Secretary of State John Kerry has defended the president's abrupt change of approach, telling NBC: "He didn't think it was worthwhile acting and having the Syrians and a whole bunch of other folks looking at the United States arguing about whether or not it was legitimate, or should he have done it, or should he have moved faster".
Maybe, but where did the abrupt, meat-ax approach come from, some people are asking?
This paper proposes a proactive approach for abrupt drift detection, called DetectA (Detect Abrupt Drift).
He also said the government should not startle business markets with an abrupt change in its approach to antitrust legal theory.
Making an abrupt change in its approach to the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it would jettison plans to remove federal protection from millions of acres of wetlands.
This state of affairs marks an abrupt break from the approach of the last Labour government, which put tackling child poverty at the heart of its fiscal policy and ploughed billions into family support services and children's centres.
In the micro-nano fluidic approach, the abrupt increase in dimension from the macro- to the nano-scale is associated with sharp increase in free energy and a large free energy barrier, preventing molecules from entering the nanoconfined region.
Instead of the top-down integration approach where abrupt and artificial integration of central ministries leads to coordination of specific systems, the basic stance is that inducing the integration of supervising ministries while adjusting specific systems serving as a major cause of conflict on the site would be more effective.
The original article, by Barnosky and other scientists, suggests that the global ecosystem is approaching an abrupt and irreversible shift.
The latter approach implies an abrupt model change.
Eta Devices takes a radically different approach, favoring fast, abrupt changes with a smaller capacitor.
