Sentences with phrase «on accepted models»

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Speaking at the Post.Seed Conference on Tuesday, the PayPal co-founder and Founders Fund principal offered what amounted to a critique of the generally accepted model for funding startups, wherein seed and venture investors make lots of small investments in early - stage companies in the hopes that a few will yield big payoffs.

Last year's awards show saw Zac Efron grab co-star Dave Franco's crotch when the two accepted the award for best comedic duo on stage, while Schumer shared a passionate kiss with model Amber Rose.

Based on months of negotiation, my conviction is that the German finance minister wants Greece to be pushed out of the single currency to put the fear of God into the French and have them accept his model of a disciplinarian eurozone.

Aldi's business model is based on low prices, which it achieves by practices such as stocking fewer items, eschewing national brands for cheaper generic labels and not accepting credit cards.

But the TPP will mark the first time that Canada has accepted trade treaty obligations governing patent linkage, which could interfere with cost - saving reforms.Copyright and trademarks — TPP copyright rules would require far longer terms of copyright protection, based on the U.S. model, and could require protection for controversial practices such as «digital locks,» which allow copyright holders to encrypt software in computerized devices.

The highlight was working on a whole - of - life data project that involved constructing networks of environmental monitoring stations in the Australian outback, and then using the collected data to empirically model groundwater dynamics — which doesn't sound all that interesting, but was actually quite a departure from the generally accepted contemporary methods.

While «operating earnings» are not even defined under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, and «forward operating earnings» only surfaced as a creature of Wall Street in the early 1980's, it's simple enough to impute historical values of forward operating earnings because they are almost completely explained by observable earnings and employment data — see Long - term Evidence on the Fed Model and Forward Operating Earnings.

The development model which the newly independent countries accepted has helped them and they exert considerable pressure on the policy decisions of the Third World countries on globalization.

Society was by this time well prepared to accept this measure although it was claimed that it was not at all the same as marriage despite being modelled very closely on the Marriage Act.

On the other hand, complementarity does not require us to treat models merely as useful fictions, or to accept a positivist interpretation.

Based on the «downward mobility» model of the Beatitudes, Kathy's approach to «church» is radically different than what we've come to accept in our consumer - driven Christian subculture and focuses instead on following Jesus into the hard places of suffering, inequality and justice in order to experience hope, beauty, justice, equality, generosity and healing.

Feminine theology calls for an end to all authoritarian models of truth — including the model of the ordained minister or priest, for «ordination» means accepting the authority of the traditional Christian framework and being licensed to carry on that tradition.

Czech model Ester Satorova made tennis star Tomas Berdych the luckiest man on Earth last year when she accepted his marriage proposal.

I accept City is run on petro - dollars Chelski on Russian money and Utd is a debt mountain.But to me Wenger AND the Board show no ambition to reach that last step up.Again I accept we run on a business model and operate within our means but tell me why Wenger with his stranglehold on the Club and the entire Board with the exception of Ivan Gazidis licking his balls he doesn't force the issue.Oh but he gets a pay increase with his new contract despite failing to reach the minimum of Champions League

Arsenal failed as a club as soon as it started d business model preferring money rather than success on n off the field n fans accepted it allowing mediocrity as a standard... now 6th place will be accepted as d new standard with fans agreeing that it's good

This model accepts all Baby Trend car seats and those from these brands Chicco Key Fit 30, Combi Shuttle 33, Cosco, Evenflo Embrace, Graco Snugride 22 and 35, and Safe Seat 32, Maxi - Cosi... MORE Mico, Peg Perego Primo Viaggio 30 and Safety 1st on Board 35.

Considering that Roy Moore, who's leading the polls for the election in Alabama, has been accused of being a sexual predator targeting underage women, and considering that the elected president of the USA, Donald Trump, is himself someone who has admitted to groping and spying on naked, underage models, and even said that he would like to have sex with his own daughter, my question is, to what extent is pedophilia an accepted sexual orientation in the United States?

Do you, or do you not, accept that the report appears to state that the graph shown in the post on LFF only models the raise in the personal allowance, and not the rises in tax on the wealthy which would pay for it?

Mr Newman said if Number 10 sought to pursue a version of the customs partnership, «they will be putting all their eggs in a broken basket» and it was «far better to accept some friction on trade» and pursue the «max fac» model.

When it finally accepts students in 2012, the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST) aims to provide a new model of a Japanese research university, scrapping the division into traditional academic departments, focusing on interdisciplinary research, conducting business in English, and drawing roughly half of its faculty members from overseas.

Catch phrases — many of academic origin (supply and demand, economies of scale, stimulus and response, IQ, schizophrenic, identity crisis, reinforcement, social skills, computer model, the selfish gene, and so on ad infinitum)-- are accepted uncritically by most literate people as representing eternal realities.

For the purposes of this Prize, research based solely on computer models will not be accepted as a substitute for ocean experiments or effective, small - scale laboratory models and experiments.

«Previous attempts to model these changes in the atmosphere have accepted the plant fossil record at face value,» Jennifer Morris from the University of Bristol, U.K., and co-lead author on the study, explained in a statement.

