Mostly he is tracing patterns of attachment, sexual or familial, between lives in any city, showing fleeting moments of connection.
Highways might have sensors that instantaneously measure traffic speed and spot areas of congestion simply by tracing patterns of cellular-phone use.
You can trace patterns of influence and common themes with Alasdair Gray, James Joyce or Margaret Atwood; but nothing approaches the completeness of Hoban's invention in Riddley Walker.
Their focus is specifically on text collections: comparing texts, getting a sense of style and theme similarities, and tracing patterns of language use.
They were crucial for tracing patterns of reproduction — determining which men had the most offspring or how many had wives from other villages.
Officials at other American intelligence agencies, like the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, have explored using link analysis to trace patterns of communications sometimes two, three or four people removed from the original targets, current and former intelligence officials said.
By tracing patterns of interaction among the elements of a system, one can sometimes discover emergent properties at a higher level.
Multiple research projects are tracing patterns of environmental change to climate change and using predictive models to give a glimpse of future rates of change and resultant effects on the vegetation and animals.
Instead of starting from a subject of suspicion and placing that person within a map tracing patterns of behavior and networks of associates, it becomes feasible to begin with the whole map and derive the subjects of suspicion from the patterns one finds.
Improvements to the main building's exhibition space also include a digital "flag of faces" — photographs of immigrants that people can submit online — and a giant globe that will trace patterns of immigration through history.
"A Lie of the Mind" may be the most poetically coherent of Mr. Shepard's works, and an English student could have a field day tracing patterns of imagery (mummies, suffocation, the inside versus the outside, acting).
