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In order to optimise the general on-site system performance, time and resource consuming motion calculations are done immediately after execution of the previous path in the current scaiming program - simultaneously with the storing of digital A-scan data by the PS-4 system. 

Resources consumed in product development can be significant Team-based application and systematic approach is essential Many subjective analysis processes... 

However, there is much to be harvested by seeking the underlying rules governing molecular properties of a similar family and distinguishing those rules from the sophisticated numerical results for individual molecules. For this purpose, qualitative theories are still desirable to provide useful concepts for elucidating intriguing molecular structures and chemical reactions, and more importantly, to predict the observable properties of new molecules before we carry out resource-consuming computations or experiments. 

Figure 1.3 Relative decline in resources consumed to create a unit of economic value. Reproduced from...

A life cycle assessment (LCA), also known as life cycle analysis, of a product or process begins with an inventory of the energy and environmental flows associated with a product from "cradle to grave" and provides information on the raw materials used from the environment, energy resources consumed, and air, water, and solid waste emissions generated. GHGs and other wastes, sinks, and emissions may then be assessed (Sheehan et ah, 1998). The net GHG emissions calculated from an LCA are usually reported per imit of product or as the carbon footprint. 

Direct costs include both medical and nonmedical expenditures for the detection, treatment, and prevention of disease. Direct medical costs reflect resources consumed in the "production" of health care, such as pharmaceutical products and services, physician visits, and hospital care. Direct nonmedical costs reflect expenditures for products and services that are not directly related to disease treatment but are still related to patient care. Examples of direct nonmedical costs include transportation to a pharmacy or physician s office and housekeeping during the illness period. Indirect costs account for changes in productivity of an individual because of illness. The monetary value of lost or altered productivity is typically used as a measure of indirect costs. Intangible costs and consequences are nonmonetary in nature and reflect the impact of disease and its treatment on the individual s social and emotional functioning and quality of life. Table 12.2 provides examples of these types of costs and consequences. 

To improve this unsatisfying situation, many bioinformatics sites construct nonredundant databases from a number of component databases, or they use external nonredundant databases, e.g., OWL (Bleasby et al., 1994). Both strategies considerably improve the situation for the end user, but they require the time- and resource-consuming maintenance of multiple databases or the acceptance of a certain time lag between creation of an entry and its appearance in the nonredundant database. Furthermore, both strategies lead to a loss of information in the individual entry owing to the diversity of database formats. Whereas OWL preserves most information of an entry and some of its structure, the NRDB program requires a conversion of the component databases to FASTA format, which contains only one description line per entry. 

The resource consumed by this activity may be reduced if standard distributions can be adopted for parameters that are required for many different assessments. However, caution should be exercised to avoid applying default distributions outside the range of problems for which they are appropriate. 

Depletion A provision in the tax regulations that allows a business to charge as current expense a noncash expense representing the portion of limited natural resources consumed in the conduct of business. 

Conventional evaluation of new medical technologies such as pharmaceutical products includes consideration of efficacy, effectiveness, and safety. The methodology for such analyses is well developed, and studies of safety and efficacy often are required prior to drug marketing. Health care researchers from a variety of disciplines have developed new techniques for the evaluation of the economic effects of clinical care and new medical technologies. Clinicians, pharmacists, economists, epidemiologists, operations researchers, and others have contributed to the field of clinical economics , an evolving discipline dedicated to the study of how different approaches to patient care and treatment influence the resources consumed in clinical medicine. 

The direct medical costs of care usually are associated with monetary transactions and represent costs that are incurred during the provision of care. Examples of direct medical costs include payments for purchasing a pharmaceutical product, payments for physicians fees, salaries of allied health professionals, or purchases of diagnostic tests. Because the charge for medical care may not accurately reflect the resources consumed, accounting or statistical techniques may be needed to determine direct costs. 

