While most people will still probably need, and be, to some extent, clock-timers, task-based timing should be used when performing a job that requires more creativity.

What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities—from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga—by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under clock time vs task time.

Performing creative jobs tends to make workers happier.

The research argued that boys often perform badly in mixed schools because they become discouraged when their female peers do better earlier in speaking and reading skills.

Any research that suggests that abilities to perform certain behaviors are based in biology is controversial.

Well, to continue, as I mentioned earlier, there is also research that demonstrates that individuals perform worse, not better on tasks when other people are there.

Social psychologist, John Roberts, finally cleared up the confusion about why people sometimes perform better and sometimes worse in front of an audience

When muscles perform an activity they aren't regularly expose to, the tiny fibers that are inside them are being torn apart.

deprive colleges of the right to manage their facilitiesmake workers less motivated in performing dutiesrender a number of campus workers joblesslead to the privatization of campus facilitiesThe outsourcing plan is not yet finalized.

Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often perform a lot more tests and treatments than a patient really needs.

Malpractice awards do drive up insurance premiums for doctors in high-risk specialties, and there is some evidence that doctors engage in defensive medicine by performing tests and treatments primarily to prove they are not negligent should they get sued.

We found that when we taught participants to ask What if? and How can? questions that nobody present would know the answer to and that would spark exploration, they engaged in better inquiry at the next exhibit ? asking more questions, performing more experiments and making better inter pretations of their results.

Supervisors should acknowledge high performance so that the employee will continue to perform well in the future.

A supervisor's action toward a poorly performing worker can affect the attitudes of other employees.

Government's failure to perform this role in the early 1930s transformed recession into depression.

Same goes for surgeons, who're using robotic systems to perform an ever-growing list of operations-not because the machines save money but because, thanks to the greater precision of robots, the patients recover in less time and have fewer complications, says Dr. Myriam Curet.

They take less time to perform a surgery

Some law firms now use artificial intelligence software to scan and read mountains of legal documents, work that previously was performed by highly-paid human lawyers.

The evidence shows that a large number of universities have fallen off the back of the pack, a few perform strongly and the rest chase the leaders.

When the Obama fever was at its height, however, the black participants performed much better.

Those who had watched Obama's acceptance speech as the Democrats' presidential candidate performed just as well, on average, as the white subjects

"An ultimate face recognition algorithm should perform with billions of people in a dataset," the researchers wrote.

Can you perform music that's out of tune with the mood you might be in on a given night?

Certainly, there're benefits to a college major beyond the job a student can perform.

Instead, they perform routine and laborious tasks, freeing nurses up to attend to patients with immediate needs.

Let's face it, it wasn't too long ago that the idea of working from anywhere and at anytime was some form of a distant utopian dream,and yet now we can perform almost any office-based task from any location in the world as long as we have access to the in

Meanwhile, there're few who're willing and able to perform jobs requiring a petroleum engineering major, so the value of one more of those people is very high.

Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often

Says IFPri's Marie Ruel, "They will be more likely to perform well in school."