Sentences with phrase «distribution model like»

I do agree though that the music industry could adjust to a supplementary dual - distribution model like the one the movie / TV industry employs and get the relative best of both worlds.

You can't stick the file in the book (clearly) without building some sort of entirely new distribution model like a single use thumb - drive (to prevent someone simply handing out copies).

Not exact matches

Following successful models like the X-Prize, private - and public - sector leaders should work together to set up a high - profile Canada Prize that offers incentives for entrepreneurs and researchers to solve critical problems with commercial and public benefits, like cheap desalination units or better distribution of electricity to villages.

The TopTix deal is significant because it will allow SeatGeek to better compete with legacy rivals like Ticketmaster and StubHub by expanding its open distribution model into new markets.

In this respect Google is like the bizarro - Apple: the iPhone maker has the distribution channel and business model to make Siri the dominant assistant in its users» lives, but there are open questions about its technology prowess when it comes to artificial intelligence specifically and services generally; moreover, efforts to improve are fundamentally stymied by the company's device - centric culture and organizational structure.

The report: The life and annuity industry is a slow - growth proposition and company managers need to hunt for higher returns by rethinking business models by rearranging like Lego blocks distribution, underwriting or customer service components of their companies.

But for a huge media conglomerate like Disney, even that kind of success isn't enough, especially when Disney knew that a licensing model would mean higher margins and less risk than running an internally - funded effort that shoulders responsibility for marketing, distribution, toy production, physical inventory, and a 300 - person game development studio.

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.

Mr Pelle pointed to The Coca - Cola Company annual report for 2012, which states that if requirements like «beverage container deposits, recycling, eco tax and / or product stewardship» are adopted in any major markets in which Coca - Cola operates, «they could affect our costs or require changes in our distribution model, which could reduce our net operating revenues or profitability».

We differentiated between computational approaches (either based on volume data, such as the number of mentions related to a party or candidate or the occurrence of particular hashtags; or endorsement data, such as the number of Twitter followers, Facebook friends or the number of «likes» received on Facebook walls), sentiment analysis approaches, that pay attention to the language and try to attach a qualitative meaning to the comments (posts, tweets) published by social media users employing automated tools for sentiment analysis (i.e., via natural language processing models or the employment of pre-defined ontological dictionaries), and finally what we call supervised and aggregated sentiment analysis (SASA), that is, techniques that exploit the human codification in their process and focus on the estimation of the aggregated distribution of the opinions, rather than on individual classification of each single text (Ceron et al. 2016).

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The models include a new wind braking law based on recent numerical simulations of magnetized stellar winds and specific dynamo and mass - loss prescriptions a... ▽ More We present new models for the rotational evolution of solar - like stars between 1 Myr and 10 Gyr with the aim to reproduce the distributions of rotational periods observed for star forming regions and young open clusters within this age range.

It separates two models of the dark matter distribution in the halo of a galaxy like our Milky Way.

The director, for one, has been particularly burnt in the past by the theatrical distribution model: Snowpiercer, despite its all - star cast featuring the likes of Chris Evans and Octavia Spencer, was landed with a limited US theatrical run, and no UK distribution at all.

Nowadays, with technological innovation, new heavy - hitting players, like Netflix and Amazon, enter the lucrative cinema game and the classic model of production - distribution - exhibition is again tested and changed and we can ask the existential question: does a film have to also be available in theatres to be Cinema?

Now I serve as education strategist for the organization, which includes directing two key parts of their agenda: creating an app that will work for a teacher distribution channel like EdModo, and deepening the feedback model that is a core part of the application and platform.

Amid the political wrangling about government - mandated contraception distribution, I had the thought that some of the preliminary ideas about regulating new education models are like birth control for innovation.

The new 2012 Prius c, like all Toyota models, is equipped with the standard Star Safety System, which includes Vehicle Stability Control (VSC), Traction Control (TRAC), Anti-lock Brake System (ABS), Electronic Brake Force Distribution (EBD), Brake Assist (BA), and Smart Stop Technology (SST).

Like all 2017 Toyota models, the Prius c also comes with the standard Star Safety System, which includes Vehicle Stability Control, Traction Control, Anti-lock Brake System, Electronic Brake Force Distribution, Brake Assist and Smart Stop technologies.

The suspension systems will be shared with models like the A7 and the A8, offering a better weight distribution.

Even on the entry model, the spec list is good and makes the price look even more attractive, you're looking at features like Vehicle Stability Assist, Traction Control, Anti-Lock Braking System, Electronic Brake Distribution, Brake Assist, a Multi-Angle Rear - view Camera with Dynamic Guidelines and a Tire Pressure Monitoring System.

Advanced 4 - Channel ABS with Electronic Brake Distribution Like other Civic models, the Civic Type R is fitted with 4 - wheel disc brakes with 4 - channel anti-lock braking (ABS).

