The Earl of March uses it in a letter describing a French peer of the realm.
Prosper Marketplace is in a similar business, offering a kind of peer to peer lending system, attracting a range of borrowers including the underbanked.
Until recently, Big White Wall members were content with a peer to peer network of support.
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This works best in a peer group of friends or co-workers, and can make financial sense for everyone involved.
Leszczynski fails to note that the 31 articles he cites are a subset of 120 peer-reviewed papers on a wide range of topics.
Britain's Bribery Act, passed last year, was the culmination of a decade of peer pressure (see article).
These days Lending Club is one of a handful of peer-to-peer lenders filling a gap created by tightfisted bankers.
Napster, hatched by a teenager, signals a new era of peer-to-peer computing--a Net that functions just fine without big expensive servers.
This is to allow time to arrange for a full peer review of the application which will be undertaken on behalf of the UKNC by independent experts.
Under a pilot scheme due to begin next autumn, heads will be invited to inspect each other's schools, drawing on their knowledge of school management and leadership in a new kind of peer-review system.
Of course that is not going to win you a whole lot of peer kudos.
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Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer powered currency consisting of anonymous, heavily-encrypted codes which only a specific user can unlock.
The final step is to vicariously or directly experience a leadership moment of a mentor or peer.
Lord Wolfson, the boss of the retail chain Next and a Conservative peer, described worries of uncertainty as "nonsense".
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Their technique, based on an algorithm they call P4P, could eventually offer a less controversial version of peer-to-peer file sharing, a practice that has flooded the Internet with pirated music and movies and ignited debate over what online content broadband providers should regulate.
His bid for the job at the Humberside force comes almost two years after he entered the House of Lords as a life peer with the title Baron Prescott, of Kingston upon Hull in the County of East Yorkshire.
The train departs, and though most of the passengers have gone, a few stay behind to peer through the massive armature of the portholes, as if in search of a parallel existence.
This also allows a system of tracking peer or manager recognition, eventually factoring into their organizational reputation.
Again, its price-to-sales ratio of 4.26 is at a premium to the peer group average of 0.70.
In fact, pre-OK Cupid, Yagan was involved in launching a peer-to-peer file sharing service of his own, called eDonkey.
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, a crossbench peer and member of the all-party parliamentary disability group, said the government needed to "think again".
It serves a purpose, creating a beneficial sort of peer pressure that induces more people to do good than otherwise might have.
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Links to a number of (peer reviewed) papers that buttress his contentions.
As another case in point, Farient developed a peer group for one of our manufacturing clients in multiple businesses and heavy international exposure.
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We need to have a lifelong set of peer-teachers on whom we can rely to thrive and social networks provide that ever-changing network of peers.
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These are people whose identity is publicly verifiable - members of the Internet identity, security, and privacy communities who believe in the power of a peer-to-peer, socially-verified reputation network.
But when it comes middle management, disillusioned with theory but still thirsty for knowledge, guidance and the support of a peer network, it could provide the reengagement and revitalisation the corporate world so badly needs.
At its most basic, says Mr Shirky, peer-to-peer is a swathe of applications that harness resources at the far edges of the Internet, where the machines have complete freedom (or, at least, significant autonomy) from the central servers.
While Napster is a consumer example of peer-to-peer computing, with the right networking technologies in place, businesses will be able to use it to harness the power of multiple computers connected to the Internet to run compute-intensive applications, he said.
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