Growth potential

Structural Components. In most appHcations stmctural foam parts are used as direct replacements for wood, metals, or soHd plastics and find wide acceptance in appHances, automobUes, furniture, materials-handling equipment, and in constmction. Use in the huil ding and constmction industry account for more than one-half of the total volume of stmctural foam appHcations. High impact polystyrene is the most widely used stmctural foam, foUowed by polypropylene, high density polyethylene, and poly(vinyl chloride). The constmction industry offers the greatest growth potential for ceUular plastics. 

As a general rule, acquisitions are considered for estabHshed products with above-average growth potentials. Often, entry by acquisition is more timely and profitable than internal development and subsequent plant constmction. EoUowing the latter course might take 5 to 10 years, during which time the highest return on investment (ROI) is lost. 

Mesitylene continues to be of considerable iaterest as a research chemical. Its ttilateral stmcture, extremely high reactivity for electrophilic reactions, and the fact that large suppHes are available poiat to good growth potential. 

Another vulnerable area of concern is the result of the design requirement for high temperature service. To accommodate the thermal growth potential, the various sections of the expander are quite compliant. As a result, piping and forces need to be kept to a minimum. 

Hoehn, H Bryant, E M. Karp, L E and Martin, 6. M "Cultivated Cells from Diagnostic Amniocentesis In Second Trimester Pregnancies I Clinical Morphology and Growth Potential". Pedlat Res., (1974),, 746-754. 

Growth experiments were conducted using bacteria from oil installations with several chemicals normally used in injection water treatment. The studies revealed that some chemicals could be utilized as nitrogen sources, as phosphorus sources, and as carbon sources for the bacteria [1696]. Therefore it is concluded that the growth potential of water treatment additives may be... 

Goodison, S., Kawai, K., Hihara, J., Jiang, P., Yang, M., Urquidi, V., Hoffman, R. M., Tarin, D. (2003). Prolonged dormancy and site-specific growth potential of cancer cells spontaneously disseminated from nonmetastatic breast tumors as revealed by labeling with green fluorescent protein. Clin. Cancer Res. 9(10), 3808-3814. 

With the advent of monoclonal antibodies, the search for tumour-specific antigens became the biggest cottage industry since unemployment. It rapidly became apparent that a 90 kD disulfide-bridged transmembrane protein was present in many tumour cells - it was the transferrin receptor, and as they say, the rest is history. It has become a standard procedure to determine the in vivo growth potential of tumours by measuring transferrin receptor expression. 

M The use of specific antireceptor antibodies to measure transferrin receptor expression has become routine practice to determine the in vivo growth potential of tumours. 

The Wiley Series in Polymer Science aims to cover topics in polymer science where significant advances have been made over the past decade. Key features of the series will be developing areas and new frontiers in polymer science and technology. Emerging fields with strong growth potential for the twenty-first century such as nanotechnology, photopolymers, electro-optic polymers etc. will be covered. Additionally, those polymer classes in which important new members have appeared in recent years will be revisited to provide a comprehensive update. 

The authors also stated that their rats behaved differently from the three animals fed by Osborne and Mendel but that the difference could not be explained. Hopkins had found in earlier experiments that very small amounts of substances extracted with hot alcohol from foods would, when added to deficient diets, render them capable of some growth potential. It was apparent, to Hopkins at least, that hot alcoholic extractions of foods removed small amounts of effective growth promoter from the diet. Ether extraction as carried out by Osborne and Mendel in their fat-free experiments was considered by Hopkins to be inferior to alcoholic extraction. "The purpose of the present note is to indicate that there is still reason for a continuance of the search for special accessory substances of potent influence upon growth. It should be pointed out that Osborne and Mendel themselves admit that such substances may exist." (30)... 

Beyond the Hayflick limit, cells that have escaped senescence and/or crisis must progress beyond mortality stage 2 (Figure 26.1). Recent studies have shown that human telomerase reverse transcriptase cDNA (hTERT) in combination with viral oncogenes also has the potential to immortalize human airway epithelial cells [15, 78-82], However, even though hTERT alone will cause enhanced growth potential of a cell line, with the exception of one study [81],... 

Sugiyama, H. and Yang, K.H., Growth potential of Clostridium botulinum in fresh mushrooms packaged in semipermeable plastic film, Appl. Microbiol., 30, 964-969, 1975. 

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