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There's only one problem with the cliché ( ' , 套话).

Hackman ( ' , who died in 2013) noted that teams are hindered by problems of co-ordination and motivation that chip away at the benefits of collaboration.

Companies are abandoning conventional functional departments and organising employees into crossdisciplinary teams that focus on particular products, problems or customers.

Environmental problems must be solved to ease the current global food shortage.

Declining mental function is often seen as a problem of old age, but certain aspects of brain function actually begin their decline in young adulthood, a new study suggests.

You probably think college students are experts at sleeping, but parties, preparations for tests, personal problems and general stress can wreck a student’s sleep habits, which can be bad for the body and the mind.

People suffering from sleep loss are at an increased risk from obesity, psychological problems and car crashes.

When I told a group of school children who displayed helpless behavior that a lack of effort led to their mistakes in math, they learned to keep trying when the problems got tough.

They lack talent to fix their deepening problems.

They find it ever harder to cope with sugar-induced health problems.

They are effectively tackling real or imagined problems.

There is no single easy quick solution to the problem.

There is no hurry in finding ways to solve the obesity problem.

Pure enjoyment of problem-solving, for a lucky few.

It seems higher education has become an industry of meeting-holders whose task it is to solve problems— real or imagined.

It gave rise to a lot of problems on the border.

In the author's experiment, students with a growth mind-set showed greater perseverance in solving difficult math problems.

I'm talking about a ‘simulation（' 模拟), I'm talking about ‘being able to solve this problem.

I offer a simple proposition in response: Many of our problems—class attendance, educational success, student happiness and well-being—might be improved by cutting down the bureaucratic ( ' , 官僚的) mechanisms and meetings and instead hiring an army of good teachers.

Every new problem creates a new job for an administrative fixer.

Another group of helpless children who were simply rewarded for their success on easier problems did not improve their ability to solve hard math problems.

And in my position as a professor at three different colleges, the actual problems in educating our young people and older students have deepened, while the number of people hired—not to teach but to hold meetings—has increased significantly.

Whereas Pittsburgh has the opposite problem: plenty of nerds, but no rich people.

When Jonathan Swift proposed, in 1729, that the people of Ireland eat their children, he insisted it would solve three problems at once: feed the hungry masses, reduce the population during a severe depression, and stimulate the restaurant business.

Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems? These focuses are not so different from the things in which they delight.

I concluded that the profit from burgers is more than offset ( ' , 抵消 ) by the damage they cause in health problems and environmental harm.

Although Leslie perhaps paints a bit broadly in contending that most of us are unaware of how much we don't know, he's surely right to point out that the problem is growing: Google can give us the powerful illusion that all questions have definite answers

Although Leslie's book isn't about politics, he doesn't entirely shy away from the problem.

At the same time, high blood pressure has become an increasing problem.

But the mother said she and other parents were never told about the problem.

But the problem is not limited exclusively to the developing world.

For example, there’s a problem that needs to be addressed immediately, resulting in a dispute over who should be the one to fix it.

I've asked their advice and that's part of the problem.

One early problem faced by Internet users was speed.

Seventy-four percent of the women said the activity lessened their fears and kept them from thinking about their problem.

The British airports Authority, recently bought by a Spanish company, says the root cause of the problem is not the ownership structure, but a lack of runway and terminal capacity, which it's addressing through a programme of heavy investment.

The implication, in each case, is that curiosity is a good thing, and a lack of curiosity is a problem.

The problem is growing as the population of the state continues to expand.

The UK Health Secretary said this is clearly a cultural problem, and probably one that exists in many parts of the world.

The unpredictability of the real world may bring to the surface a troubling software problem.

There's only one problem with the cliché.

They are also more likely to encourage boys to work through problems on their own, while they tend to step in and help girls who struggle with a problem.

They are responsible for working through that problem.

When they have a problem, it isn't the teacher necessarily coming in to solve it.

Teams of four students make a video illustrating a math problem and its real-world application.

