Costa Rica's Earth University pioneered a new teaching model that focuses on training young people to create enterprises.
"We're worried about a tourism model that focuses on quantity, quantity, quantity," said José Luis Zoreda of the organisation.
Many fundamental investors have stuck to a three-factor model that focuses on company book values, size and market risk.
Resources: The VidaGas project by Villagereach is a good example of a hybrid model that focuses on both for-profit and public sector product delivery.
Which system is better: a European model that encourages equality, creativity and a healthy lifestyle, or an Asian model that focuses on technical skills and concrete results?
Dr. Kaufman is president of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, a nonprofit organization based in Beaverton, Ore., that two years ago began endorsing a prevention model that focuses on offenders.
It is emphasised that assessment processes will need to look at people's aspirations and capacities, and not just apply a "deficit" model that focuses on what people cannot do.
The first part is a binary model that focuses on the separation between users and nonusers.
It is a dynamic model that focuses on persistence despite changes in, and unpredictability of, a system's properties (King 2008).
For that purpose, the author proposes a distinct model that focuses on and stresses an orientation toward emphasizing solutions.
We develop a panel-data model that focuses on the hurricane states observed over the period 1910 2005.
