INDEX development

The stabihty index developed by Ry2ner makes it possible to distinguish between two such waters. This index is based on a study of actual operating results with waters having various saturation indexes. 

Fire and Explosion Index (E E1) A hazard index developed by Dow Chemical Company used to rank fire and explosion hazards in a chemical process. 

The correlation index, developed by the U.S. Bnrean of Mines, is based on a plot of specific gravity versns the reciprocal of the boiling point in kelvin (K =°C + 273). For pure hydrocarbons, the line described by the constants of the individnal members of the normal paraffin series is given the value Cl = 0, and a parallel line passing throngh the point for the values of benzene is given as Cl = 100 thus,... 

One way of estimating the likelihood and severity of the withdrawal syndrome (which should affect time taken to withdraw) is to use the Cumulative Benzodiazepine Exposure Index developed by Busto et al. (1986) which measures a person s total tranquilliser... 

Process of Implementing the Waste Classification System. Taken together, the framework for waste classification discussed in Section 6.2 and the risk index developed in Section 6.3 and this Section constitute the foundations of a comprehensive and risk-based hazardous waste classification system. Such a waste classification system could be established by regulatory authorities using the following general process ... 

The overall structural adequacy of pavements is given in probabilistic terms of the present serviceability index developed from the AASHTO road test (17). This index, which is a measure of the momentary ability of a pavement to serve traffic, is based on such factors as rut depth, slope variance, cracking, and patching of the pavement. The relationship between serviceability index and these pavement distress modes is given by the AASHTO road test equation (16) ... 

S. Nikolic, N. Trinajstic, Z. Mihalic, The Wiener Index Developments and Applications, Croat. Chem. Acta, 68 (1995) 105-129. 

A slagging index developed by the coal industry has been used to rate solid fuels for fouling. This index corresponds to the mass of alkali metal as oxides (K2O -I- Na O) per energy unit in the fuel and is useful for rating biomass feedstocks too. The calculation is made by... 

Some companies make use of safety indices as a tool for assessing the relative risk of a new process or plant. The most widely used safety index is the Dow Eire and Explosion Index, developed by the Dow Chemical Company and published by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (Dow, 1994) (see www.aiche.org). A numerical fire and explosion index (F El) is calculated, based on the nature of the process and the properties of the process materials. The larger the value of the F El, the more hazardous the process see Table 9.6. 

Nikolic, S., Tiinajstic, N. and Mihalic, Z. (1995). The Wiener Index Development and Applications. Croat.Chem.Acta, 68,105-129. [R]... 

The ProstAsure index, developed by Zhang, Stamey, and Chan, was designed to increase the sensitivity and specificity of cancer detection, while maintaining a reasonable false positive detection rate. The index is derived firom several values, including age, total PSA, creatine kinase isoenzymes, and prostatic acid phosphatase, which are input... 

Another index developed to detect long-chain branching is the Dow rheology index (DRI). It was specifically derived for polyethylenes with similar, narrow molecular weight distributions 2)... 

Seven carboxylic acid-bearing drugs (Figure 13) that have been reported to bind covalently to protein, in vitro and in vivo, with different degrees [27-34] of reactivity, were selected to evaluate the technique. The degrees of reactivity of the AG metabolites of these seven drugs were determined based on a reactivity index developed for each drug. It was found that the relative reactivity rank of the AG metabolites of these seven compounds was... 

Children born to mothers with high consumption of contaminated fish had a greater number of abnormal reflexes and less mature autonomic responses than newborns from low-fisheaters or nonfisheaters. Heavily chlorinated congeners (C17-C19) were associated with poorer Habituation and Autonomic scores. Exposure was assessed using an index developed to estimate cumulative lifetime PCB exposure through fish consumption. 

Another series of successfully applied topological descriptors is derived from graph theory using atom connectivity information of a molecule. An example is the connectivity index developed by Randic [21], In the simple form,... 

The counts of each order of path length can be viewed as describing individual attributes of shape, each a part of the manifold of attributes into which shape may be dissected. The use of path counts has early origins in graph theory-based structure index development. Beginning with the pioneering work... 

Nikolic, S., Trinajstic, N., Mihalic, Z. The Wiener index Development and applications. Croat. Chem. Acta 68, 105-129 (1995)... 

During exercise in the heat, sweat loss is the main mechanism to lose heat. Core temperature increases more when hypohydrated as compared to euhydrated subjects. Therefore, an international standard, ISO 7933, was based on the ratio between the amount of sweat that should be evaporated to stay in thermal equilibrium and the amount of sweat that can be evaporated maximally. This required sweat rate index (Ereq) standard is replaced with the Predictive Heat Strain Index developed by Malchaire (2006). This index is mainly used for the industry. Sometimes thermal strain is combined with thermal stress indicators in order to make an individual recommendation for performance limits (Epstein and Moran, 2006). 

Another index developed to characterize the sharpness of separation is the imperfection /. ... 

In 2004, the ultraviolet (UV) index developed by the National Weather Service and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1994, was replaced by the Global Solar UV Index. The new scale rates the level of UV exposure expected on a given day as measured at noon, although the actual UV rises and falls as the day progresses. The color-coded scale is shown in Table 17.6. 

Geo-accumulation index is to determine the pollution level of heavy metal by means of checking the relationship between the total concentration of heavy metals and the background value. As a quantitative index developed in Europe in late 1960s and widely used in researches on heavy metal pollution level in sediments and other matters, it is extensively applied to the evaluation of heavy metal pollution in modern sediments. The following is its calculation formula ... 

The first topological index (historically) is the Wiener index, developed by H. Wiener [339], which was used to model the boiling points of alkanes and was based on the following function ... 

The Inherent Safety Index developed by Hurme and Heikkila (1998) is a sum of two indices, the Chemical Inherent Safety Index and the Process Inherent Safety Index (see Fig. 8.12). The Chemical Inherent Safety Index contains two subindices, the Reaction... 

GET (Corrected Effective Temperature) Index developed by ASHRAE/KSU (The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Aireonditioning Engineers and Kansas State University). 

The THI index, developed by Thom (1959) and modified by Nieuwolt (1977) was used. This index uses the air temperature T (°C) and the relative humidity RH (%) and is calculated from the expression ... 

The following classification index developed out of the desire to compile a comprehensive list of historical pigments. However, it was clear from the outset that such an exercise would be no simple task, for the following notable reasons ... 

The main obstacle in the sampling process is not the time it takes to do a selfobservation (most take less than 1 minute) but determining how to trigger samplings at remote work sites for isolated workers. Some methods for triggering them are discussed in the sections on index development and sampling later in this chapter. 

Bandopadhyay, A. (2010) A study on the abundance of quartz in thermal coals of India and its relation to abrasion index development of predictive model for abrasion. International Journal of Coal Geology, 84 (1), 63-69. 

This contains the full ChemReact database of 390000 reactions and a new system for searching reactions based on the concept for reaction indexing developed by Professor Jim Hendrickson. It runs on a Macintosh computer only. 

Table 1 represents the key elements of a modem seismic-resistant code, which then will be summarized for the purposes of the seismic code index developed. 

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