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Both arguments were flawed, of course, and Allied Intelligence later showed that the 14 ton V2 rocket bomb was in fact powered with liquid propellant, was guided using gyroscopes, and did indeed carry one ton of explosive. And on the 3rd September 1944 the first V2 fell on London. Some firework ... 

Finally, risk that primarily focuses on children is always less acceptable than risk that equally affects everyone. A good example of this is lead. Children are most sensitive to the toxic effects of lead, and these effects can lead to impaired intelligence later in life. Because of this, lead toxicity is very emotional issue for many people. 

Another tool the interstates use to maintain their pipelines is a device known as an intelligent pig. Propelled through the pipeline with the gas stream, these devices, taking thousands of measurements with electronic sensors that can be analyzed later by computers, can inspect pipeline interior walls for corrosion or other defects and remove accumulated debris from a section of pipeline. Pipelines also use state-of-the-art coating and cathodic protection to battle corrosion. 

The speed with which the data need to be compressed depends on the stage of data acquisition at which compression is desired. In intelligent sensors it may be necessary to do some preliminary data compression as the data are collected. Often data are collected for several days or weeks without any compression, and then stored into the company data archives. These data may be retrieved at a later stage for studying various aspects ol the process operation. 

I have no doubt that reports of this type catalyzed the acceleration of our research activities. Happily, it also opened the coffers of government funds more widely. Other intelligence reports indicated that the Soviet Union was spending ten times as much as we were on the development of its chemical warfare capabilities. This fueled the sense of urgency regarding our efforts in the lab and strengthened the belief (mostly an illusion, as we learned later) that we had to go all out if we wanted to stay ahead of the Russians. As much as anything, this belief imparted a patriotic fervor to our efforts. 

In 1975, the Inspeetor General issued a lengthy report on the Use of Volunteers in Chemical Agent Research. (An entire chapter is devoted to this landmark document later in this book.) In the final portion of their report, the IG team takes up the subject of Intelligence Corps Experimentation with Hallucinogenic Dmgs. That s the one that turned on the light. 

Process models are unfortunately often oversold and improperly used. Simulations, by definition, are not the actual process. To model the process, assumptions must be made about the process that may later prove to be incorrect. Further, there may be variables in the material or processing equipment that are not included in the model. This is especially true of complex processes. It is important not to confuse virtual reality with reality. The claim is often made that the model can optimize a cure cycle. The complex sets of differential equations in these models cannot be inverted to optimize the multiple properties they predict. It is the intelligent use of models by an experimenter or an optimizing routine that finds a best case among the ones tried. As a consequence, the literature is full of references to the development of process models, but examples of their industrial use in complex batch processes are not common. 

Imaging atom-probes, although severely limited in mass resolution, are very useful where one seeks information about the spatial distribution of chemical species on the emitter surface as well as in the bulk. They find many applications in studies of metallurgical problems,55 in studies of chemisorptions and surface reactions56 and oxidation of metals,57 etc., as will be discussed in later chapters. In using imaging atom-probes, it is important to select the system carefully and intelligently so that mass overlap of different elements can be avoided. 

An important complication that is specific to human developmental toxicity studies is the necessity to control for confounding factors that influence human development, such as parental intelligence, quality of home environment, nutritional factors and socioeconomic status (Bellinger et al., 1992 Bellinger, 1995). These may influence the outcomes from the newborn period to adulthood. In addition, assessment methods must take into consideration the time (days, months or years) that may intervene between exposure/insult and the expression of toxicity at a much later age. 

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