Identifying the end of the cycle early as well as the leaders for the next cycle is key to generating wealth.
The link between how much health care we consume and the business cycle is well-established.
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Moreover, fair-value accounting appears to play a part in the upswing of a cycle as well as in the downswing.
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The end of the tightening cycle could bode well for the Brazilian stock market and the popular iShares MSCI Brazil exchange traded fund.
The real test of an airlines strength is not how well it does in boom times but how well it does over a cycle.
Companies like Progressive Insurance and Capital One who have built successful businesses around their ability to mine big data are well aware of this virtuous cycle.
Offshore wind projects are evaluated in terms of their initial installed capital cost (ICC) as well as their life-cycle costs, which are often described as the levelized cost of energy (LCOE).
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There were limitations in what could be analyzed, due to the inflexibility of data warehouses and relational databases, but the process for cleansing, sorting and analyzing data was well understood as a complete cycle.
That output is known to vary during the course of the 11-year sunspot cycle, as well as over the longer term, and although such changes have not been matched to temperature changes in the way that rises in the level of greenhouse gases have been, they may still be making a contribution.
Countries like Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain may well find themselves locked in a cycle of decline.
The semiconductor cycle is alive and well, and is driven by capital spending.
Luma, meanwhile, offers up wireless adjustments to the device's intense flashlight module, letting you cycle through patterns as well as brighten and dim.
The idea is to design and make touchpads that fit anywhere and come in any shape and size--with lights, buttons or graphics underneath--as well as to shrink the design cycle.
He reckons that starting from current levels of volatility, eliminating the business cycle would increase average well-being by the equivalent of a fall in the unemployment rate of only 0.2 percentage points.
If the Bank does lower rates in August, this will mean that, at 4.75%, they peaked well below their high in the previous cycle of 6.0%.
"The financial instruments for the high-tech market cycle don't work as well in cleantech, " says Cleantech Group Managing Partner John Balbach.
As well as highly visible, uniformed foot and cycle patrols, PCSOs also make house visits to gather intelligence or CCTV footage.
In short it was a well-intentioned, gloriously efficient but endless cycle.
It points out, though, that there is little evidence things like the behaviour of the nitrogen cycle or the phosphate cycle in the Holocene were particularly well-suited to humans.
In fact the present warm period may well be at the top of a natural millennial cycle as previously occurred during Roman and Medieval times.
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As well as increased investment in buses, trains and cycle routes, it said widening roads, extending hard shoulders and improving junctions would help tackle congestion.
And being in thrall to the electoral cycle, they will remain vulnerable to well-aimed direct actions, unless they are prepared to adopt a tough stance and stick to it.
"He's quite unusual in his world, " says Robert Carsen, the director for whom Kinmonth has designed at least a dozen operas (most notably a widely acclaimed and well-traveled production of Wagner's Ring Cycle).
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Facebook is at a much different stage in its life cycle but could benefit from massive invention as well.
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Investor sentiment has become so overwhelmingly negative that it might well signal a contrarian call on the next bull market cycle.
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Nintendo hopes that the 3DS will help kick-start a new cycle of growth and also remind people that well-crafted games are still worth the money.
The 10 year life-cycle because that's what did so well for us in PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2, and if you have a strategy that's worked, you tend to stick with it.
As well as TransMilenio, he built more than 200km of cycle paths, a network of public libraries and got private schools to run new public schools in the poorer south of the city.
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Later, as Olam moved up the value chain, Verghese set up his own processing plants in India, Vietnam and Brazil, ultimately taking the full cycle of cashew production back to Nigeria as well.
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