While it's always hard to pin down the exact origins of an idea -- especially one like pulse-code modulation, where a number of parties were involved -- sifting out the large and significant contributions from the gold pan of history tends to bring up the same names time and again.
On Tuesday, Saks will put its finger directly on the pulse of one of the most thrilling e-commerce experiences since the online auction: flash sales.
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Launched in 2010, Pulse is one of a growing number of publishers and platforms experimenting with so-called native advertising, in which ads replicate the form of content.
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After accepting an offer, but before day one, get a pulse on the corporate culture of the organization by taking a BRAVE approach: examine its behaviors, relationships, attitudes, values and environment.
Not one to set the pulse racing, Mr Jones conceded, but a sign, perhaps, that social media could be on its way to being a part of the everyday fabric of government.
This is the first step in becoming what we at Skimlinks like to call the marketing funnel master, the one who has a pulse on who arrives at your site, how that person accessed your site, and the levers you can pull to address drop-offs on the way to purchase.
However, last week's column on the prospects of the Livescribe Pulse was actually the penultimate one on the subject of smart pens -- at least two alternatives have entered the market.
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We noted one example of this in a past Legal Pulse post on the revitalization of the environmental justice movement.
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Ms Lee-Chun's show is Spinello Gallery's contribution to PULSE Miami Contemporary Art Fair, one of the many satellite fairs that take place this week alongside Art Basel Miami Beach, a monster exhibition that draws galleries from all over the world to network, mingle with the jet-set, and, vitally, to sell art.
In one experiment that Deisseroth shows to lab visitors, a pulse of light to the right side of a mouse's motor cortex makes the animal run in circles to the left.
It can then release the light it absorbs in quick bursts that last a few femtoseconds each (with one femtosecond lasting one millionth of one billionth of a second), which is what ultrashort-pulse lasers do.
There's at least one area where Sony has kept its finger on the consumer's pulse, and it's most apparent when you tally up the Ion's dearth of truly offensive bloatware.
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It used a proprietary magnetic-pulse welding process, for example, to develop a lightweight, one-piece aluminum driveshaft that improves fuel efficiency for both light vehicle and commercial truck customers.
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For the offense, one would utilize electronic jamming, electronic deception, directed-energy weapons, and electromagnetic pulse weapons.
And if, on top of the bright pulse, a smaller pulse of just the right type is sent, the detector can be forced to record a one or a zero.
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She said she's asked her staff why no one saw it coming, and she admitted that the U.S. doesn't seem to have a pulse on the Palestinian population.
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