Sentences with phrase «task as a novel»

The authors think that dogs likely do not transfer knowledge about physical rules from one physical problem - solving task to another, but rather approach each task as a novel problem.

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Despite the fact that these virtual humans were not representations of actual people, they found that participants» performance of the novel task was impaired when they were led to believe that the virtual audience consisted of avatars, but not when they were framed as agents.

This is a task not for theory but for genres such as ethnography, the journalist's report, the comic book, the docudrama, and, especially, the novel» (CIS xvi).

This novel blue form of the phenomenon, detailed in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, burns almost soot - free, suggesting it could accomplish those tasks with less pollution than a traditional fire tornado if employed for industrial use — but more data are needed to say for sure, as the tiny efficient tornado has just been discovered out of the blue.

After letting the mice rest for 6 weeks, the team put them through a battery of cognitive tests, including a task that required the rodents to distinguish between familiar and novel objects, such as toys.

«As ambitious as our task was, we have only just scraped the surface in characterizing leadership across mammalian societies and some of the most exciting aspects of the project are still yet to come as biologists and anthropologists implement our novel scheme for additional taxa and societies,» Smith saiAs ambitious as our task was, we have only just scraped the surface in characterizing leadership across mammalian societies and some of the most exciting aspects of the project are still yet to come as biologists and anthropologists implement our novel scheme for additional taxa and societies,» Smith saias our task was, we have only just scraped the surface in characterizing leadership across mammalian societies and some of the most exciting aspects of the project are still yet to come as biologists and anthropologists implement our novel scheme for additional taxa and societies,» Smith saias biologists and anthropologists implement our novel scheme for additional taxa and societies,» Smith said.

This impairs performance on the types of creative tasks that involve expansive thinking, such as drawing novel connections between disparate things.

Thus a combination of larger studies and novel approaches such as GWAS will be needed to accomplish this important task.

WASHINGTON — The emerging field of synthetic biology will allow researchers to create biological systems that do not occur naturally as well as to re-engineer existing biological systems to perform novel and beneficial tasks.

This is not an easy task, but was achieved through the development of novel technologies such as our sensor.»

Last year saw A Dangerous Method 76, his first historical drama, come to theaters; the year ahead will bring Cronenberg back to modern times as he attempts the difficult task of translating Don DeLillo's 2003 novel Cosmopolis to film.

Based on the lesser known novel by Twilight creator Stephanie Meyer, The Host features Ronan as ill - equipped savior of the universe, Melanie Stryder: a young woman tasked with stopping body - snatching spirits from taking over.

The breathless story of four men who are tasked with driving trucks full of fragile nitroglycerine across the most precarious jungle terrain on earth, Henri - Georges Clouzot's original — itself adapted from a 1950 novel by French writer Georges Arnaud — still holds up as one of the most suspenseful movies ever made.

The absence of an actual Hunger Games plays a part in that, but anyone who's read Suzanne Collins» novel knows that «Mockingjay» is essentially a war movie, and unfortunately, «Part 1» is tasked with handling all the boring politicking (as well as Katniss» incessant moping) that precedes the combat.

Resource includes 10 lessons on the novel Coraline by Neil Gaiman, as well as accompanying worksheets and starter tasks.

Novel - writing workbooks are available as PDF downloads, a gold mine for teachers who may wonder how, if they've never written a novel themselves, they could possibly support their students in the Novel - writing workbooks are available as PDF downloads, a gold mine for teachers who may wonder how, if they've never written a novel themselves, they could possibly support their students in the novel themselves, they could possibly support their students in the task.

In a variety of formats dependent upon the task, graphic organizers facilitate students» learning by helping them identify areas of focus within a broad topic, such as a novel or article.

Contents of this guide run as follows: * Visual summary of plot * Storyboard resource for students to then recall the plot and key events from memory * Form and structure comprehension questions * Settings questions * Context (students explore key issues raised in the play such as youth stereotypes, gang culture, growing violence in the age of the internet etc) * Symbols and Motifs - lots of information about symbols and motifs in the play, followed by a revision activity * Key Quotes - Students explore key quotes through analysis of their meaning and significance, quotes are broken down chapter by chapter and provide thematic links etc. * Themes - Students make connections between themes, characters and events in the novel * Characterisation - Students have to complete a character profile for all the main characters using the study tasks provided * Key Terminology - Exploring some key terminology and vocabulary that will deepen their understanding of the play as well as impress examiners.

