The IRS will set up a task force to study whether some regulation of software is also needed.
In Iowa, Gov. Terry Branstad created a task force to study the issue.
Kirk Watson, a Democrat representing Austin, proposed a bill that would have merely set up a task force to study climate change.
The Alpha experiment's main task is to study the energy levels within antihydrogen, to spot any differences between it and the hydrogen that physicists know to extraordinary precision.
Fortunately, the FCC, at the urging of Commissioner Ajit Pai, has just launched a new task force to study the much needed final transition away from obsolete telephone regulation and toward the free, open, and unlimited era of apps.
While it would be a formidable task to check every study Wagenaar et al. subsumed in their meta-analysis, a quick check to find out whether they included a study with a known systematic bias reveals the study included Chesson et al., a study by the Centers for Disease Control which claimed that increased beer taxes could reduce the rate of gonorrhea.
In spring 1997 Levi formed another task force -- simply to study on-line sales.
Compared to study participants who did things one task at a time, they were mediocre.
For example, the task force recommends the creation of a new group to study the use of acoustic switches, devices that can shut off the well via remote control in a disaster.
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The formation comes just after the IEEE decided to promote the study group looking at 10-Gigabit to a task force, giving it the designation 802.3ae.
The subjects of the study were asked to solve a particular problem-solving task previously used in other psychology studies researching problem solving.
"To have women serving in infantry ... could impair the mission essential task of those units, and that's been proven in study after study, " he told radio host Laura Ingraham earlier this month.
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Factors that may have influenced the single status of childhood cancer survivors included short stature, history of tumor recurrence, poor self-reported physical functioning, emotional distress, problems with task efficiency, problems with organization, and problems with memory, the study said.
"People forget that there are two sides to screening, " says Dr. Barbara Yawn, director of research at Olmstead Medical Center and a member of the United States Preventive Services Task Force, a government-backed group of health care professionals that study and evaluate health screens.
"Mental arithmetic is a more complex and challenging task, which more than 20% of people struggle with, " the study said.
All reported that during the study they were able to reach their usual trance-like state during the psychography task and were in their regular state of consciousness during the control task.
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Of course, this study is subject to the caveats that it: (a) only involved one decision making task and (b) only involved undergraduate students.
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In a 2008 study, de Waal and colleagues put two capuchin monkeys side by side and gave them a simple task to complete: Giving a rock to the experimenter.
In a recent study by the developmental psychologist Laurence Steinberg at Temple University, teenagers did a simulated high-risk driving task while they were lying in an fMRI brain-imaging machine.
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