Defining Terms

The standards define terms used in the industry and describe the basic design of the unit. It deals with the casing, rotors and shafts, wheels and blades, combustors, seals, bearings, critical speeds, pipe connections and auxiliary piping, mounting plates, weather-proofing, and acoustical treatment. 

The following terms are widely used in the corrosion engineer s vocabulary. This subsection is included for the newcomer and defines terms used throughout the remainder of the text. 

Although I have defined terms such as quality control and quality assurance in this chapter, what is important is not the definition but the deeds which it imbues. Whether we call the set of principles I have listed under the heading Quality assurance, Quality Assurance, Quality Improvement or Quality Control makes no difference since it does not change the set of principles. We often seem to invent a term then decide what it means rather than invent or discover a set of principles and think of a suitable name which conveys exactly what we intend without confusing people. Instead of saying Quality control is. .. or TQM is. .. to which there will be many propositions, we should be asking What should we call this group of principles so that we can communicate with each other more efficiently As Shakespeare once said That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet. ... 

Research into so-called ontologies is also currently very active. Ontologies can be used to characterize the principal concepts in a particular discipline and how they relate one to another. Many people believe they are necessary if database annotation is to be made accessible to both people and software, but also in facilitating more effective and efficient data retrieval. The well-known Gene Ontology consortium, or GO, defines the term ontology as ... specifications of a relational vocabulary . In other words they are sets of defined terms like the sort that you would find in a dictionary, but the terms are networked. The terms in a given vocabulary are likely to be restricted to... 

Although we speak generally of validated methods , only the performance of a method applied to a particular range of materials (matrices) is reported. The possibility of matrix interferences or the efficiency of cleanup steps may vary with matrix type. For that reason, methods should be validated in all matrix types, which differ significantly. In the context of the validation of enforcement methods by applicants, significant difference is not a well defined term. To avoid any dispute about completeness of validation, five material types had been selected for crops, which usually... 

Caesium chloride is not body-centered cubic, but cubic primitive. A structure is body centered only if for every atom in the position x, y, z there is another symmetry-equivalent atom in the position x+ j,y+ j,z+ j in the unit cell. The atoms therefore must be of the same kind. It is unfortunate to call a cluster with an interstitial atom a centered cluster because this causes a confusion of the well-defined term centered with a rather blurred term. Do not say, the 04 tetrahedron of the sulfate ion is centered by the sulfur atom. 

Carl S. Marvel. The Development of Polymer Chemistry in America—The Early Days. Journal of Chemical Education. 58 (July 1981) 535-539. Source for biological molecules have special properties defined terms clears up mystery why amides put aside and failure to make Dacron. 

A device that is to be placed in contact with living tissue or biological fluids must be made of material that is biocompatible. However, biocompatible is not a precisely defined term or a measurable property. In general, biocompatibil-... 

Holcombe D (1999/2000) Alphabetical index of defined terms and where they can be found. Acer Qual Assur Part I A-F 4 525 Part II G-Q 5 77 Part III R-Z 5 159... 

There is, of course, much more to chemistry than solving mathematical problems. Many of the problems presented in the textbook and solved here are of a qualitative nature. These problems involve correctly defining terms, explaining chemical phenomena, predicting the products of chemical and nuclear reactions, representing chemical entities through names, formulas, sketches and so on. Don t forget to work on this aspect of your chemical education as well. 

IUPAC is the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. It defines terms, quantities and concepts in chemistry. 

Judiciously chosen auxiliary attributes like this one can be quite effective in simplifying actions and invariants by introducing precisely defined terms that express the requirement in a natural way that s close to what a client might use (despite the formal syntax). 

Unfortunately, in some contexts, the word architecture is dropped into a discussion to lend instant credibility to someone s position If it is about architecture, it must be abstract, and surely it cannot be bothered with the difficult questions about what it all means to an implementation. This leaves us with ill-defined terms and diagrams of boxes and lines. As with any model, their value is severely degraded if the underlying terms and notations do not have a clearly defined meaning or if the number and complexity of design elements render them incomprehensible. 

