Sentences with phrase «fragmented nature of»

The fragmented nature of seniors housing has opened up opportunities for every type of buyer to participate in merger and acquisition activity.

Another factor, he adds, is the highly fragmented nature of the industry with a large number of operators.

But due to the fragmented nature of the Android install base, only three percent of Android users are protected by this feature.

The fragmented nature of Microsoft's internal groups and the company's marketing teams are largely to blame, but after a reorganization earlier this year, it appears that Microsoft might be readying a clear message for Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and Xbox.

In general, Google has long fought the idea that Android is more susceptible to hackers than iOS — though it has faced an uphill battle considering the fragmented nature of Android.

Marc is soon releasing the first body corporate law textbook for Queensland, which will help simplify the complicated, and somewhat fragmented nature of the law.

The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture at 8 West 8th Street, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York State is an art school formed in 1963 by a group of students and their teacher, Mercedes Matter, all of whom had become disenchanted with the fragmented nature of art instruction inside traditional art programs and universities.

The work invites the viewer to reflect on the complexities of mind, language and the fragmented nature of our lives through a process of perceiving and understanding what is inside and around us.

The role of the private sector in this is pivotal, ministers insisted, although competitive concerns and the fragmented nature of the sector often prevent companies from working together.

«Due to the fragmented nature of the market, hotel apartments and guest houses tend to compete with the economy hotel market, as there is a lack of differentiation between the two products from a consumer standpoint,» Sona said.

The multiple linkages model asserts a prominent role for «situational variables» — the size of the work group, organizational policies and procedures, the prior training and experience of members — which mediate what the leader is able to do.131 For example, the size of the school will have a significant effect on how well teachers know other teachers; it also will affect the way in which teachers form workgroups or departments to talk about their work.132 The fragmented nature of professional communities, rather than size per se, becomes a constraint on how principals try to organize professional communities to focus on instruction and student learning.

The extremely fragmented nature of the digital dating industry may be an overhang on Match shares, although it creates a growth opportunity for Match as a consolidator in the sector.

Sometimes it is due to the fragmented nature of the region that has multiple languages and cultures that hinders them.

In addition to exposing the limits of state capacities to mediate the lives of their internal and external populations, the conference spotlighted the transnational and highly fragmented nature of migrants» political realities.

However, the scope for another shock seemed limited by the fragmented nature of Dutch politics, which has traditionally produced a multi-party governing coalition, and meant even substantial gains for the leading populist party would be unlikely to allow it to gain access to power.

At the same time, some critics of this new system argue that the fragmented nature of American equity markets poses systemic risks for the economy.

This is due to the fragmented nature of the cryptocurrency market.

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Given the industry's fragmented nature, acquisitions are the growth vehicle of choice for established c - store operators.

Selling prior to maturity can present a challenge for municipal bond investors due to the fragmented and thinly traded nature of the market.

These initial data can be described as elements of composition, symbolic in nature, which in historical events appear as fragments of the hierarchical configurations previously discussed.

And if, in some vast upheaval of nature, it were shattered into fragments, that convulsion would still be conditioned by the fact that it was the destruction of that rock.

This transformation of the realm of the active by the power of the passive is a key not only to isolated fragments of Paul's witness, but also to an understanding of the man's total bearing within the world of nature and history.

Either American democracy is living on social capital inherited from an earlier time when Americans shared a common perspective on life's questions, in which case we face a slow descent into the fragmented and violent world Hauerwas sees; or else the enthusiastic, individualistic and yet genuinely loving piety of Emerson, Whitman and Ellison has a better grasp of our human nature, and it really is possible to be both democratic and virtuous.

Bringing forth only fragments of our extended critique of apostolic succession (and acting as if it constituted the whole), Wahlberg fails to realize both the nature and the extent of our criticism.

It is an «element» which echoes Whitehead's view of the global, rather than fragmented, character of nature — the unity of the general push of the creative advance of the universe — and the unity of causality and knowledge.

In spite of the fragments of knowledge concerning the nature and size of the universe which science is continually gathering, we need constantly to remember that our primary concern is, whether we like it or not, with the earth on which we live.

