The agency also had seven depots holding equipment and trained personnel for use when responding to chemical emergencies.

It also organizes workshops on a number of issues related to preparing for, preventing, and responding to chemical accidents.

" The purpose of the Act is two-fold: ( 1 ) to encourage and support emergency planning for responding to chemical accidents ; and ( 2 ) to provide local governments and the public with information about possible chemical hazards in their communities.

NSCMP is best known for its history of responding to chemical weapons recovered at military installations, former defense sites and communities.

Possible causes of unintended consequences include the world's inherent complexity ( parts of a system responding to changes in the environment ), perverse incentives, human stupidity, self-deception, failure to account for human nature or other cognitive or emotional biases.

As part of the Department of Homeland Security, the AST is responsible for responding to oil pollution and hazardous materials release incidents to protect public health and the environment.

, numerous experiments have worked to demonstrate their ability to readily adjust to the immediate environment and formulate antigen-specific immunological memory, fundamental for responding to secondary infections with the same antigen.

The ‘ bottom-up ’ theory explains that unwanted external ( from the environment ) and internal ( e. g. heartbeat ) noise will result in the subject only responding to the sound if the signal to noise ratio is above a certain amount.

We are adept at responding to sudden changes in our environment.

From the perspective of this theory of self, neurosis can be seen as fixed predictability-a fixed Gestalt-and the process of therapy can be seen as facilitating the client to become unpredictable-more responsive to what is in the client's present environment, rather than responding in a stuck way to past introjects or other learning.

A control system which has only feed-forward behavior responds to its control signal in a pre-defined way without responding to how the load reacts ; it is in contrast with a system that also has feedback, which adjusts the output to take account of how it affects the load, and how the load itself may vary unpredictably ; the load is considered to belong to the external environment of the system.

Further, policymakers can make these mistakes in a safe, unthreatening, game-like environment, while responding to a wide variety of concretely-presented situations based on facts.

Threads then become an ongoing story in which players periodically advance the plot by reading the latest reply and then responding with what their character does and how the environment changes in response.

There are various important ERM frameworks, each of which describe an approach for identifying, analyzing, responding to, and monitoring risks and opportunities, within the internal and external environment facing the enterprise.

( 1998 ) constructed a scale of motivation for environmental behavior, which consists of 4x6 statements ( 4 statements for each type of motivation on the SDT motivation scale: intrinsic, integrated, identified, introjected, external, and amotivation ) responding to a question ‘ Why are you doing things for the environment ?’.

Instruments of this kind do not respond to light winds, are inaccurate for high wind readings, and are slow at responding to variable winds.

Those attacks combined with Maxime Weygand's Hedgehog tactic would become the major basis for responding to blitzkrieg attacks in the future: deployment in depth, permitting enemyor “ shoulders ” of a penetration was essential to channeling the enemy attack, and artillery, properly employed at the shoulders, could take a heavy toll of attackers.

Hasty teams may be formed by whichever members are responding at the time.

The Munch Museum currently serves at Munch's official Estate, and has been active in responding to copyright infringements, as well as clearing copyright for the work, such as the appearance of Munch's The Scream in a 2006 M & M's advertisement campaign.

More often, measurement of certain hormones and metabolites at the time of hypoglycemia indicates which organs and body systems are responding appropriately and which are functioning abnormally.

Patients not responding sufficiently to the first dose are sometimes given an additional radioiodine treatment, at a larger dose.

According to the Homeric hymn, the goddesses who assembled to be witnesses at the birth of Apollo were responding to a public occasion in the rites of a dynasty, where the authenticity of the child must be established beyond doubt from the first moment.

The consequences would be unpleasant ; at the very least, the lift would stop responding to requests to move to another floor.

The Soviet economy was increasingly sluggish when it came to responding to change, adapting cost − saving technologies, and providing incentives at all levels to improve growth, productivity and efficiency.

* 1966 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.

Because of the way these activities structure the economic framework, Habermas felt that the state cannot be looked at as passively responding to economic class interests.

Simply looking at advertisements and not responding will not count as actively seeking job placement.

In 1948 Alfred C. Kinsey and his co-workers, responding to a request by female students at Indiana University for more information on human sexual behavior, published the book Sexual behaviour in the Human Male.

It was also aimed at responding to the need to provide academics a venue for research to enrich teaching and to provide inputs to policy-making.

Perloff, who has written at length about the necessity of poetic works responding to and taking advantage of contemporary computer technologies, has written of Viola as an example of how new technology — in his case, the video camera — can create entirely new aesthetic criteria and possibilities that did not exist in previous

In order to deposit an away-team on the planet Gravesworld while at the same time responding to a distress signal, the Enterprise would only drop out of Warp drive just long enough to energize the Transporter beam.

