Sentences with phrase «modeled the past of»

Astronomer Vicky Kalogera of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, who recently modeled the past of Cygnus X-1, says the forecast for its future makes sense.

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This enables forward - thinking retailers to abandon behavioral models based on past actions, in favor of tracking, analyzing and responding to current behavior.

The watch must be used with one of the iPhone models released in the past two years — the 5, 5S, 5C or the latest versions scheduled to go on sale Sept. 19 in the U.S. and nine other countries.

I then transitioned my franchise into a home - based model — iSOLD It @Home — and have operated my business for the past three years from the comfort of my home.

Are reasoning and imagination — the twin faculties that most of us associate with innovation — enough for Ray Kurzweil to know which of the formulas that he's dreamed up based on past technological trends will lead to the best mathematical models for predicting future trends?

But unlike in past years, consumers will have to shop around to get the best deal, as some of the major wireless carriers have decided to sell the new Samsung models for 10 % or more higher than the list price.

HuffPo has poached a number of Times staffers this year, and this past spring, former executive editor Bill Keller wrote a column trashing HuffPo's editorial strategy and business model.

The «Canadian model» portfolio of the Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan has delivered some enviable returns over the past 25 years.

Contrast this with the modern - day retail model: Brands design an entire season's collection of 10 - 15 styles, do their best to estimate the demand based on wholesale orders or past seasons» performance, and then produce thousands of pieces abroad.

These new iPhones look much like Apple's models from the past three years, though with faster processors, better cameras, and a glass back instead of aluminum to support inductive charging.

Note too that it was destroying Eastman's business model, not improving the quality of the image, that's been the signature achievement of digital photography over the past 15 years.

But aside from raising awareness and more than $ 20 million for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, over the past month, the challenge also may be unleashing a new model for the $ 300 billion - a-year business of charitable giving.

In the past, models and celebrities who worked with the photographer accused him of creating a sexually hostile environment on set, encouraging provocative poses, and sexual assault and harassment, according to a comprehensive list of the allegations leveraged against Richardson compiled by Complex.

It would seem that the rule book along and business models of the past increasingly have little relevance in the digital marketplace.

He points out that the company's business model allows it to turn its inventory around about twice as many times as its peers and its strong free cash flow — the company has about $ 4 of cash per share, he says — could be used to buy back stocks, which it has done in the past.

In the past five years customers of Lionel Trains, a 114 - year - old model train company, have been increasingly researching and buying trains online.

When Tripping.com's customer base wasn't interested in buying what it planned to sell, the company had to find a new model — and let go of the past.

GM has abandoned several money - losing markets over the past three years as part of a broader strategy to boost profit margins and conserve capital to fund electric and automated vehicles as well as new models for core markets in China, the U.S. and Latin America.

Business models with the scope to benefit the future prospects of everyone and everything on a global scale, warrant being given every opportunity to succeed and hopefully, this will yet be the case regardless of any existing hurdles, past and present.

The book exemplifies how people have gained and lost power throughout the ages, which is what I find really interesting: Learning from iconic figures from past centuries and applying them to our drastically different, hyper - modern business models of the present.

That model is largely a reflection of the past.

These new services rely on the same innovative proof - of - work model of distributed security and record - keeping that has kept the bitcoin currency secure as its value ballooned well past $ 10 billion.

But the iPhone's screen resolution of 750 pixels by 1,334 pixels has not changed in the past three models.

Over the past year, Musk and his companies have hit huge milestones, including the massively successful announcement of the Tesla Model 3 and the rollout of a plan to colonize Mars.

Together over the course of the past year, Uber and Lyft have spent up to $ 9 million in a vain effort to overturn the city's proposed safety measure, viewing Austin as an important test case in the broader struggle between local regulators and Silicon Valley upstarts with novel business models and global ambitions.

The print - advertising revenue that used to prop up the business models of newspaper chains like Gannett and Tribune's former parent, Tribune Co., has disintegrated over the past decade as advertisers and readers have moved to digital platforms like Facebook and Google.

The trajectories of the two business models diverged sharply over the past couple years, although both continue to struggle with customer retention.

In the past, he's criticized Zynga's model of game development, and argued that the company has grown too quickly at the expense of its financial well - being.

Over the past few years, content marketing has become one of the most widely embraced new models for reaching audiences.

Zillow cautions that its estimates are rough, based on a simple model that looks at how rents in each city have responded to past influxes of workers.

But over the past five years some summits, like those with Southeast Asian and African leaders, also subtly advertised China's model of development, according to numerous participants.

The company has spent most of the past year working toward this blockbuster quarter, while making heavy investments in its manufacturing processes in preparation of the launch of the Model 3 electric vehicle, which is expected to roll out by the end of next year.

However, the car manufacturer has been under fire in the past several weeks, as Tesla's Autopilot feature was investigated by the NHTSA in the wake of a number of accidents involving the Model S and Model X vehicles.

In contrast, bond market exposure (in the form of yield curve and spread risk) has played a relatively minor role in driving convertible bond risk and return in the recent past and seems likely to play a minor role in the year ahead, based on our model.

Today's businesses don't necessarily feel beholden to the models of the past.

As part of this grant, SBP will also share its approach, the systems and processes it has honed over the past twelve years, overall access to SBP's model and free technical support with qualifying local and national non-profit organizations.

The benefits of a remote company model have been highlighted abundantly over the past few years.

Progress promises to go well beyond the refinements of past decades to reveal transformative change more akin to Henry Ford replacing the horse and carriage with the Model T.

Conclusion The behavioralists have yet to come up with a coherent model that actually predicts the future rather than merely explains, with the benefit of hindsight, what the market did in the past.

The model is both objective, using elements such as volatility of past operating revenues, financial strength, and company cash flows, and subjective, including expected equities market returns, future interest rates, implied industry outlook and forecasted company earnings.

Launched this past summer, we specifically designed the new model to encourage our existing Members — and any new Members — to join their municipal chamber of commerce.

For much of the past two years, the discounts offered by automakers have remained at levels that industry analysts say are unsustainable and unhealthy in the long term... Sales are expected to drop further in 2018 as interest rates rise and more late - model used cars return to dealer lots to compete with new ones.

Goldberg has said past layoffs at Fab were necessary cost reductions as he shifted the company's focus from a labor - intensive flash - sale model, where tons of new products had to be sourced and prepped every day, to a more standard e-commerce shop with predictable inventory needs.

This assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the track record and standing of startups relative to their sector peers, allowing Red Herring to see past the «buzz» and make the list a valuable instrument of discovery and advocacy for the most promising new business models in North America.

The company had originally set out to deliver between 80,000 to 90,000 vehicles this year but later reduced its guidance to 79,000 after experiencing less than expected deliveries in the past quarter as a result of Model X production delays.

The fact that the funding model has been agreed upon is great news, since although I have been critical of Alberta's carbon capture and storage strategy in the past, I think that these pilots provide a crucial opportunity for technological advancement.

We've got a really strong operating business model in place now, and we've been in a situation this past quarter with a number of activities going on, and still putting up 4.5 points.

But the Cambridge Analytica crisis strikes at the heart of Facebook's data - mining business model and involves factors not entirely under his control, limiting the value of his past experience at damage control.

The Chinese development model is largely based on the Japanese version of the high - savings model, and analysts in China and abroad have long noted similarities between Chinese growth in the past two decades and Japanese growth in the 1970s and 1980s.

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