Sentences with phrase «interesting use of the system»

This is of course not what the rating system was meant for, but it's an interesting use of the system.

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«I wasn't interested in manufacturing millions of gowns on my own and shipping and distributing and dealing with lots of large systems,» Porowski, who used her personal savings to develop the gown, says.

The EC alleges that IKEA used an intercompany loan to offset tax, saying: «As a result of the interest payments, a significant part of Inter IKEA Systems» franchise profits after 2011 was shifted to its parent in Liechtenstein.»

The concept of using the immune system as a therapeutic is not new, but our ability to use the immune system to target things we're interested in is novel.

On 19 September 2000, the Bank of Canada published details of its plan to adopt a new system of eight «fixed» or pre-specified dates each year for announcing any changes to the official interest rate that it uses to implement monetary policy.

In November 2000, the Bank of Canada introduced a new system of eight «fixed» or pre-specified dates each year for announcing any changes to the official interest rate it uses to implement monetary policy.

Estimates of the neutral real short - term interest rate obtained from many of the DSGE models used within the Federal Reserve System are currently clustered around zero, and this seems reasonable to me.

The RBA uses the operating technique which has come universal in countries with deregulated financial markets: the Bank can influence liquidity in the payments clearing system, and is allows us to shift interest rates at the very short end of the yield curve.

But as long as the PBoC can continue to withstand pressure to lower interest rates — and it seems that the traditional poor relations between the PBoC and the CBRC have gotten worse in recent months, perhaps in part because the PBoC seems more determined to reduce financial risk and more willing to accept lower growth as the cost — China will move towards a system that uses capital much more efficiently and productively, and much of the tremendous waste that now occurs will gradually disappear.

Small businesses using NCR's Silver tablet - based point - of - sale system are steadily asking about bitcoin but not showing much interest in Apple Pay, NCR...

Alibaba's interest in WeLab isn't surprising because of its focus on using technology to disrupt the traditional banking industry in China through Ant Financial, its financial services arm, and online payment system Alipay.

I have used a fall in exports to show how constrained Beijing's policy choices are, but I could just have easily done the same using as an example any change in the currency regime, the reform of the hukou system, the de-industrialization of the bankrupt northeast provinces, the development of the OBOR and Silk Road projects, changes in interest rates or minimum reserves, protecting the stock market from crashing, the provincial bond swaps, changes in the tax regime, improving energy and environmental policies, and so on.

In contrast to other prominent banking institutions, some of which are interested in exploring other use cases for the blockchain, Carstens did not appear impressed by technologies related to digital assets: «In practice, central bank experiments show that DLT - based systems are very expensive to run, and slower and much less efficient to operate on conventional payment and settlement systems.»

Their underlying worth is determined by the central banking system and the government, through a series of federal guarantees, the setting of interest rates and so on (money used to be backed by physical gold in Fort Knox, but that hasn't been the case since the 1970s).

Small businesses using NCR's Silver tablet - based point - of - sale system are steadily asking about bitcoin but not showing much interest in Apple Pay, NCR product manager Reggie Kimble told Finextra.

In just a few months into their pilot, Schedulock has already secured contracts with brokerages and has garnered interest from several others, who are currently using out - of - date booking systems, says Web4Realty.

The company has shown interest in the use of a web - based front - end for the company's EDI systems to support the simplification of testing efforts.

What interests us here is that this system operates at a high level of conceptual discrimination, in Whitehead's technical use of the term.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

I have said that conservatism is 5 % people who game the system (like the slave holders of old) and 95 % useful idiots those who fight for them but have no interest in the outcome (used by the system — manipulated)!

Andre Beteille's study on caste, class and power conducted in 1965 is still relevant today: power has shifted from rich landlords and other traditionally rich groups not to the poor, but to a middle group, mostly politicians who with the support of the rich, continue to use the system to further their interests.

Such power, according to the mainline churches, should be used not to further one's own advantage exclusively but also to further the interests of the community through advocacy functions and a general critique of the broadcast system.

The present study was primarily interested in assessing consumers» ability to use a variety of front - of - pack labelling systems; therefore participants did not have access to other information that might also be used when selecting foods.

Voltea, the global leader in electro - desalination water treatment technology, is seeing strong interest from hotels, restaurants and cafes in its new, point - of - use DiUse system for coffee, fountain drink and drinking water applications.

And that's why they've recommended — which again we're not wedded to this as a system at all, but it's an interesting one to look at, there's a couple of others around at the moment — it uses the energy rating system that we currently are familiar with on our whitegoods, it uses that star system, and so the better you food is the more stars it gets.

