Sentences with phrase «model its structure on»

Because very few European institutions have explicit, formalized career paths, KI had to model its structure on those of institutions in the United States, says Katarina Bjelke, KI's director for research and postgraduate education.

In particular, we rederive the Kan model structure on simplicial sets without the use of topological spaces, minimal complexes, or any concrete model of fibrant replacement

Not exact matches

On the Alpha exchange, the company reversed a fee structure known as the maker - taker model.

Consequently, given ESPN's fixed cost structure and variable revenue model, subscriber losses are likely to have a disproportionate impact on the business model.»

Instead, if I were going to grow your business with you, I would want to develop a store - in - a-store model, where I'm relying on somebody else's fixed cost structure and I'm not the tenant, I'm the subtenant.

Eileen became famous not only for her ability to spot photogenic bone structures but also for the protective and demanding attention she lavished on her mostly teenage talent, often taking models in to live at her home.

The company is using the same basic structure for all of its vehicles, then adapting it depending on which model it's making.

Cost structures and licensing models can be convoluted, so be aware of what's included and what is priced as an add - on or per transaction fee, and know what the implementation costs will be.

Google, or Alphabet as it is now named due to changing its corporate structure to model Berkshire Hathaway with its expansion into other industries to reduce its reliance on the core search engine, which could be overthrown by a kid in a garage under the wrong set of circumstances, generates after - tax earnings of $ 14.4 billion and has a net worth of almost $ 112 billion.

R.S. Burt, «Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition» (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992); P. Caligiuri and M. Lazarova, «A Model for the Influence of Social Interaction and Social Support on Female Expatriates» Cross-Cultural Adjustment,» International Journal of Human Resource Management 13, no. 5 (August 2002): 761 - 772; M.S. Granovetter, «The Strength of Weak Ties,» American Journal of Sociology 78, no. 6 (May 1973): 1360 - 1380; and M.S. Granovetter, «The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited,» Sociological Theory 1 (1983): 201 - 233.

These more structured data resources then provide the means for yet another application of AI - based algorithms, where the focus is on identifying patterns in data that ultimately provide the basis for predictive sales and marketing models.

The company's high fee, high reward structure and closed - loop model give it an advantage over other card companies on this front.

Our impression of the structure and parameters of such models as these is that the result of the thought experiment above — a rise in short - term rates in real terms of 1 per cent — looks broadly similar in terms of its bottom line effect on activity.

In order to have a greater impact, SBP is working to share its model with other organizations, thereby raising rebuilding capacity across the state, and is advising state leadership on how to structure a prompt, efficient and predictable recovery.

As usual, we will seek Michael's guidance regarding the direction of key markets based on his momentum and structure model.

Keynote presentation on a model of board effectiveness, including structure, membership, process and tasks.

«Accelerating competition from e-commerce channels and changing consumer preferences have challenged the business model of REITs that focus on owning and operating malls, which we define as enclosed structures with both department stores and inline tenants,» Thuy Nguyen, a Moody's Vice President says.

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I would have liked the meetings to focus on validating or trashing the basic premises or assumptions on which the entire business model was structured.

As far as I can see this is mathematical shorthand though, unless you're prepared to download Buffett's returns every year and plug those into a hedge fund modelled on the 2/20 structure.

In many ways, it makes sense to have a payment model based on this structure.

• Wide - moat business model based on low prices for customers, very low cost structure, numerous stores, and long - standing low - price reputation.

Investment Manager essential duties are: 1) Leadership of transaction execution — oversight of all advisors (financial, legal, market and technical), oversight of all financial modelling, pro-active management of timeline and primary point of contact for investment team; 2) Strong input on transactions sourcing; 3) Managing multiple transactions; 4) Negotiate and create optimal commercial, financial and legal structures; 5) Creation of materials for the Investment Committee («IC») sufficient to allow the IC to approve or reject activities, commitments, investments, and exits in accordance with company risk preferences, appetite, processes, etc.; 6) Creation and management of transaction closing processes; 7) Developing, instructing, training, mentoring, and coaching junior personnel;

The WPR token model is structured as reward based crowd funding where participants are rewarded free energy that they can use or sell on the platform.

Evaluate interest - rate sensitivity of companies based on business model, NPV factors and capital structure

Banking and Monetary Statistics 1914 - 1941 (1,400 +) Data on the nominal term structure model from Kim and Wright (6 +) Historical Federal Reserve Data NBER Macrohistory Database (2,000 +) Penn World Table 7.1 (4,400 +) Penn World Table 9.0 (3,800 +) Recession Probabilities Weekly U.S. and State Bond Prices, 1855 - 1865 Economic Policy Uncertainty Sticky Wages and Comovement (3 +) A Millennium of Macroeconomic Data for the UK (9 +)

On a visit to the UK for the Pioneer Church Leaders Conference in early 1996, they heard about the Pioneer «Partnership» structure and decided to use the model.

