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The inventory tasks is to collect environmentally important information about relevant processes involved in the product system. Inventory collects information about unit processes at first and subsequently, an inventory of inputs and outputs of the system and its surroundings is carried out. The goal is the identification and quantification of all elementary flows associated with product system. Inventory analysis is the nature of the technical implementation of LCA studies. It is an essential part of a study, has high demands for data availability, practical experience in modelling product systems and, in the case of using database tools, it is necessary to master them perfectly and to understand their function [46]. The inventory phase principle is data collection that is used to quantify values of the elementary flows. This phase represents a major practical part of the LCA study, time consuming and with demands for data availability and author s experience with modelling product system studies [47],... 

Vast tabulations of 13C chemical shift data have been assembled in computer searchable form. These databases form the basis for 13C chemical shift prediction algorithms. For the most part, carbon chemical shifts can be calculated using what is referred to as a Hierarchically Ordered Spherical Environment (HOSE) code approach [28]. To calculate a given carbon s chemical shift, the influence of each successive spherical shell is applied to the starting chemical shift for that carbon to calculate its overall chemical shift. Typically, programs will calculate shifts for 3 or 4 layers, beyond which the effects of most substituents are negligible. The spherical layers surrounding the 23-position of strychnine are shown in Fig. 10.8. 

Bioethics Access to published hterature on the ethical, legal, and public policy issues surrounding healthcare and biomedical research. This information is provided in conjunction with the Kennedy Institute of Ethics located at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. httpvywww.nlm.nih.gov/databases/databases bioethics.html... 

Monitoring data have not shown cresols to be widely occurring atmospheric pollutants. The National Ambient Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) Database, a compilation of published and unpublished air monitoring data from 1970 to 1987, contained very little information on the cresols (Shah and Heyerdahl 1989). The database contained only information for o-cresol in source-dominated atmospheres (air surrounding a facility or known release of the chemical in question). The median air concentration of o-cresol at source-dominated sites is 0.359 ppb for 32 samples (Shah and Heyerdahl 1989). 

In soluble globular proteins, hydrophilic amino acids tend to be on the exterior of the molecule whereas hydrophobic amino acids are packed in the interior [13]. To quantitatively describe the location of an amino acid in relation to the protein surface, different measures of solvent exposure have been developed. In the present context, the solvent exposure is modeled by the number s of protein atoms that are within a sphere of radius R centered at the position of atom c of amino acid a [5]. If the amino acid is buried in the protein interior, s is large because the surrounding volume is (almost) completely filled by protein atoms. On the other hand, if the amino acid is exposed, part of the volume is occupied by solvent molecules, which results in a smaller s (see Table 11.1 and Figure 11.3). Again, relative frequencies fac(s) and fc(s) are derived from the database and the net potential for solvent exposure is then... 

The whole database access code is surrounded by a try-finally block. There is no catch because the exceptions are rethrown by the code. However, the finally block is necessary because the ResultSet, Statement, and Connection objects must be closed properly whether an exception is thrown, or otherwise there will be database resource leaks. The database cleanup is implemented in a Util class. The initialization of the Connection object is purposely left out from the code. It can be either from a connection pool or from a Thread Local variable that is set earlier in the method call stack. Thread Local will be discussed further in Chapter 15. 

Absolute versus relative values. In relational databases, the data values are often readily interpretable. For example, age is 35 is well understood. However, in image databases, the data values (e.g., pixel intensities) have a significance that will depend on the context. For example, a gray-scale value of 46 could appear darker than a gray-scale value of 87 if the surrounding context pixels values are all very bright. 

Tremendous amounts of information from the experimental methods of X-ray crystallography and (NMR) spectroscopy and from in silico modeling have been entered into databases, and this information is shared by many researchers worldwide. Once the amino acid residue sequence of a new protein of interest has been identified, it is intuitively of interest to search these databases for well-characterized proteins with similar sequences, to note their function, and to consider the possibility that the function of the new protein may be similar. Unfortunately, things are seldom that simple in this field. Proteins with similar primary sequences may have quite different structures and functions, and, taking this one step further, some proteins, termed moonlighting proteins, display different functions depending on their immediate cellular surroundings (Ofran and Rost, 2005). 

Database searches aimed at identifying related proteins found that the closest structural relative to bacteriocin AS-48 is the effector polypeptide from porcine lymphocytes, NK-lysin.63 Similar to AS-48, this 76-residue protein adopts a globular fold with five helices surrounding a hydrophobic core but lacks a circular backbone.64 Instead, NK-lysin comprises three cross-bracing disulphide bonds that stabilise the structure. Despite the linear backbone of NK-lysin creating differences in the orientation of helix 5 in relation to the one in AS-48, and despite no significant sequence homology between them, the backbone... 

In the following chapters we will see how explosives, when detonated, work on their surroundings to perform some useful function. We will use databases that have been established by experimental data utilizing the techniques of geometric similitude scaling as well as dimensional analysis. Most of these databases will require that we know how much energy the explosive has available for use. Let us review how an explosive behaves. 

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