Sentences with phrase «place a model of»

Engineers can test how well a building will hold up to lateral force by placing a model of it on a «shake table,» which moves horizontally to replicate the stresses created by an earthquake.

Diorama Mode allows players to place models of Godzilla and the other kaiju in different settings to capture epic photos (uses SHARE function on the PlayStation system).

The French / American artist Louise Bourgeois has also used the «cage» as a psychological metaphor for the terrors dormant in the family home — in Cell (Choisy)(1990 — 93), the first of her series of large cages, she placed a model of her childhood home in a metal chain - link cage with a threatening guillotine suspended above the entrance.

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«Thanks to smartphones we live in a mobile first world, and messaging is the killer app,» he said, «much to the benefit of Snapchat, the mobile messaging app with the rather old - fashioned business model ready and willing to take the place of TV.»

We decided to pivot to a wholesale buying club model with a curated catalog of products that you'd find in a place like Whole Foods, and put it all online.

It is important to note that while these are the levels we are focused on hitting and we have plans in place to achieve them, our prior experience on the Model 3 ramp has demonstrated the difficulty of accurately forecasting specific production rates at specific points in time.

WeWork CEO Adam Neumann told the Financial Times that China is adopting the coworking model faster «than a lot of other places,» explaining the company's decision to build a Chinese unit.

The way that we do it, is we take the wholesale buying club model that you'd find at a place like Costco, we bring it online, and charge an annual membership fee,» says Nick Green, co-founder and co-CEO of Thrive Market.

I liked the idea of franchising because it provides proven processes, relationships with vendors and an existing business model in place that works — instead of having to start a business from scratch.

Some of them just can't afford to live in what is now one of the most expensive places in the world in the way the existing compensation model in the Valley is set up.

«The insight in our business model is that if you could be the hub, it's such a powerful place to occupy that you could make so much money off all of the spokes that you can give the hub away from free,» he says.

Bush describes the model as a public health version of Teach for America — participants are placed with with nonprofits, government agencies, and local health care providers, with the hope that the fellows» experiences inform their careers.

Salesforce put philanthropy in place right at the very start with their 1 / 1/1 model: 1 percent of company equity goes into the Foundation, 1 percent of the product goes to community improvement, and 1 percent of employee time goes towards volunteerism.

«We looked across the country and thought about the places that we could launch, and we loved the CGI model and their notion of making commitments to act,» says NCEI's chief executive Laurie Westley.

The Upside Down Pyramid strategy flips that model on its head by placing the leader (s) at the bottom, bearing the weight of the company infrastructure on their shoulders.

Though Graham himself argued that start - up factories (or incubators, or accelerators) like Y Combinator would work best in Silicon Valley, with its large base of entrepreneurs and investors, David Cohen, the TechStars CEO, thought the model could be adapted to other places.

My husband, Manish and I wanted to pursue business ownership, and we chose franchising because of the proven business model and systems that are in place.

The attribution model, which is the foundation of a marketing strategy, determines how to measure value and credit the right channel for the sales that have taken place.

«Our goal coming into this program was to figure out our business model, and through the mentors, we got three very different approaches and recommendations,» says David Blake, CEO of Degreed, a place to visually track academic, professional and lifelong learning accomplishments.

Meeting rooms draw inspiration from Portugal, Greece, and other places around the globe, but with an added twist: Like in many of the company's offices, they're modeled after actual Airbnb rentals.

Part of the interview took place in a Tesla Model 3 Musk was driving with Autopilot activated at times.

The price competition offered by matching sellers with legions of online buyers was once predicted to be the permanent model of how commerce took place on the internet.

Azerbaijan Airlines then placed a new order for five earlier models of the same aircraft, the 787 - 8 Dreamliner.

It is, perhaps, the biggest vote of confidence in the MOOC model to date, and indicates that MOOCs may yet have an important place in higher education.

With a solid stable of universities and users in place, the next obstacle Coursera faces is finding a revenue model that satisfies investors and doesn't alienate the users who need Coursera most.

And unlike Periscope or Meerkat, it already has a monetization model in place: As opposed to ads, users can tip their favorite broadcasters using a digital currency — of which the company takes a 30 percent cut.

«They have talked about trying to rebalance the economy for 5 or 10 years now, but the imbalances got even worse, so you simply fall back on the model that got you into the difficulty in the first place,» said Peter Elston, head of Asia - Pacific strategy and asset allocation at Aberdeen Asset Management.

While the iPhone X is controversial for a number of reasons — Face ID in place of Touch ID, the lack of a home button, the ability to incorporate «animojis,» where emojis use facial recognition instead of the traditional emojis we've grown to love — what really got people talking was the $ 999 price tag for the bare - bones model (a maxed out, 256 GB model will run you a cool $ 1,149).

