Sentences with phrase «by fragmentation»

For all of the features and benefits that Android affords, the mobile OS has been plagued by fragmentation over the years as handset makers and wireless carriers more often than not take their sweet time in rolling out updates.

If Google could manage to push the update out to a majority of the recent flagship Android devices within the next 90 days, it could be a major pick - me - up for Android users who have felt slighted by fragmentation in the past.

Users generally welcome that kind of consistency across software — just ask an iPhone user — and Google sees this as an opportunity to improve the quality of the Android community that has been plagued by fragmentation.

Don't underestimate the inertia caused by the fragmentation of regulatory authority in federal states.

These trends had been exacerbated since the 1990s by the fragmentation of media (Internet, talk radio), which promoted counter-scientific beliefs such as fear of vaccines among even educated people, by providing facile elaborations of false arguments and a ceaseless repetition of allegations.

Inspired by the fragmentation and traps of our multiple identities, Bell's practice is committed to creating myth and ritual through sculpture, performance, video, sound, drawing, and installation.

«By removing, by fragmentation, I can then layer and create a new realism that allows me to work in a very personal manner.»

The built environment as landscape, the landscape as construct, the whole of the construct shattered by a fragmentation.

For the most part, these animals grow largely by fragmentation, be it natural or man - made.

A swath of domestic equity ETFs were impacted by the fragmentation of liquidity across trading venues and by the application of overly tight price collars during the reopening process.3 In the wake of these trading challenges, industry groups and regulators worked to refine LULD rules and implemented a series of LULD rule amendments in 2017 aimed at improving opening auction and post-halt reopening auction processes.4 In addition, the exchanges also adapted their opening mechanism, resulting in a reduction in the number of ETFs and other securities halted on volatile days.

For an OS that's still playing catch up to iOS, and one which is plagued by fragmentation in its main, fully supported app store, the introduction of a completely separate store on a completely separate product which developers now have to to consider seems relatively awful to me.

This often gets compounded by a fragmentation in services, difficulties in engaging all relevant actors, weak collaboration among stakeholders, and simply poor knowledge management across institutional boundaries.

A new study based on data gathered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests that the anomalous dips in brightness that have been observed around the star KIC 8462852 are caused by the fragmentation of similar cometary fragments.

The Murray - Darling basin in southern Australia, by contrast, is only weakly affected by fragmentation, but is heavily impacted by flow regulation, due to fewer but larger reservoirs.

Groups can certainly set up their own social applications, particularly if they have large membership bases, but other campaigns that want to tap into an existing network may find themselves frustrated by fragmentation.

Touring my state on a consulting contract, I was shocked at the low level of professional knowledge of breastfeeding, and even more disturbed by the fragmentation of maternal and child health services.

This way of defining the end of theological schooling, furthermore, risks dealing with issues raised by fragmentation in distorted ways.

This appears to be what happens, however unintentionally, when issues raised by pluralism and by fragmentation are dealt with by construing theological schooling as a movement from «source of wisdom» to «wise living,» or from «basis - of - theory» to «application - of - theory,» or from a mode of «inwardness» or «subjectivity» to «outward manifestation and expression.»

In newly independent nations, there seems to be at first a pattern of cooperation followed by fragmentation.

The goal of nondual understanding is especially attractive right now to Westerners living in a world characterized by fragmentation — of landscapes, cities, families, and social communities.

The end of cellular respiration seems more like the end of life Fred, perhaps accompanied by fragmentation of genomicDNA (just to be sure).

Not exact matches

The region's violence is in large part driven by drug trafficking and organized crime — in Mexico, fragmentation of criminal groups has stoked more bloodshed in recent months.

The report, reviewed by Reuters, warns of dangers for the global internet, including intrusive surveillance, rising cybercrime and fragmentation as governments exert control of online content.

BRUSSELS - Participation by ECB Board member Pentti Hakkarainen in a panel discussion on «Risks of International Fragmentation» at the 2018 European Bank Executive Committee Forum organised by BNP Paribas in Brussels, Belgium 1300 GMT.

The industry in North America has high fragmentation and has low barriers to entry, but ACT enjoys one of the strongest positions, enhanced by the brand equity of its banners, the quality of its real estate, and efficiencies stemming from the breadth of its operations.

