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Once an EDSS has acquired information about a complex environmental process, which are the available ways to share that information with other systems If EDSSs are designed to be cooperative, under which conditions does this cooperation occur What happens if cooperation fails Who will assess the quality of the exchanged information Who will harmonize indicators and exchange protocols ... 

Flowever, the object being analyzed has to be removed from the tissues. Thus, information about the distribution of the target in the organism or in the cells is inevitably lost. What is now needed is a technology to acquire information about the distribution of the biomolecule simultaneously with its identification. The method used for this purpose, called imaging mass spectrometry (IMS), is as follows. The tissue sample is cut into thin slices, and a matrix that assists the ionization of macromolecules is spread onto these slices. The macromolecules are then ionized by a scanning laser, and the generated ions are detected and analyzed by MS.1... 

Recall that acquiring information about a multiplicity of electro-diffu-... 

Another intriguing aspect of Mr. A s dream is that it seems to be divided into two fairly distinct portions. In the first portion, the A-A parallelism occurs when Mr. A leaves the elevator, the A-B parallelism begins. Why did this shift occur One possibility is that the events happened in the order presented in the dream. That is, Mr. A acquired information about Mrs. A s dream by psi and/or influenced her dream by talking in his sleep and/or arrived at a similar dream via parallel associative paths he then acquired the information about Miss B s activities and dream by some form of psi. One could imagine Mr. A warming up his psi abilities on his wife and then reaching out all the way to Miss B. 

Besides NQR spectroscopy and the study of nuclear quadrupole interaction effects in broad-line NMR spectroscopy, paramagnetic electron resonance 6°1, Mossbauer spectroscopy, and the study of perturbed angular correlation of y-rays, are suitable methods for studying nuclear quadrupole interactions in solids. Indirect methods are also available for acquiring information about the nuclear quadrupole couplinjg constant from the liquid state (particularly NMR spectroscopy in liquids and in liquid crystals in some cases gives information about this constant). By microwave spectroscopy, the nuclear quadrupole interaction may be studied in the gaseous phase (see the paper by Zeil). We shall deal here only with the aspect of NQR spectroscopy in solids since this method has the broadest applicability to chemical problems in comparison with the other methods mentioned. 

In the Crun risse, conditions (i) and (ii) are not invariably assumed to go together. Individual agents may acquire information about the economic system that helps them to improve their individual position and even to anticipate the outcome yet the latter is not in any real sense under their control ... 

Among the peoples of the ancient Middle and Near East, the Egyptians, Assyrians, Sumerians, and Hebrews all had some knowledge of poisons, from which they developed a primitive pharmacology. Much of their experience was bound up with mysticism and the supernatural, and many details remain unclear. The Bible, where references are mostly to venoms (as in the Midrash and Talmud), does not contain a list of poisons or allude to their deliberate use. The Hebrew people most likely acquired information about poisons in Egypt, where they established a vibrant community after the destruction of Jerusalem in the sixth century bc. 

Results reported in secondary sources (publications reporting previously published results) were avoided in the present compilation, and attempts were made to access the primary source. This process often consisted of many steps, because what appeared to be a primary source often happened to be another secondary source. Secondary sources were chiefly used to acquire information about primary sources. The results from PhD theses, conference proceedings, and publications using non-Latin alphabets are often cited after secondary sources when the original source was not accessible or difficult to understand. It was not always easy to distinguish between primary and secondary sources. In a few papers, it was not clear if they reported an original pi I,), with the reference being cited only for a method, or if the reference was also cited for the value of pH,. Such problems could not be solved without inspection of the reference. 

The combination of such values allows us to acquire information about all four Stokes parameters in four counters ... 

In practice, electrochemistry not only provides a means of elemental and molecular analysis, but also can be used to acquire information about equilibria, kinetics, and reaction mechanisms from research using polarography, amperometry, conductometric analysis, and potentiometry. The analytical calculation is usually based on the determination of current or voltage or on the resistance developed in a cell under conditions such that these are dependent on the concentration of the species under study. Electrochemical measurements are easy to automate because they are electrical signals. The equipment is often far less expensive than spectroscopy instrumentation. Electrochemical techniques are also commonly used as detectors for LC, as discussed in Chapter 13. 

The radiation from the infrared region is able to promote transitions at vibrational level. The infrared spectroscopy is used to acquire information about the nature of the functional groups present in a molecule. The infrared region is conventionally divided into three sub-regions near (750-2500 nm), medium (2500-50000 nm) and far infrared (50-1000 pm). 

In essence, mass customization attempts to bring customers and company capabilities closer together. With the Internet, customers and providers in different stages of production can be connected at multiple levels of the Web. How this new capability will be utilized is still at a very early stage. For examples, customers can be better informed about important features and the related costs and limitations. Customers can then make educated choices in a better way. In the meantime, through these interactions the company will then be able to acquire information about customers needs and preferences and can consequently build up its capabilities in response to these needs. Therefore, e-commerce will be a major driving force and an important enabler for shaping the future of mass customization. 

An essential function in achieving the goal of network management is acquiring information about the network A standardized set of network management protocols has been developed to help extract the necessary information from aU network elements. There are two typical standardized protocols... 

Many techniques, methods, and tools have been developed for designers to acquire information about users, their activities, and their purposes very early in the product and system development process. These means are employed to inform the specification of function and design requirements and the synthesis of design concepts, as well as forming a basis for test and evaluation criteria. 

Rats use their senses of smell and taste to acquire information about their environment. Therefore, chemical attractants and repellents can potentially provide us with powerful techniques to manipulate pest behavior, improving the efficacy of existing control techniques or providing novel alternatives. 

The FTA is a systematic method for acquiring information about a system which drives informed decision-making. By its nature, it needs to be repetitive, structured and methodical. 

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