Decision to return

Just as you did in the cubing exercise, try mentally rolling your subject around the star above and explore the possibilities that emerge. For example, suppose you want to write about your recent decision to return to college after a long period of working, but you don t know what you want to say about your decision. Start thinking about this decision as a drama and jot down brief answers to such questions as these ... 

For each customer return, document the investigation into the reason and cause for the return. Identify corrective actions where appropriate. The quality responsible person should make the decision to return material to stock, further process it, or discard it. While this is not spelled out in the regulations, it should be clear that only the quality unit has the authority to return materials to production, as this serves as a release function. 

While this process implies an ordered, structured process, it should be noted that the various stages overlap and it is frequently necessary to return to an earlier step in the process to modify or clarify information or decisions made in an earlier phase. The influence of the human factors aspects on design needs to be similarly integrated into the process design procedure. The particular human factors elements to be addressed at each phase are discussed below. These phases can be directly related to the human factors engineering and ergonomics (HFE/E) design approach described in Section 2.2. 

If the loss can be measured in money, the cash value of the risk can be compared with the cost of safety equipment or design changes to reduce the risk. In this way, decisions on safety can be made in the same way as other design decisions to give the best return of the money invested. 

In the case of chronic processes, the patient can, at any time, take the decision to stop the treatment, as a reaction to changes in price or other variables. Whereas the econometric technique for analysing the demand for pharmaceuticals for acute processes is that of discrete choice models, here we will apply duration or survival models. In addition, the technology of drags for chronic diseases can have non-constant returns to scale. For example, the consumption of anxiolytics raises the tolerance and reduces the effect, resulting in an increase in the necessary dose. 

The random-access sampler can go to any sample cup position, any number of times, at any time during a run. This abihty to sample cups in any order and to return to sample cups more than once, allows system automation to be greatly extended. It saves time and work by allowing automatic re-run of sample(s) following off-scale peaks and also the automatic dilution and re-analysis of off-scale samples. The sampler also saves cup positions, allowing more samples and longer unattended runs. For example, one set of standards provides initial cahbration, drift correction, carry-over correction and periodic quality control. In addition, samples or standards can be sampled in repHcate form from a single cup. The random-access sampler can be controlled and either the operator or the computer can make the decision as to which cup the sampler must go to. 

One of the measures of the quality of the preregistration clinical programme is the total time from the decision to enter full development to the first regulatory approval in a major market. It is also important to monitor quality in other ways. One option is to assess the frequency with which predetermined milestones are achieved. More subtly, quality can be assessed by examining the number of incomplete, inaccurate or indecipherable CRFs that are returned or the number of protocol amendments made which are not based on new information. Milestones may still be achieved when quality is poor, that is, when there is inefficiency, but this means that they were wrongly established and can be improved if efficiency improves. 

As can be seen, these SPC/SQC methods provide a means of determining if a process is under control, but they provide little help in the way of taking corrective action should a process not be under control. For the latter, the process engineer usually must determine the quality deviation cause, and determine what—if any—action is necessary to return the process to normal. Prior experience is of considerable value in making this decision. This value led to the investigation of knowledge-based control strategies that relied on a set of control rules derived from prior experience. 

Birthing classes should empower you with knowledge—about the birth process and about yourself. You need to take the time to return to your instincts and inner self and realize that for the most part you already have what you need to bring to this labor and birth. Childbirth classes should helpyou see your inherent pain-coping abilities and reframe them within a context of labor and birth— What will I do contraction after contraction The classes should also help you crystallize your desires for the birth experience and create a simple birth plan that expresses your preferences. They should ultimately allow you to make the best decisions possible in whatever circumstances that may arise. 

Our research has shown that attempts to successfully time investment decisions to the cycle - not only the chemical industry s but broader economic cycles - are extremely difficult (Butler, P. et al.), and that other tactics such as maintaining advantages in cost and operational excellence across all functions provide a surer return. 

The patent in question covers a class of biocides that are being marketed by Company A. Company B approaches Company A, the owner of the patent, in order to seek a licence to make and sell a compound, the structure of which is dominated by this patent. The decision to grant a licence is a purely commercial one. In this case the financial benefits to Company A are seen to outweigh the disadvantages. A licence is granted to Company B in return for 5% of the net sales income for the remaining lifetime of the patent. 

The 110 out of 500 (22 per cent) who did return the questionnaire are a self-selected minority. We already know that they differ in one way — they did return the questionnaire, while the other 78 per cent did not. However, is this decision to complete the form just random or is it linked to other personal characteristics It would be a brave (foolhardy ) researcher who was prepared to assume that returning or not returning the questionnaire was a purely random choice. The reality is that there are all sorts of ways in which the returners may differ from the non-returners. With a return rate as low as 22 per cent, we could be dealing with a highly unrepresentative minority and any conclusions will be biased towards whatever type of person happens to be most likely to return our questionnaire. 

Smelling traps now, Vasco was wary. I shall report toMissier Grande, of course. He will probably send me to return the documents toCircospetto, but that will be his decision. ... 

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