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Using our Bet Labs data analysis software, we created a system to test each of these situations and found some interesting results.

The use of the health care system, including professional associations by the infant formula manufacturers, Mead Johnson and Abbott as promotional channels for their products and their brands creates conflicts of interest for those working with mothers and infants.

As well as protecting the right of the mother / child dyad to breastfeed and ensuring mothers who use formula have accurate independent information, it is necessary to ensure mothers have support from health care systems, health workers and mother - support groups, who are not compromised by conflicts of interest.

Behavior Redirection, also referred to as behavior modification, uses a child's natural interests (cars, food, movies, storybook characters, movement, games, etc) along with a system of natural consequences, obtainable goals, and rewards to encourage success.

«Inflation targeting» summarises the system widely adopted in the last two decades on a nation - by - nation basis, involving independent central banks using interest rates to keep inflation at a target level in the framework of a New Keynesian macroeconomic model.

At the same time, my study of the use of poetry in Yemen's jihadist journals brought me to a new political interest in how Yemen's transition to a federal system is playing out in Yemen's eastern regions.

Agreement for use of the New York state thruway authority's fiber optic system, or any part thereof, may be made through agreements based on set fees rather than public auction or negotiation based on «best interest of thruway» and «appraisal of the fair market value.»

The disadvantage of using this system (two rounds) is the fatigue (apathy) that is going to suffer the voter if the election is not playing something that he / she is not interested or the voter is sure that the other candidate is going to win.

Considered in this framework there have been four periods of political party systems in British political history — using «party», in Gramsci's sense, to indicate not simply organised parties in the modern sense but, in earlier periods, groupings of political interests.

We know that the public interest would be better served if out elected officials were able to run for office using a system of public campaign finance like New York City's.»

His research interests include the safety regulation of the nuclear industry as well as energy use and safety regulation of transport systems.

Using differential interest rates rising with earnings as a means of providing for a more progressive system is less fair than a graduate tax, a graduate contribution or general taxation because those from wealthy backgrounds will have smaller debts as their families can afford to pay up front.

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.

No word yet on which developers are interested in the proposal, which would likely need an educational component to fit in with Cuomo's strategy of using the SUNY system to attract high - tech employers.

«The new system is being modeled after the current development in the oil and gas sector where your carried interest is converted to a share of production so once the company produces, you receive your share of the products, sell them and use the proceeds to undertake developmental projects,» he explained.

THAT NYSUT establish a task force which shall include member - participants in each of the public retirement systems, including the retirement plan trustees, if applicable, to discuss possible methods, including legislation, to harness and use public pension plan resources to improve poor labor practices and to provide workers the right to organize and bargain collectively in enterprises controlled by private equity funds, as well as other corporate interests; and

Both forms of government use a «representational system» where citizens vote to elect politicians to «represent» their interests and form the government.

Not very appealing,» says Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of food safety at the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington, D.C. «Treated sewage may be used in certain water systems that then are used for irrigation.

In addition, they applied the method to thermal transport in nanostructured silicon, a system of current interest with high potential impact on thermoelectric technology, using simulations of unprecedented size.

Lead author Yarden Katz, a fellow at the center and in the department of systems biology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, says they were interested in examining the relationship between NIH funding and metrics widely used to indicate scientific quality and determine career advancement, such as publication, citation, and patent counts.

Pleasure, who is research director at Shriner's Hospital for Children Northern California and also directs the Institute for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine, noted that considerable research interest has arisen about the use of minocycline for diseases of the central nervous system because of the increasing evidence about its neuroprotective effects.

A brand new science for studying this networked phenomenon, and in effect it's kind of a reverse engineering the World Wide Web that we know and the kinds of networks that we see on that to try to figure out how they took shape and maybe from that we can learn what principles involve and how networks do grow and you might be able to use that sort of thing to be able to develop a better system s for example being able to create more efficient networks and that could be very valuable in industry, there may be a lot of practical applications, involving protecting privacy, for example, and stopping people from stealing identities; and you should, you know, should be of just an interesting phenomenon.

To guide choices about the lake and river system, the Academies» new report recommends a decision framework grounded in scientific and engineering information, and the use of decision analysis techniques to account for multiple objectives and the values of interested and affected parties.

The interests of the CSFR and the NCLS aligned well on many SFRL projects, conferences, publications, and AAAS annual meeting symposia such as on the ethical and legal implications of genetic testing; use of animals in research and education; scientific misconduct and research integrity; use of scientific and technical information in the courts; ethical and legal aspects of computer network use and abuse; effects of national security controls on unclassified research, and the impact of neuroscience on the legal system.