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Furthermore, this over-simplified approach is now almost universally accepted, as evidenced by the model being displayed on the Pearson Assessment: Welcome to RtI Web page.

Instead of paying teachers based on seniority, North Carolina is experimenting with alternative models — such as paying teachers more based on student test scores or for agreeing to accept additional duties or leadership roles.

For all the reasons outlined above, it is well - known and accepted among researchers that a particular individual score produced by a VAM procedure, even on the best developed and administrated model, may be wrong for a variety of reasons.

The backgrounds of Toby Young, Sir Michael Wilshaw and Sir Anthony Seldon are important when weighing up whether we should accept their advice (and yours) on a new model of producing Headteachers.

I accept that, but what I won't accept is a nation that turns its back on millions of children in failing schools while successful models are flourishing in the next community or the next town.

Hinrich Woebcken, VW Group of America CEO, said a few months ago that VW will continue offering diesels when it makes sense on a particular model, while adding «we have to accept that the high percentage of diesels that we had before will not come back again.»

The Targa is based on the Cabriolet model with modifications made to the body - in - white around the B - pillar to accept the roll hoop, which does add some torsional rigidity.

Tesla stopped accepting orders on the Model S 60 yesterday, which means the new base version of the sedan comes standard with a stronger 75 - kilowatt - hour battery.

Because our dealership accepts trade - ins from various makes and models, we are also able to perform service on those vehicles as well, so don't worry if you don't own a Mercedes - Benz or Porsche vehicle, your always in good hands as Loeber Motors!

Which is all that Amazon wants from it, for now; it seems clear that their long - term strategy is to slowly ratchet up the pressure on traditional publishers until they give in and accept a model like Amazon Video, wherein consumers can either purchase individual episodes / shows / movies (Instant Video) or join a subscription service (Prime Instant Video.)

While Diversion Books does operate on the more traditional publishing model of accepting manuscripts through agent pitching, Diversion also accepts submissions from authors who are well - positioned and have written great books.

The very model of blond Aryan «purity,» Irmgard sat on the Führer's knee for photographers, witnessed with excitement the comings and goings of all manner of famous personages, and with the blindness of a child accepted the Nazi doctrine that most of her family and everyone around her so eagerly embraced.

It's generally accepted that Apple's iPads about as good as it gets for tablet design in 2018 — they may not be spectacular in their looks, but they're sleek and thin, and the screens on those two iPad Pro models really catch the eye.

«If publishers accept change, transform their processes, train employees, and offer their content in multiple formats — in digital or printed form, bound or on demand, as a PDF or ePUB — and on all platforms, they will have a good chance of developing a viable digital business model.

It's priced to compete with Google's own Nexus 7, costing the same # 199 for the 16 GB model, but only if you opt in for «special offers» which essentially means you accept adverts on the lock screen.

He said: «You might have to fundamentally reinvent every part of your business, from its business model to production to interaction, to design, every couple of years — or every week, depending on the scale of which you are talking about... The companies that really flourish on the consumer and business side are the ones who just accept that there will be continually be new ways to do things better.»

Ideally you could even give people with existing orders the choice of either accepting the silent Paperwhites or getting a slight discount on future models with the speech chips.

In a post the other day about bargain prices for a couple of Elizabeth Peters ebooks in the Kindle Store, I made the point that readers may actually be able to influence publisher pricing behavior when we jump on bargain prices like those mentioned in the post, even while the Kindle bestseller list shows some signs that Kindle owners are accepting agency - model pricing:

While this shift in emphasis has been very profitable for Amazon and appears to have been accepted by enough Kindle customers to allow ebooks priced over $ 9.99 to claim 30 % of the rungs on the bestseller list, 30 % may not be a high enough share to call this a victory for the agency model.

Best Buy has accepted ordering this Samsung tablet for $ 469.99 on the 16 GB Galaxy Tab 8.9, and the 32 GB model is set cost for $ 569.99.

I believe inefficiency also emerges due to the conventionally prevailing valuation techniques & the generally accepted economics and finance principles which rely too much on mathematics and using what essentially is gut feeling in substitute for a «scientific model» is not an acceptable practice in investment management.

Bethy Hardeman, chief consumer advocate at Credit Karma, notes that her company «provides credit scores from Equifax and TransUnion based on the VantageScore 3.0 scoring model, one of the most widely accepted models used in the financial industry to make lending decisions.»

Even when an account has never been delinquent, the credit bureau description indicating a debt has been settled or reduced payments are being accepted tends to be considered negatively by most credit scoring models, including FICO, and can have a devastating effect on your scores.

while on an absolute basis it appears he accepts that Shiller and Tobin models point to poor returns.

While the 12 time Grammy winner doesn't get a lot of screen time — she's goes off on tour shortly after Woodard arrives — Gunnar makes some major headway, first accepting Woodard, then accepting another dog who's intended to serve as a role model for him.

Moore went on to suggest that this disc-less footy future may well adopt a Free To Play with microtransactions model (since «you accept that the vast majority of users will never pay you a penny and you learn to be cool with that»).