Some also noted that Facebook advertising is still relatively experimental and that CMOs can probably justify any decision about it on the grounds of some sort of return-on-investment calculus, at least from a short-term perspective.
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And a similar--but less extreme--calculus applies to other companies being touted as potential Biogen buyers.
That school likens its single-variable calculus MOOC to an Advanced Placement course for high-school students.
Students interested in chemistry, for example, will likely take their English and calculus classes on-line, along with most of their general education requirements.
He takes a full boat of courses, a few AP classes and pre-calculus, English and Spanish II.
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Taking that view would require gaining insight into what could be done to change the decision-calculus of CEOs.
The logical implication of this cost-benefit calculus is that solar energy should receive considerably less support from environmental advocates than more mundane technologies like combined heat-and-power or district energy.
These changes in costs and technology present new forces in the traditional supply-chain calculus.
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He had done his calculus work in the mid-sixteen-sixties, but never published it.
This cost-benefit calculus is notoriously difficult.
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Using an existing result from calculus called Brower's Fixed-Point Theorem, they proved that at least one solution could be found.
When Kerry started to talk about changing al-Assad's calculus, the State Department reintroduced the proposals and the White House "is opening up a bit, " one of the administration officials said.
Certain policymakers, whose ultimate goal is single payer government healthcare, understand the economic calculus that underlies the consideration of pre-existing conditions and fully realize the deleterious effect this ban will have on the industry.
The details of their journey led me to a three-year obsession with the calculus of achievement.
One part of the risk calculus must be: will settlement inspire more resource-diverting class action lawsuits?
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The idea of creating folders in an e-mail reader is not advanced calculus.
But when the cold calculus of logic is swapped out for the gut-sense of intuition, this is the implicit system at work.
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And remember, this is - really comes down to a very simple calculus.
His one major legacy as governor -- the health care reform bill for which Massachusetts Democrats now honor him -- was part of that same Romney political calculus.
Its honorary chairman, and one of its most effective spokesmen, is California's best-known Latino teacher, Jaime Escalante, whose struggle to teach calculus to barrio kids in East Los Angeles has been celebrated in a film.
Driving the calculus are China, Russia and other emerging markets, where a small but fast-growing millionaire class is flocking to big, high priced and lavishly loaded models that can handle poor roads as well as a family.
They regularly drop in on Mr Gold, who quizzes them closely, his wild greying locks and well-stuffed shirt pocket giving him the air of a rumpled physics professor expounding an exotic retail calculus.
Obama had repeatedly drawn a "red line" on the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime, warning President Bashar al-Assad that using or moving chemical stockpiles was the one thing that would " change my calculus" on that war.
In making this judgment, they may not be including in their calculus some essential qualities that can make all of the difference between a smooth and successful transition and a short-lived, rocky tenure that leaves the organization drifting and directionless.
Casio has redesigned the ClassPad series' software keyboard to make this new model easier to use, organizing functions to correspond to three levels of learning difficulty, beginning with basic functions used by everyone like fractions, square roots, and trigonometric functions, then advanced functions like differential calculus, complex compound numbers, and sigma calculations, and finally even more advanced calculations including piecewise and user-defined formulas.
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