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As examples how to apply the basic techniques several well known perceptual coders are described below. The selection was based on the familiarity of the author with the schemes, not on the scientific or commercial importance of the systems. An overview containing more details about commercially available coding systems can be found in [Brandenburg and Bosi, 1997]. 

This chapter is written in the form of a tutorial, combining basic theoretical and numerical aspects with specific examples, running from the simplest hydrogen atom to more complex molecules and solids. For the examples we used only freely available codes [3], so that the reader may easily reproduce... 

A useful empirical method for the prediction of chemical shifts and coupling constants relies on the information contained in databases of structures with the corresponding NMR data. Large databases with hundred-thousands of chemical shifts are commercially available and are linked to predictive systems, which basically rely on database searching [35], Protons are internally represented by their structural environments, usually their HOSE codes [9]. When a query structure is submitted, a search is performed to find the protons belonging to similar (overlapping) substructures. These are the protons with the same HOSE codes as the protons in the query molecule. The prediction of the chemical shift is calculated as the average chemical shift of the retrieved protons. 

The availability of large and fast computers, in combination with numerical techniques to compute transient, turbulent flow, has made it possible to simulate the process of turbulent, premixed combustion in a gas explosion in more detail. Hjertager (1982) was the first to develop a code for the computation of transient, compressible, turbulent, reactive flow. Its basic concept can be described as follows A gas explosion is a reactive fluid which expands under the influence of energy addition. Energy is supplied by combustion, which is modeled as a one-step conversion process of reactants into combustion products. The conversion (combustion)... 

Commercially available CFD codes use one of the three basic spatial discretization methods finite differences (FD), finite volumes (FV), or finite elements (FE). Earlier CFD codes used FD or FV methods and have been used in stress and flow problems. The major disadvantage of the FD method is that it is limited to structured grids, which are hard to apply to complex geometries and... 

Equation (1.11) is now examined closely. If the s (products) total a number / , one needs (// + 1) equations to solve for the // n s and A. The energy equation is available as one equation. Furthermore, one has a mass balance equation for each atom in the system. If there are a atoms, then (/t - a) additional equations are required to solve the problem. These (// a) equations come from the equilibrium equations, which are basically nonlinear. For the C—H—O—N system one must simultaneously solve live linear equations and (/t - 4) nonlinear equations in which one of the unknowns, T2, is not even present explicitly. Rather, it is present in terms of the enthalpies of the products. This set of equations is a difficult one to solve and can be done only with modem computational codes. 

Spread-sheet software has achieved great popularity because of its availability for microcomputers at reasonable cost, the ease of learning and using the software, and its flexible application to many problems. Solutions for many engineering problems can be obtained more rapidly by spread sheet than by writing a language code program, such as FORTRAN or BASIC. 

The hierarchical code organization is illustrated in Fig. 18.3. This is by code series and then individual codes. ADAS provides extensive Fortran and IDL subroutine libraries which are available for use in a user s own codes and analysis programs. The IDL subroutines support the user s interface to interactive ADAS and graphical presentation of results. Modular basic atomic calculation routines, utilities and access routines to the ADAS data classes are mostly provided in Fortran but generally with IDL versions which use the Fortran through C wrappers. In particular reaEadf .pro and run-adas.pro IDL procedures give access to ADAS data or run ADAS codes at the IDL command line - independent of interactive ADAS. The libraries now include 700 subroutines. 

At this writing, the three-dimensional sttuctures of eight different naturally occurring type 1 copper proteins are known. These include the cupredoxins plastocyanin at 1.33 A resolution (pdb code 1 PTC), azurin at 1.8 A (pdb code 2AZA), pseudoazurin at 1.55 A (pdb code IPAZ), amicyanin at 1.3 A (pdb code lAAC), auracyanin at 1.55 A (pdb code IQHQ), rusticyanin at 1.9 A (pdb code IRCY), and the phytocyanins cucumber basic protein at 1.8 A (pdb code2CBP), and stellacyanin at 1.6 A (pdb code IJER) Atomic coordinates for these and all other single-domain type 1 copper proteins are available from the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) Protein Data Bank (PDB) and can be accessed online at www.rcsb.org/pdb/. 

Although a considerable number of extracellular and intracellular proteins have been isolated and described from thermophilic archaea, few detailed studies concerning the structure and thermophilic properties of the respective proteins are available. Of the approximately 40 different enzymes isolated from the extremely thermophilic archaea and characterized with respect to basic thermophilic properties (Table 1), only eight have been analyzed with respect to their primary structure, mostly using the nucleotide sequence of the coding genes, and in no case could the three-dimensional structure of the proteins be resolved. 

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