I am not sure the family-owned KM Group really wanted to invest in local TV but, like other newspaper publishers faced with the possibility of new competition on its patch, it felt it couldn't afford to turn its back on the venture.
Agarwal and Gupta believe that India's top 20 cities have $4 billion in brokerage, so the company has its mind on expansion — but first of it all it wants to truly own its patch.
The maximum acceptance at which the herbivore should leave its patch is when it has depleted the current patch by the cumulative energetic cost of traveling, handling, cropping, and digesting.
For example, the client at time 219 seconds starts listening to its own patch stream (second dotted line) and the closest preceding transition patch stream (second dashed line), and when its patch is completed, it starts listening to the closest preceding regular stream (first solid line).
It isn't clear how the company can be so unsure of its plans, but I would interpret the range as indicative of AOL's hope that it can salvage some of its Patch sites that currently lose money.
If it takes ages, then the forager concludes that its patch is nothing special, and that most of the other forager bees must have had successful runs, too.
Evaluation of involves computation of hB'i, and this leads to computation of j Bi, where j2 = (1,2,..., N). j Bi is the sum over generations of the expected square number of descendants of an immigrant in its patch, and therefore in a neutral model it is proportional to relatedness (see eq. 37).
Next to it, the Lilas looks like a smart Kensington restaurant, its patch of pavement marked out by neat shrubs in rectangular pots.
