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A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steelcase, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are engaged is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberating them from having to do everything in collaboration with others.

Why do some people live to be older than others? You know the standard explanations: keeping a moderate diet, engaging in regular exercise, etc.

Soupios say following the 10 Golden Rules based on ancient wisdom can guide us to the path of the good life where we stop living as onlookers and become engaged and happier human beings.

Not everyone wants a driverless car now—and no one can get one yet—but among those who are open to them, every age group is similarly engaged.

Gamification is about understanding what it is that makes games engaging and what game designers do to create a great experience in games, and taking those learnings and applying them to other contexts such as the workplace and education, explains Kevin Werbach, a gamification expert who teaches at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.

Companies, marketers and teachers have long looked for fun ways to engage people's reward-seeking or competitive spirits.

A gamification strategy that is not sufficiently thought through or well tailored to its players may engage people for a little while, but it will not motivate people in the long term.

When that flow is interrupted, we feel the pain in short supplies and higher prices, At the same time, we derive massive economic benefits when we buy the most affordable energy on the world market and when we engage in energy trade around the world.

Recent reports found that lodging with a student of a different race may decrease prejudice and compel students to engage in more ethnically diverse friendships.

Engage them in more meaningful activities.

It is something people all engage in.

An entertaining way of enhancing your analytical skills is to engage them by playing brain games.

like cats, babies appear to engage in what's called "preferential looking"—looking longer at things that are interesting or unusual than things they perceive as normal.

Most of them engage with potential donors, since projects that answered questions from interested donors fared better.

They engage college undergraduates to teach computer science to high school students, who in turn instruct middle school students on the topic.

They're documenting why teaching is such a fruitful way to learn, and designing innovative ways for young people to engage in instruction.

While they sound efficient and cost-saving, a recent study reports that they are not effective, primarily because depressed patients are not likely to engage with them or stick with them.

You see, writing by hand forces you to actually engage with what you're learning in a more physical way.

Unilever recently ran an interactive campaign for its Axe deodorant , which kept viewers engaged for more than three minutes on average.

Malpractice awards do drive up insurance premiums for doctors in high-risk specialties, and there is some evidence that doctors engage in defensive medicine by performing tests and treatments primarily to prove they are not negligent should they get sued.

It has done well in engaging the viewers.

In theory, interactive advertising can engage viewers in a way that 30-second spots do not.

While most parents, teachers and clinicians would react to an adolescent using drugs or getting drunk, they may easily overlook teenagers who are engaging in inconspicuous behaviors.

No wonder only 13% of employees worldwide feel engaged in their occupation.

In a study published last year, psychologists coined the term workplace telepressure to describe an employee's urge to immediately respond to emails and engage in obsessive thoughts about returning an email to one's boss, colleagues or clients.

Fancy packaging can help to engage new smokers.

But the study warns that it is teenagers who engage in all three of these practices in the extreme who are truly in jeopardy.

We found that when we taught participants to ask What if? and How can? questions that nobody present would know the answer to and that would spark exploration, they engaged in better inquiry at the next exhibit − asking more questions, performing more experiments and making better inter pretations of their results.

In writing about their own experiences many applicants slip into clichés, thus failing to engage the reader.

In particular, we engage in two types of comparison.

And yet, the same motivation that can push people to exert more effort in a constructive way could also motivate people to be more likely to engage in unethical behaviors," says Maurice Schweitzer, an associate professor at Penn's Wharton School.

Compressing everything into three years also leaves less time for growing up, engaging in extracurricular activities, and studying abroad.

Companies engaged in shipping, trucking, rail freight, delivery, and logistics (物流) have all been reporting better than expected results

There are three dozen universities in the UK which are actively engaged in advanced research training and commercialisation work

This is especially true of editors, who by nature tend to be eager and engaged participants in everything they do.

As the nation moves further into the Obama presidency, will politically engaged young people continue to support the president and his agenda, or will they gradually drift away?

Compared with early generations we spend more and more time working and have less and less free time to engage in leisure pursues.

It is engaged in product design.

But the study warns that it is teenagers who engage in all three of these practices in the extreme who are truly in jeopardy.

In a study published last year, psychologists coined the term "workplace telepressure" to describe an employee's urge to immediately respond to emails and engage in obsessive thoughts about returning an email to one's boss, colleagues or clients.

Malpractice awards do drive up insurance premiums for doctors in high-risk specialties, and there is some evidence that doctors engage in "defensive medicine" by performing tests and treatments primarily to prove they are not negligent should they get sue

Researchers have already begun to use smartphones in social scientific research, either to query people regularly as they engage in their normal lives or to record activity using the device's built-in sensors.

Robots capable of social engagement help with loneliness as well as cognitive functioning, but the robot itself doesn't have to engage directly—it can serve as an intermediary for human communication.

This is where a culture of social responsibility around CubeSats becomes important 一 not simply to ensure that physical risks are minimized, but to engage with a much larger community in anticipating and managing less obvious consequences of the technolog

A study shows the students who are engaged in after-school activities are happier than those who are not.

After all, the scientist is engaged in serious research to uncover the very nature of the physical world.

The landscape, beautiful on its own, somehow comes to life and breathes because this woman is engaging with it.

The students benefiting most from college are those who are totally engaged in academic life, taking full advantage of the college's chances and resources.

The watched-pot wait engages body and brain.

Those who were highest in status in high school, as well as those least liked in elementary school, are "most likely to engage in dangerous and risky behavior".

Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitter and the social-news site Digg.

Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page-including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns-debates about texts can play an important role in social discussion of beliefs and values.

There is one and only one social responsibility of business,” wrote Milton Friedman, a Nobel prize-winning economist, “That is, to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.”

Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page一including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns一debates about texts can pla

Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitt