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This optimum condition is designed to ensure that the botes of all components yield at the same time. If the cylinder is subjected to fatigue conditions, it has been suggested (39) that a better design criterion would arrange for the maximum normal stress, which controls fatigue crack propagation, to be the same in each component. 

Design Criteria. Traditionally the yield pressure has been regarded as an important design criterion because it is the largest pressure to which an initially stress-free cylinder may be subjected without the cylinder suffering any permanent deformation when the pressure is removed. Customarily,... 

The method of lines formulation for solving Equation (8.52) does not require that T aii be constant, but allows T aiiiz) to be an arbitrary function of axial position. A new value of T aii may be used at each step in the calculations, just as a new may be assigned at each step (subject to the stability criterion). The design engineer is thus free to pick a T au z) that optimizes reactor performance. 

Wet-weather processes are subject to high variability. A simple deterministic model result in terms of the impacts on the water quality is out of scope. From a modeling point of view, a stochastic description is a realistic solution for producing relevant results. Furthermore, an approach based on a historical rainfall series as model input is needed to establish extreme event statistics for a critical CSO impact that can be compared to a water quality criterion. In terms of CSO design including water quality, this approach is a key point. 

Disclaimer As in all theoretical variable determinations, these equations presented for Du calculation are subject to field-test verification. Equations (4.14) and (4.16) are not presented as being infallible or able to predict accurately every case of particle size with a given medium viscosity. For example, a crude with a high asphaltene content should be field tested before a final design for construction is issued on the basis of these equations. Small asphaltene crude contents (less than 2%) were used in deriving Eq. (4.16). More tests are needed for foam-liquid separations. Readers and users of this criterion, can perhaps contribute more data, and I indeed solicit such contributions of better methods and data as you may discover. 

From polarization curves of the type shown in case 3, three important parameters can be determined ECOSI, Ebth and In the literature there exists a nearly infinite number of variations of nomenclature, many of which are shown in Table 2. The interpretation of cyclic polarization curves has been and continues to be a subject of great controversy. The classic interpretation of case 3 would be that the potential of a material must exceed EM for new pits (or localized corrosion sites) to nucleate, but that at potentials between EM and En existing pits can propagate. At potentials below En all localized corrosion sites repassivate. Thus, from a design or material selection perspective, a material will perform well if its Econ is kept below This criterion can be met by environment... 

This has become the most commonly used criterion in the literature on supersaturated designs. Sometimes these two criteria are combined, for example, by choosing a supersaturated design that minimizes E(s2) subject to some upper bound on maXi j si j. Cheng and Tang (2001) gave upper bounds on the number of factors that could be included in a supersaturated design subject to max, x,j1 < c, where c is a constant. 

Using the so-called fixed-ratio or ray design, the mixture of interest is analyzed at a constant concentration ratio while the total concentration of the mixture is systematically varied. Hence, a concentration-response curve (a ray in the mixture response surface see Section 4.5.2) of the mixture is recorded, which can then be analyzed just as the concentration-response curve of a single chemical. A comparison with the concentration-response curves of the individual components allows a comparison with both CA and IA predictions. For this purpose k(n + 1) test groups are needed, where n = number of mixture components and k = number of concentrations per concentration-response curve. For the fixed-ratio design the use of D-optimal designs has been proposed as an efficient approach (Coffey et al. 2005). For a fixed sample size, the D-optimal design provides a criterion to select the experimental concentrations and number of subjects per concentration level that... 

Design parameters of structures containing defects can be established through the stress intensity factor, K. The failure criterion for structures that contain defects and are subjected to static or monotonically increasing loads is as follows ... 

For drugs with an expected within-subject variabiHty of >30%, a BE study with three-period, R-replicated, crossover design has been proposed (34,35,64). The minimum number of subjects that would be acceptable is 24. The BE assessment comprises two parts an ABEsc evaluation and a point estimate constraint. The BE criterion for both AUC and Cma is defined as... 

Because the primary objective of this analysis was PK similarity assessment, the influence of subject population would first be assessed with a different criterion. The subject population effects would be parameterized as percent change, and not be tested by NONMEM objective function differences. However, to maintain numerical stability, a subject population effect would be dropped if the absolute value of the estimated effect were smaller than a nominal value of 0.01 (i.e., change of CL, V, Ka, etc. <1%). This was not expected to happen and was designed only to prevent the case where NONMEM might estimate these effects at infinitesimal values and consequently would not produce standard errors of parameter estimates. 

Since 1985, virtually all orphan designations have met the frost criterion. The exact interpretation of this provision has been subject to dispute. For example, the number of AIDS patients in this country has climbed above 200,000, but several AIDS drugs were designated as orphans early in the epidemic, when the prevalence of the disease was much lower (21). 

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