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subgoal

(ˈsʌbˌɡəʊl)
n
a secondary goal
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I walked into his office in January 1975 armed with data on the effects of a subgoal on solving a variation of the missionary-cannibal problem that required transporting five missionaries and five cannibals across a river on a boat holding three people.
For example, whereas defining the concept of the exposome was a subgoal in the previous plan, the Exposome goal in the new plan emphasizes advancement of exposure science, development of new technologies, and integration of exposure science and the exposome into the wider universe of environmental health research, given the advances in this research area since 2012.
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To use the HRL method, we must first solve the two problems: (1) search the subgoal of the subtask and (2) decompose the task automatically.
(y = ls0) [conjunction] (x LP ls0 = x) :proofs ALGORITHM 2: The subgoal g1.
The role of frontopolar cortex in subgoal processing during working memory.
The results of this analysis reveal that high-performing students tend to be better at quickly identifying the relevance of a page to their subgoal, are more methodical in their exploration of the pedagogical content, rely on system prompts to take notes and summarize, and are more strategic in their preparation for the post-test (e.g., using the end of their session to briefly review pages).
In other words, the initial focus on what Don sees as "lifestyle changes" is only a subgoal, and my argument is that it is the best path to developing the awareness that will eventually enable achievement of the big, radical structural change he and I want to see.