To overcome the limitations of synchronous or asynchronous models, we introduce events, discrete signals that guide or restrain the choice of fireable transitions.
By comparison Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, was restrained in his choice of metaphor as he announced his long-awaited investment package this week in the European Parliament.
I fret that the Japanese, for all their intelligence and diligence, may be restrained less by deliberate choices than by values and self-identity dating back half a millennium.
RUSSIANS, long restrained in their reading choices, turned in the 1990's to cheaply produced mass fiction with stories that mirrored the sordid chaos around them: gangsters and crime, sex and drugs.
The last time he did, in 2007, he led a conservative majority -- then rounded out by Chief Justice John Roberts, as well as Justices Scalia, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas -- to restrain women's choice with sexist, paternalistic language.
In practice, however, economies and societies are far from frictionless, and optimal choice may be restrained both by the presence of credit constraints – both short and long term – and by other market frictions.
"The argument that transformation is being restrained by not making hard choices now is inescapable".
First, economic hardships could be regarded as a material factor restraining individual's choices due to a pure financial factor.
Informal carers' choices may also be restrained by formal carers' attitudes to them [ 6, 8], by the financial implications of formal assistance [ 9], by subjective factors related to relationships [ 6, 9, 10] or gender roles [ 6].
