Realistic expectations

Because the only child is usually so highly motivated (a disproportionate number of medical doctors, for example, are first or only children), the parental job is not so much to mobilize as to humanize this ambition. This means helping the child keep performance expectations realistic and humane. In doing so, parents can speak to a number of issues that can encourage the child to keep personal performance pressure down. 

At around 24 00, Bub and the filmmakers meet Bub s mother and other members of her family in Vietnam. Had this moment come earlier, the audience would not have been as prepared as they are, by this point in the film, to experience it. We are emotionally invested in the reunion because we ve gotten to know something about Bub and her mother, and we re curious about the growing number of questions that remain unanswered Where is Bub s adoptive mother Who was her father Are Bub s expectations realistic ... 

If the application of our knowledge is not effective, does not prove itself in action, and does not produce results, can we expect, realistically, that what we do will be considered valuable ... 

Figure 3 presents results for a 0.05 step change in YAOn (similar results were obtained for the other inputs). The expected, realistic response is a gradual increase of outlet concentration occurring after a certain dead time. The computed response showed oscillations, which is attributed to numerical approximation of the convection term. This effect is discussed by Lefevre et. al (2000), in the context of tubular reactors. 

The intennolecular forces between water molecules are strongly non-additive. It is not realistic to expect any pair potential to reproduce the properties of both the water dimer and the larger clusters, let alone liquid water. There has therefore been a great deal of work on developing potential models with explicit pairwise-additive and nonadditive parts [44, 50, 51]. It appears that, when this is done, the energy of the larger clusters and ice has a nonadditive contribution of about 30%. 

The British Standard also uses the Assigned Protection Eactor, i.e. tlie level of respiratory protection that can realistically be expected to be achieved in the workplace by 95% of adequately trained and supervised workers, using a properly functioning and correctly fitted respiratory protective device (see Table 13.9)... 

The curves show that the peak capacity increases with the column efficiency, which is much as one would expect, however the major factor that influences peak capacity is clearly the capacity ratio of the last eluted peak. It follows that any aspect of the chromatographic system that might limit the value of (k ) for the last peak will also limit the peak capacity. Davis and Giddings [15] have pointed out that the theoretical peak capacity is an exaggerated value of the true peak capacity. They claim that the individual (k ) values for each solute in a realistic multi-component mixture will have a statistically irregular distribution. As they very adroitly point out, the solutes in a real sample do not array themselves conveniently along the chromatogram four standard deviations apart to provide the maximum peak capacity. 

We just cannot expect situations like golf clubs and tennis rackets for all consumer products because all products do not have those same built-in characteristics of the competitive edge. When we consider a car, we must be realistic and acknowledge that the car must have a price low enough for people to afford. Think back to the days of Henry Ford he made a car that could be sold for about 250, so that everyone could afford to have one. This affordability was the real beauty of his mass-production techniques. Everyone could afford to have a car, and then almost everyone did have one. In contrast, before Henry Ford, only the rich could afford an automobile. As soon as we get to the trade-off where composite materials will effectively compete in the automotive market place, we will see tremendously broader applications, but there are problems along the way. The manufacturing cost must be improved in order for those applications to ever come about. 

The third area in which top-level support is needed is assuring that the PSM initiative receives the resources required for success. It is only realistic to expect that PSM implementation will require a significant level of funding— either direct or indirect. 

Human resources, whether in-house or retained by contract, cost money, and represent either a direct or an indirect investment. In lobbying for PSM resources, be realistic about the time you think the effort will require underestimating the level of effort can raise management s expectations beyond your ability to meet them. At the same time, estimates of staff required can t ignore prevailing company priorities for example, a request for five new staffers during a hiring freeze is unlikely to be favorably received. 

Any schedule you develop should reflect both the tasks you have defined and the resources available for accomplishing them. In addition, the implementation schedule in some cases may depend on a predetermined end date. For this reason, schedule and resource requirement tasks should be seen as interdependent it s realistic to expect that you may need more than one iteration before both are firmly established. 

What Support or Resources They Can Expect. You should consider in advance what the design team s resource needs might be and how you can address them realistically. For example, if funds exist for travel, outside consulting services, or project management software, these maybe useful expenditures. Similarly, administrative support can expedite the team s efforts. Whatever the level of support your company can provide, if s important to make it clear if you must undertake systems design as a bare-bones effort, the team needs to know it in advance to avoid unrealistic expectations. 

If one just concentrates on the radioactive material in SNF, the volume is very small, especially compared to waste from other power production practices. However, one can only discuss the separated radioactive material if it has undergone extensive reprocessing. If SNF is to be isolated, as in a place such as Yucca Mountain, with perhaps 70 miles of tunnels, the volume is that of the interior of this minor mountain. Isolation of up to 100,000 metric tons of SNF in Yucca Mountain means that for the United States, approximately all the SNF made to date and that expected in the operating lifetime of all current reactors can be put there. Approximately 2,000 metric tons of SNF are produced each year in the United States. Waste volume and placement depend on the amount of compaction and consolidation at the sites. The plans for the Yucca Mountain present a realistic and understandable picture of the volume of SNF. 

For a more realistic sample size than that in Example 7.7, one that contains 1.00 mol CO, corresponding to 6.02 x 1023 CO molecules, each of which could be oriented in either of two ways, there are 2602x10 (an astronomically large number) different microstates, and a chance of only 1 in 2< 02x l0" of drawing a given microstate in a blind selection. We can expect the entropy of the solid to be high and calculate that... 

A theory of two-phase laminar flow with a distinct interface has been developed. Although this theory is based on a one-dimensional approximation, it takes into account the major features of the process the inertia, gravity, surface tension and friction forces. Thus this study may be expected to give the physically realistic pattern of a laminar flow in a heated micro-channel. This allows one to use the present theory to study the regimes of flow, as well as optimizing a cooling system of electronic devices with high power densities. 

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