Whatever label you prefer, the concept of cities utilizing information and communication technologies (ICT) to create connected communities is an increasingly popular one, gaining more and more attention from city planners and urban developers.
Some scholars prefer the concept of 'incorporation' in an attempt to sidestep the politicization and put the emphasis on the different modes of incorporation (see Glick Schiller et al., 2006), but the term ultimately faces similar operationalization dilemma.
Hamler says it may also look at licensing its technology (via an API) to publishers so they could add its 'scan and tag' function within their own apps — but he says those publishers it has talked to so far seem to prefer the concept of a standalone, independent service, which offers the chance of bringing in new readers, not just serving an existing readership.
We prefer the concept of the quality-adjusted life years (QALY), which offers a general summary of population health outcome.
He is against Sarkozy's recent calls for "assimilation", in which everyone must lose any trace of their roots to be French, and prefers the concept of "integration".
This is also the reason why we have preferred the concept of open-source and printable," says Naohiro.
"Maybe it's a middle-class British hang-up, but I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion".
I prefer the older concept of patronage, which is less about a calculation of likely profit for the sponsor, and more about a genuine conviction that it is the responsibility of the wealthy to help preserve the good things in society.
Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism (Chinese philosophy) prefer the abstract concept of God.
The Union of Concerned Scientists, an American ginger group critical of most real-world nuclear programmes (though not of the technology per se), prefers the safety concept of the EPR, with its multiple back-ups.Proponents of generation III reactors, which is to say pretty much the entire nuclear establishment, think with some reason that they would have fared much better at Fukushima.
