Degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's may turn out to be more difficult to model because they involve the failure of more than just brain cells, Markram says.
If the UK were to experience a downward turn in foreign enrollments, lower than expected income from oversees fees could exert additional financial pressures on institutions already attempting to cope from significant decreases in public funding and move to a model more reliant on tuition revenues than previously.
McLaren surprised everyone by running with a conventional rear wing in first practice as opposed to a shallower, lower model more suited to Monza's low-downforce track.
And the move to installing fiber and manufacturing its own hardware mean that the company is diversifying its business model to include more direct payments from users and not be wholly dependent on advertising revenues to fund all of this infrastructure.
Stelios stepped back in and revamped the company to more of a franchise model: EasyCar now lends its name to more than 1, 000 companies that provide the fleet as well as pick-up and drop-off locations.
There wasn't a lot of room for messy, ad hoc assumptions to make the model more closely fit the facts.
The press release states that GSK has fundamentally changed its business model to become more open to sharing intellectual property and knowledge.
We have updated our model to be more in-line with this trend.
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Chavez leaves behind a country where the poor have been empowered and society has been divided, and a continent where alternatives to his model look more appealing than ever.
Last week I wrote in this space that the future facing higher education in the UK poses some pressing challenges, including adjusting to a financial model more dependent upon tuition revenues.
Now the ADB is arguing that, with demand from the advanced economies for its manufactures unlikely to pick up strongly soon, Asia needs to shift to a model based more on rising domestic demand and relying more on its service industries.
In an act of heresy, Microchip switched to a model with more generous base salaries, accounting for 90% of total sales pay with the final 10% coming in the form of bonuses tied to overall corporate profitability and other broad metrics.
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Growth in the years of transition to a more sustainable economic model is likely to be a fraction of what we took for granted in the boom years: consistent growth of 1% might not be such a disastrous result, given the scale of the challenge.
We can achieve a 6x performance speedup and we can drive that to 16x by using a simpler MapReduce model to avoid data motion more efficiently than Hadoop.
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In effect, DirecTV is saying to Viacom: You can charge us more, or you can undermine our business model, but undermining our business model while asking us to pay more is a little much.
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The old, taxpayer financing model clearly needs to give way to far more aggressive private sector investment model.
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The more sophisticated the fund manager appears to be, and the more complex his model, the harder it is for the client to tell whether the strategy will produce skewed returns.
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"We are evolving to a better model with more control over the assets, " he says.
The hospital introduced a complex logistical model to sift patients more efficiently, but the doctors hated it and went back to defensive decision-making.
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The Society for Participatory Medicine (an advocacy group of patients and clinicians) will be viewed as a go-to resource for providers as they see the value of shifting to a more open model.
As investors, we need to be patient for growth, and understand that investment in growth is a long-term stock catalyst, and NFLX is setting up its business model to be even more profitable in the future.
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Mr Blair has a good story to tell - and to sell as a possible model for more struggling economies in the EU. But to do this, he must first find a new and more constructive tone when dealing with Britain's EU partners.
Instead of trying to revamp JIMS with brand-new technology, Harris County has stuck to its grand-design architecture by migrating its legacy database to the more current Model 204 Database Management System, made by Computer Corporation of America, and rewriting Cobol applications in the Model 204 language.
Valve is beloved by its consumers for their vast array of free updates and map packs, and the move seemed to signal a shift to a more modern model of microtransactions aimed at players who wanted every item they could get in the game at any cost.
The red finish on our limited edition model -- the first, and for the time being only, type available at launch February 12 -- combines with the all glossy front panel to give this model a more sophisticated look, and the slight taper along the sides brings not only a welcome slimming effect, but makes it more comfortable to handle in portrait mode.
At heart, the constitutional referendum involves a choice as to whether or not Bolivia should graft on to an imperfect Western liberal democracy a socialist model that owes rather more to the corporatism of Spanish colonial rule (but with Amerindians, rather than conquistadors, in charge) than to Marx.
For China to find a more stable growth model, most experts agree that the country needs to balance its investments by promoting greater consumption.
Li Ning last week said it wants to move to a more consumer-oriented model, opening more of its own shops and factory outlets rather than franchising them out to third parties or relying on wholesalers to distribute their products.
Our ability to do this is a testament to our diversified business model, which has allowed us to serve more customers and continue to grow capital while at the same time generating record earnings and providing our shareholders with more return on their investment.
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The clinic formed a partnership with the company Eye Controls to develop a more user-friendly model, consisting of a handheld iris camera and software to reduce identification errors.
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