Sentences with phrase «like scale models»

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Along with a clever production design that makes locations look like scale models and other board game bits thrown in, this was probably a hard sell to figure out how to market for any studio.

Just like that scale model of a Civil War battle, the outcome of The Grand Budapest Hotel is never in doubt — no matter the meticulousness of its simulacra — nor, as a consequence, do the tribulations of his tin soldiers have much emotional heft and attachment.

It was a subcompact SUV that looked like a scale model version of the Jeep Wrangler.

Not exact matches

The Riverfront Levee exhibit will be a 5 - block scale model of what the downtown St. Louis Mississippi riverfront looked like in 1852.

Le Duc cites companies like Tesla, which made electric cars fashionable; Nest Labs, which is revolutionizing home temperature control and energy use; and Solar City, which scaled up industrial solar panels, all of which are taking revenue from companies with older business models.

Ad - based models are not working, even for large digital players, because «publishers enjoy far less pricing power, and even the largest of us are dwarfed by those who dominate the field, players like Facebook and Google whose immense scale allows them to undercut everybody else.»

At the same time, independents like BG Group, Devon Energy, and EOG Resources grew increasingly successful in exploration and unconventional plays, but they still struggled to scale operations without copying the bureaucratic operating models of the majors.

From the images of the pod's interior, it appears like Dubai's Hyperloop system would be a comfortable ride as well, as evidenced by the generous amount of legroom shown in the full - scale prototype model.

As strategic public players in the US continue to see limited growth making large scale M&A difficult, private equity players have filled some of the gap, particularly for enterprise companies with SAAS - like models.

Moving up the complexity scale, non-linear or machine learning models like Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines or Decision Trees can be used to build the investment signal.

In an hour the tests were substantially over; and, scaling the results from model size to boat size, allowing 28 % power loss for propeller inefficiency, 20 % more for drag from things like rudders and rough paint and 2 % more to make up for the slight downward slant of the propeller shaft, everyone agreed that Mr. Metcalf would indeed have to buy two diesels of 275 hp if he wanted to cruise at 12 knots.

The detailed models produced using the MT imaging data of the southwestern U.S. more accurately portrayed surface structures at a scale of less than 100 kilometers, Liu said, which is important because features like volcanoes and faults are localized phenomena that are harder to predict using larger - scale models.

The new model allows researchers to run large - scale experiments in conditions that are much more like the actual places where the bacteria colonize, without requiring researchers to collect countless specimens of actual mucus, called sputum, from humans.

They also hope to use what they learn from simple models of different tissue types to ultimately build functional human tissues like lung and kidney and neural circuits using larger - scale techniques.

«The next team can work with more detailed, finer - scale models and estimate what conditions will look like in these watersheds.»

And while weather models in a place like Seattle provide excellent detail on a local level, for Everest the models are not on a regional scale but rather a global one — for the entire continent of Asia or the Himalayan range.

Inside, through a small lobby, past a few large - scale creature models and around a series of corners that feel like entering some secret world is just that — the set for the top - secret military installation that is one of the main locations for «The Shape of Water.»

Whereas the console version of Street Fighter IV was a fully polygonal 3D game, the mobile version took the strange approach of pre-rendering scaled down versions of those same console fighter models and animating them into the game like a more typical sprite - based 2D fighting game.

He makes similar arguments about how efforts to improve teacher quality, instructional approaches like Success for All, and high - expectation techniques practiced by educators like Jaime Escalante and Rafe Esquith are not promising models for reform because their success is due to the selection of students or other factors that can not be replicated on a broader scale.

If Korea uses its famed skill of rapidly adopting new trends and ideas to scale innovations like the flipped classrooms in Busan about which I have written and other forms of blended learning that escape the factory - model of education, then perhaps some praise from President Obama would be well deserved.

It also means that many philanthropists eager to create the next «sexy» innovation in education should instead focus on scaling relatively simpler combinations of technology with teachers in Station Rotation models and the like.

They then created scaled models to map out the playground equipment they'd like to see within the confines of a set budget.

And given that in your language or model of instruction you have a scale for each element in your model, teachers can say, «Well, I'm starting at this level in the rubric or scale and by the end of the year, I'd like to get to this level.»

Like the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model, each element in the school leader model includes a sModel, each element in the school leader model includes a smodel includes a scale:

In order to meet future challenges, the authors argue that the East Bay must invest in its core economic assets, such as preparing an advanced manufacturing workforce and scaling up proven work - based learning models like Linked Learning.

