Boredom

Several nontechnical factors can significantly affect the results of a nondestmctive inspection. Many of these are classified as human factors (1,2,17). Operator experience affects the probabiUty of detection of most flaws. Typically, an inexperienced operator has more false rejects, known as Type II errors, than an experienced operator. A poor operator has few false rejects but is more likely to miss a defect in the inspection, known as a Type I error. Operator fatigue, boredom, or an unfavorable environment such as lighting, cold, or rain may further affect performance. Thus it usually is a good investment for the inspection company to assure that the operator environment is most amenable to inspection, that the equipment is suitable for the task, and that the operator is alert and well rested. 

Humans require time to react to process alarms and control requirements. Reaction time must always be considered early in the plant design. It is inherently safer to decide early in process design what administrative controls the operator will be assigned to activate for safety control. Requiring periodic operator interface to the process system relieves boredom and heightens interest in knowing the current condition of the process. See Sections 6.4 and 6.5. 

Avoid boredom—if operators don t have anything to do, they go to sleep—mentally, if not physically. 

The Southside, a gin lemonade that is baptismal-font water to the traditional East Coast society set, is most typically a spring and summer refreshment, but as Bruce Snyder, the restaurant manager at the 2f Club, which did business with me, observed, The spigot never shuts. That means, according to Mr. Snyder s thirty-six years of experience with his clientele, you retire the white shoes, straw hats, linen and seersucker on Labor Day, but the Southside sails on through, brisk autumn seas ahead. Dark rum, substituting occasionally for gin, relieves any boredom. 

As for Frances Gelvin, he finally decided that marriage with such a temperamental woman would have been one continual civil war.. . . Fran has several qualities that I detest and I have several which she detests with equal or better grounds. The war might have been interesting and life would never probably have sunk to the level of common boredom, but I have a feeling that things would have ended up in a big crash one way or another. ... 

Symptoms of depression in childhood include boredom, anxiety, failing adjustment, and sleep disturbance. 

This discussion brings us to the function of suicidal behavior. For some people, the function of suicidal behavior is to die, but not for everyone. Clearly the most lethal attempts represent a clear intent to die, especially if done in secrecy. However, many other times self-harm behavior is found to have a function besides death after a comprehensive behavioral analysis is completed with a client. For example, some clients have told me that cutting and burning themselves was related to boredom, anger, sadness, shame, uncertainty how to solve a problem, or even revenge toward someone who had hurt them. Parasuicidal... 

This is not attributable simply to boredom, since at very low doses and with other types of agents, daytime sleeping is either absent or limited to short naps... ... 

The carriage held but just Ourselves— b. death is dull its chief torment is boredom. 

All day, he emptied cartons of CDs. Disc after disc, he sorted them by category, and then by artist. After loading them on a cart, he wheeled them to the racks, and refilled the store s stock in alphabetical order. He knew no one would easily find the music they were looking for without him doing his job, but that satisfaction did little to relieve his boredom. 

Our path returned us to the big salone where the murder weapon was preserved in its glass mausoleum. In the window overlooking the riva and the shipping basin sat the plump little lady I had seen with donna Alina on Friday. At first I thought she was alone, the epitome of the sequestered Venetian nobleman s wife dying of boredom as the world went by without her but then I saw she had a child with her and was pointing out the sights. I knew who she was. 

Heaven knows how many people he helped, or in how many ways. One should keep this in mind when Duchamp tells [his interviewers] that he doesn t do much during the day, or when he so often gives his reasons for having done something as that it amused him. It is true that he could not stand boredom. He rarely attended large gatherings, and when... 

Reading Proust is inconceivable boredom associated with the most extreme ecstasy. ... 

Chemistry is often conducted in aqueous solutions. Soluble ionic compounds dissolve into their component ions, and these ions can react to form new products. In these kinds of reactions, sometimes only the cation or anion of a dissolved compound reacts. The other ion merely watches the whole affair, twiddling its charged thumbs in electrostatic boredom. These uninvolved ions cire called spectator ions. 

Boredom is a great enemy in this situation, with marked differences between areas and countries in the UkeUhood of gaining employment. In our areas unemployment generally is at high levels, and drug users can feel as if they have few or no prospects. There is no establishment of special schemes whereby users who have detoxified can secure employment as part of rehabilitation, and we often have to provide much encouragement and practical help to seek the few opportunities that there are. The probation service can sometimes offer places on schemes for ex-offenders in particular. 

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