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The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) 1916 Race Street Philadelphia, Pa. 19103 The ASTM MnnualBook ofMSTM Standards contains all up-to-date formally approved (ca 9000) ASTM standard specifications, test methods, classifications, definitions, practices, and related materials, eg, proposals. These are arranged in 15 sections plus an index volume as follows. 

Schuyler, J. (1999). Probabilistic Reserves Definitions, Practices Need Further Refinement. Oil and Gas Journal, May 31. 

Browne, A.W., Harris, P.J.C., Hofny-Collins, A.H., Pasiecznik, N. and Wallace, R.R. (2000). Organic production and ethical trade definition, practice and links , Food Policy, 25, 69-89. 

As CMP materials are constantly progressing, it would be delusive to propose definitive practical recipes. However, taking into account all the elements previously set out, some cleaning processes using a scrubber or wet chemistries adapted to some typical CMP situations can be proposed for example purposes (see Table II). 

Solvents are substances that are liquid (or fluid in the case of supercritical fluids) under the conditions of application and in which other substances can dissolve, and from which they can be recovered unchanged on removal of the solvent. So many substances conform to this definition—practically all those that can be liquefied under some conditions—that it is not very helpful, unless the word application is stressed, meaning that the solvents and the solutes in them ought to be applicable for some purpose. This leaves a host of organic and many inorganic substances that are liquid at or near ambient conditions, which could be considered to be solvents under the present definition. Of these, a limited number are selected (Marcus, 1998). 

A catalytic process is commercially viable if the catalyst transformation is achieved within definite, practical limits of space and time. To quantify this aspect, one can determine the so-called space-time yield. This measure of activity is simply the amount of product obtained per unit time and per unit reaction space (where reaction space is usually the reactor volume). Weisz (79) pointed out that in industry the useful space-time yield is rarely less than 10"6 g/mol of reactant per cubic centimeter of volume of reactor space per second. This has been called the Weisz window on reality. Figure 9 (79) shows the Weisz window and other windows of chemical activity that apply to biochemistry and petroleum geochemistry (79). 

In general, polyimides exhibit a high refractive index typically between 1.6 and 1.7 and hence can be of definite practical interest particularly as antireflection coatings. Also, similar to parylene thin films, polyimides exhibit anisotropic optical properties. The reported values of refractive index of polyimides were n = 1.653 and n = 1.624 before curing and... 

The term M p,is the eph coupling constant, and ba is the annihilation operator of the mode a, whose frequency and normal mode coordinate are represented by Q,a and Qp, respectively. The sites for electrons i( T) coupled with phonons are restricted to the C region or a subpart of C. The focused modes should be sufficiently localized on the molecule in term of their definition. Practically, these internal modes can be calculated by means of a frozen-phonon approximation, where displaced atoms are atoms in the c region (or its subpart) denoted as a vibrational box though a check for convergence to the size of the vibrational box is necessary [90]. 

For Smell, we create a specific atmosphere by means of frequent censings at the rime of our orisons. We banish any evocative mixing with a different psychic atmosphere, or foreign doctrines, and above all those most particularly linked to the definitive practice of magic. We shall return later to the issue of censing. 

Usefulness The invention has some definite, practical utility. The utility of the invention should not be merely hypothetical, abstract, or contrived. The rationale for this condition is self-explanatory the pubKc does not benefit from useless patents. Recently, the U.S. PTO raised the bar for proving the... 

The study of fiber birefringence is not however a purely academic exercise but has definite practical applications, some of which are... 

It is rather difficult to exactly define the meaning of the word composite . In the broadest sense, one might consider every material as a composite that comprises two physically distinct phases. However, using this definition would imply that almost every technically used material is a composite, for example almost all steels or precipitation hardened alloys, rendering the definition practically useless. Composites used today are characterised by the following properties ... 

