Distraction sources

The advent of many new in-vehicle sources of distraction in the form of entertainment, navigation, and communications systems is a good reason to focus on their contribution to driver inattention and distraction, and on the potential methods to deal with their effects. The abundant amount of research on cell phone distractions, and the little research that has been conducted on navigation and text-messaging systems, have shown the extent of the risk that these distraction sources pose, and some directions to pursue in order to reduce tiiese risks. 

The higher the speed, the more complex the information processing task (for a given enviromnent), as the sensory inputs are changing more rapidly and any distraction sources have their effects magnified. 

The money could be found in the transition from simple reproduction to expanded reproduction, when capitalists reduce their own consumption, making money available for accumulation (ibid. 147). Aside from these very narrow circumstances, however, Luxemburg argues that Marx s focus on where the money comes from is a major distraction. Marx finds the money for accumulation on the basis of a reduction in consumption, a restriction of demand. For Luxemburg, It is not the source of money that constitutes the problem of accumulation, but the source of the demand for the additional goods produced by the capitalized surplus value (ibid. 147). 

Additionally, these diversifications may represent sources of distraction for senior management, which can be exacerbated if the companies are publicly traded. A recent example is the diversification of the contract service organization aaiPharma (Wilmington, NC, U.S.A.) into a specialty pharmaceutical manufacturer. Quintiles (Research Triangle Park, NC, U.S.A.) also diversified aggressively in the 1990s and the acquisition of a patient billing company was problematic. 

Del-Claro, K. and Oliveira, P. S. (1993). Ant-Homoptera interaction do alternative sugar sources distract tending ants Oikos 68 202-206. 

Bitumen describes a black or dark brown masticlike material that is thermoplastic in nature and softens upon heating. The sources of bitumen are petroleum or coal deposits. The natural product is commonly called gilsonite or pitch, a mineral formed by an old weathered petroleum flow at the surface of the earth that has left behind the larger molecules from the petroleum. A principal source in the past has been Lake Trinidad, a 445,000 m2 deposit on the island of Trinidad. Bitumen from petroleum or crude oil is called asphalt (qv). It is the material left behind after all the valuable compounds, eg, gasolines, have been distilled out of the cmde oil. The amount and quality of asphalt is dependent on the source of the crude oil used in the refining process. Some cmde oils have a higher content of asphaltic bitumen left after the distillation process. Bitumen from coal is coal-tar pitch. It remains after the valuable coal oils and tars have been distilled out of the coal tars produced by distractive distillation. Most industrial applications for bitumen products use asphalt or coal-tar pitch because the supply is more uniform and plentiful. 

The superiority of the synthetics over the natural MDA-like sources is pronounced. "Aminization (chemical conversion to amine form) of plant oils heightens and clarifies mental effects and all but eliminates physical side effects often accompanying use of the botanicals. Users of the synthetics generally report increased relaxation, empathy and mental fluency, and many prefer this experience for being without the "distractions of the psychedelic visuals that are characteristic of LSD and mescaline. 

The first edition of the book was drafted with respect to the limited extent required by the publishers. This requirement is also the case for the second edition. Therefore the insertion of new results dictated the omission of some sections, e. g. of a part of the text specific for CSFR, of the chapter on the sources and toxicity of monomers, and of whole part 9 on the methods of polymer investigation. The general concept of the book has not changed its aim is to inform on all important findings, to facilitate the search for the common features of any of the various basic polymerization processes, without distracting the reader s attention by a too detailed description of some special cases isolated in the context. 

A source of both distraction and additional pressure is frequent interruptions by managers with inquiries concerning the status of analyses and suggestions for timesaving method moditications. Such interactions may be inevitable, but they should be minimized. Analysts and operators should be shielded, as much as possible, from sources of unnecessary distraction, which only increase the likelihood of error. 

These three sources of variance (persons, variables, and occasions) are present in nearly all experimental designs. Their relationship with a set of scores should be explicitly investigated and the systematic variance associated with each accounted for before valid inferences can be drawn (Cattell, 1988). The most familiar source is that of persons the effects of inadequate selection on this dimension are widely known. However, the exclusive emphasis on this mode has tended to distract investigators from selection effects on the variables and occasions dimensions, inadvertently providing a false sense of security to experimenters who have accounted for bias on person selection while neglecting these other equally important dimensions. 

Provide checks to distinguish correct from faulty instruments When response time is not critical, most operators will attempt to check the validity of the alarm [209]. Providing information in a form where this validity check can be made quickly and accurately, and not become a source of distraction, increases the probability of the operator acting properly. 

The Pasminco story illustrates just how easily a victim-blaming approach to OHS can arise. In this case, the emphasis on lead-inblood measurements contributes powerfully to a focus on what individuals can do to lower their own lead levels and distracts attention from further action which the company might take to reduce lead pollution at source. The result is that lead emission levels at the plant remain higher than they might otherwise be, with consequent effects not only on all workers at the plant but on nearby residents. 

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