Another performance trick during competitions is association, the act of concentrating intensely on the very act of running or cycling, or whatever your sport is, said John S. Raglin, a sports psychologist at Indiana University.
Psychologists dwell on the power of attention, with Daniel Kahneman, a recipient of a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, noting that the very act of concentrating on something leads us to exaggerate its importance and its potential to make us happy.
It is that through the aesthetic process itself, in the very act of concentrating energies on an art object of great unity and complexity and depth, a kind of inner clarification is achieved that was not present before.
The results indicate that plasticity acts to concentrate regions of intense cyclic straining at the surface, near the edges of contact.
Bourcier et al. (1986) revealed that the presence of pores acts to concentrate the strain in their vicinity and, as a result, the macroscopic ductility and flow stress decrease which lead to fracture of the material.
Evaporation is important in the evolution of pit lakes as it acts to concentrate various constituents, controls water level and changes the thermal characteristics of the water body.
Most tornadoes are formed when a strong updraft such as those described above acts to concentrate atmospheric rotation, or spin, into a swirling column of air.
The original concept lacked tension: it began at the factory gates and ended at the barricades, and most of act two concentrated on the love between Cosette and Marius.
The benefits of the Affordable Care Act were concentrated on low- and middle-income families, and much if its cost was borne by those earning more than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, in the form of a 3.8-per-cent surtax on interest, dividends, royalties, and passive business income.
"But the risk of concentrating a quota solely on the boardroom risks making it a purely symbolical act.
