Variable hybridization

Singh, V., and Graeber, J. V. 2005. Effect of corn hybrid variability and planting location on ethanol yields. Trans. ASAE, 48,709-714. 

Extension of the approach discussed above suggests several structural types which may be classified under this category, the main variable being the nature and hybridization of the electrophilic centers and the nature of the atoms joining these two centers. They may be conveniently divided into two groups ... 

The development of this hybrid combination in a bipolar transistor has greatly enhanced the application of power transistors in the field of power conversion and variable-speed drives. It possesses the qualities of both the power bipolar transistor (BJT) and the power MOSFET. Like a power MOSFET, it is a voltagc-eontrollcd switching device... 

Finding the minimum of the hybrid energy function is very complex. Similar to the protein folding problem, the number of degrees of freedom is far too large to allow a complete systematic search in all variables. Systematic search methods need to reduce the problem to a few degrees of freedom (see, e.g.. Ref. 30). Conformations of the molecule that satisfy the experimental bounds are therefore usually calculated with metric matrix distance geometry methods followed by optimization or by optimization methods alone. 

Sion to our assumptions about the initial purchase price and the cost of gasoline. Figure 1 shows the LCC of the hybrid and the conventional car over the ten-year period as a function of the cost of gasoline. When gas prices are approximately 3 per gallon, the two cars cost about the same. This value is referred to as the break-even point. If gas prices reach 3.75 per gallon, the approximate cost in Japan, the hybrid car is more economical. Sensitivity analysis can also be conducted for other input variables, such as initial purchase price, miles driven per year and actual fuel economy. 

Michel, S., and Frank, A. (1998). Design of a Control Strategy for the Contiimously Variable Transmission for the UC Davis Future Car (Parallel Hybrid Vehicle). Department of Mechanical Engineering Report (September). Davis, University of California. 

Consequently, the composite may be considered as consisting of three phases, that is the matrix, the inclusions and a third phase, which is a layer of variable thickness, including all these changes and which surrounds each one of the inclusions. This hybrid phase is called the mesophase. 

Very recently, Wilkes and co-workers 330,331) have reported the preparation and characterization of hybrid materials, which they named as ceramers . Ceramers were synthesized through the incorporation of polymeric or oligomeric PDMS into silicate glasses by a sol-gel process as shown in Reaction Scheme XXIV. During these reactions the variables such as the type of the alkoxide used, amount of water added, the pH value of the reaction system, and the reaction temperature, were carefully monitored. 

Fig. 1. Iron-sulfur clusters basic building blocks. In most cases the iron is tetrahe-drally coordinated by sulfur from cysteinyl residues (and labile sulfur). Variability on coordination is allowed (see text). A, Rubredoxin type FeS4 (simplest cluster, no labile sulfur) B, plant-type ferredoxin [2Fe-2S] C, bacterial ferredoxin [3Fe-4S] D, bacterial ferredoxin and HiPIP [4Fe-4S] E, novel cluster [4Fe-2S, 20] ( hybrid cluster ).

The use of protoplasts in studies of stress physiology and biochemistry expands the advantages of cell culture systems discussed in the preceding sections. Additional applications are related to the fusion of protoplasts. Intraspecifie and interspecific protoplast fusion greatly enhance genetic variability of the fused protoplasts (Kumar Cocking, 1987). The resulting somatic hybrids provide cells which can be used for selection of specific traits (e.g. environmental stress tolerance) provided by one or both donor cells and for basic studies on cytoplasmic and nuclear inheritance of desired characteristics. 

FIGURE 3.23 Plots of storage modulus against variable strain for the cross-linked mbber-silica hybrid nanocomposites (a) (ACM)-silica and (b) epoxidized natural mbber (ENR)-silica at different tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) concentrations. (Erom Bandyopadhyay, A., De Sarkar, M., and Bhowmick, A.K., J. Polym. Set, PartB Polym. Phys., 43, 2399, 2005. Courtesy of Wiley InterScience.)... 

Operations Op can be seen as operators that can take on a logical integer, analytic (static or dynamic), or hybrid form. With each operation we have associated an integer-valued variable, aj t), which determines the discrete state that the operator takes on with time. 

The value of spruce-oil chemistry in sorting out problems of hybridization and introgression—major factors in Picea taxonomy—was succinctly summarized by von Rudloff who defined three situations (1) Terpene variation is limited such that it is not possible to use these characters in studies of introgression this is the case in eastern North America where the ranges of black spruce and red spruce overlap. (2) Sufficient variation in terpene profiles exists for the compounds to be useful markers in systematic studies as seen in white spruce. Brewer s spruce, and Sitka spruce. (3) Tree-to-tree variation in terpene content is so variable that use in che-mosystematic studies is precluded, or at least requires very large sample sizes for statistical reliability, as seen with Engelmann s spruce. 

Also, it is possible to combine stochastic and deterministic methods as hybrid methods. For example, a stochastic method can be used to control the structural changes and a deterministic method to control the changes in the continuous variables. This can be useful if the problem involves a large number of integer variables, as for such problems, the tree required for branch and bound methods explodes in size. 

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