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Marks IN, Louw JA, Young GO Acid secretion, 1932-92 Advances, adaptations, and paradoxes. Scand J Gastroenterol Suppl 1992 193 7-13. 

Vehicle-to-vehicle communication (advanced adaptive cruise control, traffic throughput optimization)... 

PLACID/PLINT process [13,14], The PLACID process (see also Chapter 16) is based on the electrowinning of lead from a chloride solution in a cell where the cathode and anode are separated by a semipermeable membrane. Lead oxide and lead dioxide are converted to soluble lead chloride, whilst lead sulfate is converted in a hot brine circuit. The sulfate ion is removed as gypsum after the addition of lime. The FLINT process is an advanced adaptation of the PLACID process and operates in parallel with a pyrometallurgical route that smelts the metallic lead fractions from the battery. 

Miki M, Hiroyasu T, Ono K (2002) Simulated annealing with advanced adaptive neighborhood. In Second international workshop on intelligent systems design and application. Dynamic Publishers, pp 113-118... 

The statistical error of such sampling is proportional to 1 / /N. Therefore, the accuracy of the method increases with the sample size. More advanced adaptive Monte Carlo methods use, for instance, importance sampling to enhance the convergence and the accuracy over that of the basic Monte Carlo integration. 

However, as stated in the introduction, the bulk of the aqueous reactions of interest involve proton transfer in some form. Even with advanced adaptive QM/MM methods it is still not trivial to perform simulations on proton transfer processes, due to their delocalized nature. Therefore, considering an example system in which proton transfer and diffusion occur can serve as a tough crash test for adaptive QM/MM, and should demonstrate the limitations of the methods. We specifically focus on diffusion and Grothuss shuttling, which are particularly non-local, and will affect thermodynamic reaction quantities. The impact of the introduction of an adaptive QM/MM boundary will be quantified through comparison with fully QM simulations on the same system. To underline the limits of the methodology, the behavior of the proton transfer events and their deviation from expectation will be thoroughly discussed. 

Schematic of the crack enclave and the relevant phenomena associated with the slip-oxidation mechanism of crack advance. (Adapted from Ford, F.P., The crack tip system it s relevance to the prediction of cracking in aqueous environments, in Proceedings cf First International Conferemx on Environmentally Assisted Cracking cf Metals, Kohler, Wl, October 2-7, 1988, Eds. R. Gangloff and B. Ives, Published by NACE, pp. 139-165 Ford, F.P. et al.. Corrosion-assisted cracking of stainless steel low-alloy steels in LWR environments. Report NP5064S, February 1987, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA.)...

UHF and RHF dissociation curves for H2. (Figure adapted from Szabo A,NS Ostlund 1982. Modem antum Chemistry. Introduction to Advanced Electronic Structure Theory. New York, McGraw-Hill.)... 

The ceUulose polymer and its conversion routes have already proved to be capable of adaptation to meet a wide range of market demands. The advances being made in getting ceUulose into solution with minimal environmental impact augur weU for the development of streamlined routes from tree to fiber or fabric. 

Hydroxyapatite (HA) coating on the surface of the hip stem and the acetabular cup is the most recent advancement in artificial hip joint implant technology. This substance is a form of calcium phosphate, which is sprayed onto the hip implant. It is a material found in combination with calcium carbonate in bone tissue, and bones can easily adapt to it. When bone tissue does grow into HA, the tissue then fixes the hip joint implant permanently in position. These HA coatings are only used in press-fit, noncemented implants. 

Another advance in the concepts of hquid-phase diffusion was provided by Hildebrand, who adapted a theory of viscosity to self-diffusivity. He postulated that = B(V — where is the... 

While the single-loop PID controller is satisfactoiy in many process apphcations, it does not perform well for processes with slow dynamics, time delays, frequent disturbances, or multivariable interactions. We discuss several advanced control methods hereafter that can be implemented via computer control, namely feedforward control, cascade control, time-delay compensation, selective and override control, adaptive control, fuzzy logic control, and statistical process control. 

