Hypothetical Situation

You are the safety professional is a large manufacturing facility. During your weekly safety inspections, an employee asks to talk with you privately. After moving away from the production area, the employee tells you that he is being called names with racial references by his supervisor. The employee states that when he asked the supervisor to stop calling him these names, the supervisor transferred him to the hardest job in the department. The employee expresses to you that he needs this job and doesn t want to cause any problems. He simply wants the supervisor to stop the name calling and to get moved back to his job. What should the safety professional do  

Although we will focus on the laws and regulations enacted at the federal level, safety professionals should be aware that most states also have enacted 

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (commonly referred to as Title VIIorTT 

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (commonly referred to as GINA )5 

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Bifunctional Dyes. There are many examples of dyes with two or more reactive groups, including many mixed reactive systems. Dye fixation is increased significantly with increasing number of reactive groups as shown by the hypothetical situation in Figure 4. Theoretically, fixation in this example could increase from mono- to di- to trireactive from 60 to 84 to 93.6%. Some multiple reactive dyes are claimed to have as high as 95% fixation. 

If you can t predict the course of action or sequence of steps you need to take, you can t write a procedure. You can t plan for unforeseen events and as the unexpected will happen sooner or later, it would be wasteful of resources to produce procedures for such hypothetical situations. If you do not use statistical techniques, for instance, it is a waste of time writing a procedure that will not be used even though the standard requires one. 

Extensional flow describes the situation where the large molecules in the fluid are being stretched without rotation or shearing [5]. Figure 4.3.3(b) illustrates a hypothetical situation where a polymer material is being stretched uniaxially with a velocity of v at both ends. Given the extensional strain rate e (= 2v/L0) for this configuration, the instantaneous extensional viscosity r e is related to the extensional stress difference (oxx-OyY), as... 

In the preceding paragraph we have given a detailed survey of the Kohn-Sham approach to density functional theory. Now, we need to discuss some of the relevant properties pertaining to this scheme and how we have to interpret the various quantities it produces. We also will mention some areas connected to Kohn-Sham density functional theory which are still problematic. Before we enter this discussion the reader should be reminded to differentiate carefully between results that apply to the hypothetical situation in which the exact functional ExC and the corresponding potential Vxc are known and the real world in which we have to use approximations to these quantities. 

We also see another common definition—bounded input bounded output (BIBO) stability A system is BIBO stable if the output response is bounded for any bounded input. One illustration of this definition is to consider a hypothetical situation with a closed-loop pole at the origin. In such a case, we know that if we apply an impulse input or a rectangular pulse input, the response remains bounded. However, if we apply a step input, which is bounded, the response is a ramp, which has no upper bound. For this reason, we cannot accept any control system that has closed-loop poles lying on the imaginary axis. They must be in the LHP. 1... 

Figure 1. Schematic representation of potential profile and charge distribution across an anodic oxide film of thickness S on aluminum (a) hypothetical situation in the absence of any current (b) in the presence of an anodic current caused by corrosion or by an external source. RE, reference electrode to which the potential of aluminum is referred.

In order to estimate the coefficient 7 we consider the hypothetical situation in which the composition at the interface changes abruptly from... 

Consider the two hypothetical situations illustrated in Figure 2. On the top is pictured a collection of individual fluorescent receptors, while on the bottom is pictured the same number of receptors, yet they are connected via a molecular wire conjugated polymer. In addition, suppose it is known that binding of the analyte paraquat (PQ) into a receptor causes a complete quenching ofits fluorescence. In the case of individual receptors, the binding of one analyte gives only a small diminution in the total intensity of emission observed. This is because each exciton is fixed on one molecule and cannot communicate with other receptor sites. 

PRZM was applied to a hypothetical situation of a pesticide In a Georgia agricultural environment. An overall, pseudo-first-order degradation rate coefficient of 0.001 day was used, along with a series of values. A cover crop of peanuts was assumed. The simulation was done for a 900 g/ha application to a class A soil (well drained) and a class D soil (poorly drained). Movement through the root zone was simulated using rainfall records. In the hypothetical 1-ha plot, 800 g and 550 g of the pesticide leached past 60 cm In the class A and D soils, respectively, when a Kj value of 0.06 was used 40 g and 5 g leached past 60 cm In the class A and D soils, respectively, when a Kj value of 1.5 was used. These computational results support the conclusion on Kj values stated at the end of this paper. 

Thus, volume distribution is the apparent space into which an amount of compound is distributed in the body to result in a given plasma concentration. It can best be described with a hypothetical situation in which the concentration of a particular... 

In addition to such questions, you may be presented with hypothetical situations that you will be asked to respond to. A board member may say something like this A coworker on your shift is posting derogatory, racially based jokes in his gear rack and his locker. Another coworker on your shift finds the jokes tasteless and offensive. What would you do You would then have to come up with an appropriate response to this situation. 

Consider a hypothetical situation where the air concentration of a chemical, inhaled by a worker, was known at every instant over an entire workday. Figure 1 depicts the exposure by displaying air concentration versus time. The integrated 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA) air concentration for this exposure was 43.4 mg/m. The combined errors stemming from... 

