But our passion goes beyond this and focuses on: how do you systematically help management and organizations get to a higher-place on this S-curve?
Surgeons liken it to putting a tractor-trailer into reverse gear and swerving flawlessly through a wicked S-curve.
After the S-shape curve of the country from north to south, Artisans of Leisure's private, custom Vietnam for Foodies tours take in cultural and gustatory attractions along the way.
The use of pictures certainly seems the most intuitive method for navigating around videos -- there's a definite learning curve here, and it's hard enough to select pictures -- we couldn't really imagine toggling through small text.
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When a communications medium is both riding the Moore's Law cost-capability curve and tapping into a deep need, it's no fad.
The concept (which other researchers proposed in the 1960s) holds that tumor growth generally follows an S-shape curve.
Yes, it feels good in the hand, owed in part to that matte plastic back and subtle arc S-like curve, but the materials feel cheap.
The first bent trumpets were in the shape of a flattened S-curve, but they were soon made obsolete by trumpets whose tubing was fashioned into an elongated oval coil.
Steve Greenberg, founder and CEO of S-Curve Records, was a disc jokey in Tel Aviv, Israel, when "Thriller" first dropped and witnessed first-hand how Jackson became an international icon.
In the 16th-century "Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons" displayed across the room, on the other hand, a crane stands delicately on one leg, its long neck tracing a gentle S-curve.
They proceed along an S-shaped curve, with a few trail blazers lighting the way, followed every growing numbers of imitators who adopt the idea with its value demonstrated, but, then, a few laggards who for stupidity, pride, tradition, or whatever, hold on the methods that are outdated and unprofitable.
But now a series of deals is finally allowing Microsoft to argue that it's ahead of the curve--with the entertaining upside of making some of the open-source community's truest believers even angrier.
There's also a slick tutorial that's sure to lower the learning curve for first-time users and seasoned aficionados alike -- something we initially skipped, but would have eased our transition to Ice Cream Sandwich.
The M6 with the TwinTurbo V8's mesa-flat torque curve (500 pound-feet from 1, 500-5, 750 rpm) and multiplicity of gear ratios (seven-speed dual clutch transmission, the M-DCT) adds an uncanny effortlessness to the experience.
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One is that the emerging markets are emerging, and by that I mean that there's a very long and well-demonstrated process in history that's kind of an inverted J curve.
What we're about to show you is decidedly low-tech -- it's essentially a projection screen with a sharp curve at the bottom -- but the resulting effect conveys a more realistic 3D image, for certain applications, at least.
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He mixed a 97-mph fastball with a knee-buckling curve, similar to Gooden's when he captivated the baseball world as a 19-year-old New York Mets rookie in 1984.
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Or, worst of all, given the gaudy carnival of the stock market in the 1990s, combined with the deflationary cost-curve of Moore's Law, is the U.S. diving once more into the maw of a 1929 slaughter?
Alexandre Tombini, the affable central banker from Brazil, tried to brush off long-term concerns when I asked if the president's economic team was behind the curve when it repeatedly slashed interest rates to combat a slow-down.
What could be worse than the Fed's flattening the yield curve and stoking 1970s-style inflation?
Occasional failure was not just inevitable in parenting - it was part of the child's learning curve.
It's the greatest learning curve about this game - as soon as you feel you're doing okay it gets up and smacks you on the backside.
"Looking at the Curve project - and it's a wonderful theatre and I am very proud to have it - but it really is one of the most expensive and badly handled projects in this city's history, " he said.
"In those first couple of years, it's a huge learning curve, " the 34-year-old said.
Without Wi-Fi its browser is slower than the Curve's, and its camera lacks a flash.
Kent can look up actual crashes to plot the so-called crash pulse (the shape of a car's deceleration curve) and the places where a body made contact with the vehicle.
The included app's well-designed interface shows an animation of your putts and displays a curve indicating the path of your stroke, which can be overlaid against that of a previous, model putt you've chosen.
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Dr. ORSZAG: Well, the key to our long-term fiscal future is actually improving the efficiency of the health care system, and I think there's a lot that can be done there to bring - to bend the curve on health care costs.
But Massachusetts's universal health-care law has not (yet) bent the cost-curve, and Texas-style damage caps have not in fact increased doctor numbers.
Eva Longoria nabbed a BlackBerry Curve at Research in Motion 's (nasdaq: RIMM - news - people ) launch party last June.
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