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Cultural historian Scott Sandage argues that the concept of failure underwent a metamorphosis in the United States over the course of the 19th century. Initially, Sandage notes, financial failure, or bankruptcy, was understood as an event in a person's life: an occurrence, not a character trait.
Setting up to fail is a well-established workplace bullying tactic. [6] [7] [8] One technique is to overload with work, while denying the victim the authority to handle it and over-interfering; [9] another is the withholding of the information necessary to succeed.
The term is associated with the elongation of the period of emerging adults. [5] That is, there is a "delay" in "transition of young adults from parental dependence to economic self-sufficiency" according to Bell et al. [6] [7] Failure to launch, or FTL, has been used for "adult children living at home and highly dependent on parents". [1]
In the context of public economics, the term government failure refers to an economic inefficiency caused by a government regulatory action, if the inefficiency would not have existed in a free market. [1]
Failed back syndrome (abbreviated as FBS) is a condition characterized by chronic pain following back surgeries. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term "post-laminectomy syndrome" is sometimes used by doctors to indicate the same condition as failed back syndrome. [ 3 ]
Collapsed barn at Hörsne, Gotland, Sweden Building collapse due to snow weight. Structural integrity and failure is an aspect of engineering that deals with the ability of a structure to support a designed structural load (weight, force, etc.) without breaking and includes the study of past structural failures in order to prevent failures in future designs.
Some suicide methods have higher rates of lethality than others. The use of firearms results in death 90% of the time. Wrist-slashing has a much lower lethality rate, comparatively. 75% of all suicide attempts are by drug overdose, a method that is often thwarted because the drug is nonlethal, or is used at a nonlethal dosage.
Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is altered organ function in an acutely ill patient requiring immediate medical intervention. [1]There are different stages of organ dysfunction for certain different organs, both in acute and in chronic onset, whether or not there are one or more organs affected.