Sentences with phrase «cycle life as»

We identify improvements in cycle life as the most feasible way to increase battery ESOIe.

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As a result, he says, many are being sold to large companies «early in their life cycle, long before they reach industry leadership» — which, he says, is «the real hollowing out of Canada.»

As researchers flood the two areas with these infected male mosquitoes, the females living there will be less likely to find uninfected males to mate with, so each life cycle should lead to far fewer new mosquitoes.

As is often the case in the late stages of product life cycles, the proponents of the product are so busy defending it that they are missing the opportunity to reinvent it.

Chronotypes also evolve over a person's life cycle: Teenagers are evening types; between the ages of 30 and 50, people are evenly split between morning and evening types; and people become morning types as they pass through their fifties.

«Electing for a long repayment cycle can set you up for debt drag that eclipses other important milestones in life such as buying a home, preparing for retirement and saving for marriage and children.»

That's important, as the PS4 and Xbox One are now reaching a point in their life cycle where the marketing push shifts away from core gamers and toward the mass audience.

Zahid identifies young people as a key demographic that has largely been reticent to get on the saddle, since cycles to this point have not featured the same social connectivity options that are a staple of every other aspect of their lives.

Until now, however, it has done so only as an institutional investor at later stages in the life cycle of companies, and has never led a funding round, Isenman told Entrepreneur.

The PlayStation 4 is heading into a late - stage life cycle, usually the most profitable period for consoles as new titles are sold to an increasing installed base of owners.

One of the most common reasons that traders never make it to the top of the trading «mountain», is that they get stuck in an insane cycle of placing trades, obsessively watching the price of the instruments they're trading as it moves up and down, and fiddling with the trade while it's live, typically by exiting too early or too late.

At the end of their life cycle, old and damaged banknotes can be recycled into products such as building materials and compost bins.

An editorial calendar is a great tool for tracking each element as it moves through your workflow and for keeping your team's efforts organized throughout the life cycle of your content program.

BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry, and the company's previously disclosed review of strategic alternatives.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

Also the fall could be short - lived as some Fed action (or more likely another central bank) will occur in the summer ahead of the election cycle.

Sometimes referred to as life - cycle funds, target - date funds are a type of investment vehicle investors often see in their employer - sponsored retirement plans.

Before that he worked for 6 years at Rolls - Royce as a Life - Cycle Analyst for commercial engines.

In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

Its product suite addresses the entire human life - cycle, from infancy to old age, and comprises ingredients in products ranging from infant formula to nutritional supplements, as well as branded medical foods, sold only under a doctor's supervision.

Kantrowitz says debt - laden grads, often barely able to cover their monthly student - loan payments, «tend to delay life - cycle events» such as buying a car or house, getting married and having kids.

Having lived through a number of these cycles, we believe the current moment stands out as especially compelling.

These large ITO deals that over many years, they come on at lower margins and they run off at higher margins just because of the life cycle of an ITO deal, and we've got a bit of that going on as well.

This is a simplification of the complex Hindu understanding of history as determined by the past lives of others: that we are all stuck in an eternal cycle of suffering perpetuated by reincarnation.

Europe could of course bequeath its gifts to a new emerging culture — following the example set by previous cultures during their decline — but as a historical subject its life cycle had effectively ended.

Indeed, Millennials are significantly more unaffiliated than members of Generation X were at a comparable point in their life cycle (20 % in the late 1990s) and twice as unaffiliated as Baby Boomers were as young adults (13 % in the late 1970s).

Subsumed under this goal are four operational objectives which may be seen as overlapping stages of treatment: Helping the alcoholic (a) to accept the fact that his drinking is a problem with which he needs help; (b) to obtain, medical treatment; (c) to interrupt the addictive cycle and keep it interrupted by learning to avoid the first drink; (d) to achieve a re-synthesis of his life without alcohol.

Religious language is also historical and evolutionary: it depicts the people of God as on a journey to the holy land, the Church as a mystical body evolving toward the fullness of Christ, the liturgy as consisting of cycles of growth, the Christian life as an exodus, grace as growth in the fullness of Christ, dogma as evolving, etc..

