Sentences with phrase «of land models»

There are a wide range of hypotheses about the dominant controls and key parameter values governing land carbon storage, and a parallel range of ways in which these hypotheses are implemented in the codes of land models.

Scientists found ways to improve the capabilities of a land model within global and regional Earth system models to estimate water runoff.

Not exact matches

More than 74 per cent of the 4.3 million BlackBerry devices that landed in user's hands in the quarter were its older BlackBerry 7 models, the financial report showed.

The model has produced some modest success so far: ZenHub has that impressive list of clients; Timeline, an external startup the company did design and development work for, landed on Apple's list of the top apps of 2015; Routific has TechStars» seal of approval.

Many land at Haxlr8r, an accelerator that has graduated more than 50 companies using a now - familiar model: Learn the basics of manufacturing and develop a prototype; raise funds (and build buzz) in the United States through Kickstarter; manufacture the product; and drop - ship it anywhere in the world through the Pearl River Delta's unparalleled logistics networks.

«When aircraft land, they'll be able to come back, refuel, rearm, in kind of a pit - stop model... really modeled after NASCAR,» Capt. John F. Meier, the commanding officer of Gerald R. Ford said of the new design.

Ralf Speth, CEO of Jaguar Land Rover, says the company will introduce more new models in China as it opens up its car market.

The custom clothing is based on 3 - D models and recently landed $ 3 million in seed funding from Stockholm - based Moor Capital, the investment arm of Kaj Hed, and Silicon Valley - based Founder.org.

Most of the startups they invested in either died by running out of money before they found a scalable business model or ended up in the «land of the living dead» by never growing (failing to Pivot.)

There is one other big advantage in terms of Dropbox's model, at least from a founder and early investor perspective: the tradeoff of Box earning ever - increasing amounts of revenue per paying customer is the amount it takes to land that customer in the first place.

Trying to push British Columbians around won't get Notley and Trudeau the pipeline they want — and neither will anything else Photo: thestar.com When England's Model Parliament was first called in 1295, King Edward the First wrote a writ of summons calling for citizens across the land to join him.

Patch of Land's business model is to pre-fund all projects before offering them to investors.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

China's startup ecosystem has earned a reputation of fast rises and hard landings: during the last two years, sky - high funding rounds and valuations for less - than - ideal projects have made (over) saturation of companies and business models the new normal.

But the uniqueness of the business model, the hidden value of the land on the books and the incremental benefit shareholders receive from higher oil and gas production and prices make it worth writing about.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is doing tests using semi-automated vehicles including models from Tesla, Volvo, Jaguar Land Rover and General Motors Co..

They are a model of complex and successful land management:

I do not propose a solution to the complex problem of how the Holy Land is to be shared, but I do want to suggest that those who are concerned with the religious nature of this conflict should explore an alternative theological model, one that played a part in an earlier chapter of Zionism.

As an expression of the biblical archetype that stands behind the civil religion let me turn to that great initial sermon of John Winthrop, «A Model of Christian Charity,» delivered on board ship before the landing in Massachusetts in 1630.

However tempting it may be to paint a picture of villain - and - victim that fits some model of liberation from oppression, historical and biblical honesty compels us to search more deeply for a way toward justice and reconciliation in the Holy Land.

They faced challenges of land availability, zoning, strong business models and / or the ability to secure additional funding / investment.

The end result is changing the economic landscape of the Philippines through business and job creation, strengthening community values, and improving their role as stewards of the land through modeling sustainability and care for the environment.

Michael Croft, President of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) will argue at a St James Ethic Centre debate on 4 March 2014 that foreign investment in agricultural land and infrastructure works against Australia's national and best interests unless the regulatory system and current model are changed.

Because industrial agriculture was on the rise and milk prices were unrealistically low to sustain family farming, Straus saw an exciting opportunity — Create an organic marketplace; one which reflected the true costs of production and promoted responsible land stewardship, offering a viable, principled, sustainable business model for small dairy farms.

When Albert Straus converted his family's dairy to organic production in 1994, becoming the first certified organic dairy west of the Mississippi River, he pioneered a model that reflects the true costs of milk production and promotes sustainable land stewardship.

