Sorting information

When Run Query is cheked, the hst of tables, columns, criteria, and sorting information is converted into an MQL statement, which is then executed by the query engine and the results, such as those shown in Figure 14.5, are displayed. In addition to the common tabular displays of results, a collection of useful graphical visuahzation formats are available. Also, alerts can be defined on queries such that... 

The (request number, client id) is a unique index for sorting information into the cache that can be seen as a hash table. 

Data visualization is the process of displaying information in any sort of pictorial or graphic representation. A number of computer programs are available to apply a colorization scheme to data or to work with three-dimensional representations. In recent years, this functionality has been incorporated in many... 

The importance of linked scanning of metastable ions or of ions formed by induced decomposition is discussed in this chapter and in Chapter 34. Briefly, linked scanning provides information on which ions give which others in a normal mass spectrum. With this sort of information, it becomes possible to examine a complex mixture of substances without prior separation of its components. It is possible to look highly specifically for trace components in mixtures under circumstances in which other techniques could not succeed. Finally, it is possible to gain information on the molecular structures of unknown compounds, as in peptide and protein sequencing (see Chapter 40). 

The foregoing discussion has been conducted in terms of Mi sequences. Additional relationships of the sort we have been considering also exist for dyads, triads, and so forth, of different types of specific composition. Thus an ability to investigate microstructure experimentally allows some rather subtle mechanistic effects to be studied. In the next section we shall see how such information is obtained. 

Citation Searching. In the scholarly Hterature, authors cite earHer pubHcations that relate to the work being reported, thus a subject relationship exists between the citing and cited Hterature. This relationship has formed the basis for the Science Citation Index and related products, developed by the Institute for Scientific Information. Known as Scisearch in its on-line version, the Science Citation Index has become an important information retrieval tool in the second half of the twentieth century. It has been used for straightforward subject searching, in which mode it complements traditional indexed databases and indexes. It has also become a popular tool for hihliometric studies of various sorts, such as attempts to measure the relative impact of research carried out by different individuals or organizations, or the relative impact of pubHcations in different journals. 

T abular. A typical distributioa as measured by modem iastmmeatatioa can iaclude size information on tens of thousands and even millions of iadividual particles. These data can be Hsted ia a computer and then sorted iato a series of successive size iatervals, keeping track of the measured quantity, such as number, surface area, or mass, within each group. For narrow size distributions it may be sufficient to group the data ia linear iatervals, such as 0—1, 1—2, 2—3 p.m, etc, and then Hst the iatervals as a perceat value of the whole. 

However, separation between resistance levels of 1000 to 300 kH may be marginal. A typical application of conductivity sorting is the separation of massive ilmenite from anorthosite. Both are compact rocks, but ilmenite is a good electrical conductor, whereas anorthosite is an insulator. The dimensions and operating information for the Sor-tex CS-03 conductivity sorter, which is capable of processing up to about 25,000 kg/h (27.5 tons/h) of 0.05-to 0.15-in mesh size (2 to 6 in), are given in Table 19-4. 

One of the main attractions of normal mode analysis is that the results are easily visualized. One can sort the modes in tenns of their contributions to the total MSF and concentrate on only those with the largest contributions. Each individual mode can be visualized as a collective motion that is certainly easier to interpret than the welter of information generated by a molecular dynamics trajectory. Figure 4 shows the first two normal modes of human lysozyme analyzed for their dynamic domains and hinge axes, showing how clean the results can sometimes be. However, recent analytical tools for molecular dynamics trajectories, such as the principal component analysis or essential dynamics method [25,62-64], promise also to provide equally clean, and perhaps more realistic, visualizations. That said, molecular dynamics is also limited in that many of the functional motions in biological molecules occur in time scales well beyond what is currently possible to simulate. 

Another experiment of the competition type involves the comparison of the reactivity of different atoms in the same molecule. For example, gas-phase chlorination of butane can lead to 1- or 2-chlorobutane. The relative reactivity k /k of the primary and secondaiy hydrogens is the sort of information that helps to characterize the details of the reaction process. 

It is not possible to draw unambiguous Lewis structures for excited states of the sort that are so useful in depicting ground-state chemistry. Instead, it is common to asterisk the normal carbonyl structure and provide information about the nature and multiplicity of the excited state ... 

Strength and Stiffness. Thermoplastic materials are viscoelastic which means that their mechanical properties reflect the characteristics of both viscous liquids and elastic solids. Thus when a thermoplastic is stressed it responds by exhibiting viscous flow (which dissipates energy) and by elastic displacement (which stores energy). The properties of viscoelastic materials are time, temperature and strain rate dependent. Nevertheless the conventional stress-strain test is frequently used to describe the (short-term) mechanical properties of plastics. It must be remembered, however, that as described in detail in Chapter 2 the information obtained from such tests may only be used for an initial sorting of materials. It is not suitable, or intended, to provide design data which must usually be obtained from long term tests. 

Function event trees are developed to represent the plant s response to each initiator. The function event tree is not an end product it is an intermediate step that provides a baseline of information and permits a stepwise approach to sorting out the complex relationships between potential initiating events and the response of the mitigating features. They structure plant respoases to accident conditions - possibly as time sequences. The transition labels of function event trees (usually along the top of the event tree) are analyzed to provide the probability of that function occurring or not occurring. 

It is also important to recognize that there may be no process to map. You have been given all sorts of information by interviewees who felt obliged to answer your questions, even if they did not really know the answer. Look out... 

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