INDEX OF LOCALITIES

Biomarkers of Disease. No biomarkers are known that are specific for BCME-induced lung injury. Standard chemical examination of nose and throat can provide an index of local irritation, and examination of sputum for abnormal cell types can provide information on the state of the respiratory epithelium. However, these tests cannot distinguish BCME-induced effects from effects caused by smoking or exposure to other chemicals, and can only discover changes after damage to the tissue has already occurred. Continued efforts to devise more sensitive and more specific early biomarkers of disease (especially lung cancer) would be valuable. 

Thus for practical use in reconstructing paleotopography, estimated erosion rates in the past do not provide very good constraints on either mean local relief or surface elevation. This is both because of potential uncertainties in whether a landscape was tectonically active, and because of wide ranges in erosion rate at a given index of local relief. 

Randic [21] and Aihara [22] independently proposed an idea of the index of local aromaticity, ILA, and overall index of aromaticity, OIA, based on the counting of the Kekule patterns. However, these concepts were found to be closely related to the sextet polynomial and its derivative as [9]... 

Schumann P, Touzani O, Young AR et al. (1998). Evaluation of the ratio of cerebral blood flow to cerebral blood volume as an index of local cerebral perfusion pressure. Brain 121 1369-1379... 

The fact that different parts of a polycyclic conjugated molecule may possess different degrees of aromaticity, motivated Milan Randic to propose a simple criterion for local aromaticity [65]. His index of local aromaticity is defined as... 

Materials. For holographic information storage, materials are required which alter their index of refraction locally by spotwise illumination with light. Suitable are photorefractive inorganic crystals, eg, LiNbO, BaTiO, LiTaO, and Bq2 i02Q. Also suitable are photorefractive ferroelectric polymers like poly(vinyhdene fluoride-i o-trifluorethylene) (PVDF/TFE). Preferably transparent polymers are used which contain approximately 10% of monomeric material (so-called photopolymers, photothermoplasts). These polymers additionally contain different initiators, photoinitiators, and photosensitizers. 

When exposed to light, the monomeric material in the photopolymers or photothermoplasts polymerizes, thus locally increasing density and index of refraction. A subsequent fixation process polymerizes the monomer throughout the polymer matrix. 

The calculation of localization energies in heteroaromatic systems derived from alternant hydrocarbons has been simplified by Dewar and Maitlis (57JCS2521). This approach has had considerable success the results provide a somewhat empirical index of reactivity. 

Provide a specific interaction between the delivery and biological systems such as site-specific targeting, regional delivery, or localized delivery to improve the therapeutic index of a drug. 

The relevance of the remarks on sulfur content is that, for reasons explained above, it is usually a valid index of the salinity of the environments of deposition. It was remarked earlier that the Eastern and Interior provinces have experienced different temperature/pressure/time histories. It should be added that coals of the Rocky Mountain, Pacific and Alaskan provinces most probably experienced yet further sets of conditions of metamorphism a locally increased geothermal gradient that produced relatively high temperatures at relatively low depths of burial and hence at relatively low pressures of overburden. 

It is important to note that for applications such as biosensing, the device does not measure changes in the bulk refractive index of the surrounding medium, but rather respond to local changes in the refractive index at the surface of the sensor. As a result, the magnitude of the resonant shift will be dependent on a combination of... 

It is well-established that marker enzyme activity is an index of organelle (or organelle-related component) existence. In this experiment, assays of marker enzymes, which are localized in organelle membranes, are carried out as described below. 

Chatteijee, A. 2005. Application of localized reactivity index in combination with periodic DFT calculation to rationalize the swelling mechanism of clay type inorganic material. J. Chem. Sci. 117 533-539. 

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