Never-ending improvement is the heart of any continuous improvement effort.  The Deming Cycle, or PDCA, is one of the first ...

The cycle of abuse includes four stages—tension building, abuse, reconciliation, and calm—that allow abusers to control their victims through fear and manipulation. This pattern can trap victims and ...

Problem solving is the mental process of analyzing a situation, learning what options are available, and then choosing the alternative that will result in the desired outcome or some other ...

But there was a problem. It shouldn't have been possible for such massive galaxies — the earliest of which formed just some 500 to 700 million years after the universe was created — to have ...

Record temperatures last year pushed the global water cycle to “new climatic extremes ... to clean up this dangerous and expensive problem. The Tide Could Finally Be Turning Against the ...

In this new effort, Microsoft has focused its efforts on not just solving math problems, but also in teaching an SLM how to reason its way through a problem. In developing its model, Microsoft made it ...

Using parts of these theories, Hartman developed his own model to describe sudden insights in word puzzle solving, including the benefit of the type of partial knowledge common to word puzzles.

Major League Baseball continues to see a gap between the haves and have-nots. Major League Baseball continues to see a growing disparity between the haves and have-nots of the 30 clubs. Here are ...

But what does the science say? Cognitive scientists have been thinking about problem-solving for decades. Some of the earliest cognitive scientists were also early computer scientists, and were ...

Britain is in a 17-year funk. A series of crises—some global and some homemade—have battered the British economy since 2008. GDP growth has been cut in half in the years since the global ...

Most voters will sit them out. This is an off-the-radar problem that imposes surprising, jaw-dropping costs on Americans (more on that in a moment). But unlike many of the problems facing American ...