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Move set point to measured value Action Action Omitted Set point left at original value System may operate at wrong set point. Process hazard may occur (Moderate) Noticeable change of value of variable may occur at step 1.2 Introduce check in checklist... 

Each agent is equipped with a user-specified personality - or internal value system defined by a six-component personality weight vector, m = wi,W2,. , wq),... 

Within organizations that have a high proportion of cultural diversity, there will be a more than usual accumulation of diverging belief and value systems. The danger is that these differences might interfere with the creation or maintenance of a unified corporate culture. 

The process of field validation and testing of models was presented at the Pellston conference as a systematic analysis of errors (6. In any model calibration, verification or validation effort, the model user is continually faced with the need to analyze and explain differences (i.e., errors, in this discussion) between observed data and model predictions. This requires assessments of the accuracy and validity of observed model input data, parameter values, system representation, and observed output data. Figure 2 schematically compares the model and the natural system with regard to inputs, outputs, and sources of error. Clearly there are possible errors associated with each of the categories noted above, i.e., input, parameters, system representation, output. Differences in each of these categories can have dramatic impacts on the conclusions of the model validation process. 

On the other hand, you rightly emphasised the problems that arise when dealing with patients whose value systems or cultural backgrounds are different. In Africa, one is frequently confronted by patients whose faith in sangomas, or witch doctors, is profound and whose language presents a barrier that requires the intervention of an interpreter and hence the loss of the interpersonal relationship that the holistic approach requires. Under these circumstances, reductionism is often the easiest answer to providing a good deal by Western standards. 

The thermal decomposition of dimethyl mercury in the presence of radical scavengers has been thoroughly investigated61-65. The basic mechanism, the preexponential factor and the activation energy are all well established. There is still considerable doubt about the mechanism of the pyrolysis in the absence of chemically active additives. Consequently, the quantitative interpretation of rate data from such systems is of doubtful value. Systems using effective scavengers will be discussed first. The quantitative results from these systems will be used in assessing the data obtained in the absence of additives. 

Rational control of health and environnental risks from technical development requires scientific knowledge which must be acquired through the orderly process of the scientific method of inquiry. Contrary to widely held opinions the latter is no less subjective than other rational human endeavors which require decisions under uncertainty. Indeed, to be applied, the method requires a value system which in ordinary research is supplied by the various scientific disciplines. Because of differences among the disciplinary value systems problems often arise in the interdisciplinary settings of efforts to control risks from technical development. Metrics, the concepts, theory, and practice of measurement is suggested here as a way to deal with such problems. 

It is a commonly held view that the scientific method of inquiry is, or at least ought to be, objective in the sense that it should transcend the personal value system of the researcher. The terms bad science, better science or best science are often used to connote the perceived degree of objectivity of a particular scientific activity

. Further, trans science is a term which was coined to sort and label putative encroachments upon "objective science by issues that can be posed as scientific questions but cannot be answered by the available means of scientific experimentation(15). The term was introduced because it was thought that the division of technologically important issues into scientific and trans-scientific would significantly reduce the problems of converting data into useful iformation. 

As will be shown below, the notion that science is objective is mistaken and the mistake contributes to many of the problems encountered when scientific reseach has immediate economic or political consequences(16-21). It should not be surprising that years after the introduction of the concept of trans-science, we still observe difficulty, conflict and general misunderstanding not of what science can or cannot do, but of what science does do and how. The reason is a general lack of appreciation that the scientific method of inquiry is inherently and specifically subjective and that it requires a value system without which it simply cannot be applied. 

This is not a restatement of the old observation that science is influenced diffusely and subtly by the prevailing value system of societv(22). It is to say that value-laden judgments are specific, readily identifiable and necessary parts of the cyclic sequence of activities that make up the scientific research method. Such judgments are the scientists means of coping with experimental uncertainty, i.e., the decision rules for testing statistical hypotheses (g.). ... 

GEN.123. I. Prigogine, Science, civilization and democracy Values, systems, structures and affinities, in Vlth Parliamentary and Scientific Conference, Council of Europe, Tokyo, 1986. 

Recommendation 9. The Army should develop an earned value system to maintain a comprehensive multiyear cost and schedule for the construction, operation, and closure of each chemical agent disposal facility. The system should be used to control and report the effect on cost and schedule from changes such as permit modifications, proposals for engineering changes, and the phaseout of security for surety material. 

In selecting complexes for inclusion in Table 2, preference has been given to those systems that involve a series of related compounds since these serve to show the effects of changes in structure and donor atoms upon the resulting Cu(II/I) potential values. Systems in which the separation of the peak potentials (A p) exceeded 100 mV are not included. 

Numerical Solution Equations 6.40 and 6.41 represent a nonlinear, coupled, boundary-value system. The system is coupled since u and V appear in both equations. The system is nonlinear since there are products of u and V. Numerical solutions can be accomplished with a straightforward finite-difference procedure. Note that Eq. 6.41 is a second-order boundary-value problem with values of V known at each boundary. Equation 6.40 is a first-order initial-value problem, with the initial value u known at z = 0. 

The psychedelic experience shared by increasing numbers of people may mean that we re now on the verge of an appreciative revolution. At the present time, there are few places on this continent where it s possible to participate in exciting, cosmopolitan "modern living." In a profound sense, the psychedelics may alter this situation, by virtue of their amazing ability to tune up the senses and realign value systems. 

LSD plays a large part in the value system. "Everyone... 

The first value scale is depicted in Figure 17-1. it is the value-scaling of d-SoCs implicitly held by most western intellectuals. I stress that it is held implicitly it is conveyed along with the general value system of our society in the enculturation process, without need for a teacher to say explicitly, "Complete rationality is our goal and anything less than that is an inferior, lower state of consciousness."... 

This ordering of these conditions and d-SoCs is not scientific for it has never been made explicit and subjected to detailed examination to determine how well it orders reality. Further, its implicitness under ordinary circumstances makes it a barrier to better understanding, when a value system or a set of assumptions is implicit, you do not know you have it, so you do not question its value. You automatically perceive and think in terms of the value/assumption system. For example, anything said by a person labeled "psychotic" must be viewed as a sign of his craziness, not to be taken at face value. Patients are crazy the doctors are sane. 

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