Recalling the informal use of 'smart' described earlier, one might say that a technology is smart if and when it is effective, efficient, innovative, engaging, flexible, and so on.
In the face of unprecedented challenges of upcoming fossil fuel shortage and reliability and security of the grid, there is an increasing interest in adopting distributed, renewable, energy resources, such as microgrids (MGs), and engaging flexible electric loads in power system operations to potentially drive a paradigm shift in energy production and consumption patterns.
Legacy in Continuum: Bay Area Figuration, on view at the Bakersfield Museum of Art from March 22 through May 27th is an exhibition that demonstrates the continuing impact of a very engaging, flexible style.
I see local groups of engaged, flexible GPs providing vital support, and indeed a boost, to the ever increasing demands on practices.
Just as physical activity is essential to maintaining a healthy body, challenging one's brain, keeping it active, engaged, flexible and playful, is not only fun.
The attributes associated with being smart (being adaptive, effective, efficient, engaged, flexible, thoughtful, etc).
Mindfulness training in this treatment does not serve to decrease stress but rather to practice acceptance of aversive inner experiences while engaging in flexible and more functional behavioral responses to these experiences, similarly to how it is used in ACT and DBT [ 37, 38].
Theresa May gave a speech about the gig economy this morning that was as much about her own unstable job situation as it was about Britain's army of precarious workers – or as she would likely put it, "people welcoming the opportunity to engage in flexible work".
ABM achieves that by decomposing the problem in terms of entities that engage in flexible high-level interactions [ 9, 24, 28, 38].
We did not mean to imply that there is necessarily one discrete binding mode but rather believe that avidity plays a significant role in complex assembly, using multiple binding modes that engage different flexible NESs and possibly different forms of the Rev oligomer.
It would appear therefore, that online learning was useful not merely used as a means for transmitting information, but helping students to engage in flexible, learner-centred teaching which encouraged greater interaction amongst those undertaking the blended learning variant (Ellaway and Masters 2008).
