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Neurologic signs did not occur over a 30-day period in male prisoner volunteers in California who ingested daily doses of methyl parathion ranging from 1.0 to 19 mg. There were no uniform changes in plasma or erythrocyte cholinesterase levels at any of these doses (Rider et al. 1969). By increasing concentrations of methyl parathion administered to the same experimental population and using the same protocol, a dose that inhibited cholinesterase values was established. These additional studies were published nearly 20 years ago in abstract form only therefore, they are not discussed in this section. 

The definition of the abstract form of the constraints between states must now be linked to the actual values of the variables in the constraints... 

The second form of head-to-head dimerization involved the formation of a linear (as distinct from a cyclic) species in which two molecules of silene form a silicon-silicon bond. If this follows the pathway suggested above in Eq. (25), the resulting 1,4-diradical must then disproportionate by hydrogen abstraction, forming a molecule saturated at one end and unsaturated at the other. Recent examples are given in Eq. (27).86... 

In measurement sciences, calibration is an operation that establish a relationship between an output quantity, qouU with an input quantity, q m for a measuring system under specified conditions (qin qout) The result of calibration is a model that may have the form of a conversion factor, a mathematical equation, or a graph. By means of this model, then it is possible to estimate q -values from measured q0Ut-values (qout qin) as can be seen in an abstracted form in Fig. 6.1. 

The utility of a process control was demonstrated by constructing a series of slides containing mouse and rabbit serum. Five rows of a series of dilutions of each species were applied to slides, and these were then stained in mixed cocktails of goat anti-rabbit and goat anti-mouse secondary antibody, followed by routine peroxidase-DAB visualization steps. The mixed cocktails were constructed as variable mixtures to demonstrate the ability to detect lack of sensitivity of either of the cocktail components. The results of this study were published in abstract form.15 Clearly, this approach can provide a way to monitor changes in secondary antibody cocktails, either due to manufacturing variables or differential aging of components within the cocktail (Fig. 10.5). 

Kosmatschof freed himself from the technologically abstract forms of the new genre which had developed in association with architecture and to which many... 

It must be emphasized that we are at a very early stage of Cu and Zn isotope geochemistry and therefore that the data on which this review is based are relatively few and often have appeared in abstract form or PhD memoirs only. 

No information regarding health effects of 1,3,5-TNB administered by any route is available in humans. Data presented in abstract form provided limited information on oral and dermal toxicity in animals (Desai et al. 1991). Therefore, studies addressing toxic effects of 1,3,5-TNB in animals after acute oral exposure (since this is the most likely route of exposure for human populations in the vicinity of ammunition plants) would provide needed information for estimation of possible 1,3,5-TNB toxicity in humans. Also needed are acute exposure studies of 1,3,5-TNB after inhalation and dermal exposures because exposure by these routes may occur in spite of the low volatility of these compounds. 

Most of the studies reported are in early phase (Phase 1 and II) with the exception of Vorinostat (suberoylanihde hydroxamic acid [SAHA]), which has entered Phase III. Some of these studies have only been pubhshed in abstract form. Encouragingly, activity has been seen especially in lymphoprohferative diseases, leukemia and some solid tumors, including prostate cancer. 

As a rule of thumb, oue would expect that the more stable the aminoxyl radical, the lower its overall reactivity. This matches the above reported expectation (cf. Scheme 1) that the lower the BDEno-h value, the less efficiently the aminoxyl radical wiU abstract H-atom from a substrate. These two statements are indeed corroborated by a few literature examples. TEMF 0 (Chart 1), a persistent aminoxyl radical , upon H-abstraction forms one of the weakest NO—H bonds among those reported in Table l . It is no wonder... 

Several other small phase I or phase I/II studies looking at the concurrent administration of gemcitabine and radiation with or without other agents have been reported in abstract form (Table 3). In general these trials illustrate that gemcitabine can be safely administered with radiation in NSCLC patients. However, their small numbers and the fact that they are reported from only a few select institutions have not fully conquered the fears that many have about concurrent administration of this agent with radiation. 

Although only reported in abstract form, INTO 116, a randomized study of postoperative modality therapy (5-FU, leucovorin, and RT) vs surgery alone in resected adenocarcinoma of the stomach and gastroesophageal junction, has found a statisti-... 

The first is the prediction of the Habitus made from the characteristics of the crystal structure, entirely neglecting the effect of growth conditions. We will call this the structural form or abstract form. The second logical approach is to predict the Habitus thermodynamically when the crystal reaches the equilibrium state. This may be called the equilibrium form. The third is a method of analyzing the factors that may have an effect by correlating the Habitus and Tracht shown... 

