Echo State Networks (ESNs) and a Nonlinear Auto-Regressive Moving Average model with eXogenous inputs (NARMAX) have been applied to multi-sensor time-series data arising from a test footbridge which has been subjected to multiple potentially damaging interventions.
Perhaps the most vociferous opponent of the microcredit concept is Milford Bateman, a consultant on economic development and the author of Why Doesn't Microfinance Work?. Bateman calls microcredit "one of the most damaging interventions of recent times".
However, it can also be argued that continued implementation of policies that are not properly evaluated is unethical and permits potentially damaging interventions for vulnerable groups.
Youth workers, school teachers and others I spoke to on a recent visit to a part of London where "postcode" feuds and violence have escalated frighteningly in the past couple of years were full of praise for their savvy local cops but in despair over what they saw as clumsy and damaging top down interventions by officers from elsewhere, notably mass stop-and-search exercises.
His welcome conclusion: "Bad behaviour must be stamped out by self discipline in our boardrooms, not only to avoid the onerous burden of further red tape and damaging taxation through government intervention, but also so that we can attract diverse, talented people into our organisations".
Moreover, strategies to address violence occurring in a conflict-affected setting, where so many individuals have been exposed to additional traumatic events over the course of their lives, will also need to consider how this range of psychologically damaging circumstances might influence intervention efforts.
Tony Blair's former Asbo czar was appointed by David Cameron last year to turn around 120,000 of England's most damaged and damaging families, through a programme designed to replace the old multi-agency muddle with intensive intervention.
Now that it is concluded, I am free to speak my mind on the damaging impact of his interventions on the Scottish economy.
Maximiliano Rusconi, his lawyer, said the president's intervention was very damaging.
A longstanding concern regarding the use of coercive interventions and treatment pressures is their potentially damaging effect on clients' engagement in treatment and the quality of the relationship between clients and clinicians.
