The chefs tend to use seaweed, tofu, olives, egg, etc. to create face shapes, ears, whiskers, tails, snouts, fur, etc. Use existing animal shaped items such as chocolate, biscuits, etc., and add these onto food shapes.
Textile and shipping industries basically deal with irregular shaped items.
If you're trying to bring in candy bars or other slim, rectangular shaped items, tape them to the underside of your arm.
That meant I would somehow have to pack and ship the awkwardly shaped item -- it resembled a rolled-up 53-inch-long window blind and weighed nearly 10 pounds.
"Urgency and out-of-the-box odd shaped heavier items is where we win initially; as we refine the pricing to take into account different kinds of items".
If this prediction is correct, participants in both language conditions should show improvements across both elevation and shape items.
Apparently, instruction focusing attention using pointing and tracing gestures to highlight contour lines improved participants' performance on the TMA overall, on both elevation and shape items.
However, in considering the effects of language, it is important to note that there was little effect on the non-trained items (e.g., the Elevation Language group performed no worse on the shape items than the Open-ended group).
In addition, all of the items on the TMA were coded by two authors (SMW, KA) and two expert geoscientists, for whether each item was more likely to require knowledge about elevation information (i.e., elevation items) or knowledge about shape information (i.e., shape items).
To see if performance on the TMA (using the 22 items included in the majority coding) across the four groups varied by instruction and by item-type (elevation items and shape items), a mixed methods ANOVA was conducted with item-type as the within-subjects factor and instruction group as the between-subjects factor.
Finally, to determine how the Open-ended group compared to the Language groups on the untrained items, we compared the Shape Language group to the Open-ended group on elevation items, t 34), = 0.32, p = .75, d = 0.10, and the Elevation Language group to the Open-ended group on shape items, t 33) = 0.69, p = .50, d = 0.24.
