Almost Irrelevant

In the bigger safety picture the resultant injury, or harm, is almost insignificant in relation to what it indicates. What an injury indicates, or should indicate, is that there has been a failure of the management system that has triggered off a series of events, one of the consequences in this case having been an injury. This is when safety becomes active and the injury becomes a statistic that traditionally determines the difference between a safe and an unsafe organization. 

Modern safety philosophy teaches that for every injury-producing event there are literally hundreds of similar breakdowns that under slightly different circumstances could have resulted in a loss. They didn t cause loss in most instances because of the luck factors, but should not be ignored because many have potential to cause loss, and nevertheless indicate system failures. 

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Measurements of the eontrolled variables will be eontaminated with eleetrieal noise and disturbanee effeets. Some sensors will provide aeeurate and reliable data, others, beeause of diffieulties in measuring the output variable may produee highly random and almost irrelevant information. 

This leads to the concept of therapeutic index. The potency of a drug is almost irrelevant. It is its specificity that matters. Thus if two drugs A and B are effective at the same dose in a patient, say 1 mg, but A produces toxic effects at 10 mg which are only seen with 500 mg of B then B is clearly a much safer drug than A, in that patient. The ratio of toxic to effective dose is the therapeutic index (TI). It is often expressed as... 

Much of the public believes that plastics cannot be recycled or safely incinerated and, because they do not decompose, that they should be removed entirely from the waste stream. One can argue as to whether plastics are in fact a major cause of the solid waste crisis, but the answer is almost irrelevant since plastics are generally perceived to be a significant problem. 

This is not to say that the most theoretical treatises were unwelcome or unenlightening, but they were most probably almost irrelevant for all practical purposes. Fortunately, the welcome and developing trend today is to provide textbooks and papers that balance detailed discussions on particular topics with case histories (complete with photographs) from real cooling systems and other areas of water treatment. 

When there were not yet metazoans, means of intercell communication effected by NO or alkenes (C Fl as a plant hormone) binding to Cu(l) were almost irrelevant... 

Although interleaving may come up on the A+ Certification exam, the topic is almost irrelevant with the hard drives available in the last few years because the hardware technology has improved so much. Here s what you need to know for the test. 

From this background the diverging results for the isomeric siloxanes 7 8 on the one hand and surfactants 2 3 on the other hand become reasonable. The data sets for the liquid siloxanes 7 and 8 show minor differences. Obviously, the position of the Si-H bond is almost irrelevant for the energy balance at both interfaces. In contrast for the surfactants 2 and 3 the position of substitution has a major influence on the energy situation. 

The syntheses represented by disconnection 4d belong to a group where the alkene part of the enone is almost irrelevant they involve either acylation of an organometallic compound 4d(i) or alkylation of an acyl anion equivalent (a d1 reagent) 4d(ii). 

The regioselectivity of the addition is determined by the HOMO of the azadiene 62 which is dominated by the two electron-donating silyloxy groups. The nitrogen atom is almost irrelevant. The LUMO of the unsaturated ester is typical for any Diels-Alder reaction. 

An almost irrelevant point of difference in the behavior of foam was whether the discontinuous phase was a gas, a dense gas, or a low-viscosity liquid. The presence of the lamellae across some of the pores gives foam its distinctive properties in porous media. 

For the Prototype Repository Project, six different geometries were considered in a preliminary thermo-mechanical analysis. Figure 1 shows the basic characteristics of those models. The case (6) corresponds to the actual geometry, assuming only a plane of symmetry. The rest of the geometries involve additional symmetries that are not strictly correct. The external boundaries were defined far away from the test, as usual in finite element computations. The effect of boundaries was particularly important for the thermal problem, the mechanical aspects being almost irrelevant in these cases. 

Foote It seems that B6 mice are particularly resistant to many infectious diseases, such as malaria and leishmaniasis. Everyone seems to take the same approach to this, looking at cytokine profiles. Inevitably, they reach a place where they find that cytokine profiles and many of the immunological phenotypes they are measuring are almost irrelevant to the phenotype that is being looked at. You have a couple of instances where you find exceptions to this rule, but by and large there seems to be a discord between cytokine profiles and differences in susceptibility. 

Since the catalytic decomposition of ROOH with Co(II) is much faster than the thermal decomposition of ROOH, the latter reaction becomes almost irrelevant in the overall kinetics of oxidation. The steady-state concentrations of RO and ROOH are reached much faster, significantly reducing the observed induction period compared with uncatalyzed oxidation. The theoretical maximum rate in this case is described by Eq. (4-II) [11,13]. A comparison between Eqs. (4-1) and (4-II) shows that the theoretical maximum rate of uncatalyzed oxidation is four times higher than that of cobalt-catalyzed oxidation. Practically, the theoretical maximum rate of oxidation is rarely reached due to very long induction periods. 

Difficulties are also encountered when one deals with information which is safety altical to one clinician but may be almost irrelevant to another. For example, Patient difficult to intubate is a life-saving nugget of data for an anaesthetist but may be no more than a waste of screen real-estate for that patient s dermatologist. User interfaces which allow a degree of role-based configuration can sometimes be the optimal solution in these cases. 

In this case, the level of theory is almost irrelevant for evaluating the relative stability of the different sites (Table 13). The proton is preferably predicted at the Sin site. Li and Na cations are more stable when coordinated on the hexagonal prism (SII), whereas K definitely prefers the eight-member ring site (SnP) for steric reasons. 

Because the assets are held within an SPV framework, defined in formal legal terms, the originator s financial status and credit rating are almost irrelevant to the bondholders. There may also be a third-party guarantee of credit quality, which enables the securitized notes to be offered with an investment-grade credit rating up to AAA. FIGURE 14.1 shows a simplified process of securitization. 

Early in this century it was thought that the matter of fire hazard was simple enough does the material bum, or not Wood bums steel does not. Although these statements are certainly trae, they are almost irrelevant to the relative fire risk of the two materials. Compare fires in two different buildings, one framed of heavy timbers or plastic bonded-... 

Canon 2 requires that "Engineers shall perform services only in areas of their competence." Guideline 2a to this Canon explains that the word "competence" refers to both education and experience. In light of rapidly changing technology, competence becomes a function of time. Components of our knowledge base can become obsolete and some segments of our experience base can become almost irrelevant. 

Firstly, a polymer solution is placed into a pipette or a syringe, and then driven to the tip of a needle or a spinneret (also called an orifice or a die) at a given (usually constant) flow. In most of the reported experiments, the internal diameter of this needle or capillary is of the order of hundreds of pm, however larger orifices or even free liquid surfaces can be used, because it is the formation of tiny local protrusions on the external liquid-air interface that plays a crucial role in the process, much more than the diameter of the fluidic conduit delivering the polymer solution. In addition, as described later (Section 2.5), gravity plays an almost irrelevant role in electrospinning, therefore the... 

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