Examples of where this could be applied range from supermarket checkout lanes to the movie box office.

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Significantly, it proposes that internal ratings, which were originally to be used only by a few internationally active banks, should be applied to a wider range of financial institutions.

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But today, his software-first perspective can be applied to an ever-growing range of businesses.

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As a result, the range of products to which evolutionary-design principles are being applied is growing.

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Yet their valuation scores relative to the market range from a high of just the 52nd percentile for Xilinx down to the 7th percentile for Applied Materials.

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