But technology is doing more than merely enriching and augmenting the value of physical places.
These range from the number of calories burned in sexual activity to the value of physical education classes to the notion that burning 3, 500 extra calories leads mathematically to a one-pound weight loss.
Because grain could be standardized, its values could be abstracted to finance, forming the basis of the futures market which fairly quickly outgrew the value of the physical markets.
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Kilbourne and other leaders in media activism appear in Miss Representation along with Jane Fonda, Rosario Dawson, Condoleeza Rice, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Gloria Steinem and Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker to make the argument at the heart of the media activist movement: society measures a woman's value by her physical attractiveness and not in her capacity for leadership.
The value of the UK's physical books market fell by nearly 5% over the course of 2012 in value terms, according to market researchers at Nielsen Bookscan.
Works of graphic and plastic art are objects whose value is tied to their physical form.
And that crisis in the value of paper money makes physical possession of gold a no brainer.
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Physical book sales saw a drop in value, dipping 0.4% year on year.
Technology and networks have not at all replaced the value of getting together in physical locations for the sparks of creativity that doing so creates.
Still others prefer to look at the value of a firm's physical assets (such as buildings and equipment).
It also ignores the considerable value of services derived from the physical, biological, and chemical processes in natural ecosystems, including nutrient recycling, flood risk reduction, water cleaning and storage, climate regulation, and maintenance of biodiversity.
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The core issue involves a trading strategy that industry veterans say has actually been globally commonplace: an artificial depression of next-day physical energy prices in order to increase the value of separate financial contracts.
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There are also some recent ETFs that I have heard physical gold bugs saying they are more comfortable with, including Central Gold Trust (GTU) , which now sells above its net asset value (NAV) and Sprott Physical Gold Trust (PHYS), which also trades above its NAV.
Governments are now competing with each other to attract the financial, physical, and human capital necessary to nourish high value-added, innovation-driven, 21st century economies.
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Not only do many people enjoy the tactile process of reading physical newspapers or magazines, but they offer the secondary value in helping to kindle fires, housebreak puppies, pack dishes, and line birdcages.
So we have both fundamentals and contrarian signals at maximum value coupled with smoke from the exchanges and massive physical demand.
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The judge concluded that the media hordes and "looky loos" were a nuisance but caused only minor physical damage and a temporary decline in the house's value.
Leeds is bringing on five full-time developers to build an app that will plant a bar code on smartphone screens that can be scanned in lieu of a physical gift card--finally separating the card's value from its plastic delivery vehicle.
That trait comes from a combination of bravery including of the physical sort intellectual self-confidence, and a bedrock value system, rooted in the heart as much as the mind.
Amazon was altering the perceived value of e-books just as it had with physical books, and this particular demonstration of predatory behavior worried publishers for a couple of reasons.
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In much the same way that consumers tend to reduce the number of cards in their physical wallets down to the key brands that deliver them the most value, mobile wallets will live or die on the utility they provide.
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The process included physical verification, weighing, measuring, length, status, nature, value, provenance, description and digital photography of each object.
To find out if executive exams give you value for the money, I signed up for a deluxe physical at CHLI.
Many products and services are created along supply chains that travel from idea conception to final consumption and that include value-added activities of varying degrees of labor-, physical capital-, and intellectual capital-intensity.
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Asked why, 75% said Netflix is a good value for the price, 61% liked the bundle of physical DVDs and streaming movies and 53% said they like the ability to watch on multiple devices.
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Physical brick and mortar branches, once a staple in the traditional banking model, are now losing value in this era of hi-tech banking products.
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This new gift card service is more about stored value, which is seemingly low-hanging fruit for Facebook compared to the work of actually shipping physical products.
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