When credit worthiness is the rationing mechanism then a positive feedback is set up.
Robust economic growth--3.3% or better, over multiple years--sustains a positive feedback loop.
In this context, a network effect is a positive feedback loop whereby platforms with stronger ecosystem of developers, content and service providers attract more customers.
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The authors say that the predicted shallow depth of these methane reserves means that they could be destabilised by climate change, and might act as a positive feedback on global warming.
Here, the literature also points to a positive feedback effect with decisive expenditure-based fiscal consolidation because this type of consolidation appears to foster growth, in particular in times of severe fiscal imbalances.
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Rather than abandon the theory, scientists fell back on the notion that the data jibed with the possibility that rising carbon dioxide levels were reinforcing the warming trend in what's called a positive feedback loop.
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Japanese financial stocks, as especially the megabanks, have been in a positive feedback loop of balance sheet and income statement translation gains from a weaker yen and the prospect of increased loan volumes and interest earnings from higher domestic loan demand.
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That is, there would be a positive feedback effect from health reforms and efficiencies - above all at the demand level by addressing ill health - and a negative one from failing to do so. (If anybody can calculate what 12.5% would be in today's money, then we know the difference between the Wanless "worst case" and what Mr Lansley warns about today).
The entire system would go into a destructive positive feedback loop and crash.
The consultation was unique in a number of respects, and has already generated a wave of positive feedback.
He says the research group has received a lot of positive feedback about the idea from both medical and engineering communities.
Employees tend to view positive feedback as a perk and it can motivate them to work harder.
In the weather, we can see positive feedback when a series of hot, sunny days create a static high pressure system which keeps storms from moving in to cool things off.
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Even light positive feedback can be a motivator, such as a simple "Like" on Facebook, "Cheer" on FitBit or a "Healthy" vote on RunKeeper, which is the app's equivalent of a like.
This positive feedback shows how even a small change to the Earth's systems can trigger much greater ones.
The introduction of the qualifications for younger students comes half-way though a pilot programme which had produced such positive feedback that the Institute decided to launch the new studies this autumn.
Schramm clearly intended to tap on the brakes a little, but just as the positive feedback of investor psychology inflated the stock price on the upside, negative feedback exaggerated the negative effects on the downside.
Even if a contender were to launch a viable platform, it faces the almost insurmountable task of improving at a pace that keeps up with the positive feedback loops already established by iOS and Android.
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Business owners may be able to make laying the law down easier by offering employees both positive and negative feedback on a regular basis, says Peter Cappelli, a professor of management at the Wharton School in Philadelphia.
Recognition is a key tool in employee retention programs for a reason: people need more than constructive feedback and positive affirmation.
Given the circumstances, Carson thinks technology has had a positive impact, especially tools such as on-line assessments that provide immediate feedback.
Most research into individual development has shown that managers are more likely to change if they are given positive feedback that they can build upon, rather when confronted with a litany of weaknesses and failures.
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Beyond our own efforts to set the right example, we can also develop ownership in our employees by giving them a positive work environment, opportunities for personal and professional growth and regular and direct feedback.
So long as the feedback is positive (an important qualification), the result is a virtuous cycle of increasing returns for the idea.
As them if they really support the idea that a long-term stable natural system can be dominated by extraordinarily high levels of positive feedback.
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Research fellow Shelly Liang points to the Positive Feedback Trading Hypothesis (PFTH), which says traders may buy a stock simply because the price is going up.
Several support tools actually appeared to work: Tabs within the app dedicated to support, an email address to contact and in-app feedback were the three features whose users actually had a higher average of positive ratings.
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