Larsen and his colleagues used a similar idea in previous work looking at the relationship between a plant and a fungus.
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Add to the modern mindset the practical needs of a mobile workforce that will have more than 40% of its members telecommuting at least part-time by 2016, and the very idea of segregating work and home devices is a finite solution at best.
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While anybody can start a business, the success of that undertaking is going to depend on the quality of your idea, your willingness to work hard at it and the conditions of the local market.
Or you think you have an idea, one that could advance your career at work.
The idea of distributing work that way was unheard of at the time.
He has come up with an idea to share out the work that is available at the town hall: a jobs lottery.
Steve embodied principles which we need to believe are possible at this point in time: The idea that work and passion can go hand-in-hand.
"It's a good idea to keep a journal of how much you work at home, if you also have an outside office, " says Snapper.
The basic principle at work here is loss aversion: the idea that losing something has a stronger emotional impact than gaining something of the same value.
Much preparatory work has been done since the idea was accepted at a pan-American summit in Miami in 1994.
The idea is to work out the kinks of development and manufacturing at once so production can start as soon as the technology is perfected.
Also, I do not have children, so the idea to just quit work altogether and not have a career at all (or at least a project) made me feel guilty for my very existence.
What is suggested to be at work here is the concept of asperities - the idea that if you take two rough surfaces and rub them together, the peaks in one will couple with the troughs in the other, increasing friction.
At this point, you just want to know if your idea could work.
The idea famously has its roots in the work of Judah Folkman, a researcher at Children's Hospital in Boston.
Hwang, who came from humble intern beginnings at Google, has since worked on multiple doodles with the idea behind the work to celebrate the lives of celebrities (be it in the world of physics, philosophy, or pop culture), athletic events, holidays, and anniversaries.
Andrew Smith at the Department for Work and Pensions would like to sweep away the whole idea of a mandatory retirement age.
In addition, make sure you keep an eye on memory as you work, so you have an idea of how many programs you can run at one time.
But what does matter is you believe you have come up with THE BIG IDEA. The one that could make you a fortune, or make you a hero at work or in your community.
Their idea of wrapping up work early, in cities such as Tokyo, involves leaving the office at 9 p.m. instead of midnight.
His dad's idea of how to toughen up his only son was to insist that Robert not wear gloves at work in winter.
That work is still ongoing at MIT, but the pair left, with the idea of using the same silicon micromachining technology to build tiny "reformers" that could separate pure hydrogen from alcohol for fuel cells.
At some point around 2009, I made the seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time decision to use my personal Gmail account as my main address for work.
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Given the state of the art at the time, critics scoffed at the idea that these exotic, speed-of-light weapons could ever be made to work.
What Lanier describes as "mashup" culture -- where nothing is quite a whole work but rather snippets of things remixed together -- leads to aggregation of aggregators such as FriendFeed, where it's hard to tell the source of a work, idea, or quote, and where there is barely any context, if any at all.
With greater transparency and idea ownership, the employees at the bottom are empowered to get the kudos they deserve for creative ideas and hard work.
An idea of how it might all work was given a few days ago by Sarkis Meterissian, a cancer specialist at McGill University in Montreal, at a meeting of the American College of Surgeons in San Francisco.
When companies do poorly at innovation, and most do, they tend to throw every idea out onto the market, hoping something will work.
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That's a bad idea: Many personal email services do not offer the same sort of protection against malware and phishing that employees get at work.
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