Sentences with phrase «such design decisions»

What if, instead, we could approach such design decisions scientifically?

The side effects of such a design decision become apparent when you witness small gaps between the bottom lip and where it attempts to rest flush with the main body of the phone.

Not exact matches

Plenty of smart design decisions went into the Ionic, such as the tapered shape on the bottom panel that gives the watch a better fit to the wrist for more accuracy in measuring heart rates.

That's rapid progress and a testament to a critical early design and engineering decision: to pair Cruise's technology, optimized for complicated urban environments such as San Francisco, with GM's ability to develop and manufacture vehicles at a massive scale.

Such approaches could be designed to be revenue - neutral over the business cycle; they also could avoid past debates over fiscal stimulus by separating decisions on countercyclical policy from longer - run decisions about the appropriate role of the government and tax system.

Typical financial processes used in business decisions such as formulary and benefit design, new product launching, budgeting and forecasting, and predictive modeling are not provided by PBMs» rebate tools.

Another example of such a decision was our recent purge of more than a thousand products from Fab that do not meet the Fab four Everyday Design criteria as defined above.

Such directives, which encompass the well «known «living will» as well as documents assigning health care decision making to a family member or others, are designed to allow a person to refuse even life «saving treatment or medical care if the person becomes mentally incapacitated.

A broader economic approach to the measurement of outcomes, such as stated preference discrete choice modelling, might have captured women's preferences for alternative attributes of planned place of birth and might have been more informative to decision makers, 28 but this was not practically possible given the anonymity involved in the study design and the available resources.

The development and deployment of major technologies potentially crucial to more sustainable energy — such as nuclear power, wind and solar power, biomass conversion and transport infrastructure — are matters of systems design requiring a mix of public and private decision making.

The paper did not assess the reasons behind such a decision, but it may indicate that parents are either concerned about having another affected child or don't have the ability to care for another child after having one with ASD, according to Lisa Croen, PhD, an epidemiologist and director of the Autism Research Program at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, who helped design the study and was a co-author of the paper.

Downing and the team evaluated the strength of clinical trial evidence supporting FDA approval decisions for new drugs by characterizing key features of efficacy trials, such as trial size, design duration, and end points.

He also made a wise decision to hire top designers such as Roger Vivier to create chic designs.

There are numerous potential routes Dead Rising could take without cutting out its single most important design decision, such as borrowing from Dark Souls» shortcut design or The Witcher 3's heavy use of choice and consequence.

As such, decisions to «give» teachers more devices tend to originate from the wrong starting place; teachers should be designing their classrooms and schools and then discussing, with leaders and technologists, what devices can best support that design.

He says the school uses the design terminology of «soft systems» (the things you do, such as decision - making, timetabling, pedagogical approach) and «hard systems» (physical features such as the classroom walls, furniture and equipment).

The typology includes logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which have underlying algorithms with a story wrapper that amounts to an algorithmic problem), rule - using problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault and eliminating a problem space), diagnosis - solution problems (characteristic of medical school and involving small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school and involving adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values and which may have no obvious solutions).

Students also maintain a design file, which contains their working drawings, notes, and group contracts, such as the Team Operating Agreement (adapted from a similar form at the Boeing Company), in which team members come to consensus on items such as expectations of themselves and each other, how decisions will be made, how misunderstandings will be prevented, and how conflicts will be resolved.

Such a policy would help support state and local choice programs without inserting the federal government into decisions about the design and operation of such progrSuch a policy would help support state and local choice programs without inserting the federal government into decisions about the design and operation of such progrsuch programs.

The typology includes: logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which are algorithmic problems with a story wrapper), «rule - using» problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault, eliminating a problem space), «diagnosis - solution» problems (characteristic of medical school, which involve small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic - performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school, which involve adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values, and which may have no solutions).

I've little sense that the effort's champions are trying to hedge their bets in case there's a new administration in 2013 or GOP leaders turn out to have qualms about certain administration actions (such as its curious decision to casually hand $ 31.6 million in extra stimulus funds — RTT money, to be precise — to the two consortia for curricular design, and to do so without a bidding process).

One difference of a great unit design, such as PBL and UBD, from the traditional unit is empowering student voice in decision making.

In this article, we'll discuss how visual design has such an impact on decision - making and website navigation, and we'll also discuss content, what we need to include, and what we need to look out for.

