Final decision

If the above exercises have resulted in one or two promising lines, the farmer must then examine his own ability and stamina realistically, bearing in mind that good communication skills are likely to be a prerequisite for success. If the farmer has reservations regarding motivation and the effort involved, further research is advised. 

If the research as to likely organic products that will sell comes up with a series of negatives, then the farmer has to fall back on his own creativity. As Finke (1989) pointed out, he could not persuade any bakery in the nearby towns in Ireland to bake organic bread from his flour they said there was no market. However, he finally persuaded one bakery to bake it, on contract, provided he did the selling. They agreed, he got the packaging printed and after five months they had sold 10 000 loaves to various shops in the town. After the consumer preference had been demonstrated, there was no longer a problem with the bakers. 

It is important to remember that new customers are expensive - they need a great deal of convincing whereas existing customers may simply need continuing confirmation of brand quality. 

It is essential to collect sales figures and the associated costs by the day/week/month, and to separate the figures for the different products. It is also essential to distinguish between fixed and variable costs. As we have seen (Chapter 8), the latter include costs such as field preparation, seed, harvesting and packaging. Fixed, or overhead, costs include loan repayments, property taxes, insurance, depreciation and maintenance on buildings and equipment. It is important to include the farmer s salary as a fixed cost, as well as marketing costs, deliveries, fuel, and vehicle upkeep. 

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The results of the assessment are documented in an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which discusses the beneficial and adverse impacts considered to result from the activity. The report is one component of the information upon which the decision maker ultimately makes a choice. A final decision can be made with due regard being paid to the likely consequences of adopting a particular course of action, and where necessary by introducing appropriate monitoring programs. 

Finally, decision puts the recognized objects into real-world context and returns a decision. 

Da.ta. Ana.lysls. First, the raw data must be converted to concentrations over an appropriate time span. When sample periods do not correspond to the averaging time of the exposure limit, some assumptions must be made about unsampled periods. It may be necessary to test the impact of various assumptions on the final decision. Next, some test statistics (confidence limit, etc) (Fig. 3) are calculated and compared to a test criteria to make an inference about a hypotheses. 

Documentation abstracts, useful as they are, may also prove inadequate for final decisions, which would make it necessary for the searcher to obtain and examine copies of full patent specifications. Although the increasing availabihty of sets of full specifications on CD-ROM at modest cost is making it easier for searchers to have in their collections copies of those specifications they might need to consult, the necessity to go beyond computer output, whether to abstracts or full specifications, is stiU one of the bottlenecks of computer searching, and therefore an area in which significant new developments are hoped for. 

Until a few years ago, there was no widely accepted standard for a voltage endurance test of the rotating machines. Different agencies had adopted different practices on different assumptions, pending a final decision by the lEC working committee TC-2 of lEC 60034-15. The committee submitted its report in 1988 and the following test data, which are now universally adopted, are based on this report. 

It is important to note, however, that all this is not free. The designer must invest the time to set up the cases and evaluate the results. Only the designer can make the final decision as to whether the cases and the comparisons are valid (a true representation of the plant). The computer printout is simply the results of matrix manipulation and should be considered suspect until given the designer s stamp of approval. 

If ERA adds chemicals to the section 313 list, and your products contain the newly listed toxic chemicals, notify your customers with the first shipment of the year following ERA S final decision to add the chemicai to the list. For example, if ERA adds chemical ABC to the list in September 1990, suppiier notification for chemical ABC would begin with the first shipment in 1991. 

Available facilities and expertise Are test facilities, instrumentation, and data acquisition systems available Are simulation tools, hardware, and specialized staff for numerical simulation available I he final decision depends on answers to these important questions. 

Careful consideration has to be given to all aspects of each approach—such as the reliability, the total cost, and the need for equipment and expertise—before making the final decision. The main advantage of measurements is the reliability of the results, the disadvantage being the need for often expensive equipment. 

When used as an input to design, HTA allows functional objectives to be specified at the higher levels of the analysis prior to final decisions being made about the hardware. This is important when allocating functions between personnel and automatic systems. 

Methoxyquinazoline and methyl iodide give the salt 72 (Y = 0), and, although the route for this reaction has not been investigated, there is a suggestion that the reaction occurs at N-3. A final decision concerning the nature of electronic and steric influences on quater-nization in the quinazoline ring must clearly await further work. 

On the other hand there are many situations which require the detailed work before a sound decision can be made. In addition, it is often necessary to obtain reasonably accurate prices for various items of equipment and their assembly before the final decision can be made. 

Packing efficient ) and capacity vary with specific application. Contact vendor for assistance in making final decision. 

Figure 12-10 is convenient for summarizing the main specifications to the manufacturer. Any unusual conditions must be explained, and minimum and maximum ranges must be established. Normal conditions may be the same as maximum, although this may not always be the case. Detailed driver specifications should be included unless the manufacturer is to make preliminary recommendations before final decisions are reached. Note that some of the data are to be furnished by the manufacturer, and the insistence on receipt of this information facilitates evaluation of competitive bids. 

