Focus - A simplicity manifesto in the Age of Distraction

... called the Age of Information, but in another light it can be called the Age of Distraction. While humanity has never been free of distraction — from swatting those bothersome gnats around the ... ideas, you gather the raw materials for creating. But consuming and communicating aren’t creating. They aid creating, they lay the groundwork, but at some point we need...

Ngày tải lên: 05/01/2014, 15:25

... duty as important as maintaining the rule of law; and just as every fundamental aspect of the defence of the realm must be real and practical, so must every fundamental aspect of the rule of law ... justice and humanity of the law . . .’ 13 33. It may be difficult to ensure that that bargain could be maintained by entirely virtual hearings. It may be hard to maintain...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 03:20

... www.hsrcpublishers.ac.za 1 Africa in the Age of Biology Harvard฀ University’s฀ Richard฀Lewontin in his฀ book฀ Human฀ diversity฀ explains the meaning฀ of what฀is฀ known฀ in the world of mathematics฀ as฀Markovian฀properties฀ operating฀as฀part of the dynamics of physical฀and฀natural฀systems.฀ The ... and฀not฀only in Africa,฀where฀there฀is a standing฀accusation฀ from฀certain฀quarters฀that฀A...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... true, both in commercial areas (suchascontracts, insurance, negotiableinstruments, intellectual property, and international trade) and in protecting the rights of individuals (as in the law of negligence, ... law over legislation have been publi- cized, 34 but he did not ignore the advantages of legislation. He appreciated, forexample,theimmediacyandreachofastatuteasameansof...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20

... better, and the cost of offering the advice lower, if the sales staff are better trained at advising customers. Making training available and requiring retailers to send staff to the training provides ... networks for the commercialisation of their products. These rules recognise that the manufacturer has a legitimate interest in maintaining a “brand image” and ensur...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 09:20

... in which the ads appear is based on a number of factors including the amount the advertiser is willing to pay for each click, the relevance of the ad to the query, and the quality of the page linked ... page, and then r eturn and 10 MARKETING IN THE AGE OF GOOGLE Foreword There’s a special place where customers gather each day, willingly seek- ing businesse...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 21:33

... community in everyday life under late capitalism. The utopian images of getting high and horsing around in the drug hootch in Platoon provide visions of racial harmony and individual and social happiness ... mixture of good and evil involved in almost all historical undertakings. On the other hand, Rambo and the other Stallone-Norris meathead films can be read as symptom...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20

... tabacum UGT75C1 A. thaliana UGT75B1 A. thaliana UGT75D1 A. thaliana UGT84B1 A. thaliana UGT8 4A1 A. thaliana FaGT2 Fragariaxananassa UGT78D1 A. thaliana UGT8 6A1 A. thaliana UGT8 7A1 A. thaliana UGT8 3A1 ... FEBS G-GT5-F (5¢-AAAAAGCAGGCTTCATGGCGCAAATT CCTCATAT-3¢) and antisense primer G-GT5-R (5¢-AGA- AAGCTGGGTGTCGTGGGCACGATAACGAG-3¢). The ORF was then sub-cloned into entry vector p...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... human ACACAAAGCCACTGAA (V) TTCCGTAGAAGGTCCTTGAG (VII) Cb1, human CCCTTCTTGCCATCG (I) TTCCGTAGAAGGTCCTTGAG (VII) Cb2, human GCCGGTTATTTCATAGACAC (II) CCTAATGCCCACCAATCCA (VI) Cb3, human AAGACGTTTAGGTGCAAT ... Hempstead, UK). The samples were adjusted to equal protein concentrations. PKA phosphotransferase activity was measured against the substrates kemptide (Leu-Arg-Arg-Ala-Ser-Leu-Gly, S...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20

... that the acyltransferase LPCAT plays a significant role in the production of TNF -a and IL-6 in LPS-stimulated monocytes. TNF -a is synthesized as a 26-kDa precursor and is then cleaved to yield the ... peritoneal macrophages stimulated with the endomembrane Ca 2+ -ATP-ase inhi- bitor thapsigargin [34]. They assumed this effect to be due to inhibition of CoA-independent a...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20