Fatal flaw

In obituaries that infuriated the Nazis, von Laue compared Haber to a tragic Greek hero a man with great nobility but fatal flaws, whose fate was foredoomed by an accident of birth that he had tried in vain to alter. He was one of us, von Laue wrote. After the war, von Laue rebuilt Haber s institute, and in 1953, it was renamed the Fritz Haber Institute. 

Durbin-Watson statistic Works Objective Is statistically testable Can be computerized Has fatal flaw Requires large number of samples Low statistical power... 

This test thus shares several characteristics with the Durbin-Watson test. It is based on well-known and rigorously sound statistics. It is amenable to automated computerized calculation, and suitable for automatic operation in an automated process situation. It does not have the fatal flaw of the Durbin-Watson Statistic. 

The appearance of negative energy states was initially considered to be a fatal flaw in the Dirac theory, because it renders all positive energy states... 

Does the available information identify any insurmountable technical obstacles to implementation of the unit operations, or is there a fatal flaw that would keep the facility from working properly ... 

Gene Kleiner was one of the truly wise men of Silicon Valley, having co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor, as well as Kleiner Perkins, an incredibly successful venture capital firm. What Kleiner s First Law teaches is that biotech companies should raise capital whenever they can, assuming the deals do not have fatal flaws (as will be discussed below). I once... 

The proposal was fatally flawed by failing to address some of the most critical elements of soil washing. Soil washing is essentially a hydraulic flotation process which removes the fines from the soil. Depending upon the soil, that can account for between 5% and 15% of the volume processed. The process is strictly one of density settling and stokes law is followed in the separation process. What you wind up with is a clean and sterile soil because the organic materials in the soil have a density of between 1.2 and about 2.0 and the clays, and some of the silts, because of their particle size are removed from the soil. In the case of Belarus soils, this also removed about 60%-80% of the fine radioactive materials, but that was not the problem. The problem was one of scale and residuals. 

This chapter can be viewed as a massive refutation, complete with all alternative solutions, of the fatal flaw in the last sentence above. Chemometrics most emphatically does not eliminate sampling errors [sic]. 

The authors argue, though, that the EPA s notion of risk is fatally flawed because it assumes that the risk is zero if the pesticide is banned rather than the difference between the pesticide risk and whatever replaces the pesticide. 

In 1900, when Sigmund Freud founded psychoanalysis upon his dream theory, he was still heavily under the influence of the erroneous neurobiology of his Project for a Scientific Psychology, the work he abandoned in 1895. Because of this, the underlying mechanistic model of psychoanalysis and the practice that it justified was fatally flawed at the outset. The details of this argument have been amply described in The Dreaming Brain and are widely accepted. 

Complete sleep deprivation is difficult to verify without objective measurement. Only one study employed polysomnograms to assess sleep and that involved partial sleep deprivation (92). Most studies used the honor system or third-party observers to verify sleep deprivation. This may be a fatal flaw as ultra-short sleep strategies, microsleeps, and napping temper the effects of sleep depri-... 

The Kyoto Protocol is, I believe, fatally flawed. It s too much, too soon, and there are too few developing nations that are considered in this whole scheme. I think what we have to do, because of the immature science involved here, I think we have to slow down. Let s not walk away from it, but let s slow down. Let s perfect the science. We haven t really had any kind of debate through Congress or otherwise on this whole issue of carbon dioxide and global warming. ... 

Following the wave-mechanical reformulation of the quantum atomic model it became evident that the observed angular momentum of an s-state was not the result of orbital rotation of charge. As a result, the Bohr model was finally rejected within twenty years of publication and replaced by a whole succession of more refined atomic models. Closer examination will show however, that even the most refined contemporary model is still beset by conceptual problems. It could therefore be argued that some other hidden assumption, rather than Bohr s quantization rule, is responsible for the failure of the entire family of quantum-mechanical atomic models. Not only should the Bohr model be re-examined for some fatal flaw, but also for the valid assumptions that led on to the successful features of the quantum approach. 

Freud s model of the unconscious was similar to Victorian sexual behaviour the unconscious was seen as compelling, but sneaky and devious. In dreams, the unconscious wishes were always trying to disrupt consciousness, just as duplicitous sexual behaviour of waking was designed to dupe social convention. Thus, Freud s dream theory adopted the fatally flawed assumptions of disguise and censorship as the basis of dream bizarreness. The primary drive of the dream had to be expurgated or laundered and converted into the apparent nonsense of dream bizarreness. 

A fatal flaw in the non-Diesel version of the CO murder story is the recurrent claim that the corpses were blue. Death from gasoline engine exhaust would only have been due to carbon monoxide and could only have caused a distinctive cherry red or pink appearance. Although Pfannenstiers post-war testimony is not nearly as wild as the Gerstein Statement, nonetheless, he and other so-called eyewitnesses also repeated the claim that the corpses were bluer 11... 

A bland, repetitive presentation style could be considered an asset in the experimental section, so very little imagination is required here, but it is technically more demanding than the other sections. This section of a thesis or dissertation can be measured against rigid standards and a badly prepared experimental section is Ukely to be a fatal flaw ... 

Bain, A., Vorst, W. van (1999). The Hindenburg tragedy revisited the fatal flaw found. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 24,399-403. 

Planck realized that the fatal flaw was equipartition, which is based on the assumption that the possible energies of each oscillator belong to a continuum (0 < < oo). If, instead, the energy of an oscillator of wavelength A. comes in discrete bundles hv = hc/X, then the possible energies are given by... 

Is the diffusion di.scu.sscd on page 376 and in Problem 10.17 a fatal flaw Him Recall what you know from general chemistry about a simple aqueous cell Zn Zn Cu Cu.)... 

However, there is another potentially fatal flaw in the binding of dioxygen by heme irreversible oxidation. If free heme in aqueous solution is exposed to dioxygen, it is converted almost immediately into a p.-oxo dimer known as hematin. The mechanism of this reaction has been worked out in detail.The reactions are as follows, where the heme group is symbolized by the circle about an iron atom. The first step is the binding of the dioxygen molecule, as in hemoglobin ... 

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