In practice, the reference base is usually taken not as a-methylnaphthalene but as heptamethyinonane (HMN), a branched isomer of n-cetane. The HMN has a cetane number of 15. In a binary system containing Y% of n-cetane, the cetane number CN vyOl be, by definition (./ - V ... 

If the original field development plan was not based on a 3-D seismic survey (which would be a commonly used tool for new fields nowadays), then it would now be normal practice to shoot a 3-D survey for development purposes. The survey would help to provide definition of the reservoir structure and continuity (faulting and the extension of reservoir sands), which is used to better locate the development wells. In some cases time-lapse 3-D seismic 4D surveys carried out a number of years apart, see Section 2) is used to track the displacement of fluids in the reservoir. 

The basic condition of the Standard application - the availability of stable coupled probabilistic or the multiple probabilistic relations between then controlled quality indexes and magnetic characteristics of steel. All the probabilistic estimates, used in the Standard, are applied at confidence level not less than 0,95. General requirements to the means of control and procedure of its performance are also stipulated. Engineers of standard development endeavoured take into consideration the existed practice of technical control performance and test at the enterprises that is why the preparation of object control for the performance of nondestructive test can be done during the process of ordinary acceptance test. It is suggested that every enterprise is operated in correspondence with direct and non-destructive tests, obtained exactly at it, for detailed process chart and definite product type, however the tests have long since been performed after development of the Standard displayed that process gives way to unification. 

The paper presents the results from systematic comparisons of contrast and resolution obtained with different types of radiation sources on steel thicknesses from 5 to 40 mm. These results have been taken into account with the definitions of the European standard for radiographic inspection of weldments (EN 1435) that is approved since 1997. Conclusions from practical investigations on pipe line sites, in petrochcemical plants and in nuclear power stations will be discussed as well. Furthermore, the presentation will stipulate a variety of advantages obtained from the new source in terras of coUimation and radiation protection. 

An important ingredient in the analysis has been the positions of zeros of I (x, t) in the complex t plane for a fixed x. Within quantum mechanics the zeros have not been given much attention, but they have been studied in a mathematical context [257] and in some classical wave phenomena ([266] and references cited therein). Their relevance to our study is evident since at its zeros the phase of D(x, t) lacks definition. Euture theoretical work shall focus on a systematic description of the location of zeros. Eurther, practically oriented work will seek out computed or... 

If all these holes were filled, the hydrogen-metal ratio would be a definite and fixed number in practice, this rarely happens, and... 

Because the metal structure is locked by these atoms, the resulting compound is often much harder than the original metal, and some of the compounds are therefore of industrial importance (see under iron). Since there is a definite ratio of holes to atoms, filling of all the holes yields compounds with definite small atom-metal atom ratios in practice, all the holes are not always filled, and compounds of less definite composition non-stoichiometric compounds) are formed. 

Identification of Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Picric acid combines with many aromatic hydrocarbons, giving addition products of definite m.p. Thus with naphthalene it gives yellow naphthalene picrate, C oHg,(N08)jCeHiOH, m.p. 152°, and with anthracene it gives red anthracene picrate, C 4Hio,(NOj)jCeHjOH, m.p. 138 . For practical details, see p. 394. 

The described method can generate a first-order backward or a first-order forward difference scheme depending whether 0 = 0 or 0 = 1 is used. For 9 = 0.5, the method yields a second order accurate central difference scheme, however, other considerations such as the stability of numerical calculations should be taken into account. Stability analysis for this class of time stepping methods can only be carried out for simple cases where the coefficient matrix in Equation (2.106) is symmetric and positive-definite (i.e. self-adjoint problems Zienkiewicz and Taylor, 1994). Obviously, this will not be the case in most types of engineering flow problems. In practice, therefore, selection of appropriate values of 6 and time increment At is usually based on trial and error. Factors such as the nature of non-linearity of physical parameters and the type of elements used in the spatial discretization usually influence the selection of the values of 0 and At in a problem. 

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