The first pathway involves incremental enhancement of relational value for existing supplier buyer relationships (Alpha).
But the business of governing, which involves incremental progress and endless negotiations, isn't a made-for-television event — unless your only idea of television is C-SPAN.
The development of unconventional plays tends to unfold in many stages, each of which involves incremental investment and a reduction in the geological uncertainty of the reservoir.
The classic scenario for use of defensive publications involves incremental inventions that are (i) covered by existing patent claims and (ii) not embodied in a product with potentially long-term marketability.
The newly proposed approach involves incremental Focused Ion Beam (FIB) milling of annular trenches at material surface, combined with high resolution SEM imaging of a previously deposited marker pattern.
This testing involves incremental physical exercise, up to the patient's maximal level (at which they are unable to do more, or become symptomatic).
This posture is relevant only in levels 2 through 4; it involves making incremental investments today that put a company in a privileged position, through either superior information, cost structures, or relationships between customers and suppliers.
Damage-controlled tests involved incremental loading unloading cycles with the stress at volumetric strain reversal (crack damage stress σcd) and elastic properties calculated for each successive cycle.
As observed in a previous study involving incremental and constant tests, power, V˙O2, RER, V˙E, and HR were all significantly lower in the upper and lower limbs of patients with COPD than in healthy controls.
"Every one of these services involve incremental costs, so a customer who's used to paying $20 a day to rent a car is not about to spend $7 or $10 a day to rent a GPS system," said Neil Abrams, president of the Abrams Consulting Group, which follows the car rental industry.
