Sentences with phrase «modelling as a mechanism»

So leading law firms created the associate - partner model as a mechanism to hire and train law graduates who could help the firm keep up with demand.

Not exact matches

But in our view, a blockchain is as relevant as an accounting model as it is as a mechanism to create decentralization.

Yet most companies are digital «immigrants,» new to this world and built on older models such as control mechanisms and financial returns.

Once these opportunities have been discovered, companies design their strategy as the combination of the offering (the products, services and customer experiences they provide), their business model (the activities they perform and how they perform them), and their revenue model (the combination of revenue streams, pricing mechanisms and payment methods).

May not be tall enough for very large dogs, locking mechanism may not work right when fully extended, not as durable as other models

Accordingly, the rejection of labor contracts «has not been the mechanism of last resort to save a failing business,» the Air Line Pilots Association told Congress in 2010, «but instead has often been used by employers as a business model to gain long - term economic advantage by unfairly gutting the wages and working conditions of airline and other employees.»

As Kenneth Arrow explained in work that provided the foundation on which the director primacy model was constructed, all organizations must have some mechanism for aggregating the preferences of the organization's constituencies and converting them into collective decisions.

In addition to facilitating communication between issuers and Glass Lewis, the new portal includes a «Frequently Asked Questions» section that provides issuers with a mechanism to obtain immediate answers to the most common inquiries, as well as a number of different documents, including summary guidelines and a description of our proprietary Pay - for - Performance model, that provide detailed explanations of the various features included in Glass Lewis Proxy PaperTM analyses.

That is, Hegel's purposes (among others) may well have been: (A) to provide an alternative scheme to Aristotelian logical abstraction; and (B) to provide an alternative to the concomitant mechanism and the psychological atomism of his own day, and to the concomitant logical scheme and the Newtonian mathematical model of externally related particulars, as well as to the dogmatic insistence upon the subject - predicate form of this logic and to the substance - attribute ontology that was its metaphysical correlate.

However, while it is useful as a heuristic in developing models of reaction mechanisms, it has been shown to fail as a criterion for selecting among some selected published models.

The result can be the emergence of a new dominant idea (the idea of «covenant» in the Puritan case), a new model or metaphor for thinking about moral obligations (contractarian metaphors in Lockean theory), or a new form underlying the relations among ideological elements (individual conscience as a decoupling mechanism).

And as Feyerabend insists, we can not rule Out in advance the search for new unifying models (such as David Bohm's postulation of sub-atomic causal mechanisms), even though previous attempts have not yielded any new theories in better agreement with the data than quantum theory.11 Coherence remains an important ideal and criterion in all reflective enquiry.

Finite human freedom can be realized only in something objective, even if this were to be thought of as consisting merely in brain cells, conceptual mechanisms, associations, that is, basically in social or psychological models of thought, or if it were to belong — but only seemingly — to a merely inner realm of thought.

The evidence here is so overwhelming that creationists are required to invoke facially - flawed mechanisms to account for this order (for example, «hydrodynamic sorting» which fails in light of similar density organisms not found in the same strata, like ostriches and ornithomimids; «ecozonation» which fails in light of similar niched organisms not found in the same strata, like dolphins and plesiosaurs; and «floating biomes» for the same reasons as the previous two creationist «models»).

The ecological model of nature is put forward as a credible alternative to materialism and mechanism.

Essentially, Baby Jogger's 2016 model is the same as their 2015 model, except for the updated folding mechanism and a handlebar 2.75 ″ longer.

The behavioral tests used here modeled one dimension of the disease — an inability to experience pleasure from normal activities — but not others, such as stress and anxiety, and probably tap into different brain mechanisms in mice than in humans, he says.

This is advantageous, since dogs provide new models to investigate the disease mechanisms and to plan new therapies such as gene therapy, successfully applied to blindness in dogs and human previously,» explains Lohi.

Physical and mathematical model of ice behavior under dynamic loads as well as a numerical method for calculating its impact and explosive loading, capable of reproducing the main features and mechanisms of deformation and fracture has been developing are currently under development.

Filling in all these details will make it possible to refine the accuracy of atmospheric models and help to assess such things as strategies to mitigate specific air pollution issues, from ozone to particulate matter, or to assess the sources and removal mechanisms of atmospheric components that affect Earth's climate.

There must be another alternative and as yet unknown mechanism, and the fly wing is an ideal model to answer this question,» says Marco Milán.

She adds, however, that although there is good evidence that countershading acts as a defense mechanism, there will always be some uncertainty about interpreting countershading in dinosaurs, because we can't present a model Psittacosaurus to their natural predators to see which type of pattern provides the best protection.

Dr. Michael M. Yartsev, Research Associate and C.V. Starr Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University receives the US$ 25,000 research prize for his work using the bat as an unusual animal model to study the underlying neural mechanisms of spatial memory and navigation in the mammalian brain.

The report, which drew heavily on two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workshops held in 1995, also recommends more research on such topics as DNA biomarkers that can gauge an organism's exposure to endocrine disruptors; models for predicting how endocrine disruptors are metabolized; mechanisms of how endocrine disruptors act at a cellular level; and the effects of mixtures.

