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Refer the project back to the R D department for an improvement of the formula or the packaging (this can easily cost huge amounts of money and delay market introduction by years, especially if alternatives had not been thought of or had been prematurely deleted from the stability program). 

The values of the rhombicity parameters are conventionally limited to the range 0 < EjD < 1/3 without loss of generality. This corresponds to the choice of a proper coordinate system, for which /)zz (in absolute values) is the largest component of the D tensor, and /) is smaller than Dyy. Any value of rhombicity outside the proper interval, obtained from a simulation for instance, can be projected back to 0 < EID < 1/3 by appropriate 90°-rotations of the reference frame, that is, by permutations of the diagonal elements of D. To this end, the set of nonconventional parameters D and EID has to be converted to the components of a traceless 3x3 tensor D using the relationships... 

The creation of a two-year research programme into fire prevention within the EU will accelerate the move to safer substitutes to BFRs in buildings. The project, backed by the Commission, began in 2003. The aim is to stage a series of workshops at which member states can share... 

The poor quality of the steel, in part due to inadequate or lack of measurements, set the project back several millions of dollars, once again emphasizing the need for accurate measurements. 

The PFC, PAC, and ITC all project to the caudate nucleus as part of the cognitive circuit through the basal ganglia, which projects via the thalamus back to PFC (Fig. 8.2). In contrast, the motor circuit involves cortical projections to the putamen, which in turn projects back onto the premotor cortices (Fig. 8.2). This pathway is important for the planning, selection, initiation, and execution of movements. The entire cortical mantle also projects indirectly to the cerebellar cortex (not shown), which ultimately projects back to the primary motor cortex. This pathway serves as a biological gyroscope, providing on-line correction of movements. 

The Internal Rate of Return (IRR) is the equivalent interest rate at which the Net Present Value of the acquisition would be zero. Given the projected total cost of the system, and the projected total benefits of the system, both projected back (discounted) to today, it is the interest rate that the investment could sustain and still just break even. Since firms, in general, operate at a point where their incremental cost of money is equal to its incremental earning power, any investment that returns an IRR better than the cost of money is a good investment. Traditionally, the IRR is found by calculating the NPV with different interest factors in a trial and error method until the interest factor is found which drives the NPV to approximately zero. 

Considerations that can inhibit intervening to bring project back on... 

The release of permanent staff from projects back into the business and their subsequent interdepartmental movements make their return to support inspections difficult and umeliable. Inspection readiness can be further frustrated by key staff taking on external positions or leaving the business for other reasons, e.g., voluntary redundancy. Many projects depend greatly on contracted resources, and turnover of such staff can be high. Once staff are dispersed, there may be an irretrievable loss of knowledge. 

Sample Problem 27.3 shows how to convert a Haworth projection back to the acyclic form of a monosaccharide. 

Schematic diagram of the gustatory pathway in rodents. Taste receptor cells are innervated by one of three cranial nerves (VII, IX, or X), which project topographically into the rostral portion of nucleus of the solitary tract (NST). Cells within the NST send projections into the reticular formation (RF), through which connections are made to oral motor nuclei V, VII, and XII and the nucleus ambiguous (NA). Ascending fibers connect to the parabrachial nuclei (PbN) of the pons, from which two parallel pathways emerge. One pathway carries taste information to the insular cortex (IC) via the ventral posterior medial nucleus, parvicellularis (VPMpc), of the thalamus. The other pathway projects into areas of the limbic forebrain involved in food and water regulation, reinforcement, reward, and stress, including the lateral hypothalamus (LH), the central nucleus ofthe amygdala (CeA), and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BST). These areas and the IC are interconnected and send descending projections back to both the PbN and NST...

Project management tools offer possibilities to define time constraints like deadlines for tasks. But most of these tools do not provide any means to detect violations of constraints and they do not enforce actions to bring the project back on schedule. Such issues will have to be addressed by our developments. The planned management system will permanently calculate the current execution state of the design process and will compare it with the... 

Output targets of the substantia nigra include the following the thalamus, superior colliculus and the pedunculopontine nucleus (Beckstead 1979 Deniau and Chevalier 1992 Gerfen et al. 1982 Kita and Kitai 1987 Nakanishi et al. 1987b). Nigral inputs to the thalamus are directed to two main parts of the thalamus. The first are the set of nuclei, including the intralaminar nuclei, which project back to the striatum. The second... 

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