I hope I did, because I want this to be over with — so I can
focus on studying for the assessment center.
As a student, it's important for you to
focus on your studies for a rewarding career instead of squandering much of your time on writing lengthy assignments.
After several months of volunteering as a LiveHelp operator, Joan signed off to
focus on her studies for the Connecticut bar exam in February.
Not exact matches
Depending
on what you plan to market and your budget, you can use formal
focus groups (or simply host roundtable discussions with members of the target audience), employ online research or mall intercept
studies, or distribute your product to a select group of users
for testing.
The striking example I
focused on then was the cancer drug Avastin, developed by Genentech (now Roche)-- which, at the time, had been
studied in at least 400 completed human clinical trials
for various cancers.
When you're deciding where to
study, keep in mind that the role of nurse practitioners differs somewhat depending
on the region —
for instance, Quebec nurse practitioners tend to
focus more
on acute care than those in Ontario.
You're still playing just as hard, you're doing all the things, but playoffs means if you have one team to
focus on, that means you can
study all your regular - season matchups against them, you can learn all the information you need to learn to prepare yourself
for this playoff series.
Steve
studied politics at the University of London, with a
focus on world economic development, IMF, World Bank and WTO; and journalism at the National Council
for Training Journalists.
Interestingly, the
study says that while it takes an average 11 minutes
for people to get distracted from a task, a good 25 minutes are consumed in
focusing on the task even after getting back to it.
The
study found that those who have taken part in mindfulness training were able to remain
focused for longer periods of time
on visual and listening tasks.
«It's baked into their DNA to be
focused on the long term, as their
focus is to maintain the family business and wealth,» says Matt Fullbrook, manager of the Clarkson Centre
for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness (CCBE) at the University of Toronto, which has been
studying the underlying reasons
for the curious strength of family firms.
Hall's coral
studies focus on the effects of heat, acidification, and disease, which help scientists find and breed particularly resilient candidates
for replanting
on reefs.
One University of California, Berkeley
study that
focused on restaurant workers found that wages rose 1 %
for every 10 % increase in the minimum wage.
«The DEA appears to be dragged into this kicking and screaming,» said Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute
for Policy
Studies, a progressive think tank
focused on social - justice issues.
For the January
study focused on heart health, researchers split 53 adults into two groups, one of which did two years of supervised exercise four to five days a week, while the other simply did yoga and balance exercises.
Last year,
for example, a
study conducted by Unilever — a company that does have an admittedly vested interest in knowing this kind of information — polled 20,000 consumers in five countries and 33 percent said that given the option, they would choose to buy from brands that are
focused on sustainability.
Apple is gathering advice
on parts and production methods,
focusing on electric and connected - car technologies, while
studying the potential
for automated driving, the source said.
There's no shortage of tips and tricks out there to help you learn faster and recall more, but nearly all them
focus on how to
study — try spacing out
study sessions a particular way,
for instance, or test yourself rather than reread.
A recent Temkin Group
study found that 84 percent of companies surveyed expected to increase their
focus on customer experience metrics
for this very reason.
Studies show it's impossible
for our brains to
focus effectively
on more than one thing at a time.
I was happy to see a real
focus on preparing
for tomorrow highlighted in a new book, Start a Successful Business, by Colleen DeBaise, who has made a career of
studying and writing about entrepreneur challenges.
Buxton says the
study's results point to a need
for a culture shift in organizations toward a provision
for greater flexibility and a change in mentality from a
focus on congratulating those who burn the candle at both ends to an appreciation of the benefits of sleep.
To evaluate the potential
for eruption, conventional
studies have
focussed on interpreting the major unrest of 1982 — 1984 (refs 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16).
For example, Canada's support will help fund research studies, surveys, conferences, and training focused on business and entrepreneurship skills, access to markets for products and services, and technological innovati
For example, Canada's support will help fund research
studies, surveys, conferences, and training
focused on business and entrepreneurship skills, access to markets
for products and services, and technological innovati
for products and services, and technological innovation.
Economists have analyzed extensively how platform markets may pose unique challenges
for antitrust analysis.377 Specifically, they stress that analysis applicable to firms in single - sided markets may break down when applied to two - sided markets, given the distinct pricing structures and network externalities.378 These
studies often
focus on the challenge that two - sided platforms face in attracting both sides — the classic coordination problem of having to attract buyers without an established line of sellers, and vice versa.379 Economists tend to conclude that — given the particular challenges of two - sided markets380 — antitrust should be forgiving of conduct that might otherwise be characterized as anticompetitive.381
«While some device vendors are hoping that strong consumer awareness will drive corporate wellness adoption
for their products, they also need to understand and
focus on the most influential parts of the healthcare value chain,» says Jonathan Collins, author of the new
study.
