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  2. Delayed gratification - Wikipedia

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    In other words, self-control abilities are malleable, [21] a fact that can be a source of hope for those who struggle with this skill. In psychotherapy, treatment for impulse-control issues often involves teaching individuals to realize the downsides of acting on immediate urges and in turn to practice delaying gratification.

  3. Opinion: A record number of teachers are leaving the job ...

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    Instead, I became one of the record number of teachers not returning to the job. Teacher turnover, long a problem in K-12 education, has reached a record high since the pandemic hit, ...

  4. Procrastination - Wikipedia

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    Procrastination is the act of unnecessarily delaying or postponing something despite knowing that there could be negative consequences for doing so. It is a common human experience involving delays in everyday chores or even putting off tasks such as attending an appointment, submitting a job report or academic assignment, or broaching a stressful issue with a partner.

  5. Delaying tactic - Wikipedia

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    Delaying tactics are a part of the body's natural response to perceived threats. Freezing is an automatic, involuntary response to fear. This tactic delays other responses, allowing for more time to process the situation and gather information before taking any action. [12]

  6. Manchester school board approves five new contracts

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    Nov. 27—Manchester school board members voted Monday to approve a new three-year deal with city teachers that includes a 9% raise in year one, a hike in hiring bonuses and four additional work ...

  7. Tardiness (scheduling) - Wikipedia

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    Typical examples include job scheduling in manufacturing and data delivery scheduling in data processing networks. [1] In manufacturing environment, inventory management considers both tardiness and earliness undesirable. Tardiness involves backlog issues such as customer compensation for delays and loss of goodwill.

  8. Match-to-sample task - Wikipedia

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    The match-to-sample task has been shown to be an effective tool to understand the impact of sleep deprivation on short-term memory. One research study [9] compared performance on a traditional sequential test battery with that on a synthetic work task requiring subjects to work concurrently on several tasks, testing subjects every three hours during 64 hrs of sleep deprivation.

  9. Termination of employment - Wikipedia

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    A less severe form of involuntary termination is often referred to as a layoff (also redundancy or being made redundant in British English). A layoff is usually not strictly related to personal performance but instead due to economic cycles or the company's need to restructure itself, the firm itself going out of business, or a change in the function of the employer (for example, a certain ...