By Friday Mr. Kerry was faced with the task of trying to discourage another outburst from the Turks and salvaging some chance of an improvement in ties between Turkey and Israel — the first a moderate Muslim-majority nation and important NATO ally, and the other the principal United States ally in the Middle East.
An act-out task was designed to discourage children from making incorrect pragmatic inferences and to prevent premature and ballistic responses by enforcing delayed actions.
That said, number of steps constituted the only measure in the study that was both non-subjective and non-verifiable, and as the intended purpose of the counting task was simply to discourage rehearsal of the learned material participants' instructions did not emphasize counting accuracy.
The task was chosen to discourage subjects from "figuring out" the experiment or using complicated cognitive strategies.
The intention of specifying the above tasks is not to discourage teachers from embarking on action research endeavours, rather to form a realistic expectation on what are required and the specific competencies that teachers need to acquire when embarking on action research endeavours.
Moreover, it said, claiming the credit is a task so complicated as to discourage many companies from trying.
They were also present in the Saccade task, which was designed to discourage any concomitant covert attention shifts.
Upper-bound adjustment is analogous to the "limited hold" procedure used in DRL, where non-reinforcement of the longest IRTs is intended to discourage task delinquency; it allows for a direct comparison between LHT and DRL (with limited hold) performance.
For instance, the task of creating a campaign to discourage violence among teenagers — being undertaken on behalf of the Family Violence Prevention Fund — has been awarded to R/GA in New York, an agency devoted to online work.
