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According to M. Barzilay of ISACA Cyber security is the sum of efforts invested in addressing cyber risk... From an ISA point of view, security issue refers to the prevention of illegal or unwanted penetration, intentional or unintentional interference with the proper and intended operation, or inappropriate access to confidential information in industrial automation and control systems [17]. Cyber security therefore is mainly concerned with protection against unauthorized access (intentional or unintentional) to save data and information systems from theft or damage to prevent the system from any disruption of operation and unwanted functioning of the system. lEC/lSA 62443 (formerly ISA 99) is the relevant standard. Many propose to treat cyber risks as physical risks, that is, to check and assess vulnerability, frequency of occurrence, consequences, etc. 

When a mass spectrum has been acquired by the spectrometer/computer system, it is already in digital form as m/z values versus peak heights (ion abundances), and it is a simple matter for the computer to compare each spectrum in the library with that of the unknown until it finds a match. The shortened search is carried out first, and the computer reports the best fits or matches between the unknown and spectra in the library. A search of even 60,000 to 70,000 spectra takes only a few seconds, particularly if transputers are used, thus saving the operator a great deal of time. Even a partial match can be valuable because, although the required structure may not have been found in the library, it is more than likely that some of the library compounds will have stractural pieces that can be recognized from a partial fit and so provide information on at least part of the structure of the unknown. 

In a different context, conformational analysis is essential for the analysis of molecular dynamics simulations. As discussed in Chapter 3, the direct output of a molecular dynamics simulation is a set of confonnations ( snapshots ) that were saved along the trajectory. These conformations are subsequently analyzed in order to extract information about the system. However, if, during a long simulation, the molecule moves from one... 

Initial costs for Ambersorb 563 are higher than for GAC, however, savings may be reahzed after the system has been operating for approximately 18 months when the impact of lower operation and maintenance costs are felt. Cost information from a U.S. EPA SITE program demonstration in 1994 at the former Pease Air Force Base in Newington, New Hampshire, is presented in Table 1. The actual demonstration was pilot scale, with a rate of 1 gal/min (4 liters/min), but the cost data is based on a 100-gal/min (389 liters/min) extrapolation from the pilot study. 

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