Atwood's narrative sometimes seems overstuffed, but the novel affords an arresting perspective on the confluence of information, freedom, and security in the modern age.
Confluence of information suggested that magnetic biosensors required well-tailored magnetic particles as probes for detection that generate large and specific biological signal with minimum possible nonspecific binding.
Effective communications, including visual ones, emerge from use in the field, but no conventional visualization form has yet emerged for this confluence of information.
There was also an interaction among sense of agency, sense of ownership, and emotional events, which fits with the claim that self-perception will be processed hierarchically with multimodal areas processing the confluence of "self" information from different sensory systems and explaining away the surprising incoming sensory information from unimodal areas (Apps & Tsakiris, 2014).
Nodes no longer represent exclusively events of lineage divergence, but also the confluence of genetic information.
Or perhaps Lightman meant simply to write a novel that forcefully captures the great confluence of our times: information overload, unimaginable prosperity and spiritual bankruptcy.
Lightman, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is "a highly original and imaginative thinker," Abraham Verghese wrote here in 2000, and he "forcefully captures the great confluence of our times: information overload, unimaginable prosperity and spiritual bankruptcy".
But it is the confluence of the four that extends what we do with information technology.
Built up at the confluence of welfare, development and sustainability economics, the indicator has been designed to bring information about the wealth of nations and their sustainability, in a comprehensive way.
Positioned at the confluence of mathematics, biology, informatics, chemistry, and physics, cryptography and steganography represent the ultimate means for information protection.
In recent months, however, a confluence of activity by wireless equipment and network companies, Internet service providers and publishers of news and information have given momentum to various sorts of wireless Internet applications.