Economizers for boilers have been available for over 150 years, almost as long as boilers themselves. For shell boilers, increasing efficiencies have made it increasingly difficult to justify the use of an economizer, the final decision being based in terms of payback period, which is also heavily dependent on fuel prices. Watertube boilers, on the other hand, need an economizer section in the gas passes in order to obtain satisfactory efficiency. For this reason, the economizer is integrated into the overall design, normally between the convective superheater and the air heater if fitted. 

When quality is not according to specification, the customary action is to do it over according to plan. However, this needs to be more closely examined in some instances. For example, if the work or material exceeds specifications, you may choose to accept it. If it falls short, you need to consider how much it deviates from specifications and whether the deficiency will cause the project to fail its performance evaluation. The final decision may be to have the work redone, but that is not an automatic outcome. 

Significant capital expenditure usually represents a substantial commitment of the resources of a business, both financially and in terms of man-hours. It is therefore incumbent upon management to ensure that proposals for such outlays receive proper and full consideration of all the relevant implications before implementation. Once policies as to levels of authorization and commitment are laid down, there should follow the formal appraisal of the financial effects of the proposal. These can be formulated only after detailed discussion with the appropriate departments as to all the physical, technical and environmental factors involved in making the final decision. There will also be brought into consideration, where pertinent, the marketing and sales effects. 

The most suitable lining is then selected, usually by the lining contractor, who will take responsibility for the choice. Most lining companies have detailed knowledge of the resistance capabilities of their lining materials and are best able to make the final decision. 

The system designer must consider these components and examine the options which may be available in order to determine a best selection with reference to first cost, installation, operation, running cost, maintenance and expected life. The following factors are some of those affecting the final decision ... 

The selection of optimum reactor inlet and outlet temperatures is affected by catalyst activity, and catalyst stability, and the need to minimize operating and investment costs. When the special BASF methanation catalyst is used, inlet temperatures of 260°-300°C or even lower are quite acceptable (see Table II). The final decision on design inlet temperature is affected by engineering requirements. 

Board members, authors, reviewers, consultants, and advisers who participate in the preparation of a CICAD are required to declare any real or potential conflict of interest in relation to the subjects under discussion at any stage of the process. Representatives of nongovernmental organizations may be invited to observe the proceedings of the Final Review Board. Observers may participate in Board discussions only at the invitation of the Chairperson, and they may not participate in the final decision-making process. 

The preceding strategy for the construction of decision trees provides an efficient way for inducing compact classification decision trees from a set of (x, y) pairs (Moret, 1982 Utgoff, 1988 Goodman and Smyth, 1990). Furthermore, tests based on the values of irrelevant variables are not likely to be present in the final decision tree. Thus, the problem dimensionality is automatically reduced to a subset of decision variables that convey critical information and influence decisively the system performance. 

In the bottom-up approach the initiative to start the learning process is taken by one of the infimal decision units. Since solutions found at this unit may include connection variables, the request for given values of these variables is propagated backward, to unit A + 1, through temporary loss functions. After successive backpropagation steps, the participation of several other fhe operators associated with them, a final decision... 

A final decision between these alternatives has yet to be made. 

The basic tenets of the proposed policy is to encourage the manufacturer to reduce or eliminate the N-nitroso contaminant level in his product, or failing this to establish that the level does not exceed an "acceptable risk to the user of the pesticide or the general public. This latter process of evaluation also requires that the Agency consider the benefits of this pesticide together with the risk in order to reach a final decision. Since there might be hundreds of products falling under this policy, the... 

Final decision-maker Dept. Secretary or delegate NCDQC Drug Council SAM DCA MEB Min. of Health Committee RBPP MCAZ... 

In Estonia, however, as many as 17% of the applications are withdrawn Ifom the process. Rejection rates are highest in Venezuela and Malaysia (30% and 29%, respectively). In both countries, withdrawal rates are small (0% and 3%, respectively). In Australia in particular, the number of applications withdrawn before a final decision has increased significantly in the past four years. This increase in withdrawals is probably a result of the way in which the registration system now operates, with a proposed decision to reject being made by the Delegate, prior to obtaining formal advice from the Australian Dmg Evaluation Committee. 

This section examines the amount of time taken to register a pharmaceutical product— i.e. from the time an application is submitted to the time when the final decision is reached—and attempts to clarify how workload and fees affect registration time. 

The esterification process can be carried out in either batch or continuous mode, the final decision depending most likely on the size of the flow rates involved. For most commercial sizes of 15 MM gal/yr or higher, the continuous process is probably more cost effective and for this option, two additional options are available continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) or a fixed-bed reactor (FBR). 

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