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Every chapter ends with a comprehensive bank of problems that give students liberal opportunity to master skills by working problems. And now many of the problems are written expressly for use with the software on the Learning By Modeling CD-ROM. Both within the chapters and at the end, these problems are flagged with the Spartan-Build icon. 

Model-building icons encourage the student to build molecular models to illustrate the principle under discussion or to aid in the solution of a problem. 

As you go through this text you will see two dif ferent modeling icons The SpartanBuild icon alerts you to a model building opportunity the SpartanView icon indicates that the Learning By Modeling CD includes a related model or animation... 

The Learning By Modeling CD ROM developed by Wavefunction Inc in connection with the fourth edition of this text accompanies the fifth as well We were careful to incorporate Spartan so it would work with the textbook—from the Spartan images used m the text to the icons directing the student to opportunities to build models of their own or exam me those m a collection of more than 250 already prepared ones... 

In collaboration with Wavefunction we have created a cross function CD ROM that contains an electronic model building kit and a rich collection of molecular models that reveal the interplay between electronic struc ture and reactivity m organic chemistry Icons m the text point the way to where you can use this state of art mo lecular modeling application to expand your understand mg and sharpen your conceptual skills... 

Figure M5.2. Sample icons for model building from the Simulink Continuous Library Wndow.

ICON [Integrated chlorination and oxidation] An improved version of the Chloride Process for making titanium dioxide pigment. It operates at above atmospheric pressure and is claimed to be cheaper to build. Chlorine from the oxidation section, under pressure, is introduced directly to the chlorinator. Developed by Tioxide Group, and first operated at its plant at Greatham, UK, in 1990. 

SpartanBuild, a computer program for building molecular models on Windows and Power Macintosh computers, can be found on the CD that is included with this book. It is intended to be used in conjunction with the Molecular Modeling problems found at the end of each chapter, as indicated by the icon shown in the margin. 

NeuroSolutions NeuroSolutions (http //www.nd.com/) is a powerful commercial neural network modeling software that provides an icon-based graphical user interface and intuitive wizards to enable users to build and train neural networks easily [78], It has a large selection of neural network architectures, which includes FFBPNN, GRNN, PNN, and SVM. A genetic algorithm is also provided to automatically optimize the settings of the neural networks. 

STELLA (commercial) WWW.hps-inc.com Provides an icon-based interface for model building and simulation, and also for sensitivity analysis... 

Many of the problems in this edition of the text have been expressly written to involve use of the SpartanBuild software on the Learning By Modeling CD-ROM. Students discover the connection between structure and properties by actually building molecules on their own. The SpartanBuild icon directs them when to use this tool. 

The very special properties of DNA, one of the icons of modem science, make it one of the most versatile molecules in chemistry. In nature, it serves as the carrier of genetic information and as such is one of the cornerstones of life [1]. In vitro, a very diverse set of applications have been explored, ranging from programmable building blocks in bionanotechnology [2] to scaffolds for catalysis. In this review, we will focus on this last aspect, with a particular emphasis on metal catalysis. Three approaches will be discussed DNAzymes, DNA-templated catalysis, and DNA-based asymmetric catalysis (Fig. 1). Artificial DNA-metal base pairing [3] will not be covered, as no catalysis using these systems has been reported to date. 

To illustrate what Stella is and what it does, since it is somewhat less well known than equation solvers, spreadsheets, and symbolic computation tools, we present the simple case of an irreversible first-order reaction, A B. In Stella there are four icons that can be used to build models. These icons are called stocks, converters, flows, and connectors. We can use a stock to represent the concentration of A and another to represent the concentration of B. A flow then connects A to B. The flow has what appears to he a valve inserted in it. The opening of this valve can be conveniently set by means of a converter, the value of which can be thought of as the rate constant for the reaction. The connector from A to the flow allows the user to specify that the valve opening depends not only on the rate constant but also on the concentration of A. In our example helow we illustrate a first order reaction. The Diagram window for this simple reaction is shown in Figure 7. Besides the Diagram window there are three other windows available in Stella Equation Pad, Graph Pad, and... 

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