Sentences with phrase «ubiquity as»

There are signs that we will soon be exhausted by the Anthropocene: glutted by its ubiquity as a cultural shorthand, fatigued by its imprecisions, and enervated by its variant names — the «Anthrobscene,» the «Misanthropocene,» the «Lichenocene» (actually, that last one is mine).

Internet - based artistic practice has gained ubiquity as a new generation that has emerged and that interweaves art with virtual reality.

In reality, of course, these elements are invisible and therefore unseen, but Krieger wants to explicitly recognize their ubiquity as catalysts for both beauty, and, more destructively, natural disaster.

The show — her first in the UK — showcases a new body of work all based around photographic representations of Washington State's Picture Lake, so called for being so photogenic it's become familiar to everyone through its ubiquity as screensavers and computer desktop backgrounds.

Franco's ubiquity as an actor, screenwriter, and director over the last decade has resulted in an almost endless stream of bored, indifferent performances, often to the detriment if not of Franco's seemingly unstoppable career, then whatever film he happened to appear in that particular month.

Because of Shrek's ubiquity as a marketing force, he seems overly familiar, as do his parenting and self - esteem woes.

But ethylene's ubiquity as a building block in plastics and chemicals masks an underlying environmental cost.

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During Pollard's early days of international expansion, decisions were influenced by factors such as the ubiquity of credit cards or the degree to which the local country had adopted ecommerce.

However, the ubiquity of the toy, which is supposedly used as a tool to promote concentration among children with autism spectrum disorders, has been undeniable.

It's the idea that the ubiquity of smartphones and the popularity of apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and Candy Crush have changed our collective expectations of how software should look and function, creating huge opportunities for business applications as intuitive and user - friendly as the ones people use for fun.

But the medium's ubiquity came to work against it over time, with «banner blindness» entering the lexicon as readers trained their eyes to avoid the format.

The greatest risk to elite brands, as one industry analyst put it, has become «ubiquity.»

And with the creation of wearable devices such as Google Glass and the ubiquity of camera - enabled smartphones and tablets, the AR industry is poised to take off.

Also boosting Burner's customer base: the ubiquity of web transactions among strangers through services such as Airbnb, Lyft and Etsy.

As we so often hear, the ubiquity of smartphones and social media means we're all burying our heads in an electronic ether at the expense of communicating with the people who are right in front of us.

On a buying trip to Italy the following year he saw espresso bars for the first time, and was impressed by their ubiquity and role as social hubs.

But as Coach reined in its prestige - sapping ubiquity, hired a hot fashion designer in Stuart Vevers and ramped up the caliber of its bags, as exemplified by its pricey but coveted Rogue line, it has been able to command ever higher prices, and more crucially, set itself apart from rivals like Michael Kors (kors) and Kate Spade (kate).

That ubiquity, coupled with its extreme sensitivity to changing demand, has led many to regard is as a leading indicator of activity in goods - producing industries.

Bolstered by the ubiquity of YouTube as well as search, advertising and all its other tools, Google regained the throne and doesn't seem likely to give it up anytime soon.

The company had released three products, all of which will remain operational as before: Snowboy («a customizable hotword detection engine»), NLU («a multilingual natural language understanding engine»), and ChatFlow (a multi-turn conversation engine that we covered here), and appeared to be built as a cross-platform service, improving its ubiquity.

For that reason, and because of their history and ubiquity, those practices are not understood as conveying government approval of particular religious beliefs.

Thus, as one who firmly believes in Judaism's teaching of the ubiquity of moral freedom for all humans, I had to suppress my understandable Jewish reticence and accept this invitation.

The belief in the state of Ubiquity (the possiblitily of a being which exists as the observer at any point in any space to be had) has been with us since likely the dawn of man.

What strikes one about the ubiquity of such religious artifacts is how rarely the devout are offended by what they should regard as blatantly obvious assaults on their devotion.

With their understanding of the divine - human nature of Jesus Christ and of the ubiquity of Christ in all compassionate and needy companions, Christians are led to see that as the neighbor can not exist or be known or be valued without the existence, knowledge and love of God, so also God does not exist as God - for - us or become known or loved as God except in his and our relation to the neighbor.

Vital seriously overstates the ubiquity and virulence of anti «Semitism throughout continental Europe, as pervasive as it obviously was at many times and in many places.

Their ubiquity and popularity make social networks the perfect place for marketing as there's an option to engage with users.

