A coach may read a sports story for its threat value: he may have to play that team next week.

A team of researchers trained three rhesus monkeys to associate 26 clearly different symbols consisting of numbers and selective letters with 0-25 drops of water or juice as a reward.

According to the analysis of Babbitt's team, old desktop monitors and box TVs with cathode ray tubes are the worst devices with their energy consumption and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions more than doubling during the 1992 to 2007 window.

An A-team may require A balance—not just A players, but a few generous B players as well.

Another possibility is that when there is a lot of talent on a team, some players may make less effort.

Another trend is off-site or virtual management, where teams of people linked by e-mail and the Internet work on projects from their own houses.

Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated.

Building up a dream team is more complex than simply hiring the best talent.

Creating an atmosphere in which employees feel part of a team is a big challenge.

Finally, we faced the number one team in the state.

For football and basketball, adding talented players to a team proves a good method, but only up to the point where 70% of the players are top talent; above that level, the team's performance begins to decline.

From the experience, I learned a lot about how the attitude of the leader can affect the members of a team.

Here's how Harvard Medical School scientist Margaret Livingstone, who led the team, described the experiment: in their cages the monkeys were provided with touch screens.

I remember back in high school I spent most of my day at school since I also played a team sport.

In addition, the team set up a separate experiment that suggested that the baby birds that most closely imitated their mom's voice were rewarded with the most food.

In Julius Caesar, for example, Cassius's sly provocation of Brutus to take up arms against Caesar was the basis for a discussion of methods of team building and grass roots organising.

In the Stilton Cheese RollingCompetition, competitors on each team must roll a wooden cheese in their own lane.

It struck me that playing against the other team was a great learning moment for all the girls on the team.

It was a tradition for the school's old team to play against the new team at the end of spring practice.

Last summer, she wanted to join out local swim team.

Last year, I spent all my time looking for a job where, without dealing with the public, I could work alone, but still have a team to talk to.

Learn rock climbing and work as a team, and enjoy the great outdoor environment.

Led by professor Phil Blythe, the Newcastle team are developing in-vehicle technologies for older drivers which they hope could help them to continue driving into later life.

Most people believe the best way to build a great team is to gather a group of the most talented individuals.

Much of the work in today's world is accomplished in teams.

My daughter plays on a recreational soccer team.

None more so than husband and wife team Kenneth and Carol Adelman, well-known advisers to the White House, who started up a training company called \movers and Shakespeares\.

Parents should actively urge their children to take advantage of the opportunity to join sports teams.

Project managers evaluate the performance of the team members in terms of what they produce for projects, rather than the amount of time they spend on them.

Rideout's team thinks that the California condors' average survival time in the wild is now just under eight years.

Sam, English major, member of the college basketball team.

She and her research team wanted to know the Internet is changing memory.

She came back on the softball team.

Some argue that humans and machines can coexist as long as they work in teams—yet that is not possible unless machines share the goals of humans.

Somewhere along the way, the same parent ends up becoming an invaluable member of the team.

Sports team owners spend millions of dollars attracting top talent.

Teams of four, dressed in a variety of strange and funny clothes, roll a complete cheese along a 50-metre course.

That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their vacations, we met every day and practiced passing and kicking the football.

The intelligent transport team at newcastle university have turned an electric car into a mobile laboratory named \drivelab\ in order to understand the challenges faced by older drivers and to discover where the key stress points are.

The nursery team switches him every few days with his sister so that while one is being bottle-fed, the other is with mum-she never suspects.

The old team had no coach, and they didn't even practice to prepare for the game.

The sparrow's team typed the information into a computer.

The team are working hard to analyze the problem so that they can find the best solution.

The team discovered that some synapses seem to be protected and stayed the same size.

The team hopes to make it to market in the near future.

The team left 100 wax worms on a commercial polyethylene shopping bag for 12 hours, and the worms consumed and broke down about 92 milligrams, or almost 3% of it.

The team practice, however was a rough start.

The team transforms the family's long weekend of celebration with less expensive but still tasty recipes.

The whole team count on Cristiano Ronaldo, and he seldom lets them down.

They conclude that when task interdependence is high, team performance will suffer when there is too much talent, while individual talent will have positive effects on team performance when task interdependence is lower.

They did well this season and so entered a tournament, which normally was only for more skilled club teams.

Thinking hard about it, I came to realize that my team might not be the number one team in georgia, but they were depending on me.

This led to some painful experiences on Saturday as they played against teams better trained.