This helps us in being able to target our content to speak directly to this audience, and should also drive design decisions; we can ask questions such as do we have a large banner promoting enrolments, or do we have a calendar being the visual centre of the homepage?

There is a progressive minority of businesses that recognize and have designed workplaces that both make the best use of their workers» talents and give workers a voice in such decisions as job - ladder construction and hours of labor.

In particular, I'm interested in learning more about the ways schools engage students in things such as decision - making, school governance, curriculum design and assessment of learning.

Consequently, our understanding of key aspects of teacher - leader selection, such as how to design the selection process, what criteria to use, or who should be involved in selection decisions, is based more on experience and intuition than empirical evidence.

Districts may design school choice programs in a way that achieves diversity or avoids racial isolation using race - neutral factors (such as socioeconomic status) or generalized race - based factors that look at things like the overall racial composition of neighborhoods but do not involve decision - making on the basis of any individual student's race.

Better evaluation systems are also designed to provide districts with the data they need to make performance management decisions — such as professional development, compensation, and tenure — around teachers and school leaders.

The first two chapters are introductory and define key concepts such as «mental retardation,» «curriculum design,» and «curriculum decision making.»

With a wide assortment of specialized packages (such as the Advance Package) designed to help you configure your MDX to match your specific driving situation, you'll be well - equipped to make the best decision possible for both your budget and your automotive needs.

Also bold are some of the design decisions HP has made, such as the placements of the power button, volume toggle, and speakers.

The decision about which cover finish to use takes into account such elements as the book's genre and the cover image and design.

Book format, cover design, and other such critical decisions are made entirely by the author.

The lists are designed in such a way that you can make a decision which book to get without the need to move to book detail page.

And you'll have your audience clearly fixed in your mind as you make crucial creative decisions along the way, such has how your book cover design looks.

They also believe that choosing your pet's food is one of the most important decisions you can make and they design their products in such a way that they become a healthy choice.

To Don Payne, CountryMax vice president, the company's success in providing a consistent, local - store experience in each location has come from focusing on the local communities they serve when making decisions in key areas such as staffing and store design.

It is consciously built to work against gamers» expectations of the genre, and most of its design decisions prevent gamers from playing D1 / 4 the way they play any other JRPG, in ways described above such as the implementation of resource management and the save system.

As you progress, you gain new abilities, such as attacking, wall - running and double - jumping, which allow for some neat level designs and sometimes it's hard to decide what to do in the split second you have to make a decision.

Gear items are categorised by their respective rarity such as common being an easier to find item, while rare is harder to find and epic is even better and rarer than rare which is a positive design choice as it makes the player think about their decision when regarding a particular gear item to choose over another.

Bits of story are delivered at very specific intervals, and the pace is carefully controlled to a large degree by a number of design decisions such as most dungeons being purposely linear.

In an interview with the Washington Post Fils - Aimé qualified the decision to launch the console without such services by saying that the Switch is first and foremost designed as a system on which «to play games -LSB-...] and have a fun experience.»

The rare (but still frustrating) instances where I have stumbled upon these kind of problems (usually in adventure games of epic size) can be easily explained as rushed decisions made to meet the deadlines rather than the results of no one caring about such things (i.e. misguided design principles).

Structural design decisions determine how long players will play a game before they feel it has been «completed», and as such this crosses over into narrative design for most games.

After this decision was reached, it allowed us to implement other cool ancillary design features, such as the «spirit realm» versions of each level to allow us to double up on exploration, the meditation mechanic to include thematically relevant action and progression, the notebook feature and related puzzles to drive home thematically related knowledge and interesting facts.

If you really want to make the decision as to whether the game should be in first - person or third - person perspective, not to mention the eleventy - thousand other such design choices, then let someone else be the Producer who'll actually concentrate on doing that difficult job well.

Such interactions should be designed to bring societal relevance and trust to science - policy interfaces, and more effectively inform decision - making to keep pace with rapid global change.

While a larger linked system would be able to take advantage of more mitigation options, all design elements, but also other factors such as political decisions and economic developments in every jurisdiction become variables in the larger market.

Leading companies worldwide have come to understand that the damaging, often unaccounted - for repercussions of modern business — famously called externalities — such as atmospheric carbon, toxic materials and poisoned rivers, arise from design decisions and value judgements.