We appear to be inching toward a concept advanced in 2004 by the writer Bruce Sterling, who hypothesized objects he called "spimes" — embedded with technologies that carry, collect and communicate data — becoming "the protagonist of a documented process".
For this review, which draws on and further develops concepts advanced in the literature (Pine et al. 2011; Ruiz-Mercado et al. 2011), IS adoption is defined to include both acquisition (stoves are purchased or installed without any reference to their later use) and initial adoption (use is assessed < 1 year from acquisition).
This concept has advanced in the sense that companies seek to develop this type of relationship.
It is true that in the United States, under our First Amendment, an individual cannot censor Web sites under a "right to be forgotten," the concept being advanced in the European Union.
A concept is advanced in which the early stage of the development of the Asian monsoon is seen as having two phases alternating at the precessional ca 21 ka cycle.
Here we propose a hypothesis/model based on recognised features of the cell to describe the epigenetic regulation of the mammalian cell as a system somewhat similar to the concept Delbrück advanced in 1949 [2], namely based on dynamic steady states and thermodynamically open.
47 Our National School of Tropical Medicine has key elements for tropical medicine R&D, clinical practice, and training, similar to a concept I advanced in 2008 when President Obama indicated his desire to close the detainee facility at Guantanamo.
He reconciles Darwin's concept of species with our current concept, which has advanced in important ways since Darwin first wrote the Origin, and he demonstrates why Darwin's theory unifies the biological sciences under a single conceptual framework much as Newton did for physics.
"It is common knowledge that miscellaneous doctrines such as evolution, socialism, Communism, secularism, humanism and other concepts are advanced in the public schools," Judge Hand wrote.
