Sentences with phrase «scale models at»

«Tschotchkes, Knickknacks and Scale Models at Devin Borden.»

The team shot the scale model at the U.K.'s Sheperton Studios, where other high - budget Hollywood movies like Harry Potter and James Bond have been filmed.

Not exact matches

According to at least one Wall Street research firm, the number of iPhone owners planning to upgrade to the next model is at a historical low, and recent reports suggest Apple has scaled back iPhone production by half.

Toms grew to a valuation of $ 625 million in 2014, but since has had problems meeting investors» expectations and hinted at scaling back its one - for - one model.

This counter-intuitive idea is that the use of defensive language can result in outdated mental models that stop you from reinventing today at speed and scale.

At the other end of the spectrum, Mail Boxes Etc. uses a scale of minus 2 to 2 for each of 20 criteria, which are weighted to arrive at a total score; Jinwoong, the sporting - goods marketer, uses an «eight - link chain» model for managing decisions about potential new products; the links detail the company's strengths in eight areas, such as distribution and in - store merchandisinAt the other end of the spectrum, Mail Boxes Etc. uses a scale of minus 2 to 2 for each of 20 criteria, which are weighted to arrive at a total score; Jinwoong, the sporting - goods marketer, uses an «eight - link chain» model for managing decisions about potential new products; the links detail the company's strengths in eight areas, such as distribution and in - store merchandisinat a total score; Jinwoong, the sporting - goods marketer, uses an «eight - link chain» model for managing decisions about potential new products; the links detail the company's strengths in eight areas, such as distribution and in - store merchandising.

But if you look at what Simmons has done since he left ESPN, there are signs of a business model that might work on a smaller scale.

At the same time, independents like BG Group, Devon Energy, and EOG Resources grew increasingly successful in exploration and unconventional plays, but they still struggled to scale operations without copying the bureaucratic operating models of the majors.

A preferable, admittedly idealistic, alternative model would be one that rewards delivery of sustainable value at scale with consistent compensation for founders and all significant value producers.

A fully loaded Tesla Model X with Ludicrous tips the price scale at nearly $ 170,000.

Our approach was and continues to be to take a long - term approach, modeled after the way we experimented and invested in a lot of things during the early years at Zappos (and made a lot of mistakes along the way), and then eventually scaled from almost no sales in 1999 to over $ 1 billion in gross merchandise sales in 2008 (9 years)-- and continuing to grow and scale afterwards.

Dremio simplifies and governs the process of achieving interactive speed on data from any source, at any scale, at any time, through a self - service model delivered on an open source platform.

We combine artificial intelligence with automation to conduct experimental biology at scale — testing thousands of compounds on hundreds of cellular disease models in parallel.

Some of the investors we featured look at early - stage and even ideation, others only consider large - scale models.

They need metrics to tell how well the search for the business model is going, and whether at the end of that search is the business model you picked worth scaling into a company.

Without it, the company will have trouble securing enough battery supply to make hundreds of thousands of EVs (which they plan to do for the upcoming, more affordable Model 3, to be unveiled in March 2016), and it will have trouble reducing its prices enough to attract Mr. and Mrs. Everybody (the Gigafactory is expected to slash costs by at least 30 % through economies of scale and high - tech manufacturing).

They operate at scale and have achieved a level of performance few others can claim — a proven business model that is generating heady revenue growth and is yielding profitability today or at any such time of their choosing.

You can easily scale the systems you used at your first car wash business, modeling them into a larger and more profitable business.

Investors want to see a revenue model that, at scale, demonstrates you've covered your fixed costs with enough margin that it makes it worth their while to invest in your company.

«As the number continues to climb to something approaching 4,000 - 5,000, we think Model 3 gross margins should turn profitable, which doesn't indicate it will meet long - term targets, but should prove to be better than the more bearish expectations of the car being EBIT - negative, even at scale,» Arnson and Erickson said.

«We are bringing together a powerful combination of technology and talent uniquely positioned to drive customer - centered innovation at enterprise scale — enabling organizations to maximize the ROI of existing software investments while embracing the new hybrid model for enterprise IT.»

While the image of the large homogenized denomination is of little use in modeling the unity of the church on a world scale, this version of conciliarity has, I think, considerable potential as a model for what we might eventually seek at the global level.

It's not apparent at a casual glance that this street is only a scale model.

«We have combined a product, service and business model that together enable multiple retailers and brands to transition to a returnable packaging system infrastructure at a city scale.

