That motion would call on Conroy to "investigate the direct or indirect ramifications for Australia of the criminal matters affecting" News Corp's British subsidiary, News International.
To make matters worse, a full solution needs to work in the presence of concurrent actions, actions with non-deterministic effects, continuous change, and actions with indirect ramifications.
The new language, AR, allows us to describe actions with indirect effects (ramifications), nondeterministic actions, and actions that may be impossible to execute.
ME is able to represent non-deterministic domains involving concurrency, static laws (constraints), indirect effects (ramifications), and narrative information in the form of action occurrences and observations along a time line.
With the exception of GHG balance which is a global challenge unaffected by where emissions are produced or saved (Thornley and Gilbert, 2013), all the other impacts discussed so far can be described as 'grand challenges' whose impacts are experienced at a local level but where far-reaching, indirect social ramifications may also be felt.
Recent studies have shown that lemmings appear to be functionally more important than voles in plant herbivore interactions [ 19, 20] with ramifications for indirect food web interactions mediated by plants [ 21].
Economics must consider both the direct costs of planning and constructing an optimum network as well as the indirect costs and production ramifications caused by impassable roads, slow haul speeds, accidents, vehicle damage and landowner disputes.
Perhaps not as obviously, many macroeconomic theories, the validity of which carry huge practical, political, and social ramifications, also rely on indirect detection for validation.
"But Mr. Bansal has maneuvered the situation being conscious of political ramifications and increased things in an indirect fashion, keeping in mind the interest of the poor".
Indirect costs have previously associated with the legal ramifications of contaminated blood supplies, and also the personal costs to affected donors and patients.
In formal systems for reasoning about actions, the ramification problem denotes the problem of handling indirect effects.