The minimum detectable level, or detection limit, is defined as that concentration of a particular element which produces an analytical signal equal to twice the square root of the background above the background. It is a statistically defined term, and is a measure of the lower limit of detection for any element in the analytical process. (This definition corresponds to the 95% confidence interval, which is adequate for most purposes, but higher levels, such as 99% can be defined by using a multiplier of three rather than two.) It will vary from element to element, from machine to machine, and from day to day. It should be calculated explicitly for every element each time an analysis is performed. 

A Glossary defines terms related to chemical reactivity hazards. 

The identification of the fold is, however, only a minor part of protein characterization. Function is a loosely defined term, but must be viewed within a particular context, e.g., protein function can only take place with an interaction partner or within cellular cascades and networks. Fold predictions and homology searches can only give partial answers to such higher order functions. Thus, independent functional features have to be collected and put into context. Such features include not only molecular properties, but also cellular roles, expression patterns, dysfunctions, pathway context, and subcellular localization. The latter can be predicted by exploiting a variety of methods and localization sites. Kenta Nakai reviews many such sites and their implementation... 

In dealing with the problem of odour dispersion it is convenient to re-define terms in the basic equation (1). The odour emission E equivalent to a mass emission rate Q (g s 1) is defined as ... 

First we will look at some classical definitions and then at a derivation for the Activated Sludge Equations for ASMl Defining terms first ... 

On the one hand, a property called cooperativity will be used. This property must hold upon the dynamics of the observation error associated to (19). The cooperative system theory enables to compare several solutions of a differential equation. More particularly, if a considered system = /(C, t) is cooperative, then it is possible to show that given two different initial conditions defined term by term as i(O) < 2(0) then, solutions to this system will be obtained in such a way that i(t) < 2(t), where 1 and 2 are the solutions of the differential equations system with the initial conditions (0) and 2(0), respectively. This is exactly the same result established previously in the case of simple mono-biomass/mono-substrate systems. With regard to this property the following lemma is recalled. 

There are a number of more loosely defined terms for different types of adsorption that are related to the form of surface complexation. Specifically adsorbed ions are held in inner-sphere complexes whereas non-specifically adsorbed ions are in outer-sphere complexes or the diffuse-ion swarm. Readily exchangeable... 

Data quality is a broad, often loosely defined term. There are many problem- and discipline-related definitions to be found in the literature. This section shall not try to define data quality in any comprehensive, far less complete sense - suffice to denounce any definition that does not include the specific aspect of sample representativity however. Data is often equated with information, but this can only be in a hidden, potential form. Only data analysis together with interpretation may reveal information - which will always be in a particular problem-specific context only. Such issues are not usually seen as problematic in chemometrics and in PAT, where the pre-history of a data table ( data ) in general receives but scant attention. One relevant, major exception is Martens and Martens (2001) [26] who focus comprehensively on Multivariate Analysis of Quality . But even here there is a narrow focus on quality of information only, defined as ... dependent on reliability and relevance , without further clarifying the definition of these open-ended adjectives. 

Regardless, the classification system should achieve a specific outcome and add value. To achieve this goal, companies should consider developing a classification scheme that helps establish the proper team composition based on the complexity, nature, and severity of the occurrence. Chapter 7 describes considerations for building a team based on classification of an incident. The chapter defines terms such as minor incidents, limited impact incidents, significant incidents, high-potential incidents (HIPO), and catastrophic incidents. 

This document is organized into three sections. The first defines terms basic to the description of polymer mixtures. The second defines terms commonly encountered in descriptions of phase-domain behaviour of polymer mixtures. The third defines terms commonly encountered in the descriptions of the morphologies of phase-separated polymer mixtures. 

Corrected from [2], within which the definition improperly attempts a redefinition of the terms sol and gel. The definition proposed here is recommended for its precision through cross-reference to the properly defined terms. 

Stine et al. proposed a simple analytic model for patterned feature removal incorporating an effective density determination step [54]. Figure 10 defines terms used in the model, which reformulates Preston s equation [Eq. (2)] as a function of blanket rate K and effective pattern density... 

The ill-defined term meso-trick and the related term chiral economy should be avoided when a stereoselective reaction rather than a separation step is involved. Preferably, the well-defined term enantiotopos-differentiating reaction should be used. 

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