Information can help eliminate costly hospital stays and free doctors for higher-order tasks such as surgeries.
Corollary: perhaps higher-order spaces are denser, more difficult as a medium for conversation.
That set off a search by Philip Beachy and a dozen others to explore the hedgehog pathway in higher-order animals such as fish and mammals.
What requires higher-order thinking is the task of dietary budgeting--monitoring both the quality and quantity of food to ensure that one gets the necessary nourishment without overeating.
He also points out that, although British pupils are worse than their East Asian counterparts at arithmetic, they are better at higher-order mathematical skills such as geometry and handling data.
It appears likely that there will be more room for teachers to focus on deeper learning by working with students on higher-order skills and the application of knowledge in rich projects.
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Last month 49, 000 consumers self-selected among 598 brands in 83 diverse categories in which they are customers, and assessed brands based on an independently-validated technique that fuses rational and emotional aspects of the categories, using a combination of psychological inquiry and higher-order statistical analyses.
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Second, they need to block higher tax rates on the so-called rich in order to prevent higher tax rates on the middle class.
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When work teams get together, the ratio of positive interactions, such as support and encouragement, to negative interactions, such as disapproval and criticism, should be about 3-to-1 or higher in order to ensure top performance, based on research by Barbara Fredrickson, a psychology professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and others.
The shelving of the project comes as Atlantic City officials hope to offer more options in order to draw higher-spending overnight visitors.
Our city has worked hard to develop impactful partnerships with community-based organizations, institutions of higher education, and residents in order to positively influence social outcomes in under-resourced neighborhoods.
SIVs allow a money manager to borrow money in the short term in order to invest in higher-yielding or more risky assets longer term.
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Majors producers like Conoco Phillips and Hess are moving along with plans to divest their downstream assets, which include refineries, in order to focus on higher-margin exploration and production.
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BNDES, among others, argues that, in order to boost exports of higher-value products, Brazil's handful of steel makers need to join forces.
This is a barrier of a higher order, and is enough to make the micro-mechanical switch dramatically more reliable in extreme conditions.
The judgement does not mean a company can ignore the religious views of employees but it can override them in order to achieve "a higher priority" - in this case making sure gay people get equal treatment in the provision of services.
The market continues to methodically stair-step higher, holding key levels when it has to in order to maintain bullish composure.
By choosing to study rather than to work, students are sacrificing short-term income and greater consumption in order to secure higher living standards in the future.
Just recently, Rackspace announced its intention to lease data center space from Equinix in order to reduce its own capital outlays and generate higher-margin Fanatical Service revenue.
And the weak-currency countries would be under pressure to raise interest rates in order to support their currencies--even though higher interest rates are about the last thing most of Europe's sclerotic economies need.
If this characterizes your own behavior, consider building a diversified portfolio for the core 80-90% of your assets, while limiting headline-grabbing and higher risk themes to 10% at a time in order to avoid too much damage should your positions turn against you.
In order to head off a round of sharply higher energy prices -- spurred by anticipation of future supply disruptions and the activities of speculators -- the United States obtained the agreement of its allies to release Western oil stocks at the first sign of significant price hikes.
Barrick in particular, Deutsche warns, carries a higher debt load and could be forced to issue equity in order to meet cap-ex requirements without increasing that burden.
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Worse, to use the tax code to stimulate one sector of the commercial world, authorities must depress other sectors--in this case by saddling individuals and large firms with higher tax bills in order to favor the small.
In order to maintain and attract high-income consumers, American Express offers higher promotions and membership rewards, which again are afforded only by the higher fee.
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When other world interest rates fell, carry trade investors bought back yen in order to repay their Japanese debts - and those purchases sent the yen higher.
Mr. Cuomo hasn't officially adopted the maps, but New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed an executive order earlier this month allowing homeowners in flood-prone areas to build higher without violating zoning rules.
NASSCOM's security forum, and has campaigned for standards to be raised higher than those prevailing in Britain and America, in order to make data protection a selling-point for India.
Carmakers in Japan are coping by shifting production to other plants where possible, while in North America, manufacturers are cancelling overtime or stopping production of slow-selling vehicles in order to conserve parts for repairs and for those vehicles in higher demand.
The concept should then lead to the development of maps to be technically specified and made available to the selected end-users who will have to test the products and deploy them in order to achieve higher societal benefits in the area of disaster risk prevention and reduction.
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