The Nissan spot uses real dolls, photographed frame by frame at a cost of more than $1 million, double the budget of a regular Nissan commercial, according to TBWA Chiat/Day.
The logarithm of the cosine distance, as in the B-L2F-Four phone log-likelihood ratio feature + DTW-based fusion QbE STD system, is employed as a distance metric between a query and an utterance frame to build a cost matrix.
Mr. Breuer, he pointed out, built his first two houses on the Cape out of plywood and framing — for a cost of $5,000, for both houses.
Historically, the argument has been framed as a cost benefit analysis between the consequences to Whites denied admission to an institution because of Affirmative Action policies versus the benefits to historically underrepresented minorities admitted in their stead.
The less obvious problem, I suspect, is that those who favor such programs in this country often frame it as a cost issue.
Efforts taken to reduce loss in such endangered biomes are important, but the question remains: how to achieve impacts at scale in the necessary time frame and at a cost that is feasible.
Businesses are realising that the cost of inaction is greater than the cost of action - CEO of Unilever Paul Polman at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change's Annual Lecture, Imperial College London, 7 April 2014 Calls for action are growing - but still frame action as a cost or burden that will hamper business and act as a drag on the economy.
The optimization problem is solved approximately for each frame by minimizing a cost function representing the increase in power needed when increasing the number of users or the modulation order.
To a human observer, the females' desperate efforts to shake off the mounted male appear to reflect a premium for keeping matings within a certain optimal time frame or, conversely, a cost from matings that last longer than required from their own perspective.
In a speech before a small gathering of supporters back in May 2009, Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul elaborated on his proposal to build an underground electronic fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, framing it as a cost effective and even respectful way of stopping the flow of illegal immigrants.
