The elasticity can be seen in the ability to grow without simultaneously growing a substantial administrative overhead.
The scalability, flexibility and the elasticity of AWS makes it an ideal environment for the agencies to run their analytics.
That said, the elasticity need not be stable from country to country, or the same for all types of donor.
But for higher-rate taxpayers as a whole the elasticity was just 0.33.
The engineers had resisted the launch, had recommended against it, citing the "blowby" in an earlier low-temperature launch and studies of the elasticity of the o-rings.
Standing in that courtyard, staring blankly at a pile of stones where my 23-year-old self had once posed for a photo, I was suddenly hit by the elasticity of time.
Never store your clothes over long periods in plastic dry-cleaning bags which emit gases that can stain or yellow fabrics as well as break down the elasticity in stretch garments.
The authors predict that falling costs of auto transportation will favor exurbs over large cities, and provide some statistical evidence that the elasticity of density with respect to gas prices is 1.1.
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Export-led growth works well in a world where the price elasticity of demand for the exported goods is effectively infinite, where any decrease in costs will always lead to an expansion in sales.
Ergo, according to the most basic law of economics, the cost of medical care will rise (how much being based on the relative elasticity of medical care) and the cost of health insurance will rise accordingly.
The results of the study, detailed in the Lancet, revealed a "striking" difference in the stiffness and elasticity of the arterial wall and the function of the lining of the arteries.
Consider, for example, what we call the price elasticity of wages, as defined in economics to capture the relationship between pay and employee effort.
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The price elasticity of demand is such that if prices rose by 10%, volume only falls by 4%.
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He urges marketers to make sure they understand the "elasticity" of their brand, which would be a gauge of how much--or how little--advertising is necessary to sustain sales.
Crowdsourcing has the potential to enable a new elasticity in the use of labor but it also has the capacity to drive income through the floor.
The idea of economists to use artificial scarcity pricing to do this is aggressively marketed in blogs, magazines and TV shows, but is extremely unlikely to work, because the current price elasticity of oil is so low.
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Their central estimate is that the taxable income elasticity for this group is 0.46, which implies a revenue-maximizing tax rate on earned income of 56%.29 This in turn (accounting for NICs and indirect taxes) corresponds to an income tax rate of 40%.
However, as these studies have become more sophisticated, the consensus estimate of the tax-price elasticity has diminished to significantly less than one.
Smart leaders use elasticity in the most fluid and flexible fashion to extend their engagement, increase their knowledge, and to create scale for those they lead.
If it experiences fluctuating demand, we may recommend it be housed in a public cloud environment that provides the best economics and required elasticity.
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In response, several bloggers have argued that these elasticities are underestimated, pointing to the unreliability of estimates of long-run price elasticity of oil demand in general and to other literature with higher estimates than the IMF study.
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The cell produces more structural proteins, which in turn puff up the skin and give it the appearance of improved tone and elasticity.
Designing and implementing shared IT services involves moving existing and new services to the cloud (both government or commercial hosting) to increase service elasticity, reduce system equipment footprints, free IT organizations from the expensive work of data center storage, maintenance, backup and recovery burdens.
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Is there enough price elasticity in parking fees to make the plan work?
If food demand or supply has a very low elasticity with respect to price in the short term then when we have only a minor change in supply and or demand then we will see large changes in food prices.
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Based on economic analysis, one of the greatest potential benefits of cloud computing stems from elasticity.
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These manufacturers are able to analyze a price elasticity curve, yielding a forecast of the average unit retail price before product development dollars are spent.
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This law rules the world of technology because of what economists call price elasticity of demand.
The most important thing to understand about money is its elasticity.
According to the Wagenaar study, heavy drinkers are subject to a price elasticity of -0.28.
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