Sentences with phrase «small nudge»

Google also pushes to - do reminders, helps organize trips, and offers «assists» — small nudges of what you should do next while in the app.

Across its many divisions and products, Microsoft seems to be learning the same lesson all at once: that invention and revolution don't come from broad, sweeping overhauls, but rather a series of small nudges in the right direction.

Here's how it works: Two small nudges with its thrusters put OSIRIS - REx on track to fly 10,700 miles above Antarctica.

«Likes» on a Facebook page provide at the very minimum a type of social proof of brand acceptance and is just one more small nudge in the psyche of buyers that helps them pull the trigger at the ZMOT.

Making healthy small nudge suggestions like having fruit in the staff room instead of cakes and biscuits or taking lunch breaks as part of the culture to improve productivity.

All of the rate increases have been small nudges of 0.25 percent apiece.

It starts as a small nudge that tells you this person is someone you want to know more about.

«This small nudge can help students avoid high schools with low graduation rates, according to a new study,» Chalkbeat, (April 4, 2018).

Symptoms: - Just after accident: engine stalls when no throttling, even in idle - Exhaust noise is way louder - General loss of power, I have to engage the throttle over 50 % to get decent enough acceleration to get going, where it used to be only a small nudge to the handle.

However, it goes to show you that even the smallest nudge in your credit rating can drastically increase your mortgage payment.

What you can see is what really exists — reality depends entirely on perspective and so one small nudge of the camera could make holes disappear or place a new path underneath a large drop, allowing your character to stay alive as they make their way to the goal.

The analogue slider also turns out to be ill - equipped to deal with the nuances of the Metal Gear Solid control system - sneaking up on opponents and staying quiet requires just a small nudge on the controller and keeping that position locked is nowhere near as easy as it is on a conventional Dual Shock, or indeed the PlayStation Vita sticks.

The cars feel like weightless lumps that have been pinned on a cocktail stick from their exact center with even the smallest nudge of the steering wheel flinging them into a drift at any speed and even on straights.

Climate theory, however, assumes that the car is actually perched precariously at the very top of a steep hill, such that a small nudge will actually start the car rolling downhill until in crashes.

By 1987 the geochemist Wallace Broecker was piecing together the paleoclimatic flip - flops with the salt - circulation story and warning that small nudges to our climate might produce «unpleasant surprises in the greenhouse.»

Tipping points — those critical thresholds in a complex system where a small nudge can cause a catastrophic response — are perhaps the most fearsome threats to the Earth's climate, but they also haunt ecosystems, financial markets, and even sufferers of medical conditions such as epilepsy and asthma.

It helps to emphasize that a small nudge of the climate can make a much bigger response.

A small nudge to shift the position was usually sufficient to get things working.