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EinaHy, there is great value in providing access to contemporary and archived technical journals and trade magazines to technical service professionals. This can be achieved in a number of ways, whether by generation of an in-house Hbrary, use of nearby university or governmental faciHties, support of individual subscriptions, or some combination of the above. Internet access to on-line journals is also valuable. 

Here s some library or Internet work for you. Compile a table of values on the porosity of common materials (e.g., soils, clay, glass beads, crushed stone, charcoal, other materials). Or if you are really ambitious, apply the equations provided in this chapter along with physical properties data obtained from your search and estimate the porosities. 

If you are lucky, the ion with the highest mass to charge value will be the molecular ion. However, this is often not the case, as textbooks on mass spectrometry make clear. If it is possible to carry out high resolution mass spectrometry on the molecules in question, and the molecular ion is indeed observed, the exact mass can be used in combination with tables to obtain the molecular formula directly. Alternatively, you can use the internet (http //www.sisweb. com/cgi-bin/masslO.pl) to calculate and plot mass distributions for any molecular fragment you think may be present. 

Packages to solve boundary value problems are available on the Internet. On the NIST web page http //gams.nist.gov/, choose problem decision tree and then differential and integral equations and then ordinary differential equations and multipoint boundary value problems. On the Netlibweb site http //www.netlib.org/, search on boundary value problem. Any spreadsheet that has an iteration capability can be used with the finite difference method. Some packages for partial differential equations also have a capability for solving one-dimensional boundary value problems [e.g. Comsol Multiphysics (formerly FEMLAB)]. 

A significant aid in the preparation of the second edition was the tremendous resources now available on the Internet for searching references to virtually any subject or key word within the scientific literature. For this reason, adding endless references to each chapter probably only would increase the size of the book by hundreds of pages, but add very little real value. Far better is for the reader to make use of pertinent Internet databases to search for key words, structure names, or reagent acronyms which can provide lists of hundreds or even thousands of additional references or links regarding any bioconjugation technique of interest. 

When can a set of data be regarded as a database Guidelines such as the number of records or the publication medium may not be useful. CODATA values, for example, which are the recommended starting point for any database (or any thermochemical calculation, for that matter), involve only about 150 species. Also, the CODATA reports have been printed in regular scientific journals before the final set was released as a book and later posted on the Internet. Second, we could have distinguished between databases and data compilations. The former involve recalculation of quantities such as standard enthalpies of formation to ensure a consistent set of values (see section 2.5). Databases may also include data assessment, leading to recommended values. Data compilations, on the other hand, are just collections of literature values. Although this distinction is important (see table Bl), a data compilation can be rather useful for the expert user and save many hours of literature search. 

Excel does not provide functions for the factor analysis of matrices. Further, Excel does not support iterative processes. Consequently, there are no Excel examples in Chapter 5, Model-Free Analyses. There are vast numbers of free add-ins available on the internet, e.g. for the Singular Value Decomposition. Alternatively, it is possible to write Visual Basic programs for the task and link them to Excel. We strongly believe that such algorithms are much better written in Matlab and decided not to include such options in our Excel collection. 

Living on the Fault Line Managing for Shareholder Value in the Age of the Internet. New York Harper Business. 

A modern alchemy succeeds where the old failed. The ancients of the Middle Ages [sic] were never able to change lead into gold, but the medium of electronics turns magnetized particles (bits) into money-like value. Money seems for a time to be conjured out of nothingness, to be returned to nothingness either quickly or at an indeterminate moment.. . . Nor do we know, at this time, whether people will even want to do—and pay in this manner for— much significant business on the Internet. We don t yet have a do-it-yourself... 

It is worth noting that (scientific) data has intrinsic value, even if the primary purpose for which it was created, has long been fulfilled. Innovative (re-)uses of publicly available data on the internet exemplify this nicely. Scientists usually tend to produce data in the context of a specialized research project and disseminate it through the means of scientific publication in a learned journal. Once research objectives have been met or a publication has been published, scientists often lose interest in their own data as it serves no primary purpose anymore. Because of this, significant amounts of valuable scientific data either never get published and thus never become part of the knowledge commons or are rendered inaccessible to machines and thus effectively destroyed for informatics purposes. 

Additionally, on the internet, there are discussions on the possibility of using escolar and oilfish for slimming or weight reduction. The value of this application is doubtful as only the oil (wax esters) would be discharged. 

Figure 1.8. The top left sphere shows the positive (shaded) and negative (unshaded) regions for the real-valued function 2 - The top right sphere shows the pure real (solid) and pure imaginary (dashed) meridian for the function 72,2- The bottom picture shows the zero points (double-dashed) as well as the pure real (soUd) and pure imaginary (dashed) meridians of 12,1 There are colored versions of these pictures available on the internet. See, for instance, [Re].

The main advantage of the static methods is cost. The equipment needed to conduct the dynamic measurements is approximately five times as expensive as the equipment required for static measurements (- 25,000 for a drop shape and drop volume analyzer versus - 5,000 for du Noiiy and Wilhelmy instruments). This is due to the additional capability of the former instruments to determine not only interfacial tension values but also the corresponding age of the interface. For more information on equipment, costs, and suppliers, see Internet Resources. 

Figure G1.8.4 An FID chromatogram of concentrated extract of Niagara grape juice drawn to display the data on a linear retention index scale where the y axis is flame ionization response (upper trace). Below it is the charm chromatogram, where the / axis is dilution value. By simply comparing the index of a peak with the data listed in the Flavornet (see Internet Resource), it is possible to determine which odorants have similar retention indices. Notice how large the methyl anthranilate peak is, whereas there is no convincing peak for p-damascenone in the FID chromatogram, even though both compounds have the same potency in the charm chromatogram.

The technology and Internet bubble passed by the chemical industry and other traditional industries. Additionally, we have demonstrated above that capital markets pay less attention to short-term earnings than many assume. But how, then, does the capital market value the chemical industry ... 

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