Sentences with phrase «at any task involving»

He's also eager to please and extremely intelligent, gifted at any task involving learning, memory, and reasoning.

SUMMARY Professional who is adept at any task involving high level administrative support, or office management.

Not exact matches

A new study found that participants who reported playing hours of games a week were better at a predictive task involving cue cards.

While you're involved in a project, the intent should be mastery of the task at hand.

At Fortune's 2013 Most Powerful Women Summit, Cool said she spends the majority of her time reading and visiting Berkshire's operating companies, learning about their inner workings and occasionally getting involved in the operations — a role that sometimes includes the unpleasant task of firing management.

Meanwhile, social intelligence — especially tasks involving negotiation, persuasion and care — hasn't evolved yet, either, as anyone who has ever screamed at Siri can attest.

Much of the job involves crunching numbers and player match - ups, which are tasks that machines are considerably better at.

With so many more touch points affecting the perceived «value» of an online resource, at the least business leaders (or those tasked) need to get involved in the process.

While some people whom I would include in this mode of thought are involved with «religious studies,» particularly at the undergraduate level, and see autobiographies as a valid way of introducing students to different religious traditions (and I would agree that it is a valid way), the main drive, I believe, is focused on the central task of theology — serving the hearing of the word of God in a particular time and place.

That involves both knowledge of the history of past efforts at the same task and knowledge of scholarly study (i.e., «external history») of the church's internal history.

If some fish get left in Seattle or Chicago, it becomes a monumental task to get it on the next aircraft before you have a lot of money involved, and the first thing everybody does is point a finger at somebody else.»

And she found that it's incredibly predictive, that people are pretty honest about their grit levels and that those who say, «Yes, I really stick with tasks,» are much more likely to succeed, even in tasks that involve a lot of what we think of as IQ: She gave the test to students who were in the National Spelling Bee and the kids with the highest grit scores were more likely to persist to the later rounds; she gave it to freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania and grit helped them persist in college; she even gave it to cadets at West Point and it predicted who was going to survive this initiation called «Beast Barracks.»

And then we also were going to do neuroimaging where, in particular, we're using a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI, which looks at blood flow in the brain and therefore tells us what regions of the brain are involved in a task.

«Getting kids involved in cooking is a win - win situation: You can keep them busy and they can take a few tasks off your list,» says Jane Logan, a Top Canadian Foodie Award winner and the writer at Hungry Janey, a blog dedicated to getting the family eating delicious, healthy and home - cooked meals.

In this book, the author provides a lighthearted approach to strategies and guidelines that will encourage both young children and teenagers to face obligations in a timely manner, whether the task at hand involves reaching personal goals, doing homework, or accomplishing chores.

At present the intelligence and security committee is tasked with the job of holding MI5 and MI6 to account, but the sensitive nature of much of the material involved means much of its work takes place behind closed doors, undermining public confidence in its effectiveness.

Two weeks after New York Police Department officers fatally shot a mentally disturbed man they thought was armed with a gun, de Blasio launched a task force aimed at improving city responses to emergencies involving the mentally ill.

Though «operations managers, supervisors, trainers, project specialists and team leaders, as well as staff in the areas of information technology support, data entry and quality assurance» were cited in Hein's December 2012 release, the majority of jobs at the Ulster location involved data entry, keyboarding and clerical tasks.

The researchers collected the brain activity — five additional sensors were placed on the volunteers» faces to allow researchers to screen for the impact of random movement, including eye blinks — and then mapped the signals back to the brain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory at UH.

Girls were also slightly better at verbal tasks involving learning and reciting groups of nouns — however, beyond the age of 11, boys caught up to them.

Generally speaking, on tasks involving reasoning, what a 20 - year - old can do in about half a second takes a healthy 80 - year - old more than two seconds — if, that is, he or she can do it at all.

«This study is very intriguing — it's the first to show that metacognition can be selectively enhanced by drugs in the absence of differences in task performance,» says Steve Fleming, at University College London, who wasn't involved in the study.

The results of the study suggest that «people's performance on various cognitive tasks is better the fewer changes they have to their brain connectivity,» said John Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin who studies cognition and was not involved in the study.

Another task at hand is also involved with keeping up to date.

