In any organization, once the beliefs and energies of a critical mass of people are engaged, conversion to a new idea will spread like an epidemic.
The theory of tipping points, which has its roots in epidemiology, is well known; it hinges on the insight that in any organization, once the beliefs and energies of a critical mass of people are engaged, conversion to a new idea will spread like an epidemic, bringing about fundamental change very quickly.
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Faber noted that Twitter has received expressions of interest from several technology or media companies and may receive a "formal bid shortly". Twitter is "engaged in conversions with potential suitors," he added.
It's beyond a stretch to interpret what Pence said as anything other than promoting "institutions" that engage in conversion therapy ― changing people's "behavior" to the point of not engaging in same-sex sexual activity.
Specifically, the leucine biosynthesis pathway was engaged in the conversion of key 2-keto acid intermediates.
"We need more companies engaged in the conversion of recyclables too, instead of shipping them out," he said.
Another, the Shanghai National Technology Transfer Center, has about 7,500 employees spread across laboratories, research institutes and offices in the region who are engaged in the "conversion" of foreign technology, including in microelectronics, lasers and nuclear technology, the authors wrote.
We found that that urban workers engaged in status conversion by building boundaries to demote status competitors, casting rural migrants' contributions as trivial and their competencies as deficient.
The city council engaged in the conversion of flats into offices and the eviction of residents as a way of doing away with the blight in the inner-city (City of Harare, [1988]).
It's that we're collectively engaged in a mass conversion of what we used to call, variously, records, accounts, entries, archives, registers, collections, keepsakes, catalogs, testimonies and memories into, simply, data.
