Collocations withtask
These are words often used in combination withtask.
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academic task
As such, knowledge of academic language is intertwined with both the concepts taught in school and the cognitive processes required to carry out academic tasks.
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administrative task
There was a presumption that the government's administrative task was to balance the interests of the competing groups; the outcomes were not its concern.
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arduous task
Generalizing the accumulated knowledge of this rural past becomes an arduous task, therefore.
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assigned task
In this type of training, individuals inevitably commit several mistakes that may impede or restrict their ability to successfully learn how to perform the assigned task(s).
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auditory task
That is, imagining a stimulus enhanced subsequent detection of that stimulus to a larger extent in an auditory task than in an analog visual task.
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basic task
In this capacity, its basic task is to combat error and thereby to promote truth.
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categorization task
First, the army brats demonstrated better overall per formance on the dialect categorization task than the homebodies.
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challenging task
Nevertheless, even for fixed-base systems, control of mechanical manipulators is a challenging task.
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cognitive task
Minor depression did not differ from healthy controls in any cognitive task.
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colossal task
He has a colossal task because he is building up the programme practically from nothing.
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complex task
Untangling these potential explanations is a complex task.
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computational task
The computational task is then reduced, and larger systems can be addressed.
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crucial task
A crucial task for social policy is then to increase information about existing norms, making content and scope explicit.
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daily task
This expedited a daily task and increased production of a premium commodity.
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daunting task
The latter is a more daunting task and one that has only produced mixed results.
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day-to-day task
What needs to be particularly emphasized here is that the professional competence of which mansabdars were so proud did not merely denote an adeptness at the day-to-day task of administration.
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decision-making task
This focuses on the person's relevant abilities and the extent to which these match the demands of a particular decision-making task.
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delicate task
Venturing into this minefield of controversies is a delicate task that calls for strong nerves.
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demanding task
The simulation of this system is still a demanding task, necessary in some situations such as collisions of molecular systems.
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developmental task
It is suggested that a history of harsh discipline is associated not only with social and emotional functioning, but also with the developmental task of autonomy and relatedness.
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difficult task
As displaced persons, this was a particularly difficult task.
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easy task
In neither case was it an easy task.
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elicitation task
Further analysis of the data, however, suggests that age was not the best predictor of performance on the elicitation task.
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enormous task
The enormous task of analysing a newspaper's content in such detail precluded a larger sample.
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everyday task
Consider an example of an everyday task: search.
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experimental task
When they can succeed on an experimental task?
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formidable task
It is certainly not my intention in this review to attempt such a formidable task.
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functional task
Each of the modules is assumed to have access to the appropriate resources needed to fulfil its functional task.
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given task
For those services that undertook succession planning, it often consisted of "a policy that at least two staff members can do any given task".
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herculean task
We have in front of us a herculean task.
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household task
These authors noted that changing net curtains was a very important household task for older women.
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identification task
There was a significant relation between reaction times on the identification task and past burden of illness, particularly past number of depressions.
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immediate task
For these reasons, it is especially notable that the group difference in reaction time for the immediate task emerged as strongly reliable.
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impossible task
This freed women from the near impossible task of getting party backing for their candidacies.
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laborious task
Breeding for perennial species is a time-consuming, laborious task, and the release of suitable cultivars is still perhaps 25 years away.
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listening task
The present results from the dichotic listening task also align well with the findings from imaging studies.
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main task
This provides the background of our main task.
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mammoth task
With each article credited to one of the 381 contributors, this has been a mammoth task.
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manual task
Determining target position in an aiming manual task and temporal control of impact movement illustrate that patterns of energy used for action are taskdependent.
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menial task
Overcoming the view of nursing as a subordinate and menial task has been difficult, especially as some of nursing's traditional elements are strongly reminiscent of domestic work.
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monumental task
Are the 1996 principles up to such a monumental task?
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motor task
No relationship was observed between subsyndrome scores and functional activation during the motor task.
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multiple tasks
But the perception of actual speech requires the listener to perform multiple tasks simultaneously.
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mundane task
The mundane tasks associated with daily living enjoy an inexplicable and overriding priority in dementia care.
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naming task
The naming task was not repeated because of its high correlation with the lexical decision task (.83) in the first grade.
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narrative task
For example, it is possible to control for the child's behavior during the narrative task and examine the unique importance of themes or coherence.
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onerous task
The case analysis of a large number of sentences can be an onerous task when performed by hand.
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perceptual task
Simple perceptual tasks might be better for revealing uncertainty monitoring in very young children.
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pressing task
With this brief and preliminary excursion into the semantics of "law," we now turn to the more pressing task of outlining its metasemantics.
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primary task
When the robot is redundant, the obstacle avoidance can be done simultaneously with the primary task.
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problem-solving task
This section has presented the different issues involved in modelling with respect to a problem-solving task.
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recall task
Performance of traumatized versus nontraumatized children on this incidental recall task was moderated by the security of their mental representations of maternal caregivers.
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repetition task
A coarse scoring system was used because the repetition task is designed for online administration and scoring with large populations.
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repetitive task
So it is possible to get them working on a repetitive task and performing useful commercial services.
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robot task
The dimension of the robot task space is assumed to be constant in estimation.
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routine task
Augmentation of this nature is a routine task for the reserves.
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semantic task
Rehabilitation robotics life of the individual by transferring them to operate on semantic task representations in a natural and transparent way.
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simple task
Resolving philosophical confusion, bringing language home from its sojourns, is no simple task.
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spatial task
What is significant here is its manifestation in the otherwise spatial task of knapping.
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speaking task
Oral proficiency was measured with a speaking task that solicited a five-minute speech sample and was scored based on a holistic scale.
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specialized task
The realization of such systems requires special functionalities and capabilities, which emerge from specialized tasks like the ones outlined above.
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specific task
Agents that fulfil the capability requirements are determined to play specific task-dependent roles.
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task requirement
This is clearly important since most robots and automated machines are defined around task requirements.
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task switching
Working memory, task switching and executive control in the task span procedure.
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tedious task
This is a tedious task that requires a fair amount of experience.
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thankless task
As she discovered, serving the region from within was sometimes a thankless task.
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time-consuming task
To find the exact orientation for these boundary points is a very time-consuming task.
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tough task
Consequently, it is an exceedingly tough task to optimize the fish's swimming efficiency and/or maneuverability.
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unenviable task
The sense of loss is exactly the same for the widow, and she has the unenviable task of trying to start a new life for herself and possibly her family.
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unpleasant task
They also reported several successful coping strategies, including studying, getting the unpleasant task over with, deep breathing, and positive self-talk.
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uphill task
It is an uphill task, and a difficult one, as all educational measures eventually prove to be.
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urgent task
Inevitably this is an urgent task and one of considerable significance.
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visual task
For instance, recall that the simulations and experiments showed that 9-month-old infants perseverated or not as a function of the visual task parameters.
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