They view Scripture study as an act of worship, and center life around a cycle of feasts and celebrations.

Of course, being abused as a child does not excuse the one who abuses children when they are adults (and I know you are not saying that), but it does make one wonder about the cycle of sin that happens in people's lives.

What would a day be in the Divine circadian cycle of an omnimodal, omnipotent being, 24 hours, 24 billion years, 24 milliseconds??? Nowhere in the Bible coes it say that evolution does not exist within the living realm, but Simon Peter does say that to the I Am»... one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day...» (the Bible DOES recognize the effects of animal husbandry, which is a form of artificially - induced evolution on livestock species, and narrates accounts of Divine intervention to influence it, so you can not factually say that it is outside the realm of Divine probability by biblical accounts, as Divine probability contains, by textbook definition, the sum of the laws of nature.

I look at my own life (as well as that of most Christians I know), and it seems I have gone in cycles.

The answer is that it's self perpetuating in large generational cycles and there are some people who have found a niche as instigators and make their living off selling fear and hate to others.

This tends to be a real problem among the holy hipster set where boundaries are seen as oppressive and evil whereas I see healthy boundaries as life giving forces that can keep me from falling into an addictive cycle.

The ascetic thus wants to be freed from a merely human way of looking at time as a cycle of work and rest, life and death.

The latter sees social life as a cycle like the cycle of natural seasons which is the basic framework for life; therefore nothing new enters the scene, and any creativity that affects the harmony of life and nature is considered a spiritual evil.

Catholic schools have a wonderful opportunity to invite trained NFP instructors to teach this part of the programme which will enable girls to gain a fuller understanding of their bodies and their fertility, while at the same time assisting young men better to understand and appreciate the miracle of fertility, the special role played by the woman, and the implications for her physically, psychologically and spiritually as the natural cycle plays out in her daily life.

I am suggesting, however, that there is a problem with a rhetorical cycle that seems to reward an uncompromising, absolutist approach to public life, for it results in as much political disengagement as political mobilization.

Over against it he sets up a philosophical system of cosmic determinisrn, a sort of universal wheel of time on which life and nature and history are forever wearily repeating themselves as often as the cycle of time brings round once more the things that have receded into the past.

As laborers, then, we are bound to the cycle of biological life, laboring and consuming in rhythm with nature.

It reminds me of living in Southern Oregon, where wildfires and their smoky pink clouds were natural as the cycle of seasons — dry summer drifting into fall.

Kauffman rejects the assumption that life began with simple catalytic cycles, such as Eigen originally envisioned.

But just as all living organisms have a beginning and an end, going through a life cycle between conception and death, so it is with social organisms.

One possible new form for the discipline would represent pastoral care and counseling as oriented by ecclesiology, concerned for elucidating the structure and dynamic of human being - in - the - world by means of plurality of methods of inquiry, and especially informed by the rapidly proliferating literature, experimental and theoretical, on the human life cycle.

But that is not what Paul preaches: He preaches Christ in us the Hope of glory, as Christ is to be formed in us here and now: It is by Grace through Faith that we are saved, a 2 part salvation: Only through the operation of Faith, do we have grace to be saved: In Adam all die EVEN SO in Christ is all made alive: A death to life cycle:

Christianity offers a vision of the life cycle as ordained of God, inviting persons to a sense of sanctity in existence and reverence for life.

The parable of the rivet popper is particularly applicable to the threat of human activity to the cycles of nature such as the nitrogen cycle or the carbon cycle, which are part of the life - support systems of nature.

As the only institutions with ongoing face - to - face contact with «normal» people throughout the life cycle, churches have a unique opportunity to help people use the extended life - span given us by medical progress.

Such a picture of how to understand God tends to predominate in cultures that see human life as a cycle replicating the cycles that make the world a unified whole.

Both Obama, the nation's first black president, and Romney, a Mormon, have found that their shared status as members of minority groups and political pioneers, in many ways, has also changed the rules of this presidential campaign cycle, said Nancy Wadsworth, co-editor of the anthology «Faith and Race in American Political Life.»