Sentences with phrase «of general learning»

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It was designed to be a shared space where students and members of the education community — professors, deans, researchers — can learn about the many opportunities offered by the energy industry in general and Total in particular.

Metcalfe says he also learned from Jobs the importance of packaging products for the general consumer, not just for the tech community.

IBM Watson general manager David Kenny explained that the new service is part of a broader suite of Watson artificial intelligence services for corporate developers who are building machine - learning apps.

I tackled the steep learning curve of running production for the general session, built incredibly important relationships with field leaders and executives, and learned a lot about how we produce content and the technical requirements to make it happen.

HubSpot's Inbound Marketing Certification is full of super actionable, hands - on learning material that allows marketers to take their general inbound marketing know - how to the next level.

Dan Cherian, general manager of Nike's Sustainable Business & Innovation Lab, says that for startups, the program included relocation to Oregon for the boot camp and a host of opportunities to learn and grow.

This one from McMaster University via Coursera is focused more on career issues, and the topics covered sound like a top hits list of common work questions: «Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence.»

When what you're trying to evaluate isn't a yes - no decision but a choice regarding the people you're working with, Epstein suggests a technique he learned from Caroline Whaley, general manager of creative development at Nike Foundation.

In fact, there's a good chance that your business, or even your department, would get a good deal of value from a speech like this — as companies ranging from Cisco to General Motors to Johnson & Johnson have learned.

Then, a case study of The New Rouse Hill will be presented by Ranisha Clarke, General Manager of Operations at Lendlease Communities, which will offer attendees the opportunity to learn the practical application of such a scheme.

Elaborating on this premise, Vanderkam interrogates how happy expensive aspects of the traditional American dream like the big house in the «burbs really make us, and concludes that in general we underspend on experiences like learning and travel and overspend on material goods.

The fact that millions of people fly both in airliners and in general aviation aircraft each and every day should give you a sense that you can overcome your fear of flying or at least learn to manage it.

Still, we asked Ricard for his most fundamental advice for someone interested in the general practice of meditation, before they're ready to learn nuances of various techniques.

They would know — with seven kids and two businesses (Dom is a general contractor and owner of 2D Construction in Staten Island and Janine owns a children's boutique) the Detores have had to learn how to make it all work.

«The great thing about machine learning is you can actually measure it,» Salesforce's general manager of Einstein, John Ball, said at a press briefing held last week.

On the topic of business education, the Gallup study showed that African American, Asian, and Hispanic business owners were more likely than business owners in the general population to be extremely or very interested in learning how to build a strong business credit application, choose a credit product, and develop a business plan.

If you're new to the role that market timing rules play into our overall ETF and stock picking selection, please click here to learn the general concept of our system for market timing, then check out this article that explains the five, rule - based modes of our model for timing the stock market.

Growing up in Niagara, in the shadow of General Isaac Brock's Monument, I learned of the War of 1812 and of how our troops bravely repelled the Yankee aggressors.

While we were pleased to learn of the government's September 2017 announcement to cut the small business income tax rate from 2.5 per cent to 2 per cent, we note it was accompanied by an increase to the general corporate income tax rate of one percentage point (to 12 per cent).

If you can learn to read basic price action, understand how to plot key levels on charts and understand the general trend of a market, you are already on - track to be in the top 10 % because you're looking at the real market without the hazy goggles that your competition (other traders) are looking through.

If you tell me, as a mere human being, to «make peace», then my best bet might be to become Secretary - General of the United Nations and learn to negotiate very well.

In studying managerial talent in supervisory roles compared with the general population, we find that organizations have learned how to slightly improve the odds of finding talented managers.

I learnt this eventually, in the course of general reading, from a book, «Influence», aimed at a popular audience, by a distinguished psychology professor, Robert Cialdini... I immediately sent copies of Cialdini's book to all my children.

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business community

«When I first learned about the composition of this committee I was quite taken aback,» said Larry Brown, President of the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE).

I learned a ton about the fintech industry and online marketing from some of the top professionals in general.

