Sentences with phrase «exist as a mechanism»

Typically experiences exist as a mechanism to reward loyal cardholders, I'm not seeing that here.

Not exact matches

«Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it will fail to meaningfully address the inequality that exists as a direct result of federal policy,» he says.

Michael's post seems to have three suppositions: Chinese companies price capital incorrectly; Chinese companies invest in value destroying projects; There is no correcting accounting mechanism in China for these projects as exist in other countries, thusly Chinese GDP inflates «real» growth and debt servicing ability.

First, technology exists that allows individuals to make payments over the Internet and private networks using traditional payment mechanisms such as credit cards.

The mechanisms that should have prevented this outcome have broken down, and as a result there's no longer much reason to think Bitcoin can actually be better than the existing financial system.

Filed by advocate Pasupati Nath Razdan in March 2017, the petition explains, «It is submitted that certain countries have made Bitcoin (crypto money) subject to their respective tax regimes, while a few other countries have designated it as a commodity, thereby making Bitcoin (crypto money) subject to government regulation and accountable to exchequer but no such mechanism exists in India [to] date.»

And I suspect it exists because we have created a culture in which Christians tend to see Jesus as a sort of static mechanism by which salvation is secured rather than the full embodiment of God's will for the world whose life and teachings we are called to emulate and follow.

altruism, sympathy, and empathy exist within the human brain as a survival mechanism for ourselves and ultimately our tribe.

And this we are enabled to do by the idea (a corollary, as we have seen, of the mechanism of planetization) that ahead of, or rather in the heart of, a universe prolonged along its axis of complexity, there exists a divine center of convergence.

However, the extent of this change is significantly modified by a wide range of social and personal variables such as the functions that are being served for the individual by the attitudes in question; the satisfaction the individual derives from existing attitudes; the strength of existing defense mechanisms and group pressures surrounding those attitudes; patterns of reinforcement for similar attitudes in the past; other alternatives available to the viewer; and the current psychological state of the viewer.

(Remember: Cox has a year remaining in his tenure as chairman, and no formal mechanism exists for his mid-term removal).

No independent mechanism exists to determine why premium rates are set as they are, and insurers are not required to disclose the real basis for their premiums.

After this third defeat, the Government decided not to oppose a further set of amendments tabled by opponents of the Bill, including ones saying secret trials would be used only as a last resort, and only if the court was unable to use an existing secrecy mechanism, the public interest immunity system.

«Tumour cells often take advantage of existing mechanisms, such as the one we have described, to cause havoc.

«Our critical review on the limited existing treatment mechanism studies,» explained co-author Dr. Jessica Black, «found that «common» processes, such as positive social support, rather than a particular treatment modality, account for positive adolescent substance use outcomes.»

That's a drastic departure from existing voice biometric mechanisms, which require training from each individual who will use them, said Kassem Fawaz, who worked on the project as a graduate student at U-M and is now an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Such a standard does not currently exist, and is seen by them as a key mechanism for improving future vehicle designs.

Structural balance may also serve as a psychological mechanism that allows specific social structures to exist and that prevents cooperation between members of different groups.

While miniature helicopters already exist, without a flapping mechanism you can't make aircraft as small as insects, says Hod Lipson at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

In another paper in the same issue, a team led by molecular biologist Ronald Plasterk, now at the Hubrecht Laboratory in Utrecht, the Netherlands, reports an intriguing twist: The same genes appear to be responsible for both RNAi and another gene - silencing mechanism known as cosuppression, in which adding extra copies of a gene cause both the new and the existing copies of that gene to be shut down.

«Existing mechanisms, such as the quality and outcomes framework and NICE guidelines, aim to ensure that patients receive a consistent quality of primary care across all practices in England.

We leverage our cutting - edge platforms to produce product candidates and utilize distinct therapeutic approaches that, we believe, address the shortcomings of existing therapies and have the potential to treat a broad patient population either as individual therapies or in combination with other mechanisms of action.

As significant uncertainties about the thickness of the surface ice still exist, some planetary scientists have identified two possible mechanisms for how possible volcanic heat can escape to the surface from Europa's rocky mantle and be carried upward by buoyant oceanic currents.

There is increasing recognition that visual performance is impaired in early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, no consensus exists as to the mechanisms underlying this visual dysfunction, in particular regarding the timing, nature, and extent of retinal versus cortical pathology.

Our two primary product candidates, CMB305 and G100, utilize distinct immuno - oncology approaches that, we believe, address the shortcomings of existing therapies and have the potential to treat a broad patient population either as individual therapies or in combination with other mechanisms of action.

Taken together, these studies suggest that a mechanism that exists to defend against viruses also has an effect on whether or not the bacteria cause disease in humans — an important finding that may help us better understand why only some of these bacteria lead to illnesses such as pneumonia and meningitis.

Cell surface receptors can be endocytosed by both clathrin - dependent and clathrin - independent mechanisms, but, as yet, there is no clear understanding of why alternative endocytic routes exist or how receptors are committed to a particular route.

Lectins are specific proteins that bind to carbohydrates, and exist in plants in varying levels as a protective mechanism.

