The disconnect between the established esteem of Savile Row and the youthful upstarts who have something more urgent to communicate is fractious to say the least, and the tension that has been slowly simmering in the world of menswear has suddenly come to the boil thanks to a packed schedule that has split the attention of the industry.
"The World Year of Physics 2005 and the International Year of Planet Earth in 2008 involved both public outreach events and supporting new research, but this split the attention and funding, making it difficult to create an impact in either area," Russo says.
Sweller et al. (1990 217) extend this idea with reference to redundancy and what they call the split attention effect.
His particular style of jazz-influenced blues guitar and showmanship, which included playing the guitar behind his neck and while doing the splits, brought him to the attention of Capitol Records.
Federal judges in New York and San Francisco were considering other requests to block enforcement of the new law, on a day in which both sides in the debate over abortion split their attention between the political and judicial arenas.
At a dinner I attended with senior government advisers, there were a lot of murmurs about the split between the United States and Europe and the attention it was generating at the studios of Al Jazeera just a few miles away.
Because the novices randomized to the prepackaged kit did not have to concentrate on the active selection of additional items required for the insertion procedure, the use of the prepackaged kit represented the split-attention principle, resulting in the reduction of cognitive load.
The friends, who met while at Harvard Business School, decided to explore the idea after they hired help from Craigslist to assist with their own laundry and grocery shopping, splitting the cost and attracting the attention of acquaintances in the process.
In other words, learners are forced to split their attention between the agent's numerous visual elements (i.e., exaggerated gestures and facial expressions) and other information in a multimedia learning interface (i.e., text and diagrams).
As adults, we tend to split our attention by worrying about the past or the future while completely missing the magic of the moment.
The informal tally bodes poorly for the mayor, who must now split his attention between swaying undecided members of the State Assembly, where opposition up to now has been loudest, and assuaging concerns among council members.
