Sentences with phrase «work during the task»

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Increased amounts of this kind of work build a solid mental base and help you gain perspective on how to prioritize tasks during hectic or tenuous periods.

After a post-doc stint with Hinton, LeCun moved to AT&T's Bell Labs in 1988, where during the next decade he did foundational work that is still being used today for most image - recognition tasks.

While you should take a break from thinking about work during your lunch hour, it's smart to spend at least a few minutes coming up with a plan for tackling your afternoon tasks.

During the weeks scheduled for meetings, you'll meet with clients, employees and contractors, with work tasks filling out the edges.

During the time when he is working, he sets his computer to freeze for 60 seconds every hour, and does sit - ups, push - ups and other tasks during this mini-During the time when he is working, he sets his computer to freeze for 60 seconds every hour, and does sit - ups, push - ups and other tasks during this mini-during this mini-break.

The central idea behind Sweden's six - hour work day is to encourage people to put in a focused six hours of work during the day, get their tasks done, and leave at a reasonable hour in order to enjoy their evening.

According to Apple lore, Jobs and company realized during the early days that the ideal arrangement was to break up areas based on consumer interactions: an area for checking out how a camera and printer worked with a computer, another space for multimedia - focused tasks and so on, with an emphasis on hands - on demos, so consumers could handle the goods themselves.

We think we're more efficient when we're juggling several tasks at once, so of course during my first session with Pons — a webinar — I toggled between Twitter, Outlook and a magazine while answering questions about my work habits.

«When you initially learn mindfulness meditation practices, you have to cognitively work at it — especially during a stressful task — and, these active cognitive efforts may result in the task feeling less stressful, but they may also have physiological costs with higher cortisol production,» Creswell explained.

I plan up to six tasks that I want to complete during the day on mine, and the reason this works is twofold.

So if you're looking for inspiration on how to be productive when business drops off in the summer, check out Young Entrepreneurs Council's round up of 12 founders» responses to the question, «What odd jobs and tasks do you work on for your business during a slow season to keep busy and prepare for a busy time ahead?»

Breaks were defined as «any period of time, formal or informal, during the workday in which work - relevant tasks are not required or expected, including but not limited to a break for lunch, coffee, personal email, or socializing with coworkers, not including bathroom breaks.»

The ability to balance work and life during back - to - school season is no easy task.

When Jennifer Torrey arrived at a large wildfire - victim center in Santa Rosa during the October wildfires, the catering chef was tasked with turning meals for 2,000 people three times a day while working 16 - hour shifts.

Professionals are improving their work - life balance by successfully accomplishing personal and professional tasks during the workday, or for media - centric people, the Working Daypart.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

During the action phase, it is important to maintain open communication among task force members so that misunderstandings, duplication of efforts, and working at cross-purposes will not impede effectiveness.

Chopping bar chocolate is one of the messiest and annoying tasks out there — trust me, I had to chop pounds and pounds of chocolate during my time working at the bakery.

Parent's Functioning: Sleep deprived parents have reported trouble concentrating at work, feeling drowsy and exhausted during the day, being less efficient in completing tasks, losing things, and being forgetful.

In order to better help your child cope with the hard task of becoming more independent and learning how to sleep on his own, be sure that you take moments during the day when you are not in the throes of working out a sleep problem to talk about it.

There is no doubt that balancing your work and family is a real task but during your kid's difficult time try spending as much as time possible with them.

And for many of you, you'll grieve for the time you spent cosleeping, because it is so wonderful to have that closeness at night and to stretch the time you have with your child around the clock, instead of trying to fit it in during just the daytime hours when we have other tasks or perhaps work outside the home.

For mothers coming back to work after maternity leave, breastfeeding during the workday is a very important and necessary task needed to maintain the ability to feed their baby.

During my time as County Clerk and prior to that in the State Assembly and local government I have worked across the aisle to get results and accomplish any task at hand.

Legislators, lobbyists, and aides are running out of suits, shirts, socks, and even underwear during the long days of work, with no breaks for laundry or other personal tasks.

