Sentences with phrase «such a simple task as»

This is true of even such simple tasks as making tea or running an errand for another person when our own schedules or preferences would run counter.

My wife drives the car for short distances, and when the car needed to be jump stated it was nearly impossible to do such a simple task as locating and uncovering the batter to do a jump start.

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Contingent motivators (such as «if you do this, then that») narrow thinking and block creativity unless the tasks at hand are simple and rote, Daniel Pink said in a TED Talk «The Puzzle of Motivation.»

The experiment itself was simple: a hundred and forty - five undergraduate students were given a standard test of creativity known as an «unusual use» task, in which they had two minutes to list as many uses as possible for mundane objects such as toothpicks, bricks, and clothes hangers.

It can be something complex, such as a task usually associated with another department, or something simple, such as refilling the coffee pot at a certain time each day.

Simple accounting programs perform a single task such as general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory control, or order entry.

Their site even posted a list of «10 Things You Can Do Today» to promote dignity and protest destructive sexual paradigms, including simple tasks such as, «Challenge those who make sexist jokes.»

Growing up, my mother had a toaster oven in her kitchen but we only used it for simple tasks such as melting cheese over french bread or browning toast.

Collecting such an enormous number of fiery condiments is a much simpler task as grocery and specialty food stores carry large varieties of chile pepper products, however, without specialization, the downside to collecting could result in a storage and display nightmare.

More than half of the time it freezes up doing even the simplest tasks such as opening Word.

It was embarrassing at times watching Walcott and Oxlade - Chamberlain failing to fulfil the most simple of football tasks such as trap the ball and pass it to someone in a red and white shirt.

While most 5 - year - olds will not be able to handle complicated tasks around the house, they will certainly be able to perform simple household chores such as feeding pets, picking up his toys, or putting his dirty laundry into a basket.

The parents (or teacher) identify a few desirable behaviors that they want to encourage in the child — such as asking for a toy instead of grabbing it, or completing a simple task.

The product would make an ideal purchase for moms who are looking for a simpler ways for taking good care of their infant, while they have the freedom of having to do other tasks such as washing the dishes, watering the plants, and cooking food for breakfast.

Your tween can help your younger children with homework, by keeping them busy when you're trying to work or finish a chore, or by showing them how to tackle simple tasks such as tying their shoes.

Reviewers note the OXA Garment Steamer is simple, with just one operation button, but it works well for basic tasks, such as removing wrinkles from dress shirts.

They may start whining or moaning, or doing all of the things they know deep down they shouldn't do such as hitting a sibling, or refusing to do simple tasks like put on their shoes and coat.

I am a big fan of playing, music, and simple tasks that help the baby develop through repetitive activities, such as clapping the hands, building up the blocks, as it builds hand - eye coordination, motor skills, and larger themes!

Or we might teach you how to modify simple tasks, such as bathing, so your child can complete them independently.

This manifested in simple gestures of appreciation such as being thanked or recognized for doing a mundane task that keeps the household running smoothly: unloading the dishwasher or stopping by the store to pick up a carton of milk.

On top of the home and baby care tasks; simple activities such as dancing, walking with the baby can help you drop some pounds (keep track of this with a fitness tracker specifically for moms).

By putting simple tasks such as, «Brush teeth» or «Take a nap» on the chore list, you are communicating to your child that they are special and need to put self - care on their own list of priorities.

First and foremost was the task of managing the world economy in such a way as to prevent a recurrence of the last four years, a far from simple mission whose success relies much upon the actions of others — particularly European leaders whose reliability has been called into question in recent months.

The more effortful a task is, the more incentives a child is going to need to keep persisting, and simple but frequent rewards, such as smiles or words of encouragements, can help children with ADHD to stay on the task.»

Seven years later, Malkin launched Global Public Service Academies, which trains high school students to perform 117 simple tasks such as changing batteries, replacing blown fuses, and swapping out faulty plugs.

The shuttle is carrying a new storage module for the space station, various spare parts and a humanoid robot, Robonaut 2, that is designed to take over simple repetitive tasks such as cleaning hand rails and vacuuming air filters.

