Historically, digital currencies have been quite volatile — and will likely remain
this way as the ecosystem matures.
Not exact matches
Meanwhile, the two big giants in the room — Apple and Google — are offering music merely
as a
way to keep customers within their mobile
ecosystems.
Most of all, however, innovation and differentiation will now almost always be about intangible services
as much
as physical devices,
as companies realize that
ecosystems sell product, not the other
way round.
Traditional answers often focus on various sectors and involve more or less hand - wringing about their rise and fall, but according to the author of a forthcoming book on entrepreneurship and economy, there is another, better
way to view our economy —
as one single
ecosystem, a sort of one - sector economy that interacts
as a unit much like a forest and which should be nurtured
as it grows and recycles itself.
Monolithic conglomerates such
as Google, Samsung and Apple can afford it because such devices are but two pieces of their much larger wholes — they can take a bath on phones and tablets since they pay off in other
ways, like keeping people within their larger
ecosystems.
Lee told Fortune that she and the other female VCs see the project
as one
way to help more women enter the tech
ecosystem.
Alice seems a logical choice for Pivotal's first private - company investment,
as it's run by two prominent female entrepreneurs — Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn Rodz — and was founded
as a
way to integrate more women into the startup
ecosystem.
First, there is the Waterloo
way: funding research through the university and using that
as the fertile ground to cultivate a healthy startup
ecosystem.
We are excited to stay involved in the OSIsoft
ecosystem as partners with Element Analytics and hope to find
ways to work with more partners of OSIsoft in the years to come.
They are leveraging the new technology to do things in a totally different
way and the ability of this technology to move value in an almost frictionless
way, and they are using the tokens
as financial incentives to create an
ecosystem around their ideas.
Many experts viewed this
as strange, since Chinese traders and miners take up a large portion of the Bitcoin
ecosystem, and the gloomy news should have impacted Bitcoin price in some
way or another.
First, this
ecosystem has already a fully functional exchange that's working in the same
way as the white paper outlines.
Without involving «the whole
ecosystem,» she says, «you have no hope of being able to scale the initiative; so you need to involve corporates — even better if they are big corporations —
as they will have the power to impose a change in the
way we trade, because of their negotiating power with suppliers and clients.»
Territories that includes creating new social interaction models, new roles
as members of a social
ecosystem, and advancing social business models that may very well alter the structure and business operations they have been wedded to for decades — in
ways they could not have dreamed of just a few short years ago.
This Christmas,
as a
way of supporting the Bitcoin
ecosystem, mining giant and bitcoin exchange BTCC decided to donate and deploy 100 full nodes across a total of five continents.
The lesson to be learned is to stop imposing human moral values on nature and to live
as part of the
ecosystem in such a
way that the whole flourishes.
Once this ultimate structure of divine - human communion has been actualized in the life of Christ, tried, purged, and refined in the crucible of the
Way of the Cross, and given the double - sided efficacy to which we have referred subsequent to the events of Resurrection and Pentecost, the new aeon is present with a power and certainty
as great
as the size of God and the constancy of the divine love — that is to say,
as great
as a process - relational model of real contingency in the divine - worldly
ecosystem will allow, given God's excellence and pre-eminence within that
ecosystem.
His team does this to prevent overfishing and ruining the natural salmon habitat, and this
way each fisherman only harvests a particular number of fish so
as to ensure that the
ecosystem remains in healthy balance.
Secondly, the messages delivered by all keynote speakers were uncompromising in their honest presentation of the reality that if Australia wants to have a secure food supply — and above all one based on a healthy diet, produced in
ways that restore rather than further degrade soil, water tables and
ecosystems — then business
as usual is simply not an option.
When you say Organic products, these are products made from materials that uses natural
ways of farming and cultivating such
as non-use of chemical pesticides, less use of water, synthetic pesticides that consider the
ecosystem and biodiversity.
For example, forest preserve districts in Cook and DuPage Counties, which cull deer herds
as a
way to protect the
ecosystem, donate the meat to the needy
as well.
Voting itself is not nearly
as important in the political
ecosystem as convincing other people in the rightness of your opinions so they vote the
way you want them to.
From Louisiana and Missouri through the American heartland and all the
way north to Minnesota, Asian carp are invading freshwater lakes and rivers, disrupting
ecosystems as they go.
«An important
way to create more self - managing
ecosystems with a high level of biodiversity is to make room for large herbivores in the European landscape — and possibly reintroduce animals such
as wild cattle, bison and even elephants.
As with climate change, the only pragmatic option is to concentrate efforts to fulfil people's desires and demands in a way that protects natural ecosystems as far as possible — not to try to challenge patterns of consumption per se by insisting that they are unsustainable, even if this appears to be the case in the short ter
As with climate change, the only pragmatic option is to concentrate efforts to fulfil people's desires and demands in a
way that protects natural
ecosystems as far as possible — not to try to challenge patterns of consumption per se by insisting that they are unsustainable, even if this appears to be the case in the short ter
as far
as possible — not to try to challenge patterns of consumption per se by insisting that they are unsustainable, even if this appears to be the case in the short ter
as possible — not to try to challenge patterns of consumption per se by insisting that they are unsustainable, even if this appears to be the case in the short term.
