Sentences with phrase «larger scale points»

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Anyadiegwu argued that while she's grown the company tremendously on her own — to the point where she sees $ 50,000 a month in revenue — she needs a shark's help to scale up and build a larger online platform.

When large - scale beer concerns buy craft brewers like Ballast Point and Lagunitas, sales of their ales are no longer deemed «craft» — though they are often still marketed and stocked as a craft brewer.

When asked recently in a Compas Inc. poll whether the Canadian government should step in to block the sale of the nation's largest fertilizer company to Sinochem, CEOs agreed strongly, with a mean of 5.7 on a seven - point scale.

As collaboration with diverse individuals provides new points of view, networking accomplishes this on a larger scale.

U.S. News gathered data for the 100 largest metros, scoring each on a 10 - point scale to determine the final ranking.

It's often the case that smaller companies, operating on lean start - up principles, are able to move rapidly, test out new technologies, and scale them up at a substantially lower price point that it would cost a large defense contractor.

As they go through several cycles of acting, learning, and further designing, the maturity and sophistication of the strategy increases up to a point where companies start rolling out the strategy on a larger scale.

Startup costs are minimal and basically provide equipment for a larger scale and quickly establish distribution points through the larger chains.

Mr. Trump said he wasn't necessarily suggesting a large - scale military action, but that «at a certain point you have to do something and you have to be firm and you have to be strong, you have to be a government.»

Data shows that while participants in larger plans clearly benefit from scale, some small plans managed to pay significantly less in costs than others: costs for plans in the $ 1 million to $ 10 million segment ranged widely, from 68 basis points to 153 basis points.

Over the past 10 years, her groundbreaking work has generated a broad spectrum of innovative and ambitious output, from large - scale data analytics programs to site - specific multimedia installations, transforming billions of emotion data points into immersive works of art.

«From a marketplace perspective we're scaling fast, adding 8 million SKUs over the last three months alone,» said CEO Doug Mcmillon, adding that e-commerce contributed 50 basis points to third quarter U.S. comparable sales — its largest contribution yet.

Coal fell to just 27.6 % of US utility - scale power generation in December, and the spread between it and natural gas - fired generation widened to 616 basis points, the largest yet seen, Continue Reading

The main argument for evergreen funding for new ventures are the cautionary tales of startups that grew too fast and quickly outpaced their business model to the point that a profitable business on one scale becomes a ruined venture on the larger scale.

He said the ConocoPhillips and Crescent Point deals are likely examples of big companies «looking for scale» in a specific play, as major producers need large parcels of land to meaningfully increase their production.

My point is, humans (at the large scale) are divisive, religion or not.

The notion of the people, i.e.Minjung, and of small - scale movements and initiatives which represent them, is from the Christian point of view partly a socio - ecclesial vision in the sense of a theological appraisal of the church as social reality in the larger body politic, and partly eschatology in the sense of a vision of the ends worked out within, and ends which extend beyond, human history.

In a Festschrift for Einstein's seventieth birthday in 1949, Gödel demonstrated the possibility of a special case in which, as Palle Yourgrau described the result, «the large - scale geometry of the world is so warped that there exist space - time curves that bend back on themselves so far that they close; that is, they return to their starting point.»

When the list is complete, a large majority of the selection will have an impressive rating of 90 points or higher — based on Suckling's own 100 - point scale.

When it came to the point of tempering thechocolate (giving it a stable form so it doesn't melt too easily), the advice he received was pretty simple: it's not going to work.Everyone said a liquid sweetener would be impossible to use on a large scale and that it wasn't even worth trying to make chocolate with agave,» says Martha.

(As I point out in the book, a recent study by the National Center for Education Research found that none of the many large - scale character - education programs in use in American schools produces any significant positive outcomes.)

It seems to me that some «traditional egalitarians» risk missing a really important point the public's belief in «fair inequality» ends up around the 10 - 1 and 15 - 1 income differentials - ie much much less unequal - though they are also just interested in how the much larger differentials come about as about their scale.

The point is, the holocaust was neither the first nor the last time that Jews have faced large scale persecution, and it could happen again.

On the subject of the perceived inability of the government to deliver large - scale IT projects, he pointed to the DWP's payment programme with 22.5 million accounts now paid directly, which he said was «delivered on time, under budget».

As criticism grew louder, and convention business experts doubted the plan, Mr. Cuomo continued to profess confidence in the idea, pointing to Genting's «masterful track record» in pursuing large - scale developments elsewhere, including a $ 4.4 billion casino and resort complex in Singapore that opened in 2010.

