And does distraction matter — do interruptions make us dumber?
Post-prognostics reasoning is a challenge because it requires developing an integrated information system that links the operation, maintenance, logistics, decision support, and decision making, all together in a way that allows each user to benefit from the information that other users have without making any interruption to the system.
At a couple of points during the Milwaukee debate Jeb seized the initiative to shoehorn himself into the proceedings, but it took everything he could muster to make the interruption, and once he had the floor, all he had left was to sputter.
Diphtheria can be eliminated for several reasons: the reservoir is only humans; there is a safe, effective, and affordable vaccine; and seasonal outbreaks make transmission interruption possible (27 ).
A probable explanation for some mantellid frogs being widespread is that their ecological tolerance is wider, which would make the interruption of gene flow to peripheral populations by ecogeographic barriers less likely.
What Luxton calls a "dado line", where a bottom section of wall has been gloss-painted to wipe clean, makes the merest interruption to neutral walls: you have to search for the seam between matt and shine.
Have you seen (or heard) anyone make unscripted interruptions?
In a Ted talk about the book, Stark said: "When you talk to strangers, you're making beautiful interruptions into the expected narrative of your daily life – and theirs".
"This attack was very limited and only made some interruptions for some hours in the administrative part of the oil ministry," said Hamidreza Taraghi, a political analyst and spokesman for the Islamic Coalition Party, close to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the nation's supreme leader.
In other words, the distraction of an interruption, combined with the brain drain of preparing for that interruption, made our test takers 20 percent dumber.
