Sentences with phrase «form of an accelerated»

And financing tools like those offered from Capital Access Network require sophisticated accounting because, technically, the cash is not a loan, but a form of accelerated sale.

• Accelerated gifting: 529 plans offer an excellent estate planning advantage in the form of accelerated gifting.

Many moms and dads have heard of a different form of the accelerated breathing called variable or transition breathing.

Einstein wanted to extend relativity to all forms of accelerated motions.

Fragments of rituals and spaces of commune arrive with the viewer as both background and as a form of accelerated archeology.

As the list above illustrates, many carriers offer some form of accelerated death benefit or «long term care» funds.

It also allows you to use a portion of the death benefit, in the form of an accelerated benefit rider, if you become terminally ill and your family needs cash.

We are seeing long term care and disability benefits added free of charge on life insurance policies in the form of accelerated death benefits.

Not exact matches

But rather than buying up a genetic research outfit, it decided to build its own in the form of the Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC), an ambitious four - year old effort to sequence as many exomes (the protein - encoding part of the genome) as possible, pair them with medical records, and accelerate drug development.

We are happy to see how events, like Blockchain Cruise, accelerate the growth of blockchain community and form meaningful relationships between its members.

About LACI: LACI is a nonprofit formed at the behest of the City of Los Angeles in October 2011 to build a world - class cleantech innovation hub and to accelerate LA's green economy.

NC IDEA Helps young, innovative companies mainly by providing early financing in the form of grants, accelerating the creation of new North Carolina companies and jobs

Starting in the 1950s and accelerating during Japan's bubble, keiretsu corporations purchased each other's shares to form an extensive network of cross-holdings, a practice that was seen as important for guaranteeing long - term stability and developing lasting business relationships.

The enthusiasm for bitcoin has accelerated this year with South Korean and Japanese banks accepting them as a form of money.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

[5][6] The theory could potentially explain why a mysterious repulsive form of energy known as the «cosmological constant», and which is accelerating the expansion of the universe, is several orders of magnitude smaller than predicted by the standard Big Bang model.»

It will form a value - added network of communication and information to enforce and accelerate the market dynamics among the life of the people.

Premised on the idea that the basic activity of life is the inescapable pursuit of what Hobbes called the «power after power that ceaseth only in death» — Alexis de Tocqueville would later describe it as «inquietude» or «restlessness» — the endless quest for fewer obstacles to self - fulfillment and greater power to actuate the ceaseless cravings of the human soul requires ever - accelerating forms of economic growth and pervasive consumption.

This fact coupled with the accelerated rate of social change and the mutations of form and quantity in the information environment, give us real reason to be concerned for survival itself.

Many of us are now jumpy, if not panicky, because of the astounding and dramatic form and pace in which it has accelerated and come upon us in the last few decades, and because of the manner in which it has taken place under auspices other than ourselves and outside our political, ideological, and religious control.

If that isn't enough, Adu's accelerated high school program set up by IMG, the Edison Academic Center — through which he will earn his diploma next month — has included community service at a child - care center, which requires another form of superhero work: taking three - year - olds to the bathroom.

Deep breaths can help her manage stress and feel better even in the worst of times, and accelerated breathing may work on other forms of pain relief.

You can spritz some acid in the form of vinegar or lemon juice onto stubborn stains to accelerate the bleaching process, being sure to wash the diapers after this treatment, before you use them again.

B Lab drives systemic change through three interrelated initiatives: 1) building a community of Certified B Corporations to make it easier for all of us to tell the difference between «good companies» and just good marketing; 2) accelerating the growth of the impact investing asset class through use of B Lab's GIIRS impact rating system by institutional investors; and 3) promoting supportive public policies, including creation of a new corporate form and tax, procurement, and investment incentives for sustainable business.

Mr. Boateng urged stakeholders in the local government system to avoid all forms of internal wrangling and work together to accelerate the development of communities and districts.

The «Accelerate Long Island» program is now in the hands of the Long Island Association, which is in the process of forming a committee to execute the plan Mr. Lesko says will help private sector companies commercialize new technologies.

As part of efforts towards achieving that goal, a coalition has been formed dubbed «Champions 12.3», to lead a dedicated campaign to inspire ambition, mobilise action, and accelerate progress in that direction.

On top of this the Government has committed to maximise access for self - builders to land which is being released as part of its accelerated land - disposals programme and to require local authorities to take positive steps to facilitate this form of building.

The party appears to be engaged in a very public form of hari - kiri, accelerating its own political meltdown.

She said this at an event which formed part of the Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of...

Pulses and fronts, the basic building blocks of patterns, could be formed, accelerated, modified, guided, and destroyed at will.

The discovery of accelerating rather than decelerating expansion has apparently revealed the presence of such an energy form, referred to as dark energy.

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

The discovery of this «cell of origin» promises to accelerate the development of more precise screening tools and therapies for Barrett's esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma, the fastest growing form of cancer in the U.S.

IRON overload may accelerate Alzheimer's disease, according to research that also reveals the role of beta - amyloid precursor protein (APP), which forms plaques in affected brains.

«Another important finding from this study is that we uncovered a mutant form of NS1 that accelerated lethality in flu - infected mice which was linked to stronger activation of Hedgehog signaling,» said Smelkinson.

«Previous studies have linked increased stress with accelerated onset of metastasis in some forms of breast cancer,» said Michelle L. Halls, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Drug Discovery Biology Theme at Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University in Parkville, Victoria, Australia.

In 2004 historian John Coatsworth described globalization as «what happens when the movement of people, goods, or ideas among countries and regions accelerates,» and that process has been carrying on in one form or another since modern humans first ventured out of Africa.

On 11 August, ARPA - E gave advanced warning of the new funding stream, called Accelerating Low - cost Plasma Heating and Assembly (ALPHA), so that researchers would have time to form into teams to bid for funding.

Rhodium accelerates these reactions with an added boost of energy, which usually comes in the form of heat because it is easily produced and absorbed.

If interest in space colonization continues apace, research into methods of enhancing radioresistance to protect against the various forms of space radiation that spacefarers would be subjected to needs to be accelerated accordingly.

Most forms of cancer resemble evolution happening on an accelerated timescale, with a sudden explosion of genetic rearrangements taking place in the cells.

Because patients with H63D HFE have an accelerated form of the disease, their results could skew study findings.

Conventional fossil fuel takes millions of years to form, but a determined niche of modern alchemists are vastly accelerating the process to brew biocrude, a fuel similar to petroleum that is produced in less than two months from agricultural or municipal waste.

The relatively high density of plasma in the cloud prevents the formation of electromagnetic waves that would otherwise accelerate electrons to high speeds, turning them into a form of radiation.

The creation of electron - positron pairs would cause a loss of pressure, further accelerating the collapse; as a result, the two orbiting fragments would ultimately become so dense that a black hole could form at each clump.

Exploding stars seen across immense distances show that the cosmic expansion may be accelerating — a sign that the universe may be driven apart by an exotic new form of energy

They tested cells from healthy people of various ages and also from children with Hutchinson - Guilford progeria, a rare hereditary disorder that resembles an accelerated form of aging.

In its rotating magnetic field, electrons and positrons are accelerated up to relativistic energies and emit radiation that arrives to our telescopes in the form of pulses every 33 millisecond, each time the neutron star rotates and meets our telescopic sight.

Friction is an everyday phenomenon that is sometimes desirable (enabling cars to accelerate) and sometimes not (friction in the form of vehicle drag and friction in the engine and transmission system increase the car's energy consumption).