... change the business logic of their firm In the following subsections we outline some ofthe general roles that the literature proposes for the business model concept (i.e for the use of formally ... particular aspect of a specific company The meta-model then defines the words and sentences that we use to describe this view ORIGINS To detect theorigins and particularly the surge ofthe business ... Present, and Future oftheConcept by A Ostenwalder, Y Pigneur, and C.L Tucci 1990s This surge coincidences with the advent ofthe Internet in the business world and the steep rise ofthe NASDAQ stock...
... the product of a decision on our part to extend theconcept (Weitz, 1956, 188) According to Weitz, this “openness” oftheconceptof art is the condition ofthe possibility of further creativity ... Carroll’s theory of historical narratives, one should take into account, for the reasons given above, Weitz’s sound intuition about the open character oftheconceptof art But on the other hand, the ... examples (e.g the member of a primitive society with no conceptof art who creates the representation of a leopard and manages to endow it with something ofthe fearsomeness ofthe animal; see...
... around the world The immediate trigger ofthe crisis was the end ofthe housing booms in the United States and other countries and the associated problems in mortgage markets, notably the 206 ... and 2007.180 The rapidly growing significance ofthe U.S financial services industry provides further evidence ofthe impact ofthe credit boom The financial services industry’s share of total domestic ... pay off their credit card balances As in the case of nonprime home mortgages, LCFIs ignored the risks of nonprime credit card loans because they could securitize most ofthe loans However, the...
... integrative unity ofthe organism [1-4, 6, 10, 11]), and understand the criterion of death (irreversible loss of all functions ofthe brain, including the brainstem), and the empirical state ofthe brain ... that they were comfortable diagnosing BD, because the conceptual basis of brain death makes it equivalent to death ofthe patient.” Their responses to the question asking to state theconceptof ... capacity to breathe Cessation ofthe vital work ofthe organism 11] standard medical, ethical, and legal conceptual reason is: the irreversible loss ofthe integration of body functions by the brain...
... the meaning ofthe symptoms: what they signify, what they represent, and, most of all, why they are happening to them A diagnosis of depression on its own does not explain the why, offers no interpretation ... diseases and are not part of normal variation By the tenets ofthe disease model, the symptoms of depression must reflect abnormal functioning The problem is that the architects ofthe DSM system were ... drive the mood system much harder than the loss of minor relationships But the magnitude ofthe loss event is only part ofthe story Depression is more likely to follow death if the seeds of depression...
... replicates ofthe same B nigra sample to assess the robustness ofthe data The diversity of B rapa and B napus was assessed using Nei's measure of gene diversity H [14]) based on the frequencies ofthe ... analysis of AFLP data shows that the other Brassica samples tested are more similar to each other than they are to B nigra This in agreement with the findings of [21], in their investigation ofthe ... carried out the PCO both excluding (Figure 2a) and including (Figure 2b) the B nigra samples Omitting the B nigra samples had the effect of increasing the resolution ofthe PCO due to the relative...
... only 39.4% ofthe patients in the intensive treatment groups remained within range for their entire ICU stay, whereas in the Leuven studies this was over 70% Of minor importance, in the standard ... only 17.2% ofthe patients in range Such a deviation points to protocol violations or a learning curve in the blood glucose control or a combination ofthe two The resulting overlap of about 50% ... between the standard and intensive treatment groups weakened the robustness ofthe results ofthe study It also makes it impossible to gauge an effect size, let alone to decisively judge the effectiveness...
... The gist of their response was that, while they had their finger on the pulse and their eye on the data, they had made two related diagnostic mistakes: the error of extrapolation and the (rather ... characteristic ofthe global political economy was the reversal ofthe flow of trade and capital surpluses between the United States and the rest ofthe world The hegemon, for the first time ... they were by no means in the majority) saw their labour diverted from the farms to the workshops and the factories There, separated from the countryside of their ancestors by the tall walls of...
... his machines worked, he sold them to other businesses, and he established the first garment factory In some quarters, Bathelemy Thimonnier qualifies as the inventor ofthe world's first practical ... becomes the first to deliver a product and then collect monthly installment payments Theconcept revolutionizes the sewing machine industry, then spreads to other industries ... sewing and owns a factory in Paris with up to 80 of his machines used to sew French army uniforms Members ofthe Tailor's Guild, fearing the demise of hand sewing, storm Thimonnier's plant, destroy...
