Sentences with phrase «defined as a mechanism»

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(a) Schedule 2.7 (a) of the Disclosure Schedule contains a list setting forth each employee benefit plan, program, policy or arrangement (including any «employee benefit plan» as defined in Section 3 (3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended («ERISA»)(«ERISA Plan»)-RRB-, including, without limitation, employee pension benefit plans, as defined in Section 3 (2) of ERISA, multi-employer plans, as defined in Section 3 (37) of ERISA, employee welfare benefit plans, as defined in Section 3 (1) of ERISA, deferred compensation plans, stock option plans, bonus plans, stock purchase plans, fringe benefit plans, life, hospitalization, disability and other insurance plans, severance or termination pay plans and policies, sick pay plans and vacation plans or arrangements, whether or not an ERISA Plan (including any funding mechanism therefore now in effect or required in the future as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or otherwise), whether formal or informal, oral or written, under which (i) any current or former employee, director or individual consultant of the Company (collectively, the «Company Employees») has any present or future right to benefits and which are contributed to, sponsored by or maintained by the Company or (ii) the Company or any ERISA Affiliate (as hereinafter defined) has had, has or may have any actual or contingent present or future liability or obligation.

His 1875 work, «Money and the Mechanism of Exchange,» defines the four functions of a currency: as a medium of exchange, a measure of value (or unit of account), a standard of deferred payment, and a store of value.

If matter is defined as a tendency toward extension and mechanism, then it is necessary to introduce a counter-tendency to explain the nonmechanistic life forms.

If Bell's book is not an argument for universalism, and that Bell's rhetorical questions are not meant to ridicule the traditional beliefs of eternal conscious suffering, penal substitutionary atonement, and salvation by faith alone in Christ alone, then the marketing mechanism is a paradigm example of what Harry Frankfurt has defined as «bull ****.»

Perhaps he would have ruffled fewer people's feelings if he had used, like the topologist Rene Thom, a less obviously loaded term, such as «the logos» of an entity, which Thom defines as a figure which describes the totality of the regulatory mechanisms of a system.

IJWBR provides a mechanism for the exchange of information within the broadly defined fields of wine marketing, consumer behaviour, economics, business management (as an organization, viticulture, and wine sensory aspects), wine tourism, human resource management, hospitality and various aspects of wine in terms of its combination with food.

You can have them that this Gross Motor delay as the speech mechanism is trying to define its fine modes of movement.

By defining deviation from the average rate of dilatation as pathologic, it tells the 40 percent of women who have augmentations that they are abnormal Davis - Floyd (1992), and others describe and document the damage done by Western birth rituals that teach women to believe they are defective mechanisms from which their babies will be rescued by technology.

The sustainability of any political order depends on governance mechanisms that successfully balance the ever - present tension between these nine human dignity needs and the three attributes of human nature as I define them: emotionality, amorality and egoism.

Levitsky and Way posited two mechanisms which raise the cost of authoritarianism: Western leverage, defined as a country's vulnerability to external pressure, and linkage to the West, defined as density of the country's ties to the US and EU.

«The next step in understanding sleep apnea in the future will be to dissect different subtypes of sleep apnea, likely defined by distinct pathophysiological mechanisms which may underlie different outcomes and predisposition to comorbidities,» Cavadas says, «As human life expectancy increases, delaying the onset of age - related diseases becomes critical to our society.»

More research is necessary to further define the mechanisms behind these findings as well as the role that exercise can play in reducing the often severe mental health consequences for victims.

Although RNAi was known as a major antiviral mechanism in plants by that time, few believed it was also true in the animal kingdom, which was known to fight viral infections by many other well - defined mechanisms.

«As someone who researches pancreatic cancer, I think this discovery is significant because it defines mechanisms that lead to this cancer in ways that we didn't know about before,» says Firpo, who's also a member of the Pancreas Cancer Research Program and Experimental Therapeutics Program at the University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute.

