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The Ukrainian Society for Non-Destructive Testing and Technical Diagnostics (US NDT TD) was established at the meeting of the leading experts of the country, on October 28, 1990, The aim of the Society s activity is consolidation of the efforts of scientists and engineers for development of their creative and business activity, information exchange, satisfying the professional interests, development of international contacts on NDT TD. 

This discussion of copper-containing enzymes has focused on structure and function information for Type I blue copper proteins azurin and plastocyanin, Type III hemocyanin, and Type II superoxide dismutase s structure and mechanism of activity. Information on spectral properties for some metalloproteins and their model compounds has been included in Tables 5.2, 5.3, and 5.7. One model system for Type I copper proteins39 and one for Type II centers40 have been discussed. Many others can be found in the literature. A more complete discussion, including mechanistic detail, about hemocyanin and tyrosinase model systems has been included. Models for the blue copper oxidases laccase and ascorbate oxidases have not been discussed. Students are referred to the references listed in the reference section for discussion of some other model systems. Many more are to be found in literature searches.50... 

Technology—involve pharmaceutical companies and distributors to develop innovative solutions, such as radiofrequency identification (RFID) to track movements of drugs, tamper-proof packaging to deter tampering, and printing technologies aimed at end user compliance Risk communication—IMPACT to develop and coordinate effective mechanisms to alert and respond to counterfeit drug activities inform and educate users and healthcare professionals to be alert and report suspicious cases... 

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The principal aim of molecular diversity analysis is to identify structurally diverse (synonyms are dissimilar, disparate, and heterogeneous) sets of compounds that can then be tested for bioactivity, the assumption being that a structurally diverse set will generate more structure-activity information than will a set of compounds identified at random. The sets of compounds can be selected from an existing corporate or public database, or can be the result of a systematic combinatorial library design process (4,5). 

Whereas the clinician should always take the role of counselor and advisor, the ultimate course of action should be left to the patient, except in those few instances in which the patient cannot make a rational, prudent, and informed decision on his or her own behalf. Bringing the patient into the process as an active, informed participant is beneficial to self-esteem and improves compliance. There are, however, two instances in which the clinician should not defer to the patient s wishes if the illness significantly affects the ability to make an informed decision and when a treatment is requested (e.g., a drug of abuse) that cannot be provided in good faith. 

How can one proceed economically in fields of research which can only be explored empirically This is possible by designing experiments so that a maximum of new information is obtained, i.e. by optimizing the information-expense ratio. For the medicinal chemist, the term experiment signifies in this context test compounds and the information refers to structure-activity information. At this point two main problems arise, i.e. 

Trichlorophenol may exhibit weak aneugenic and clastogenic activity. Information on other chlorophenols is inadequate to allow assessment of their genotoxicity. 

It is not my intention to make an exhaustive survey of the literature on all compounds reported to be biologically active. Instead, limited but pertinent information on a few selected groups of compounds will be provided. In reviewing these compounds, the biological activity information is cited only to indicate their importance. 

Ability to archive asynchronously - chemists enter chemical structures and biologists enter biological activity information independently, their results correlate via common structure names. 

A unique database is the GDB-13 database (49), which is an exhaustive enumeration of small-molecule structures containing up to 13 heavy atoms (restricted to C, H, N, O, S, P, and Cl). Although the database does not contain activity information associated with the structures, it can be used as a source of structures for virtual screening purposes (50). It is similar in nature to databases such as ZINC (51). The key difference is that the latter are all commercially available, whereas the former are completely virtual. This class of databases is useful primarily for virtual screening type methods, where the goal is to identify candidates for more in-depth study, rather than to explicitly understand SAR trends. 

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The experimental study described here illustrates how the application of the principles of information enhancement can significantly improve chemical analysis. In this case we have established the optimum conditions for obtaining structural or activity information from voltammetric electroanalytical data. Moreover, it is clear that the informational goal(s) will dictate the most favorable choice of experimental conditions. It is also interesting to observe that the most useful experimental conditions... 

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