Chinese companies now have a level of self - assurance and success on the world stage that is allowing them to experiment with their own ways of working, and they are well placed to bring together the best of the American model with the best of their own unique cultural heritage.

I think that it's embarrassing almost that Silicon Valley, which prides itself on the place that is inventing the future, that we're certainly not the role model of how the future ought to be culturally.

Novartis (nvs) chief Joe Jiminez has been touting a pricing model that incorporates drugs» real - world outcomes for years, stressing the importance of placing patients before profits; Regeneron (regn) head honcho Len Schliefer had some tough words for fellow panelists from Eli Lilly (lly) and Pfizer (pfe)(who argued that media reports about their own continued reliance on price increases to drive revenues is misleading) during Forbes» event.

Last summer, he justified spending $ 50 million on treats like gazebos and model lighthouses in advance of the G8 summit, which took place in his riding.

The nascent form of entertainment known as virtual reality is still figuring out its business model and its creative place.

Musk has already said that there will be a Part 2 to the launch of the Model 3 and it will be even more spectacular than the Part 1 celebration that took place on March 31.

The venture debt investor must therefore properly ascertain market conditions, the company's business model, the quality of investors behind the startup, and the likelihood that more funding will take place.

[01:30] Introduction [02:30] Tony welcomes Alexandra [03:40] Launching in 2007 — it came from a place of passion [04:25] Establishing clear roles among founders [05:40] Flexing her multilingual skills in business [06:25] Adjusting how you speak to someone based on their objectives [08:10] The secret to Gilt's growth [09:20] Building a business that would thrive during winter [10:20] Finding the capital to purchase inventory [10:40] Moving from venture to private equity funding [11:20] It's all about smart money [11:40] The future of traditional retail [12:20] The subscription model [12:40] Catering to the time - starved customer [12:55] Bringing services into the home [13:10] Leaving Gilt to lead Glamsquad [16:10] Glamsquad started as an app [17:10] Vetting employees [18:10] Building trust with customers [19:00] Taking massive action — now [20:20] Launching the first sale on Gilt — without a return policy [21:30] Fitz [22:00] The average person wears only 20 % of their wardrobe [23:00] Taking the time to understand your customer [23:20] Challenges as a woman in business [24:40] Advice to a female entrepreneur that's just getting started [25:25] The importance of networking [25:50] Knowing the milestones to hit along the way

Todays cutting - edge businesses understand that making the world a better place can also be a great way to make money - in fact, its an essential aspect of a sustainable business model.

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.

In addition, they can reposition strategy for the future to help seize the rule as an opportunity to enhance strategies, challenge business models and accelerate many of the ongoing efforts already taking place across the industry.

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

For an understanding of the agency - based model in practice, there is no better place to look than an activist campaign.

For now, computer models are the only place to deploy hurricane mitigation tactics, but that hasn't deterred Salter, who despite his retirement and lack of a patron says he's «still working seven days a week on it.»

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.

Didi dominates the Chinese market — thanks in no small amount to its acquisition of second - placed Uber China — but this year it has expanded to Brazil via an acquisition and Taiwan via a franchise model, and also moved into bike - sharing and vehicle rentals.

CIFF has indicated a significant interest in funding up to 50 % of Living Goods» costs for 2015 - 2018, with the condition that Living Goods raises approximately $ 1 for every $ 1 CIFF contributes.152 Regardless of CIFF's decision, Living Goods is actively seeking funding from new and existing donors to fill its funding gap and plans to use these funds to support scaling up in Uganda and its partnerships and advocacy team's efforts to help organizations replicate the model in other places.153

There are countless ways to look at the implications of Amazon's proposed $ 13.7 billion takeover of Whole Foods, that it's the latest salvo in the battle between Amazon and Walmart to be the one place where everyone shops for everything, that it's a disruption to the supply chain model in the grocery business, or that it's nothing more than a marriage of convenience to save Whole Foods from the ire of its activist shareholders.

Three rows of seats, a front and rear trunk, room under the second row seats, side pockets and a blind holster for your iPhone, big or little, there's a place to store it in Model X.

With strong growth, a scalable model and a competent team already in place, all of the groundwork is in place for an owner that wants to enter, or grow their position, in the Amazon world.

Summarizing the above, our market timing model is working perfectly this week because it enabled our subscribers to take a shot with long positions when the market was bouncing, but then prompted us to immediately lighten long exposure when receiving the proper sell signals, before finally exiting 100 % out of our long positions on today's open (just before the big intraday sell - off that is presently taking place).

While I don't place too much emphasis on econometric models or forecasts, it's of at least some concern that our inflation models are now more hostile than they've been at any time since the 1970's.