Sentences with word «nonconsumers»

With millions of nonconsumers of traditional colleges and universities in the United States and worldwide — many of them low - income adults with jobs or families — and a traditional higher education model that, increasingly, is both expensive and under financial strain, there has been no shortage of opportunities for disruptive higher education upstarts powered by online learning to emerge.

In a prospective cohort study with separate analysis for men and women, only women showed an increased risk of incident T2DM over 10 years, with a doubled risk seen in women with daily consumption of soft drinks compared with nonconsumers (129).

Neither did Uber primarily target nonconsumers — people who found the existing alternatives so expensive or inconvenient that they took public transit or drove themselves instead: Uber was launched in San Francisco (a well - served taxi market), and Uber's customers were generally people already in the habit of hiring rides.

Because they aren't as good, they first plant themselves among nonconsumers — people who are unable to consume the existing products because they are too expensive, complicated, or inconvenient and therefore are delighted with this new innovation.

The more traditional industrial tenants are also grappling with a shift in distribution norms as buyers expect «Amazon accessibility» even for nonconsumer products.

Compared with bean nonconsumers, both baked bean consumers and variety bean consumers had significantly higher intakes of total legumes, fiber, and minerals and lower intakes of discretionary fat (trend toward significance in variety bean consumers).

Instead, they get traction by initially serving the least demanding customers or by providing access to nonconsumers who are outside of the traditional market altogether.

That's why the earliest personal computers were actually sold to computer nonconsumers like kids and hobbyists who could never have afforded the minicomputers that companies and governments used for advanced computing, but were delighted to tinker with a cheaper, simpler personal computer.

The nearly half (46 percent) of children ages 3 and 4 in the U.S. who aren't enrolled in pre-K constitute nonconsumers of early childhood educational services and care.

To successfully serve nonconsumers, though, we must understand their «job to be done.»

Because more demanding customers command higher profits and information on nonconsumers is scarce, however, existing companies and startups alike will be far more likely to target these less demanding customers if the Administration makes that an explicit prerequisite of at least some of the grants and prizes.

Like the MAT@USC, WGU targets nonconsumers, as 70 percent of its students come from traditionally underserved populations, including individuals from rural communities.

They were further categorized as being nonconsumers of fast food (50 percent of the children), low consumers (less than or equal to 30 percent of calories from fast foods; 40 percent of the children), or high consumers (more than30 percent of calories from fast foods; 10 percent of the children).

In addition, the odds of being obese (BMI ≥ 30 kg / m2) was significantly lower in variety bean consumers and baked bean consumers compared with nonconsumers (odds ratio = 0.78 and 0.77, respectively).

The most commonly consumed foods contributed the greatest proportion of average total daily energy intake in the whole sample (consumers and nonconsumers), except for vegetables (excluding potatoes), which contributed only 3 % of the population's average daily energy intake because of their low energy density (Table 3).

An analysis of adult data from the NHANES 2001 — 2006 suggests that avocado consumers have higher HDL - cholesterol, lower risk of metabolic syndrome, and lower weight, BMI, and waist circumference than nonconsumers (Fulgoni et al., 2010b).

Interestingly, when variety bean consumers were analyzed separately from baked bean consumers, the reduced risk of overweight or obesity was no longer observed in the baked bean consumers compared with nonconsumers.

This is an example of the «nonconsumer» — this student was not already taking Arabic, though she may have been studying another language.

The truly disruptive innovation, according to Christensen, is one that is directed to the nonconsumer of the established product.

Once companies like Apple got a foothold among these nonconsumers, it was only a matter of time before they improved personal computer technology to serve more and more demanding customers and disrupted the computing industry as we knew it.

Are new technologies targeting nonconsumers or serving existing customers?

In any given industry, disruptive technology is actually not as good as what companies historically have been selling to existing consumers, but instead offers something that nonconsumers can afford.

Students, then, may find themselves «consuming» school, but may indeed be nonconsumers of courses that could potentially support their needs, interests, and ambitions.