... relate theconceptof idea to the burner as “let the idea simmer on back burner” It is my own belief that the discrepancy stems from the historical development between the two countries In the past, ... their experience with numerous concepts Finally, the explanation of conceptual metaphors may help students grasp theconceptof systematicity in humans’ thoughts This may sound academic but the ... don’t use your time profitably It is obvious that theconceptof work and time is closely related in Western cultures where incomes are paid by the hour, the week, or the year Therefore, it comes...
... carried out on the “object concept and the “number concept. ” But the status of these “concepts,” in spite of a decade or more of research, is still not clear As I use the term, a concept refers ... a mug, is the color ofthe mug relevant to the meaning, or the fact that the pitcher is inches high, or that the pitcher is held in the left hand and the mug in the right? Many ofthe arguments ... terms ofthe way the brain works, skipping the mind altogether But the brain cannot tell us about meaning That is the province ofthe mind, and if psychology does not pay attention to the way the...
... (3) The idea that art ‘brings into the world the obscurity of fate’ summarizes neatly the thesis ofthe materiality of art (namely that the artwork [is] an event of darkening of being in the ... Ursprung des Kunstwerkes’, with its conception ofthe work of art as an event that ‘holds open the Open ofthe world’.20 The work ofthe work of art is the uncovering of ontological difference: Art ... saying that the temporality ofthe work of art ‘does not have the quality ofthe living instant which is open to the salvation of becoming The value of this instant is thus made of its misfortune...
... receives BPDUs from the Root If multiple BPDUs are received, then there must be a loop in the network The BPDU with the lowest cost is the best path to the Root • The goal of every non-root bridge/switch ... protocol is the protocol being mapped across the frame relay cloud, such as IP or IPX • destination-IP is the IP address ofthe frame relay interface at the other end ofthe PVC • local-DLCI is the local ... called the “last mile” • Normally not more than a few miles Demarcation Point (Demarc) • The line between the customer site and the provider network • Inside ofthe demarc is the CPE • Outside of the...
... from the councils ofthe National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine The members ofthe committee responsible for the report were chosen for their ... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health ofthe public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the ... deployment (see Box P-1 ofthe Preface for the statement of task) The absence of credible examinations of SATS by NASA compelled the committee to undertake its own analyses oftheconcept s plausibility...
... hypotheses of latent vectors for the definition of bank#n#1 Learning Latent Semantics of Definitions 2.1 Intuition Given only a few observed words in a definition, there are many hypotheses of latent ... highly related to the observed words Therefore, missing words can be used to prune the hypotheses that are also highly related to the missing words Consider the hypotheses of latent vectors in ... those ofthe authors and should not be construed as representing theof cial views or policies of IARPA, the ODNI or the U.S Government References Eneko Agirre and Aitor Soroa 2009 Proceedings of...
... familiar motif Here the roots come from the Copts of Egypt who had acquired them from the Levant Neither the Greeks nor the Romans used the interlace much in their sculptures For these human figures, ... ofthe status ofthe abbey, would have made use of those observations and thus spread the use ofthe motif King Solomon’s Knot At the crossing ofthe church of Jou sous Montjou, in the Haute Auvergne ... repertoire of church sculptors By the end ofthe century they were common place The use of geometric patterns and foliate designs continued but these were often 38 relegated to the margins of main...
... both at the level ofthe immediate chromatin environment ofthe intergenic region, and also at the level of topological status ofthe DNA as a result of transcription ofthe adjacent genes Origins ... forms of DnaC [14] Rather the role of ATP in the reaction is to serve as a switch that controls the activity ofthe helicase The ATP bound form of DnaC severely inhibits the helicase activity of ... these ORB elements, like DnaA boxes in bacteria, are conserved features of a number of archaeal originsof replication and this has allowed the prediction ofthe localization of replication origins...
... role of players in the game and the NU’s reluctant steps to open professionalism, the chapter details the helplessness ofthe sport in the face ofthe tidal wave of soccer in the early 1900s The ... schools The chapter moves on to discuss the spread of rugby from the public schools to the north of England and links the rapid growth ofthe sport to the sense of civic pride that prevailed among the ... about the levels of violence in the game in the early years ofthe NU All of these topics were dealt with briefly in the original edition but the new edition presents the opportunity to explore them...