Start-up hook

Summary of the Types of DSC Sample Pans That Are Available and Their Typical Uses 

Free diffusion of volatiles (if the sample depth is small) 

General DSC experiments Liquids, creams, suspensions and solids that are sensitive to the pressure of sealing 

As above, but a smaller dead volume is achieved and heat transfer is better Liquids Solvates 

Free/bound water Boiling point measurements Liquids above 120°C Protein denaturation 

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The reference pan should always be of the same type as the sample pan. Ideally, the mass of the reference pan should be close to the mass of the sample pan and sample. This will minimize the start-up hook observed at the beginning of the DSC experiment (see Subsection 2.4.1). To compensate for the sample mass, one or two extra aluminum sample pan lids may be added to the reference pan. 

The magnitude of start-up hook can be minimized by matching the mass of sample and reference pans. Figure 2.8 shows the heat flow data for a series of experiments on a pharmaceutical material where the reference mass has been... 

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Watch the recorder or computer baseline. When it is stable, slow the pump flow to 0.1 mL/min, remove the column blank, and connect the Cl8 column to the injector. Do not connect the column to the detector yet. Wash the column solvent into a beaker (start a slow flow ramp up from 0.1 to l.OmL/min) for six column volumes (12-18mL). Pressure should slowly increase to around 2000 psi at 1 mL/min due to column backpressure. (Lab note Always hook up a column with solvent running to prevent introducing air from the column head into the column.)... 

Let us take the example above one step further. Suppose the data being entered are feedback from patients on their experience with a new drug. If the data entry forms are provided as a world wide web document, the data entry could be done by the patients themselves. Patients with local access to the Internet could simply call up the web document on their computer. Patients without computers could have an inexpensive device hooked up to their television to allow them to do the data entry. Because the data are entered through the Internet, they are instantly sent back to the central office. The data are stored in a shared database so that the data management personnel can quickly and easily track them. The biostatistics workgroup can start working on statistical analyses. The clinical department can monitor the progress of the study. The client can have instant access to the data at all times. 

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Modified Hooke s law corrected with cubic (as in the MM2-based force fields [8]) and further extensions to quartic terms (as in MM3 [9], CFF [10], and MMFF [11] force fields see Eq. (3) [9]) or other expansions [12] have been developed to mimic the Morse potential and are used to speed up convergence in very distorted starting geometries, while keeping a proper description of the potential energy. 

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The most prevalent and widely developed constitutive connections of polymers between strain and stress are dealt with in linear elasticity by applying the generalized form of Hooke s law which is presented in Chapter 4 for anisotropic solids of different symmetry classes starting with orthotropic solids and progressing up to isotropic solids. Here and in the following chapters we shall develop only the connection for isotropic solids, which is the most useful one and most often is quite sufficient in development of concepts. 

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