The popularity of Southeast Asian cuisines and the sudden ubiquity of coconut water made young coconut highly trendy, as well.

The affection that has been lost for some will return, I'm sure, as the ubiquity of his presence fades.

One factor behind this evolution is that fact that the internet's main rivals as communications channels (general - audience broadcast advertising, phonebanking / robocalls and direct mail) are all gradually losing effectiveness as a result of a variety of factors including increased competition for viewer attention, cable channel proliferation, cell phone ubiquity, and overall junk - mail resistance.

Not only was Ribadu was to be removed as EFCC chairman, he had to be demoted, humiliated and practically forced to seek protection outside Nigeria given the ubiquity of the forces deployed to bring him down.

Mason sees this as a cultural reaction to the ubiquity of capitalism, which both left and right have accepted as inescapable.

Otherwise, there are quite clear arguments for FPTP, as one might assume, given its ubiquity across the world.

As companies and marketers take advantage of the power and ubiquity of mobile devices, and it becomes easier for consumers to carry out financial transactions via smartphones, researchers suspect online attackers will attempt to gain their own foothold in the market.

But, for all its ubiquity, it is often tagged as being fairly bland, a sort of galactic deadweight that only reveals itself through its gravitational pull.

The ubiquity of the buoyant crustal rock points to a formation process that worked the same way across the moon, such as a magma ocean.

«User inspection revealed the ubiquity of social network integration across the two classes of apps, and the emphasis on feedback for motivation (as compared to techniques such as goal setting).

This ubiquity, Bales shows, means that all of us have a role to play in ending slavery and that doing so will also help remedy some of the biggest environmental challenges on earth, such as climate change.

Similarly, the increasingly global ubiquity of smartphones should presumably boost the numbers and quality of UFO encounters captured on video (as they have done for rocket launches), but the flood of eerie footage has yet to materialize.

Similar claims have been made for the practice of forest plantations as a whole, which remains controversial despite its ubiquity in the South, and little data exists to verify the claims.

The ubiquity of these markers and the fact that these polymorphisms show variation at such a fine scale (i.e., at the individual level) makes them ideal markers for many applications, such as population - level genetic diversity studies and genetic mapping in plants.

«Our teams, from marketing to IT, public relations to user experience, both internationally and domestically, have leveraged every resource at their disposal, capturing new market share from users disappointed on other sites as well as new interest in the space driven by the ongoing popularity and ubiquity of social networking.»

That's all well and good, but does slightly fly in the face of the site's main advantage over Tinder and its ilk — that there's space for more than a tweet's worth of information on the profiles.Still, the full profiles and questions are available, and it's free - to - use (with a few irritating ads), making it a worthwhile option for anyone hoping to know a bit more about their dates before meeting up for the first time.Just like online dating before it, dating apps started out as a bit of a dirty secret — how many Tinder profiles joke that they'll want to lie about how you met?But time and ubiquity have meant that apps like Tinder and Grindr are no longer seen as a source of shame, and they're just another of the many ways people can try and meet each other in the modern digital age.It limits you to 12 or so potential matches per day (the exact amount depends on how many Facebook friends you have), giving it a bit more focus than the sprawl of Tinder or Happn.They also just introduced timed matches which give you 24 hours to send the first message otherwise it expires, encouraging users to make matches more quickly.

Documenting the untold story of the online - dating industry's rise from ignominy to ubiquity — beginning with its early days as «computer dating» at Harvard in 1965 — Slater offers a lively, entertaining, and thought provoking account of how we have, for better and worse, embraced technology in the most intimate aspect of our lives.

It's also perfectly in keeping with the near - ubiquity of whisper - acting lately across television and movies of all stripes, dialogue delivered as if mumbling weren't inarticulate enough.

While veteran teachers may read the annotated list of kernels as common knowledge, their ubiquity is an advantage.

Besides seeing the importance and ubiquity of literacy in school settings, I also experienced the field from a different angle as an editor for an academic book publishing company.

As mobile devices march toward ubiquity, they are finding their way into the hands of our earliest learners.

Ubiquity is a tall order, school district technology directors are finding, as they extend school wireless networks to the farthest reaches of their campuses to provide «anytime, anywhere» learning.

Mobility, ubiquity and portability are key requirements for any type of learning as the market fully embraces to the demand of learners to access knowledge when and where is needed.