According to Cornish, 'futuring' can help "guide communities and organisations to a successful future" in the sense of guiding synchronised actions on a common road towards an aspired vision of the future, which is broadly shared in the community.
The political pressure resulting from networks, alliances and co-operation with external actors helps create wider change in pastoralist societies, with the associated capacity building, awareness raising and economic support 'allowing for parallel, synchronised actions in an entire region' (IUCN [2011]).
Picking out the role of Twitter, Facebook, Skype and mobile messaging, a contract for the project states: "The events of the Arab spring, the London student protests or the summer 2011 riots in English towns and cities show the importance of understanding synchronised collective actions driven by online interactions".
The Glasgow University phonetics expert, who was principal investigator on the project, added: "The only resources that we had to work with up to this point were static diagrams and models that break the vocal tract up into sections and provide a fragmented view of what are really synchronised, dynamic actions of the vocal organs".
In principle, industry consolidation makes it easier for firms to synchronise their actions.
For example, Jerdon's jumping ant (Harpegnathos saltator) is able to jump by synchronising the action of its mid and hind pairs of legs.
Instead they have been rewritten, and carefully synchronised to the action, by internet jokers evidently with time on their hands.
The work takes up the entirety of PICA's downstairs gallery and, as you enter the space through a black curtained doorway, you're greeted with five massive screens that blend and bleed together synchronised animations, live action sequences and texts.
The repertoire of behaviour involves synchronised performances of various actions such as preening, pointing, calling, bill clacking, staring, and combinations of such behaviours (like the sky-call).
A fundamental question that arises, since the total work performed during the entire movement cycle must be equivalent regardless of whether the weight of the hand is normal or inverted, is why it is critical in terms of enhancing the stability of coordination that the phase of the action that is synchronised with the environmental stimulus (i.e. the metronome) is assisted by gravity.
The depolarisation and repolarisation are synchronised in each chamber, and thus, the action potentials from each fibre summate, producing a signal that is large enough to be measured at the surface of the body.
