The 1-back and semantic tasks were designed to compete for task-generic and task-specific attentional resources, respectively.
"When dealing with an umbrella contract like a World Wide Protective Services (WPPS) task order that had several contractors, federal law requires that all such contractors be given a fair opportunity to compete for task orders issued under that contract," the State Department spokesman said.
McDonald's is asking all its agencies to compete for creative tasks assignment by assignment; it recently awarded a global campaign for its Big Mac sandwich to Leo Burnett Worldwide in Chicago, part of the Publicis Groupe.
As long as states were able to take care of social services -- like schools, hospitals, public transportation and garbage removal -- there were few incentives for private citizens to compete for the tasks.
However, some adverse effects have also been described, including students not being compatible with each other, not wanting to compete for clinical tasks, having to share the preceptor's attention and time, and having less time to practice independently [ 13].
In the final stages of a review for that assignment, the company decided that a separate agency would handle the children's assignment, and named three finalists to compete for that task: Campbell Mithun; Grey Worldwide in New York, part of the Grey Global Group; and Lowe Lintas & Partners Worldwide, part of the Lowe Group unit of Interpublic.
Myers said that he may recommend to the City Council that the financial grant to Westside Legal Services be limited to six months in the next fiscal year, beginning July 1, to allow other agencies to compete for the task of providing legal services to poor people.
They compete for approximately 3m tasks or projects each year, which can range from tagging photos to writing code.
(2) visuospatial cognitive tasks compete for resources with visuospatial images [18] [21].
Visuospatial cognitive tasks compete for processing resources with visual images (Holmes, Brewin, & Hennessy, 2004) and may therefore interfere with memory consolidation of these flashbacks by competition for the same limited cognitive resources.
