The idea, patterned after a similar arrangement for health plans that sell Medicare drug benefits, is to balance out insurers' costs by requiring those with unexpectedly low expenses to pay into a fund that would be used to compensate companies with unexpectedly high expenses.
The idea, patterned after — who else? — Microsoft in getting its Office software onto 75 million screens, is to build on the satisfaction of early adapters to license thousands of others.
The first section of the course examines a series of potential "macro-societal" influences, including economic development, political culture and ideas, patterns of interest group regulation and interaction with government, feedback effects from past policy choices, and globalization.
In this broad review of CNMAT's activities, networks and agency I will focus on enduring ideas, patterns and influences and point to active projects around the world that typify the experimental, multidisciplinary approach CNMAT explored.
But even though the two men love to travel and explore new cultures in search of adventures, ideas, patterns and motifs, anyone who knows them will tell you that Lewis and Clark they are not.
He is all about ideas, patterns and possibilities.
To overcome barriers to good health it is important to get a deeper understanding of underlying ideas and thought patterns that shape behaviour (7, 9).
This idea-pattern may be as much part of his work, and deserving of copyright protection, as the brushstrokes, pencil-lines, etc.
The students had no idea what patterns their brain was sensing or how well they were performing.
But Wright had an even bolder idea: the patterns themselves might provide a ready-made signature for cancer.
