Word: knocks
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...might begin by attending office hours for reasons other than to go over a paper due the next day or to get help on a frighteningly hard problem set. A former Princeton professor once told me that students used to knock down doors to speak to professors during office hours—that lines would overflow into the halls. At Harvard, however, a common complaint is that students often feel too intimidated to visit professor’s office hours considering how far behind they are in the reading or how little knowledge they have of the actual course...
...this case information-technology workers at an investment firm--and recorded how they spent their time, minute by minute. The researchers found that the employees devoted an average of just 11 minutes to a project before the ping of an e-mail, the ring of the phone or a knock on the cubicle pulled them in another direction. Once they were interrupted, it took, on average, a stunning 25 minutes to return to the original task--if they managed to do so at all that day. The workers in the study were juggling an average of 12 projects apiece...
...Mary Czerwinski, a senior researcher at Microsoft, show that interruptions at the beginning and the end of a task are the most detrimental to performance. An interruption when work has just got under way "blows away the goals you've established," says Czerwinski, while a ping or a knock at the end of the process "breaks the train of thought as people are reflecting and preparing for what they'll do next...
STRIKE! You need lots of pin action to knock them all down. Adjusting hand positions and release points can maximize your chances...
...could encounter soon. The pathogen is known as Clostridium difficile-or C. diff as the scientists call it-a bacterium that used to confine itself to elderly or very ill hospital patients, causing severe diarrhea and nausea. A few doses of antibiotics used to be all it took to knock...