Life-long learning is an on-going process, which leads to "systematic acquisition, renewal, upgrading and completion of knowledge, skills and attitudes"; its success depends on learners' "increasing ability and motivation to engage in self-directed learning (SDL) activities" [ 1].
If you've ever come within an inch of that perfect getaway weekend to New England (which includes a bed and breakfast stay, a country drive and the systematic acquisition of countless homemade syrups, preserves and gewgaws you don't really need), then you know a covered bridge is a mandatory part of the package.
Our primary development goal was to support field acquisition in a systematic digital format and optimized for a varied range of (spatial) analyses.
The ramifications of the acquisition include the systematic dismantling of Sun's open source heritage, culminating with the lawsuit against Google over its use of Java on the Android platform.
The proposed method allows the orderly and systematic acquisition, under emergency conditions, of data that are useful for the management of a particular situation and for defining an initial cognitive state of the problem.
With the launch of the Advanced Land Observing Satellite ALOSS) in 2006, the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) took the initiative to implement the first global-scale systematic acquisition strategy for satellite sensors at fine and medium (2.5 20 m) spatial resolution.
It extends existing ISO GPS annotation by information about influences on the manufacturability of a chosen design solution and in this way enables the systematic acquisition of variation data meaningful for design practice.
This is for this reason that General Electric, which massively bought small companies in the 1990s, abandoned the systematic acquisition strategy, and in case they integrate small companies in their huge organization, they try to let them some autonomy to preserve their creativity (Laperche and Lefebvre 2011).
Cultural knowledge and understanding (gestures, choice of vocabulary) need to be married to actual language acquisition in a systematic way.
ASG, BAK, and KAP did the acquisition of funding, systematic search, and drafting of the manuscript.
