It has overhauled its management structure, tightened its financial controls, expanded its financial reporting, started paying dividends and abandoned the high-tech currency of stock options in favor of risk-free grants of shares to employees.
These findings are supported by anatomic studies [25] on length change patterns of the MPFL, suggesting that the retinacular structures tighten in the extended knee and slacken as it flexes.
Mr. Volcker may try to change that structure -- tightening the links in Andersen's chain of command, bringing more senior executives to one location and relying less on conference calls and e-mail messages to keep everyone in touch, according to the people who have spoken with him.
In this paper, we propose (i) a compact tree structure for capturing uncertain data, (ii) a technique for using our tree structure to tighten upper bounds to expected support, and (iii) an algorithm for mining frequent patterns based on our tightened bounds.
By tightening the structure of the problem with this formulation, we have extended the solvable solution space from problems with nine departments to problems with eleven departments.
In a tweet, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla). said that at the time the structure collapsed, workers were tightening cables that had become loose.
For the next twelve hours, Naomi continued to rapidly intensify, with feeder bands flowing into a tightening spiral structure in the center of the storm.
When a person is turned on their side, the muscles change their structure, some loosening, some tightening, work on the loose muscles deeper and slowly, concentrating and clearing those areas.
During this era, France saw a tightening of social structures, with a lower class steeped in overwhelming poverty.
Second, by tightening Microsoft's management structure, Nadella stands a chance of making the company faster and more able to adapt to technological change.