Behavior experts David Whitebread and Sue Bingham of the University of Cambridge reviewed previous studies to determine how children learn in general, and how they learn about money in particular.

Nevertheless, if I dare to criticize the president» on the policies, the passivity, the professorial condescension, the pea - eating lectures or on the general over-ratedness that I and many others counted, in 2008, as weaknesses rendering him unsuited to the Oval Office» my friend becomes «concerned» about me; my complaints «trouble» him in unspecified ways, but he no longer flings the cheap, easy and inaccurate epithet of «racist» my way, because he has learned that one can legitimately find Barack Obama underwhelming in the extreme, without any underlying motive.

Through my love of learning and science I read many a book, articles, TV programs, and websites on science in general and evolution in particular.

In 1819, when the governor - general of Petersburg learned that officers of the imperial guards were castrating themselves, he exiled Selivanov to a monastery for life.

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

The real complaint, we finally learn, is that «Plantinga evidently affirms the logic of I omnipotence in general, and applies the doctrine of C omnipotence only in relation to human beings» (GPE 271).

Although I dislilke proselytizing, I learned an interesting «take it to the bank» fact about Catholic charities: it is this: because good and decent people who are priests and nuns take vows of poverty and are given only small allowances, Catholic charities in general deliver a far greater percentage of your donated dollar to the work you wanted done with it.

Colleges and universities are meant to be centres of learning and the betterment of societies in general.

Whitehead does not explain this, but from his general discussion of consciousness the reason can readily be learned.

In fact, it is just as likely that God's call of Abram was a response to Abram's response to what he learned about God through general revelation.

I was a public school teacher so I became familiar with the general impact of poor reading skills on learning in any field.

Also, attention to the experience of women has brought to light much about the past and present and the nature of reality in general that could have been learned only in this way.

The movement of imaginative generalization, which I have described above as the discovery of a general metaphysical principle and its repeated application and rediscovery within the diverse branches of human learning, is not intended to fulfill a condition of «complete enumeration of particulars» which would ground the affirmation that the principle is indeed of universal scope.

It will be interesting to see what the general reaction is when people begin to focus on Romney's religion and learn more about the actual origins of the LDS Church and some of the more unusual Mormon beliefs.

In general, the goal is to immediately put into practice what is learned, and then immediately address any needs or issues that arose as a result of what was done.

Muller's general introduction, afterword, and particular introductions to the individual selections provide an eloquent and learned overview of some of the greatest conservative themes.

Seaver denies that Wallington can be regarded as a typical Puritan artisan (the fact that he wrote so much was itself unusual), but he presents enough material in addition to that of Wallington — from Puritan sermons and other autobiographies — that the reader is likely to come away feeling that he or she has learned something about Puritans in general.

It is because I believe that while Christians are learning from Buddhists, Buddhists in general, and Pure Land Buddhists in particular can also be enriched as they respond to questions with which Christians may have been wrestling more intensively for a longer period of time.

They repeatedly requested the Massachusetts General Court, for example, to establish a constitution so that the people of the commonwealth would not be left «in a state of nature,» by which they meant, with Jonathan Edwards, «Hobbs state of war,» where men «would act as the wild beast of the desert; prey upon and destroy one another, «35 We are not surprised to learn that Alexander Hamilton said, «We may preach till we are tired of the theme the necessity of disinterestedness in republics, without making a single proselyte.»

Human intelligence has other ingredients, some of which are also shared by some animals, but, in general, intelligence among animals can be measured by the speed of learning and the complexity of what is learned.

To expound this in general did not require a great deal of critical new scholarship, although I learned much from this scholarship in the process.

Even if we don't remember — or never learned — what Einstein meant by general or specific relativity, we need to understand that theoretical physics has drastically changed our understanding of reality.

Something Iâ $ ™ ve learned about myself, and human nature in general, is that the better angels of our nature have corresponding demons.

It is a curious fact that while the general culture of contemporary theologians is still markedly literary, rather than scientific, they seem to forget the many lessons concerning the human situation to be learnt from tragedy, whether ancient or modern.