Blueprint, making

C. W. Prather and L. K. Gundry, Blueprints For Innovation How Creative Processes Can Make You And Your Company More Competitive, American Management Association, New York, 1995. 

Na[AuClJ, per mole of silver haHde. Coordination compounds are used as emulsion stabilizers, developers, and are formed with the weU-known thiosulfate fixers. Silver haHde diffusion transfer processes and silver image stabilization also make use of coordination phenomena. A number of copper and chromium azo dyes have found use in diffusion transfer systems developed by Polaroid (see Color photography, instant). Coordination compounds are also important in a number of commercial photothermography and electrophotography (qv) appHcations as weU as in the classic iron cyano blueprint images, a number of chromium systems, etc (32). 

In this section, we develop a process for making schematic drawings of molecules called Lewis structures. A Lewis structure shows how the atoms in a molecule are bonded together. A Lewis structure also reveals the distribution of bonding and nonbonding valence electrons in a molecule. In a sense, a Lewis structure is a molecular blueprint that... 

The shape and biological function of a protein depends on its sequence of amino acids. A typical protein, such as insulin, contains at least 50 amino acid groups. Depending on the sequence of these amino acids, an infinite number of different proteins are possible. Each species of animal has its own distinct proteins. The DNA in your body contains the blueprints for making specific proteins for your body s structure and function. 

Now that you have a good idea ot how your paper is going to be organized and how it will eventually look, it s a good idea to finalize your outline and till in as many specifics and as much information as possible, A good, thorough outline will be the foundation and the blueprint for your paper, It will make the writing process simple and easy to follow. This lesson will show you how to make a detailed and vivid outline. 

A less frequently employed example of a chemical effect would be that of escaping ammonia when it makes contact with ozalid paper (blueprint paper) or with other materials suitably prepared and wrapped around the outside of the specimen. Leaks are then detected based on the discoloration of the paper. 

Whenever applied, IPM practices have consistendy resulted in decreases in insecticide applications of 50 to 90% over conventional spray programs. By encouraging natural enemies, IPM practices markedly decrease the rigor of natural selection by pesticides that is responsible for resistance. Natural enemy preservation also prevents the great fluctuations and suiges in insect pest populations observed after the injudicious use of broad-spectrum insecticides. Under the IPM concept, insecticides are generally used when other practices are inadequate and the pest population reaches the economic threshold. In order to make the IPM concept effective, insecticides must be used as selectively as possible, with minimal disturbance to all other elements of the ecosystem. Thus IPM practices are essentially blueprints for the proper use of insecticides in insect pest control. 

Improvements in pesticide residue risk assessment practices should improve the scientific basis for managing pesticide residues in foods and the FQPA provides a blueprint for making such improvements. While most of the FQPA provisions are considered in theory to represent improvements in the risk assessment process, the practical adoption of methods to comply with such... 

The second factor considers the nature of the invention and the type of disclosure contained in the application. Some inventions by their very nature may be more conceptual in nature, and others require more instruction on how to actually make and use the claimed invention. For example, some mechanical inventions might need nothing more than a blueprint to allow one to make and use the invention.31 In other words, sometimes little more than a look or inspection of a drawing can allow one to comprehend not only the invention and that it would work but also that it can be made and used without additional comment or instruction from the inventors. The sum total of the disclosure plus the knowledge already available in the art enable the invention. In contrast, many areas of chemistry are more empirical in nature. Absent specific instruction regarding exactly what reagents are used, reaction times required, temperatures employed, etc., a chemical process may fail and/or a composition may not be produced at all or, even if successful, the final result may require a large amount of experimentation to get it to work. 

The space probe is shaped like a huge sphere. Inside the sphere are a number of smaller, self-contained spheres, each of which holds machinery for specialized tasks. In the biggest of the interior spheres—let s call it the library —are the blueprints for making all the machines in the space probe. These are not ordinary blueprints, however. They can be thought of as blueprints in braille—or perhaps as sheet music for a player piano— where physical indentations in the blueprint cause a master machine to make the machine for which the blueprint codes. 

The blueprint for the battery crusher, floating in the main area, quickly comes in contact with a master machine. Whirring, turning appendages on the master machine grab some nuts and bolts and start assembling the crusher. Before it assembles the body of the crusher, however, the master machine first makes a temporary ornament that marks the crusher as a machine that has to leave the main area. 

We do indeed need a better metaphor, and luckily there is one at hand. It is the metaphor of the cell-as-a-city, where the proteins of a cell are compared to the houses of a city, and the genes to their blueprints (Barbieri, 1981,1985). In this framework it would not even make sense to ask if it was the houses or the blueprints that came first. What came first was a third party, the inhabitants, i.e. the intermediaries between houses and blueprints in a city which correspond to the intermediaries between proteins and genes in a cell. 

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