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The toxic chemical(s) of concern must be Identified and their physical and chemical characteristics evaluated The concentrations of each of the chemicals must be measured, ideally in both the environment and In the tissues of exposed humans Depending on the nature and distribution of toxic material, environmental measurements may be required In air, water, soil, or food, or In combinations of these media The critical limiting factor at this stage of assessment relates to the degree to which particular chemicals can be identified... 

Very rarely are measurements themselves of much use or of great interest. The statement "the absorption of the solution increased from 0.6 to 0.9 in ten minutes", is of much less use than the statement, "the reaction has a half-life of 900 sec". The goal of model-based analysis methods presented in this chapter is to facilitate the above translation from original data to useful chemical information. The result of a model-based analysis is a set of values for the parameters that quantitatively describe the measurement, ideally within the limits of experimental noise. The most important prerequisite is the model, the physical-chemical, or other, description of the process under investigation. An example helps clarify the statement. The measurement is a series of absorption spectra of a reaction solution the spectra are recorded as a function of time. The model is a second order reaction A+B->C. The parameter of interest is the rate constant of the reaction. 

A kinetic measurement ideally determines the crystal structure, morphology, and concentrations of all structure elements as a function of locus and time. The appropriate experiment consists of 1) the question to the system in form of a known input, and 2) the response of the system to the question, which is the output to be measured and analyzed. In a thermodynamic measurement, a known probe which can register an intensive function of state (P, T,fx,) is often equilibrated with the system to be investigated. Thus, the question to the system is then answered by the probe. 

The Second Princeton Consensus on Sexual Function concluded that the recognition of ED as a warning sign of silent vascular disease has led to the concept that a man with ED and no cardiac symptoms is a cardiac (or vascular) patient until proved otherwise, Therefore any asymptomatic man who presents with ED that does not have an obvious cause (e.g., trauma) should be screened for vascular disease and have blood glucose, lipids, and BP measured. Ideally, all patients at risk should undergo an elective exercise ECG to facilitate risk stratification (3 1,32). 

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A check on the accuracy of the mapping process may be achieved by re-running the model with the calculated parameter distortions, and comparing the calculated states with the measurements. Ideally they should be identical, but in any case statistical measures of mismatch may be calculated and used to Judge how closely the distorted model fits the plant records. 

A requirement of a reference electrode is that its potential be fixed and stable, unaffected by the passage of small amounts of current required in making potentiometric measurements (ideally, the current in the measurement is zero, but in practice some small current must be passed—see below). Metal-metal salt electrodes generally possess the needed properties. 

The major objective of ChE screening programs is to detect potential overexposure to anti-ChEs before the on. set of definitive poisoning. To this end, it is necessary for a cutoff point to be decided on that dictates the need for action to be taken to avoid further exposure of the affected individual(s) and to undertake reviews to determine the cause for the overexposure and institute corrective measures. Ideally, the most appropriate time for measurements to be made i.s as soon as possible after exposure this is particularly important with CMs because of their relatively rapid reactivation, and thus prompt analysis is also needed. Clearly, there is a need to avoid contamination of blood with anti-ChEs from the environment or the skin during sampling. Interpretation of the significance of ChE measurement in relation to working conditions may differ somewhat between individual experts and authorities. 

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Hydrogen overpotential, therefore, is measured in the same way as polarization is measured. Ideally, hydrogen overpotential includes only the activation polarization term corresponding to the reaction + 2e H2, but reported values often include iR drop and sometimes concentration polarization as well. 

Lasf column, fofal allowable analyfical error in millivolts related to activity measurements. Ideal slope (61.54 mV for singly charged and 30.77 mV for doubly charged ion (37°C) is assumed. 

Placement of the thermocouple is critical to accurate temperature measurement. Ideally, having the thermocouple in the sample itself would give the most accurate reading of the sample temperature. 

The CMC approach is a particularly powerful one, because it makes it possible, in principle, to deduce a complex reaction mechanism purely from a set of experimental measurements. Ideally, for the method to work, one should have a complete list of the species present in the system and be able to follow the concentrations of all of them. These practical requirements are severe, and it will be necessary to see to what extent the CMC technique can function in real situations, where one has only an incomplete set of information to work with. 

This is a Design Basis target, which requires a deterministic analysis that demonstrates the fault tolerance of the facility and the effectiveness of the safety measures. Ideally, the analysis should demonstrate in preferential order that ... 

The key to a wider acceptance of high temperature GC of triacylglycerols on WCOT columns is the precision that can be attained in quantification. It is virtually essential that electronic integration be applied for peak area measurements, ideally with some form of automatic base-line correction. The response of the detector should in theory be... 

For measurements designed to be used in the calculation of the relative amounts of the various forms of carbon dioxide (CCF , HCOj ", and free COg) the highest possible precision is required in pH measurement. Ideally a precision of 0.005 unit should be attempted but under most conditions it is doubtful whether better than 0.01 can be achieved and then the greatest care in sampling and standardization is required. 

Of course, there is one caveat. We have made the assumption that all the variance in the decomposition by PCA is related directly to the concentration change. This is not necessarily true, as the factors may be attributable to changes in constituents that we are not measuring. Ideally, we should try to correlate the principal components to the concentrations of the constituents. This, in general, is difficult to do, and most commercial PCR algorithms do not attempt the correlation. The end result is that PCR may use more principal components and scores than necessary, and the principal components may not relate directly to the constituents. Nonetheless, PCR is a powerful technique and can be a considerable improvement over ILS and CLS. One algorithm that does decompose both the absorbance and concentration matrices, and correlates the two, is partial least-squares (PLS) regression. 

The geometry of the cell Z4 is very important for capacitance measurements. Ideally the electric field should be spherically symmetrical round the working electrode. In practice, however, good results are obtained if the working electrode is a small sphere (such as the d.m.e.) and the counter electrode is a large cylinder of metal foil placed so that the working electrode is in its centre. 

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