Envisioned future

Lund J, Hanak E, Eleenor W, Howitt R, Mount J, Moyle P (2007) Envisioning futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco... 

The last systematic description of heme peroxidases was published in 1999 by Brian Dunford, from the University of Alberta in Canada. The book Heme peroxidases covers discussion on three-dimensional structure, reaction mechanism, kinetics, and spectral properties of representative enzymes from bacterial, plant, fungal, and animal origin. Since 1999, vast information on basic but also applied aspects of heme peroxidases has been generated. We believe fusion of these two aspects will benefit research of those dedicated to development of biocatalytic process. The aim of this book is to present recent advances on basic aspects such as evolution, structure-function relation, and catalytic mechanism, as well as applied aspects, such as bioreactor and protein engineering, in order to provide the tools for rational design of enhanced biocatalysts and biocatalytic processes. The book does not include an exhaustive listing of references but rather a selected collection to enrich discussion and to allow envisioning future directions for research. 

Acknowledging the advantages of paperless rather than paper-based operation, it should be realized that the benefit of a paperless operation can only be truly exploited through top-down planning, similar to the concept of BPR. An operation going paperless needs to map what the workflow is, what papers are created and how they interact. Like a BPR project, this needs to be addressed by a cross-functional effort mapping the present situation, the envisioned future and the steps to be followed to get there. 

An increased number of studies deal with the use of ILs for liquid-liquid extraction of RE and actinides. Although the field is not mature yet, as a lot is stiU to be understood and discovered, there are enough data available already to derive general rules and trends and also to envision future directions for IL uses in liquid-liquid extraction of these metallic ions. This chapter therefore presents an historical perspective and a critical review of current works on this topic. Two brief presentations of ILs and of traditional liquid-liquid extraction will be first given. Then, current results and ideas in the field of liquid-liquid extraction of RE and actinides by use of ILs will be reviewed. As much as possible, we limited ourselves to studies dealing with the metals of interest to the handbook (4f and 5f elements), but in some cases, we... 

Motivation Emphasizes the connection between performance and rewards e.g., creates explicit expectations, monitors performance, and provides feedback. Creates enthusiasm for the vision and loyalty to the leader, the organization, and the envisioned future e.g., creates and passionately communicates a sense that all so-called preventable adverse events are actually preventable. Hodris and inspires. 

As Collins explains, the two components of core ideology and envisioned future induce a creative and dynamic tension between preservation and change. This tension answers the why " of a vision statement by acknowledging the difficulty of holding constant the core values while laying out the roadmap to the new destination. 

Benson and Ponton (1993) and Ponton (1996) have speculated on the ultimate results of continuing efforts for process minimization. They envision a twenty-first century chemical industry totally revolutionized by technological innovation, automation, and miniaturization. Small, distributed manufacturing facilities would produce materials on demand, at the location where they are needed. Raw materials would be nonhazardous, and the manufacturing processes would be waste free and inherently safe. While their vision of future technology is speculative, we are beginning to see progress in this direction. 

Hydrogen fluoride is at present stored in bulk and used at only the Shellhaven refinery, bat future use is envisioned. Hydrogen fluoride boils point 19° C but stored and handled as a hq lie tied gas. Its vapor is highly irritating and toxic. A cold cloud will be denser than air in the early stages when released but wall become neutral or buoyant as it warms with dispersion. This r-sessment assumes negative buoyancy... 

A low-energy-future scenario envisioned in the late 1970s. By 2000, the energy being consumed from petroleum, natural gas, coal, and nuclear power were all on the rise, and renewable energy supplied a smaller fraction of total energy. 

If hydrogen is made from decarbonized fossil fuels, fuel-cycle emissions can be cut by up to 80 percent. With renewable energy sources such as biomass, solar, or wind, the fuel cycle greenhouse gas emissions are virtually eliminated. It is possible to envision a future energy system based on hydrogen and fuel cells with little or no emissions of pollutants or greenhouse gases in fuel production, distribution, or use. 

The process improved. Computers became smaller, and today it is rare for a planning engineer to be void of computer power available at his desk many times greater than the early corporate computer could muster. Computer tools of the future can only be envisioned as technology advances. 

D. Blum Just going a bit further, the liquid-phase methanation process now uses one reactor. You can or you cannot use a polishing reactor as the economics dictate. You can actually go right to pipeline quality gas in one reactor, which is equivalent to about 99.8% conversion of a 20% CO feed gas. We envision at this moment that combined shift-methanation could be done in the same single reactor. It would obviously require lower feed gas rates so you may need two of these reactors. We don t exactly have the numbers yet. I think that s one of the areas that deserves future work. 

The beauty of bromide-mediated oxidations is that they combine mechanistic complexity with practical simplicity and, hence, utility. They involve an intricate array of electron transfer steps in which bromine atoms function as go-betweens in transfering the oxidizing power of peroxidic intermediates, via redox metal ions, to the substrate. Because the finer mechanistic details of these elegant processes have often not been fully appreciated we feel that their full synthetic potential has not yet been realized. Hence, we envision further practical applications in the future. 

Clinical Data Management Envisioning the future. SCDM Spring Forum 2005. 

The unique power of synthesis is the ability to create new molecules and materials with valuable properties. This capacity can be used to interact with the natural world, as in the treatment of disease or the production of food, but it can also produce compounds and materials beyond the capacity of living systems. Our present world uses vast amounts of synthetic polymers, mainly derived from petroleum by synthesis. The development of nanotechnology, which envisions the application of properties at the molecular level to catalysis, energy transfer, and information management has focused attention on multimolecular arrays and systems capable of self-assembly. We can expect that in the future synthesis will bring into existence new substances with unique properties that will have impacts as profound as those resulting from syntheses of therapeutics and polymeric materials. 

In particular, the TS trajectory remains bounded for all times, which satisfies the general definition. The constants c and c in Eq. (39) depend on the specific choice of the TS trajectory. Because the saddle point of the autonomous system becomes a fixed point for large positive and negative times, one might envision an ideal choice to be one that allows the TS trajectory to come to rest at the saddle point both in the distant future and in the remote past. However, this is impossible in general because the driving force will transfer energy into or out of the bath modes in such a way that... 

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