Transformed Social Interaction: Decoupling Representation from Behavior and Form in Collaborative Virtual Environments.

Glau also guest starred as herself in the 2009 episode " The Terminator Decoupling " from the second season of the CBS situation comedy The Big Bang Theory.

Decoupling in advertising is the process whereby advertisers buy services direct from suppliers which were previously sub-contractors to their advertising agencies.

Decoupling is part of the unbundling of the services previously provided by traditional full service advertising agencies, which originally began with the creation of standalone media buying agencies such as Zenith from Saatchi & Saatchi Group in the ' 80's and Mindshare from WPP group in the ' 90's.

* Decoupling the build process from specific IDEs.

Decoupling the sender from communications sent was a fundamental advance of the Actor model enabling asynchronous communication and control structures as patterns of passing messages.

Decoupling means achieving higher levels of economic output with lower levels of material and energy input.

* Decoupling or filtering at critical points such as cable entries and high-speed switches, using RF chokes and / or RC elements.

* Two Curves, One Price: Pricing & Hedging Interest Rate Derivatives Decoupling Forwarding and Discounting Yield Curves, Bianchetti M., Risk Magazine, August 2010.

Decoupling lowers or minimizes Coupling.

Decoupling is used in the study of U statistics, where decoupling should not be confused with Hoeffding's decomposition, however.

Decoupling is discussed in " Magic and Logic " www. magicandlogic. co. uk, the booklet prepared for the Value Framework Steering Group which is a joint venture by the UK trade bodies CIPS, IPA and ISBA.

Drinking alcohol suppresses his anxiety, allowing him to speak ; however, this is a placebo effect, as seen in " The Terminator Decoupling ", in which he speaks to the actress Summer Glau while drinking beer that was, unbeknownst to him, non-alcoholic.

Many bacteria, however, possess mechanisms ( such as siderophores ) for scavenging iron within environmental niches in the human body, and experimental developments of iron chelators, therefore, aim to reduce iron availability specifically to bacterial pathogens.

From a mechanical viewpoint, up to 99 % of the energy delivered by the rider into the pedals is transmitted to the wheels, although the use of gearing mechanisms may reduce this by 10 – 15 %.

If overall limits on greenhouse gas emission are put into place, cap and trade market mechanisms are purported to find cost-effective ways to reduce emissions.

Research shows that quercetin influences cellular mechanisms in vitro and in animal studies, and there is limited evidence from human population studies that quercetin may reduce the risk of lung cancer.

The left is however divided over how to effectively and equitably reduce carbon emissions-the center-left often advocates a reliance on market measures such as emissions trading or a carbon tax, whilst those further to the left tend to support direct government regulation and intervention either alongside or instead of market mechanisms.

The results of the early major studies showed methadone could effectively interrupt illicit opioid use and reduce the associated costs to society, findings which have been consistent with later research and backed up by modern knowledge of the psychological, social and pharmacological mechanisms of illicit opioid addiction.

The Low-rate DoS ( LDoS ) attack exploits TCP ’ s slow-time-scale dynamics of retransmission time-out ( RTO ) mechanisms to reduce TCP throughput.

In each of these areas, the OMB's role is to help improve administrative management, to develop better performance measures and coordinating mechanisms, and to reduce any unnecessary burdens on the public.

In most cases, the mainsail isn ’ t changed while sailing, although there are mechanisms to reduce its surface if the wind is very strong ( a technique called reefing ).

Significant physical exertion on a very hot day can generate heat beyond a healthy body's ability to cool itself, because the heat and humidity of the environment reduce the efficiency of the body's normal cooling mechanisms.

It can be precipitated by medications that reduce vasodilation, sweating, and other heat-loss mechanisms, such as anticholinergic drugs, antihistamines, and diuretics.

* Yogic meditations reduce stress: practicing a form of chanting yogic meditation from a modern tradition of Kundalini Yoga for just 12 minutes daily for eight weeks led to a reduction in the biological mechanisms responsible for an increase in the immune system ’ s inflammation response.

In Canada, it entered service in 1981, and the carriages remain in use today, although the tilt mechanisms are being removed to reduce weight and maintenance costs.

Both mechanisms reduce the amount of recharge water that reaches the water table.

Data-link protocols specify how devices detect and recover from such collisions, and may provide mechanisms to reduce or prevent them.

The book illustrates both the problems of constructing a general " hereditary tree " for the entire human race, and some mechanisms and data analysis methods to greatly reduce these problems, thus constructing a fascinating hypotheses of the recent 150, 000 years of human expansion, migration, and human diversity formation.