Over the next several decades he ran more than 60 experiments involving more than 10,000 volunteers, all devoted to a single task: taking apart the controllable procedures and testing them one piece at a time.

Directed by underwater filmmaker Howard Hall, the film involved more than 350 hours of diving and 110 days at sea, topped off by the task of transporting, assembling, and breaking down more than 8,000 pounds of specialized equipment.

The process usually involves at least one of the following tasks: transcribing a recorded voice, comparing an intercepted voice to that of a suspect, putting the suspect's voice in a lineup of different voices, profiling a speaker based on dialect or language spoken, interpreting noises or verifying the authenticity of a recording.

«Our finding of a link between bipolar disorder and the striatum at the molecular level complements studies that implicate the same brain region in bipolar disorder at the anatomical level, including functional imaging studies that show altered activity in the striatum of bipolar subjects during tasks that involve balancing reward and risk,» said TRSI Research Associate Rodrigo Pacifico, who was first author of the new study.

Understanding the role of these noncoding mutations is a «challenging task,» says Ivan Iossifov, associate professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, who was not involved in the study.

Now that neuroscientists have a reasonable idea of how that territory is divided, we find ourselves looking at a strange assortment of brain networks involved with smell, hunger, pain, goal setting, temperature, prediction, and hundreds of other tasks.

But given the uncertainties involved in climate change, the widespread and heartfelt mistrust of the research backing it, and the IPCC's delicate role at the crossing point of science and politics, many reckon that the communications chief will face a difficult task.

Peter Cook, a psychologist at New College of Florida who has studied pinniped cognition and was not involved in Hanke's work, was most impressed by how easily Luca learned the testing task.

«Scientists knew that Arc was involved in long - term memory, because mice lacking the Arc protein could learn new tasks, but failed to remember them the next day,» said Dr. Finkbeiner, who is also a professor of neurology and physiology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), with which Gladstone is affiliated.

This task involved reproducing a drawing of a star by looking at it in a mirror.

CSNE member, Mehrdad Jazayeri, and his research team at MIT study neural system dynamics involved in sensory and motor coordination, which are key to performing everyday tasks.

It appears, therefore, that even before adolescence a core aspect of task - induced deactivation involves reallocating processing resources that are active at rest.

fMRI was collected both at rest and during an associative memory task, involving the recall of 36 object - scene pairs, administered before and 24 - hours after each five - day stimulation period.

Stop looking at weight - loss as a time - consuming, difficult task involving restricting diets and no fun.

This is because they are not dialed in to the task at hand, or even in tune with the muscles involved in moving the resistance placed in front of them.

The truth is that when you have better balance, you are much less likely to sustain leg injuries, and at the same time you will perform better on any sport or task that involves the lower body.

Athletes experience flow, they experience it when they're doing what they love and their focus is so laser - like that they have no choice but to become so hyper involved in the task at hand, that everything else in their life begins to fade out.

As explained above, COD maneuvers most commonly involve force production when the hip extensors and knee extensors are at moderate muscle lengths (although the exact joint angles can vary widely between individuals and tasks).

The dialogue and plot are more clumsily written than the lyrics to a Christian rap song, which makes it hard to get involved in the tasks at hand.

This year has involved such a juggling of tasks: there has been my work in the School of Film and Television at Swinburne, one of the editors at Senses, a semi-regular radio gig and now heading the new Senses of Cinema podcast.

Framework arrangements allow those involved in the procurement process to access companies who have already been through the sometimes complex tender process and proven their ability to do the task at hand within required benchmarks.

The steps guide teams through three phases — prepare, inquire, and act — and outline the key tasks involved in building the skills necessary for looking at data, identifying a problem of practice, developing an action plan, and assessing to what extent it succeeds in improving student learning.

The risk of injury is higher for people involved in technology - based tasks because we tend to move less, for example, when staring at a fixed - height computer monitor with hands resting on a keyboard than when using pen and paper.

As economists Levy and Murnane explain, computers excel at tasks that can be reduced to the application of a set of rules (if X, then do Y), but fall short when it comes to more complex tasks involving the recognition of patterns (this reminds me of the time...).

A task analysis takes an in depth look at how a specific process or procedure is carried on, including each of the steps and actions involved.

However, it is quite universal at Odisha Government administrative setup appointing incompetent officers for the important tasks, especially where the reconstructions of people's lives are involved.