As both these images and our earlier spy photos and leaked scale - models show, the Volvo S90 will have a traditional long - hood luxury - sedan silhouette, with proportions bringing to mind rivals like the Audi A6, BMW 5 Series, and Mercedes - Benz E-Class.

Maranello, Italy Anything with a prancing horse on it seems to sell like crazy these days — Ferrari flags, Schumacher caps, fire - engine - red scale models, embroidered polo shirts, and, of course, sports cars.

The team shot the scale model at the U.K.'s Sheperton Studios, where other high - budget Hollywood movies like Harry Potter and James Bond have been filmed.

Now, thanks to its lightweight aluminum body and improved interior space, the XF may just have tipped the scales in its favor Interesting features of this model are Lightweight, all - aluminum body, athletic yet elegant styling, ample interior room, luxurious appointments, optional all - wheel drive, and powerful supercharged V6 engines Contact Baker Motor Company of Charleston today for information on dozens of vehicles like this 2016 Jaguar XF 35t R - Sport.

Details like the standard LED headlamps strike a big contrast from the 2017 model, which does visually convince you the 6 is going up - scale.

On the other end of the fuel - consumption scale are two hybrid models, the Fusion Hybrid and Fusion Hybrid Energi plug - in model, which like the standard sedan both come in a hedonistic Platinum model.

It is still powered by a 3.8 - liter twin - turbo V8 engine like other McLaren models, pushing out 562 hp while tipping the scales at 2,976 pounds.

An abundance of luxury appointments makes this mammoth Infiniti the only import - badged luxury SUV with the scale, features and capabilities to compete directly with big domestic models like the Cadillac Escalade ESV, GMC Yukon XL and Lincoln Navigator L, while fending off other international nameplates, including the Audi Q7, Mercedes - Benz GL 450 and the Lexus LX 570.

The engine even has moving pistons and extreme detail like we've never seen before on a scale model.

Like other RS models, the gray background instrument gauges have white scales and red needles.

Car enthusiasts wishing they could scythe through the snow this Christmas like Stig Blomqvist in an Audi quattro may appreciate having their dreams fuelled by this beautifully detailed 1:43 scale model of the Eighties original in its road - going form.

It's a mature and handsome design that reads more like a seventh / eighth - scale Accord than it does for a model something with Civic roots.

In sunny, outdoor environment, the Z2 Tablet's display suffers from reflection just like most tablets that use reflective LED technology (different from the glare - free E Ink used by Amazon Kindle in its gray - scale models).

Publishers have long - entrenched ideas, facilities, processes, and business models that can't turn on a dime, and they're seeing increased competition from online retailers (like Amazon and B&N) and smaller publishers, who don't need the huge economies of scale and financial capital that the print book business requires.

This was a business model that was only largely profitable in large scale, so naturally banks began to scale up, leading to the big names today — names like RBC, TD, CIBC, BMO and ScotiaBank.

The museum contains several recreated worlds from various highlights of Belize's history, complete with facades of buildings built to scale and model humans and props situated to make you feel like you are literally walking through Belize's past.

Architecture in form, but sculptural in scale (being 2.1 meters in total height), it is a model for nothing specific that nevertheless still looks like a model.

Much like those models, the scale of Nagle's work his scale is also small, as if they're tiny, non-functional containers for bigger ideas.

The exhibit will be divided into three parts: the museum's Rubin Gallery will be organized into a layout that mimics Manhattan with scale models of projects like Steven Holl's Parallax Towers (alluded to above) and an alternate design for Central Park inspired by the gardens of Versailles; the museum's long - standing Panorama of the City of New York display will get 70 new additions to show viewers what the city would have looked like if all of the exhibit's projects had been completed; and a third display will focus on projects that were specifically intended for Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

In the museum, O scale model trains (1:48) will move through architectural dioramas created by the likes of Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid.

The museum, which Mr. Krens first considered developing in China, would feature one of the world's largest working systems of O scale model trains, with perhaps 100 in operation at one time and a control room that «would look like something from NASA,» he said.

The main room feels overwhelming in scale, full of over-sized and crudely modeled ceramic sculptures, towering red dripping sculptures that look like some sort of giant animal's tendons freshly ripped from its body, and spray - painted canvases hanging on the walls.

Sévellec is one of a few miniaturists (another was Charles Matton) whose ingenious reductions transcend even small - scale models executed, like his own, without prefabricated components (tiny bottles, sinks, or armchairs).

The scene inside the vast garage - like gallery space resembled an (albeit very hip) children's birthday party, as toddlers and adults alike wandered Ms. Kusama's large - scale model of a suburban home with sheets of bright polka - dot stickers.