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The Association for Clinical Data Management (ACDM) and Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry (PSI) publish an excellent document called Computer Systems Validation in Clinical Research A Practical Guide, which can be found at http //www.cr-csv.org/. 

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The /1CDM paradigm for structure formation in the Universe, described in many hundreds of published papers, is very effective at reproducing observed large scale structure, based on a boundary condition of a scale-free Gaussian random power spectrum. Yet ACDM contains no information on the physics of whatever makes up CDM, and remains deficient in its description of galaxies and small-scale structures thus it is on galaxy scales and smaller where we can still learn the most, and hopefully attach some (astro-)physics to an ab initio power spectrum. 

Based on the ACDM concordance cosmological model and adopting the maximum circular velocity as the rotational velocity at the last measured point, we have obtained the DM mass of the galaxy (3.4 x 1010Mq). We use the recipe for the halo mass assembly history described by van den Bosch (2002) and the effect that reionization has on the infalling gas (Kravtsov et al., 2004) to derive the rate at which gas is accreted by the galaxy. 

As compared to a cosmological constant, quintessence modifies the late time evolution of the expansion rate of the universe. It can therefore affect the luminosity distance of supernovae as well as the angular distance of CMB patterns. However the most dramatic difference between a quintessence models and the now standard ACDM scenario comes when one considers structure formation. 

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ACDM/PSI (1998), Computer Systems Validation in Clinical Research A Practical Guide, Version 1.1, December. 

ACDM/PSI have summarized common causes of validation failure. Although their review is based on clinical systems the summary is equally applicable to all GxP computer systems. 

This chapter is based on work published by ACDM/PSI. General GCP/GLP compnter validation reqnirements are reviewed. This is followed by a snmmary of key topics for a selection of common systems foimd in the clinical environment. 

Escrow ACDM/PSl (1998) A legal term in Anglo-American law. A written agreement, constituting evidence between two or more parties (in this case the supplier and purchaser), that is given to a third party with instructions (in this case, to deliver source code and associated documentation) to be executed only upon a future condition (in this case, the supplier going into receivership). 

Discussion of the current ACDM version continues in section 6.7.9. 

Progressive commentators already refer to ACDM as standard cosmology. To avoid confusion we shall retain this term for 20th century big-bang theory and use ACDM for the cosmology of the new millenium. 

In order to rationalize this observation (see section 5.2.2) a simulation based on cosmic inflation, cold dark matter and dark energy (called ACDM cosmology) is invoked to replace classical standard cosmology and speed up stellar evolution in the early universe by many orders. The knock-on effect of this assumption on the present size of the universe is not explained and the new standard cosmology will be treated here with the scepticism it deserves. 

Although it remains unclear how to fine-tune the nucleosynthesis without overproducing either helium or heavy elements, these proposals have become incorporated into ACDM cosmologies (section 5.2.2), which do not rely on Population 111 to provide the dark matter. 

A cosmologically important feature of chemical periodicity is the valid prediction of periodic variation in cosmic abundance, consistent with an equilibrium process of nucleogenesis by a-particle addition and totally at variance with the predictions of standard cosmology and the ACDM alternative. 

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