Training
hideThe term training refers to the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills and knowledge that relate to specific useful competencies. It forms the core of apprenticeships and provides the backbone of content at institutes of technology (also known as technical colleges or polytechnics). In addition to the basic training required for a trade, occupation or profession, observers of the labor-market[who?] recognize today[update] the need to continue training beyond initial qualifications: to maintain, upgrade and update skills throughout working life. People within many professions and occupations may refer to this sort of training as professional development.
Some commentators use a similar term for workplace learning to improve performance: training and development. One can generally categorize such training as on-the-job or off-the-job:
Training differs from exercise in that people may dabble in exercise as an occasional activity for fun. Training has specific goals of improving one's capability, capacity, and performance.
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News tagged with training
To work your brain, work your body
Mar 13, 2009 |
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The problem: I lost my car keys. What kind of training will make my brain work better?
Turn On, Tune In, Develop? Researchers Examine How Brain Benefits From Musical Training
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 06, 2009 |
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For most people music is an enjoyable, although momentary, form of entertainment. But for those who seriously practiced a musical instrument when they were young, perhaps when they played in a school orchestra ...
Pulling together increases your pain threshold
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study of Oxford rowers shows that members of a team who exercise together are able to tolerate twice as much pain as when they train on their own.
Muscle: 'Hard to build, easy to lose' as you age
Sep 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Have you ever noticed that people have thinner arms and legs as they get older? As we age it becomes harder to keep our muscles healthy. They get smaller, which decreases strength and increases the likelihood ...
Survey highlights trainee teachers' misconceptions about the brain
Sep 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many teachers appear to be leaving training college with serious misconceptions about how the brain functions, new research suggests.
Taking up music so you can hear
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Anyone with an MP3 device -- just about every man, woman and child on the planet today, it seems -- has a notion of the majesty of music, of the primal place it holds in the human imagination.
Knee injuries may start with strain on the brain, not the muscles (w/ Podcast)
Jul 24, 2009 |
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New research shows that training your brain may be just as effective as training your muscles in preventing ACL knee injuries, and suggests a shift from performance-based to prevention-based athletic training programs.
Perfect pitch study offers window into influences of nature and nurture
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Practice, practice, practice might get you to Carnegie Hall, but for aspiring musicians, there's new evidence that genes may influence one's ability to get there, as well.
German 'science train': next stop Shanghai 2010?
May 21, 2009 |
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How will we feed nine billion people in the future? Can we ever have a disease-free world? Can robots play football?
Cognitive behavior therapy helps older adults with anxiety reduce worry, improve mental health
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Older adults with generalized anxiety disorder who received cognitive behavior therapy had greater improvement on measures of worry, depression and mental health than patients who received usual care, according to a study ...
Can mental training games help prevent Alzheimer's?
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Loss of thinking power is a fear shared by many aging baby boomers. That fear has resulted in a budding industry for brain training products - exercises such as Brain Age, Mindfit and My Brain Trainer - which in 2007 generated ...
Building strong bones: Running may provide more benefits than resistance training
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Osteoporosis affects more than 200 million people worldwide and is a serious public health concern, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation. Resistance training often is recommended to increase and ...
If you're aggressive, your dog will be too, study
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Feb 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new, year-long University of Pennsylvania survey of dog owners who use confrontational or aversive methods to train aggressive pets, veterinary researchers have found that most of these animals will ...
Cognitive training can alter the biochemistry of the brain
Feb 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have shown for the first time that the active training of the working memory brings about visible changes in the number of dopamine receptors ...
Strategic video game improves critical cognitive skills in older adults
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 11, 2008 |
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A desire to rule the world may be a good thing if you're over 60 and worried about losing your mental faculties. A new study found that adults in their 60s and 70s can improve a number of cognitive functions by playing a ...