The Career & Technical Education (CTE) Working Group is
focused on creating public dialogue around programs of
study pathways
for students interested in entering the STEM workforce.
«
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For now, the
focus of this technology innovation centre will be
on Visa Checkout and mVisa, but
for certain, India will soon have teams that will jointly work with our two research labs in US and Singapore in studying the many aspects of blockchain disrupting technologies&raq
for certain, India will soon have teams that will jointly work with our two research labs in US and Singapore in
studying the many aspects of blockchain disrupting technologies»
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focusing on international public policy issues.
The lack of a level playing field and unaffordable home prices mean «you can be cut out of the China dream,» said Joseph Fewsmith, director of the Center
for the
Study of Asia at Boston University, who
focuses on Chinese politics.
Acorda said the cost reductions would help the company
focus on its two late - stage
studies for Parkinson's disease.
While
studies show that mergers and acquisitions as a group are value neutral or negative
for shareholders (
on average the selling company gets all the excess returns), The Outsiders explored how some management teams
focused on driving shareholder value with their M&A rather than simply using it as a mechanism to get bigger, have shown extraordinary success.
BOEM's Marine Minerals Program (MMP) is multi-faceted,
focusing on coordinated leasing of sediment
for extraction, inventorying sediment resources through geological and geophysical surveys of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), and environmental
studies and reviews to inform decisions.
The course
focuses on providing transparent case
studies, best practices, mistakes to avoid, and models to follow if you are looking to run a single family office or have one started
for your clients or family.
In recent
studies by IBM and other research
studies on CEO sentiments, customer insight and understanding are identified as a top
focus for CEOs.
Of all the segments of content marketers we've
studied over the last year, technology marketers are the most
focused on lead generation as a goal
for content marketing.
The
study emphasizes controlling
for any self - selection bias associated with the type of investors who seek advice, and
focuses on common stock holdings to avoid any conflicts associated with mutual fund incentives.
Twenge and Campbell are drawing here
on research from the so - called positive psychology movement, which recently has attempted to shift the
focus of psychological research away from disease and disorder to a
study of the character strengths that make
for happiness and human flourishing.
For me it was a course in northern baroque art that
focused on a
study of Rubens.
This could be one of the reasons
for why pastors have deep personal friendships — the spirituality of Protestant ecclesiology largely sees personal / dyadic friendships as preferrential — and
for years upon years, spirituality
focused on sermons, quiet times, Bible
studies, etc. in the church.
My proposal is that what unifies this set of practices, making them genuinely «theological» practices and providing criteria of excellence, is that they are all done in service of one end: To understand God more truly by
focusing on study about, against, and
for Christian congregations.
The areas of
study, that if people
focused on these areas, they may have more opportunities
for greater jobs.
A Christian theological school is defined, we have repeatedly stressed, by its interest in truly understanding God by
focusing study on the Christian thing; but as a matter of contingent fact it happens that the Christian thing is most concretely available
for study in and as Christian congregations.
Academic theologies (with their
focus on such questions as method, the disciplinary status of theology in the modern university, the relationships of theology and religious
studies, and the development of public criteria
for theological language) are obviously related principally to the public of the academy.
One of the consequences of the
focus on the role of interpretive communities has been a renewed appreciation
for the forms of interpretation practiced by Jewish and Christian communities before the rise of modern biblical
studies during the Enlightenment.
When biblical scholars have interested themselves in ethical
studies, they have tended to
focus on rather specific, narrow topics: social justice, the status of women, war, vengeance, property rights, ecological concern
for nature and the like.
It is important to underscore that the writers who
focus on this issue stress that fragmentation of the course of
study is unacceptable in a theological school not simply because it makes
for bad schooling, but because it makes
for bad theology.
Focusing on the challenge to make theological schooling adequate to pluralism seems to require us to deny the usual basis
for unifying the course of
study.
Over against these highly macroscopic designations, some
studies have taken a much more specific spatial and temporal orientation,
focusing for example
on a specific event such as the overthrow of the shah in Iran or a series of related episodes such as the conflicts between Jews and Palestinians in Israel.
A geophysicist at the University of Washington and director of the Joint Institute
for the
Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, he is at the forefront of research
on geoengineering, a science that
focuses on manipulating the environment to, among other ends, combat climate change.