Permanent all - wheel drive with electronically controlled, variable distribution of drive power front - to - rear gives the BMW ActiveHybrid X6, like all BMW X models, not only superior traction, but also enhanced driving dynamics.

Publishers have maintained they can't sustain their business model on $ 9.99 e-books, and have attempted to justify that stance by claiming that though creating an e-book obviates costs of production and distribution (like printing and shipping), they must also consider costs of overhead, personnel, and maintenance.

Outsiders ready to take advantage of the opportunities offered by digital distribution to shake up traditional business models include the likes of 24Symbols (for ebooks) and Bardowl (for audiobooks).

Prior to the release of iBooks Author the content creation and distribution model looked like this:

Due greatly to the new free distribution tools available, service companies like Smashwords built a monetization model that took a smaller percentage of an author's sales and allowed them to keep the exclusive rights to their work.

«Even simple things like distribution channels that are controlled by the carriers with pricing models that are completely upside down to adoption [of a tablet],» he said about the U.S. market.

EBook distribution might evolve into a â $ œMarketplaceâ $ model where publishers and authors sell their eBooks on an eCommerce portals like Amazon.

Marking up eBooks to reflect print distribution models will, as you have pointed out, discourage readers like myself from buying and hurt the publishing houses in the long run.

By joining forces, Gildan Media can now access RBmedia's unique multi-channel distribution model, including direct - to - consumers via Audiobooks.com, through 10,000 + library partners, and via consumer digital resellers like Amazon's Audible.

I don't like Marvel and DC's distribution model, however, with the DRM and whatnot.

Today, however, the eBook market is heating up based on distribution models and 3g devices like the nook and Kindle have center stage as they make the move to the big name storefronts.

Ultimately, if the founder is making his / her business available for investment to the public - they «hold the deck» so to speak - and as such it is easy to «stack the deck» if they want to - but by making an ethical initial offering fundraising / equity distribution model - in combination with transparent bookkeeping (and routine insight day to day operations) I feel like the founder can make a compelling case and use that to hopefully smash the initial offering.

Pokemon Distribution Cart Zoroark Nintendo DS NDS Demo Mafia II Gun Lamp Plus Pin - up Calendar — The lamp was created to promote the release of Mafia II and was designed to look like a model M1911 pistol, similar to the one in the game.

The (apparent) slower rate of projected model warming for a higher absolute temperature may be related to other factors like cloud amount and geographical distribution at higher absolute humidity, or increases in convective transport (due to more atmospheric instability) at higher absolute humidity.

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A prior distribution, like a data distribution, is a model of the world.

Like utility - scale solar, it enjoys economies of scale and simple, established financing models; unlike utility - scale solar, it can squeeze into almost any surface or piece of land, near existing transmission or distribution lines.

I think this sounds like: The individual models should be run a few times and the collection of all model runs be viewed as a distribution of how wrong we could be without using the models.

I'm sorry that you didn't like my description as an error of the IPCC's restatement of the Forster / Gregory 06 results using a prior that contradicted the non-informative prior implicit in study's regression model and error distribution assumptions.

Weather you like it or not, major oil companies have been using climate models to predict source rock distribution and have been for several years.

Many utilities are investing in distribution automation to support increased levels of renewables and electric vehicles, but Regelson said initial modeling has found that «the vast majority of the distribution system is just fine for renewables» in the high concentrations that the city would like to see.

If I had to guess what the result would be, I would say that the north pole is warming faster than the models «expected» (it would be in the upper half of a distribution like that in the article but for the Arctic alone) but that over the HadCRUT area with all its gaps, the discrepancy between models and obs would be very similar for the three observed datasets and it would be slightly worse than is suggested in Knight et al. or, for that matter, in the Knappenberger et al..

1) I like the suggestion above of a Bayesian option: if I were to do this, I'd probably take a normal distribution centered on 0.2 degrees / decade as my prior (based on the AR4 model mean warming over the next couple decades... perhaps another option would be a flat distribution from, say, -0.1 degrees to 0.5 degrees), and then see how that changes with added data points.

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Perhaps you could account for potential sources of bias, like over-policing, by controlling for things like the frequency of police visits and neighborhood demographics, but if such a genuinely thoughtful model resulted in a map that differed from the traditional distribution of «crimes» it wouldn't score very well.

BL: Are blogs like Bitter Lawyer the new distribution model for independent filmmakers — or at least part of that model?

Some have a different economic model or a different coin - distribution method, like altcoins that were given away to all citizens of a country.

But there is one Company who's founder has been actively exploring what the future of music might look like for over 10 years, and since 2006 that vision always hinged on the need for a global digital currency to underpin a new model for music distribution.