Britain's commitment to peace was asymmetrical: it involved a readiness to restrain Germany, but not a corresponding determination to restrain France or Russia.
Appreciation involves a capacity and readiness to experience and value the finished contraption in ways called for by what its maker has brought off.
It involves an arcane, sometimes subjective readiness accounting system that can be misleading and is not easily reduced to the sound bites of a presidential campaign.
Even the involuntary capture of attention by perceptually salient stimuli should, Wu thinks, be understood as involving a kind of readiness to act on the things attended (op cit, §3).
This theme, entitled 'conditional candour', involves an evaluation of a patient's readiness to engage in EOL conversations, being invited to the conversation, and attentiveness to contextual factors, such as appropriate timing and sensitive languaging.
Arousal, on the other hand, involves an attention orienting response, which affects our physiological state and action readiness, but which is generally thought to be undirected/non-referential.
This will certainly work with the Palestinian issue, where Netanyahu can simply fall back on familiar mantras involving a two-state solution and readiness to negotiate without preconditions.
A review of models for successful implementations [ 21] underlined the need for systematic approaches with focus on achieving a solid preparation and planning that involves ensuring readiness to change, building implementation structures and planning for interventions, support, feedback and evaluation – but also learning from experiences.
Stage-based intervention models recognize that decisions to pursue a diagnosis and engage in treatment are complex and involve a variety of motivations, knowledge levels, and readiness.
We followed the two-step weaning strategy, which involves assessment regarding readiness for weaning followed by a spontaneous breathing trial (SBT) as a diagnostic test to determine the likelihood of successful extubation.
