Sentence examples for dummy task from inspiring English sources

After calculating the expected start time and completion time of task t, the method checks whether t has an execution time equal to 0 (i.e., checks if task t is a dummy task, defined in Section "Problem Description and Resource Management Model") (line 10).

If task t is a dummy task, it does not need to be scheduled on a resource because it has an execution time equal to 0 and only the task's scheduled start time and completion time need to be set (line 11).

Subjects were engaged in a dummy task to detect infrequently presented target stimuli.

A 4 min dummy task immediately preceded each rest session, in which the participant passively viewed dynamic point light displays of human whole-body movements or scrambled versions that showed the same individual dot motions, but with random positions [37].

To ensure that the second resting period was not affected by perseverating on the motor task, we preceded each rest period by a 4 min "dummy" task, in which the subjects observed point light displays of human movements or scrambled dots.

Changes in resting activity were not limited to the time immediately after learning, but were measured after conscious processing has been redirected to an unrelated dummy task for a period of 4 min. Consequently, our results should not be confounded by processing attributable to ruminating about the tracking task.

To maintain a consistent level and distribution of spatial attention across the experimental conditions, subjects were required to perform an unrelated ("dummy") attention-requiring task during presentation of the stimuli in all experiments mentioned below, except as noted (see Methods).

Across different scan blocks, subjects were cued to detect changes in contrast (color or luminance; see Methods) in a target dot, which was located either 1) at the center of the screen, or 2) distributed unpredictably and randomly across the display screen (i.e., similar to the dummy dot-detection task used in Experiments 1 3).

South duly ruffed in the dummy and faced a difficult task.

It is true that teasing out the healing effects offered by a drug from the benefits bestowed by a dummy pill is a difficult task, particularly when the drug in question is intended to treat chronic illnesses like depression, arthritis or hypertension, whose symptoms worsen at some times and improve at others.

His place in Allied forces' history was secured when he leapt from a plane with 200 dummy parachutists and his crew, tasked with distracting German troops.