Word: assignment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...report by a Harvard Medical School (HMS) research team identified specific neurons in macaque monkeys that assign values to different material objects to facilitate decision-making. The results could provide insight into the mechanisms behind human choice. The report, which appeared in the online edition of the journal Nature on Sunday, located these neurons in an area of the brain known as the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). “There are neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex whose activity represents or encodes the value that subjects assign to the available goods when they make choices,” said Camillo Padoa...
...month after some freshmen grieved over housing placements in the Quad, student groups showed mixed reactions upon receiving office and storage space assignments in the new Student Organization Center at Hilles Friday afternoon.While most groups were pleased with the assignments, which were made by the Committee on College Life (CCL) Subcommittee on Student Organization Space, some groups were dissatisfied by the amount of space allocated.The subcommittee is chaired by Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II and comprises undergraduates and CCL memberts hand-picked by McLoughlin. “This is probably the most unprecedented amount of space...
This policy extends to editors, too. Our news executives—the people who assign, edit, and proof stories on a daily basis—cannot edit stories related to subjects that they have debated or voted on at editorial meetings. News executives are also not allowed to vote on the subjects that fall on beats that are under their areas of oversight...
...more active role in asking patients about video games, and that parents will “talk to kids more about their experience with games.” Thompson hopes to synthesize this work with her studies of movie ratings, and to eventually work towards a standardized system to assign ratings for multiple media...
April is the cruelest month. In assigning next year’s housing, House lotteries will inevitably find ways to satisfy their seniors, placate their juniors, and slight their sophomores. Among the rooms they will assign are veritable MTV cribs of the residential houses: the College’s party suites. Nearly every house has one. Some have several. These are the great social spaces of Harvard, with their huge common-rooms and accompanying perks, such as built-in bars and kegerators. Pforzheimer House has the Belltower. Currier House has the Ten-Man. Eliot House has Ground Zero. During...