In recent months, much attention has been given to the probable extent of the current downtrend in business and economists are somewhat divided as to the outlook for the near future.

Traditionally, statistics such as batting average ( the number of hits divided by the number of at bats ) and earned run average ( the average number of earned runs allowed by a pitcher per nine innings ) have dominated attention in the statistical world of baseball.

In the 1960s, Brazil became politically divided with the arrival of a military dictatorship, and the leftist musicians of bossa nova started to gather attention to the music made in the favelas.

While the central Song court remained politically divided and focused upon its internal affairs, alarming new events to the north in the Liao state finally came to its attention.

With James's supervision, Stein and another student, Leon Mendez Solomons, performed experiments on normal motor automatism, a phenomenon hypothesized to occur in people when their attention is divided between two simultaneous intelligent activities such as writing and speaking.

Specific attention is divided into: the site, location and solar orientation of the building, local sun path, the prevailing level of insolation ( latitude / sunshine / clouds / precipitation ( meteorology ) ), design and construction quality / materials, placement / size / type of windows and walls, and incorporation of solar-energy-storing thermal mass with heat capacity.

This problem is at times called " focused attention ", as opposed to " divided attention ".

Despite Odo's agreement with Hugh, the Count of Blois exploited Fulk's divided attention to install a force at Château de Châteaudun from which he could move to capture Laneais should the opportunity arise.

The competition provided at the time of recall due to divided attention slows down the process, yet has little to no effect on its accuracy.

Another possible finding for the minimal effect of divided attention is that the process of recall may include less parallel processing than other memory processes.

It has also been observed that different parts of the brain are at work depending on whether one is recalling with full rather than divided attention.

Other Cooper scripts are more routine, perhaps in part because the author's attention was divided by other projects.

The lice of the First World War trenches nicknamed " cooties " were also known as " arithmetic bugs " because " they added to our troubles, subtracted from our pleasures, divided our attention, and multiplied like hell.

He retired to his estate at Véretz ( Indre-et-Loire ), but frequently visited Paris, and divided his attention between literature and his farm.

Despite the Nordic countries ' cooperation, European engineering efforts were divided among the various standards, and the Japanese standards did not get much attention.

* 26 — The Supreme Court of the United States, being divided 4 — 4, affirms the ruling of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals which struck down an Oklahoma state law allowing teachers to be fired for " advocating, soliciting, imposing, encouraging or promoting public or private homosexual activity in a manner that creates a substantial risk that such conduct will come to the attention of school children or school employees ".

He became secretary to the duke of Uzes, and practised at the bar, but his attention was divided between his profession and literature.

The theoretical perspectives of this era can be divided into four categories: ( a ) selective exposure and cognitive availability, ( b ) salience and focus of attention, ( c ) logical information processing, and ( d ) motivational processes.

Based on analyses of driving tasks which drivers have to cope with, e. g. multiple tasks requiring divided attention, psychologists ’ primary orientation in the design process is towards human needs.

The latter divided his attention between heroic comedies and comedies de capa y espada and, though wanting in ideas and taste, they enjoyed a long popularity.

Distraction is the divided attention of an individual or group from the chosen object of attention onto the source of distraction.

While some studies have found that older adults have a more difficult time encoding and retrieving information when their attention is divided, other studies have not found meaningful differences from younger adults.

For the States which maintain two separate agencies -- one for the vocational rehabilitation of the blind, and one for the rehabilitation of persons other than the blind -- the Act specifies that their minimum ( base ) allotment shall be divided between the two agencies in the same proportion as it was divided in fiscal year 1954.

`` We, the Subscribers, do agree, that as soon as a convenient Number of Persons have subscribed to this, or a similar Writing, We will present a petition to the Hon'ble General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, praying for an Act incorporating into a Body politic the subscribers to such Writing with Liberty to build such a Bridge, and a Right to demand a Toll equal to that received at Malden Bridge, and on like Terms, and if such an Act shall be obtained, then we severally agree each with the others, that we will hold in the said Bridge the several shares set against our respective Names, the whole into two hundred shares being divided, and that we will pay such sums of Money at such Times and in such Manners, as by the said proposed Corporation, shall be directed and required ''.

A plug and a tube with holes in its cylindrical walls divided the chamber above the porous plug into two parts.

Also, the dictionary is divided into at least two parts: the list of dictionary forms and the file of information that pertains to these forms.

The savages divided into two factions ; ;

Theresa turned away to escape, and climbed to a higher landing where the steps divided in two.

These two defunct phyla were the Myxomycota ( i. e., plasmodial slime molds, now classified in the taxon Myxogastria ), and Acrasiomycota ( i. e. cellular slime molds, now divided into the taxa Acrasida and Dictyosteliida ).

Amphibia in its widest sense ( sensu lato ) was divided into three subclasses, two of which are extinct:

Below this crack is another group of eleven parallel lines, again divided into two sections by a line perpendicular to them, but with the semicircle at the top of the intersection ; the third, sixth and ninth of these lines are marked with a cross where they intersect with the vertical line.

The Nepōhualtzintzin was divided in two main parts separated by a bar or intermediate cord.

The Agnostida are divided into two suborders — Agnostina and Eodiscina — that are then divided into a number of families.

It is divided into two parts: Spirit Prison and Paradise.

Physically, Antarctica is divided in two by Transantarctic Mountains close to the neck between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea.

The arms of the city are divided into two halves.

where < big ></ big > is the number of degrees of freedom divided by two, R is the universal gas constant and n is the number of moles in the system ( a constant ).

Theodosius died in 395, leaving the Empire to be divided between his two sons Arcadius and Honorius, the former taking the eastern and the latter, the western portion of the Empire.

The canonic nine are traditionally divided into two groups, with Alcaeus, Sappho and Anacreon, being ' monodists ' or ' solo-singers ', with the following characteristics:

In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.

Alfred's military reorganisation of Wessex consisted of three elements: the building of thirty fortified and garrisoned towns ( burhs ) along the rivers and Roman roads of Wessex ; the creation of a mobile ( horsed ) field force, consisting of his nobles and their warrior retainers, which was divided into two contingents, one of which was always in the field ; and the enhancement of Wessex's seapower through the addition of larger ships to the existing royal fleet.

The union was confirmed by Pope Paul V in 1606, at which time the congregation added the name of St. Barnabas to its title, adopted new constitutions, divided its houses into four provinces, two of them, St Clement's and St Pancras's, being in Rome.

Leonhart Rauwolff, in AD 1574, found it " divided ... into two towns ," the one " Turkish ," " so surrounded by the river, that you cannot go into it but by boats ," the other, much larger, on the Arabian side of the river.