This is not the way we read the intentions of the E.P.A. administrator, Lisa Jackson, who has promised that whatever regulations she proposes will be gradual, cost-effective and affect only the largest facilities.
Referring to second minimization, the proposed method offers a gradient descent method to update the F which guarantees gradual reduction of cost function J and convergence to a local minimum [22].
Its gradual growth, low cost and target audience has placed the operating system is in a unique position: By offering Chromebook laptops for as little as $150, the platform is a perfect low-cost option for emerging markets and first-time computer buyers.
The fact is that iWork for Apple is something to dangle at potential customers, which gives it an advantage over Microsoft, which still has to derive revenue somehow from Office, despite a gradual decrease in cost to access for Redmond's productivity software.
A gradual change from cost pricing to value-based pricing may provide a scientific and rational drug pricing policy for off-patent originators.
In the 1960s, the gradual decrease of costs for diisocyanates and other chemical precursors contributed to the market expansion of the PU coatings [14].
As shown in Figure 12a, in cases where only code is partitioned, a gradual increase in costs for machines on-premise eventually results in the algorithm pushing more code to the cloud to the point where all code is in the cloud and all data is on-premise.
Due to the gradual introduction of cost-sharing from 2005 (during the period under study), we compared results from before and after January 1st 2005.
Initial steps by the government to develop a viable industry and knowledge on afforestation, and the gradual refinement of cost-effective planting techniques, provided some indirect incentives.
That, plus a gradual decline in the cost of solar, will close the price gap between conventional and solar-generated electricity by 2014 or 2015, he predicted.
