Sentences with phrase «upon models of»

It's a paper entirely built upon models of radiative forcing that are rooted in assumptions, not observational evidence.

Everything depends upon the models of worth that are used in the conduct of this work.

Making the point that everything a user sees in his or her feed is there because another user shared it, Stamos wrote that Facebook is «like a pot luck... where everybody brings their own food from the outside, and the host decides how to arrange the buffet table based upon a model of what people like to eat.»

Upon this model of hierarchy we have built our political systems — from the Greek city - state and the Roman Empire to feudal castes, the Holy Roman Empire, and modern nations.

The Aston Martin Extended Service Contract offers a single high level of cover, eligibility is dependent upon the model of your car and its age at the start of cover.

A spouse can legally conceal the GPS in the glove compartment or seat pocket, and depending upon the model of the GPS, track his or her partner's whereabouts in real time.

Not exact matches

No longer is startup success dependent upon the traditional linear model of writing a business plan, obtaining a bank loan, building a brand and then waiting for customers to show up.

Evidently, Nick happened upon a Victoria's Secret catalog (full of, as Gross puts it, «plain and unattractive models») and asked him, «Dad, what is Victoria's Secret?»

It has increased the reach of journalists while badly undermining the newspaper business model, which depended upon high barriers to entry in the form of printing presses and the packaging of classified advertising with news.

Though, thematically speaking, this represents a fairly standard promotional model, many media outlets were stunned that a company so recently associated with death would host a contest hinging upon the concept of a bucket list — or the list of things one hopes to accomplish before dying.

The fact that the funding model has been agreed upon is great news, since although I have been critical of Alberta's -LSB-...]

Your children will model their behavior based upon yours — if you're not educated enough to explain to your kids why taking drugs is dangerous, don't give them tacit license to use because you did,» says Dennis Poncher, author and founder of the support group network Because I Love You.

When Tesla revealed that Model S 70 owners with the 70 kWh battery could in fact unlock an extra 5 kWh for a fee bringing it to a total of 75 kWh, it sent the rest of the auto industry a loud and clear message that the company can and will continue to streamline ways to continuously improve upon its vehicles via over the air updates.

I think it is incumbent upon alphabet and the other platforms to really engage with their users and explain to them how their business model works and provide a level of transparency to the users so that they understand how the data is being used.

Again, their entire business model depends upon access to and distribution of private personal data.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

This new growth model requires that household income comprises a much greater share of GDP than it currently does, and one way or another this new model will be imposed upon the Chinese economy.

The fact that the funding model has been agreed upon is great news, since although I have been critical of Alberta's carbon capture and storage strategy in the past, I think that these pilots provide a crucial opportunity for technological advancement.

If we are to ever achieve profitability it will be dependent upon the successful development and successful commercial introduction and acceptance of automobiles such as the Model S, which may not occur.

Sometimes, the risk is more obvious, such as the case of Jarden Corporation (JAH), whose entire business model was built upon growing «adjusted EPS.»

Upon hearing news of the Roadster upgrade package, Model S owners will likely wonder if their car will receive a similar upgrade in the near future.

Upon doing so, we locked in a solid gain of $ 1,100, which was a 5 % gain from our entry point (equal to a 2 % gain in our model trading portfolio).

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Symbolic changes — women in the Cabinet, female Imperial succession: Lastly, we address the element of policy perhaps least quantifiable in advance, which is the potential impact of role models upon female participation.

If internet companies don't participate in the societal costs of their disruption, the infrastructure and civil society upon which their business models depend will deteriorate

In the end, it is critical for the continued stability of our societies that disruptive companies not only provide good ideas that make economies more efficient, but contribute more to the social infrastructure upon which their business models depend.

I argued that religion, as a compendium of stories, a system of ethics, and a model of behavior could be drawn upon as a popular alternative to norms and ideals of competitive consumer capitalism.

Echoing the working methods of ship - in - a-bottle hobbyists, Hawkinson created a painstakingly detailed model ship that twists in upon itself, presenting the viewer with a thought - provoking visual conundrum.

The trouble with being a guide or mentor, of course, is the likelihood that the one being guided will look upon the mentor as an example and model.

Until these external pressures became strong, our social location in the departmentalized university had more effect upon our way of working than did the conceptual models with which we worked!

The model of development forced upon countries by the Bank - Fund bosses is against the poor and dispossessed.