Demand response may use pricing mechanisms or technical solutions to reduce peak demand.

Also, concerns regarding fossil fuel supply and urban transport high emissions of greenhouse gases in the context of climate change have renewed interest in congestion pricing, as it is considered one of the demand-side mechanisms that may reduce oil consumption.

Corporate governance mechanisms and controls are designed to reduce the inefficiencies that arise from moral hazard and adverse selection.

It helps subjects to reduce the intake of stimulants and stress in daily life by taking up a hobby or seeing a trained psychologist who can suggest coping mechanisms for stress.

Some systems provide mechanisms for sharing or allocation of costs of acquiring assets ( including intangible assets ) among related parties in a manner designed to reduce tax controversy.

Most tax treaties and many tax systems provide mechanisms for resolving disputes among taxpayers and governments in a manner designed to reduce the potential for double taxation.

The caper bush has developed a series of mechanisms that reduce the impact of high radiation levels, high daily temperature and insufficient soil water during its growing period.

A suppressor is usually a metal cylinder with internal mechanisms to reduce the sound of firing by slowing the escaping propellant gas and sometimes by reducing the velocity of the bullet.

In addition, many exercise physiologists study the effect of exercise on pathology, and the mechanisms by which exercise can reduce or reverse disease progression.

The development of stronger locking blade mechanisms for folding knives — as with the Spanish navaja, the Opinel, and the Buck 110 Folding Hunter — significantly increased the utility of such knives when employed for heavy-duty tasks such as preparing game or cutting through dense or tough materials.

designing the financial mechanisms of the economy in ways that will promote growth without inflation ; ;

The payment and settlement system and clearing mechanisms were reformed in 2004 through the BCEAO and offer RTGS and SWIFT access to banks, financial institutions, the stock exchange as well as the Central bank and special banks.

Thus former choose to focus on fiscal policy i. e., the relationship between expenditures and allocated revenues ( vertical imbalance ) while latter pay attention to regulatory or financial mechanisms i. e. the nature of intergovernmental transfers ".

In addition to these traditional health care financing methods, some lower income countries and development partners are also implementing non-traditional or innovative financing mechanisms for scaling up delivery and sustainability of health care, such as micro-contributions, public-private partnerships, and market-based financial transaction taxes.

* Boardroom failures: Boards of Directors, specifically Audit Committees, are charged with establishing oversight mechanisms for financial reporting in U. S. corporations on the behalf of investors.

With the addition of ' compliance ' mechanisms and financial rules, these issues took up most negotiating time in the Governing Body meeting.

However, some argue that the " old mechanisms of financial and administrative control " that zaibatsu once enjoyed have been destroyed.

Financial cryptography includes the mechanisms and algorithms necessary for the protection of financial transfers, in addition to the creation of new forms of money.

This view is challenged by a social democratic front which advocates the tempering of market mechanisms, and instituting economic safeguards in an attempt to ensure financial stability and redistribution.

The two main mechanisms for the delivery of financial services to such clients are ( 1 ) relationship-based banking for individual entrepreneurs and small businesses ; and ( 2 ) group-based models, where several entrepreneurs come together to apply for loans and other services as a group.

Generally, the variability in the cash flow will determine the size of the cash balance a business will tend to hold as well as the extent it may have to depend on such financial mechanisms as factoring.

Policies can be understood as political, management, financial, and administrative mechanisms arranged to reach explicit goals.

Mitigation options through the Kyoto mechanisms ( Emissions Trading, Joint Implementation, and CDM ) are of greatest near-term interest, not only because of the opportunities to obtain financial support, but also because expanded platforms for industrial biotechnology can address long-term sustainable development goals at the same time that they offer greenhouse gas ( GHG ) emission reductions.

The results of the models are typically necessary to obtain approval to proceed, and are factored into business plans, budgets, and other financial planning and tracking mechanisms.

Smart cards can be very cheap ( around ten cents ) and contain proven security mechanisms ( as used by financial institutions, like cash cards ).

# The costs of techniques used to mitigate the problems associated with using an agent — gathering more information on what the agent is doing ( e. g., the costs of producing financial statements ) or employing mechanisms to align the interests of the agent with those of the principal ( e. g. compensating executives with equity payment such as stock options ).

Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Eichenwald reported on the financial structure of al Qaeda, tracing the variety of funding mechanisms it used for its operations.

Many companies, particularly financial companies, manage and assess their risk through mechanisms other than the audit committee.