Array name selection

If the control expression is true, the result is exprl, otherwise, the result is expr2. For example, one might want to use a variable called index to select a specific element of an array named stheta. If index is 0, we want to access the zeroth element, if index is 1 or -1, we want to access the first element of the array, if it is 2 or —2, we want to access the second element, and so on. This is easily written using a conventional if statement ... 

Arrays were introduced in the mid-eighties as a method to counteract the cross-selectivity of gas sensors. Their use has since become a common practice in sensor applications [1], The great advantage of this technique is that once arrays are matched with proper multivariate data analysis, the use of non-selective sensors for practical applications becomes possible. Again in the eighties, Persaud and Dodds argued that such arrays has a very close connection with mammalian olfaction systems. This conjecture opened the way to the advent of electronic noses [2], a popular name for chemical sensor arrays used for qualitative analysis of complex samples. 

Figures 2 and 3 show the situation in the case of an array of TSMR sensors exposed to different compounds at various concentration levels [13]. The cross-selectivity of the sensors makes their individual responses ambiguous. Namely different samples, due to a combination of qualita-...

Critics of the MZA data who argue that various forms of bias (placement, rearing by relatives rather than random placement, etc.) probably lead to serious overestimates of genetic influence seldom address both the MZA and URT data sets simultaneously (Dorfman, 1995 Fancher, 1995). Since URTs live in the same home and are matched on far more variables than MZA twins, the whole array of commonly cited biases in MZA studies is brought into question. I used to call this kind of selective reporting pseudo-analysis (Bouchard, 1982) until I discovered it already had a name. It is called the Neglected Aspect Fallacy (Castell, 1935) and it violates Carnap s Total Evidence Rule (1950). 

NIST also maintains a website called the NIST Chemistry WebBook (http //webbook. nist.gov), which provides access to a broad array of data compiled under the Standard Reference Data Program. This site allows a search for thermochemical data for more than 7000 organic and small inorganic compounds, reaction thermochemistry data for over 8000 reactions, IR spectra for over 16,000 compounds, mass spectra for over 15,000 compounds, UV/VIS spectra for over 1600 compounds, electronic and vibrational spectra for over 5000 compounds, spectroscopic constants of over 600 diatomic molecules, ion energetics data for over 16,000 compounds, and thermophysical properties data for 74 selected fluids. The site allows general searches by formula, name, CAS registry number, author, and stracture and also a few specialized searches by properties like molar mass and vibrational energies. 

Furthermore, the avenues of simple chemical transformations in the generation of a diverse variety of pendants on the thiazolidine scaffold has fascinated medicinal chemists and led to exploration of the wealth of biological information involved in these processes. Therefore, a conscious effort is made in the chemistry part of the present review to cull out select modifications of the thiazolidine skeleton namely thiazolidine-4-carboxylic acids and 4-thiazolidinones from the vast array of thiazolidines. 

There is a special kind of site-selectivity which has been called periselectivity. When a conjugated system enters into a reaction, a cycloaddition for example, the whole of the conjugated array of electrons may be mobilized, or a large part of them, or only a small part of them. The Woodward-Hoffmann rules limit the total number of electrons (to 6, 10, 14 etc. in all-suprafacial reactions, for example), but they do not tell us which of 6 or 10 electrons would be preferred if both were feasible. Thus in the reaction of cyclopentadiene (355) and tropone (356), mentioned at the beginning of this book, there is a possibility of a Diels-Alder reaction, leading to 354, but, in fact, an equally allowed, ten-electron reaction is actually observed,121 namely the one leading to the adduct (357). The product is probably not thermodynamically much preferred to the... 

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