A machine with a specific purpose has another quality, one that we usually associate with living things: a wish to preserve its own existence.

All participants must address how communication or transportation technology has promoted the quality of life for Americans throughout history.

Another reason for corn's rise: the government encourages farmers to grow corn instead of rice to improve water quality.

As the quality of risk-taking was passed from on ration to the next, humans ended up with a sense of adventure and a tolerance for risk.

Both of us had the qualities and virtues that are typical of American actors: humorous, aggressive, and making fun of each other - but always with an underlying affection.

But not of this quality, madam.

For the machine, this quality is not in-born, nor is it something introduced by humans; it is a logical consequence of the simple fact that the machine cannot achieve its original purpose if it is dead.

It was coined by the trans-research institute to describe a new philosophy by which high achievers at work chose a lower salary in exchange for a better quality of life.

Jenny Mosley's quality circle time model involves setting up an on-going, timetable process of circle-meeting for adults and children.

Know the qualities of their posts.

One of the very best varieties for eating quality is Orleans Reinette, but you'll need a warm, sheltered place with perfect soil to grow it, so it's a pipe dream for most apple lovers who fall for it.

Outdoor adventure out take yourself out of your comfort zone for a week, discover new personal qualities, and learn new skills.

Prinstein has also found that the qualities that made the neighbors want you on a play date-sharing, kindness, openness — carry over to later years and make you better able to relate and connect with others.

The likables' plays-well-with-others qualities strengthen schoolyard friendships, jump-start interpersonal skills and, when tapped early, are employed ever after in life and work.

The quality of education in this small school is better than that in some larger schools.

There is also l'enigme sans fin from 1938, works on paper, objects, and projects for stage and screen and selected parts from television programmes reflecting the artist's showman qualities.

They must show each other kindness and pity and the many qualities without which life would be very painful unless one chose to live alone in the desert.

Time spent for preparation raises the quality of training.

To find out if the special quality was more widespread in birds, the researchers sought the red-backed fairy wren, another species of Australian songbird.

You also need to judge the quality and depth of your motivation.

You can produce that kind of magical quality in your own garden, too.

While consumers are spending less on toilet paper, they remain fussy – in theory at least – when it comes to paper quality.

Toilet paper manufacturers compete with one another to improve product quality.

They are particular about the quality of toilet paper.

Strength, softness and thickness remain the leading indicators of toilet paper quality, with just a small proportion of consumers preferring more luxurious alternatives, such as those with flower patterns or perfume,said Mintel analyst Jack Duckett.

One in 10 buyers rank toilet rolls made from recycled paper among their top considerations, highlighting how overall the environment is much less of a consideration for shoppers than product quality.

In a challenge for manufacturers, 81% of paper product users said they would consider buying recycled toilet tissue if it were comparable in quality to standard paper.

Britons have cut their spending on itits prices have gone up over the yearsits quality has seen marked improvementBritons have developed the habit of savingIt will expand in time.

The system Medicare developed to rate nursing home quality is of little help to finding a satisfactory place.

The surge in world grain prices in 2007 and 2008—and the threat they pose to food security—has a different, more troubling quality than the increases of the past.

Researchers from the University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life, emotional well-being and social interaction, as well as about the quality of the facilities.

Quality has not been the top concern of pre-K programs.

Its quality is usually guaranteed.

It seems to me this highlights quality issues in elementary schools more than pre-K, and indicates longer-term success must connect pre-K with all the other issues related to educating a child.

I am not talking about the quality of care, let me hastily add.

As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents or their family members are.

Was it because of the growing attraction of the Internet, video games and endless TV channels? Never disconnecting from work? No matter how it happened, millions of Americans are putting their health, quality of life and even length of life in danger.

They help improve the quality of the restaurants they dine in.

Service quality has little effect on tip size.

People now care more about quality than quantity.

Over the past three decades, the industry has made some efforts to improve the quality of its offerings.

They prefer something unique and they demand quality.

The traditional view of such moments is that they constitute a charming but irrelevant byproduct of youth— something to be pushed aside to make room for more important qualities, like perseverance ( ' , 坚持不懈 ), obligation, and practicality.

This finding supported ConAgra’s decision to position the product against other high quality frozen dinners, rather than as a diet or health food.

The quality of education to receive.

