Degree of dissimilarity

Sensory. Multidimensional scaling was used in this study to evaluate the subjective differences between tobacco types. MDS treats data based on a person s total perception of the degree of dissimilarity between objects presented in a pairwise fashion (12). A map is produced which groups the objects by degree of similarity on several dimensions. 

The degree of dissimilarity d(J],J2) is defined in terms of similarity index io(Jl J2) as follows ... 

The smallest cell number n at which there exist different animals is three, hence the smallest possible value for io(Ji,J2) >s also 3 that justifies the inclusion of the number 2 in the denominator. As a consequence of this definition, the degree of dissimilarity d(Ji,J2) may take values from the [0,1] interval, where greater values indicate greater dissimilarity. For two Jordan curves Jj and J2 of identical shapes d(J],J2) = 0. 

The second archiving scheme, known as dissimilarity archiving, records the best solutions that are dissimilar by a specified amount. The degree of dissimilarity between two LPs, X and Y, is defined in terms of their beginning of cycle (BOC) reactivity distributions ... 

We developed two other sets that are used as control sets to evaluate the new potentials in terms of both gapless and optimal alignments. These control sets contain proteins that are structurally dissimilar to the proteins included in the training sets. The degree of dissimilarity is specified in terms of the RMS distance between the structures. The structure-to-structure alignments (necessary for RMS calculations) were computed according to a novel algorithm [45]. 

Azeotropic behavior is a common occurrence in vapor-liquid equilibria (VLE). Approximately one-third of all systems listed in standard VLE handbooks exhibit azeotropes. In general, the more dissimilar the two components, the greater the likelihood that such mixtures will be formed. Combinations of polar-nonpolar substances and those with widely differing structural features are particularly prone to azeotropic behavior. Table 6.7, which lists some of the more conventional azeotropic pairs, conveys a sense of the degree of dissimilarity that leads to the formation of azeotropes. 

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