When Albert Straus converted his family's dairy to organic production in 1994, becoming the first certified organic dairy west of the Mississippi, he spearheaded a model that reflects the true costs of milk production and promotes sustainable land stewardship.

If this is possible, researchers believe that Terra Preta may serve as a model for the development of land intensive, high yielding but sustainable agricultural practices in the tropics.

Gordon wrote on many topics: angling techniques («The fly must be placed to an inch as the fish will rarely take it unless it floats over them just right»), the books he read, the effects of drought and floods on fish, the seasons of the year («The silence of the snows is over all the land, and the bright waters of our trout streams run almost black between icy banks») and his belief in the natural fly as a model for the artificial («The insect must be studied and many patterns dressed before one can hope to satisfy the critical eyes of the trout»).

You can try and put a good face on a bad game for as long as you want, pontificating about the merits of this model, but it will not hide the obvious fact that it just does not allow our great manager to fully realize his managerial talent and deliver success for the fans who are paying the highest prices in the land.

Our sustainable business model consists of being conscious of our impact on the air, the water, the land and the community where we live and work.

By conserving land, protecting forests for carbon storage and absorption of green house gas emissions, and actively managing our lands for climate resiliency we can act as a model for statewide organizations and land trusts.

Other recent work includes responsibility for the delivery of the Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance (STAG) and strategic Land Use and Transport Modelling capabilities across Transport Scotland.

The government plans for the new model to be in place by March 2017 and wants all government land and property to transfer to the new body by the end of this parliament.

We hope in future to improve the IPPR wealth tax model, which is not able at present to model the impact of land value and inheritance tax options.

Constitutional Republics (especially those that used the U.S. Constitution in part or wholesale as a Constitution model) are governments where the highest law of the land are laws that restrict the government (in the U.S. the government is the only legal entity that can commit illegal offenses against the constitution).

The plans for city regions to regulate bus services on the model of Transport for London were attacked by Martin Griffiths, the chief executive of Stagecoach, as an «uncosted and unnecessary plan [that] would land people in England's biggest city regions overnight with a tax bill running to hundreds of millions of pounds, as well as leading to higher bus fares.»

While we have not discussed the German model of land pooling in our formal submission to DCLG, people may be interested in how it works.

The traditional model, as compared with land pooling offers a generally lower effective tax rate, more generally avoids tax charges crystallising ahead of receiving cash (so - called «dry» tax charges) and more generally preserves entitlement to reliefs frequently available to landowners based on their or their property's tax status prior to the development.

Under the traditional model of housing development in the UK, landowners effectively compete to ensure that their land is used for the most profitable part of the development (usually high end private housing) rather than for, say, parkland or affordable homes.

Similar to the traditional model, tax would be charged at the point a tranche of land is sold and a pro-rata share of the proceeds are paid out.

Why would we want to emulate the failed corporate model of overpaying CEO / COO (s) which has led to the stratification of America into a land of haves and have nots again?

Ms Osei is said to have compromised the independence and neutrality of the Commission for arranging 2015 model V8 Land Cruiser with registration WR 2291 - 15 from the office of the president for use as official vehicle without going through the procurement process or recourse to the Commission.

And the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany has been buying land in the Rochester area as it seeks to replicate its research and development model, which has attracted $ 17 billion in private and government funding to its Fuller Road campus.

Huss plans to clarify the future of the earth's land ice by extending his model.

The new proposed model could allow a better quantification of the impacts that will likely occur under changing climate and could be considered in future ocean resources and land use management.

One key take - off and landing control and headless capability make this model easy to figure out for younger kids, who will get a kick out of the miniature design.

Simons et al. (p. 1421, published online 19 May) used land - based GPS receivers and tsunami gauge measurements to model the kinematics and extent of the earthquake, comparing it to past earthquakes in Japan and elsewhere.

Like Civilisation, the model breaks the world into squares — or in this case the Eurasian continent — and characterises them according to the type of land present, how mountainous it was, and if it was farmed.

Data from land - based GPS receivers and tsunami gauge measurements have been used to model the motion and extent of the earthquake.

Planted Forests Project On the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, loggers, conservation biologists, and indigenous groups are coming together to test a new model of land use that gives everyone a piece of the pie.