Acceptable behavior

Acceptable limits may differ considerably for the measured property values, however. For a majority of cases, responses can be classified as having either a maximum acceptable value, a minimum acceptable value, or a most desirable value within an acceptable range. For each response, these cases may be incorporated into a desirability factor having the range 0 < d < 1 with d 0 denoting an unacceptable response value and d 1 representing totally acceptable behavior. Intermediate values are determined by equations (22) based on the acceptable limits, the desired response value, and the type of response behavior desired by the formulator. 

All the qualities that relate to runtime behavior should be captured as part of the behavioral specification of the system,3 including requirements about security, availability, and performance, because they contribute to the definition of acceptable behavior. For example, the need to authenticate users before permitting them to access certain operations should be... 

An interaction equation, based on criteria from AHCE Manual 42 can be applied to determine acceptable behavior ... 

Electronic excitation of molecules lead to a drastic change of their reactivities. One effect of the excitation is the powerfiil change of the redox properties, a phenomenon which may lead to photoinduced electron transfer (PET) [1-4] The electron-donating as well as the electron-accepting behavior of the excited species are approximately enhanced by excitation energy. This can be explained by means of a simple orbital scheme. By excitation of either the electron donor (D) or the acceptor (A) of a given pair of molecules, the former thermodynamically unfavorable electron transfer process becomes exergonic (A et) (Scheme 1). 

Selfishness Physicians have a duty to act in the best interests of their patients. Pharmaceutical companies have a duty not only to their shareholders, but also to the community at large. To fulfill their duty to the community, pharmaceutical companies must operate within the confines of socially acceptable behavior or risk loss of reputation, public boycotts, or legislative action. Socially unacceptable behavior by a company can ultimately lead to loss of business and become a failure in its duty to its shareholders. Both the physicians and the pharmaceutical companies or their employees must not compromise these public duties in order to gain financial or other material benefits for themselves, their families or their friends. 

In a society where people are often judged by their appearance and the ideal body is thin, taking diet pills is often considered acceptable behavior. However, diet pills are a temporary solution to a long-term problem... 

She argued that many of the difficulties faced by women in the workplace—difficulties reinforced by the small numbers—arise from discord between the schema for acceptable behavior of women and the schema describing appropriate professional behavior in an organization. 

Being a parent is a lot like being a gardener. Parents must bathe, clothe, and feed their children. Parents must also create and maintain guidelines for acceptable behavior for children. Also, parents must see to it that their children get a proper education. 

They emphasized that environmental issues are mainly about justice, fairness, ethical choices, and acceptable behavior, not just acceptable risk. The earlier narrow focus on science and engineering was expanded to give explicit recognition to the importance of ethics and values in decisions. In 2001, the European Union expressed the contemporary view of the proper role of science in environmental protection when it said, science should be on tap, not on top. ... 

Fig. 14. Comparison of antiproton and proton stopping cross section in atomic hydrogen as a function of the projectile energy. The upper and lower dashed lines are the region of acceptable behavior for the antiproton with the central line being the average fit to the experimental data [64]. The results for protons on hydrogen are identical to Fig. 5.

The fourth-order FDTD method, so described, accomplishes low-phase errors even at relatively coarse resolutions, while its structural flexibility permits hybridization with the second-order Yee s technique. Also, the algorithm exhibits a relatively acceptable behavior for wideband applications. 

The first definition of ethics relates to conforming to universal norms, which are accepted behaviors that... 

Superego the conscience, the moral compass insisting on socially acceptable behavior, sometimes to the point of individual deprivation ... 

In seventeenth-century France, a country associated with elegance and fine taste, it was still considered perfectly acceptable, even at the royal court, to eat with the hands. In our society, eating with your hands is universally unacceptable, except when eating certain finger foods, such as French fries or chips and dips. ITowever, in many cultures of the Middle East and Africa, eating with the hands is still considered perfectly acceptable behavior. Likewise,... 

A coherent organization of the welter of data presented in the graphs of this article is no easy task. However, the attempt must be made, knowing that future results will challenge some of the ideas set forth. The generally accepted behavior of the reaction classes is maintained hydrogenations are less structure-sensitive than are most other reactions. For any one... 

Enol silyl ethers undergo alkylation with dicobalt-complexed propargylic alcohols after ionization of the latter with fluoroboric acid. A 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoro-isopropylphosphite ligand on the cobalt exerts its effect by virtue of a weakly (/-donating and strongly rr-accepting behavior. 

There are numerous techniques known for adhesion and delamination testing, some of the most common being a tape test, stud-pull test, scratch test, and an indentation test [1]. In the tape test, a tape is pulled off the surface containing a scratch, which provides the failure initiation. In the stud pull test, a stud held with thermosetting epoxy is pulled off the film surface. The indentation test, wherein a ball is pressed into the surface, is used for hard coatings, and the failure pattern indicates acceptable behavior. In the scratch test, where an indenter moves in both vertical (loading) and horizontal (sliding) directions, an acoustic emission sensor allows for detection of the initiation of fiacture, while the scratch pattern indicates the type of failure. 

Two important conclusions follow. One is that since deviance is rulebreaking, it is at once a disruptive and a stabilizing factor in society only by publicly displaying what is not acceptable behavior can the members of the group learn, and remember, what is acceptable. Without rule-following, there cannot be social life but without rulebreaking, there cannot be personal identity. Man s distinguishing characteristic is that he both obeys rules and disobeys them I... 

Fig. 4.9 Feedback among tree and beetle population processes involving terpenes. Beetles enter trees, produce pheromones, and deplete host resins, and trees respond with induces accumulation of monoterpenes that inhibit beetle entry, communication, and tunneling, as in Figure 3. However, beetle host acceptance behavior is plastic, and responds to interactions of regional (population phase) and local (plant surface) population density (Population Size Range of Monoterpenes Eliciting...

We have incorporated this hypothesis into Fig. 4.14, which is an expanded tritrophic version of Fig. 4.9. The top of this diagram now includes feedback between tunneling, which elicits oxygenated terpene and monoterpene emission and resulting arrival by predators and competitors, and impacts of these predators and competitors on beetle reproduction. Both of these relationships are well supported in the literature. " However, this model also proposes that the spatial and temporal patterns of host availability, in terms of both compromised tree defenses and beetle perception of these alterations, affect natural enemy numbers. Natural enemy populations in turn affect beetle population size, which in turn affects host acceptance behavior (Fig. 4.14 center). 

WALLIN, K.F., RAFFA, K.F., Influences of host chemicals and internal physiology on the multiple steps of postlanding host acceptance behavior of Ips pini (Coleoptera Scolytidae), Environ. EntomoL, 2000,29,442-453. 

Explicitly define (and redefine) the boundaries and rules for acceptable behavior. 

Define culture as socially accepted behaviors, beliefs, and traditions of a group. 

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