Through the first two games, her team did not get one serious shot on goal.

Thursday, that's tomorrow, for those of you who want to get into the school team.

To explain this phenomenon, the researchers explored the degree to which a good performance by a team requires its members to coordinate their actions.

Today, Paris is back on the softball team.

Tononi's team measured the size of these connections, or synapses, in the brains of 12 mice.

Vaillant's team obtained their findings by comparing different sets of scores.

When I was 13 my only purpose was to become the star on our football team.

Working with the medical team in Africa has brought out the best in her as a doctor.

Young children learning to play team sports are often told, ＂There is no I in team.\

They need to rid their minds of sentimentalism ( ' , 感情用事): the most successful teams have leaders who are able to set an overall direction and take immediate action.

They need to keep teams small and focused: giving in to pressure to be more inclusive is a guarantee of dysfunction.

They need to immunise teams against group-think: Hackman argued that the best ones contain deviants ( ' , 离经叛道者) who are willing to do something that may be upsetting to others.

These teams are gaining more power to run their own affairs.

The least that can be concluded from this research is that companies need to think harder about managing teams.

The late Richard Hackman of Harvard University once argued, I have no question that when you have a team, the possibility exists that it will generate magic, producing something extraordinary… But don't count on it.

The fashion for teams is driven by a sense that the old way of organising people is too rigid for both the modern marketplace and the expectations of employees.

The fashion for teams is also spreading from the usual corporate suspects ( ' , such as GE and IBM) to some more unusual ones.

The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality ( ' , 专业) and rank.

Teamwork is most effective when team members share the same culture.

Teams work best if their members have a strong common culture.

Teams have become the basic building-blocks of organisations.

Teams are as old as civilisation, of course: even Jesus had 12 co-workers.

Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross-functional teams.

Successful team leaders know exactly where the team should go and are able to take prompt action.

Some team members find it hard to agree on questions like membership and the team's purpose.

Recruitment advertisements routinely call for team players.

Profound changes in the workforce are making teams trickier to manage.

Office managers knock down walls to encourage team building.

Members of poorly managed teams are easily distracted from their work.

Loosely managed teams can become hotbeds of distraction—employees routinely complain that they can't get their work done because they are forced to spend too much time in meetings or compelled to work in noisy offices.

Leigh Thompson of Kellogg School of Management in Illinois warns that, Teams are not always the answer—teams may provide insight, creativity and knowledge in a way that a person working independently cannot; but teamwork may also lead to confusion, delay and poor decision-making.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon's boss, says that If I see more than two pizzas for lunch, the team is too big.

It didn't take long for magazines and documentary film-makers to come to understand her total recall, and thanks to the subsequent media interest, a few dozen other subjects ( ' , including Veiseh) have since come forward and contacted the team at the University of California, Irvine.

In many companies, the conventional form of organisation is giving way to a network of teams.

In his book, Team of Teams, General Stanley McChrystal describes how the army's hierarchical structure hindered its operations during the early stages of the Iraq war.

In a study of 120 teams of senior executives, he discovered that less than 10% of their supposed members agreed on who exactly was on the team.

If it is hard enough to define a team's membership, agreeing on its purpose is harder still.

However, organisations need to learn something bigger than how to manage teams better: they need to be in the habit of asking themselves whether teams are the best tools for the job.

However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use team as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.

His solution was to learn something from the rebels it was fighting: decentralising authority to self-organising teams.

High-flyers ( ' , 能干的人) who are forced to work in teams may be undervalued and free-riders empowered.

Hackman ( ' , who died in 2013) noted that teams are hindered by problems of co-ordination and motivation that chip away at the benefits of collaboration.

Deloitte argues that a new organisational form is on the rise: a network of teams is replacing the conventional hierarchy ( ' , 等级体制).

Consider the current moment in your own life, your team or your organization.

Companies are abandoning conventional functional departments and organising employees into crossdisciplinary teams that focus on particular products, problems or customers.

Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on ( ' , 开始) it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

The team was led by Dr.

One of the creatures made a dramatic appearance by moving on to the head of the team leader as he slept.

His team was hit by a snowmobile driver, injuring several dogs and killing a three-year-old male dog.

A snowmobile driver had repeatedly attempted to harm her and her team, and one of Zircle’s dogs had received a non-lifethreatening injury.

The team behind the article and video in question make no mention of the system, or whether or not it detected them.

The team at Frontpoint addresses the issue in a blog on its site, citing their own jam protection software and claiming that there aren't any documented cases of successful jam attack since the company began offering wireless security sensors in the 1980s.