Eor many problems, the ideal umbrella potential would be one that completely flattens the free energy profile along q, i.e., UXq) = W(q). Such a potential cannot be determined in advance. However, iterative approaches exist that are known as adaptive... 

An outline such as this can be easily adapted to your company s style, as with other presentations discussed in these Guidelines. It s a good idea to involve your PSM sponsor in advance, since the sponsor has a significant investment in your success. 

Adapted from Cantor, C., and Schimmel, P., 1980. Biophysical Chemistry.. San Franci.sco W.H. Freeman, and Tanford, C., 1968. Protein denatnration. Advances in Protein Chemistry 23 121-282. 

FIGURE 6.13 Three different kinds of /3-bnlge strnctnres involving a pair of adjacent polypeptide chains. (Adapted from Richardson, J.. S ., 1981. Advances in Protein Chemisny 34 167-339.J... 

Adapted from Ohtsuki, L, Maruyama, K., and Eba.shi, S., 1986. Regulatory and cyto.skeletal protein.s of vertebrate. skeletal muscle. Advances in Protein Chemistry 38 1-67. 

FIGURE 17.21 A drawing of the arrangement of the elastic protein titin in the skeletal mnscle sarcomere. Titin filaments originate at the periphery of the M band and extend along the myosin filaments to the Z lines. These titin filaments produce the passive tension existing in myofibrils that have been stretched so that the thick and thin filaments no longer overlap and cannot interact. (Adapted from Ohtsuki, ., Maruyama, K, and Ebashi,. S ., 1986. Advances ia Protein Chemisti y 38 1—67.)... 

FIGURE 19.29 A mechanism for the pyruvate kinase reaction, based on NMR and EPR studies by Albert Mildvan and colleagues. Phosphoryl transfer from phosphoenolpyrnvate (PEP) to ADP occurs in four steps (a) a water on the Mg ion coordinated to ADP is replaced by the phosphoryl group of PEP (b) Mg dissociates from the -P of ADP (c) the phosphoryl group is transferred and (d) the enolate of pyruvate is protonated. (Adapted from Mildvan, A., 1979. Advances in Eiizymology 49 103-126.)... 

Another factor when taking on new staff must be their attitude to a changing technology. Advances are being made in the many aspects of engineering and application in refrigeration and air-conditioning. This situation requires adaptable personnel who are always ready to assimilate new ideas. 

Figure 7.11 Restriction map of Xanthomonas campestris xanthan gene cluster. Adapted from R W Vanderslice at at. Genetic engineering of polysaccharide structure In Xanthomonas campestris. In Biomedical and Biotechnological Advances In Industrial Polysaccharides, 1989, Gordon and Breach N Y.

Progress in the theory and advances in practical applications of hydrogels are to a great extent determined by experimental study of their swelling and elasticity. However, investigating SAH is rather complicated because most of the available techniques are adapted mainly to highly crosslinked gels. 

The concept of the controlled chemical fireball is said to have significantly advanced the potential effectiveness of incendiary weapons. Theoretical studies have indicated that a great many applications may be possible, since, by changing the blend of the chemical constituents so as to achieve predetermined rates of combustion, the incendiary agent may be adapted to various operational requirements... 

Adapted from Nursing94, line, Intraocular Drug Administration, pp. 44-45, which was adapted trom Giving drugs by advanced techniques [1993], Springhouse, PA Springhouse Corp.)... 

The OWL optical design is shown in Fig. 1. It is based on a spherical and flat folding secondary mirrors, with a four-element corrector providing for the compensation of spherical and field aberrations as well as advanced active optics and dual-conjugate adaptive optics. A complete discussion would exceed the scope of this report we shall however mention a few key arguments supporting this solution ... 

The development of adaptive optic (AO) systems to correct for wavefront distortions introduced by the atmosphere represents one of the major advances in astronomical telescope technology of the 20th century. However, in spite of the great progress in AO, sky coverage is limited to sources located near bright stars that provide a measure of wavefront distortions. 

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