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The present study is conducted under consideration of thus mentioned difficulties. The solubility measurement is applied to the present investigation, selecting the pH range 6 v 12 in which the carbonate concentration can be maintained greater than 5xl0 6 M/l. The carbonate concentration and pH of experimental solutions, both being mutually dependent in a given solution, are taken into account as two variable parameters in the present experiment and hence the final evaluation of formation constants is based on three dimensional functions. For calculation purpose, the hydrolysis constants of Pu(IV) are taken from the literature (18). In order to differentiate the influence of hydrolysis reactions on the carbonate complexation so far as possible, the calculation is based on the solubilities from solutions of carbonate concentration > 10-1 M/l and pH > 8. 

In recent decades, many investigations have been carried out on the solubilization and on the physicochemical characterization of a wide variety of substances confined in water-containing reversed micelles. Even if these studies have not produced a general theory to predict a priori all the effects accompanying the solubihzation process, some general aspects nonetheless have been underhned. In the following, the results of some of these investigations, selected to show the extent of some peculiar behaviors, will be reported. 

Reproducibility of the used heating rate for comparison with other investigations. Selection of small and large heating rates depending on the type of investigation. Equilibrium measurements (e.g. 0.2 °C7min) or stepwise isothermal. Exploratory runs (standard rate 4-6 °C/min). 

The purpose of this study is to determine whether once-daily dosing of the lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra) tablet in combination with investigator-selected nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors will reduce HIV viral load to very low levels in patients who have detectable viral loads with their current antiretroviral therapy. 

Another potential application might be rapid method development screening—looking at four or eight columns under a certain set of conditions to investigate selectivity and retention. 

The second question of unique importance concerns the investigator s selection of a rotor for the Lab Plan. Whereas, in the Optimal Plan, SpinPro selects the rotor in the Lab Plan, the investigator selects the rotor. The investigator, however, is not required to... 

Trioxolanes are key intermediates in the ozonolysis of alkenes (Section 4.16.8.2). This reaction is of considerable importance in synthetic chemistry where ozonide intermediates are often reduced (to aldehydes or alcohols) or oxidized (to carboxylic acids) in situ. Advantage has been taken of the stability of certain derivatives to investigate selective chemical reactions. An example of selective reduction is shown in Scheme 47 <91TL6454> with other uses of the 1,2,4-trioxolane ring as a masked aldehyde or ester referred to in Section 4.16.5.2.1. 

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In this study we have investigated selective oxidation as a potential organic sulfur characterization approach. In particular we have used the peroxyacetic acid oxidation procedure. Although this selective oxidant has received some attention in the study of lignin (24) and humic acid structures (25), its application to the study of coal has been limited to only a few instances (26.27J with very little information about organic sulfur species being reported. 

Others make use of concentrations in terms of atoms, as does, for example, Heumann [8,9]. Others use concentrations in terms of moles, as do Fassett and Paulsen [10] and Dean [11]. Clearly each investigator selects the form with which he or she feels most comfortable. Due caution is indicated to make sure of one s units of concentration before blindly using an equation from the literature. 

The BMC method has a number of advantages over the traditional NOAEL approach. The BMC is derived from a statistical analysis of the exposure-response relationship and is not subject to investigator selection of exposure levels. It is a reflection of the exposure-response curve. Although the number of animals used in a study will affect the NOAEL and BMC estimates, the BMC, when compared with the maximum likelihood estimate (MLE), will explicitly reflect the variability in the study and the uncertainty around the number of subjects. The greater the variability and uncertainty, the greater the difference between the BMC and the MLE. The BMC calculation allows for the statistical estimation of a BMC in the absence of an empirical NOAEL. 

The first study to investigate selectivity profiles using MIFs in connection with a chemometric analysis was published about 10 years ago [5]. There, the behavior of all 64 possible DNA triplets with respect to 31 GRID probes was studied with GRID/PCA. 

Pharmacophore fingerprints generated from complementary site points can be used to direct combinatorial library design and to investigate selectivity. An example of the pharmacophore fingerprinting method for selectivity studies has been validated (37a,b) in studies of three closely related serine proteases thrombin, Factor Xa, and trypsin. Site points were... 

Sillen and Martell s Stability constants of metal-ion complexes [1]. This compilation is sufficiently comprehensive to show data for a variety of ligands and generally includes either the proposed ligand or a very similar compound. There is also sufficient information to investigate selectivity for a diverse collection of metals, providing clues to selectivity. Other compendia of data are available, such as the CRC handbook and Yatsimirskii and Vasiliev s, Instability constants of complex compounds [2]. An especially useful source of data on complex compounds is Gmelin and Meyer [3]. 

Such a compound strategy is able to identify the global best combination for both investigated selectivity criteria with absolute certainty. For example, exclusion of all wavelengths with a frequency less then 4 in Figure 3 reduces the search space... 

The International Clinical Team (ICT) has an important role in determining the quality selection of clinical investigators. Selection criteria will be based upon the needs of the CDP and the individual protocols. Quality investigators can be identified by... 

Studies of different cinchona alkaloids as the chiral Bronsted bases and a metal salt showed that hydrocinchonine lh (Scheme 10.13) and AgF were the most effective combination. The scope of the [3 + 2] cydoaddition of azomethine ylides and alkenes was investigated. Selected examples are shown in Scheme 10.14. High yields and moderate enantioselectivities were obtained from a variety of a-imino esters. It was worth mentioning that most of the pyrrolidine derivatives 11 obtained from tert-butyl acrylate were solids that could be enantiomerically enriched by crystallization. 

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