Scientists have designed a brain implant that sharpened decision making and restored lost mental capacity in monkeys, providing the first demonstration in primates of the sort of brain prosthesis that could eventually help people with damage from dementia, strokes or other brain injuries.
"In a financial climate of falling income and rising demand for services, understanding and articulating this appetite can bring the opportunity to innovate, improve services, win new contracts, sharpen decision making and increase efficiency".
The twin jobs, created by the Lisbon Treaty in 2009, were supposed to sharpen European decision-making, particularly on foreign policy, and to give the EU a distinct global voice.
He is right, too, to declare that the EU must sharpen up its ways of collective decision-making as it expands from its present membership of 15 to as many as 27.
The sessions back home in Pittsburgh the past two summers to work with Tony Colaizzi, his former high school quarterbacks coach at Central Catholic, and former NFL quarterback Gus Frerotte, have sharpened some of his weaknesses: his footwork, decision-making and athleticism.
And stress makes good decision-making harder.
Still, the Kremlin-like opacity of his decision-making — his own evident paranoia, sharpened by years in exile during Saddam Hussein's rule — have made some of his decisions appear capricious and contradictory.
Morris's decision-making with his running has sharpened exponentially in the last few months, after an exciting but raw start to the season, but his cool in finishing is that of a born striker.
Dr. Lisa V. Rubinstein, president of the Society of General Internal Medicine, said that sharing in decision-making "will help raise the quality of care given by any clinician, because it will sharpen the focus on the key decision points and help the clinician put a plan in place that the patient understands and agrees with".
The City Monitor is meant to enhance and sharpen the quality of strategic urban debates and, as a consequence, it has to be regarded as only one single element in complex urban decision-making processes.
Decision-making is cumbersome.
