The issue arose because of alarming speeds and safety concerns at the sliding center here.
Beijing accepted a continuing American relationship with Taiwan because of alarm at Soviet pressure on its own northern border.
North Korea's desire to get closer to Japan may partly be because of alarm that its sponsor, China, appears to be getting on famously with South Korea.
Most parents are thought to have stayed away from clinics because of alarm at the now discredited research of Andrew Wakefield, the gastroenterologist, who hypothesised a link between the MMR and autism in 1998.
For years one of the most intractable issues in Washington, immigration reform, is suddenly front and centre not least because of alarm in the Republican Party that Hispanics, the fastest growing ethnic group in the country, have turned against them, turned off by years of conservative, anti-immigrant rhetoric.
It has become obvious that BP shamefully failed to oversee its dangerous deepwater drilling operation adequately – but also that it was badly let down by contractors carrying out crucial work, including Halliburton and rig operator Transocean, whose staff had switched off fire alarms on the ill-fated rig because of false alarms in the night.
Because production of alarm calls and increased vigilance are antipredation behaviors in the fowl, their reaction suggests that eyespots may elicit fear rather than just an aversion to conspicuous patterns.
We had to disconnect the device frequently because of occlusion alarms, suggesting that the device could not draw a blood sample.
However, in a significant number of patients the devices had to be disconnected prematurely because of occlusion alarms, which could not easily be overcome by flushing the system.
Alarms are used in many clinical applications, but they are often less than optimal because the design and implementation of alarms has not always taken the cognitive capacity and processing mechanisms of the user into account.
