In some parts of the Middle East there are very conservative social patterns, which people seek to defend with great vigor.
Unilever, for instance, is using agent-based modeling software to analyze the purchasing and social patterns of 150, 000 customers who use Swiss online grocer LeShop.ch.
We have already come quite far in this respect in Norway, and social patterns and cultural codes have changed significantly over the last generation.
Zittrain posits a different kind of Internet with the tools and social patterns to encourage people's better instincts--not cheating folksingers out of their meager royalties, not believing words whose author is hiding.
That strategy remains highly consistent with social consumption patterns that revolve insight and perspective from knowledgeable individuals a trend we believe only intensifies in the rapidly emerging mobile world.
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Holder offers a strikingly alert and truthful account of how American social interaction follows patterns established some 50 years ago when the nation suffered the effects of Jim Crow and its mandate of legal separation of the races.
His observations led to important observations on patterns of social behavior in animals.
Effects can include a degraded physical environment, less predictable weather patterns, and social disruption leading to a loss of a sense of community, continuity, security and autonomy.
The implementation of key structural reforms is critical to strengthening growth and creating jobs, and promoting global rebalancing, such as policies that affect social safety nets and investment patterns.
Key themes of SD in the region include among other things poverty alleviation, citizenship, peace, ethics, responsibility in local and global contexts, democracy and governance, justice, security, human rights, health, gender equity, cultural diversity, rural and urban development, economy, production and consumption patterns, corporate social responsibility, environmental protection, climate change, prevention and adaptation, natural resource management, biological and landscape diversity.
Closed door offices spread out over multiple floors with a lack of social gathering places often create communication patterns that are equivalent to remote working.
Analytics and marketing applications-oriented software companies are today providing new solutions that enable marketers to target communications based on behavioral patterns revealed in data from social networks, customer loyalty programs, call centers or transaction histories.
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But it is at least arguable, as Mr Mandelson's counterparts on mainland Europe keep saying, that American dynamism requires an American toleration of the social dislocations that new technologies and new patterns of work bring in their wake.
What they will find is a richer experience that offers granular insight into fitness, sleep and food patterns, a real-time updating social feed, a dynamic emoticon, usage insights and access to a searchable caloric index.
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Adding another highly networked country like South Korea will be good for the service, especially as a potential test bed for new features or usage patterns since Asians use social networks differently from North Americans.
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Although many young Americans claim not to believe in the future of Social Security, it is hard to see their saving patterns changing accordingly.
"Today's generation of children are increasingly repeating worrying patterns of drinking, leading to damaging health and social consequences for them, their friends and their families, " Jez Bayes, the council's strategy lead, said.
Current development paradigms and economic patterns are responsible for many of the interlinked and growing social, environmental and economic crises facing the planet.
As migration patterns change, though (see article), expect to see rapid social and economic change across inland China.
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Examining years of research of their own and from others, the authors conclude that social networks, both offline and online, are crucial in understanding everything from voting patterns to the spread of disease.
Still more creative early-detection systems will begin to pull together illness information present in social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, allowing us to see changing disease patterns before they make the morning news.
Analyzing raw data derived from specially designed social sensing ID badges that collect quantitative data on human behavior, Waber began drawing out patterns to help predict outcomes in a variety of situations.
Waber went on to combine the data from the social sensing ID badges with other data sources -- e-mail and instant messaging patterns, phone logs, and meeting information and selected data features that related to job performance and satisfaction, and how people communicate and collaborate.
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