Nike, for instance, devised the plan for Salazar to help pace Lance Armstrong at last year's New York City Marathon, envisioning it as a sideshow to the eagerly anticipated main event: Kastor and Keflezighi, two pre-race favorites, becoming the first American winners since Salazar's triumph in 1982.
The dev team behind Real Time Trains, for instance, devised a workaround based on using open data from another industry body, Network Rail, and "a lot of manual labour mapping signalling info", as developer, Tom Cairns puts it.
For instance, Pervouchine devised a dynamic programming algorithm to maximize the number of base pairs among interacting strands (Pervouchine, 2004).
ForeFlight, for instance, helps pilots devise and file flight plans, as well as provides maps, aeronautical charts, F.A.A. advisories, airport information and weather.
For instance, microarrays are devised based on a number of known genes and have limited power in detecting alternatively spliced genes.
For instance, Somali spazas will devise smaller servings of goods for cash-strapped shoppers; a small plastic pouch of sugar, say, instead of a 1kg bag.
If patients are alone at home and likely to forget midday medications, for instance, her team may devise a different schedule or prescribe a combined insulin dose in the morning, using a longer-acting formulation.
For instance, how can we devise the technology to drill oil five-thousand feet down in the ocean and not come up with the technology to plug the hole if something goes wrong?
From the conceptual point of view, different notions of planning problems can be devised: for instance, a plan might either guarantee goal achievement, or just have some chances of success.
Although strategies to deal with this phenomenon have been devised (for instance, GMA in [ 10]), none can provide a guarantee that shifting is completely eliminated.