«We demonstrated that quality can be accomplished across the sites, but consider a different approach to the design,» she said, explaining that rather than treating negative symptom patients as one homogenous target, priority should be given to exploring the usefulness of novel mechanisms in separate negative symptom domains to better define the target population and maximize the chance of success before launching large phase III trials.

Hence, understanding the interrelationship between genetic markers and use of aspirin and NSAIDs, also known as gene × environment interactions, can help to identify population subgroups defined by genetic background that may preferentially benefit from chemopreventive use of these agents and offer novel insights into underlying mechanisms of carcinogenesis.

As part of his research, Dr. Chang has defined several novel mechanisms and mediators of action of probiotic organisms that are currently being developed as therapeutic agentAs part of his research, Dr. Chang has defined several novel mechanisms and mediators of action of probiotic organisms that are currently being developed as therapeutic agentas therapeutic agents.

As specific examples, our studies seek to define the molecular basis for platelet and endothelial cell responses and then extend these into patients to determine whether newly identified mechanisms can be targets for diagnosis, prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

The goal of research in this area is to define normal stem cell biology and developmental pathways as well as to define genetic, molecular, and biochemical mechanisms that regulate cell proliferation, apoptosis and autophagy and relate these pathways to carcinogenesis.

However, a substantial proportion of patients defined as «complex» are often left without a molecular diagnosis, either because they are suffering from more than one rare disease or because the molecular mechanism underlying their disease can not be detected by NGS.

The Bratton lab has revealed the underlying mechanisms that define the Apaf -1-caspase-9 apoptosome as a proteolytic - based molecular timer (Wu CC et al, Nat Commun, 2016).

These results define PGBD5 as an oncogenic mutator and provide a plausible mechanism for site - specific DNA rearrangements in childhood and adult solid tumors.

«Voice» is defined here as «formal mechanisms in a school for teachers to participate in decisions about instruction, organizational issues, and workplace conditions,» which is not a bad way of stating a goal that all charters should pursue.

The first study, released in 2014, concluded that the current school funding mechanism in Wisconsin is insufficient to ensure that every child in every school has the resources necessary to receive a «sound, basic education» as defined in Vincent v. Voigt (Wisconsin State Supreme Court 2000).

The dry clutch as the name suggests does not have anything between the whole mechanism, it is much better at transferring the power since there is no 3rd party material restricting it but, they are loud and create a rattling sound and life of the clutch is low compared to wet setup (most Ducati are known for having dry clutches and is one of the defining sounds of a Ducati)

(Note: I'm defining a metadata framework as the mechanisms for expressing metadata and a standard as a definition of properties, for those who care about words.)

What you haven't spelled out is the way that ISBNs are still being used as a gatekeeping mechanism that narrows readers» access to the very best, most groundbreaking literature because many of the leading literary prizes define possession of an ISBN as their definition of publication for eligibility purposes.

This specification inherits the mechanisms for associating vocabularies defined in 4.2 Vocabulary Association Mechanisms [Publications301] as they relate to the Package Document metadata, with only the following modification: the prefix attribute may be attached only to the root metadatmechanisms for associating vocabularies defined in 4.2 Vocabulary Association Mechanisms [Publications301] as they relate to the Package Document metadata, with only the following modification: the prefix attribute may be attached only to the root metadatMechanisms [Publications301] as they relate to the Package Document metadata, with only the following modification: the prefix attribute may be attached only to the root metadata element.

Manifest fallback chains — a mechanism that defines an ordered list of top - level resources as content equivalents.

It also defines mechanisms to express the intended rendering dimensions of fixed - layout XHTML and SVG [ContentDocs30] content, as well as bitmap images.

In addition, HB 515 establishes a holding period for both stray animals and those surrendered by their families, it gives the person surrendering the animal the ability to change their mind and reclaim the animal, it bifurcates the holding period to incentivize adoptions and rescue transfers, it allows «shelters» to transfer animals to rescue groups right away to free up cage and kennel space thus reducing costs while increasing lifesaving, it mandates prompt and necessary care and environmental enrichment, and for those who are irremediably suffering, rigorously defined, it puts in place a mechanism to end their lives in as kind and compassionate a manner as possible and one that meets the dictionary definition for «euthanasia.»