Students use forums to chat, play games, and solve problems together at no cost, or they can pay a few hundred dollars to take courses with trained teachers.

Students may take advantage of online resources to learn to solve math problems.

Middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives, said Loh.

It's no secret in the advanced-math community that diversity is a problem.

Higher-income children are more likely to declare boredom and expect their parents to solve their problems.

Failure to address comprehensively the problem of greenhouse gas emissions, however, exposes all generations, present and future, to incalculable risks.

Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.

After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national MathCounts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math Video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.

You will face problems in the aging of the population that have never been faced before.

In the past, health experts warned us that the day would come in which it would become very difficult to provide medical care for even common problems such as lung infection or severe sour throat.

Why, then, has this claim become so popular?Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.

To testify to the experts' analysis of America's problems.

They speak with Mom or Dad when they have a problem.

They need to know if reform will help solve the problem.

So it is saying that economic development should make for a cleaner world? Not necessarily; In the industrialised countries, environmental problems are generally related to industrialisation and technological development, it continues.

Our problems are structural, and will take many years to solve.

In the developing countries, it says, most of the environmental problems are caused by underdevelopment.

In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions.

Here are some of the important proposals in the House and Senate bills to try to address those problems, and why it is hard to know how well they will work.

Economists' failure to detect the problems in time.

As I said, structural unemployment isn't a real problem, it's an excuse—a reason not to act on America's problems at a time when action is desperately needed.

And that, fundamentally, is why claims that we face huge structural problems have been multiplying: they offer a reason to do nothing about the mass unemployment that is crippling our economy and our society.

A case can be made that rich nations export environmental problems, the most graphic example being climate change.

They have little responsibility for public health problems.

They hardly pay anything for the problems they have caused.

Their behaviors do not tend towards mental problems.

Their risky behaviors—drinking too much alcohol, using illegal drugs, smoking cigarettes and skipping school—can alert parents and teachers that serious problems are brewing.

The problem isn't the technology itself, but that the technology is being used to create more flexibility for the employer rather than the employee.

Teenagers' mental problems are often too conspicuous not to be observed.

Teenagers' mental problems are getting more and more attention.

Teenagers experiencing psychological problems tend to use a lot of media.

Overall, stress-related health problems account for up to 90% of hospital visits, many of them preventable.

On the flip side, there are many forced riders, who are suffering from the climate change impacts despite having scarcely contributed to the problem.

Mental problems can now be found in large numbers of teenagers.

Many hitherto unobserved youngsters may have psychological problems.

It sheds new light on how unhealthy behaviors trigger mental health problems.

It offers a new treatment for psychological problems among teenagers.

It may have found an ideal way to handle teenagers with behavioral problems.

In-office wellness programs may help reduce stress levels, but they are hardly an ultimate solution to the problem.

In America today, even teenagers suffer from stress, and their problem is even more serious than grown-ups'.

Health problems caused by stress in the workplace result in huge public health expenses.

Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are essentially climate free-riders: causing the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas emissions, while incurring few of the costs such as climate change's impact on food and water.

Depression and anxiety are the most common symptoms of mental problems.

Consumers are often hesitant to try smart-home devices because they are worried about compatibility problems.

Companies that have long focused on hardware now have to think of ecosystems instead to give consumers practical solutions to their everyday problems.

The purpose of today’s lecture, as you have seen from the title and the abstract, is to examine in more detail the problems facing small- and medium-sized enterprises which arise at least in part from having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.

People who live, hunt or fish near bird coloniesneed to be careful, the researchers say, The birds don’t mean to cause harm, but the chemicals they carry can cause major problems.

The problem with lighting, if it arises, often doesn't lie in light sources but in their applications.

Students are not able to apply prior knowledge to new problems.

It results from society's failure to tackle the problem.

If the Thames were lapping around Big Ben, Londoners would face up to the problem of emissions pretty quickly.

Despite this problem, many students are still drawn to these institutions—and two-year schools in particular.

But the most pervasive problem is less obvious: our own behaviour.