The original position in Rawls theory is the hypothetical situation in which people deciding on the distribution of goods are behind a veil of ignorance as to their place in society and their particular conception of the good. 

Figure 9.14—Coupling diagram for the HF molecule in proton NMR. a) Hypothetical situation in which there is no coupling with the fluorine atom b) actual situation. The vertical arrows indicate transitions that differ in length by J Hz (transitions in the state of the proton do not affect the orientation of the fluorine atom this is the reason why E, -> E and E2 —> 4 are not observed).

The excess surface charge in the presence of specifically adsorbed ions was found by measuring the amount of selenite adsorbed and the amount of hydroxyl displaced into the solution. The quantity of OH" displaced (A) was estimated for constant pH (a hypothetical situation) from the curves for titration of goethite, goethite plus selenite, and selenite alone by the equation. 

Although the transition between stagnant and flowing solution is considered to be abrupt in this example, the transition is in reality gradual. Consequently, the profiles will be rounded as shown by the dotted line in Figure 3.37C. However, the hypothetical situation of an abrupt transition is a useful approximation in mathematical treatments as shown below. (See Ref. 6, Chap. 4, for a critique of the Nernst diffusion layer.)... 

Figure 11a shows a hypothetical situation where both 7t- and a-curves resist the bond alternating distortions from their respective minima the -minimum is unperturbed and located at AR = 0. Since the two curves are attractive, the ground-state minimum will be located between the two curve minima, with a smaller bond alternation relative to the... 

Fig. 7. Schematic model of the distribution of the apparent complexation capacity in river- and estuarine- (a), coastal- (b) and open ocean waters (c). The right part shows the situation L > M (based on Wood et al., 1983), the left part the hypothetical situation M > L for deep oceanic - (d) and estuarine waters (e). Bar graph shows the major sources for each system.

In these graphs a Bohr radius value (L) of 4.8 A (the value for porphyrin) is used in the Dexter equation 33.18 Also, the solid lines correspond to hypothetical situations in which only the Forster mechanism operates the dotted lines are hypothetical situations for when the Dexter mechanism is the only process.18 The curved lines are simulated lines obtained with equation 32 (Forster) or 33 (Dexter) but transposed onto the other graph (i.e., Forster equation plotted against Dexter formulation and vice versa). 

To reduce these theoretical considerations to an example, let s take a look at a hypothetical situation in which the prior art discloses a genus together with some compounds falling within the genus. In view of the prior art disclosure, we ll do an analysis using the principles we have just discussed. 

In conjugated reactions active site consumption is distributed between reactions with respect to their rates. In this connection, we should discuss a hypothetical situation in which one part of the active site is consumed for H20 production, whereas another part is consumed for ATP synthesis during the same period of time. Such a system would display simultaneous accumulation of the products of both reactions and the amount of H+ ions consumed in the reactions would depend on the ratio of their rates. 

If the human genome is partitioned into haplotype blocks, the definition of LD can be refined. Because a given local haplotype block has multiple variants, the probability that SNPs that are in LD but are not located on the same haplotype block will be in phase (i.e., part of the same local haplotype structure) is a function of increasing distance. For instance, in a hypothetical situation in which two variants or forms are available for every haplotype block, the probability that pairwise SNPs in LD will not be part of the same local haplotype (in phase) is 0.5"+1, where n represents the number of haplotype blocks that separate the two SNPs. For example, if the SNPs are on adjacent blocks (zero block separation), the probability that they will be part of the same local haplotype is 0.5 or 50%. This is the upper limit for SNPs not present on the same haplotype block in this situation. If SNPs are separated by four blocks, the probability that they are part of the same local haplotype falls to 0.03 or 3%, because now there are more blocks and hence more possibilities for variation between the SNPs. 

Path 2 involves the insertion of an electrophilic carbene reagent into the P C-H bond. Although this pathway does not involve the development of a formal positive charge on the P carbon, it is well known that there is a significant buildup of positive charge on the carbon at the transition state for the insertion reaction.57 Both pathways should, then, display significant P-metal effects. In a hypothetical situation in which there is more than one C-H bond p to the metal substituent, the... 

Figure 3-7. Hypothetical situation in which two distinct mechanisms yield hot and cold OH rotational distributions (open and filled bars, respectively). Though the open and filled bars represent 75% and 25%, respectively, of the total OH, the filled bar dominates at N = 1. Thus, state specific detection of N = 1 senses the minor channel in preference to the major channel. This might occur when two pathways yield hot and cold OH, for example, Br + HOCO1 versus HO(Br)CO+, respectively.

Thus one can study the hypothetical situation without resonance by just including one of the structures in the wavefunction, so as to assess the importance of resonance. 

Related Calculations. Clearly, the EUAR and the selection of the most economical control device depend on the hurdle rate, even when the other inputs are held constant. Moreover, a given firm s hurdle rate can vary according to general economic conditions, the expected risk associated with a project, and other factors. Thus, the control device selection in this hypothetical situation or in any similar, real-world situation could also be affected by these factors. 

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