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Model Studies. The spectrum of writing on the subject is broad as typified by Takayama, Professor of Economics at Purdue, who, in his Behavior of the Firm Under Regulatory Control, (7) reduced and modeled the problem to 26 equations. Model studies, unfortunately are not convincing. Those who labor to produce them do so in a lonely world at the present time. As yet, the complex question of human nature, emerging technology, economic cycles and national security mitigates against the modeler s credibility. 

Numerical integration (sometimes referred to as solving or simulation) of differential equations, ordinary or partial, involves using a computer to obtain an approximate and discrete (in time and/or space) solution. In chemical kinetics, these differential equations are typically the rate laws that describe the time evolution of the system. One obtains results for the mean concentrations, without any information about the (typically very small) fluctuations that are inevitably present. Continuation and sensitivity analysis techniques enable one to extrapolate from a numerically obtained solution at one set of parameters (e.g., rate constants or initial concentrations) to the behavior of the system at other parameter values, without having to carry out a full numerical integration each time the parameters are changed. Other approaches, sometimes referred to collectively as stochastic methods (Gardiner, 1990), can provide data about fluctuations, but these require considerably more computational labor and are often impractical for models that include more than a few variables. 

In a lot of tests in the literature for the characterization of RP-phases, retention factors of often ideal analytes are used to rank the phases according their hydrophobic character. Irrespective of the analytes used, one should consider the principle question as to whether retention factors are a suitable criterion for comparison at all. The retention behavior (i.e., a measure of the hydrophobicity) is, from the practical point of view, only of secondary interest. In the case of comparison tests, the aim is to identify columns that separate any compotmds similarly well, and a measure of the separability is the selectivity. Besides the retention factor, also the third parameter, the plate number, seems to be less suitable. It depends on so many factors that one needs a very large-scale standardization procedure to relate detected differences in plate numbers exclusively to differences in the quality of the packing procedure of several columns. One should only consider the simple case that the next column is better/worse packed. It is quite labor-intensive to obtain statistically relevant results in this context. Also in the case of the declaration of asymmetry factors, a correlation is generally assumed between asymmetry and silanophilicity. This undoubtedly exists, but not exclusively. Also, if a comparison of columns is made correctly, of what use is the information that two columns are similarly well-packed and have similar silanophilic character in relation to two standard bases as model compounds ... 

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