Recording the electrical activity of neurons directly from the surface of the brain, the scientists found that for a simple task, such as repeating a word presented visually or aurally, the visual and auditory cortexes reacted first to perceive the word.

The tasks ranged from simple, such as repeating a word or identifying the gender of a face or a voice, to complex, such as determining a facial emotion, uttering the antonym of a word or assessing whether an adjective describes the patient's personality.

However, such a simple task becomes increasingly hard as astronomers attempt to count the more distant and fainter galaxies.

From complex solutions used by well - known people — such as the late Christopher Reeve's use of a high - tech wheelchair — to simpler ones like screen magnifiers on our computers and speech recognition «voice commands» on our smartphones, technology makes some tasks easier.

Impairments in processing and using information that help with decision - making and planning simple tasks such as grocery shopping are linked with one's frequency of alcohol or drug use according to a new study.

But a new UCLA study suggests a simple way to lighten their load: a «physician partner» whose role would be to work on those administrative tasks, such as entering information into patient records, that take up so much of doctors» time.

«Many studies show the integrative function of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in relatively simple cognitive tasks, and we believe that this relatively basic process forms the foundation for far more complex forms of behavior and decision - making, such as norm enforcement,» said lead author Joshua Buckholtz, now an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard.

«A task - oriented robot would be used for simple services, such as greeting visitors at museums or restaurants, while an interaction - oriented robot is more than likely used for entertainment processes, such as playing music or videos,» said Sundar.

ResearchKit's first apps focus on asking users to fill in surveys about their health or to perform simple tasks, such as walking around the room, that allow the phone to gather data.

When it comes to simple tasks — such as tapping a finger rapidly against a hard surface or standing still without swaying — those with autism perform just as well as controls do.

Sometimes the experimenter placed varying numbers of spools of thread on a table and asked the participant to perform a simple one - to - one task, such as laying down the same quantity of uninflated balloons.

But Atlas (shown) and others still have trouble with simple tasks, such as walking, communicating and staying powered up.

The (traditional) univariate analysis of MEG (magnetoencephalography) activity recorded in human subjects when they perform a simple task such as «did you hear BA or DA?»

This system of simple sensors and controllers provides three critical functions — data acquisition, control of power plants, and alarm display — and allows operators who sit at central control stations to perform certain tasks, such as opening or closing a circuit breaker.

Previous studies have shown that BrainGate can allow paralyzed people to perform simple tasks such as moving a computer cursor.

A large body of research suggests that controlling your position can be a task like any other, drawing on cognitive resources: simple tasks such as counting backward get harder when you must also hold a particular pose, and vice versa.

The recent study, published in the journal Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, focuses on using a simple test of visual flicker to evaluate an individual's level of executive cognitive abilities, such as shifting attention between different tasks, planning or organizing and problem solving.

But to mathematicians the real allure of knots is their unexpected subtlety, and how such an apparently simple task as distinguishing between two knots can lead to powerful new techniques.

After many months of looking and listening for correlations between lots of different behaviors and cell activity, I began to realize that the major correlate was not what the animal was doing, whether it was eating or exploring an object or carrying out a simple tasks such as pressing a lever to get food, but something about where it was doing these things in the environment.

Already, researchers have developed devices such as deep brain stimulators for treating Parkinson's disease, cochlear implants for restoring minimal hearing in profoundly deaf people, and a computer interface called BrainGate that allows fully paralyzed individuals to accomplish simple tasks via a robotic arm.

Even the simple tasks of independent living, such as getting out of a chair or climbing a flight of stairs, can become major obstacles.

An example of this collaboration is the El - E robot, designed to perform simple tasks such as opening drawers and retrieving objects.

However learning even simple tasks such as growing and crossing wheat plants requires time and effort, while material and methods sections in published articles are often short and can not substitute teaching aids.

These applications span from simple tasks such as mapping sequences over a database to more complex procedures as clustering or annotation processes.