Readiness to respond

This trained pool of site management personnel, investigation support personnel, and potential investigation team members will now be ready to respond when needed. 

Action Safety is of the first importance in the performance of duties. Safe apparatus means safe responses. It is the responsibility of all assigned personnel to work together to ensure that the apparatus is ready to respond. A safety-related deficiency may be grounds for removing the apparatus from service until the deficiency is corrected. The final determination of the suitability of any apparatus for response remains the prerogative of the chief of department, who can overrule any decision. 

As far as efficacy is concerned, this is a model of procedural memory with more than a sensorimotor aspect, because it includes considerations of instinctive priority and emotional salience. It is thus the Freudian unconscious broadened and made user-friendly. No longer a cauldron of dread desire, my unconscious procedural repertoire is both rich in sources and ready to respond. I don t have to think about most of what I do. It just happens automatically, appropriately, and adaptively. My emotional brain knows that helicopters, Vermont tractors, and nervous exhibit designers have something in common. 

There have now been parallel studies of 6-OHDA-induced lesions of the mesostriatal and mesocortical DA systems (Robbins et al., 1998 Baunez and Robbins, 1999). Both studies produced results that were different from those of mesolimbic DA loss, in that there were impairments in choice accuracy when the visual stimuli were presented in a temporally unpredictable manner. The impaired choice accuracy resulting from mesostriatal DA depletion was found in the context of many other behavioral deficits, including slowed responding and large increases in response latency (similar to those seen following mesolimbic DA loss). However, despite these effects, no deficits in accuracy were observed under baseline conditions. The selective disruption produced by the variable intertrial intervals may be related to the basic impairments in the readiness to respond described in earlier studies on simple and choice reaction time (Brown and Robbins, 1991). 

The second reason why some of these practices have sometimes been secret has to do with your readiness to respond, the shock value they might have in requiring a radical reorientation. Think for a moment how many techniques for improving yourself have you heard about already. ... 

The mission of the DoD is to support and defend the Constitution of the United States to provide for the common defense of the nation, its citizens, and its allies and to protect and advance US interests around the world. To accomplish this mission, the Department maintains trained forces ready to respond to threats to US security. 

Prepare a resume for your professional use at this time or in the near future. You might use this resume to apply for a scholarship, an internship, a summer job, or a permanent position. Focus on your strengths, and don t forget to thoroughly proofread several times before you print your final draft. (If you keep a copy of this resume handy and revise it regularly, you will be ready to respond quickly should a job or other opportunity unexpectedly present itself.)... 

Inside the end of each nerve cell are the potassium and other electrolytes, while outside are the sodium and chloride, creating an electric potential at the gap (synapse) that a nerve impulse has to jump over as it travels from one nerve cell to the next. When that electric nerve impulse arrives, sodium ions (electrically charged sodium atoms) rush into the nerve cell, potassium ions rush out of the nerve cell into the synapse, and the cell membrane is depolarized. The depolarization allows the nerve impulse to jump across the synapse and enter the next nerve cell, usually with the help of a chemical called a neurotransmitter. When the nerve impulse has crossed the gap between nerve cells (synapse), the potassium ions rush back into the cell, the sodium ions rush out into the synapse (outside the cell), and the normal polarization of the nerve ceU is restored. It is again ready to respond to the next nerve impulse that arrives. 

Silicone-based materials have been known for their ability to restructure under certain conditions [68]. Recently, tetramethylammonium silanolate-initiated ringopening copolymerization of octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4) and bis (heptamethylcyclotetrasiloxanyl) ethane (bis-D4) showed that these crosslinked polymers with ethylene bridges and active silanolate end groups are able to be restructured [69]. Figure 15d depicts siloxane interchange reactions, which maintain their activity under ambient conditions, thus providing ready-to-respond active groups. 

When a nerve impulse arrives at a synapse, it causes the release of a minute amount of a chemical substance called a neurotransmitter (or synaptic transmitter) which is a localized hormone. This substance diffuses across the gap and, on reaching the far side, it interacts with receptors (on the postsynaptic membrane of a muscle or nerve cell. As soon as it has acted, the neurotransmitter is removed from the synaptic cleft, either by reabsorption into the presynaptic store (norepinephrine) or by enzymic destruction (acetylcholine). In this way, the synapse is rapidly restored to its resting state and is then ready to respond to another impulse. 

HSPD-10—Homeland Security Directive 10, Bio-Defense for the 2P Century. HSPD-10 was issued in response to the fears of bioterrorism following the anthrax attacks of 2001, the threat of pandemic influenza, and the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome. HSPD-10 serves as the basis for the country s biodefense program. This directive calls upon hospitals not only to plan for more traditional hazards, such as explosive or incendiary threats, but also to be ready to respond to bioterrorism attacks. 

Public Safety and Other Resources Clearly, existing public safety organizations and personnel need to be ready to respond. These groups include police, emergency medical technicians (EMTs), ambulances, fire fighters, medical, and potentially military units. 

If the atmosphere in a confined space is IDLH due to a high concentration of an air contaminant or oxygen deficiency, those who must enter the space to perform work must wear a pressure-demand SCBA or a combination pressiue-demand airline and SCBA that always maintains positive air pressure inside the respiratory inlet covering. Fully trained and equipped rescue must be onsite and ready to respond if needed. This is the best safety practice for confined space entry and is required at the company. 

Emphasizes the continuing relevance and importance of the provisions of article X of the Convention, welcomes the activities of the Organizahon for the Prohibihon of Chemical Weapons in relation to assistance and protection against chemical weapons, supports further efforts by both States parties and the Technical Secretariat to promote a high level of readiness to respond to chemical weapons threats as articulated in article X, and welcomes the effectiveness and efficiency of the increased focus on making fiiU use of regional and subre-... 

In the United States, there is a growing industry of specialist disaster waste contractors that are ready to respond to disaster events. In particular, they respond to frequent storm events. Contractors can be paid in a number of ways but typically contracts are either a lump sum (for a specific body of work) or time and cost. Generally these costs include for all aspects of waste management from demolition or collection through to final disposal. 

Repeat infections by the same virus or bacteria are met immediately with a strong and specific response that usually stops the infection and has less reliance on the innate system. Vaccination against infection is possible due to this immune memory. The first adaptive response against an infection, called the primary response, often takes days to mature. In contrast, a memory response develops within hours of infection. Memory is maintained by a subset of B and T lymphocytes called memory cells, which can potentially survive for years in the body. Memory cells remain ready to respond rapidly and efficiently to a subsequent encounter with a pathogen, giving rise to stronger and faster so-called secondary responses (Litman et al., 2010). 

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