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The new explosive diode incorporates high reliability, minimum weight, no moving parts, capable of functioning in extreme environments, flexibility in design applica-... 

Production of electrical energy in areas with veiy sensitive environment Flexibility in choice of variety of fuel and power ... 

The trend towards further miniaturisation and surface mounting of components in electronic construction is likely to lead to increased use and development of high-purity silicones as coatings to provide protection against the environment. Flexible silicone adhesives will also play an important role in bonding components to substrates where differing thermal expansion coefficients preclude the use of rigid materials. 

The pressure equipment directive was adopted by the European Parliament and the European Council in May 1997. It harmonises the national laws of the 15 Member States of the European Union relating to equipment subject to the pressure risk. That directive is one of the series of technical harmonisation directives such as for machinery, medical devices, simple pressure vessels, gas appliances and so on, which were foreseen by the Communities programme for the elimination of technical barriers to trade. It therefore aims to ensure the free placing on the market and putting into service of the equipment concerned within the European Union and the European Economic Area. At the same time it permits a flexible regulatory environment, allowing European industry to develop new techniques increasing thereby its international competitiveness. 

In addition these directives had to be decided unanimously by the European Council which made their adoption cumbersome and slow. These directives are now referred to as old approach directives. A radical change was needed so that the Community legislation could respond to the needs of both, the completion of the internal market for the products concerned, and the need to offer to industry a flexible legislative environment which would encourage technical progress. 

Atom types represen t the chemical environment of an atom. The atom types associated with a given force field could be hard-wired to have specific vahiesand meaning. llyperChem also allows flexible definitions of the atom types and the associated chemical en vironmen Is. Th e ch em ical en viron men t of an atom (a set of rules for defining a type) and the default rules are in a standard ASCII text file, chem.nil. included with llyperChem. You can modify this file and compile it m a binary form that llyperChem... 

Are relatively transferrable in the sense that the basis for a given atom is flexible enough to be used for that atom in a variety of bonding environments (where the atom s hybridization and local polarity may vary). 

The thermal protection system of the space shutde is composed mainly of subliming or melting ablators that are used below their fusion or vaporization reaction temperatures (42). In addition to the carbon-carbon systems discussed above, a flexible reusable surface insulation composed of Nomex felt substrate, a Du Pont polyamide fiber material, is used on a large portion of the upper surface. High and low temperature reusable surface insulation composed of siHca-based low density tiles are used on the bottom surface of the vehicle, which sees a more severe reentry heating environment than does the upper surface of the vehicle (43). 

Estimated Emissions to the Environment. Phthalates maybe emitted to the environment during their incorporation into PVC and from the finished PVC article during its use or after its final disposal. However, because their purpose is to make PVC flexible and for it to remain so over long periods of time, plasticizers are of very low volatiUty relative to many other commonly used products, for example solvents. 

The widespread usage of phthalates in flexible PVC has resulted in many investigations being made of their concentration in the environment. Unfortunately the ubiquitous presence of phthalates in laboratory chemicals and equipment has caused problems in the analysis of very low concentrations of phthalates in environmental samples and has led to erroneously high levels being reported. 

The ECPI approach has been adopted by the European Commission in their "Technical Guidance Document on the Risk Assessment of Notified New Substances" as the model for assessment of environmental exposure from additives in plastics. It is important to note, however, that due to the effect of ultraviolet degradation and microbial attack, a significant proportion of the emissions from flexible PVC consists of plasticizer degradation products. In these instances, therefore, the level of plasticizers appearing in the environment will be significantly less than indicated by the plasticizer loss data. 

Emissions During Exterior End Use. When flexible PVC is used in exterior appHcations plasticizer loss may occur due to a number of processes which include evaporation, microbial attack, hydrolysis, degradation, exudation, and extraction. It is not possible, due to this wide variety of contribution processes, to assess theoretically the rate of plasticizer loss by exposure outdoors. It is necessary, therefore, to carry out actual measurements over extended periods in real life situations. Litde suitable data have been pubHshed with the exception of some studies on roofing sheet (47). The data from roofing sheet has been used to estimate the plasticizer losses from all outdoor appHcations. This estimate may weU be too high because of the extrapolation involved. Much of this extracted plasticizer does not end up in the environment because considerable degradation takes place during the extraction process. 

The steric effects in isocyanates are best demonstrated by the formation of flexible foams from TDI. In the 2,4-isomer (4), the initial reaction occurs at the nonhindered isocyanate group in the 4-position. The unsymmetrically substituted ureas formed in the subsequent reaction with water are more soluble in the developing polymer matrix. Low density flexible foams are not readily produced from MDI or PMDI enrichment of PMDI with the 2,4 -isomer of MDI (5) affords a steric environment similar to the one in TDI, which allows the production of low density flexible foams that have good physical properties. The use of high performance polyols based on a copolymer polyol allows production of high resiHency (HR) slabstock foam from either TDI or MDI (2). 

Powder coatings as a class are superior to Hquid coatings in abiHty to coat sharp edges and isolate the substrate from contact with corrosive environments. PVC coatings are softer and more flexible than any of the other powder coating materials. Primers used for PVC plastisols have been found generally suitable for powder coatings as weH (5). 

The Digital VAX rose to prominence as a departmental minicomputer and became a virtual standard in the world of chemistry. The VAX offered a user-friendly flexible environment, together with what was then considered good computational throughput. Much computational chemistry methodology was developed on the VAX. 

Optical properties of cyanines can be usefiil for both chiral substituents/environments and also third-order nonlinear optical properties in polymer films. Methine-chain substituted die arbo cyanines have been prepared from a chiral dialdehyde (S)-(+)-2-j -butylmalonaldehyde [127473-57-8] (79), where the chiral properties are introduced via the chiral j -butyl group on the central methine carbon of the pentamethine (die arbo cyanine) chromophore. For a nonchiral oxadicarbocyanine, the dimeric aggregate form of the dye shows circular dichroism when trapped in y-cyclodextrin (80). Attempts to prepare polymers with carbocyanine repeat units (linked by flexible chains) gave oligomers with only two or three repeat units (81). However, these materials... 

When embodied in a modern integrated plant environment, dynamie plant health assessment, proeess modeling and proeess integration provide the means to augment plant reliability, availability and safety with maximum eapaeity and flexibility. 

A limitation of the ANFIS teehnique is that it eannot be employed on multivariable systems. The Co-aetive ANFIS (CANFIS) developed by Craven (1999) extends the ANFIS arehiteeture to provide a flexible multivariable eontrol environment. This was employed to eontrol the yaw and roll ehannels of an Autonomous Underwater Vehiele (AUV) simultaneously. 

Like the 1-RTV systems, the two-part room temperature vulcanization systems (2-RTV) cure to produce flexible elastomers that resist humidity and other harsh environments. Interestingly, they display primerless adhesion property to many substrates, and are used in silicone adhesives, sealants, seals, and gaskets, to name a few. 

The SLIM technique is a highly flexible method that allows considerable freedom in performing what-if analyses. In common with most human reliability quantification techniques, it requires defensible data, preferably from a plant environment, to be effective. In the absence of such data, the calibration values have to be generated by expert judgments made by experienced plant personnel. 

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