Sentences with phrase «challenged those assumptions using»

While many are already convinced that Apple is naming its next flagship smartphone «iPhone 8» based on the previous reports, leaks and predictions made by industry insiders, a new report is challenging this assumption using the very words Apple CEO Tim Cook said himself.

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Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

A new LendEDU survey of Bitcoin investors shows that a vast majority plan to hold their investment for over a year, challenging the assumption that the cryptocurrency is mostly used by short - term investors.

It may seem to be a challenge to get the conversation past the idea of babywearing being a fad or fashion statement, but I encourage you to use this assumption as an icebreaker, so to speak, about the benefits of not only babywearing but also attachment - based parenting.

She joins Marti for this lively discussion about youth sports, questioning many assumptions, calling out unhelpful parental behavior and challenging us to step up and use proven approaches to help our children reap optimal benefits of organized sports.

Police forces and authorities had generally made reasonable assumptions about the financial challenge ahead, and used these to work out their budgets for the next four years.

He believes that such approaches to science sometimes require researchers to learn new skills, and to challenge their assumptions about how to best use their knowledge.

This challenge to the established LNT model and raises questions on some of the basic assumptions used to assess the risk of low dose radiation exposures.

This challenges the assumption that low - income mothers experience problems managing their child's media use, Domoff said.

Moms also report largely positive experiences when managing their child's media use, which challenges negative assumptions about low - income mothers and screen time management.

Though SETI scientists believe aliens would likely use similar technology as we do on Earth, that assumption poses a fundamental, possibly insurmountable, challenge to their search: Our own chatter makes it immensely difficult.

Data from the 1000 genomes project (1KGP) and Complete Genomics (CG) have dramatically increased the numbers of known genetic variants and challenge several assumptions about the reference genome and its uses in both clinical and research settings.

She also urges mental - illness patients to use cognitive tools, such as challenging their own assumptions about what they are capable of and not listening to internal stereotypes.

The use of metaphors helps students gain new insights and challenge assumptions.

The preservice teachers indicated that their experiences were positive, that digital sources had great potential for elementary classroom use in providing students with multiple perspectives, and that they gave the teacher an opportunity to make history real, challenge assumptions, and foster inquiry, as well as help the students to understand the content more clearly.

Thought leaders across the country will use the findings and recommendations published by our team of researchers and evaluators to challenge assumptions, deepen understanding and highlight innovation in teaching and learning.

This means being thoughtful and forceful, willing to challenge one's own assumptions and strongly poke holes in myths, and even using media smartly in advancing support for school choice, teacher quality reforms and Parent Power.

She questions the widely - held but fairly unexamined assumption that we can effectively use summative descriptions of performance (for example, descriptors of the sort we might find in a mark scheme or taxonomy) to define progression (including what provides high challenge) in the classroom.

We use articles from various major news sources, identify vocabulary words and create discussion questions designed to promote critical thinking, challenge assumptions and stimulate class discussion.

This finding, which challenges long - term assumptions about college drop - outs, was only possible because of a research project using Big Data analysis.

In this 55 - minute episode, Annie shares her inspiring story, the exact process she used to write and publish the series, the assumptions she challenged to relaunch her author business, and plenty of very specific sales information.

This month - how games can use their power to actively involve the player in order to challenge their moral assumptions.]

The games industry has gained hugely from the use of data and looking at KPIs, ARPDAU, LTV... but in this arms race for the players attention we need to stop for a second and challenge our assumptions of what is possible.

Can the artist challenge the preconceived ideas of gender, sensitivity and personality infused in its shades and use it as a way of dismantling the very assumptions that accompany it?

She uses this to draw out and challenge underlying assumptions associated to the Islamic faith, plucking out rituals that straddle religions and behaviours, expounding their inherent possibilities across a multitude of neutral contexts.

The Malaysian - born, London - based artist uses the overly precious setting of the gallery space to pull objects — cooking utensils, kitchen fittings, plastic tubs, sheets of jute, etc — out of their utilitarian context in such a way as to force viewers to think about them as discrete objects, or things in and of themselves, while in the process challenging the assumptions we make about their functionality and attendant concerns such as, for example, the social status of the person who might own such an object, its role in their lives and that relation in respect to one's own style of living.