One of the defining features of the Baers» home is a double - paned glass wall that utilizes water as a heating and cooling mechanism.

This sentiment is echoed by Tannenbaum, «The mechanisms by which advertising and the media define identity and manipulate viewers are universal throughout the industrialized world... [Thomas] employs it to address issues that impact us all, such as diversity and tolerance within, as well as between, racial and ethnic groups, and the freedom to determine one's own fate and to construct one's own identity [3]».

Water, as a mechanism of both flow and hindrance, is an apt symbol within Strachan's larger project of scrutinizing how reality is perceived and defined.

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It is intended to assist Parties in their consideration of one or more models for the operation of a framework for various approaches, in their consideration of a pilot phase for such a framework, and in their elaboration of modalities and procedures of the new market - based mechanism, as defined in decision 2 / CP.17, paragraph 83, with a view to recommending a decision to the Conference of the Parties at its eighteenth session.

They can't really say that without defining the mechanism that causes the clouds to behave as a forcing or they are just cyclomaniacs.

The mechanism appeared more fully in 1997 as the Cosmic Theory (CT) defined by Svensmark and Friis - Christensen.

Despite this lack of a solid theoretical framework, paleoclimatologists keep publishing article after article where they report correations between solar proxy periodicities and climate proxy periodicities, and the observational evidence is now so abundant as to obviate the lack of a theory or well defined mechanism.

But as long as this debate is nothing but an argument of one set of statistical assumptions vs another, with no emphasis on the collecting of data, defining a measurable causal mechanism, or bringing their theories into unity with the existing and indisputable laws of energy and thermodynamics, then you are all equally guilty of convoluting the truth and corrupting the true scientific process.

In other words, the EF defines carbon uptake in forests as the single mechanism for offsetting human emissions of greenhouse gases from industrial activity to the atmosphere.

Re 68 (myself)-- of course, some tornados are not from supercells — or are not formed by the exact same mechanism; generally what is needed is an updraft over a region of partly horizontal shear such as that associated with a gust front — it could be a gust front from another storm... there are landspouts, gustnados, etc... these tend to be weaker then the supercell tornados, as far as I know (And I'm not entirely sure what defines a «landspout»; for that matter, if a supercell tornado moves over water, is it then a waterspout or is it still a supercell tornado... anyone?)

In comparing human - caused and natural «radiative forcing,» (which is defined as «an index of the importance of [a] factor as a potential climate change mechanism»), the IPCC's February 2007 Working Group I Report «The Physical Science Basis» concluded that since 1750, «it is extremely likely [> 95 % probability] that humans have exerted a substantial warming influence on climate.

With a well - defined scheme, «innovative voluntary mechanisms can provide benefits in a chronically water stressed and developing country, such as South Africa.»

If we would choose to define the era of «un-natural» as being that part of earth's history since the appearance on it of the mammalian species; homo sapiens sapiens; then clearly anything that happened to climate prior to that time falls into the realm of the range of natural variability; by definition; since no non natural influencing mechanism is known prior to that time.

Ebere described the arbitration mechanism as «poorly drafted», but noted that the current reading of the OIC agreement was that it does include ISDS, as being implicit in the arbitration mechanism, so investors do have some degree of protection, even if it is poorly defined.

In addition to providing a name for this phenomenon - international child abduction - the treaty drew up guidelines for what constituted violations of custodial rights and provided mechanisms by which children could be returned home, which is defined as the country of «habitual residence.»

The Insurance and Risk Management Institute notes that only two states use this mechanism, and defines a reinsurance facility as;

Christopher Peterson defines character strengths as the psychological ingredients, processes, or mechanisms that define human virtues.

Generally defined as a system that is intended to provide a one - stop entry point for families where basic screening helps to identify family needs, and referral is made to programs that are determined to be a best fit for the family, these systems vary widely in terminology, geographic catchment area covered, prevention level, and implementation mechanism.