Sentence examples for concept of frontier from inspiring English sources

The concept of frontier expansion, and the related change of the role of secondary forest in the landscape, typical for colonization areas, does only partly apply to this environment.

Van Gennep (1960) also developed the concept of frontiers associated to margins.

On the contrary, say others: in a globalized era, new money defies old concepts of frontiers or nationalities.

Thus, the concept of commodity frontier incorporates two spatial dimensions, a 'space-of-place' and a 'space-of-flows' ([23]: 412).

The concept of resiliency frontier is presented as an upper bound for system resiliency for a given set of possible restoration prioritization strategies.

For O2 reduction, for the oxidation of l-cysteine and of 2-mercaptoethanol when activity (as log k) is compared along the transition series volcano-shaped curves are obtained, which illustrates the concept of 'tuning' frontier orbital energies for maximum reaction rates.

Based on the theoretical finding that the proposed PRP, which is a single-objective optimization problem, can be re-formulated as a dual-objective optimization problem, we develop a solution technique that utilizes the concept of efficient frontier to identify and search the most promising area of the solution space.

To this end, we consider whether the market is Pareto efficient or optimal[ 45], using the concept of Pareto frontier; this will be later used to analyze the U.S. healthcare arena.

"There is no concept of maritime frontiers in the EU regulations," he told reporters after meeting Erkki Tuomioja, the foreign minister of Finland, which holds the EU presidency.

In this paper, we use concepts from political ecology to analyse the expansion of biofuel crops, which we describe using the concept of "commodity frontiers".

Firstly, we present the conceptual and analytical framework to operationalize the concept of commodity frontiers used in this paper, and describe briefly the data collection methods.