They value the environmental quality they preserve over their oil imports from abroad

The movies were widely predicted to drive live theater out of the marketplace, but they didn't, because theater turned out to have qualities movies could not reproduce.

they tend to exaggerate each other's positive qualities

they often fail to see each other's negative qualities

Strangely, it is this last quality that may have the deepest effect on the way people live.

Determining whether different schools do or don't offer a high quality of education requires a look at man different measures, including students' overall academic accomplishments and their subsequent performance in college.

The end result is a destructive attack on the quality of your education.

They weren't looking for cured meats, organic produce or beautiful presentation; they were looking for whatever they could get their hands on, and this prioritisation of quantity over quality prevailed for decades, meaning a generation was brought up with food that couldn't compete with neighbouring France, Italy, Belgium or Spain.

Some restaurants are modifying the recipes (菜谱) of British dishes to breathe new life into the classics, while others are using better quality ingredients but remaining true to British traditions and tastes

While using quality ingredients, David Tamlyn insists that the dishes should be offered at reasonable prices .

The increasing emphasis for the growing population of old people is in quality rather than quantity of years.

And study after study finds that a garden is the single most important thing in finding that quality

They enjoy a life of better quality.

being sociable helps improve one's quality of life

Buy a refrigerator of better quality.

I believe we are going to continue to increase our share of the market, he began, because of the quality of the people in this room.

Strength, softness and thickness remain the leading indicators of toilet paper quality, with just a small proportion of consumers preferring more luxurious alternatives, such as those with flower patterns or perfume, said mintel analyst Jack Duckett.

This finding supported ConAgra's decision to position the product against other high quality frozen dinners, rather than as a diet or health food.

What's happened is, because we focused on creating that quality of life first, which enabled the residents to live here, what has probably missed the mark is for companies to locate here, he says.

As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how sa

If we started trying different materials,our quality would probably suffer.

Increasingly, researchers have begun to look at the quality of relationships, rather than at the frequency of contact, between the elderly and their children.

Irrespective of the quality of a school, a child's home life is of key importance.

Nevertheless, you should always focus on quality, not quantity.

She noticed there was a real void in quality STEM education at all levels of the public educational system.

Songdo's popularity lies more in its quality of life than its business attraction.

The researchers argued that breakfast helps reduce daily calorie intake and improve the quality of our diet—since breakfast foods are often higher in fibre and nutrients.

Their aim was to provide quality, yet affordable wooden furniture.

This finding supported ConAgra's decision to position the product against other high quality frozen dinners, rather than as a diet or health food.

What we really need at a policy level is to decide where the money will come from to help support good quality local green spaces.

In the Pew survey, middle-class families earning between $30,000 and $75,000 a year fell right between working-class and high-earning parents on issues like the quality of their neighborhood for raising children, participation in extracurricular activities and involvement in their children's education.

Fabric quality.

Virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system—doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness—is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.

They include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patient's needs with an eye on both cost and quality, and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs, are treated properly.

One prevalent quality we have found in teens' statements about themselves, their friends and their families is a strikingly positive emotional tone.

Working parents say they feel stressed, tired, rushed and short on quality time with their children, friends and partners.

It has little to do with the quality or taste of cigarettes.

A study of employees at health insurance provider Aetna revealed that roughly one quarter of those taking in-office yoga and mindfulness classes reported a 28% reduction in their stress levels and a 20% improvement in sleep quality.

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

Shockingly, the two groups came up with plans of similar quality ( ' , although the college students had better spelling skills).

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.

At the Exploratorium in San Francisco, we recently studied how learning to ask good questions can affect the quality of people's scientific inquiry.

If a team manager exemplifies such qualities, then the team as a whole would be better able to realize their potential and achieve their objectives.

In 1961, when President Kennedy declared that America would send a man to the moon by the decade's end, those words, too, had a dreamlike quality.

In some cases the quality requirements are so exacting that even if you wanted to have a human do the job, you couldn't.

The overall quality of education has improved.

Those qualities that make interaction with other people enjoyable would be simulated as closely as possible, and the machine would appear to be charming stimulating, and easygoing

Those qualities that make interaction with other people enjoyable would be simulated as closely as possible, and the machine would appear to be charming, stimulating, and easygoing

You can prepare for a negotiation quite scientifically, but the execution of the negotiation has quite a lot to do with one's artistic quality.

This is where the artistic quality comes in

He has a fairly large collection of quality trucks.

