Schedule distraction-free periods on your calendar, during which you can fully attend to one task at a time.
One task Erick has to do is improving the finance performance of the 76ers.
If you are looking to get one task done fast, you need to deploy parallel processing.
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Compared to study participants who did things one task at a time, they were mediocre.
One task will be to take measurements on the sea ice for the European Space Agency (Esa).
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To oversimplify, a bit, CPUs are built to bop from one task to another in a hurry.
This process of hardwiring cannot occur if you are constantly distracted, moving from one task to another.
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Handling trillions in public funds is one task that, in my opinion, should not ever be left to dummies.
The standard recommendation: better to finish one task before moving on to another.
If they performed this activity very fast, switching from one task to the next, humans sometimes interpreted the result as multitasking.
One task of the inquisitor in a deposition is to confine the person being questioned to simple yes or no answers.
Employees who used to be assigned one task, like inputting new enrollment information for all customers, would now handle several different functions.
One task has you try to figure out Mikado's security hand signals.
For now we have one task on which we must exclusively concentrate.
Having more than one processor makes devices more efficient as one core can focus on one task while the other core handles another.
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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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.
Customers can minimize power surges by turning off appliances, lights and other equipment, except for one task light to determine when power has been restored.
At the start of the week write down the one task you could do that week that would make the biggest difference to your business.
One Task Force Lightning soldier died and another soldier was injured in the incident, which occurred in Nineveh province, where Mosul and Tal Afar are located.
Now add a 9.7-inch screen and a faster processor to the mix and you've got the ability to bop from one task to another in a blink.
Between the two groups, she hopes to see if robots can learn to specialize in one task or another, and defer to those who do the other jobs more efficiently.
They spend long hours at the Shubert Theatre, sometimes sharing dinners and lunches, and running up and down stairs from one task to the next with a dozen other child actors.
The chip acts as if it were hard-wired to do just one task extremely well, but it can also be rewired on the fly to do some other task just as fast.
One task which many teachers will have to face for the first time is a new duty to teach what are known as the Key Skills through all the sixth form courses.
The task force made 26 recommendations, and police have since implemented all of the recommendations related to missing-persons investigations, including the foundation of a new missing-persons unit and website, said one task-force member.
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If you wanted to do only one task and do it the same way every time, you would do better with a custom chip design -- what the engineers call an application specific integrated circuit.
It's been debated since the early days of smartphones, when devices such as the Treo based on Palm OS could not handle more than one task at a time, while handsets based on the Windows Mobile platform had the capability.
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To hatch the idea of illustrating biodiversity via music, "a key factor was to get away from juggling accounts and being constantly distracted, jumping from one task to the next, " says Mr. Stapleton, chief creative director at the ad agency 22squared.
In one task, volunteers were exposed to one of three stressful situations (threat of unemployment, a shop-lifting accusation or an incident in a nursing home), where they had to prepare a verbal response and argue their case in front of a camera.
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