The Ford Model T produced tremendous affordable output but was not very good at responding to demand for variety, customization, or design changes.

In addition, Warner was already annoyed at Beatty who refused to star in the film, PT 109 at his behest and was insolent enough to defy his favorite gesture of authority of showing the studio water tower with the WB logo on it by responding " Well, it's got your name, but it's got my initials.

FEMA and the federal government at large were accused of not responding fast enough to house, feed and sustain the approximately 250, 000 people left homeless in the affected areas.

* Reducing Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System: A Manual for Practitioners and Policymakers – a guide to analyzing and responding to racial disparities at each stage of the criminal justice process

The date of the book is not our main focus here, what is more important is Orosius ’ s objective in responding to Saint Augustine ’ s request by writing a book aimed at proving that Rome ’ s decadence – it should be remembered that Rome was sacked by Alaric I in 410 – had nothing at all to do with the fact that the Romans had relatively recently converted to Christianity.

Chancellor authorised the Muslims to recommence their reconstructive work, while, responding to further Zionist complaints, prevailed on the SMC to stop the raucous Zikr ceremonies in the vicinity of the wall.

The idea received the support of the Dean of Westminster, Prime Minister David Lloyd George, and later from King George V, responding to a wave of public support.

Exercise Northstar V is part of the counter-terrorism effort in Singapore, aiming to test the readiness, effectiveness and coordination of the relevant agencies in responding to civil emergency, in particular a large scale multi-location terrorist attack.

The United States can use its aid as an incentive to self-help by responding with aid on a sustained basis, tailored to priority needs, to those countries making serious efforts in self-help.

Among foreign countries responding were Germany, Canada, Brazil and India.

In no way, either verbally or behaviorally, did the experimenter indicate to the subjects any preferred mode of responding to the voluntary contraction.

The change in perceptions by some of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects, after they had been informed of the possibilities of normal reactions, suggests that their constriction and guardedness is associated with their general mode of responding to strange or unknown situations.

Mr. Notte was responding to a resolution adopted by the Central Falls City Council on July 10 and sent to the state house by Miss Grant.

In her mind's eye -- her imagination responding fully, almost exhaustingly, to these shores' peculiar powers of stimulation -- she saw the city as from above, telescoped on its great bare plains that the ruins marked, aqueducts and tombs, here a cypress, there a pine, and all around the low blue hills.

Authorities responding to public pressure order the collection and cremation of the rats, unaware that the collection itself was the catalyst for the spread of the bubonic plague.

It also maintains service centers which coordinate activities such as printing literature, responding to public inquiries, and organizing conferences.

Alford left the house, and afterwards the victim received a fatal gunshot wound when he opened the door responding to a knock.

Disraeli wrote a personal letter to Gladstone, asking him to place the good of the party above personal animosity: " Every man performs his office, and there is a Power, greater than ourselves, that disposes of all this ..." In responding to Disraeli Gladstone denied that personal feelings played any role in his decision then and previously to accept office, while acknowledging that there were differences between him and Derby " broader than you may have supposed.

Against this backdrop, American exporters are finding quite favorable overseas markets for their products and U. S. consumers are responding to their general housing slowdown by slowing their spending.

A bishop with jurisdiction — usually the bishop of the place where the candidate died or is buried, although another ordinary can be given this authority — gives permission to open an investigation into the virtues of the individual, responding to a petition by members of the faithful, either actually or pro forma.

Proponents of this idea argue either that such diversity is valuable in itself, to preserve human historical heritage and knowledge, or instrumentally valuable because it makes available more ways of solving problems and responding to catastrophes, natural or otherwise.

It is stated that people feel their interactions are peer-to-peer between them and their contacts, and resent company involvement, sometimes responding with negatives about that company.

However, not having proper technology to implement electrical control systems, designers left with the option of less efficient and slow responding mechanical systems.

While responding, CERT members are temporary volunteer government workers.

Students learn about CERT roles in preparing for and responding to terrorist attacks.

Citizen Corps CERT training emphasizes safely ' doing the most good for the most people as quickly as possible ' when responding to a disaster.

Because uniformed volunteer disaster responders are accorded a higher level of trust than unaffiliated volunteers when responding in a disaster, many sponsoring agencies require a criminal background-check of all trainees before allowing them to participate on a CERT.

For Jews, salvation comes from God, freely given, and observance of the Law is one way of responding to God's grace.