Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the so-called expert systems used in medicine, banking, navigation and other fields. Instead of looking for patterns, computerized expert systems distill the decision-making process used by human experts into rules of thumb. Neurocomputer researchers argue that neural networks will eventually prove superior, however, because they can adjust more easily to changes in the nature of the problem to be solved...
While in Cambridge, Rodriguez has spent much of her time helping Soviet emigres adjust to life in America. She has been a volunteer at the Jewish Family Center since her sophomore year, and has worked with a Soviet couple for the last three years...
Although Perez says his freshman year turned out to be a good experience, he worries that other minority students might not adjust to their new environment as well as he did. But he is working hard to see that they...
...George, having an older brother has enabled him to adjust more readily to his new environment...
Though the poor are most affected by the uprising, middle-class Palestinians also must adjust to the new reality. Edward Lama feels trapped between threats from the uprising's leaders to close his souvenir shop on Bethlehem's main street and orders from the army to stay open. Most days his door is open, but he spends the hours sipping coffee in his deserted shop, while his two dozen employees slump behind counters of glittering gold, olive-wood crucifixes and brass trinkets. Business is down more than 50% since the intifadeh began, and Lama's income does not cover...