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Scoping identifies, at an early stage, the most significant issues to be included in the EIA. Many early ElAs were criticised because they were encyclopaedic and included irrelevant information. 

A container full of hydrocarbons can be described in a number of ways, from a simple measurement of the dimensions of the container to a detailed compositional analysis. The most appropriate method is usually determined by what you want to do with the hydrocarbons. If for example hydrocarbon products are stored in a warehouse prior to sale the dimensions of the container are very important, and the hydrocarbon quality may be completely irrelevant for the store keeper. However, a process engineer calculating yields of oil and gas from a reservoir oil sample will require a detailed breakdown of hydrocarbon composition, i.e. what components are present and in what quantities. 

You will need to know addresses (http //www.) of the major Internet search engines. But search engines are still not perfected and the results may contain certain amount of noise, i. e, irrelevant information. Some companies use tricky things to get your attention we found many NDT related words like TOFD hidden as meta keywords in every page of some websites. If a search engine leads you to this site you will find no actual information provided, not even a single visible instance of the word TOFD. 

If the structure factor vanishes, the corresponding fonn factor is irrelevant as it is multiplied by a zero... 

Thus, the spontaneous proeess involves the release of a eonstraint while the driven reverse proeess involves the imposition of a eonstraint. The details of the reverse proeess are irrelevant any series of reversible steps by whieh one ean go from the final state baek to the initial state will do to measure AS. 

The field-density concept is especially usefiil in recognizing the parallelism of path in different physical situations. The criterion is the number of densities held constant the number of fields is irrelevant. A path to the critical point that holds only fields constant produces a strong divergence a path with one density held constant yields a weak divergence a path with two or more densities held constant is nondivergent. Thus the compressibility Kj,oi a one-component fluid shows a strong divergence, while Cj in the one-component fluid is comparable to (constant pressure and composition) in the two-component fluid and shows a weak... 

Equation (A3.3.57) must be supplied with appropriate initial conditions describing the system prior to the onset of phase separation. The initial post-quench state is characterized by the order parameter fluctuations characteristic of the pre-quench initial temperature T.. The role of these fluctuations has been described in detail m [23]. Flowever, again using the renomialization group arguments, any initial short-range correlations should be irrelevant, and one can take the initial conditions to represent a completely disordered state at J = xj. For example, one can choose the white noise fomi (i /(,t,0)v (,t, 0)) = q8(.t -. ), where ( ) represents an... 

It should be noted that in the cases where y"j[,q ) > 0, the centroid variable becomes irrelevant to the quantum activated dynamics as defined by (A3.8.Id) and the instanton approach [37] to evaluate based on the steepest descent approximation to the path integral becomes the approach one may take. Alternatively, one may seek a more generalized saddle point coordinate about which to evaluate A3.8.14. This approach has also been used to provide a unified solution for the thennal rate constant in systems influenced by non-adiabatic effects, i.e. to bridge the adiabatic and non-adiabatic (Golden Rule) limits of such reactions. 

The first requirement is the definition of a low-dimensional space of reaction coordinates that still captures the essential dynamics of the processes we consider. Motions in the perpendicular null space should have irrelevant detail and equilibrate fast, preferably on a time scale that is separated from the time scale of the essential motions. Motions in the two spaces are separated much like is done in the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. The average influence of the fast motions on the essential degrees of freedom must be taken into account this concerns (i) correlations with positions expressed in a potential of mean force, (ii) correlations with velocities expressed in frictional terms, and iit) an uncorrelated remainder that can be modeled by stochastic terms. Of course, this scheme is the general idea behind the well-known Langevin and Brownian dynamics. 

In special cases (as in colloidal solutions) some particles can be considered as essential and other particles as irrelevant , but in most cases the essential space will itself consist of collective degrees of freedom. A reaction coordinate for a chemical reaction is an example where not a particle, but some function of the distance between atoms is considered. In a simulation of the permeability of a lipid bilayer membrane for water [132] the reaction coordinate was taken as the distance, in the direction perpendicular to the bilayer, between the center of mass of a water molecule and the center of mass of the rest of the system. In proteins (see below) a few collective degrees of freedom involving all atoms of the molecule, describe almost all the... 

Remark. The authors are well aware of the commonly shared belief within the physics MD community that the apparent chaos does not destroy all long term information, but only irrelevant information in particular, average quantities are supposed to be not sensitive to numerical perturbations. We do not aim at deciding about this fundamental question here. 

The characteristic of a relational database model is the organization of data in different tables that have relationships with each other. A table is a two-dimensional consti uction of rows and columns. All the entries in one column have an equivalent meaning (c.g., name, molecular weight, etc. and represent a particular attribute of the objects (records) of the table (file) (Figure 5-9). The sequence of rows and columns in the tabic is irrelevant. Different tables (e.g., different objects with different attributes) in the same database can be related through at least one common attribute. Thus, it is possible to relate objects within tables indirectly by using a key. The range of values of an attribute is called the domain, which is defined by constraints. Schemas define and store the metadata of the database and the tables. 

To an observer at the center of mass, the overall motion of the system (translation) is irrelevant. The only important motions are those motions relative to the center of mass. Distances from the center of mass to each particle are internal coordinates of the system, usually denoted r and r2 to emphasize that they are internal coordinates of a molecular system. 

The f-curve and its associated t-plot were originally devised as a means of allowing for the thickness of the adsorbed layer on the walls of the pores when calculating pore size distribution from the (Type IV) isotherm (Chapter 3). For the purpose of testing for conformity to the standard isotherm, however, a knowledge of the numerical thickness is irrelevant since the object is merely to compare the shape of the isotherm under test with that of the standard isotherm, it is not necessary to involve the number of molecular layers n/fi or even the monolayer capacity itself. 

The technology leader must recognize that in the context in which industrial R D is conducted, certain societal concerns over the perceived risks can make specific technologies, products, or processes unacceptable in the marketplace and render some technological innovation unfortunately irrelevant. 

A recent victim of the killer micros was Evans and Sutherland s parallel computer development effort, halted ia 1990. Their architecture combiaed a small number of approximately 1-MFLOPS processors iato semi-iadependent functional units. Several of these units could, ia turn, be combiaed to form a processor hierarchy, building up to systems that were expected to cost between 1 and 8 million dollars. With the advent of lO-MFLOPS uniprocessor killer micros, such an architecture became irrelevant and the project was halted. The RISC killer micro could deUver the same level of performance as could the combiaed efforts of 10 of the 1-MFLOPS processors, evea with the unlikely assumptioa that the problem could be perfectiy parallelized across 10 processors. 

This class of inhibitors usually acts irreversibly by permanently blocking the active site of an enzyme upon covalent bond formation with an amino acid residue. Very tight-binding, noncovalent inhibitors often also act in an irreversible fashion with half-Hves of the enzyme-inhibitor complex on the order of days or weeks. At these limits, distinction between covalent and noncovalent becomes functionally irrelevant. The mode of inactivation of this class of inhibitors can be divided into two phases the inhibitors first bind to the enzyme in a noncovalent fashion, and then undergo subsequent covalent bond formation. 

Moke end plate thicker (increase t in eqn. 28.10). Plate would have to be 70 mm thick heavy difficult to weld to collar might overstress plate-shell weld collar would become irrelevant. 

Most often a mechanic or serviceman refers to a manual because of a problem. Problems seem to happen during a production run. It is essential, therefore, that he be able to find the needed information quickly. The mechanic should not be delayed by wordy, irrelevant text. The objective of any manual is to be an effective, immediate source of service information. 

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