The task force, headed by Herceg, has been working and meeting during the last several weeks to develop the key pieces of what a model program would look like.

During the intervening months, individual members will be busy continuing to advance the core work of the task force and will report back to the larger group in the fall.

But the new work, published in Nature in August, incorporates over 100 properties, such as the cortex's thickness, its wiring and activity during various tasks.

After discussing the different ideas that arose during our first meetings, we decided to split into several working groups, each being responsible for different tasks such as finding the equipment we would need for the fair, looking for sponsors and taking care of the finances, talking to companies, designing a Web page, and even putting together a CD with the CVs of all the students who submitted one to us, to then be sent to the companies.

After all, I know that I will be spending at least a few hours in the evening answering emails, editing papers, or doing other work - related tasks — which means that I can spend some time during the typical work day exercising or running errands.

«A number of studies have assessed the effects of binge drinking in young adults during different tasks involving cognitive processes such as attention or working memory,» says López - Caneda.

The study, just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found heightened neural activity in the brain's connector hubs during complex tasks, such as puzzles and video games, while networks dedicated to specific functions did not need to put in extra work.

Both groups performed tasks of working memory during functional MRI imaging of the brain; the TBI group reported more fatigue, although performance was comparable between the groups.

COP11 also decided to extend the mandate of the Strategic Plan Working Group to include the tasks of elaborating the indicators and Companion Volume during the triennium 2015 - 2017.

In the present study, we investigated fMRI activation at 1.5 and 3 T during visual perception, visuospatial working memory, and affect - processing tasks.

Since the initial fMRI reports of hypo - connectivity in autism (Just et al., 2004), task - related reductions in inter-regional brain connectivity during language (Just et al., 2004; Mason et al., 2008; Jones et al., 2010), working memory (Koshino et al., 2005, 2008), mental imagery (Kana et al., 2006), executive functions (Just et al., 2007), cognitive control (Kana et al., 2007; Solomon et al., 2009; Agam et al., 2010), visuomotor coordination (Villalobos et al., 2005) and social cognition (Kleinhans et al., 2008; Kana et al., 2009) have been documented.

To address these questions, we defined PCC and vACC regions that showed decreased activity during a cognitive (working memory) task, then examined their functional connectivity during rest.

Here, we first introduce various quantification metrics based on the extension of co-activation pattern (CAP) analysis, a recently proposed point - process analysis that tracks state alternations at each individual time frame and relies on very few assumptions; then apply these proposed metrics to quantify changes of brain dynamics during a sustained 2 - back working memory (WM) task compared to rest.

During the working memory task significant increases in activation volume were observed in frontal and parietal association cortices as well as subcortical structures, including the caudate, globus pallidus, putamen, and thalamus.

Of particular interest is working memory, which temporarily stores useful information during the performance of a sequence of tasks.

«We attribute the differences in brain activation patterns to the effort expended during the working memory task rather than to differences in speed of processing,» he added.

University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign researchers found that people who took two short breaks during a repetitive 50 - minute task performed better than those who worked straight through.

The authors say their findings suggest that employers should tailor individual work schedules around employees» chronotypes to cut back on people having to drive or perform work - related tasks during «non-optimal» times.

The researchers made use of functional MRI for analysing brain activity during the n - back task, to evaluate basic capacities for improvement of everyday cognitive tasks, such as working memory and sustained attention.

The difference is that I know how to intervene during that process now because I can recognize that I'm not actually hungry, but using food as a distraction to get away from the stress of the task I'm working on.

«When you initially learn mindfulness meditation practices, you have to cognitively work at it — especially during a stressful task,» said Creswell.

That was the task my husband (then boyfriend) was tasked with during one of the very few weddings he served at with me when I would work for my stepmother's catering company.

Commuting to work during the winter can be a cold and miserable task, especially if it snows.

With work, hobbies and socialising with friends all vying for your time it can often seem an impossible task to find time for dating — but if you move your post-work gym session to the morning, or suggest meeting your matches for a rendezvous during your lunch hour, you'll soon find you have plenty of free time for dating.

At work I perform calibrations of test equipment used in various parts of the part during maintenance tasks.