Gantt charts are used to schedule project tasks. Invented by Henry Gantt, they take the form of a horizontal bar chart with time on the horizontal axis and tasks on the vertical axis. The ends of the bars represent the start and finish times of the tasks.

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25 July 2024

This week's quote is about academic careers.

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21 July 2024

Possessive apostrophes are used to show ownership or association, such as "Mary's book" or "Tom's dance club." Its use is the same in American and British English. However, the rules that govern its use can be somewhat complicated.

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18 July 2024

This week's quote is about the mind.

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14 July 2024

Getting everybody to work one-to-one with everyone else during a course is one of those tasks that you think should be easy to arrange, but when you try to work out the pairings, the combinations never quite seem to work.

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11 July 2024

The Xzistor LAB is planning to build an artificial agent that learns to talk like a baby using artificial emotions! Rocco Van Schalkwyk and Alireza Dehnozorgi have written a new paper describing the theory and multi-stage project. You can read their paper on ResearchGate.

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8 July 2024

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7 July 2024

Managers have found the technique of Positive Reinforcement and Feedback to be an effective motivator of people. The basic principle behind this technique is the belief that behaviour is a result of its consequences. That is, a manager can increase the likelihood of a specific behaviour occurring by reinforcing the behaviour when it does occur. Feedback, therefore, is a powerful motivational tool.

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4 July 2024