the effect that task switching has on performance. Thirty eight students participated in this experiment. They were asked to complete both repeating and switching tasks. The 100 total tasks were fully randomized with 50 task repeating and 50 task switching. It was hypothesized that when a participant will be asked to switch a task over repeating one‚ he or she will be significantly slower in reacting. The collected data revealed that in fact‚ the reaction time for task switching trials was significantly
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telephone‚ television is a wonderful gift of science after the invention of electricity. Today‚ television is an important means of entertainment and education. It has the advantages of both radio and cinema. We can see pictures and listen to their conversations simultaneously. Television was first invented by John Logic Baird‚ a famous scientist of Scotland. Mr. Baird demonstrated his invention at the Royal Institute of Great Britain in 1926. The television mechanism is very complex. A television camera
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Satellite Towns In 1927 there were approximately 2 billion people on the earth‚ however today our population is almost 6 billion. This huge amount of increase in human population brought crowded metropolitan areas. In order to create planned cities and houses we created satellite towns. These towns also started to be built in our country. Therefore‚ it might be a good idea to consider its advantages and disadvantages. The main advantage of a town with skyscrapers is its modernity. Since we
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Ward‚ Galles‚ Marain 1 Bridget Ward‚ Lillian Galles‚ Justin Marain Mr. Villavicencio English 2 14 March 2013 Traffic Laws Cars are everywhere we go; in the city‚ in the country‚ and on the roads. They endanger our lives when we drink; when we are distracted‚ and when we speed. This is why we should get police to enforce traffic laws more strictly. If we get police to start enforcing the laws more strictly many lives could be saved‚ and there would be less accidents caused by lack of police involvement
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Sirius Satellite Radio Inc (initially called Satellite CD Radio) was one of the two initial players in the satellite radio industry created by two passionate guys David Margolese and Robert Brckman back in 1997 in Canada. The second player in the industry was XM Radio‚ backed by AMS Corp.‚ and Hughes Electronic (a subsidiary of GM). Market situation for both companies was similar‚ but Sirius somehow fell a few steps behind XM Radio‚ therefore I will analyze in particular problems of and opportunities
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Why are students dropping out? When students drop out of school‚ the course of their lives may be totally reset. Dropouts typically earn less than their peers with more education‚ and they are more likely than high school graduates to end up in prison. Just 56 percent of students who start a bachelor’s degree program finish within six years‚ according to a 2011 Harvard study titled “Pathways To Prosperity” and just 29 percent of those who seek an associate’s degree obtain it within three years
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multilinguals tend to switch languages within the sameutterance. This phenomenon is referred to as code-switching. Eyamba Bokamba‚ a professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Illinois defines code-switching as‚ ’ [...] themixing of words‚ phrases and sentences from two distinct grammatical (sub) systems across sentence boundaries within the same speech event’ (Bokamba‚ 1989). Code-switching is then one phenomenon that results from bilingualism and multilingualism. Sociolinguists have always
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Tips for Staying Active Almost any activity that gets you moving and strengthens your muscles is good for your health and can help you meet your fitness and weight goal. If you haven’t been exercising regularly‚ start out slowly and gradually increase duration‚ frequency‚ and intensity. If you have been exercising regularly‚ keep it up! Try Some Of The Following Suggestions: 1. Aim for at least 30 to 60 minutes of moderate intensity activity on most days. a. You can get your exercise all at
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DELIGHT AT YOUR DOORSTEPS: A Marketing Plan for Selecta Ice Cream Company Background Selecta Dairy Products‚ Inc. (Selecta) is the ice cream unit of food and beverage conglomerate Republic Flourmills (RFM) Corporation. It got its name from the Selecta Refreshment Parlor owned by Ramon Arce and his wife Dona Carmen‚ flocked not for its main American dishes but for its ice cream. In 1946‚ the parlor introduced a carabao milk-based ice cream‚ and thus Selecta ice cream was born. In 1990‚ the small-time
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I. Country Profile A. Background ❖ Bahamas The Bahamas‚ officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas‚ is a country consisting of more than 3‚000 islands‚ cays‚ and islets. It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti)‚ northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands‚ and southeast of the United States (nearest to the state of Florida). Its land area is 13‚939 km2 (5‚382 sq mi)‚ with a population of 353‚658. Its capital
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