Before it headed toward Mount Sharp, Dr. Grotzinger's team decided to send Curiosity on a detour to investigate terrain that looked to be an intriguing confluence of three different rock types.
It's pretty different from Palantir, he says, which was engineering-driven, while Pinterest is a confluence of multiple different roles working together at the same level.
It's the confluence of four different trends: bring your own device, the rise of SMS, the rise of mobile and associated tablets and the cloud".
According to Seif, the "fear of flying is really a confluence of many different fears".
Interestingly, Colorado represents a confluence of several different refugial lineages (Latch et al. 2009), with recolonization routes and so-called hybrid hot spot clusters falling directly in northwestern Colorado (Swenson and Howard 2005).
In the years since these movements and the confluence of different cultures have facilitated conflict to be sure, but they have also engendered artistic, philosophical, scientific innovations- advances made possible when diverse peoples enriched each other's perspectives.
The confluence of activists of different generations, and the lively debates between them, created new alliances and, with the eventual release of some of the younger leaders, reinvigorated A.N.C. networks.
With a few exceptions, handset makers are starting to feel the pain of stagnation, due to a confluence of different forces.
Indeed, the Pentagon agency is seeking what it calls the "elegant confluence" of different engineering designs and approaches to a VTOL aircraft. .
Canalys' Hattie He notes that a confluence of different elements have potentially put the country on track overtake the U.S. "Alibaba and Xiaomi have both relied on aggressive price cuts to create demand," He adds.
