Table access speed

The Lua language is ideally suited to implement sparse matrix techniques. A table in Lua is an associative array that is efficiently implemented in flie native language in terms of both storage allocation and access speed. A table array can be defined in the language and only the non-zero elements simply be defined. The... 

The rapid development in information technology (IT) in recent years has revolutionised the availability and speed of retrieval of information. Many reference sources are now available on CD-ROM, which are generally much easier to store, access and search than books and journals. The introduction of the World Wide Web (WWW), with a user-friendly graphical interface based on hypertext links, provides easy access via the Internet to a wealth of information and databases which are kept continually updated (D Emanuele 1996). Some of the useful Web sites for sources of information about pharmaceutical development and regulatory guidelines are listed in Table 8.2. The Web site addresses are correct at the time of this writing. 

A column index can be created in order to speed access to the data in the column. For example, molecular weight might be an important column used in most searches of a mass spectroscopy database. If every row of the table has to be examined to determine if the value is between, say, 100 and 200, this would be slower than searching only those rows known to contain these values. One technique used to index columns of numerical data is to presort the values into a relatively small number of bins. The index records which rows belong to which bin. When searching for values between 100 and 200, only rows that belong to the appropriate bin need to be examined. 

One very important use of the index is to speed up access to key columns. It is recommended to create an index on the primary and foreign key columns. This is important because it speeds up the methods used to relate the rows between the tables. This method is called joining the tables. 

Carefully move equipment carts through corridors to avoid collision and tripping hazards. Reduce speed near stairways, corridor intersections, elevators, and down ramps. Workers should puU a cart through swinging doors, rather than pushing it. Never leave carts, equipment, or supplies in a location that creates a hazard or provides access to cart contents. Personnel must immediately report any cart needing repair or wheel replacement. Workers must never push one cart while pulling another (Table 10.2). 

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NIST/ASME Steam Properties Database versiou 2.21 http //www.nist.gov/srd/nistlO.cfm (accessed November 10, 2010) (purchase required). Thermophysical properties include in the STEAM Database temperature, Helmholtz energy, thermodynamic derivatives, pressure, Gibbs energy, density, fugacity, thermal conductivity, volume, isothermal compressibility, viscosity, dielectric constant, enthalpy, volume expansivity, dielectric derivatives, internal energy, speed of sound, Debye-Hlickel slopes, entropy, Joule-Thomson coefficient, refractive index, heat capacity, surface tension. The STEAM database generates tables and plots of property values. Vapor-liquid-solid saturation calculations with either temperature or pressure specified are available. 

Therefore, it is critical to adjust the appropriate needle according to the desired blood pump speed and the available access flow rate in the VA in order to achieve dialysis efficiency (Kt/V). It is important to match needle gauge with blood flow rate (table 2). If the negative arterial pressure falls below -200 to -250 mm Hg, and the venous outflow pressure above +250 mm Hg, the needle size should be increased (i.e. smaller gauge number should be used). For can-... 

Reduced models based on low-dimensional manifolds can usually be simulated faster than full systems of differential equations because the resulting dynamical system contains fewer variables and is usually not stiff (see Sect. 6.7). However, the search and retrieval algorithms required to access the look-up tables can consume significant amounts of computer time. As an example, the simulation of methane combustion based on the ILDM method was eight times faster than that using a detailed mechanism (Riedel et al. 1994). Special algorithms have been developed to speed up the search and retrieval process (Androulakis 2004). In situ tabulation methods have also been developed as discussed in Sect. 7.12 below. 

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