GAWANDE: Well the fragmentation will not be solved just by a technical fix like making a better computer system.

This fragmentation was accompanied and encouraged by the rise of high - frequency trading, a term that describes the use of high - powered computer programs to make hundreds or thousands of trades per minute in an attempt to exploit miniscule inefficiencies in the markets.

The other, very much a by - product of the growing duopoly of Google and Facebook in the digital media space, but the continued fragmentation overall: «Will this standard be short - lived or futureproofed?»

With growing need for transparency triggered by MiFID II, the increasing fragmentation and lack of liquidity, the changing participants roles are key factors in the fixed income market reshaping.

The current fragmentation of global financial markets may be likened to habitat fragmentation in the natural world, in which large, continuous biological habitats are divided into a greater number of smaller eco-systems, isolated from each other by a matrix of dissimilar habitats, leading inexorably to broad ecosystem decay.

In a similar way, trading market fragmentation caused by ill - designed rules and burdensome regulations — and the application of those rules abroad — is harming market liquidity and market safety and soundness, increasing the systemic risk that the Dodd - Frank Act was predicated on reducing.

Still, the biggest winner appears to be Hezbollah and its allies, who look set to scoop up at least some of the seats lost by Hariri's coalition, largely because of the expected fragmentation of the Sunni vote.

However off exchange fragmentation, as represented by TRF market share, is higher in these same less liquid securities.

Dreher is not wrong to alert us to the destructive power individualism and unbridled desire exert on the social fabric, but he would do even better to recognize that, by God's grace, new forms of order manage to emerge out of the apparent chaos of social fragmentation.

The evidence showing the failure of the American educational system to teach its young people what they need to know is said by the canonicists to be the result of the fragmentation and the collapse of any distinction between essential and unessential materials.

It weakens one's own position by irrational purges, exclusions and fragmentation, instead of strengthening it by rational discussion.

The fragmentation of Christendom by the Reformation did not immediately end the epoch of Christianism.

In large part this fragmentation is the result of the types of interests governing courses, one by one.

If it is capable of being adequate to the pluralism, does it do that in a way that simply increases the fragmentation of the course by requiring more and more additions to the clutch of courses?

I have proposed that fragmentation in a theological course of study could be overcome if each of its constituent courses were unified by a controlling interest in one of the three questions Christian congregations invite about their construals of the Christian thing (What is it?

This proposal also rejects the suggestion that fragmentation is a consequence of the disciplinary variety that has crept into theological schooling, and can be solved by minimizing the importance of schooling in the various disciplines.

The reversal of the fragmentation process of knowledge can be achieved only in an integrating idiom applicable to all of the more particular kinds of phenomena investigated by the sciences.

The common habit of using the Bible by concentrating on one verse at a time (which may or may not be a complete sentence) is at best a very slow, plodding way to get at the author's main points, rather like playing dominoes or checkers at the rate of one or two moves per day or per week, and at worst a fragmentation and distortion.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

Weak or malfunctioning marriages often experience further fragmentation and perhaps termination, partly as a result of the crises precipitated by the «adolescing» of the children.

Is it not the case that to stress the issue of fragmentation is to deny that there is any serious issue raised by pluralism, while to stress the issue raised by pluralism is to deny that there is any serious issue about fragmentation?

Seminaries institutionalize the Bible's fragmentation by separating faculties into departments of Old and New Testament.

In a well - told sketch of our economic and political history, Levin outlines the ways in which our progressive tradition responded to the fragmentation brought on by rapid industrialization and mass immigration in the late nineteenth century.

As contrasted with the modern worldview which is sustained more by habit than conviction and which has promoted ecological despoliation, militarism, anti-feminism and disciplinary fragmentation, the postmodern worldview is postmechanistic and ecological in its view of nature, postreductionist in its view of science, postanthropocentric in its view of ethics and economics, postdiscipline in relation to knowledge and postpatriarchal and postsexist in relation to society.

A related problem is that Cobb no sooner suggests that Jesus has introduced a «final and unsurpassable structure of existence» than he qualifies this statement by adding that the new structure of existence poses not only «new possibilities of health» but also «new possibilities of sickness and fragmentation» (PPCT 398).