Sentence examples for overt design from inspiring English sources

However, overt design comes at a cost, which this research suggests is reflected in less profitability in firms using overt design than in firms using silent design.

The findings also indicate that firms that use overt design (the opposite of silent design) tend to perform better than firms that use silent design in terms of attracting new customers.

It is possible that this relationship might have made it difficult for pharmaceutical companies to introduce overt design biases in randomised controlled trials using dose as a design factor.

With subtle intensity, Hoskins shows how Joseph is part predator, part victim: he does not have overt designs on young Felicia, but clearly wants something from her, something that he cannot explain to her, to us or to himself.

Instructions to the children included overt cues designed specifically to elicit durational and frequency changes.

Flourishes of overt sci-fi design are used sparingly.

Besides overt physical features designed by natural selection, animals also inherit central nervous systems designed to generate the behaviours needed to run those bodies.

Not that he has any overt agenda as a design evangelist.

An fMRI block design for overt picture naming was utilized which took advantage of the hemodynamic response delay where increased blood flow remains for 4 8 s after the task [(Friston, K.J., Jezzard, P., Turner, R., 1994. Analysis of functional MRI time-series. Hum. Brain Mapp. 1, 153 171)].

These killings were an overt act of terrorism designed to reassert white supremacy and to terrorize the black community.

Nine Inch Nails' 2006 tour merchandise designs featured overt references to the United States military, which Reznor said "reflect[ed] future directions".