Other Platforms

Though product platforms have been discussed the most in the literature and used by companies, one should note that a complete platform must also include processes, customers segments, brands, and operations. Some of these platforms are described below. 

The owner of an industry platform provides the core components and defines the system architecture. Companies, called complementers, often add components that are consistent with the system architecture and add value to the entire system. They build on top of the industry-platform, using services and functionalities of the platform. The industry platform serves as a point of coordination for all industry-participants it motivates innovation because a large number of companies can either build-on or add to the system. This flexibility leads to greater variety, as the number of possible product configurations can increase rapidly. Platform-based industries also offer high efficiency. 

A related issue is whether the company should offer a single platform for all of its products or multiple platforms (Suh et al. 2007 Suh 1990). With multiple platforms, product performance may improve, but the cost of production would also increase. In general, if both product variety and product changes are high, the firm should opt to develop multiple platforms. For example, two platforms producing two different cars share several parts of instrument panels such as mounting screws and small brackets with little loss of distinctiveness. As additional 

As established in Section 3.4.3, the demand of the product variant i on the Mi platform can be expressed as. 

Therefore, the platform optimization problem for given I and B will be expressed 

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Step 2. For MS Windows users, start the CASim software by double clicking CASim.BAT in the CAProgram directory. If you wish, you can bring CASim.BAT to the desktop so that you can start from there. For other platforms, first set CAProgram as the default directory, then you may start the software by entering java CASim at the command line. 

The other platform is dielectrics, for example, silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, tantalum pentoxide, and titanium dioxide. They can be deposited by various methods, such as plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition, thermal evaporation, electron-beam evaporation, and sputtering. There are a number of dielectrics with refractive indices ranging from 1.45 to 2.4, facilitating diverse waveguide designs to satisfy different specification. Dielectrics have two other... 

Portability Does the system design permit easy porting to other platforms Are hardware and infrastructure dependencies localized in the implementation Portability is gov-... 

ToxGastDB currently being updated to include data fi-om these (and other) platforms... 

If dose strength is less than 0.5 mg, direct compression or roller compaction may present significant challenges in achieving acceptable product content uniformity. In this case, explore other platform technologies. 

X. COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY RELATIVE TO OTHER PLATFORM BIOTECHNOLOGIES... 

There are several commercial anti-virus programs available. One of the best and most widely used is Symantec Anti-Virus (SAM). It has a memory resident component to constantly look for viruses, as well as an executable component for scanning for viruses. SAM is available for Macintosh, Windows 3.x, Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, UNIX, and a few other platforms. 

In healthcare, we are today at a crossroads of yet, another of many notable technical developments. Personal computers have become ubiquitous and easier to use for healthcare professionals and patients. The newly available mobile or handheld devices have become more practical for real-time computing. Through the Internet or hand-eld device, there is ready access to a patient s medical information. With these tools, the art of practicing medicine is truly about to change. An electronic information resource for the Internet and for handheld devices, as for other platforms, requires that the data meet specific standards of reliability. First DataBank information is tried and true, a tested, authoritative source of such information. 

To use standalone BLAST to generate a BugView genome comparison file it is necessary to perform successive comparisons of protein sequences. A Perl script to automate this, gcfprep, can be downloaded from http //www.gla.ac.uk/ dplln/BugView/bvdownload.html. This script has only been tested on standalone BLAST running under Solaris, and may need modification to run on other platforms. 

Fig. 1. General view of BugView. The console of control buttons can be seen with most in an active state. Above the console the menus are visible (here for Mac OS X—they will differ in detail for other platforms), and below a section of the display area, with part of the vertical scrollbar visible.

Limitations of the platform are related to the material properties of PDMS for example, chemicals which the elastomer is not inert to cannot be processed, and elevated temperatures such as in micro-reaction technology are not feasible. Also for the implementation of applications in the field of point-of-care diagnostics, where a handheld device is often required, the LSI platform seems not to be beneficial at the moment. Thereto external pressure sources and valves would have to be downsized to a smaller footprint, which is of course technically feasible, but the costs would be higher in comparison to other platform concepts. However, as a first step towards downsizing the liquid control equipment, the use of a Braille system was successfully demonstrated [143]. 

In the aerospace industry, resinous polymers encompass a wide variety of hardware applications for aircraft, missiles, and space structures. In aircraft, resins are used as a matrix material for primary (flight-dependent) and secondary fiber-reinforced composite (FRC) structures, adhesives for the bonding of metal and composite hardware components, electronic circuit board materials, sealants, and radomes. Missile applications include equipment sections, motor cases, nose cones, cartjon-carbon composites for engine nozzles, adhesive bonding, and electronics. As the exploration of outer space intensifies, applications will become even more exotic. FRC will be used to construct telescopes, antennas, satellites, and eventually housing and other platform structures where special properties such as weight, stiffness, and dimensional stability are important. 

Versions of J for OS/2, Apple, Next, PC, Windows, Sparc, and many other platforms are available via anonymous ftp from watservl.uwaterloo.ca in languages/apl/j7exec. C source code is also available. See also K. Iverson, J Introduction and Dictionary (Toronto Iverson Software, 1993), The publisher s address is 33 Major Street, Toronto, Ontario MSS 2K9 Canada. 

The fifth chapter in this volume is unique in that it presents a very useful protocol, however, one that must be used in conjunction with other methods. Automated laser capture microdissection, which is used to capture homogeneous cell populations from crude tissue samples may be used in concert with a number of the other platforms presented in this volume. This technique should be considered a valuable tool for researchers in tissue proteomics, especially for the production of custom arrays. 

New trends in the analysis of food contaminants in general focus on the simultaneous detection of different analytes present in the same sample. A multiplex PCR assay has been developed for the simultaneous detection of wheat, buckwheat, and peanut (Hashimoto et al., 2007). A distinct amplicon size for each allergen can be observed in an agarose gel. Since some RT-PCR thermocyclers have the ability to detect several fluorescent probes, they can easily be adapted to detect several food allergens simultaneously. Moreover, other platforms commonly used for multiplexing can be used in combination with PCR. Microarray slides can be spotted with peptide nucleic acid (PNA) capture probes for PCR products obtained from the amplification of DNA... 

We have developed a software application, ATOMPLUS,i38 which can be used in a turnkey fashion to illustrate theoretical features of two electron atoms, such as basis set effects, correlation energy, virial ratio, variational principle, and multideterminantal wavefunction. The program is provided in executable format for either the IBM or Macintosh platform. The source code can be obtained from Project Seraphim and, since it is written in FORTRAN 77, it compiles readily on other platforms. 

The Synthesis ToolKit in C++ (STK) is a set of audio signal processing and synthesis C++ classes and algorithms. Yon can use these classes to create programs that make sounds tvith a variety of synthesis techniques. This is not a terribly novel concept, except that the Synthesis Toolkit is extremely portable (it s mostly platform-independent C and C++ code), and it is completely user-extensible (no libraries, no hidden drivers, aU source code is included). This means that the code yon write today (and the code we ve written over the last 10 years) win stiU work in another 10 years. It cunently runs tvith real-time snpport (audio and MIDI) on SGI (Mx), Linux, Windows, and Mac (OSX) computer platforms. Non-real-time support has been tested nnder NeXTStep, SunOS, and other platforms, and should work for soundfile creation with any standard C++ compiler. 

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