"Real insight-led design can bring disruptive shifts in the way waste is collected, sorted and valued," she explains.
The swanky new centre sorts and values local rough stones and, by 2009, expects to sell $550m-worth of diamonds to the 16 carefully selected international firms that were required to set up shop in the country to be allowed to buy.
In the case of the diamond industry, this includes the sorting and valuing of rough diamonds and their subsequent cutting and polishing.
However, the advent of new technology not only makes the sorting and valuing process less labor intensive, but the ability to create specific diamond assortments enables cutting and polishing to happen paving the way for Botswana to become a more viable global competitor.
When using the Psim function to measure the similarity, the data component in every dimension must be sorted and the value range divided into several intervals.
In their method, after comparing three granulometric parameters (mean, sorting, and skewness values) of adjacent points, vectors of unit length (100 m) are drawn between two points if they satisfy the conditions (FB− or CB+).
Similarly, each function symbol is given a declaration of the sorts of arguments it requires and the sort of value it produces, and each relation has a declaration of the sorts of arguments it expects.
In many parts of Europe, prices still have a long way to fall to revert to that sort of value and there is lots of downward pressure.
While he greatly appreciates this sort of recognition, and values highly his long and close friendships with such artists as Isamu Noguchi and Alexander Calder, he makes it clear that in his own work aesthetics plays only an incidental role.
Both suggest the sort of stability and values that were left behind in a boom characterized by overly complex derivatives and a twisted version of capitalism that saw investors generally not take up their responsibilities as owners.