«Studying these effects in model systems such as rats and flies allows us to address these questions by manipulating the likely mechanisms involved, which we can't do in humans.»

The most important advancement in medicine in the last 25 years was the development of genetic modeling in animals, enabling us to figure out how fundamental mechanisms of physiology and disease work, such as in bone loss.

As data privacy and usage concerns increase, what are the optimal mechanisms for protecting online users in a business model where those whose data is being used by the platforms don't pay for access and aren't compensated for having their personal data and usage characteristics collected?

As they develop human clinical trials, Wargo and colleagues also are conducting lab and mouse model research to better understand the mechanisms that connect bacteria and the immune system.

Drosophila serves as a model organism that helps geneticists to decode the molecular fundamentals of cellular biology and unravel mechanisms that are conserved in human beings and other vertebrates.

As we enter the second decade of a decoded, accessible Human Genome, and as progress in therapeutics becomes more data and systems - driven, the discovery process, the business models, the delivery mechanisms and the economics are all starting to changAs we enter the second decade of a decoded, accessible Human Genome, and as progress in therapeutics becomes more data and systems - driven, the discovery process, the business models, the delivery mechanisms and the economics are all starting to changas progress in therapeutics becomes more data and systems - driven, the discovery process, the business models, the delivery mechanisms and the economics are all starting to change.

Last year, Full co-founded the Center for Integrative Biomechanics in Education & Research (CiBER) at U.C. Berkeley to foster mutualism between biologists and engineers: The former provide mechanisms that the latter can use on their devices, which then may serve as models to advance biology.

New research published today in Disease Models & Mechanisms indicates that early intervention should be a key target in the development of new therapeutics for Friedreich's ataxia, as current treatments may be administered too late to target the disease effectively.

As a Ph.D. candidate in cognitive and neural systems at Boston University, he began developing large - scale models of the brain that could be used to understand neural mechanisms.

Given the rapid succession of generations in yeast, we can use it as a model organism — and study the mechanisms of aneuploidy in much greater detail to find out whether we can derive from it new approaches for diagnosing and treating human diseases.»

Using chromosomes as a model to explain this navigation system, the research team show how this signaling mechanism determines the path through which molecular transporters travel.

«Future studies on maternal smoking and other environmental, genetic, and epigenetic factors, as well as animal models, should allow identification of the biological mechanisms responsible for these associations.

Understanding drought - responsive signaling and the molecular and biochemical mechanisms of drought tolerance in model plants such as Arabidopsis and rice provide new insight into how to develop drought - tolerant crop plants through conventional breeding or biotechnological approaches.»

Obesity in these mice resembles several important clinical features of human obesity such as weight gain and disturbance of metabolism, and this mouse model was ideal for unraveling any underlying biological mechanisms of pancreas cancer that are put in motion by obesity.

As data privacy and usage concerns increase, what are the optimal mechanisms for protecting online users in a business model...

As a next step, Guha, Avadhani and colleagues plan to extend this study to in vivo mouse models and will also investigate these mechanisms in tumor samples from human breast cancer patients.

In a set of papers out today in the journals Nature Genetics and Nature Communications, researchers at the Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) shed new light on the genetic mechanisms that promote metastasis in the mouse model and also implicated the typical Western high - fat diet as a key environmental factor driving metastasis.

The team of Luis Lopez - Molina, professor at the Department of Botany and Plant Biology of UNIGE's Faculty of Science, Switzerland, has been interested for a long time in the mechanisms controlling germination, arguably the most critical decision in the life of a plant: «We have discovered that the genes involved in the synthesis of cutin, a waterproof substance, are important for the maintenance of dormancy in seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small plant widely used as a model organism to study plant biology.

«We've shown, in a model bacterial system, that the chemistry of cadmium allows it to bypass the mechanisms that prevent other metals, such as iron and zinc, from freely entering cells.

While this does not speak to the robustness of the effect, such as can be inferred through multiple models / approaches, it does provide a mechanism to examine the extent to which an effect with a given model can be observed again.

The work recently received a $ 1.7 million National Institutes of Health grant to delve into the mechanisms that occur as the cells reprogram, and to employ the cells for treating the Parkinson's - like symptoms in a mouse model of hypomyelinating disease.

«The models would have to be changed to include some other mechanism such as a jet or wind to help explain the VLBA data.»

Our experts in mucosal vaccine delivery have established in vitro and in vivo models to assess the activity of adjuvants and vaccine formulations on innate and adaptive immune cells, as well their capacity to stimulate different effector mechanisms of clearance.

We investigate cellular and molecular mechanisms of retinal degeneration and regeneration using rodents and human cells as model systems.

That has nothing to do with the invention of some novel solar mechanism (although the exact mechanism is not known), but with the implementation of the observed changes in clouds, as result of solar changes, in the models.

The relationships between these two organisms, detailed in a paper published in Nature Communications, can serve as a valuable model to study the evolution and mechanisms of more complex systems.