As a new author of fiction, I needed a place that could provide me with essential tools as well as inspiration for taking on the task of marketing my novel, In The Shadow of The Water ToweAs a new author of fiction, I needed a place that could provide me with essential tools as well as inspiration for taking on the task of marketing my novel, In The Shadow of The Water Toweas well as inspiration for taking on the task of marketing my novel, In The Shadow of The Water Toweas inspiration for taking on the task of marketing my novel, In The Shadow of The Water Tower.

One of the hardest writing tasks in the world is adding content to a novel when you have already said everything you thought you needed to say and the story feels complete as written.

-- Formatting HTML newsletters — Formatting books for Smashwords — Research about the business side of being an author (e.g., how Street Teams work, how to market a book in a foreign language, podcasts that might be a good fit to have you as a guest, etc.)-- Scouting for bloggers to send book review requests to — Pitching to those bloggers and tracking responses — Formatting (and perhaps light editing) of blog posts, or organizing content — Managing your Street Team Facebook group (posing questions to keep the group engaged, answering questions, sharing upcoming news, etc.)-- Creating box sets in Scrivener from individual novels — Moving works translated into a foreign language from Word into Scrivener — Scheduling tweets and Facebook posts (ones that don't require your direct input or engagement with your audience)-- Transcribing audio interviews or notes — For non-fiction authors, VAs can do an enormous number of tasks around webinars or other training you offer (e.g., planning and booking the event, scheduling guests, managing registration lists, dealing with the back - end technology, creating and proofing slide decks, sending out advance information packages to the trainees, and then sending out follow - up information to the trainees, etc..)

In case anyone still holds the charming belief (as I do) that the mechanics of plot have a bearing on our enjoyment of a novel, the reviewer feels obliged to perform his task up front.

This era - spanning book, a novel told in six voices that our reviewer described as «complex literary origami» would be as daunting a task for filmmakers as it must have been for the writer.

This free sampler contains the first 6 chapters of Credence Foundation (A Science Fiction Novel) A detective tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of an influential scientist finds a clue that leads him to Credence, a corporation of the future that uses mass beliefs to change reality and send spaceships on the other side of the universe.Suspecting that the murderer had himself flushed in and out of the crime scene using Credence's technology, Detective Trumaine readies his trap.In a frantic chase through his mind, long - forgotten memories from a tragic past, as well as virtual environments, he will finally put together the missing pieces of the most unbelievable plan ever to affect mankind.It's a novel of about 74,000 worNovel) A detective tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of an influential scientist finds a clue that leads him to Credence, a corporation of the future that uses mass beliefs to change reality and send spaceships on the other side of the universe.Suspecting that the murderer had himself flushed in and out of the crime scene using Credence's technology, Detective Trumaine readies his trap.In a frantic chase through his mind, long - forgotten memories from a tragic past, as well as virtual environments, he will finally put together the missing pieces of the most unbelievable plan ever to affect mankind.It's a novel of about 74,000 wornovel of about 74,000 words...

It's no mystery most people view writing a novel as a daunting task.

I hope for my translator's sake that it sells well, as the nuanced translation of 90,000 words of novel is a huge task and she deserves some financial reward for her commitment.

For long books that are predominately text such as novels it would be a big task to layout every page so you might prefer to use applications like Apple's Pages or Microsoft's Word which create «flowable» e-books.

To see if dogs could display these types of memories, researchers from Eötvös Loránd Universitym, in Hungary, had the owners of eight adult dogs train these dogs in a «do as I do» method in which the owners made their dogs sit and watch as the owner performed novel tasks, including ringing a bell and walking around a bucket.

It is interesting to me that so many of our conversations have lingered on Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, a novel that, in Liz's view, celebrates perception rather than description as the central, and most vital, task of an artist.

Jared puts a novel metaphor at work by viewing tasks as boats moving through a canal lock system — by relentlessly reviewing and advancing tasks through this staged system, we will be able to keep on top of (and keep advancing) our most important tasks.

For example, Chinese and Korean toddlers exhibited higher fearful, vigilant and anxious reactions than Australian, Canadian and Italian toddlers in novel stressful situations.7, 8 Chinese children also displayed more committed and internalized control or self - regulation on compliance and delay tasks than North American children in the early years.9, 10,11 Similarly, Cameroonian Nso toddlers displayed more regulated behaviors than Costa Rican toddlers who in turn were more regulated than Greek toddlers, as indicated by their compliance with maternal requests and prohibitions.12