The migration scholarship has traditionally been concerned with the position of migrants vis - à - vis countries of residence and their interaction with official structures; the study of political transnationalism, however, attunes us simultaneously to the multi-dimensional, fragmented and shifting nature of migrants» political lives.

This entrenched position of Nana Akufo - Addo to continue leading the NPP and his intransigence not to step aside for others to take over the captainship of the party, coupled with his irascible nature, narcissist tendencies, divisiveness, vindictiveness and intolerance for dissent, is what has fragmented and polarized the hierarchy of the NPP.

Since those days of double - digit Labour leads the traditional binary nature of British politics has, of course, become fragmented.

Volcanic cones are of different types, depending upon the nature and size of the fragments ejected during the eruption.

As astronomers report online today in Nature, magnetic fields inside M33's six most massive giant molecular clouds — large concentrations of dense gas and dust that give birth to stars — line up with the spiral arms, suggesting the magnetic fields helped create the huge clouds and that they regulate how the clouds fragment to form new stars.

To understand how they work, we can take a look at nature itself: while natural elements acquire their physical properties from the atoms that form them and the way in which they are ordered, metamaterials use natural means, like small metal fragments that fit together like parts of a Meccano model to artificially synthesise properties that are impossible to find otherwise.

Under certain combinations of conditions, large fragments of carbon coating were eroded away (as depicted in image), the researchers report today in Nature Communications.

The new remains — six teeth, a fragment of jawbone and a tiny piece of skull — don't settle the issue, but Yousuke Kaifu at Tokyo's National Museum of Nature and Science and his colleagues think they back the shrunken H. erectus theory.

The new method, which is described in the scientific periodical Nature Methods, can be of value to both DNA nanotechnology and the development of drugs consisting of DNA fragments.

Instead of rebuilding E. Coli from scratch, LS9 has taken the organism from nature and modified it by inserting fragments of synthetic DNA, an approach that, Church notes, is much less costly and easy to scale up for industrial purposes.

A UFZ team of scientists led by Andreas Huth described in Nature Communications in spring of last year that fragmentation of once connected tropical forest areas could increase carbon emissions worldwide by another third, as many trees die and less carbon dioxide is stored in the edge of forest fragments.

The modular nature of Hammond's nanoparticles might also benefit either Belcher's light - responsive nanotubes or Bhatia's fragment - shedding nanosensors, by packing them into a layered particle that contains a chemo drug at its core.

The exceptional scientific and technical abilities of the HRIBF staff and instrumentation enabled ground - breaking achievements including the first measurement with a reaccelerated unstable beam in North America, the first acceleration of neutron - rich fission fragments leading to the confirmation of the doubly magic nature of the heavy tin isotope 132Sn, pioneering experiments on the giant quadrupole resonance in nuclei, and dramatic new insights into numerous nuclear reactions that drive the evolution of the cosmos.

In the study, published in Nature Genetics, the researchers looked at fragments of non-coding DNA called enhancers.

Note that from the nature of this screen and the rarity of the transcripts, some of these clones represent only fragments of the presumed transcripts or have may have other artifacts.

The discovery of a fragment of a human cranium located in a cave in the Galilee, was announced in the journal Nature this week.

All I have used to make this beautiful snowy looking hanukkiah were: a wooden board, white acrylic, 9 bottle caps (it was a last minute, so my caps are all of different sizes), masking tape (preferable, double sided) and some nature fragments.

Then I've decorated with dried rosemary, pine cones and other nature fragments, and added a touch up of white acrylic all over them as well.

Due as much to some of Hooper's more incomprehensible directorial decisions as to the Gladiator star's miscasting, Crowe only manages to capture a fragment of the obsessive, sadistic and homoerotic nature of Javert that Charles Laughton mastered in the role nearly 80 years ago.

But its fragmented narrative structure, played out via flashback through the reading of jumbled correspondence, produces a dissonant effect at odds with the gentle nature of the director's fixed - mount static shots, pans, and zooms.

Yet the dream of movies (the nature of them) is also to extend inward; that dream suggests movies that will connect with increasingly fragmented cults of passion.

But it also highlights the fragmented, decentralized nature of Common Core implementation.

Changes to the nature of work from agrarian to factory during the mid-19th century, combined with westward expansion, further encouraged a fragmented system of academies to give way to widespread public schooling.

Ninety - six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature.