Challenge, competition and immediate gratification (the "achievement-dopamine cycle") — seminal elements of every video game you've ever played — are deployed for the purpose of educating, sourcing and filtering candidates.
Titian's greatest achievement is a cycle of paintings he created in Venice to send to Philip II, king of Spain and the architect of the Spanish Armada.
The achievement closes a cycle in scientific history that began in 1910, when Thomas Morgan of Columbia University chose Drosophila as the experimental animal with which he and his students would work out many of the basic principles of genetics.
Both hedges and grassy banks have to be maintained to allow the achievement of biological cycle for all species.
Furthermore, the drop in performance was correlated across cycles, but only weakly related to achievement scores within cycles.
Her article can be found in the anthology "Life Cycle and Achievement in America" (Harper & Row, 1969), edited by Rose Laub Coser.
His wider reputation was first established with a novel, Bondestudentar (1883; "Peasant Students"), but perhaps his greatest achievement was the poem cycle Haugtussa (1895).
His biggest previous achievement was the "Scardanelli Cycle" (1975-91), a concert-length collection of choral settings and interludes and meditations for small orchestra based on the work of another writer of unsound mind, Hölderlin.
Her crowning achievement is the novelistic cycle of Tadea: Tristura (1960; "Sadness"), Escribo tu nombre (1965; "I Write Your Name"), and Se acabó todo, muchacha triste ("It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"), begun in the late 1960s but left unfinished at Quiroga's death in 1995.
That would be a tragedy, because every failed curriculum is one more brick in the growing structural barrier that impedes academic achievement and perpetuates the cycle of poverty.
