This means that the changes in relative prices somehow attenuated the shifts in technical coefficients in volume terms.
The shift in the technical ambience that those numbers imply is not subtle, said Seymour C. Himmel, a retired NASA official who recently left the agency's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel.
Improvements in pig-feeding technologies, which resulted in shorter periods from birth to pregnancy of female pigs, has been proposed as an important reason explaining the shift in transmission (Technical Appendix, supplementary reference 44).
A socio-technical transition is a set of processes that leads to a fundamental shift in socio-technical systems (e.g. [23,24]).
So, in jobs in which productivity is indexed to the shift in the technological frontier, technical change may encourage older workers to retire later.
Core to this perspective is a recognition that the status of these material phenomena is most usefully understood as a process – the process of bio-objectification – as opposed to a steady state, as shifts in socio-technical-material relationships change the phenomenon's status.
The addition of the words "and merlot-based blends" signals a significant shift in emphasis, Gilles Martin, the technical director, said in a telephone interview.
But this is all about to change — individual products and categories will be massively disrupted by a simple technical shift in mobile Safari, and organizations with a web presence will have to adapt or risk being put at a competitive disadvantage.
The biomedical sciences have undergone a fundamental shift in the conceptual and technical approaches that can be applied to certain problems of profound importance.
Finally, this approach would be consistent with the current thinking on the evolving role of UK aid, especially in the case of emerging powers such as India, where the focus has shifted from aid to investment in technical assistance and cooperation as a means of boosting bilateral business and trade.
