Conflict diagram

Fig. 4. Graphical displays of the conflicts (conflict diagram) between Set 1 and Set 2 (The sets shown in Fig. 2). (Figure drawn using Po correlation)...

Fig. 10. Conflict diagram for the data set where the banned pesticides are neglected (1, 2, 6, 7, 8). (Figure drawn using Po Correlation)...

When constmcting the CAA Future Reality Tree, there are no constraints on the type of recommendation, and because of the shape of the Current Reality Tree (Figure 9.13) we can address a fundamental problem. At the very base of the tree there is a conflict diagram the CAA would like to deploy all necessary resources to do the job properly, but has to work within a limited budget, and cannot do both. If we can break this conflict, then since all the undesirable effects stem from it, the whole tree will collapse, and it can be re-built as we would like it to be. 

Every arrow in a Cnrrent Reality Tree represents assumptions. Here are some of the assumptions in the CAA conflict diagram (Figure 9.16). 

In planning a control system, a flow diagram is needed to indicate what may influence each item of plant. In many diagrams it will be seen that complexity arises and two items work in conflict. A typical instance is the cooling and dehumidifying of air, to a room condition lower than design, with concurrent operation of a humidifier. 

Firstly, the optimisation shows how well the various thermodynamic quantities are matched and the excellent agreement with the experimentally observed phase diagram. It also shows a clear discrepancy between one set of experimental results and the optimised values for the mixing enthalpy in the liquid, emphasising the point that the combined thermodynamic and phase-diagram optimisation has been able to differentiate between conflicting experiments. 

Each of these terms deserves brief comment followed by a diagram and some discussion of the canonical conflict of interest that faces all practicing engineers. 

NSPE case studies are available on the Web (www.nspe.org). Read a case study involving conflict of interest and draw a clear PR diagram labeling parties and roles. In words, write the obligations of the roles that were at issue in the conflict. 

A schematic diagram of a sensor based on a thermistor is shown in Fig. 3.2. Because of their sensitivity, thermistors are preferred over thermocouples however, any type of thermometer can be used in such design. There are some conflicting requirements... 

Fig. 3.3. Gradient vector field of the electronic charge density for the unstable conflict structure shown in Fig. 3.1(e). The plane shown contains the symmetry axis and is perpendicular to the plane of the nuclei. In the lower portion of the diagram, trajectories terminate at the (3, — 1) critical point between the hydrogen nuclei. In the upper portion, trajectories terminate at the pseudo (3, — 3) critical point at the oxygen nucleus. These two critical points are linked by the pair of trajectories which originate at the central (3, — 1) critical point indicated by the dot This is an unstable intersection of the one-dimensional manifold of this (3, — 1) critical point with the two-dimensional manifold of the (3, — 1) critical point between the protons.

The examples previously discussed with reference to the structure diagram demonstrated the existence of two kinds of catastrophe points, called bifurcation and conflict points. Both types of instabilities were illustrated in terms of the behaviour observed for molecular charge distributions. What we now show is that the existence of these two kinds of catastrophes and just these two, is a direct consequence of a theorem of structural stability stated by Palis and Smale in 1970. This theorem predicts what are the two basic mechanisms for structural change in a chemical system. 

One finds that the structure diagrams obtained for F(r X) and p(r X) for the HjO system are homeomorphic in the sense that both exhibit an identical partitioning of the control space yielding the same sets of structures, both stable and, as illustrated in Fig. 3.13, unstable. In addition to finding the same sets of structures for both fields, it has been found that their mechanisms of structural change are also the same. Thus, the bifurcation and conflict... 

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