A literature review shows that these elements are very common in current scientific literature; many authors define a business model in terms of four elements [e.g. 26 28]: (1) value proposition, (2) customer interface, (3) infrastructure, and (4) revenue model.
Table 3 in turn characterizes these episodes in terms of five elements: (1) macroeconomic performance, (2) openness to international trade, (2) technological change and physical capital accumulation, (3) unions and labor institutions, and (5) social protection.
This concept provides the representation of a multi-element system in terms of two key elements, light key and heavy key elements.
We can calculate ζ ̃ k which is the average relative phase between two consecutive elements of a ̃ ( θ k ) in terms of two corresponding consecutive elements of u ̃ k as follows ζ ̃ k = ∑ μ = 1 M - 1 ∠ u ̃ k, μ + 1 u ̃ k, μ M - 1 (49).
In the overall model, compressor components are analyzed in terms of nine different elements.
In this context, the central concept is operationalized in terms of four structural elements: teaching style, learning style, assessment and management style of educational activities, intending to reveal a conditionality between theese and the academic preparation of students.
All religious experience can be described in terms of three basic elements: first, the personal concerns, attitudes, feelings, and ideas of the individual who has the experience; second, the religious object disclosed in the experience or the reality to which it is said to refer; third, the social forms that arise from the fact that the experience in question can be shared.
It is possible to analyze the rite of sacrifice in terms of six different elements: the sacrificer, the material of the offering, the time and place of the rite, the method of sacrificing, the recipient of the sacrifice, and the motive or intention of the rite.
The analysis shows that the countries' activities differ in terms of three general elements: whether the government's various activities are coordinated or autonomous, whether the business community is significantly involved in the design and running of the initiatives, and whether the implementing institutions focus on single or multiple missions and innovation types.
We describe how a generic multi-period optimization-based decision support system can be used for strategic and operational planning in a company whose processes can be described in terms of five fundamental elements: Materials, Facilities, Activities, Times and Storage-Areas.
