In some cases, repeated false alarms in a certain area may cause occupants to develop alarm fatigue and to start ignoring most alarms, knowing that each time it will probably be false.

National and local officials in threatened nations must be prepared to respond to warnings within minutes and to communicate warnings to local populations via sirens, mass media, specialized radio systems and other notification technologies.

Formation of special intelligence units that follow up international alerts concerning terrorists identified by the United Nations.

Now America has had to pay the price for ignoring loud warnings about the weakened levees of New Orleans.

Interpol co ordinates the circulation of alerts and warnings by means of specific tools such as its color coded international notices system.

Indeed, skepticism about global warming has gone up, not down, as the false alarms have become increasingly high pitched.

In paragraph 357, the Board recommended that UNICEF implement automated alerts and statistics on the use of information and communication technology resources.

The following information relating to the alerts appears in the SIOM module control list, origin of the information, type of risk, and order for the alerts.

The Tribunal held that the inability to access late breaking news stories or weather warnings can hardly be characterized as insignificant.

Despite credible early warnings, a swarm of desert locusts attacked more than 10 countries in West and North Africa, destroying millions of hectares of crops.

UNICEF has included the development of automated alerts and statistics on the use of information technology resources in the office management plan and support budget for 2006 2007.

A coordination mechanism2 under the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission has been put in place to facilitate regional capacities for the detection of potential tsunamigenic events and to issue warnings.

Signal detection theory In (signal) detection theory, a false alarm occurs where a non target event exceeds the detection criterion and is identified as a target (see Constant false alarm rate).

In Africa, despite considerable warnings nine months prior, a massive desert locust upsurge infested 10 West and North African countries in the summer of 2004, threatening millions of hectares of crops.

NEW HAVEN The punditocracy has once again succumbed to the China Crash syndrome a malady that seems to afflict economic and political commentators every few years. Never mind the recurring false alarms over the past couple of decades.

Francis shies away from the retrograde rhetoric that his predecessors used in raising alarms about the role of women, and he has not gone out of his way to follow up on the Vatican s visitation (read Inquisition ) of uppity American nuns.

He associated himself with the suggestions made by Mr. Kälin and added that any reform should seek to strengthen underused mechanisms such as the country missions undertaken by the Committee against Torture and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, early warning procedures and emergency measures.

NEW HAVEN The punditocracy has once again succumbed to the China Crash syndrome a malady that seems to afflict economic and political commentators every few years. Never mind the recurring false alarms over the past couple of decades.

The rest of the world has begun to take heed, but Bush, having ignored warnings about Al Qaeda s plans prior to September 11, 2001, and having not only ignored the warnings about New Orleans levees, but actually gutted funding to shore them, has not led America to do likewise.