Blind eyes

Regiilar checks and audits should be made to confirm that they are being carried out correctly. They will corrode more rapidly than the steelwork, once those in charge lose interest or turn a blind eye. 

Investigation showed that the foreman and manager knew that goggles were not always worn. But they turned a blind eye to avoid dispute and to avoid delaying the job. The workers knew this and said to themselves, Wearing goggles cannot be important. The foreman and manager were therefore responsible for the inevitable injury. 

The recommendations described in this Chapter go further than some companies consider necessary. For example, companies may put Do Not Operate notices on valves instead of locks, or to save time, they may turn a blind eye to occasional shortcuts. Nevertheless, bitter experience has convinced me that the reconamendations are necessary. 

You may believe that the accidents could not happen at your plant because you have systems to prevent them. Many of the accidents I describe occurred on plants that had such systems, but the systems were not always followed. The accidents happened because of various management failures failure to convince people that they should follow the systems, failure to detect previous violations (by audits, spot checks, or just keeping an open eye), or deliberately turning a blind eye to avoid conflict or to get a job done quickly. The first step down the road to many a serious accident occurred when someone turned a blind eye to a missing blind (see Chapter 1). 

Swartzman, L. C. 8c Burkell, J. (1998). Expectations and the placebo effect in clinical drug trials why we should not turn a blind eye to unblinding, and other cautionary notes. Clin. Pharmacol. Ther., 64, 1-7. 

Remember that the first step down the road to an accident is taken when someone turns a blind eye to a missing blind (or other feature). 

It would probably not be unfair to suggest that in many early spin-trapping studies there was a tendency to turn an unscientifically blind eye to some of the... 

It was well the blind eyes could not see the look of startled fear which flashed across Cecile s face. 

The polyimide-CNT composites have good biocompatibility and conductive properties, which can be used to fabricate the electrode arrays, and enhance their biocompatibility. For example, they can be used as the stimulator embedded in the blind eyes, and can be used for the electrode arrays transplanted in the human body without damaging human organs and tissues (Tulevski et al., 2007). 

In 1834 Dalton was presented at the court of William IV. Etiquette prescribed that one wear a sword on such occasions, but as a Quaker, Dalton could not do this. The English mathematician Charles Babbage solved the problem by suggesting that Dalton appear in the scarlet robes of an Oxford doctor of law, and Dalton felt quite comfortable about the idea. Normally a Quaker would never wear scarlet but to Dalton s color-blind eyes, scarlet looked just like the Quaker drab he ordinarily wore. And, yes, there is a rather suspect anecdote about this occasion too. When the king asked him, Well, Dr. Dalton. 

Many nitrates and nitrites increase pressure in the nerves and blood vessels of the eyes, which can cause a feeling of pressure behind the eyes and a severe headache. This can lead to glaucoma, a potentially blinding eye disorder. 

We could simply turn a blind eye to this non-normality and proceed to generate a 95 per cent Cl in the usual way and the results would be a mean of 95.9 with confidence limits of —23.1 to +215.0 ng/g. These are shown in Figure 5.12(a). The result is clearly nonsensical - the true population mean could not possibly take the sort of negative value implied by the lower limit of the confidence interval. 

Arguing that the final goal was the eradication of small pox, a scheme was devised whereby each visitor was rewarded according to the absence of smallpox in their area. However, although the visitors consistently earned good bonuses, smallpox remained endemic. When considered from the visitors perspective the reasons for this apparently paradoxical situation becomes clear. If you are rewarded for the lack of cases, the incentive is to turn a blind eye. When in doubt don t report. The system is obviously open to abuse. 

We should all of us, everyone, bok into our hearts. Christ said, "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." And today we are doing just that. Reaping the finit not just ofthe spiritual bHght of our society, but oftuming a blind eye to it. Evil doesn t cease to exist just because we choose to ignore it. So where sboidd we bok to lay the blame ... 

Everyone knew, but we turned a blind eye to it, she said, reproving. For Henry s sake, not hers. He was too well respected for aryfiring else. If it hadn t been so tragic, it would have been fumy. 

There is, however, another method of deriving the diffusion potential. One takes note of the fact that when a steady-state electroneutrality field has developed, the system relevant to a study of the diffusion potential hangs together in a delicate balance. The diffusion flux is exactly balanced by the electric flux the concentrations and the electrostatic potential throughout the interphase region do not vary with time. (Remember the derivation of the Einstein relation in Section 4.4.) In fact, one may turn a blind eye to the drift and pretend that the whole system is in equilibrium. 

Italian, Antonio Grignolo. Both were interested in retinal detachment, a blinding eye disease, and wanted to contribute to the understanding of the cause of the disease and to improve the diagnostic and surgical tools available for therapy. Both of them were in Dunphy s department at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and were actively involved in research. 

Never mind glamorous, it is the whatever that I hear. Suddenly all I can think of is whether I will get enough sleep the night before the photography session if I don t, my eye will be tired and wander, as blind eyes will. 

Research fraud is a reality, but in the past, healthcare professionals and academia have sometimes chosen to turn a blind eye, and pharmaceutical companies tacitly condoned it by choosing not to investigate fully and to bring prosecutions. The climate now is changing, driven by all those parties, but medical research is still vulnerable in the absence of any effective mechanism to combat and detect fraud. 

Eyes, vision - loss, transient (temporary blindness) Eyes - blinking, spasmodic (blepharospasm)... 

The continuum mechanics of solids and fluids serves as fhe prototypical example of the strategy of turning a blind eye to some subset of the full set of microscopic degrees of freedom. From a continuum perspective, the deformation of the material is captured kinematically through the existence of displacement or velocity fields, while fhe forces exerted on one part of the continuum by the rest are described via a stress tensor field. For many problems of interest to the mechanical behavior of materials, it suffices to build a description purely in terms of deformation fields and their attendant forces. A review of the key elements of such theories is the subject of this chapter. However, we should also note that the purview of continuum models is wider than that described here, and includes generalizations to liquid crystals, magnetic materials, superconductors and a variety of other contexts. 

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