The research is part of Leonard's broader effort to study how flocks of birds or schools of fish synchronize their movements for a common goal such as finding food or avoiding predators.
Because it helps people synchronize their behavior with others.
The goal of our final project was to build a LED-based device running on a microcontroller chip to mimic how fireflies might theoretically synchronize their flashing in nature.
Immediately upon entering their new home, the housemates synchronize their overwrought emotional cycles.
Many families keep time both ways, unable to synchronize their watches.
Plus, they're herd animals, so they instinctively synchronize their movements with others.
Suppliers would synchronize their production schedules to real-time demand data.
But it is a small victory; the Mets have been unable to synchronize their offense and their pitching.
Mr. Houston of Dropbox said the service made it easy for people with ordinary, nontechie backgrounds to synchronize their files.
Various demonstrations are planned, but the students are harrassed by requests to synchronize their actions with foreign universities.
At the lowest level, speakers try to synchronize their vocalizations with their addressees' attention.