In this section, the relevant epidemiological and experimental data are summarized. Only reports, other than in abstract form, that meet the criteria outlined on p. 11 are considered for evaluating carcinogenicity. Inadequate studies are generally not summarized such studies are usually identified by a square-bracketed comment in the preceding text. 

Arkona and his coworkers (259) investigated verapamil in comparison with lithium in a random-assignment, double-blind, crossover study of 15 manic patients (4 weeks of lithium or verapamil, To days of placebo, and then a crossover to the other agent). Subjects improved on lithium but unexpectedly worsened with verapamil. This was a well-controlled study of verapamil, but unfortunately did not confirm the previous results. Further, it is only available in abstract form, and the complete publication is needed to evaluate the study critically its outcome, however, suggested caution in interpretation of earlier positive results. 

Let us consider for the moment the potential energy function in an abstract form. A useful potential energy function for a bond between atoms A and B should have an analytic form. Moreover, it should be continuously differentiable. Finally, assuming the dissociation energy for the bond to be positive, we will define the minimum of the function to have a potential energy of zero we will call the bond length at the minimum r. We can determine the value... 

As far as the direct comparison between SLIT and SCIT is concerned there is a single double-blind double-dummy study published as a full paper [37]. It showed that SLIT had a clinical efficacy superimposable to SCIT (symptoms and need for drugs), but that SLIT was better accepted and tolerated by the patients. Another well-designed rigorous double-dummy trial with birch pollen extract has recently been published in abstract form [38], The study showed that SLIT and injection IT had a similar efficacy, but only with SCIT did systemic side effects of grade III and IV appear, whereas SLIT was comparable to placebo. 

Numbers outside Rings in Formulas Indicate the Recommended Numberings for the Norpinane and Pinane Types of Carbon Skeletons Numbers inside Indicate the Systematic Numbering for Bicyclo Names Arrows on Circles Enclosing Numbers Indicate whether Numbering Runs Clockwise or Counterclockwise on die Orientations Shown. The Names Recommended Conform to the Principle of Like Treatment of Like Things (as Interpreted by Chemical Abstracts and the London Chemical Society) and the 1953 Chemical Abstracts Form for Names of Unsaturated Structures. 

Ongoing studies were found in abstract form in the open literature. These studies include the investigation of hemopoietic effects in adult mice at low exposures (Farris et al. 1995), strain differences in metabolism (Grotz and Witz 1995), analysis of benzene metabolites and glutathione in the bone marrow of mice (Henderson et al. 1995), comparison of pulmonary and hepatic microsomal metabolism of benzene in rats (Chaney and Carlson 1995), chromosomal aberrations or DNA repair in exposed humans (Anderson et al. 1995 Hallberg et al. 1995 Mills et al. 1994 Smith et al. 1995), DNA adduct formation (Hedli et al. 

Our laboratory has been involved in over 50 field studies evaluating the usefulness and effectiveness of hair analysis in the nine fields listed in Table 1. Most of these studies were performed on a blind basis. The role of our laboratory in these studies has been to develop and provide the appropriate analytical technology and to establish whether a positive result was caused by drug use or external contamination. The objectives, design, and publication of these studies were the responsibilities of the independent investigators. In many instances, the results of hair analysis were validated by comparison with urinalysis and self-reports. The majority of these studies were funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) or the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Although preliminary reports are available in most cases, we will focus our selective review on those studies which have been published or where preliminary data are available at least in abstract form. 

Public health workers from local or state health departments can be trained to use the data abstraction form. However, public health workers with experience in medical chart abstraction or surveillance would be better suited for initial data collection. 

In chemical engineering, as well as in other scientific and technical domains, where one or more materials are physically or chemically transformed, a process is represented in its abstract form as in Fig. 1.1(a). The global process could be characterized by considering the inputs and outputs. As input variables (also called independent process variables , process command variables , process factors or simple factors ), we have deterministic and random components. From a physical viewpoint, these variables concern materials, energy and state parameters, and of these, the most commonly used are pressure and temperature. The deterministic process input variables, contain all the process variables that strongly influence the process exits and that can be measured and controlled so as to obtain a designed process output. 

The history of Gibbs s work appears to me to contain valuable lessons the natural continuation of Lagrange s M canique analy-tique, it is a powerful algebraic attempt to express in equations the problems of Thermodynamics in the most general and abstract form but here is this work of a mathematician overturning chemistry ... 

For the last 4 years, in a joint research project with C. F. Code, we attempted to come closer to an evaluation of the nature of gastrone. The study included the distribution of activity on the electrophoretic partition of pooled acid and anacid human gastric juices, as well as in effluents from the gel filtration of these materials on Sephadex columns of various porosities. Preliminary findings have been recently published in abstract form (K31). 

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