Ambiguity may lead us to insert abstractions into our experience that create a greater number of unanticipated, unintended consequences. When people move closer to the flux of ambiguity, they work to make sense of it. High reliability organizations react to ambiguity by increasing it momentarily. To increase ambiguity is to grasp more of the situation, to refrain from simplifications, and to st...

Salt Lake City , the place where my wife and I and our cats live, is roughly equidistant from the three states of Nevada , Idaho , and Wyoming . Ignoring the admonitions of local church authorities, every weekend thousands of Salt Lakers travel by car, bus, or plane to these neighboring states to gamble in casinos, buy lottery tickets, or (during the summer) bet on horse races. For better or wo...

world's history presents only during occasional long periods of widespread prosperity, to Mr. Lytton's eyes her personal influence does not account either for the great events that happened in her time or for the eminence of the chief characters which surrounded her. We see in his biography, what is lacking in the earlier book, a sincere attempt to refrain from belittling his subject, but certa...

advancing research, reaffirm that it is the mission of our respective medical journals to report and disseminate data from scientific investigation, evolving medical care, and innovative treatments. We believe these reports serve to unite basic scientists, clinical investigators, and medical professionals regardless of their country of origin, ethnic group, or political leaning. We believe that...

This technical report describes in some detail (1) the creation of a dataset for testing the degree of relatedness between concepts out of the data from Beigman Klebanov and Shamir’s lexical cohesion experiment [3, 5, 6], and (2) a new measure of semantic relatedness based on WordNet. We welcome comments on this manuscript; however, please refrain from citing it, but rather the concise publishe...

This paper addresses analysis and switching control problems of switched linear systems. To this end, a mixed time-driven and state-dependent switching strategy is proposed. It guarantees an average dwell time evenwhen all subsystems are unstable. The switching rule and its associated switching output feedback controllers are designed to stabilize the switched system and satisfy a weighted L2 g...

Mobile phone use is banned or regulated in some circumstances. Despite recognized safety concerns and legal regulations, some people do not refrain from using mobile phones. Such problematic mobile phone use can be considered to be an addiction-like behavior. To find the potential predictors, we examined the correlation between problematic mobile phone use and personality traits reported in add...

The present book has the...purpose of straightening thought about war and peace.... [I]t seemed best to refrain from condemnation altogether. For indignation is so easy and satisfying a mood that it is apt to prevent one from attending to any facts that oppose it. If the reader should object that I have abandoned ethics for the false doctrine that “to understand everything is to pardon everythi...

This paper presents several simple linear vaccination-based control strategies for a SEIR (susceptible plus infected plus infectious plus removed populations) propagation disease model. The model takes into account the total population amounts as a refrain for the illness transmission since its increase makes more difficult contacts among susceptible and infected. The vaccination control object...

In order to better preserve the edge features and also refrain them from the staircasing effect in smooth regions, this paper investigates a hybrid model for restoring the blurred images with additive Gaussian noise and an effective iterative scheme based on alternating direction method is employed to solve the minimization problem suggested by us with two regularization terms. Numerical experi...