Paul Steely White, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives, a cycling and pedestrian advocacy group, called the new statistics "alarming" and attributed much of the uptick to what he deemed lax police enforcement of traffic laws.
"Don't write this down — I don't want to be the laughingstock of the academic community," one scholar told me, having ventured the idea that Brod himself had composed all of Kafka's writings and, alarmed by their strangeness, attributed them to a reclusive friend who worked at an insurance office.
For example, in 1962 a failure of electronic components in street lights in Hawaii and activation of numerous automobile burglar alarms in Honolulu were attributed to a high-altitude U.S. nuclear test at Johnston Atoll, some 1,300 km (800 miles) to the southwest.
That involvement of alcohol in transport fatalities was twice as likely than other mechanisms of death is alarming, and may be attributed to the high consumption of alcohol in the NT at 14 L per capita (Skov et al. 2010).
The United Nations refugee agency expressed alarm at the announcement, but attributed it to the tensions stirred up by the rebel offensive on the capital.
"The civil guard attributed the false alarm to a childish 'prank' that had something to do with the boy's situation at school," the local Faro de Vigo newspaper reported.
The birds in this study explicitly uttered alarm calls that have been attributed to ground predator warning (Collias and Joos 1953).
Each prescription ordered, and each laboratory alert or alarm displayed during this period was attributed to a junior doctor and then numbered chronologically.
The priority in alarm management is first to recognize and locate the source of the alarm and then to attribute a significance to this alarm.
This last finding suggests that the higher false alarm rate for emotional items can be attributed to a more lax response criterion, rather than to reduced source monitoring accuracy.
