They trained rhesus monkeys on a task that was, in a crude sense, a monkey IQ test.
Where have you cut corners on a task, hoping no one will notice?
Where have you cut corners on a task, hoping no-one will notice?
Tipsy employees, they say, find it hard to focus on a task, but this makes them more likely to come up with innovative ideas.
The researchers also measured psychological distress by asking how often the men or women felt guilty and if they had trouble keeping their minds on a task.
One set of experiments shows that college students are more likely to cheat on a task with financial rewards when they know a confederate from the same university is doing it and getting away with it.
One of two UK soldiers killed when explosion hit an armoured Snatch Land Rover patrol on a routine task.
Whitehill and Venegas worked on a special task force devoted to human trafficking.
Despite ballooning public borrowing, the government's balance sheet is still just about strong enough to take on such a task.
Lots of context shifting also adds stress, and the more stressed you feel, the harder it is to focus on a new task.
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Rewards can also be given in apps beyond just games when people, say, share a photo, or finish a task on a to-do list.
No longer are they focused on a specific task to accomplish.
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Concentration is improved when people's senses are aroused, says Dr Linnell, but if this becomes excessive it seems to have the opposite effect and reduces the ability to focus on a single task.
In another view, a system of micro-tasking rather than a full-time job means that it is too small a scale to really price out the cost of these benefits on a per task level.
Fault lies elsewhere: with the British government for taking on a huge task without giving the troops the resources to match it and with the diplomats and aid agencies for failing to build on the soldiers' hard-won gains.
Clinton tried a little of both strategies, proposing the program early on but then giving responsibility to a task force, headed by Hillary Clinton, that worked on designing a plan for many months without much congressional consultation.
The reason for the success was the translation from a boring one-on-one task to a design appealing to human instincts of cooperation and competition.
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After the hearing, the head of the FBI's Boston office, Richard DesLauriers, issued a statement describing the FBI and Boston police department's work together on a joint-terrorism task force, where police detectives had access to a database with the details of the FBI's inquiry into Mr. Tsarnaev.
While some people may prefer being able to work on one task at a time, we are being forced into a polychronic, multi-task state.
In fact, the performance boost from two cores will be even less obvious than on a PC, since it is easier to multi-task and run several jobs at once on a computer than a phone.
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Nevertheless, researchers have found, people who complete a task on a device don't report feeling impaired.
Put that key weekly task on a Post It note next to your computer so that you see it all day.
Raising rates on a national sales tax would be a difficult task.
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Getting video on a Portable Media Center is a fairly complicated task, but not because it's all that hard, it's just because no one has ever shown folks how.
Getting a grip on complex education issues can be a formidable task for many journalists.
"These infant deaths are preventable accidents that remain a silent epidemic in our country, " says Michael Goodstein, a member of the AAP's task force on SIDS and a neonatologist at York Hospital in York, Pa.
"A more general approach has focused on Combined Task Force 150 (CTF 150), a coalition naval task force covering the Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea, Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, " the report states.
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The results were similar when the women completed a computer-based task that involved counting dots on a screen.
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