Organic behaviour

Reeves, T. K. (1970). The control of manufacture in a garment factory . In J. Woodward (Ed.) Industrial Organization Behaviour and Control Oxford University Press. 

Symptom approach Approach involves the use of organism behaviour and time to death in comparing the responses of organisms to the effluent and then to the suspected toxicant(s). Different toxicants could produce similar or different symptoms in a test species if symptoms are different, the toxicants are unquestionably different, but similar symptoms could indicate the toxicants are the same or different. If organisms exposed to the effluent and the suspected toxicant display different symptoms, the substance thought to be responsible for toxicity is either not the actual toxicant, or other toxicants are present. 

Thirdly, the organic behavioural state produced by ECT, with its euphoria and disinhibition, may be mistaken for improvement. Often it is misdiagnosed as mania even in people who have no history of manic depression. It is credible that ECT may precipitate mania in people with a vulnerability, but this has not been definitively demonstrated (Devanand et al. 1988). 

Whole organism Behavioural Developmental (growth and reproduction) Physiological Lethality... 

Malde, B. (1992), What Price Usability Audits The Introduction of Electronic Mail into a User Organization, Behaviour and Information Technology, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 345-353. 

A superb treatment of applied molecular orbital theory and its application to organic, inorganic and solid state chemistry. Perhaps the best source for appreciating the power of the independent-particle approximation and its remarkable ability to account for qualitative behaviour in chemical systems. 

Chain models capture the basic elements of the amphiphilic behaviour by retaining details of the molecular architecture. Ben-Shaul et aJ [ ] and others [ ] explored the organization of tlie hydrophobic portion in lipid micelles and bilayers by retaining the confonuational statistics of the hydrocarbon tail withm the RIS (rotational isomeric state) model [4, 5] while representing the hydrophilic/liydrophobic mterface merely by an... 

Liu Z, Loo B FI, Baba R and Fu]ishima A 1990 Exoellent reversible photoohromio behaviour of 4-ootyl-4 -(5-oarboxyl-pentamethyleneoxy)-azobenzene in organized monolayer assemblies Chem. Lett. 1023-6... 

The remainder of this contribution is organized as follows. In section C2.6.2, some well studied colloidal model systems are introduced. Methods for characterizing colloidal suspensions are presented in section C2.6.3. An essential starting point for understanding the behaviour of colloids is a description of the interactions between particles. Various factors contributing to these are discussed in section C2.6.4. Following on from this, theories of colloid stability and of the kinetics of aggregation are presented in section C2.6.5. Finally, section C2.6.6 is devoted to the phase behaviour of concentrated suspensions. 

It is the nitronium ion which is responsible for nitrating actions in organic chemistry which are carried out in a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids. When nitric acid is dissolved in water, its behaviour is that of a strong acid, i.e. ... 

Abstract. A model of the conformational transitions of the nucleic acid molecule during the water adsorption-desorption cycle is proposed. The nucleic acid-water system is considered as an open system. The model describes the transitions between three main conformations of wet nucleic acid samples A-, B- and unordered forms. The analysis of kinetic equations shows the non-trivial bifurcation behaviour of the system which leads to the multistability. This fact allows one to explain the hysteresis phenomena observed experimentally in the nucleic acid-water system. The problem of self-organization in the nucleic acid-water system is of great importance for revealing physical mechanisms of the functioning of nucleic acids and for many specific practical fields. 

Study of the solubility behaviour of the compound. A semi-quantitative study of the solubility of the substance in a hmited number of solvents (water, ether, dilute sodium hydroxide solution, dilute hydrochloric acid, sodium bicarbonate solution, concentrated sulphuric and phosphoric acid) will, if intelligently apphed, provide valuable information as to the presence or absence of certain classes of organic compounds. 

Evidence of the organic nature of the substance may, be provided by the behaviour of the compound when heated on porcelain or platinum or other comparatively inert metal (e.g., nickel) the substance is inflammable, burns with a more or less smoky flame, chars and leaves a black residue consisting largely of carbon (compare Ignition Test above). 

Olah and his co-workers compared the behaviour of nitronium salts in competitive nitrations with the behaviour of other nitrating systems. The results are given in table 4.1, columns (a)-(j), and also in table 4.2. The results obtained from competitive nitrations using solutions of nitric acid in organic solvents (table 4.1, columns (6)-(e)) are in line with those obtained by earlier workers. The evidence that in nitromethane,... 

The influence of NH., and CO, on the chromatographic behaviour of benzoic acid and its derivatives (o-, m-, p-hydroxybenzoic, nitrobenzoic, aminobenzoic, chlorobenzoic acids) was studied. The work was carried out by means of upgoing TLC on Sorbfil plates. Isopropanol- and ethyl acetate-containing water-organic eluents were used as mobile phases in the absence or presence of gaseous modifiers in the MP. The novel modification of TLC has been found to separate benzoic acids with different values of their dissociation constants more effectively than water-organic mobile phases. 

Flowever, extreme caution is necessary with mixed chemical systems since many which are thermodynamically unstable exhibit considerable kinetic stability. The kinetic barrier to stability may be overcome if traces of catalyst are present, and result in a violent reaction. The most common catalysts derive from metals, or their compounds, and the unpredictable behaviour of many reactions arises from the unwitting presence of impurities. Other catalysts include acids, bases, organic free-radical precursors, etc. Flence any system must be treated with care which... 

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