Sentences with phrase «of a human hair]»

But when it comes to fast - growth entrepreneurship of the exalted and peculiar variety that produces breakthrough entrepreneurs, the U.S. has done a great job of unlocking only about half of our human capital.

During that time, she designed products that tried to bring together the best aspects of human trading in the pit and electronic trading.

The sudden attack on Amazon is but a reflection of the foundational loss of human communications.

Diane Gherson, IBM senior vice president of human resources, said the company's «first priority has been to identify and engage IBMers who may be affected, in order to provide any assistance they need,» according to a memo IBM sent to Fortune.

Rationality and creativity, intuition and analysis, intrinsic and extrinsic drive, expert and beginner's mindsets, these are all essential aspects of human thinking.

Cognitive bias are misleading quirks of thought — mental tendencies that are part of human nature.

As companies increasingly automate these human resources functions in order to shift their focus to the strategic and motivational components of human resources management, the opportunities for outsourcing will only continue to grow.

«What they are doing is profiting from the sale of humans.»

-- Jennifer Ughetta, Regional Head of Human Resources

• Ceridian HCM Holding, a Minneapolis - based maker of human resources software, filed for an IPO of up to $ 200 million.

Overall, the truce was a heartening case study in the nature of human beings and their capacity to wage war on one another.

However, in the process, do we want to destroy all potential sources of human interaction?

It's about having clear goals and a plan to reach them, but it's also about the constant ebb and flow of human relationships.

It's just a part of the human condition that we learn best when we fail - pain and disappointment causes us to re-evaluate and search for the better way.

Chris Brogan, founder of Human Business Works, gives his top five tips to maximize your exposure using the newest social network, Google +.

An HR outsourcing company can manage a whole range of human resources functions that you might otherwise outsource to multiple providers - these functions include everything from payroll processing and benefit plan management and administration to recruiting, training and more.

-- Harpreet Kaur, Head of Human Resources

And in the future, journeys into space or the merging of humans with machines might change what we think of as ideal.

He had been following the emerging science of immunotherapy, which is the use and augmentation of the human immune system to fight disease.

There are plenty of networks and sensors in the world, says Martin, but while they detect the presence of humans, they don't recognize individual identities.

On disappointment with Obama: «Unfortunately, shortly after assuming power, he closed the door on investigating systemic violations of law, deepened and expanded several abusive programs, and refused to spend the political capital to end the kind of human rights violations like we see in Guantanamo, where men still sit without charge.»

Here, we learn how to prepare for our own end and how to help others transition... Unreligious and truly transformational, this book continues to inspire and provide endless wisdom on the great mysteries and challenges of our human existence.»

The company first blamed one of its human safety drivers, before it was uncovered in February that the problem was actually with the autonomous system itself.

The associate professor of human resources and management at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business studies the demands that high - pressure workplaces make on people's time, and how they respond.

«We're less likely to pay attention to the negative,» said Nathan Spreng, director of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at Cornell University's Department of Human Development.

Ryan Marshall, regional manager of human resources at Convergint Technologies, agreed.

Facebook controls what users see in two fundamental ways: Its news - feed filtering algorithm decides how to rank various kinds of content to make the feed more appealing, and a team of human beings flags and / or removes posts when they appear to be offensive or disturbing.

Marsh calls it, «an eye - opening exploration into how children are raised around the world and how child - rearing can inform the understanding of human nature more broadly,» noting the author's most essential point is that «one of the things which makes humans special as a species is that we don't limit care to our own children.

Current rules do not let people fly drones beyond the line of sight of human operators and over people's heads in public places, which limits companies like Amazon (amzn) and Google (goog) from using drones to deliver goods, among other business uses, beyond testing.

«These engines are trained from hundreds of thousands of pieces of human translated content and are able to mimic the fluidity of expressions found in those human translations, including when there is colloquialism involved.

Their focus was instead on how they could revolutionize some aspect of human life.

NEW YORK — Facebook doesn't think hookups are meaningful and doesn't want you to date your friends — but it's known for a long time that its vast map of human connections could help people find long - term partners.

Chris Brogan, founder and chief executive of Human Business Works, a business - training company in Portland, Maine, is one example, says Smith.

It's time we rediscovered the exuberantly irrational, subjective, emotional, chaotic splendour of the human marketplace.

He also told The New Yorker he felt the ambitious undertaking would allow him to «confront a lot of our shared anxieties about the future of human expression (see: Twitter or text messages) by forcing a great work of literature through such a strange new filter.»

It's just one of dozens of quirks of the human psyche, implanted through evolution, that make us favor safe thinking.

Ultimately, the researchers want to shrink neural dust motes down to just 50 microns wide, or roughly half the average width of a human hair.

«An amazing investigation into the world of competitive memorization that turns into an in - depth study on the capacity, and limitations, of the human mind.

This revolution presents new challenges in every aspect of organizational management, including the management of human resources, according to the report.

Psychological experiments are great resources for understanding certain patterns of human behavior in the workplace.

Shorn of human weaknesses like the need to eat or sleep, computers are now speed - reading through not only the vast academic literature but also CT scans, electronic medical records, and mountains of data from clinical trials and genomic studies.

-- Rick Bergman, CEO of Synaptics, a provider of human interface solutions of touch, display, and biometrics for smartphones, PCs, and automotive

Similarly, the advent of automated teller machines in the 1970s actually led to an increase in the number of human tellers.

It doesn't help when luminaries such as Stephen Hawking say that AI «could spell the end of the human race.»

Trade shows can test the limits of human endurance.

Digital channels do take away much of the human element of doing business so it is important to put up systems that would allow merchants to connect with customers.

Happiness is hard, personal, and among the quirkiest of human subjects.

Advocates of human and women's rights and of religious freedom, among others, would understandably love to see the brutal and primitive Ayatollahs carted away.

Stephen Hawking has spoken out against A.I. too, saying that he fears it «could spell the end of the human race.»

Over the last few thousand years, these religious groups have shaped the course of history and had a profound influence on the trajectory of the human race.