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A decision over whether the gas throughput is appropriately taken into consideration with v = q/S ot with q/V = q/SH, can only be made on the basis of experiments carried out at different scales. (To come straight to the point it was found that the first concept with v = q/S provides an appropriate evaluation framework for scale-up )... 

Fig. 2 The OSU evaluation framework for waste materials reuse/recycle in highway construction...

Sunyaev, A., Chornyi, D., Mauro, C., Kremar, H. (2010). Evaluation framework for personal health records Microsoft HealthVault vs. Google Health. In 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference System Sciences (HICSS), pp. 1-10. 

Foyle, D.C. 1992. Proposed evaluation framework for assessing operation performance with multisensor displays. InHuman Vision, Visual Processing, and Digital Display III, ed. B.E. Rogowitz,pp. 514-525. SPIE 1666. 

Many local authorities have developed their own self-evaluation frameworks. For example Manchester has developed High Standards for All - Manchester Education Department Inclusion Standards (2004) (www.manchester.gov.uk/education). This has a well developed pack of practical guidelines and checklists. 

At the outset of the development of each module for one of the above mechanistic classes of reactions, a thorough analysis of the literature was performed. On that basis, the developer came up with an evaluation framework that was used to make decisions between various reaction pathways and mechanistic possibilities. 

Evaluation. The evaluation of each idea should iaclude a technical description as well as its economic impact and technical risk. Ideas should be ranked for implementation. A report should provide a five-year framework for energy projects. 

When used to identify and evaluate significant risk contributors, as well as to assess the consequences of accident sequences, the PSA provides a comprehensive framework for making many types of decisions regarding reactor design, operation, and siting. These and other appi ications can be facilitated by the rational evaluation of the risks associated with a particular installation. 

Another application area is the use of PIFs as part of the process of incident investigation. Any investigation which seeks to establish the imderlying causes of minor or major incidents will benefit from a systematic framework for evaluating the factors which can contribute to the human contribution to such incidents. This topic will also be discussed in Chapter 6. 

The areas that may be considered as part of such an evaluation are the performance-influencing factors (PIFs) described in Chapter 3. The human factors assessment methodology (HFAM) method described in Chapter 2, provides a systematic framework for the evaluation process. 

The nursing process is a framework for nursing action consisting of problem-solving steps that help members of the health care team provide effective patient care. It is both a specific and orderly plan used to identify patient problems, develop and implement a plan of action, and then evaluate the results of nursing activities, including the administration of drug . 

Pharmacoeconomics is a nascent discipline which has not yet provided clinicians and budget managers with the level of information necessary for confident decision-making. This is particularly true in psychiatry where the dearth of acceptable, reliably measurable clinical end points makes pharmacoeconomic evaluation even more complex and open to debate. Nonetheless, the data reviewed in this book, when placed alongside clinical data, do provide a framework for decision-making which is better informed and more realistic than any exclusively clinical assessment could be. Economic evaluations in all major mental illnesses, while some way from conclusive, are certainly providing valuable guidance to decision-makers both at policy level and in the clinic. 

The authors and editors of this book wish to acknowledge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Electric Power Research Institute, who sponsored a Society of Enviromnental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) workshop in September 2003 in Pensacola, Florida. More than 30 international experts gathered to discuss and propose a framework for a national mercury monitoring program to evaluate the effectiveness of mercury emissions controls on mercury concentrations in the enviromnent. This book and a companion journal publication (Mason et al. 2005) are the products of the workshop and subsequent efforts. 

Distribution of organic chemicals among environmental compartments can be defined in terms of simple equilibrium expressions. Partition coefficients between water and air, water and soil, and water and biota can be combined to construct model environments which can provide a framework for preliminary evaluation of expected environmental behavior. This approach is particularly useful when little data is available since partition coefficients can be estimated with reasonable accuracy from correlations between properties. In addition to identifying those environmental compartments in which a chemical is likely to reside, which can aid in directing future research, these types of models can provide a base for more elaborate kinetic models. 

The chief significance of reaction rate functions is that they provide a satisfactory framework for the interpretation and evaluation of experimental kinetic data. This section indicates how a chemical engineer can interpret laboratory scale kinetic data in terms of such functions. Emphasis is placed on the problems involved in the evaluation and interpretation of kinetic data. 

Karlen DL, Mausbach MJ, Doran JW, Cline RG, Harris RF, Schuman GE (1997) Soil quality a concept, definition, and framework for evaluation. Soil Sci Soc Am J 61 4—10... 

The recent American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) staging system provides a more comprehensive framework for evaluating, preventing, and treating HF (Fig. 8-1). 

Sonich-Mullin C, Fielder R, Wiltse J et al (2001) IPCS conceptual framework for evaluating a mode of action for chemical carcinogenesis. Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 34 146—152... 

ERA in general is a process, as is EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment), and not the occasional report or document that is published at various steps. The framework for the orderly process, which has been developed for various environmentally sound projects can be applied also for acidification oriented projects and especially for an evaluation of ecosystem sensitivity to acid deposition and critical load calculations. Central management of the process is an essential feature. 

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