Taboos

Emotional instability - displaying depressive, aggressive or simply moody behaviour is a taboo for mentors. They must learn how to manage their emotions so as to be capable of providing mentees with the calmness, patience and reflectivity that is required of them. 

For the United States to abandon nuclear power would not help to thwart potentia proliferation unless at the same time we would relinquish our nuclear weapons and could stimulate a broad international taboo against all things nuclear. Clearly, we have no will to do this. Further, whatever policy the US. were to adopt, over 30 countries now use... 

Problems arise in two situations firstly, if the molecule is linear, no complete set of 3N — 6 internal coordinates is possible. For this case, a method for constructing PES in terms of Cartesian coordinates could be used.56 Secondly, if the molecule is planar, atom-atom distances (or their reciprocals) cannot provide a complete set of internal coordinates, since they cannot describe out-of-plane motion. However, we have found the coordinates Zn so useful that we retain these coordinates and avoid planar geometries (except for three atoms, when only linear geometries are taboo). That is,... 

While the human body can remove an excess of any water-soluble vitamin, excesses of fat-soluble vitamins are more serious. Early arctic explorers discovered that the Inuit regarded seal liver and polar bear liver as taboo and must not be eaten. Those explorers who ignored this advice risked retinol poisoning as the livers of both these species are rich in retinol (vitamin A) that can not be excreted. The effects of retinol poisoning are extremely unpleasant. It is for this reason that fortification with fat-soluble vitamins is not likely to be undertaken. 

Chiauzzi, E. J., Liljegren, S. (1993). Taboo topics in addiction treatment An empirical review of clinical folklore. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 10, 303-316. 

Based on the passage, which of the following best describes the story that will likely be told by Campbell s returning hero and Frazier s sacred or tabooed personage ... 

Figure 8.9 Electron density p at bond critical points found in the H- H directions versus the H- H distance in an H2 molecule and dihydrogen-bonded complexes of Li-H, BeH2, BH3, BH4, LiCCH, and CH4 with various proton-donor components HE, HNF3+, HNH3+, HNC, HCN, HCCSiHs, HCCH, HCCF, HCCCH3, HCCLi, and CH4. The taboo domain between 0.9 and 1.15 A, shown as the rectangle, corresponds to the case when the dihydrogen-bonded complexes are not stable enough to yield a free H2 molecule, or are nonexistent. (Reproduced with permission from ref. 18.)...

The methods of simulated annealing (26), genetic algorithms (27), and taboo search (29) are three of the most popular stochastic optimization techniques, inspired by ideas from statistical mechanics, theory of evolutionary biology, and operations research, respectively. They are applicable to our current problem and have been used by researchers for computational library design. Because SA is employed in this chapter, a more-detailed description of the (generalized) SA is given below. 

Cvijovic, D. and Klinowski, J. (1995) Taboo search—an approach to the multiple minima problem. Science 267, 664—666. 

These groups provide a forum where otherwise taboo topics like depression can be openly discussed since it s sort of accepted, like almost taken for granted that you re all depressed.. .. I mean, we joke about it. We ll be like, Oh yeah, what are you on And, Oh yeah, I forgot to take my medication today. More significant, these... 

Whether the consumer is considered by the industry to be ready yet for these scientific developments is a matter for conjecture. It is well known that the senior management of one multinational food company (Nestle) strongly recommends its scientist employees not to make use of the apparently taboo word nano- in their technical publications ... 

There are strict taboos to keep for several days after eating the sacred leaves, such as not having any sexual contacts. It is also important to be ritually mindful when collecting the leaves, and also in cleaning up after the ceremony. 

Lille, S.T., Engrav, L.H., Caps, M.T., Orcutt, J.C., Mann, R. Full-thickness grafting of acute eyelid bums should not be considered taboo. Plast Reconstr Surg 104, 637-645... 

The communication process is also affected by all these other variables. Sometimes, there are things you have observed or ideas you have come up with that you just do not know how to communicate properly or that are communicated in a distorted form. Sometimes, this is caused by social inhibitions about frank discussion of things that are taboo sometimes, it results from the fact that scientific communication is so overwhelmingly confined to words and that words are not adequate to... 

Apart from the basics, this book also includes some aspects of cooling water chemical formulations and programming that hitherto have been taboo for open publication (on the possible grounds that if field engineers or their customers got hold of all this information, the secrets of out industry would be out in the open). 

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