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All these polyesters are produced by bacteria in some stressed conditions in which they are deprived of some essential component for thek normal metabohc processes. Under normal conditions of balanced growth the bacteria utilizes any substrate for energy and growth, whereas under stressed conditions bacteria utilize any suitable substrate to produce polyesters as reserve material. When the bacteria can no longer subsist on the organic substrate as a result of depletion, they consume the reserve for energy and food for survival or upon removal of the stress, the reserve is consumed and normal activities resumed. This cycle is utilized to produce the polymers which are harvested at maximum cell yield. This process has been treated in more detail in a paper (71) on the mechanism of biosynthesis of poly(hydroxyaIkanoate)s. 

In an ideal fluid, the stresses are isotropic. There is no strength, so there are no shear stresses the normal stress and lateral stresses are equal and are identical to the pressure. On the other hand, a solid with strength can support shear stresses. However, when the applied stress greatly exceeds the yield stress of a solid, its behavior can be approximated by that of a fluid because the fractional deviations from stress isotropy are small. Under these conditions, the solid is considered to be hydrodynamic. In the absence of rate-dependent behavior such as viscous relaxation or heat conduction, the equation of state of an isotropic fluid or hydrodynamic solid can be expressed in terms of specific internal energy as a function of pressure and specific volume E(P, V). A familiar equation of state is that for an ideal gas... 

This plastic deformation is localised around the crack tip and is present in all stressed engineering materials at normal temperatures. The shape and size of this plastic zone can be calculated using Westergaards analysis. The plastic zone has a characteristic butterfly shape (Fig. 8.83). There are two sizes of plastic zone. One is associated with plane stress conditions, e.g. thin sections of materials, and the other with plane strain conditions in thick sections-this zone is smaller than found under plane stress. 

Between 5,000 and 100,000 GR molecules are found within almost every cell of the organism. The affinity constant for cortisol comes to around 30 nM, which is in the range of the concentration of free hormone in the plasma under normal conditions. Consequently, receptor occupancy can be expected to be 10-70%. This suggests that changes in cortisol secretion such as under stress conditions, directly translate into alterations in GR occupancy, leading to transcriptional responses. 

If the length scales associated with changes in velocity are normalized by Vv (characteristic length scale for Stokes flow), length scales associated with changes in curvature are normalized by Ss (typical striation thickness) and velocities normalized by V (a characteristic velocity), then the normal stress condition becomes,... 

A complete treatment of interfacial boundary conditions in tensor notation is given by Scriven (S2). If surface viscosities are ignored, the normal stress condition reduces to... 

The solution given by Eqs. (3-7) and (3-8) is derived using only the first four boundary conditions (L3) i.e. without considering the normal stress condition, Eq. (3-6). The modified pressures can be obtained from Eq. (1-33) and are given by... 

The boundary conditions are the same as for steady motion considered in Chapters 1, 3, and 4, i.e., uniform flow remote from the particle, no slip and no normal flow at the particle boundary, and, for fluid particles, continuity of tangential stress at the interface. For a sphere the normal stress condition at the interface is again formally redundant, but indicates whether a fluid particle will remain spherical. 

Only a general indication of phenotype is given, and the full changes identified may include production of anthocyanin earlier in flower development than normal, increased anthocyanin production only under stress conditions, small increases in flavonoid levels in tissues already producing flavonoids, ectopic flavonoid production, changes in levels of nonflavonoid phenylpropanoids. 

The system will not be acceptable if, at any time during normal dynamic, static, or stress conditions, the pressure in the primary environments becomes less than zero or negative. 

Develop the critical process operating parameter ranges" based initially on laboratory studies of manufacturing material behavior under normal and stress conditions, and later on results of producing products under varied conditions. 

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