric vehicle, over-the-air software updates that make it better over time, and a record 0 - 60 mph acceleration time of 2.28 seconds as measured by Motor Trend.

Essentially startups need to «instrument» all parts of their business model to measure how well their hypotheses in Customer Discovery and Validation are faring in the real world.

It's remarkable how negative hype mounts when you're running the world's hottest car company, and can't seem to hit production targets for your best - selling — actually, that is the most - ordered, since Tesla can't sell them until it builds them — model, the $ 35,000 - and - up Model 3 smodel, the $ 35,000 - and - up Model 3 sModel 3 sedan.

Dr. Pineau's research focuses on developing new models and algorithms that allow computers to learn to make good decisions in complex real - world domains, even in circumstances where there is incomplete or incorrect information.

Merging the roboadvice model with real - world financial advisor analysis gives investors the best bang for the buck, analysts say.

In the life insurance world, the models can be faster, better and cheaper than traditional underwriting methods, but they «do not provide the type of transparency important to producers and clients when determining the risk class.»

Gadamer singles out human dialogue only by way of analogy» because that is the paradigm we know best, the model that will teach us our proper relation to the world.

Effective pastoral leaders will have God's people breathing together, modeling a common way of life that is good for the world.

So a magical all - powerful being living in some fantasy world in the clouds created the earth, placed a modern day man and woman on the earth from whom all humans are modeled in a fantastical garden 4.5 billion years ago, allows «good» people to live in a cloud kingdom where everyone who has ever died lives (like a Florida retirement community in the sky), and sends «bad» people to a fiery pit of despair for all eternity.

By contrast to the model of the two World Wars, as well as to imagined models of global nuclear holocaust, the actual face of warfare since 1945 has been that of civil wars and regional armed conflicts.

Given the nature of our pluralist, interdependent world, some Muslims believe that secular democratic states that guarantee religious freedom are the best model for the future.

Is the «buy one give one» model of major Q sponsor TOMS really making the world a better place or just giving us license to make our closets a fuller place?

I might be ecelectic, but what makes me consistent is my belief is something that combines the belief of Scripture with that of Englightenment philosophy: nurturing life is goodness, simply, and helping others to see a model that thinking for ourselves can help heal the world of all past injustices - so that we all learn to WANT to be good... within reason and by our own choice...: you have a society like that, you'll have less injustices, less violence, less money - grubbing by people who hold themselves as representatives of «authority» -(which side are you on, by the way, if you see the world as so divided in such a bipolar reality...?)

What is going on, I suggest, is an untoward national hubris married to the defense of an outdated model of the Church's role in world affairs: A model that worked reasonably well at the 1814 - 15 Congress of Vienna but that came close to causing disaster in the 1970s.

Our different foundational notions of God and church as well as our various empirical impressions of the corporate world inform our models of ministry to business.

Recognition of the need for an interpenetrative societal view of the world, perhaps more than any specific philosophical requirement, has led process - thinkers to place their emphasis upon «becoming», as a dynamic movement of development in relationship, rather than upon «being»; here, they insist, is the best «model» for our understanding of God.

Nevertheless, as we have seen, there is a small but growing number of scientists, both in physics and biology, who operate with a relational model, who see some correspondence between the constructs of the mind and reality itself, however inexact, and who also see the possibility of restoring the experience of meaning if the non-human natural world is perceived as dynamic, creative, full of life and purpose, whom process thinkers have engaged in conversation; together they have attempted to explore new visions of reality better suited for adaptation to the urgent needs of the contemporary world.

An actual machine, however, as part of the physical world is more complex than any good model.

Because as Christians model the Kingdom of God in their own lives, and call others to do the same, the human kingdoms of this world see that there is indeed a better way, a more loving way, a way that does not degenerate into the vicious downward spiral of ever - increasing violence.

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

News is a common feature of most media systems around the world and its transformations illustrate the nature of modern media systems as well as the guiding models for understanding media.

In fact, though, there are very good positive reasons to make our own experiencing the central model for understanding the physical world.

A metaphysician's view of his world and of himself, as well as his sense of order and intelligibility, is wrapped up in the conceptual model he uses.30

There is no doubt that a great deal of what goes on in the world can be understood well with this model.

Books, Kermode observes, «are indeed world models,» but they are also science models, and so in the best of them we find not pre-fascist prescriptions for a unity beyond entropy but demonstrations of the order that can be achieved in a creative confrontation with it.

The city at its best was nothing other than a microcosm of the world, a model of the human mind, and an image of heaven.

In this case, it is significant to note that the model for its methods of propaganda, as well as for its organization, is furnished by the organization and method of the Christian world mission.