Ms. Lauper, a mid-1980'starar who briefly gave Madonna a run for her money, has settled easily into the mini-niche of fair-haired rockers in the bohemian tradition of Deborah Harry, the first blond bombshell to flaunt an ironic sense of herself as a real-life animated character.
We obtained a raster map of habitat resistance by subtracting one minus the niche suitability values from the logistic output (ranging from 0 to 1).
Other companies — Verizon, for example — have already marketed their mini-towers for niche use to customers in places with limited cellphone signals, like basements or homes with particularly thick walls.
The survival story is up for 12 Oscars, but if there was one for historical headgear worn in minus-degree weather (a niche category, we'll admit), he'd definitely win.
I already have five tablets in my single-person household, including all three previous generations of iPads and a Google Nexus 7. I thought the mini would fill a small niche in my tablet needs, such as controlling my TiVo or Sonos system.
Industry analysts expect mini-notebooks to remain a niche category, especially in the United States and Western Europe, where many people can afford to spend a few hundred dollars more for a bigger and speedier portable machine while using a smartphone or other device as an adequate substitute.
That said, there are probably mini-Oprahs in whatever your niche you operate in.
The point is that Hint has found a market niche in the mini-fridges of tech companies in Silicon Valley and beyond.
Despite lacking testis-specific topography, these mini-tissues harbored spermatogonia and their important niche cells, which retained specific functionalities during long-term culture.
We're working around TiVo's limitations simply because they are going through mini-evolutions in hopes of grabbing some niche audience that may or may not exist.
Last week Ning, a Palo Alto, CA, startup cofounded in 2004 by online marketing executive Gina Bianchini and Netscape founder Marc Andreesen, launched a free Web application for creating and customizing boutique social networks–in effect, mini-MySpaces, or "social niche-works," as some are calling this new genre.
