Frequency of incidents

Select a transportation mode to minimize risks to the extent practicable. Drums, ISO tanks, tank trucks, rail tank cars, barges, and pipelines offer tradeoffs in inventory, container integrity, size of potential incidents, distance from supplier or customer, and the frequency of incidents. 

In Equation 12.11, v is the frequency of incident radiation (cm-1), v o is the frequency corresponding to the energy difference between ground and excited electronic state, the sum is over all excited states, and d0n and d o are the dipole transition moments between the ground and excited state (dno = (n d 0) = / I nd I o dx, the T s are wave functions and d is the dipole moment operator). At low frequency (v -> 0) Equation 12.11 reduces to the static field expression... 

Explosions occurred more frequently during start-up operations and in new, or relatively new, boilers. Somewhat surprisingly, the frequency of incidents was also significantly higher in the larger boiler sizes. No correlation was noted between explosion frequency and operating pressure. 

Alternatively, the photoelectric yield, or the photocurrent per unit light intensity, is measured for different frequencies of incident light. The point... 

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Adverse reactions to dextropropoxyphene include nausea, vomiting, sedation, dizziness, constipation, and skin rash, with a frequency of incidence somewhat less than that seen with codeine use. Although respiratory depression is a cardinal sign of acute dextropropoxyphene poisoning, the drug apparently does not affect respiration in the usual therapeutic doses of 32 to 65 mg. 

An interesting correlation between tripeptide sequences and genetic mutations has been made by compilation of the number of occurrences of the tripeptide sequence Asn—B—Ser and Asn—B—Thr in protein sequence-data at present available from the literature.134 A total of 18,251 tripeptide sequences from 264 proteins was grouped by computer into the 400 possible tripeptide combinations of the 20 amino acids in which the second position was ignored. The total number of Asn—B—(Ser/Thr) sequences actually present in these proteins was 61, whereas the total number theoretically expected, on the basis of a random distribution within the sequence, would have been 102. The observed data were thus lower than expected by 4 standard deviations. On the other hand, such chemically similar tripeptides as Gin—B—(Ser/Thr), Asp—B—(Ser/Thr), and (Ser/Thr)—B—Asn occurred the number of times expected for random distribution. It was suggested that this low frequency of incidence of the Asn—B—(Ser/Thr) sequence results from a restriction of its occurrence in proteins by a process of natural selection. Any protein that acquired this tripeptide as a result of a mutation would be soon rejected, because carbohydrate would be bound to the asparagine residue and its presence would interfere with the normal metabolic function of the protein. 

Quantitive assessment of risk = Frequency of incident x loss per incident ... 

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