Word: performancy
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...Tononi and a growing number of other scientists believe that sleep - not just in flies but also in higher-order mammals - may perform such a pressure-releasing role. During sleep, researchers theorize, the brain actively prunes the neural network laid out during waking hours, trimming away weaker connections that haven't been used in a while or weren't strong enough to begin with. The stronger connections are believed to be filed during sleep into long-term memory, where they can be accessed again and again as needed. All this nocturnal tidying creates room for new connections to be formed...
...banners on opposite walls of the testing room, requiring the participants to wear house T shirts, and dividing the room with a bright line of blue tape. Just as the work sessions were about to begin, one member of each team was taken from the room and asked to perform a task that had nothing to do with the actual study. Those students were brought back in five minutes later and instructed to rejoin a group; some were placed on their original team, others on the rival team. In both cases, the rest of the group had already begun working...
...Another example of Harvard’s commitment to global health is the Technology Development Accelerator Fund. Launched in 2006, the TDAF provides (on a competitive basis) dedicated research support to Harvard faculty in order to perform key experiments that enable early stage inventions to achieve “proof-of-concept,” thereby increasing the probability that they can be licensed to industry for commercial development. To date, the TDAF has awarded close to $3 million to support applied research being performed by Harvard scientists...
...chimpanzee, sits dressed in human clothes in a baby’s crib. In the wild, she would live with her family in a pack and range over a 3,000- to 15,000-acre expanse of jungle. Here, she lives alone in a suburban bedroom, leaving only to perform tricks and entertain people...
...over Spring Break, as the co-ed squad placed first in the Boston Dinghy Club Cup at home on the Charles and the women’s team finished a respectable runner-up in the Duplin Trophy Women’s Team Race in Medford, Mass. Also, some individuals performed well in the Owen, Mosbacher, and Knapp Trophies in Kings Point, NY.“We had a very successful weekend,” sophomore captain Alan Palmer said. “We were able to perform well at home and also had a strong showing down in New York...