Allow me to explain "zip code anxiety," a little known faction of Murphy's Law, wherein the subject aims to avoid contact with a previous offender yet subconsciously allures surprise encounters when said subject least expects it.
The flip side of the Andromeda Strain problem is Star Trek's "Prime Directive," wherein we Earthlings try to avoid contaminating another world's natural development with our alien selves (or our bacteria).
The Dublin regulation was introduced partly to avoid "asylum shopping", wherein people like David and Awet might be drawn to better welfare systems in countries such as the UK and Norway.
VICE is contesting the production and sealing orders in court, on the principles of protecting any and all sources, protecting freedom of the press, and to avoid the situation wherein the Canadian news media becomes a veritable investigative arm of the law.
We carried out two types of analyses: a first one wherein transferred-out cases were excluded, to avoid double counting of patients when computing rates, and a second one with exclusion of all transferred cases, to allow the study of patients admitted into, treated in and discharged from the same hospital.
Much has been written about defensive medicine, wherein physicians order additional, and often unnecessary, tests to avoid being sued.
Images taken from the mobile device are subjected to our proposed filtering scheme wherein images that have noticeable presence of blur are discarded to avoid outliers from affecting the produced high-resolution (HR) image.
Surgery such as inguinal herniorrhaphy is recommended in order to avoid complications such as strangulation (a condition wherein a loop of the intestine is tightly trapped in the hernia, which impedes blood flow to that part of the intestine).
To avoid delays, the panel proposes an "adaptive management" process of "learning by doing, wherein flexibility is built into projects, and actions can be changed based on" new science and progress toward goals.
To avoid these problems Choi, Eastman, and co-workers [1, 2] introduced a new type of fluid called nanofluid wherein nanomaterials are dispersed in base fluids like water or EG. Subsequently many research groups have worked on the thermal conductivity and heat transfer mechanism of different nanomaterials dispersed nanofluids.
