The answer can be found in the perceived riskiness in each activity.
If the marginal benefit of each activity decreases in the presence of the other activity, then chances are they aren't worth pursuing together.
The Google Cities flu tracker ranks influenza activity in each metropolis as low, moderate, high, or intense.
Searchspace runs the data through its clients' servers, comparing the activity in each account with the "normal" behavior for that account.
Then they divided the whole brain into small sections with a three-dimensional grid and recorded the activity in each section of the grid for each second.
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The snapshot of activity in each Fed region showed positive growth in 10 of the central bank's 12 districts, helping extend gains driven earlier by encouraging news on manufacturing, productivity and jobs.
And each activity people participated in was linked to an additional 8% reduction in risk.
Just one square inch, the chip contains 2, 056 microvalves that can selectively mix reagents together (in this case to test for the activity of a particular enzyme in a bacterium) in 256 reaction chambers, each one holding less than one-billionth of a liter of fluorescent dye.
Each online activity has an energy price tag in the cloud.
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On Super Bowl Sunday--one of the few times each year when the nation is united in a singular activity--the TV becomes the central feature of the household, and the country.
Slideshare users can also manage collections of presentations, documents, videos, etc. and watch the activity and comments for each file, in addition to other common social business features such as tagging content, following other users, sharing by email, and tracking how many people like or reshare the document.
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This is the idea that you can create a point system, levels, achievements and competitions to any kind of activity to encourage people to engage in the activity on some level, or even to compete with each other.
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Each has strengths and weaknesses and thus to monitor influenza activity in the United States, the CDC runs both a syndromic system (called ILInet, short for Influenza-like Illness network) and a virologic system (part of a larger system called NREVSS).
The 2011 GEM report is based on a survey of 140, 000 adults in 54 economies, including 6, 000 just in the U.S. Researchers looked at responses from a random sampling of participants, as well as population data for each of the countries represented, to draw conclusions about entrepreneurial activity in those nations.
We continue to enjoy strong design win activity and market share gains, but each of those wins tends to bring in less revenue than during better times.
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So far, however, there is little evidence that these various regulators, each concerned with a different type of financial activity, have learnt to collaborate effectively in overseeing gigantic companies with global reach.
Yagan said that the number of users signing up on a daily basis is up 60 percent, and that activity on the site, in terms of the number of messages sent and searches performed each day, has doubled over the past year.
Options on Kors are abuzz with after-earnings activity, with around 3.6 call options changing hands for each single put option in play.
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Results from a survey of 60 business schools -- 58 of them in the United States and one each in France and Canada -- conducted earlier this month found that 98% had seen increased recruiting activity during the fall and winter recruiting period compared to the same time a year before.
In the years 2000, 2001, and 2002, petitioner conducted trading activity on just 29 percent, 7 percent, and 8 percent of the possible trading days in each year, respectively.
The company said Facebook Exchange, which debuted in September and helps marketers target customers in real time by matching browser activity to the ads they see on Facebook, serves about one billion ad impressions each day from more than 1, 300 advertisers.
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