Iran developed an Islamic republic, a governmental structure based largely on the model of a Western parliamentary democracy.

In consequence, with such models as their objective, physicists frequently formulate the content of quantum mechanics in the language of classically conceived particles and waves, because of certain analogies between the formal structures of classical and quantum mechanics... Accordingly, although a satisfactory uniformly complete interpretation of quantum mechanics based on a single model can not be given, the theory can be satisfactorily interpreted for each concrete experimental situation to which the theory is applied.2

Kauffman provides results of «experiments» — done with computer - models of various types — dealing with biological structure — generation on many diverse levels — to support this conclusion.

Critics worried that the structure didn't leave a place for doubts and questions based on faith - development models.

«That the world may believe» is the outcome of the manifestation of holiness, equality and unity modeled on the Holy Triunitarian structure,» the Metropolitan said.

In his work The Broken Connection, Lifton opens with this sentence: «We live on images and to grasp our humanity, we need to structure these images into metaphors and models.»

(7) The first model mentioned, the Church as institution, places exclusive emphasis on the hierarchical structure.

The «missionary» enterprise on this model thus becomes an identifying, a naming, and an explication of the structure of grace so as to facilitate its greater actualization in the lives of persons with all sorts of relations to the «Christian phylum» (Teilhard).

If the intellectual form of man has been gradually modeled on the reciprocal actions and reactions of certain bodies and their material environment, if it is a mechanism of adjustment, how could it not reveal to us something of the very structure of these bodies?

By studying the operations of their models and the concrete systems they represent, both men suggest they can offer an understanding of the qualitative aspects of reality without compromising on the empirical character of the reality being symbolized by their models, and this, largely because of the immersion of their models in the empirical structures.

The ideal tax structure, it was suggested, would be a volumetric tax on all alcoholic beverages, applied at the same rate of tax per litre of alcohol across all beverages.6 However, the review did not provide any detailed estimates or modelling of the optimal tax rate on alcohol nor how this would affect government revenue, overall consumption or changes in the social costs from harmful consumption.

The offense Taggart created was a blend of the West Coast concepts he'd run his entire career married to formations and a communication structure modeled on the offense Baylor ran at the time.

This one day course run by Simon Forrest will cover information, participatory work and discussion on the variety of models, structures and methods for the evaluation of projects, programmes and initiatives which target fathers.

I'm absolutely on the side of Motherlode columnist Lisa Belkin who shoots down this argument as not only «backwards» but also upholding the idea that these «archaically - structured» workplace models are somehow inherently correct — simply because they're old.

Cochranes — This site has a range of hands - on science kits and teaching apparatus for chemistry and DNA structure (molecular modelling kits), physics, astronomy and mathematics.

Their curriculum is based on a structured developmental - interaction model that encourages children to learn their unique set of skills and abilities.

In their lifetime, how you connect with them — how you communicate, share affection, help them learn to reflect on their emotions and understand the importance of relationships — will shape the structure of their brain, model how they have relationships with others in the future, and nurture their developing mind.

Much of the inside information on the campaign's organizing model and internal structure, along with the extended discussion of email fundraising strategy, derives from talks given by Joe Rospars, Stephen Geer, Chris Hughes, Judith Freeman, Scott Goodstein and others at the 2008 Netroots Nation conference, the 2009 South by Southwest conference, the Politics Online conference, various DC - based post-election panels, and in particular RootsCamp ’08 and other New Organizing Institute - sponsored events.

The main efforts of governments continues to focus too on a top - down structure of climate governance, guided by a «targets and timetables» approach that mirrors the Montreal model.

The Nutritional State - structured Model (NSM) by ecologist Justin Yeakel (UC Merced), biologist Chris Kempes (Santa Fe Institute), and physicist Sidney Redner (Santa Fe Institute) incorporates body size and metabolic scaling into an extinction model where «hungry» or «full» animals, great and small, interact and procreate on a landscape with limited resouModel (NSM) by ecologist Justin Yeakel (UC Merced), biologist Chris Kempes (Santa Fe Institute), and physicist Sidney Redner (Santa Fe Institute) incorporates body size and metabolic scaling into an extinction model where «hungry» or «full» animals, great and small, interact and procreate on a landscape with limited resoumodel where «hungry» or «full» animals, great and small, interact and procreate on a landscape with limited resources.

By modelling the atomic vibration of individual atoms in such clusters realistically, external atoms on the surface of the structure can be «seen'to vibrate more than internal atoms.

«Around the time that these observations were obtained, we were working on models predicting exactly these kinds of structures: a very lucky coincidence.»

Prof. Peters with his research team are now developing a model that calculates the properties and behaviour of snow masses under high and low strain rates based on the structure of microscopic snow particles.