One company that has changed its business strategy is the Florida-based boating company Marine Max, which introduced a scale-based business model in addition to innovative products and services.
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Other than inventing the scale-based supply-chain-squeeze model of retail, which must go down as one of the great business innovations of all time, Wal-Mart is hardly known as a foresight-based player.
Reading a 2011 World Bank study3 on this phenomenon, one has the impression that the weaker the governance, the more attractive the country to large-scale land-based foreign land investments.
Last month, the most exciting news was from UCLA, where a small team of researchers developed a micro-scale graphene-based supercapacitor that can charge and discharge a hundred to a thousand times faster than current batteries.
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Over a few decades this would amount to a minute's difference, but over several hundred years this would mean the atomic clock time-scale and the time-scale based on the Earth's rotation would be out by an hour.
He plans to put the storage bags through smaller scale land-based tests, with four-meter-diameter bags, to prove that his calculations are right.
Exchanges were once on a local scale, community-based, and in an immediate environment with traditional channels of communication.
The writer, Monica Gaudio, was alerted by a friend that her piece on the origins of apple pie, written for a website on medieval recipes, had been reprinted, sans permission, in Cooks Source, a small-scale publication based in New England.
Moving forward, we must continue to focus on populations with the highest HIV disparities -- including gay men, and African American and Latino communities -- and scale up effective, evidence-based interventions to prevent and treat HIV.
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And he adds that there is ongoing substitution of tablets for PCs, while Microsoft and its partners are not up to scale on Win 8-based tabs and hybrids.
It currently has 14 commuter-scale Embraer aircraft based in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Manchester and East Midlands, serving 17 destinations across Scandinavia, plus Lyon, Brussels and Zurich.
The average industry APEAL score increased by 3 index points from 2010, to 781 on a 1, 000-point scale, based on more than 90 vehicle attributes including mileage to comfort to roominess and everything in between.
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These grand-scale premonitions are largely based on Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns, which states that the development of technology has been increasing exponentially since the beginning of time.
The resulting contract, signed in fall 2009, garnered national attention for its brevity, just 10 pages, and its establishment of a merit-based pay scale instead of guaranteed annual pay raises, prompting charter school administrators to issue a press release.
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From here on, the factors important to success in the traditional brick-and- mortar retail business -- pricing power based on brand strength and economies of scale -- also will be required on the Internet.
Although some people make their own diesel at home from leftovers and recycled cooking oil, coffee-based biodiesel seems better suited to larger-scale processes.
Applicants are asked to submit technology-based projects that could have a large-scale impact on a problem facing the people today and make the world a better place.
Aberdeen-based Gokay Deveci was honoured in the small-scale housing development category.
While much media attention focused on the Bush administration's attempt to lift the ban on offshore drilling, his signature energy policy will surely be seen by history in terms of scope and scale, the billions directed at corn-based ethanol.
Players' handicaps are based on a scale of minus-2 to 10, with 10 the best.
New Jersey-based Terracycle has invented a scale for good model that is itself scalable.
Negotiations cover both pay-scale increases and regular annual wage rises based on age.
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The scale of ULRs requires that they be cloud-based.
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This is the way large web operations such as Google and Facebook manage Internet-scale data processing, although the Web players tend to take a do-it-yourself approach based on internally developed or open-source software.
Lundin also believes that large-scale digitization of all tissue samples will also allow for the development of a whole new field of image-based analysis methods.
Quantum announced a Scalar i6000 HD rack-based tape library archiving system that can scale to over 75 PB.
As regards gender-based violence, the studies emphasised the scale of the phenomenon, in spite of the existing legal frameworks.
It sounds great but I question the usual scale-up and engineering required to inaugurate a huge infrastructure based on biogas.
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The film is based on the results of a large-scale research programme on the oceans, called Census of Marine Life, whose main findings will be presented at the conference.
Phonevalley's Alexandre Mars says that both mobile banner ads and text-based campaigns have the advantage of being easy to scale.
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