For them, the right kind of gamification might be turning their sales pitches into a competition with other team members, complete with a digital leaderboard showing who is winning at all times.

Employees formed storm chaser teams and competed in storm-themed educational exercises to earn various rewards.

The first test market results surprised even the ConAgra team.

The team conducted a computer-based analysis to determine the impact a 3-g-per-day reduction in salt intake on rates of heart disease and death.

This week's announcement of a new iPhone by a management team led by Tim Cook, who replaced Mr Jobs as chief executive in August, was generally regarded as competent but uninspiring.

A greater choice of courses, and, of course, better football teams.

It helps to create team spirit

But in single-sex schools teachers can tailor lessons to boys' learning style, letting them move around the classroom and getting them to compete in teams to prevent boredom, wrote the study's author, Abigail James, of the University of Virginia.

In one 1990s experiment, a team including psychologist Joel Cooper of Princeton asked participants to write essays opposing funding for the disabled.

I heard your baseball team is going to the Middle Atlantic Championship.

What is the woman's team doing

A snowmobile driver had repeatedly attempted to harm her and her team, and one of zircle's dogs had received a non-life-threatening injury.

A team of researchers from the University of York conducted a randomized (随机的) control trial with 691 depressed patients from 83 physician practices across England.

But Goel and his team sourced the online discussion forum to find all 40,000 questions that had ever been asked since the class was launched.

Goel and his team developed several versions of Jill Watson before releasing her to the online forums.

his team was hit by a snowmobile driver, injuring several dogs and killing a three-year-old male dog.

However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use team as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.

In a recent experiment, Japanese researchers taped 30 domestic cats reacting to a container that a team member shook.

In his book, Team of Teams, General Stanley McChrystal describe show the army's hierarchical structure hindered its operations during the early stages of the Iraq war.

It didn't take long for magazines and documentary filmmakers to come to understand her total recall, and thanks to the subsequent media interest, a few dozen other subjects including Veise have since come forward and contacted the team at the University

Now Komada coaches the school's chess team.

Recruitment advertisements routinely call for team players.

So, to evaluate the risks of infection, the study team flew on 10 different flights in the US.

The competition only happens every four years and the last time the team went, they won the third place in the nation.

The team at Frontpoint addresses the issue in a blog on its site, citing their own jam protection software and claiming that there aren't any documented cases of successful jam attack since the company began offering wireless security sensors in the 1980s

The team at Stanford investigated the aquifers below this depth, and found that reserves may be triple what was previously thought.

The team found that exerciser educed the speed of rapid eye movements by about 8%, preventing their ability to capture new visual information.

In a chaotic two days of flying, the rescue team flew 3,000 miles roundtrip from the British station Rothera to pick up the workers at the Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole.

Their art crime team recovered the letter but were unable to press charges because the time of limitations had ended.

They were all edited for gender and other identifying information, so Dutt and her team could assign them a score without knowing the gender of the student.

To determine what separates science crowdfunding triumphs from failures, a team led by science communications scholar Mike Schafer of the University of Zurich examined the content of the webpages for 371 recent campaigns.

To do this, the team used data from the British Household Panel Survey compiled by the University of Essex.

To take a closer look, her team studied healthy people as they slept in the unfamiliar environment of the university's Department of Psychological Sciences.

To test that theory, the team examined the yellowish, dried remains inside the vessels.

The state's facilities management project team is still in the process of developing its business justification and expects to have that completed and available to the public at the end of February, Martin said.

The most recent one took place last week in Washington, D.C.Students join a team through their schools, which provide a volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state competitions.

The football team, the basketball team—that's our competition for resources, student time, attention, school dollars, parent efforts, school enthusiasm.

The challenge is if certain types of people are doing something, it's difficult for other people to break into it, said Po-Shen Loh, the head coach of last year's winning U.S.Math Olympiad team.

Teams of four students make a video illustrating a math problem and its real-world application.

Nearly all members of last year's winning U.S.IMO team took part in MathCounts as middle school students, as did Loh, the coach.

Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad ( ' , IMO)—the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

Earlier this year, British explorer  Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.

The team focused on athletes since they are theoretically the best role models for active, healthy lifestyles for children.

Whether it's a sports team or a presidential campaign, everybody relishes having the big momentum, because it makes them harder to stop or change direction.

Why does love die?Changing technology and markets have stimulated the team approach tomanagement.

