Dr. Peter L. Galison, a historian of science at Harvard and author of "How Experiments End" (University of Chicago Press, 1987), said such disputes in science generally are resolved sooner or later.
Problems with those mergers have generally been resolved with settlements known as consent decrees, which restrict the new company's behavior or operations.
So far, he says, when there have been minor forks of the software, "that's generally been resolved by people having to get in touch with some of the mining consortiums, some of the larger ones, and basically saying, please put this back the way we want it". However, no process has been established for preventing or dealing with such issues in the future.
The state law allows financial institutions up to 70 days to resolve errors, whereas the federal law generally requires errors to be resolved within 45 days.
While mycoplasmas are generally too small to be resolved with optical imaging, they are large enough to be detected due to light scattering.
Generally, custody disputes are resolved outside the courtroom, lawyers said.
Generally, such disputes have been resolved with some accommodation that falls short of a definitive court ruling, so this is a "constitutional gray area," said Mark J. Rozell, a George Mason University professor who has written books about executive privilege.
Generally, the design problem is resolved from two directions.
The intensity of contrast was rated independently and in duplicate by two investigators with good concordance (generally ≤2 points); discrepancies were resolved by group discussion.
