Sentences with phrase «use scarcity»

Another way to use scarcity is known as loss aversion.

To use scarcity marketing for more downloads, here's the first thing to remember: Don't use all five of your free promo days at once.

Use the scarcity tactic.

But other, lesser - known brands and names have used scarcity in their marketing and seen results before.

He used the scarcity method and saw a 332 percent increase in sales.

By limiting our presentation to what we can fit in one section of the paper, we easily demonstrate to our readers that we have used the scarcity of space in the paper to display the best of the content we find.

Seconding the idea of using scarcity to breed opportunity, Jason Osborne, a laboratory instrument designer, and Aaron Alford, a psychiatric epidemiologist, came up with an outrageous concept: Get the education system to pay for field work in paleontology.

In particular, Kathryn Rusch has a brilliant article where she uses a scarcity vs. abundance analogy to describe the publishing industry: most every writer, publisher, agent, editor, reviewer was raised in a scarcity model, where book shelf space was limited, publishing contracts few, and rarity was equated with quality.

Apple used scarcity to great effect with iPhones and iPads; the harder it was to get an already compelling product, the more desirable it became.

Not exact matches

The scarcity of illegal guns is reportedly so bad that stolen antique guns are frequently used by gangs, and U.K. law enforcement officials now estimate that only around 1,000 guns are in use by criminal elements in the entirety of the U.K.

Taking into account past patterns of drought and water use, the Columbia study reveals that several major metro areas, including New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, are at high risk for water scarcity, along with the Great Plains agricultural belt extending from North and South Dakota down to North Texas.

Creating scarcity if used wisely can be an amazing sales tactic.

«Scarcity taps into a psychological bias we humans have, but companies and designers need to use it ethically.

Many companies are abusing scarcity — maybe I should call it scare - ity — by using sketchy numbers or arbitrary deadlines.

Rather than inefficiently dictating how to use a resource from the top, this approach allows those in the trenches to make the best decisions with ample information about the scarcity and value of the key commodity — time.

This implies that risks are not too big or overarching (like resource scarcity, rising levels of atmospheric CO2, or global warming) but are more focused e.g. extreme weather, increased greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture or from energy use, or a lack of fresh water.

However, use of the Federal Reserve's securities lending program has been stable since liftoff, suggesting that the design of the ON RRP facility has thus far not contributed to any increase in the scarcity of specific Treasury collateral.

Future Ready Singapore, 12 February 2015: As the international corporate community rethinks the way it conducts business to address global challenges, solving water scarcity and managing water use could be the top untapped opportunity that will have the biggest positive impact on societies.

If there is a unifying theme that runs through most of business managerial economics it is the challenge to optimize business decisions given the firm's objectives and given the multitude of business and government limitations imposed by scarcity, for example through the use of undertaking business managerial economics research and the indoctrination.

Scarcity is often used by salespeople and other compliance professionals to motivate buyers.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

But so long as scarcity holds sway, use - value remains a decisive category which can only be abolished by trickery.

When the scarcity of petroleum causes its price to rise, the market will respond by more efficient use and with substitute sources.

The real ethical issue is how we use property both in scarcity and in abundance.

With growing scarcity of agricultural land, there were calls to use more marine - based plants.

Sustainability measures, such as CO2e, water use, ingredient scarcity, material digestibility, and food miles, may be entered for individual ingredients to predict sustainability measures for the total formula.

«This means that taking into account the way the water use contributes to local water scarcity, the water footprint of producing 1 L of milk on these farms had the equivalent impact as the direct consumption of only 1.9 L of water.

It takes into account, for example, what sort of water has been used at all stages of the life cycle (eg natural rainfall over agricultural land, water from rivers, lakes and groundwater resources); the context of local water scarcity; and whether the water would otherwise be used for another activity of critical importance.

However, when the type of water being used and the local water scarcity was taken into account, the water footprint of the M&M's ® (31 L H2Oe per 250 g packet) was actually one - tenth the footprint of the sauce (350 L H2Oe per 375 g jar).2

You can also use them to explain to your child how bears hibernate in the winter because of food scarcity.

Many people categorise the economy in the Star Trek TV show to be tinkering with the concept of post scarcity socialism, because human labour is substituted with energy and that ushers in a production for use and the abolition of the worker boss relationship.

The attempt therefore by Eugene Arhin to create the impression of scarcity and use same as a pretext to justify the unwarranted falsehood about missing vehicles belonging to the Presidency is disingenuous and unbecoming of a public official whose actions must be guided by integrity and candour.

I realize now that I used the wrong terminology when I said «post scarcity» - I meant the point at which we had enough of a surplus being produced by fully automated infrastructure so that if we, say, divided 80 % of our wealth (goods and services), everyone could live comfortably (but not have anything they want).

In response to your final paragraph: I think it necessary to point out that to use today's communist governments as a demonstrator of the failures of communism while my question is suggesting that perhaps communism can only succeed in (not create) the environment of a post or nearly post scarcity economy, contradicts the premise of the question's suggestion.

The scarcity of kerosene, used by millions of largely poor Nigerians for cooking, has hit major cities causing huge increase in price.

Nigerians are expecting the Federal Government to use the funds saved from increasing fuel price to fix the refineries and get them to work optimally, not a return of fuel scarcity.»

The team is now attempting the same procedure using human kidneys, and also pig kidneys, which could be used to make scaffolds if there were a scarcity of human donors.

Ultimately, the scarcity of rare earth elements comes down to our own short - sightedness and the apparent low cost of business as usual — dig it up, use it, discard it.

A general sense of scarcity activates a constraint mindset that manifests itself through increased novelty in subsequent product - usage contexts — that is, limits force consumers to think beyond the traditional functionality of a given product, thus enhancing product - use creativity, says published research from Ravi Mehta, a professor of business administration at Illinois.

Water pricing in Israel reflects the true scarcity value of water, with different pricing schemes based on water sources (treated wastewater, desalinated water, groundwater, storm water, surface water) and uses.

In 2007 the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope tested a system that uses natural guide stars, but its use is limited because of the scarcity of suitable telescopic fields.

That Old Navy e-mail used a really compelling tactic by highlighting the limited time parameters of the sale — it introduced the idea of scarcity into readers» minds and implied that we could miss out.

The chemistry of protactinium, which is very difficult to study due to it scarcity and complex chemistry, is important for understanding and controlling its behavior for application in nuclear reactors, as well as for comprehending the overall variable and complex chemistry of the actinide series and transition elements used in everyday technologies.

Because of its expense and scarcity, industries are continually looking to use less of it and to develop catalysts that more efficiently use individual platinum atoms in their reactions.

Using an ensemble of five global hydrological models, the researchers examined the evolution of water availability, demand, and scarcity globally from 1971 to 2010.

According to doctoral candidate Michael Risse, additional analyses in the context of cascading use are also essential: «For example, during the efficiency analysis, the scarcity of the individual primary natural resources should also be taken into account.»

However, its future potential uses are significantly limited by scarcity and cost, as well as the fact that platinum readily binds with carbon monoxide, which «poisons» the desired reactions, for example in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells, which are the leading contenders for small - scale and mobile power generation not based on batteries or combustion engines.

Using virtual water as a policy tool only makes sense if you take water scarcity into account.»

However, despite this success, the use of immunotherapy remains limited by the scarcity of tumor - specific antigens — substances that can trigger an immune system response to a particular type of cancer.

Given the invasive nature of the technology and scarcity of laws governing its use, Owsley, a former U.S. magistrate judge in Texas, says the lack of reliable information documenting the technology's use is particularly troubling.