That is, Hegel's purposes (among others) may well have been: (A) to provide an alternative scheme to Aristotelian logical abstraction; and (B) to provide an alternative to the concomitant mechanism and the psychological atomism of his own day, and to the concomitant logical scheme and the Newtonian mathematical model of externally related particulars, as well as to the dogmatic insistence upon the subject - predicate form of this logic and to the substance - attribute ontology that was its metaphysical correlate.

Just as science must constantly revise its models so as to surmount the deficiencies of its abstract (usually mathematical) models of nature, so also religions are called upon continually to revise their enigmatic representations of cosmic significance in keeping with primary perceptions intuition of an ongoing cosmic adventure.

In this lecture I will view it only in terms of the influence upon it of the model I have been describing.

In order to treat their patients, however, psychiatrists must tacitly rely upon some operative model of the self and of the personality.

In fact., from one perspective, Home from the War constitutes nothing less than a direct attack upon the medical model as the organizing center of the psychiatric profession.

Essentially, in conceptualizing the human person, Sullivan, like Whitehead, rejects a model of personality which relies upon a «morphology of stuff» and insists on one that accentuates the dynamic theme of process.

S.e.x.u.a.l.i.s.m is a socal oreintation the same way religion is a socially oreintated construct, Without society we could not oreintate our life upon or against a model of constructivism therefore social oreintations are the mainframes of individualities!

But if we understand Whitehead in light of the mathematical model, then his identification of the extensive continuum with the most general limitation upon general potentiality, the fundamental determination of order in this epoch (PR 103, 148), does not represent confusion but straightforward metaphysics.

The great problem with governments and economic systems that are built upon the wealthy supporting the poor is that they masquerade as being the biblical model, the form of taking care of the poor that was practiced by Jesus and in the early church.

The primacy of the family in education rests upon the spontaneous devotion of parents to their children — a devotion that supplies a model for the relation between teacher and pupil and that is undermined when education is regarded as a direct responsibility of the state.

In the Elijah model, part of the work of ministry is the courageous, authentic appropriation and imposition of the taunt of Elijah (v. 27) upon ourselves, upon the seminary, and upon the respective constituencies of our ministry.

I am relatively discouraged (although not despairing) about exactly how to take the next two steps: the development of a model for a Christian systematic theology that will be in continuity with, but also a genuine development upon, the earlier model for a revisionist fundamental theology; and the development of a model for a public Christian praxis (or practical theology) which will be in continuity with, but also a genuine development upon, both «fundamental» and «systematic» concerns.

At the risk of even greater brevity but in the hope of a clear capsule view, I set forth my own model: fundamental theology is that discipline which consists in philosophical reflection upon the meanings present in our common human experience and in the Christian fact.

We have seen that the whole conception of a new people of God is based upon the principle of «dying to live,» and here we have a model of the Israel - to - be as it shaped itself in the company of the followers of Jesus.

Any suggestion here of an overly simple piety or optimistic works - righteousness is blocked by an insistence upon the ideality of the model just constructed.

This article is arguably hypocritical as well as stomach - churning, since it begins with the suggestion that «Because of the amazingly diverse multicultural contexts in which pastoral ministers are called upon to work today, it is impossible to prescribe one liturgical model that will be always and everywhere appropriate»: this flexible and open - minded liturgist then proceeded to argue in The Tablet that only the Mass of Paul VI is always and everywhere appropriate and that its very existence automatically abrogated all previous liturgies for ever: presumably those who prefer the older form are not to be given the dignity of a group or «culture» to be catered for by his free and easy multicultural ways, but are to be simply dismissed as a bunch of liturgical perverts.

Recognition of the need for an interpenetrative societal view of the world, perhaps more than any specific philosophical requirement, has led process - thinkers to place their emphasis upon «becoming», as a dynamic movement of development in relationship, rather than upon «being»; here, they insist, is the best «model» for our understanding of God.

The idea that events can be isolated or set apart in classifications or categories has led to the breakdown of the unity of knowledge and experience and to general reliance upon technological models in all endeavors.

But the young man rubbed his eyes as if he had just woke up, and he looked towards the rays of the sun, and won the consideration of all who now had turned their attention to him; for he no longer showed himself licentious, nor did he stare madly about, but he had returned to his own self, as thoroughly as if he had been treated with drugs; and he gave up his dainty dress and summery garments and the rest of his sybaritic way of life, and he fell in love with the austerity of the philosophers, and donned their cloak, and stripping off his old self modeled his life in future upon that of Apollonius.