Taking the First Step

If j is set to zero, the procedure can be used to take the first step after the initial conditions are set. 

Leggett, D.J. 2002. "Chemical Reaction Hazard Identification and Evaluation Taking the First Steps." AIChE Loss Prevention Symposium, New Orleans. March. 

This exercise is designed to help you have the confidence to take the first step. On the left are possible disadvantages to the employment of those over 65 (many are myths). On the right are the advantages. Check both your disadvantages and advantages. Your advantages should build personal confidence and help you communicate why an employer would be smart to hire you. 

It is estimated that for every two retirees who volunteer, an additional person has the desire but not the confidence to take the first step. If you are in the latter category, visit the organization directly after making a telephone appointment to learn more about opportunities to do volunteer work. 

These are not books to gulp down by chapters, but rather to study sentence by sentence. One treatise is as good as twenty, provided it be given sufficient study, for all of them are intended for one purpose, that is to lead the mind to perceive the nature of the Art and open the vision to be able to take the first step, after which, being rightly taken, as Philalethes says, all is "child s play."... 

Secondly, a mechanistic classification scheme is necessary to narrow down a vast and ill-defined subject matter to a manageable size with a consistent content. Moreover, we will here have to take the first steps in transferring inorganic concepts into organic ones. Whatever we may think of nomenclature and definitions, science would not exist without them. 

The transition state theory assumes that as the reacting species proceeds over the energy barrier, the medium adjusts rapidly enough to stay in equihbrium. Classical electron-transfer theory takes the first step away from this idea by distingnishing rapid and slow polarization dne to electronic and atomic motion, respectively. More recently, as faster reactions have been studied, interest has turned to the effects of rates of motion of solvent molecules. It is stiff possible to retain the notion of the solvent as a continnum, by introdncing polarizations that respond at... 

Take the first steps towards a fully quantum-mechanical explanation of the stochastic aspects in single-molecule spectroscopy. 

Assuming that these externalities completely do away with the freerider benefits, cooperation appears as the solution to the game. Once more, however, this is not a dominant strategy. Since I assume that the loss from unilateralism remains, it is not rational to take the first step towards collective action. As before, stringent information requirements must be fulfilled. We are dealing, in fact, with a anuUtionat preference for cooperation. Each agent prefers to cooperate if the others can be expected to do likewise, but if he suspects they will not, he won t either. 

The timing of the introduction of the product was an historical accident, as dramatic as that of the commercializing of the first antibiotics just as World War II erupted. For only two years later did Eli Lilly s team, working with Rutter s laboratory at San Francisco, take the first step to commercialize genetically engineered products. From the very start, therefore, Abbott had a leading position in this sector of the new biotechnology industry. 

Hendrickson, Borg. Home School Taking the First Step (Sheridan, WY Mountain Meadow Press,... 

It is, as a rule, the physician who first suspects foul play and, while it is undoubtedly his duly to avoid anr public manifestation of his suspicion, it is just as certainly his duty toward his patient and toward the community to satisfy himself as to the truth or falsity of his suspicion by the application of a simple teat to the excreta of the patient during life, the result of which may enable him to prevent a crime, or, failing that, take the first step toward the punishment of the criminal... 

Neutron activation analysis has proven to be a convenient way of performing the chemical analysis of archaeologically-excavated artifacts and materials. It is fast and does not require tedious laboratory operations. It is multielement, sensitive, and if need be, can be made entirely non-destructive. Neutron activation analysis in its instrumental form, i.e. that involving no chemical separation, is ideally suited to automation and conveniently takes the first step in data flow patterns that are appropriate for many taxonomic and statistical operations. 

Brandt, P.W., Colomo, R, Poggesi, C., and Tesi, C. 1993. Taking the first steps in contraction mechanics of single myocytes from frog heart. In Mechanism of Myofilament Sliding in Muscle Contraction, H. Sugi and G.H. Pollack, Eds., Plenum Press, NY. 

Mahachek A.R. 1989. Productivity measurement. Taking the first steps. Biomed. Instrum. Technol. 23 16. Selsky D.B. et al. 1991. Biomedical equipment information management for the next generation. Biomed. Instrum. Technol. 25 24. 

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