Using larger culture contexts, both artists have continued to politically challenge status quo assumptions of our cultural symbolic order for over three decades.

Using this language, he reexamines our aesthetic awareness and challenges us to question our assumptions and rationale as to the parameters of art in relation to history and its imprint in contemporary culture.

The organization's success challenges society's assumptions about inclusion and exclusion in art and culture, disability visibility, and access to creative expression as a human right; like any other contemporary artists, Creative Growth artists use art to tell their stories.

His position: • No evidence of increasing lake clarity as a result of secchi measurements since 1946 • The interplay of stratification and plankton productivity are not «straightforward» • Challenges O'Reilly's assumption on the correlation of wind and productivity - the highest production is on the end of the lake with the lowest winds • A strong caution using diatoms as the productivity proxy (it is one of two different lake modes) • No ability to link climate change to productivity changes • More productivity from river than allowed for in Nature Geopscience article • Externally derived nutrients control productivity for a quarter of the year • Strong indications of overfishing • No evidence of a climate and fishery production link • The current productivity of the lake is within the expected range • Doesn't challenge recent temp increase but cites temperature records do not show a temperature rise in the last century • Phytoplankton chlorophylla seems to have not materially changed from the 1970s to 1990s • Disputes O'Reilly's and Verbug's claims of increased warming and decreased productivity • Rejects Verburgs contention that changes in phytoplankton biomass (biovolume), in dissolved silica and in transparency support the idea of declining productivity.

Many skeptics are challenging the assumptions on which the EPA document is based, yet the reply uses the EPA doc to support the assumptions in dispute.

The analysis challenges nine business as usual (BAU) assumptions made by the big energy companies when calculating that fossil use will continue to grow for the next few decades.

An example of this in the climate change war is the use of temperature which is a poor metric for the actual science which requires enthalpy; or such a claim automatically has assumptions, stated or not, that can be challenged.

Unless nations specifically identify the equity principles that have guided their ghg emissions reductions, and the assumptions about warming limits entailed by their INDC, nations and citizens around the world who may be harmed by illigitmate uses of common pool resources have an insufficient factual basis to challenge the potentially unethical responses of nations to their ethical obligations.

The first site is devoted to provide background information and resources on the competition; the second site is a blog that hopes to use fair, honest and expert communication to voice the realities of the global automotive industry as well as challenge current market assumptions on their way to sponsoring and promoting the competition's winners.

It now looks like the IPCC «greenhouse theory» and the assumption behind the use of SB equation are facing a challenge from the Moon.

I went through the process of drafting a EULA using the Up - goer Five text editor (http://splasho.com/upgoer5/) because as I thought about the question, I found myself challenging my assumptions about what simple drafting really is.

As noted by Barbara Guastaferro, the assumption that the purpose of the clause is that of applying in exceptional cases of conflicts between EU law and domestic constitutional law — in an attempt to narrow the scope of application of the supremacy doctrine — has to be challenged; while the potential for a use of the clause in governing the ordinary functioning of EU law should be, on the contrary, highlighted.

Even the Swain dissenters did not take issue with the majority's position that the Equal Protection Clause does not prohibit the State from using its peremptory challenges to exclude blacks based on the assumption or belief that they would be partial to a black defendant.

The use of group affiliations, such as age, race, or occupation, as a «proxy» for potential juror partiality, based on the assumption or belief that members of one group are more likely to favor defendants who belong to the same group, has long been accepted as a legitimate basis for the State's exercise of peremptory challenges.

The theme for Forum 2012, «Revitalizing Courts with Enhanced Technology and Thought - Provoking Reforms: The Modernization Challenge», is designed to challenge attendees with leading edge sessions, including Enhancing Access to Justice Using Technology and Going Beyond Technology: Revisiting Fundamental Assumptions About Traditional LiChallenge», is designed to challenge attendees with leading edge sessions, including Enhancing Access to Justice Using Technology and Going Beyond Technology: Revisiting Fundamental Assumptions About Traditional Lichallenge attendees with leading edge sessions, including Enhancing Access to Justice Using Technology and Going Beyond Technology: Revisiting Fundamental Assumptions About Traditional Litigation.

A new LendEDU survey of Bitcoin investors shows that a vast majority plan to hold their investment for over a year, challenging the assumption that the cryptocurrency is mostly used by short - term investors.