Partial or incomplete

Descriptions of Physical Objects, Processes, or Abstract Concepts. Eor example, pumps can be described as devices that move fluids. They have input and output ports, need a source of energy, and may have mechanical components such as impellers or pistons. Similarly, the process of flow can be described as a coherent movement of a Hquid, gas, or coUections of soHd particles. Flow is characterized by direction and rate of movement (flow rate). An example of an abstract concept is chemical reaction, which can be described in terms of reactants and conditions. Descriptions such as these can be viewed as stmctured coUections of atomic facts about some common entity. In cases where the descriptions are known to be partial or incomplete, the representation scheme has to be able to express the associated uncertainty. 

As the name implies, partial oxidation, or POX, is the partial, or incomplete, combustion of a fuel. A sub stoichiometric amount of air, or oxygen, is used. This partial oxidation process is highly exothermic and raises the reactants to a high temperature. 

As the name implies, partial oxidation is the partial or incomplete combustion of a fuel according to the reaction... 

That several model organic compounds were only partially or incompletely retained by the resins prompted us to investigate the use of Carbopack B as an alternative or complementary adsorbent. Test solutions without humic acids were used to verify the sorptive-desorptive behavior of several model compounds under the experimental conditions proposed by Bacaloni et al. (8), except that the compounds were desorbed with methylene chloride. The results of duplicate experiments are given in Table III. Isophorone and MIBK were not effectively retained by Carbopack B, whereas bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate was almost equally distributed between the aqueous phase and the carbon. The relatively poor recovery of 1-chlorododecane, 2,4 -dichlorobiphenyl, and 2,2, 5,5 -tetrachlorobiphenyl may be ascribed to sorptive losses onto reservoir glass wall, whereas furfural may be inefficiently... 

Instead of duplicating these reviews and rather than presenting an exhaustive literature survey, I have chosen to emphasize the points which seem the most critical and controversial, or those where significant progress has been made in recent years, and to give personal views on these subjects. In doing so, I accept the risk that this review may appear partial or incomplete to those authors whose (sometimes excellent) papers will be left out. 

Iterative resolution methods are in general more versatile than noniterative methods. They can be applied to more diverse problems, e.g., data sets with partial or incomplete selectivity in the concentration or spectral domains, and to data sets with concentration profiles that evolve sequentially or nonsequentially. Prior knowledge about the data set (chemical or related to mathematical features) can be used in the optimization process, but it is not strictly necessary. The main complaint about iterative resolution methods has often been the longer calculation times required to obtain optimal results however, improved fast algorithms and more powerful PCs have overcome this historical limitation. 

Even very pure distilled water will still just conduct electricity, so water must contain ions, it is said to dissociate into ions. The conductivity of pure water is very low, so there cannot be many ions in a given volume the dissociation is said to be partial or incomplete. 

Our primary focus here is on these questions where partial or incomplete orderings are directly informative to conservation, remediation, or allocation issues of environmental management. Biodiversity and ecosystem health are multifaceted concerns that are most readily and objectively approached through suites of indicators. Prioritization of landscape units in these regards is also intrinsically complex. If a subset of indicators is essentially concordant across all cases of observation, then the indicators in the (sub)set are also substantially redundant. On the other hand, indicators representing largely independent dimensions of biodiversity or ecosystem health will almost necessarily complicate prioritization processes because there will be less consistency in how the respective landscape units reflect... 

Haptens partial or incomplete antigens. H. are either chemically defined molecules, e.g. dinitrophenol, or part of the molecular structure of an antigen. They bind specifically to the corresponding antibodies (see Immunoglobulins), but they cannot elicit an immune response (i.e. antibody formation) unless coupled to a carrier protein. After parenteral application of a protein-coupled H., the body produces two specific antibodies, one against the protein and one against the bound H. (hapten-specific antibodies). Half-hap-tens react with their antigen, but without precipitation. 

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