Even though some studies have produced evidence that putting the muscle under extreme conditions might result in slight increases in the number of fibers, a process known as hyperplasia, the mechanism which is responsible for increasing muscle size is called hypertrophy, which is the increase in the size of the already existing muscle fibers.

A vicious cycle exists in which molecular mechanisms involved in the aging process, such as oxidative stress, DNA damage, senescence, and inflammation, lead to tissue NAD decline which subsequently exacerbates the processes that caused its decline in the first place.

Moreover, humans can exist quite easily without ever eating carbs, since the body has several mechanisms for generating glucose from the fat and proteins consumed, as well as from proteins stripped from muscle tissue.

Insulin resistance causes chronically high levels of insulin in the body and as said earlier, it's an unconscious mechanism by which insulin can exist at these high levels, even when the need might not be.

As a result, many of us often exist in a constant state of stress, or our «fight or flight» mode, which is our body's survival mechanism to cope with oncoming dangers (except nowadays, our form of danger is a scathing email from a boss or a client!)

However, based on the relationship of excess dietary methionine to vital organ toxicity, as well as its likely mechanism of action through increases in free radical generation, the possibility exists that the protective effects of plant - based diets can be due, at least in part, to their lower methionine content.

More and more, as the format grows beyond the niche it seemed to occupy when I first started buying audiobooks in 2004, people are trying different things to make the audiobook not just an alternate delivery mechanism for the text for reasons of either convenience or necessity, but a separate, satisfying piece of creative work with its own reasons to exist.

For years, he has existed as something of an open secret, playing monthly shows at Largo in Los Angeles and offering his unparalleled appreciation for the mechanisms that make music soar for those who seek his counsel.

The overall goal of this extension of our existing work in partnership with TFF and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy (AFBA) is to continue and expand our work in Bridgeport focusing in several keys areas: (1) building knowledge about (a) children's emerging skills and areas of challenge in the social - emotional domain and why these skills are critical to school success, and (b) the ways in which adult stress and skills in the social - emotional domain can impede or foster children's social - emotional skill development; (2) identifying, deploying, and evaluating strategies to build adult and child skills in social - emotional learning with an emphasis on the Tauck Family Foundation's (TFF) five essential SEL skills; and (3) developing and testing a performance management system for SEL that (a) guides the identification of strategies, (b) provides a mechanism for ongoing progress monitoring, feedback, and changes to practice, and (c) serves as an anchor point for ongoing coaching and support in using SEL strategies.

Ebooks aren't nearly as revolutionary as you might expect, in part because they're basically like online travel agents: a more convenient mechanism for what actually exists.

But is there a chance that given the extreme lack of risk taking and lending by banks that even healthy companies may cut dividends simply as a risk management mechanism to save capital in case their banks / debt holders are so risk averse that they do not roll over existing debt?

Investment results from real - estate investing could on the other hand vary widely as no uniform market pricing mechanism exists, especially considering the transparency and efficiency of the stock market.

Mechanisms exist to enforce the terms of the budget resolution during the consideration of such legislation, and a special mechanism known as «reconciliation» exists to expedite the consideration of mandatory spending and tax legislation.

This is a very different concept of cheating than we use when rules are relevant, because this is not violating the rules (of which there are none), it is staying within the real restrictions within the videogame, using mechanisms that exist as part of that videogame.

As she wrote in 1980 about her Four Intruders plus Alarm Systems: «My interest is to fully politicize the existing art - world context, to confront you here and now with the presence of certain representative individuals who are alien and unfamiliar to that context in its current form, and to confront you with your defence mechanisms against them.»

As to why the flickering lights are artistic, Mr Wilson said: «He's making a work of art by manipulating the existing mechanism of the gallery light system.»

From what data exists about previous peroids of rapid climate change (i.e. climate change caused by an intrinsic mechanism such as a meteor impact, massive volcanic activity or human activity, as opposed to sun cycles), it seems that climate does show such behavior too.

* Assessments of current mechanisms for governing global environmental change show why existing international arrangements are not dealing quickly enough with current global challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss.

The idea of «unlimited,» as concerns the control mechanism in Miskolczi Theory, as observed Dr (hc) Noor van Andel, only exists because, «the main greenhouse gas, i.e. water, is available in unlimited supply and finds its way into the atmosphere to control the flux relations.»

The Committee recommends a coordinated approach that draws upon the historical strength of the various agencies involved and uses existing coordination mechanisms, such as the U.S. Global Change Research Program, to the extent possible.»

The questionnaire also challenges technologies and products currently subsidized by the Energy Department that might be «offered in the market without any subsidy,» as well as asks whether «mechanisms exists to help the national laboratories commercialize their scientific and technological prowess.»

Within economics modelling, attempts to model the feedback mechanisms that occur in the real economy are also really difficult — we know, for example, that investment in new technologies will act as an incentive for the existing technologies it hopes to substitute to become more efficient (the sailing ship effect — i.e. in the 50 years after the introduction of the steam ship, sailing ships made more efficiency improvements than they had in the previous 3 centuries) but how to quantify something even as simple as this is not easy BUT we have learnt a few ways to give sensible (order of magnitude) figures with time lags, the learning by doing effect and phased - in substitution effects based on massive amounts of data.