Although a team may be composed of knowledgeable people, they must learn new ways of relating and working together to solve cross-functional problems.

Actually, it has to translate into more urgency to deal with the climate change problem and reduce emissions.

After all, students making their own choices in this respect is what caused the problem in the first place.

Analysts say the biggest problem is high unemployment, which weakens demand and makes banks reluctant to lend.

Brittleness remains a problem when building steel structures in cold conditions, such as oil rigs in the Arctic.

But Ruel says scientific consensus alone will not solve the problem.

Despite this problem, many students are still drawn to these institutions — and two-year schools in particular.

Hogg says that scooping is less of a problem than many think.

I think it's a problem because you're not giving equal access to education to everybody.

If we want to fix the problem of the income gap, first we have to understand it.

In fact, when Twenge previously used this data to suggest a screen time effect, some commentators were quick to raise this problem.

In the flip side, there are many "forced riders", who are suffering from the climate change impacts despite having scarcely contributed to the problem.

Less inherently interpersonal subjects, such as math, could acquire a social aspect through team problem solving and peer tutoring.

Many are having the same problem that newspapers have had.

One major cause of this problem is the confusion over food expiration labels, which are currently not regulated by the government.

One problem with grass-fed products is that they are usually more expensive than conventional ones.

Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.

Part of the problem is that almost two decades after Amazon filed the one-click patent, the online retail shopping and buying experience is filled with frictions.

Researchers have found not just a diversity problem in Hollywood, but actually an inclusion crisis.

So, despite all the talk about drone deliveries to your doorstep, all the retail executives expressing anxiety over consumers going online, and even a Presidential candidate exclaiming that Amazon has a " huge antitrust problem, " the Census data suggest

So, one problem with stereotypes is while we are good at drawing conclusions from them, often our information isn't reliable.

That's not necessarily a problem, that's progress.

The airport looks exactly like every other major modern airport in Europe, except for one big problem.

The only problem with trackers is that it takes up a lot of your time.

The open-data shift poses a confusing problem for junior researchers.

The problem is "decision fatigue, '' a psychological phenomenon that takes a toll on the quality of your choices after a long day of decision making, says Evan Polman, a leading psychologist.

The problem isn't the technology itself, but that the technology is being used to create more flexibility for the employer rather than the employee.

The problem was that I barely knew anything about 3D printing, and I had only nine months to figure out how to print five fashionable looks.

This is not only a problem in developing countries.

We believe that at least part of the problem lies in places other than the interaction between scientists and members of the media, and exists because for one thing we underestimate how difficult it is for scientists to communicate effectively with a dive

We have to basically achieve there— the commitment to deal with the problem now.

You see there is a problem with the exchange rates.

According to Anderson, before 1970, Americans had little idea about environmental problems.

According to the author, attention should be paid to how driverless cars can help deal with transportation-related problems.

Although serious problems still remain and need to be dealt with, the world is a safer and healthier place.

Bacteria are an annoying problem for astronauts.

Because sleepiness is such a problem for teenagers, some school districts have decided to start high school classes later than they used to.

But in Chicago's early history, every engineering solution seemed to create a new problem.

But the problem should not be dismissed out of hand, as it has been by some AI researchers.

Children with school problems: a physician's manual is most likely intended for doctors.

Credibility is hard to earn but easy to lose, and the problem is only going to get harder from here on out.

Delayed reward may be expected from news of public affairs, economic matters, social problems, science, education, and health.

Dr dominoni said, "in Glasgow where I live, gulls are a serious problem."

For example, a sociologist may read news of crime as a social problem, rather than for its immediate reward.

Hannah started to think about how she could help, but, of course, there is not a lot one five-year-old can do to solve the problem of homelessness.

Her mother told her that if she did something to change the problem that made her sad, she wouldn't feel as bad.

How does the author feel about the solutions to problem of robocalls?

How long have you had this problem?

How should you deal with the problem caused by an offensive email?

However, technology is also the application of scientific knowledge to solve a problem, touching lives in countless ways.