Moringa wants to take an equity stake in companies that have found successful agroforestry models and that have limitations at operating or disseminating the model at scale and then help these companies scale it up.

It has been a privilege to work with such a dedicated and inspiring team at FRN, a team that is firm in our work: that higher education can be the first sector where food recovery is the norm and not the exception, and that this model can scale and translate to other sectors.

In the extreme, this model could create a de facto market share cap, leading to a perverse outcome in which firms with substantial market power are prevented from innovating or achieving economies of scale, or in some cases, merging at all.

In an hour the tests were substantially over; and, scaling the results from model size to boat size, allowing 28 % power loss for propeller inefficiency, 20 % more for drag from things like rudders and rough paint and 2 % more to make up for the slight downward slant of the propeller shaft, everyone agreed that Mr. Metcalf would indeed have to buy two diesels of 275 hp if he wanted to cruise at 12 knots.

At the other end of the scale are the Tampa Bay Bandits, widely considered the USFL's «model franchise.»

TINLEY PARK — A scale model of a proposed new recreation center, made by students at Prairie View Junior High School in Tinley Park, is helping voters decide whether to support a bond referendum proposal for the real thing.

Identifying core components of interventions found to be effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the early childhood field of the importance of effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of early childhood interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.

Hartsbrook adopted a new Sliding Scale Tuition Model with the goals of increasing diversity, inclusion, and equity at our school, expanding innovative programming, and living the schools» values more deeply.

The second, Republican Economy in Practice, looks at application around the globe, including contributions on cooperatives, sovereign wealth funds, basic income, tax fairness and green solutions and discusses how to develop these models at scale.

Oddo modeled his latest push after a smaller scale study done at Ohio State University which showed teens have a better chance of convincing their peers to cut back on the drinks than adults.

Using our model, we predict large - scale transmission will not restart for at least another ten years — until there is a new generation in the population who have not been exposed to the Zika virus.

They used this novel simulation approach to build a model of a sperm cell that demonstrates cellular movement from individual dynein protein molecules in the tail all the way up to the whole cell, allowing them to observe how changes at the atomic level are reflected in larger - scale structures.

«We've been able to look at processes operating beneath Earth's surface at a much smaller scale than previous geodynamic modelling.»

Scale models are built and collected for many reasons including, in engineering, for testing the likely performance of a design object at an early stage without the expense of building a full - sized prototype; in remote control vehicles; and on TV and in the movie industry, for constructing objects or sets that can not be built in full size.

After seeing these features in the lab, Schultz worked with David Crawford of the Sandia National Laboratories to generate computer models showing that the same kind of physics would also happen at the colossal scales of a lunar impact.

«Our paper demonstrates that a very small energy scale can at least be naturally generated within the context of a very simple extension of the standard model of particle physics.»

The detailed models produced using the MT imaging data of the southwestern U.S. more accurately portrayed surface structures at a scale of less than 100 kilometers, Liu said, which is important because features like volcanoes and faults are localized phenomena that are harder to predict using larger - scale models.

«I take what the models tell us may happen to our climate at large scales and try to understand what impacts these changes could have on society.

String theory is a popular shot at bringing together two disparate scales — the tiny world of quantum particles, where the standard model holds sway, and the cosmic distances over which gravity acts.

Integrated computational materials engineering is a field of science that develops computational models so scientists can understand materials at these various scales, allowing them to tailor and optimize custom - designed microstructures with the necessary properties for the functions they are destined for.

Although BECCS is relatively cheap and theoretically feasible, the sheer scale at which it operates in the models alarms many researchers.

The study, aimed at quantifying the small - scale circulation that can not be captured by satellite - based altimeter measurements or general circulation models, has immediate practical applications to help better predict the path of catastrophic pollutant events, such as from future oil spills or nuclear disaster events.

At present, one of the main methods used by architects to predict the acoustics of a theatre or concert hall is to build scale models.

«In contrast to a traditional soil decomposition model, our model can elucidate mechanisms that depend on social dynamics that emerge on the microbial community level, but are driven by individual interactions among microbes competing for food and space at the smallest scale.»

Thus, the model behaves the way the world does — albeit at a very rough scale.

Modelling flood risk in Europe — global warming the biggest influence In the framework of the HELIX FP7 Project, scientists analysed the differences in projected changes in flood risk at country scale under global warming scenarios of 1.5, 2 and 3 degrees from pre-industrial levels, and discussed reasons for the observed outcomes.