Growing pains

Couplings are discussed with reliability partly because in the past, as the single-train compressor installations were going through early growing pains, couplings were certainly a part of the pain. Not too many words need be used here, but possibly a bit of a reminder of the past will avoid problems in the future. 

Simonson, T., Macromolecular electrostatics continuum models and their growing pains, Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 2001,11, 243-252... 

Kenneth Ault, the former president of the International Society for Analytical Cytology, summed up some of flow cytometry s clinical growing pains with the following statement ... 

Unfortunately, for two reasons the full potential of CBPCs has not yet been exploited in the DOE complex. In spite of its high technical success, this technology is only one decade old and is experiencing growing pains. Considerable familiarity is needed before a DOE contractor will accept the technology as a low risk venture. Also the technology has been... 

My only complaint about Grasshopper was the frenzied service, but judging from the excellent food and the people pouring in late on a Monday, I m willing to write it off as growing pains. 

Statistical Physics and the Atomic Theory of Matter by S. G. Brush, Princeton University Press, Princeton New Jersey, 1983. The interplay between statistical mechanics and thermodynamics is perhaps the greatest single success story in the type of modeling described in this chapter. Brush s book makes for fascinating and instructive reading (as do his other books) since they illustrate the intense growing pains that were suffered in order to convert profound science into what are now little more than textbook exercises. 

As one can see, even through this brief summary of the papers that are contained in this volume, the philosophy of chemistry is now well launched as a discipline. After predictable growing pains over the last few decades, we feel that the field is now mature enough to offer a quorum of good work, such that the subtitle of this volume— Synthesis of a New Discipline —may live up to its promise. This, of course, cannot be judged by the merits of any a priori argument over the need for a new discipline, but only by the content of the work that already exists in the field. It is to this that we direct the reader in the pages that follow. 

Fluorine Hydrofluoric acid (HF) is a by-product of aluminum production by electrolysis cind the synthesis of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Although in water HF is a weak acid, it s extremely toxic. HF poisoning causes deep ulceration or scarring of body tissue with a delayed effect, slowly replacing calcium in bodily tissue (flesh and bones). There s no pain at first because it s a weak acid, but when the calcium in the bones starts to be replaced by the more electronegative fluorine it feels similar to growing pains, and may be too late. Merely five-minute iexposure to 10,000 ppm concentration in the air is fatal to humans. 

Keey, R.B., 2003. Growing pains Developing strategies to dry fast-grown softwood, in Proceedings of the Second Nordic Drying Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-27 June. 

LA Pacheco, J Alonso. Orimulsion — The growing pains of an idea. Sixth UNITAR International Conference on Heavy Crade and Tar Sands. Houston, TX, 1995. Proceedings, Vol 1, p 203. 

See For the Charm City Circulator, growing pains are inevitable at www.bizjoumals.com/baltimore/ stories/2010/08/23/. 

As E-Textiles evolve, certifications and safety requirements will emerge first from the private sector. However, as the industry matures, government intervention will most likely begin to define detailed requirements for consnmer safety, and particularly, for child safety parameters. In one sense, the E-Textile indnstry, while in its infancy, is more like the Wild West. The no rules experimentation, exploitation of new concepts fueled by trial and error, entreprenenrial spirit, creativity, unproven technologies and risk—are now typical of the growing pains of an emerging industry. 

Such a dramatic change in emphasis within the college was not without growing pains. Research programs tended to become much more applied science oriented. As early as 1953 Broughton s advisory committee suggested a course of action that is not inconsistent with the philosophy today... 

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