However, these plans were abandoned because of financial problems.

However, this is not enough to solve our problem.

I talk to them about how the law helps people solve their problems.

I tried to convince myself that the trouble was with the problem itself, not with me.

If Louis could find his way out of his problems, why should I ever give up?

If you are not going to suffer this problem, then I suggest that the next time you go to your mum's home for dinner, get a few cooking tips from her.

I'm afraid there are a couple of problems.

In his modernist view, beauty lies in simplicity and elegance, and the aim of the designer is to create solutions to problems through the most efficient means.

In spite of all the problems, several of the players produced excellent performances.

In today's information age, the loss of data must cause serious problems for a company.

Indeed science is so good at what it does that there's always a temptation to drag it into problems where it may not be helpful.

It was a great trip except for one problem.

Maybe this dependency on his smartphone has become more than an everyday problem.

Moran says one of the problems with Jazz today is that the entertainment aspect of the music has been lost.

Much time spent sitting at a desk, office workers are generally troubled by health problems.

I'm not suggesting you ignore problems, or that you pretend things are better than they are, but simply that you learn to allow things to be as they are— at least most of the time, and especially when it's not a really big deal.

One day, mentally exhausted, I wrote down all the reasons why this problem could not be solved.

Other experts say part of the problem is chemical.

Our appetite for new products also contributes to the problem.

Points were awarded for part-time jobs, housework, effort in school, and ability to deal with problems.

Researchers from georgia tech say that they have come up with a low-cost device装置that gets around this problem: a smart keyboard.

Researchers have found that there is a direct link between the increase in food eaten outside the home and the rise in weight problems.

Researchers have found the final answers to the problem.

Russia is another country with population problems that could break its economic promise.

She had a sudden heart problem.

She had big problems maintaining her performance.

Smith, you see, the doctor said I had attention problems.

Solving the safety problem well enough to move forward in AI seems to be possible but not easy.

Some people like to say that every problem has a solution.

Surely small towns and big cities both have some problems in terms of transport.

The author's mother told him to borrow a book in order to help cure him of his reading problem.

The groundhog still didn't have a problem with me scratching her back, and I got an ides, I'd always thought, while slicing up carrots, that the end looked like a cap.

The little problems that we meet in our daily lives may be inspirations for great inventions.

The passage is mainly about the early Chicago's engineering problems and their solutions.

The problem in building a healthy relationship.

The problem is that countries around the world have growing mountains of rubbish because people are throwing out more rubbish than ever before.

The problem of global warming will have been quite solved by 2020.

The problem of robocalls has gotten so bad that many people now refuse to pick up calls from numbers they don't know.

The real problem is that some pedestrians seem to be, at least for the moment, in worlds of their own that are, to them, much more important than the welfare of others.

The real problem relates to the possibility that artificial intelligence(AI) may become extremely good at achieving something other than what we really want.

The real reason why prices were, and still are, too high is complex, and no short discussion can satisfactorily explain this problem.

The researchers note that attention should be given to "training methods that would prepare volunteers for troublesome situations or provide them with strategies for coping with the problem they do experience".

The squirrels had no problem coming up right to me for them.

The team are working hard to analyze the problem so that they can find the best solution.

Then I started developing a problem with the set that involved static noise.

There are more solutions than problems.

These developments are likely to make our current problems with robocalls much worse.

These problems partly involve Brooks's attempt to translate his tale into science.

They have settled their environmental problems.

They hoped that wolves would be able to control the elk and coyote problems.

This of course created a new problem: dirt practically buried the first floors of every building in Chicago.

This was one more weapon for her to defeat my strange problem--inability to read.

To return to the problem of water pollution, I'd like you to look at a study conducted in Australia in 2012.

Travelers have traditionally fought this problem with sleeping pills or alcohol.

Unpunctual people seldom realise that their habit cause problems to others.

We are finally waking up to the severity of the problem by supporting and developing a group of tools, apps and approaches intended to prevent scammers from getting through.