At the other end of the scale two seats are showing large enough swings for the Conservatives to win the seat (North Devon and Portsmouth South, which has a chunky 9 point swing from LD to Con, presumably at least partially connected to the scandal around Mike Hancock).

While Miliband is focused on energy bills, it might be worth someone pointing out to him that by not adopting the Government's Feed - in Tariff reductions for small and larger - scale solar panels, Labour's plans would mean an extra # 90 a year for the average household's electricity bill.

Among many other points, the board argues that the projects are inconsistent with the Large Scale Residential Development Plan (LSRD) enacted in 1972.

Under the larger evaluation framework, announced in Albany Thursday afternoon, teachers will be graded on a 100 - point scale, 60 percent of which will be based on evaluations of teacher performance, including classroom observations.

These major players have been plunking down money for large - scale efforts (often framed as challenges) that engineer solutions to specific problems: Diagnose HIV at the point of care; prevent fatal, maternal bleeding after birth; help amputees get around tough terrain, and so on.

In 1966, also in Physical Review Letters, H. Boersch, J. Geiger and W. Stickel published a demonstration of electron energy gain spectroscopy, at a larger length scale, and pointed out that the measurement should depend upon the temperature of the sample.

It captured up to 30,000 digital reference points on each in situ shipwreck to be assembled later into large - scale 3 - D images.

Based on these points, Dr. Canli suggests a major research step would be to conduct large - scale studies with depressed patients, controls, and infectious - disease related protocols to determine the association or causal nature of infectious disease and depression.

The initial release of the MyShake app is intended as a large - scale test of the algorithm, aimed at collecting tens of thousands of data points from cellphones.

These last two works strike a mordant note, pointing to a future in which such large - scale weekend light extravaganzas may not be so easy to stage or cheap to maintain.

For those who aren't familiar with it, the «tipping point» is a concept from epidemiology (popularized by the best - selling book by Malcolm Gladwell) that suggests that small changes accumulate innocuously until a critical mass is reached, at which point a large - scale, irreversible change occurs in the system under study.

The analysis found — as a previous large - scale study did — that first - borns enjoy a one - IQ - point advantage over later - borns, Damian said.

He points out that every time astronomers have extended their observations of the heavens to a larger scale, they have found yet more structures (Astrophysics and Space Science, vol 189, p 163).

Being able to study quantum systems with a large number of components — or «qubits,» as they are often called — also has important implications for future quantum technologies, as Carleo points out: «If we want to test quantum computers with more than a handful of qubits, that won't be possible with conventional means because of the exponential scaling.

Many researchers argue that ever more evidence from clusters of galaxies, the largest scale structure of the universe, and the afterglow of the big bang points to the existence of dark matter.

He points out that larger - scale clinical investigations are warranted.

He points out that this magnetic signal can be associated with large - scale processes of mountain formation, and how these ranges can be curved until they create structures known as oroclines: «With a rock sample, we can analyse a process that has occurred on the tectonic plate level; and, specifically, offers new data that allows us to discover how this orogeny or large Variscan range and its curvature occurred.

Under such supercooled conditions, a large fraction of the atoms collapse into the lowest quantum state, at which point quantum effects become apparent on a macroscopic scale.

So, for example, with wind and solar, we still are not at the point where we can have a large scale - up of energy storage.

The star - forming dwarf galaxy in the new study was found during an ongoing, large - scale inventory of the heavens, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which revealed it as a possible point of interest.

The team points out that the period of intermarriage overlaps with a time of huge social upheavals in India, including the collapse of the ancient Indus civilization — which thrived on the Indian subcontinent between about 2600 B.C.E. and 1900 B.C.E. — as well as large - scale population movements and the rise of the Vedic religion, the predecessor of modern Hinduism.

«Some people feel very strongly about big data sets — almost to the point of fanatic refusal to accept results from large - scale analysis.»

We know, however, that rapid warming of the planet increases the risk of crossing climatic points of no return, possibly setting in motion large - scale ocean circulation changes, the loss of major ice sheets, and species extinctions.

Nonetheless, even if the substantial recent trend in the AO pattern is simply a product of natural multidecadal variability in North Atlantic climate, it underscores the fact that western and southern Greenland is an extremely poor place to look, from a signal vs. noise point of view, for the large - scale polar amplification signature of anthropogenic surface warming.