Reluctance to accept

Nowadays most trials of psychotropic drugs are multicentric, and an increasing number of them are carried out in different regions of the world. However, ethnic variations in response to the tested drugs are rarely a focus of attention in these trials. Moreover, treatment guidelines produced in North America and Europe are often regarded as universally valid, and rarely adapted to other regional contexts. This is still partly due to some reluctance to accept the concept of ethnic variability,... 

The evaluative approach frees the modeler from concerns about environmental identification and enables all attention to be focused on the chemical s behavior. An unfortunate consequence is that direct validation is not possible thus there may be reluctance to accept the conclusions. Perhaps this reluctance may best be alleviated by demonstrating that the evaluative model... 

Carothers and his research group synthesised many polyesters, nearly all of them aliphatic. His basic patent was filed on July 3, 1931 [23], This work, together with his work on condensation polymers in general, proved influential in convincing the scientific community that polymers were indeed macromolecules, as maintained by Staudinger, and not assemblies of small molecules in a special state of association. Staudinger himself was initially reluctant to accept that the polyesters were polymers, since he had defined polymers in such a way as to refer solely to products of addition reactions. He thus excluded products of condensation reactions, where small molecules were eliminated as co-products of the reaction [24],... 

The same interviewee explained a personal reluctance to accept a managerial appointment ... 

Knowing that the better nonlinear constrained methods are now available, why have researchers generally been reluctant to accept them Perhaps the linear approach has an attraction that is not related to performance. Early in a technical career the scientist-engineer is indoctrinated with the principles of linear superposition and analysis. Indeed, a rather large body of knowledge is based on linear methods. The trap that the linear methods lay for us is the existence of a beautiful and complete formalism developed over the years. Why complicate it by requiring the solution to be physically possible ... 

When presented with the prospect of dealing with a chemical system, there was a natural reluctance to accept this technology as a normal part of the everyday operation. With the exception of... 

An opponent of Lavoisier was Joseph Priestley, whose life has been ritually celebrated at the so-called Priestley Conferences organized jointly by BOC and the Royal Society of Chemistry. The last occasion for a sustained analysis of his life and work was at the 250th anniversary of his birth, just before the period covered by this book.66 There has also been a reprinting of two of Priestley s political works, though they say little about his science.67 Another chemist who was reluctant to accept the new chemistry (at least at first) was Humphry Davy, and another two volumes have been added to the long list of his biographies.68,69... 

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