Linking index, selection

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In the Chapter 7 the selected inherent safety parameters for conceptual process design were presented. From these parameters an inherent safety index is formed in this Chapter. There is a straight link between inherent safety principles and the inherent safety index as discussed earlier (see Figure 5). 

In formulating hypotheses for the mechanism of a given complex reaction, and in using different procedures for the selection of one out of many hypotheses (discrimination of hypotheses), the question arises as to the hierarchy of the hypotheses. The intuitive principle of simplicity cannot play the role of a tool for the selection of hypotheses in the case of multiroute reactions because the number of vertices and cycles and the ways of linking cycles in the kinetic graph are already variables. Proceeding from linear mechanisms, we examine here possible approaches to the construction of a quantitative scale for mechanistic complexity or to the selection of a complexity index". 

In this expression a common residual variance term is specified, although the residual variance can be indexed to the model, in which case the overall residual variance will be the sum of the contribution of the residual variance for each of the m candidate models. It has been found that chain mixing occurs faster when competing models are linked with a common parameter (e.g., the residual error) (42). It is common in the non-Bayesian model framework to address model selection as a... 

Figure 17.6. Hydrogen-suppressed graph of polyoxynaphthoate, with the value of the simple atomic index 5 indicated at selected vertices. The lack of periodicity at the boundaries of the box, which contains a subunit smaller than the full repeat unit, causes different values to be calculated for the contribution of the group enclosed in the box to 1 % if only one of the two bonds linking it to the rest of the repeat unit is considered. One of these bonds contributes (1/60.5) o.4082, and the other bond contributes (l/9°-5)=0.3333. The correct contribution of these two bonds to is the average of these two numbers, i.e., 0.5-[(l/60-5) + (l/9°-5)]=O.3708. 

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