The fire commissioner, Nicholas Scoppetta, said the department would introduce a cap on overtime for firefighters, officers and marshals to 81.25 hours per quarter, or 325 hours a year, for certain tasks that do not involve fighting fires or rescuing people.
But that explanation increasingly appears to be inadequate, since studies have shown that bilinguals perform better than monolinguals even at tasks that do not require inhibition, like threading a line through an ascending series of numbers scattered randomly on a page.
And to a large extent, success in practical service robotics has revolved around choosing or designing tasks that do not require changes of that kind.Both Mr Angle of iRobot and Mr Zini of Aethon are very keen on the word "practical".
The devices could also replace smartphones at quick, simple tasks that don't require much work.
Alexandra Mayzler, who owns Thinking Caps Tutoring, has also delegated tasks that don't get done.
If you're intent of getting some work done, it's probably best to stick to tasks that don't require Wi-Fi.
The lesson from the laboratory is clear: thinking about tasks that don't require thought isn't just pointless, it's debilitating.
Most items are composite tasks that do not take into account compensatory strategies in the scoring system and are biased by testing positions and contractures.
Recent practices suggest that clinical pharmacy technicians (CPTs) could complete some clinic tasks that do not require knowledge or skills of CPs (Desselle and Holmes (2017).
MTurk is an online crowd-sourcing marketplace that matches workers with those requesting assistance on tasks that do not require specific training, such as survey completion.
To extend these findings to adults, we designed two experiments to probe executive motor control in people who stutter using manual reaction time tasks that do not rely on speech production.