\I’ve seen very expensive protein supplements that claim to be high quality but they might not really be beneficial for the average healthy adult,\ she says.

\We want to improve the quality of animal health and make it easier for farmers to maintain large landscapes where animals roam free,\ says Sukkarieh.

\You've also got color, texture and shape sensors looking down at the ground to check pasture quality,\ says Salah Sukkarieh of the University of Sydney, who will carry out trials on several farms in central New South Wales.

A study of employees at health insurance provider Aetna revealed that roughly one quarter of those taking in-office yoga and mindfulness classes reported a 28% reduction in their stress levels and a 20% improvement in sleep quality.

At the same time, offering repair supports the perceived quality of its products.

At the University of California (UC), we pride ourselves not only on the quality of our research, but also on its contribution to improving our world.

By offering services to help expand the longevity of their products, they're promising quality and durability to consumers and receiving the reputational gains for being environmentally friendly.

Furthermore, with continuing advances in individual genome sequencing and the advent of personalized medicine, more non-scientists will need to be comfortable analyzing complex scientific information to make decisions that directly affect their quality of

Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the \single strongest correlate of

I use the term \low-tier\ cautiously, because GSU is a well-regarded research institution that attracts high quality professors and faculty from all over the country.

In the Pew survey, middle-class families earning between $30,000 and $75,000 a year fell right between working-class and high-earning parents on issues like the quality of their neighborhood for raising children, participation in extracurricular activitie

It's time to wake up to the fact that making smart buildings, cities and homes will dramatically improve our quality of life in the years ahead.

Maple Hill signs a contract pledging to buy the farmer's milk at a guaranteed base price, plus quality premiums and incentives for higher protein, butter fat and other solids.

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation b

Online security cameras, intelligent lighting and a wealth of sensors that control both temperature and air quality are offering an unprecedented level of control, efficiency, and improvements to what were once classed necessary costs when running a busin

Shockingly, the two groups came up with plans of similar quality although the college students had better spelling skills.

So much research has explored the way in which collegial ties can help overcome a range of workplace issues affecting productivity and the quality of work output such as team-based conflict, jealousy, undermining, anger, and more.

Starr is row looking into whether high-protein diets also improve the quality of the muscle itself in seniors.

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.

They also do not have access to quality health care or other prerequisites for upward social mobility.

They include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patient's needs with an eye on both cost and quality, and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs

This means, for instance, a CUNY student could reasonably expect to receive the same quality of instruction from a prestigious professor as they would if they were enrolled in the same class at NYU.

virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system— doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness — is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.

Their thinking often had a traditional superstitions quality.

There recordings are cheap, available everywhere, and very often much higher in artistic quality than today’s live performances; moreover, they can be “consumed” at a time and place of the listener’s choosing.

Even though there is plenty of evidence that the quality of the teachers is the most important variable, teachers’ unions have fought against getting rid of bad ones and promoting good ones.

By all accounts he was a freethinking person, and a courageous one, and I find courage an essential quality for the understanding, let alone the performance, of his works.

Most journals are weak in statistical review, and this damages the quality of what they publish.

The most loyal customers would still get the product they favor, the idea goes, and they’d feel like they were helping sustain the quality of something they believe in.

First, consumers may take CSR spending as a “signal” that a company’s products are of high quality.

And perhaps faintly, they hint that people should look to intangible qualities like character and intellect rather than dieting their way to size zero or wasp-waist physiques.

It does not include important factors such as environmental quality or education outcomes – all things that contribute to a person’s sense of well-being.

Attempts have been made to curb this tendency, for example, by trying to incorporate some measure of quality as well as quantity into the assessment of an applicant's papers.

Even though there is plenty of evidence that the quality of the teachers is the most important variable, teachers'unions have fought against getting rid of bad ones and promoting good ones.

first, consumers may take CSR spending as a \signal\ that a company's products are of high quality.

It does not include important factors such as environmental quality or education outcomes一all things that contribute to a person's sense of well-being.

Mayor Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida made opposition to the zone a centrepiece of his election campaign, despite its success in improving air quality.

Never mind the quality, then, count the number.

The most loyal customers would still get the product they favor, the idea goes, and they'd feel like they were helping sustain the quality of something they believe in.

The zones do deliver some improvements to air quality, and the science tells us that means real health benefits - fewer heart attacks, strokes and premature births, less cancer, dementia and asthma.

Their thinking often had a traditional superstitious quality.