To understand
ecosystem changes, including global warming, ecologists need
ways to incorporate physical
as well
as biological data into their thinking.
The DWoC project is seeking new design - driven applications for cellulose and is developing related technology
as well
as exploring new
ways to create value in cellulose - based
ecosystems.
Fluctuations in extreme weather events, such
as heavy rains and droughts, are affecting
ecosystems in unexpected
ways — creating «winners and losers» among plant species that humans depend upon for food.
They add that «this stabilization must occur in such a
way as to give the
ecosystems the opportunity to adapt naturally» without compromising food safety or hindering sustainable social and economic development around the world.
«I like to think of termites
as linchpins of the
ecosystem in more than one
way,» Pringle said.
«Our approach represents a different
way of looking at leukemia and considers the entire bone marrow
as an
ecosystem, rather than the traditional approach of studying and trying to directly kill the diseased cells themselves,» said Allison Boyd, postdoctoral fellow with the research institute and first author of the study.
The study of distribution patters of species — called biogeography — is giving us insights into the
way ecosystems respond to environmental change such
as global warming.
Higher prices can be justified
as a
way to compensate farmers for providing
ecosystem services and avoiding environmental damage or external costs.
Ecologists call this one -
way process «succession» and say it rules the unfolding of
ecosystems much
as natural selection rules evolution.
But rather than viewing de-extinction
as a
way to restore one particular species, Shapiro argues that the overarching goal should be the revitalization and stabilization of contemporary
ecosystems.
A healthy microbiome is a diverse microbiome, and there's no better
way to diversify your microbial
ecosystem than to spend time outdoors in nature, play in the dirt, and hang out around animals
as often
as you are able — all will contribute valuable additions to your resident populations of microbes.
What if we change the
way we treat our skin, and in doing so embrace it
as the living
ecosystem it is?
Our need for convenience is killing us slowly in many
ways as well
as all the animals and
ecosystem interactions we depend on even though it doesn't seem like it.
Korean beauty products are incredibly advanced when it comes to ingredients and formulations because the Korean beauty R&D labs are pushed to extremes
as Korean women continue to raise the bar for beauty products — in a culture where skincare is an extremely serious pursuit and the standard for «flawless skin» is unparalleled, a very exciting industry
ecosystem develops where companies and labs rise to meet the challenge and ultimately, create beauty products that deliver results through supremely high quality ingredients and in a gentle
way.
It's a terrifyingly lyrical expression of Lena's summary statement in the book: «It creates out of our
ecosystem a new world, whose processes and aims are utterly alien — one that works through supreme acts of mirroring, and by remaining hidden in so many other
ways, all without surrendering the foundations of its otherness
as it becomes what it encounters.»
In much the same
way that vendor adoption of developer standards such
as LTI would improve interoperability in a plug - and - play
ecosystem, a similar standard - driven strategy for learning data could ensure 3rd party apps, the Learning Management System, and Student Information Systems (SIS) all deliver uniformly structured data events to a central location, like a Learner Record Store (LRS).
These expectations can be individual to each teacher, constructed and agreed upon
as a staff or PLC, or co-constructed with the students; whichever
way works best in your educational
ecosystem.
First established
as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (otherwise known
as the «stimulus» legislation), and now continued
as a regular Department program in the fiscal 2012 year, i3 was intended to shift the innovation
ecosystem toward greater quantity, rigor and diffusion of innovation, to thread innovation into the
way the Department itself works (including the use of a «field scan» mechanism) and to align funding for the «supply» of innovation with the «demand» the U.S. Department of Education had created through other federal programs.
As countless innovation researchers have described, the crucial element of an effective innovation is not just the spark of «new» or even the «better» of the initial results, but the
way in which it leads to a continuous learning and improvement cycle within the
ecosystem that allows ideas to feed off each other, improve one another and multiply.
As we design our competency - based badging system and implement it within ConnectEd Studios, we see badges as a way to both acknowledge student achievement and inform a broader education ecosyste
As we design our competency - based badging system and implement it within ConnectEd Studios, we see badges
as a way to both acknowledge student achievement and inform a broader education ecosyste
as a
way to both acknowledge student achievement and inform a broader education
ecosystem.
As I mentioned in a previous blog, intelligent performance support is one of the
ways portals are improving your learning
ecosystem.
As far as the walled garden goes, it seems that Amazon has been open in many ways but still refuses to open some aspects of their Kindle ecosyste
As far
as the walled garden goes, it seems that Amazon has been open in many ways but still refuses to open some aspects of their Kindle ecosyste
as the walled garden goes, it seems that Amazon has been open in many
ways but still refuses to open some aspects of their Kindle
ecosystem.
As a consumption device, Google has gone a long
way to filling some of the gaps in its
ecosystem, even down to giving users new widgets that put their content front and center.
Amazon's Fire devices,
as I've said, play a crucial role in expanding its Prime
ecosystem, which has become in many
ways the very heart of the company.
Nor am I certain that they will continue to exist in coming years
as Amazon changes the
way its
ecosystem functions.