Efficiency string

To best describe the ability of a plant to create xylem, there are some technical indicators that can be used. Figure 1 illustrates that an SSP skeletal stem is basically tubular. The "tube" itself is primarily xylem because the epidermal phloem and pith cell walls are usually very thin. For energy crops, it is best to have this tube as large and substantial as possible. In monocot plants and some dicots, the xylem and phloem are not created in tubes but are "bundled" together as highly efficient string elements that are located in the pith. There is not much mass to these bundles and, therefore, not much mass to their skeletal remains. SSPs typically are the dicots that do not form xylem bundles but, rather, xylem rings. 

This ambiguous representation of chemical structures as a string allows a veiy efficient similarity search,... 

Figure 4-70 shows a four-body TPG train (string). As before, the expander supplies power to the generator. The steam turbine supplies power to the generator, provides startup power, and provides control for synchronization. The generator provides electricity, and the gear is used to allow the expander and steam turbine to operate at near optimum efficiency with the generator at its desired speed. 

The drill string is defined here as a drill pipe with tool joints and drill collars. The drill stem consists of the drill string and other components of the drilling assembly that includes the kelly, subs, stabilizers, reamers as well as shock absorbers, and junk baskets or drilling jars used in certain drilling conditions. The drill stem (1) transmits power by rotary motion from the surface to a rock bit, (2) conveys drilling fluid to the rock bit, (3) produces the weight on bit for efficient rock destruction by the bit, and (4) provides control of borehole direction. 

Although such a fragment-based measure clearly provides a very simple picture of the similarity relationships between pairs of structures, it is both efficient (because it involves just the application of logical operations to pairs of bit-strings) and effective (in that it is able to bring together molecules that are judged by chemists to be structurally similar to each other) in operation. 

Vertical surfaces collect spray primarily by impaction. Plants and other entities with a vertical component will collect some material by impaction, and typically also by deposition, as discussed in the previous section. While horizontal collectors will tend to collect all or most material that falls out on to them, vertical collectors will have collection efficiencies that are more closely related to their physical characteristics, especially collector diameter. The SDTF used a-cellulose cards oriented perpendicular to the ground and strings made of cotton or Teflon in its field studies to assess spray volumes at locations above the ground. Many other researchers have used strings for assessing airborne spray volumes in drift studies. ... 

Vertical surface collectors can readily provide information on relative drift (e.g., the amount of drift from one field trial compared to another). However, it is difficult to obtain absolute data unless the precise collection characteristics are known for the droplet size spectrum at the point of spray collection, wind speed and air turbulence intensity. " The SDTF conducted studies in wind tunnels to compare the collection efficiency of different types of drift collector used in its field studies. These studies showed that collection efficiency on strings was several orders of magnitude higher for 0.8-mm diameter cotton string than for 2-mm diameter polyethylene line and vertical o -cellulose strips or squares. The higher collection efficiency for the cotton... 

Linear multinuclear metal complexes are attracting attention in the context of molecular electronics due to their projected use as molecular wires. 01igo(pyridyl)amido ligands are efficient scaffolds for lining up several Ni11 ions like a string. The first structurally characterized trinickel complex of this type, [Ni3(dpa)4Cl2] (dpa = bis(2-pyridyl)amide), showed a nearly linear Ni3 unit with Ni—Ni distances of around 244 pm.209 Penta-, hepta-, and nonanuclear systems have... 

Computer-Aided Property Estimation Computer-aided structure estimation requires the structure of the chemical compounds to be encoded in a computer-readable language. Computers most efficiently process linear strings of data, and hence linear notation systems were developed for chemical structure representation. Several such systems have been described in the literature. SMILES, the Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System, by Weininger and collaborators [2-4], has found wide acceptance and is being used in the Toolkit. Here, only a brief summary of SMILES rules is given. A more detailed description, together with a tutorial and examples, is given in Appendix A. 

Cucurbit [6] uril and increasingly its higher homologues have been used extensively in a variety of host-guest chemistry and nanostructure assemblies. Of particular appeal are rotaxanes and molecular necklaces, mechanically interlocked assemblies of molecules based on CB [6]. Efficient synthesis of ID, 2D and 3D polyrotaxanes and molecular necklaces (cucurbituril beads linked by a macrocyclic molecule string ) has been achieved by a combination of self-assembly and coordination chemistry. We discuss rotaxanes and molecular necklaces in Section 10.7, and cucurbil-based systems are summarised in a recent review.23... 

Chemical transformations involve the application of reagents and reaction conditions to transform target species. Such processes involve a string of events that are usually well defined and can often be controlled to maximize efficiency. However, chemical processes often require the presence of excess quantities of reagents to accomplish the transformation to the desired extent. In addition, particularly harsh conditions (e.g., high temperature or extremes of pH) are sometimes required to facilitate the chemical transformations. This can present a problem once the desired transformation has taken place because the resulting stream may be a low-quality mixture that cannot be disposed into the environment or reused without... 

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