Making Choices

The above examples are relatively simple, since they contain just two types of atom and adopt symmetrical shapes. It should be anticipated that many examples will prove much more complicated in structure. Although polymeric coordination compounds are growing in number and importance, we shall limit our exploration of these, leaving this to more advanced textbooks. 

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It would seem better to transform chemisorption isotherms into corresponding site energy distributions in the manner reviewed in Section XVII-14 than to make choices of analytical convenience regarding the f(Q) function. The second procedure tends to give equations whose fit to data is empirical and deductions from which can be spurious. 

The previous equations are some of the major dimensionless parameters. For the flow to remain dynamically similar, all the parameters must remain constant however, constancy is not possible in a practical sense, so one must make choices. 

Difficulty making choices (ie, what clothes to wear, what to eat)... 

An estimate of the operating costs, the cost of producing the product, is needed to judge the viability of a project, and to make choices between possible alternative processing schemes. These costs can be estimated from the flow-sheet, which gives the raw material and service requirements, and the capital cost estimate. 

Professionals sometimes have to make choices about whether to treat the person with a drug problem or whether it would better if someone else treated that person. In some cases, a professional may not provide treatment at all, which makes referrals to another professional for treatment or therapy necessary. There are many advantages to referrals if they are made for the right reasons, but there also can be a few disadvantages. 

They vary from discipline to discipline and from time to time. As might be expected, although appropriate in the context of their development, such standards are often likely to be incomplete or otherwise inappropriate for universal application because they are value-laden rules for making choices (vide infra). Through use, however, they become valuable to those who use them. Often these standards also become a cause of contention when, in interdisciplinary settings, practical knowledge must be extracted from experimental data. Thus, controversies often arise when scientists trained in different disciplines influence public policies or make decisions based on the conversion standards in which they were trained. 

More forcefully, it might also be suggested that even these enforced choices reflect no real freedom for these practitioners. As some critical materialist philosophers suggest instead, the intentions, plans, and concepts of the future these individuals hold-which are all prerequisite to making choices-might be seen as consequences of social processes rather than as causes. That is, what people want might in and of itself be a product of who they are and the role they play in the society and economy. 

When selecting candidate zeolitic materials for effecting an adsorptive separation the researcher faces an enormous number of possible combinations of materials and desorbents. In the absence of any established algorithm for selecting materials the researcher is forced to rely on analogy and published experience to make choices for experimentation. 

The lack of such scientific evidence does not automatically mean that such products are dangerous or ineffective. Many people are willing to trust traditional practices that have been used for hundreds of years whether there is scientific evidence for them or not. They are willing to accept the claims of healers from fields other than modern medicine about the benefits of such products. Indeed, an important reason for the adoption of the DSHEA in 1994 was to allow individuals the right to make choices about dietary supplements without the intervention of the federal government in that process. 

Economics is about the allocation of resources to production and the distribution of the outputs that result. Economics exists as a discipline because the resources available globally, nationally, regionally or to any industry, organisation or individual are finite. At the same time, it would appear that no amount of output could ever satisfy all human wants and desires. Taken together, this means that choices about the level of resources to allocate to various sectors of the economy or to the production of specific outputs within those sectors are unavoidable. Equally, choices about distribution cannot be escaped. Thus, economics is the science of making choices. 

Engineers are often confronted with making choices between alternative equipment, designs, procedures, plans or methods. The courses of action require different amounts of capital and different operating expenses. Some basic concepts must be considered before attempting... 

The physiological and psychological sense of dependence described by these parents meant making choices that compromised their abilities to parent their children safely. Those parents who were now in recovery from drugs spoke of a mindset narrowly focused on immediate concerns with... 

Volume 5. M. Marchand, Modelling Coastal Vulnerability - Design and Evaluation of a Vulnerability Model for Tropical Storms and Floods Volume 4. S.A.M. Karstens, Bridging boundaries. Making Choices in Multi-actor Policy Analysis on Water Management. 

In the MPPT/MBPT method, once the reference CSF is chosen and the SCF orbitals belonging to this CSF are determined, the wavefunction VF and energy E are determined in an order-by-order manner. This is one of the primary strengths of the MPPT/MBPT technique it does not require one to make further (potentially arbitrary) choices once the basis set and dominant (SCF) configuration are specified. In contrast to the MCSCF and Cl treatments, one need not make choices of CSFs to include in or exclude from VP. The MPPT/MBPT perturbation equations determine what CSFs must be included through any particular order. 

Chapter 4 discusses chemical risks that are public goods. Risks like air pollution are collectively consumed, and individuals generally cannot avoid them simply by acquiring information and making choices. While torts and regulations theoretically can produce efficient levels of public exposure, they usually fall short. 

However, even with this recognition of the importance of social context to the possibilities of individual self-creation, the liberal model of autonomy still at heart seems to be about the individual making choices about his or her own life. For Raz social forms determine the range of options open to the individual, but... 

Addicts are not people without willpower or people driven to act with out making choices. The clinical picture is of people who too often make choices that, in the long term, reduce their long-term utility and their total well being and, in addition, often burden both their families and society. These choices are suboptimal to long-term utility and, therefore, in the meaning of rational choice theory, irrational. The core problem is one of impeded rationality, of insufficient choice capacity to integrate present and future consideration in a sufficiently consistent pattern. 

At the second stage, addicts obviously continue to make choices, yet they arc increasingly vulnerable to irrational forces. In theory, one might argue that, while craving, tolerance, withdrawal, conditioning, and... 

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