The acquired digital signal was then processed by the software to extract two behavioral parameters: "distance moved" (in centimeters), as a measure of locomotion, and "time spent" (in seconds) in the compartments, which was used as raw data for preference/aversion scores in each sector of the apparatus of each subject [44].
Kettle is right to argue that the left is lost if it falls back on its 20th-century citadels – public sector unions and the apparatus of state employment – and ignores the worried savers and the middle salary earners who do not buy the thesis that ever-increasing taxation is a noble good.
These days, the nation's past is mostly apparent in its large and inefficient state-owned sector, a repressive state apparatus, the occasional Soviet-era statue or building and lingering alliances with other leftist countries.
Evoking economic crisis and the necessity for belt-tightening, the autocratic regimes used economic liberalization as an excuse to outsource welfare responsibilities to the private sector, while strengthening the internal security apparatus to quell all forms of political opposition.
Creative and innovative approaches to social and economic problems that are desperately needed, and are being worked on in the nonprofit sector, outside the party dominated governmental apparatus, can only thrive in the fresh air of a non-partisan political culture.
Government is more than one-third of the economy; its judicial and regulatory apparatus touches everything; the private sector depends almost entirely on the infrastructure of the public sector; and during times of crisis the state is private industry's life-support system.
During his tenure at the Pentagon, the United States embarked on an explicit program of 'roll-back' outsourcing and privatization intended to incorporate the logic of the private sector into the operations of the Pentagon apparatus... Rumsfeld's statements read like a manifesto for the neoliberal 'roll-back' of the largest bureaucracy in the US government.
After the initial confusion that follows any act of mass violence, the surveillance apparatus kicked in across several sectors.
The first one, the knowledge sector, is under the control of the state apparatus; the second is supposed to be expressed by the political process.
Rapid prototyping (RP) technology has been broadly used as design, working and master models in the industrial and medical sectors since 3D systems introduced a laser lithography apparatus into the market in the name of SLA.
