Burnishing alone can take up to six hours, Esquivel notes, pointing to shelves filled with stacks of binders that contain hundreds of proprietary step-by-step recipes to achieve varied colors and effects.
At Fleet, that means using a proprietary, seven-step fitting process that traces back to the chain's launch in 1993.
Following purification and quantitation, 5 μg ST-cDNA was fragmented and labeled with the FL-Ovation™ cDNA Biotin Module using a proprietary two-step fragmentation and labeling process.
The second proposal asked a different company to prepare a report (at a reasonable expense and omitting proprietary information) on steps the company is taking to foster greater diversity on its board.
To some extent, this API is becoming available in the form of scripting languages such as Python®, Visual Basic® and graphical versions such as Dynamo® or Grasshopper®, which are, albeit somewhat proprietary in nature, steps in the right direction.
However, the industry leaders considered such steps proprietary information for production and so the work towards successful strategies was not shared across the corporate competitors.
Mr. Le is well aware of this proprietary attitude and takes steps in his video — on which he collaborated with two Vietnamese artists, Phu-Nam Thuc Ha and Tuan Andrew Nguyen — to shake it up.
The methods are both straightforward and validated and do not require the use of custom enzymes, multiple (more than 2) proprietary primers, or PCR steps to complete the amplification.
But going with yet another proprietary connector is a step backwards, and the $29 price feels like a slap in the face to the company's long-time supporters.
Now Chloe+Isabel is taking its proprietary tech platform one step further with virtual trunk shows that allow sellers to connect with customers in different parts of the country at the same time using mobile devices.