Together, the team may then produce something new, unique and superior to that of any one member.

Therefore, team building may be necessary in order to improve the group’s performance.

Team management provides for this coordination.

Team management calls for new skills if personnel potential is tobe fully realized.

If a team manager exemplifies such qualities, then the team as a whole would be better able to realize their potential and achieve their objectives.

He believes that team corporation results when members go beyond their individual capabilities, beyond what each is used to being and doing.

Furthermore, the issue is not just how the team can function more effectively, but how it integrates with the overall organization, or society that it supposes it serves.

Casey, an expert in this field, suggests that the cooperation process within teams mustbe organized, promoted and managed.

Although a team may be composed of knowledgeable people, they must learn new ways of relating and working together to solve cross-functional problems.

A group of individuals is notautomatically a team.

Precisely because they were working with old-fashioned machines, George Martin and his team of engineers were forced to apply every ounce of their creativity to solve the problems posed to them by Lennon and McCartney.

In recent years, teams of workers dispatched by Google have been working hard to make digital copies of books.

In a study that will appear in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Plant's team tested 229 students during the height of the Obama fever.

While the team can't be sure their results are due solely to Obama, they also showed that those with the lowest bias were likely to subconsciously associate black skin colour with political words such as \government\ or \president\

One photo showed him at an award ceremony, where he had been honored for his financial contribution to a local baseball team.

He hoped that these added effects would encourage his audience to support local sports teams.

He had also planned the content of his speech to focus on the teams with the best records, the ones that had won the most games in the last season

You believe you have leadership abilities and your boss put you in charge of a new work team.

In a division of electronic engineers, who were designing equipments so advanced that they work in teams of up to 150, co-workers and managers were asked to nominate the standouts- the stars in productivity and effectiveness

A scientific team is studying the thinking ability of eleven and half months old children.

The proof, which was published last week in Science, comes from a team of scientists from Uppsala University in Sweden and California Institute of Technology who drew deep holes near the edge of ice sheet.

The man plays center on the basketball team.

Our basketball team is playing in the finals but I don't have a ticket

\The state's facilities management project team is still in the process of developing its business justification and expects to have that completed and available to the public at the end of February,\ Martin said.

A group of individuals is not automatically a team.

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

Another team at Nagoya University in Japan has tested calcium compound as an energy storage material.

Being a good team player is a central skill in our modern workplace.

But the other team members were working as hard and long as he was.

But when our diverse team of researchers from six different disciplines and eight different countries began to review what was known, we were shocked that only a dozen previous studies had been done, including one we ourselves completed on language divers

Cerling's team collected tap water samples from 600 cities and constructed a map of the regional differences.

Changing technology and markets have stimulated the team approach to management.

Each team is crossbreeding a local European short-grain rice with a long-grain Asian variety that carries the salt-resistant gene.

Earlier this year, British explorer Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.

For example, a team at Tohoku University in Japan has studied materials that can store large amounts of heat.

However, finding a balance between team efforts and individual projects that give you independent recognition is important for making a name for yourself and providing opportunities for advancement.

However, placing too much emphasis on being a good team player can negatively affect your career growth.

I juggled cross-country and track schedules, newspaper staff, and my church's youth group and drama team.

kimura's team intends to use its temp-formed steel to make ultra-high strength parts, such as bolts.

Less inherently interpersonal subjects, such as math, could acquire a social aspect through team problem solving and peer tutoring.

Next, Twenge's team dug a little deeper into the data on screen time.

Our research team has been looking at cultural differences in self-enhancing motivations, helping people have positive feelings towards not only themselves, but things connected to themselves.

Students join a team through their schools, which provide a volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state competitions.

Team management calls for new skills if personnel potential is to be fully realized.

The feature's team deals with articles such as careers, reports, confidence and confessions.

The Queensland rock violet is one of the best studied resurrection plants so far, with a draft genome(基因图谱) published last year by a Chinese team.

The team plans to return to around a dozen of the buildings to assess progress and consider further action.

Therefore, team building may be necessary in order to improve the group's performance.

This time around, Twenge and her team make a point of saying that they are not trying to establish causes as such, but that they are assessing the plausibility of potential causes.

This was accomplished so that the team could examine and repair the churches' original medieval stone blocks.

This will maximize the benefits and minimize the downsides of being a team player.

When Jean-Claude killy made the French national ski team in the early 1960s, he was prepared to work harder than anyone else to be the best.

Working in a team can have huge benefits.

Your team may have repeated successes and often gain recognition.