The charge against Mr. Durán and his co-defendants has raised eyebrows in legal circles because they are not charged with espionage, but with conspiracy and with operating as agents of a foreign government, Venezuela, without first notifying the United States attorney general.
In this control scheme, a distributed pinning consensus control scheme is developed to control and manage the power sharing among different batteries operated as agents while convergence in consensus is achieved.
Alfredson's cross-cultural prowess makes me think of other "foreigners" whose insight into another culture has managed to operate as an agent révélateur (as in black-and-white film development).
The idea of modelling the active function in the cochlea was developed in the 1970s and early 1980s and comprises two basic aspects: (1) the normal cochlear function depends on an active, mechanical feedback processes, and (2) OHCs operate as the agent of feedback.
ICAP is funded by the largest multi-national beverage alcohol producers (including Anheuser-Busch InBev; Asahi Breweries; Bacardi-Martini; Beam Global Spirits & Wine Brown-Formann Corporation; Diageo; Heineken; Molson Coors; Pernod Ricard; and SABMiller) to operate as an agent for industry interests in global and national policy arenas.
They also find themselves increasingly encouraged to operate as "free agents," a popular phrase among consultants.
In an essay on "The Nature of the Firm", published in 1937, Ronald Coase, an economist who later won the Nobel prize, argued that the cost of transactions determined the boundaries of firms, making it more efficient for workers to band together in a company than to operate as separate agents.
It is supposed that the peculiarities of the corrosion and electrochemical behavior of the deposits under study can be attributed to the presence in them of chromium carbides, which operate as cathodic agents.
First, it shows that national states should not be seen merely as functional and institutional infrastructures across and through which policies circulate, since national state policymakers also operate as active agents of policy mobilization across space and scale, especially in contexts of strong, centralized governance.
The smugglers essentially operate as travel agents, selling itineraries tailored to the physical fitness of their voyagers.
For instance, rather than being forced into the trade, survival-sex participants mostly operate as independent agents within a vast peer network of people doing the same thing.