The third axis in Fig. 1 is that of the perspective of an economic analysis of medical care. Costs and benefits can be calculated with respect to society s, the patient s, the payer s, and the provider s points of view. A study s perspective determines how costs and benefits are measured, and the economist s strict definition of costs (the consumption of a resource that could otherwise be used for another purpose) may no longer be appropriate when perspectives different from that of society as a whole are used. For example, a hospital s cost of providing a service may be less than its charge. From the hospital s perspective, then, the charge could be an overstatement of the resources consumed for some services. However, if the patient has to pay the full charge, it is an accurate reflection of the cost of the service to the patient. Alternatively, if the hospital decreases its costs by discharging patients early, the hospital s costs may decrease, but patients costs may increase because of the need for increased outpatient expenses that are not covered by their health insurance plan. 

The study of the precision of a method is often the most time and resource consuming part of a method validation program, particularly for methods that are developed for multiple users. The precision is a measure of the random bias of the method. It has contributions fi om the repeatability of various steps in the analytical method, such as sample preparation and sample injection for HPLC [5-9], and from reproducibility of the whole analytical method fiom analyst to analyst, fiom instrument to instrument and fiom laboratory to laboratory. As a reproducibility study requires a large commitment of time and resources it is reasonable to ensure the overall ruggedness of the method before it is embarked upon. 

Traditional cost-containment measures are not always consistent with improved patient care. Thus attention has turned toward demonstrating the value of health care. A full evaluation of relevant costs and consequences differentiates outcomes research from traditional cost-containment strategies. Costs are defined as the value of the resources consumed by a program or treatment alternative. Consequences are defined as the effects, outputs, and outcomes of the program or treatment alternative (Eisenberg, 1989). 

Direct costs are the resources consumed in the prevention, detection, or treatment of a disease or illness. These costs can be divided into direct medical and direct nonmedical costs. Direct medical costs are specific monetary transactions associated with paying for medical care, such as hospitalizations, drugs, medical supplies, and physician visits. Direct nonmedical costs involve monetary transactions for required items or services that do not involve purchase of medical care. Examples include transportation to medical facilities, special foods, and the time that family members miss work to care for others. 

The maintenance of stock cultures of microorganisms is less resource-consuming and is ethically more favorable than the maintenance of cell or tissue cultures or laboratory animals. 

The most critical step in the interaction studies is a sensitive and reproducible method for quantification of the marker substrates and the corresponding metabolite. Analytical methods are usually applied to time- and resources-consuming HPLC (UV/fluorescence/radioactivity detection) or LC/MS/MS detection. 

This chapter discusses the various types of project teams that are involved in the drug discovery and development process. It also provides a detailed example of a drug development logic plan for what many developmental pharmaceutical scientists consider to be the most difficult and time- and resource-consuming drug candidate to develop into a therapeutic product. 

The SAVE triage was developed to direct limited resources to the subgroup of patients expected to benefit most from their use. The SAVE assesses survivability of patients with various injuries and, on the basis of trauma statistics, uses this information to describe the relationship between expected benefits and resources consumed. Because early transport to an intact medical system is unavailable, this information guides treatment priorities in the field to a level beyond the scope of the START methodology (Benson et al., 1996). 

The teratology study is often the first study of reproductive toxicity because it is less time- and resource consuming than are studies involving other phases of reproduction and because it assesses an end point, teratogenicity, which can have a major impact on further development of a drug. 

There is a possibility that the promotion of countermeasures for climate change will affect or be influenced by other enviroranental problems. For example, the promotion of the use of diesel for automobiles will reduce CO2, but will increase SOx and NOx. Recycling of resources consumes energy, and may increase CO2 emissions. Accordingly, when promoting measures thoroughly, it is necessary to identify the position of the climate change problem in all environmental problems, and fully analyze the impact of such measures on the environment as a whole. 

LCA practitioners tabulate the wastes, the emissions, and the resources consumed, for example, at every relevant stage in a product s life cycle, from its cradle... 

Figure 10. Two-dimensional embedding of 47 bacteria due to the carbon resource consuming capability.

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