vigilance
(noun)
Close and continuous attention to someone or something.
Examples of vigilance in the following topics:
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Market research to determine the potential market for funeral services in Monterrey, Mexico
- The new funeral services will include: Sale of coffins or crematory urns, luxury transportation, memorial vigils, chapel, flowers and cafeteria services, religious ceremonies, wide parking with valet parking service, legal requirements, condolences via Internet, publication of brief letters, private room for the family with foods at the request of the client and pre-arranged funeral plans.
- The added value will be to support the client in his pain, reason why a specific executive will be in charge of all the proceedings and procedures for the memorial vigil and burial of his beloved.
- In the qualitative study, people interviewed mentioned what they dislike about "Cedillas del Toro" is that the memorial vigils have a common area for visits in where you can not identify whom each person is accompanying, turning it very informal.
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Introduction to Eliminating Waste at Work
- Encourage employees to be equally as vigilant and diligent with their vehicles.
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Perception
- Selective perceptions is categorized under two types: a low level of perception, known as perceptual vigilance, and a higher level of perception, known as perceptual defense.
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Assessing an Organization's Technological Needs
- Remaining competitive and remaining technologically vigilant are virtually synonymous at this point in business development.
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Lyme Disease
- This vigilance is due to the fact that in 1975, Lyme, CT became the epicenter of an outbreak of an unusual tick-borne disease.
- Awareness and vigilance can catch the disease in the early stages and control the spread of deer ticks.
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Extra vigilance is considered warranted especially for cancers affecting the immune system.
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Epinephrine and Norepinephrine
- It is the hormone and neurotransmitter most responsible for vigilant concentration in contrast to its most-chemically-similar hormone, dopamine, which is most responsible for cognitive alertness.
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Urbino
- The Palazzo Ducale houses the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, one of the most important collections of Renaissance paintings in the world. it is also famous as the setting of the conversations which Baldassare Castiglione represents as having taken place in the Hall of Vigils in 1507 in his Book of the Courtier.
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The Long Telegram
- the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies ...
- Soviet pressure against the free institutions of the Western world is something that can be contained by the adroit and vigilant application of counterforce at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points, corresponding to the shifts and manoeuvers of Soviet policy, but which cannot be charmed or talked out of existence.
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The Economy in the 1980s
- Some economists worried that heavy spending and borrowing by the federal government would re-ignite inflation, but the Federal Reserve remained vigilant about controlling price increases, moving quickly to raise interest rates any time it seemed a threat.