We need to get to the root of the problem before we can solve it.

We tend to blame TV, he says, for problems it doesn't really cause, overlooking our own roles in shaping children's minds.

When I don't say "Find, " she sticks around to hear my problems.

When I was 50, my weight problem began to affect me seriously.

While Harold and Erica are certainly not strong or memorable characters, the more serious problems with the social animal lie elsewhere.

Yet knowing we can have more can also create a problem, because when we go to change the way we do things, up come the old patterns and pitfalls that stopped us from seeking what we wanted in the first place.

All of us work through problems in ways of which we're unaware, she says.

Bankers’ fat pay packets have attracted much criticism, but a public-sector system that does not reward high achievers may be a much bigger problem for America.

And that’s the problem with a social cure engineered from the outside: in the real world, as in school, we insist on choosing our own friends.

Today, the social sciences are largely focused on disciplinary problems and internal scholarly debates, rather than on topics with external impact.

The problem is not necessarily the amount of available funding.

That should create more collaborative endeavors and help to develop projects aimed directly at solving global problems.

It could be that we are evolving two communities of social scientists: one that is discipline-oriented and publishing in highly specialized journals, and one that is problem-oriented and publishing elsewhere, such as policy briefs.

Here, too, the problems are social: the organization and distribution of food, wealth and prosperity.

Despite these factors, many social scientists seem reluctant to tackle such problems.

To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students’ ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teachers and the encouragement of scholars to bring their learning to bear on the great challenges of the day.

But they show comprehension to consist not just passive assimilation but of active engagement inference and problem-solving.

Mental health is the source of creativity for solving problems, resolving conflict, making our surroundings more beautiful,managing our home life, or coming up with a creative business idea or invention to make our lives easier.

The fashion industry knows it has an inherent problem in focusing on material adornment and idealized body types.

Elected leaders must be allowed to help supporters deal with bureaucratic problems without fear of prosecution for bribery.

Vocational schools should do a better job of fostering problem-solving skills and helping students work alongside robots.

About a third say the problem of fake news lies in.

"It's already a huge problem from a public expenditure perspective for the whole country," he says.

"This indicates there is a real personal responsibility in counteracting this problem," says Roxanne Stone, editor in chief at Barna Group.

About a third say the problem of fake news lies in "misinterpretation or exaggeration of actual news" via social media.

Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell.

And that's the problem with a social cure engineered from the outside: in the real world, as in school, we insist on choosing our own friends.

And this becomes more of a problem when colleges don't talk about the class advantages and disadvantages of different groups of students.

And to anticipate every imaginable driving situation is a difficult programming problem.

Bankers' fat pay packets have attracted much criticism, but a public-sector system that does not reward high achievers may be a much bigger problem for America.

But mayors and councilors can only do so much about a problem that is far bigger than any one city or town.

But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential solution to this problem, suggesting that an approach can close 63 percent of the achievement gap between first-generation and other students.

But the skills they learn - how to think logically through a problem and organize the results - apply to any coding language, said Deborah Seehorn, an education consultant for the state of North Carolina.

But there is a deeper conceptual problem, too.

By the time a problem has been addressed and remedied it may have vanished in the marketplace, to be replaced by new abuses of power.

Even very young children tend to look down on the overweight, and teasing about body build has long been a problem in schools.

In fact, "becoming more efficient" is part of the problem.

It says that the problem is not merely that people do bad science, but that our current system of career advancement positively encourages it.

It's a problem all of us face: you have limited time with the person that you want to talk with and you want to make this talk memorable.

Part of the problem is that the justices are not bound by an ethics code.

So then the problem is not really about technology, but rather, "how do we innovate our institutions and our work practices?"

The problem with being a grown up is that there's an awful lot of serious stuff to deal with - work, mortgage payments, figuring out what to cook for dinner.

Though often viewed as a problem for western states, the growing frequency of wildfires is a national concern because of impact on federal tax dollars, says Professor Max Moritz, a specialist in fire ecology and management.