Preferred method of communicating

One must consider the reviewer s style and preferred method of communication. Some reviewers prefer requests to go through the project Manager or CSO. One reviewer might be very responsive to e-mail, whereas another might prefer a telephone call. The contacts during an NDA review can be numerous - the exact number will vary with the application and the reviewing division. The purpose of contacts should not only be to track or monitor, but whenever possible to assist the reviewer in resolving quickly minor issues that can sometimes cause the reviewer to slow or even halt a review. 

One must consider the reviewer s style and preferred method of communication. Some reviewers prefer requests to go through the Project... 

Over the past twenty years there has been a trend away from user-hostile chemical information systems towards systems with user-friendly, graphics interfaces, which allow the scientist to use his preferred method of communication, that is, the chemical structure diagram. The abundance of chemical structure interfaces nowadays actually causes a new problem there are too many systems for the user to learn and there are too few standards. 

We believe that in the near future, all three holy grails listed above will be achieved, and the OF approach will become the preferred method of implementation of DFT. We hope this review draws the attention of the theoretical chemistry and physics communities to make this come to pass. 

Post marketing surveillance conducted by drug regulators, the manufacturers and the medical community may be the preferred method of collecting information for the appropriate use of drugs. These adverse drug reactions may be detected shortly after ini-... 

Hybrids are inherently protected by the fact that the originator maintains the parents, and, thus, has a monopoly on the seed supply. Some companies, however, will PVP parents of hybrids, which would prevent one or both from being stolen and used. For the record, I prefer the respect method of protecting intellectual property to the legal method, e.g. PVP. If we find that some seed company has stolen one of our varieties, I like to think that I could call them and get them to stop. (R. Johnston, personal communication, 2006)... 

Until recently, DNA quantification in forensic analyses has most commonly involved the use of slot-blot methods. In the past few years, the forensics community has shifted focus to the use of quantitative PCR as the preferred method for quantification. Both methods allow for human-specific DNA quantification, although qPCR has significantly lower limits of detection and gives an indication of the PCR-amplifiability of the DNA as well. Recently, multiplex qPCR assays have been developed to simultaneously determine the total amount of genomic and mitochondrial DNA, total genomic and male DNA, or assess the extent of DNA degradation for specific forensic applications. Because of the utility of qPCR to the forensic community, we focus on the development of qPCR on microdevices here. 

Once the need for a network has been determined, the locations of terminals, servers, and information storage equipment must be established. Local area networks (LANs) and the worldwide web (WWW, or Internet) can link access points located in adjacent rooms or halfway around the world. However, it is critical that the network uses consistent computer and data transmittal protocols in order to provide uninterrupted, information handling in an efficient manner. For example, serial communication via an RS-232 port is relatively common, but too slow for most machine applications. Ethernet communication via transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) is a preferred method because most equipment suppliers offer this network option. The TCP/IP method allows computers to share resources, no matter whether the operating system is for an Apple , a version of the Microsoft operating system for PCs, or the UNIX operating system. Also, the Semiconductor Equipment Communication Standard (SECS)/Generic Equipment Model (GEM) is widely used as the interface between the host computer and assembly machines. 

Currently, analytical approaches are still the most preferred tools for model reduction in microfluidic research community. While it is impossible to enumerate all of them in this chapter, we will discuss one particular technique - the Method of Moments, which has been systematically investigated for species dispersion modeling [9, 10]. The Method of Moments was originally proposed to study Taylor dispersion in a circular tube under hydrodynamic flow. Later it was successfully applied to investigate the analyte band dispersion in microfluidic chips (in particular electrophoresis chip). Essentially, the Method of Moments is employed to reduce the transient convection-diffusion equation that contains non-uniform transverse species velocity into a system of simple PDEs governing the spatial moments of the species concentration. Such moments are capable of describing typical characteristics of the species band (such as transverse mass distribution, skew, and variance). 

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