For people who use medication for ADHD, testing and studying should either both be done medicated or unmedicated to maximize state-dependence effects.

Otherwise, as we have seen with other disasters, communities can languish for many years in a state of dependence, with high levels of disease and mortality.

Runtime life cycle: the consumer's awareness of (and subsequent dependence on) the runtime state or readiness of a service provider is indicative of tightly coupled behavior.