Levels of investigation

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In the original MIT bag model the bag constant B 55 MeV fm-3 is used, while values B 210 MeV fm-3 are estimated from lattice calculations [34], In this sense B can be considered as a free parameter. We found, however, that a bag model involving a constant (density independent) bag parameter B, combined with our BHF hadronic EOS, will not yield the required phase transition in symmetric matter at pr 6po 1/fm3 [28]. This can only be accomplished by introducing a density dependence of the bag parameter. (The dependence on asymmetry is neglected at the current level of investigation). In practice we use a Gaussian parameterization,... 

A procedure for diagnosing the reacting phase and kinetic regime (film or bulk) using readily available equipment is shown in Fig. 5.28. This level of investigation will rarely satisfy the requirements of an academic study, for which one or more of the techniques described in Section 5.3 will be required. 

In the present book, the viability of the new theoretical approach is illustrated by broad experimental material. Usually, a scientist chooses the level of studies with respect to the task in hand. However, progress in science is due to a combination of all levels of investigation methods in modem research, because each of them simply answers different questions. 

The concept of modeling tends to limit discussions of a best number or group of elements to use in compositional analysis (cf. 65, 66). What may be useful for one problem may not be useful for another. For example, at the global level of analysis, chromium concentration is an important regionally sensitive discriminator of ancient Maya pottery in the southwestern lowlands of Chiapas, Mexico. Yet, at the intraregional level of investigation, the range of variation frequently confuses rather than contributes to the local level of refinement. 

The sum of all known and inferred (with reasonable probability) resources without consideration of economy of extraction is the resource base. The level of investigation is uneven among regions, and therefore additional amoimts may be discovered, particularly in areas not well studied today. Also, extraction methods vary with time, and new techniques (e.g., enhanced oil recovery) may alter the amormt of reserves assigned to a given physical resource. 

Whether one level of investigation is better than another is dependent on the question that is being asked and the requirements of the hypothesis tliat is being tested or information that is needed to be obtained. It is always important to include the overall costs of experimenter time (preparation), experimental cost (equipment and reagents), the time required for an observable to be measured (where photobleaching or sample destruction may become important) and whether the analysis requires destruction of die system under observation. The goodness of the level of observation is dependent on the questions posed in Chapter 3 about the goodness of the model. 

And yet, a theology comfortable with explanatory pluralism will still encourage all the sciences to push their own purely natural, and inevitably reductive, explanations as far as possible at their own appropriate levels of investigation. Good... 

Elastin, which is substantially amorphous but fibrous at all levels of investigation (starting from the largest filaments which are about 6 fim in diameter and down to about 10 nm (17,18)), is a fragile, glassy substance when dry and has a glass-to-rubber transition temperature at about 200 C (19) upon hydration or solvation with appropriate solvents, it becomes a rubbery system with the glass transition below room temperature (20). 

The quantification of the effects of the change of scale between the various levels of investigation of foam properties, i.e. from the surface and film scale towards the scales of a few bubbles and a foam column, is still unclear. The foam global behaviour is therefore to some extent unpredictable from the surface and film properties. However, qualitative correlations can be very usefully derived. Against this background, we have investigated the film and foam properties of wines. 

What may be considered to be a qualitatively higher level of investigations of the polymerization mechanism from the present-day standpoint The answer to this question may be only relative. Therefore it is necessary to generalize the evaluation of the existing results and the tendency of development in the field of chemistry. 

The next level of investigation of a new cancer drug is the phase II study. Phase II trials are primarily designed to assess the efficacy of a new agent and to further evaluate its safety in larger cohorts of patients. The study design of phase II trials builds upon results from preclinical investigations and the MTD... 

Figure 5.4 Different levels of investigation on polymer biodegradation.

The following table has been developed by the HSE to help to determine the level of investigation which is appropriate. The worst case scenario for the consequences should be considered in using the table. A particular incident like a scaffold collapse may not have caused an injury but had the potential to cause major or fatal injuries. 

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