To Be a Winner

Whenever the net present value (NPV) is positive this means the project will yield more money (assuming all income is invested at the given interest rate when it is received) than if the money expended had been invested at the interest rate initially. A positive value, then, means the plant appears to be a winner. If the net present... 

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In effect, the ions race each other along the drift tube, but the winners are always the ions of smallest m/z value, since these have the shortest flight times. The last to arrive at the detector are always those of greatest mass, which have the longest flight times. However, as in a race, for there to be a separation at the finish line (the detector), the ions must all start from the ion source at the same time (no handicapping allowed ). 

As with proton interpretation, this must be considered an iterative process. Try to shoot your proposed structure down. Don t be afraid to tear it up at any stage and start again if some glaring problem becomes apparent. Resist temptation - don t hammer the square peg into a round hole This is why we do spectroscopy in the first place. If it crashes and bums then it was wrong so shed no tears. If it survives then it s got a good chance of being a winner. Finally, go back again and check that there is no mismatch between any carbon data and any supplementary proton data, e.g., NOE experiments. 

The same technique can be used to modify a compound that particularly interests researchers. Suppose this compound almost but not quite fulfills an engineer s requirements. Perhaps after a slight modification, such as the addition of a hydroxyl group (OH) at a certain point or the deletion of an acidic group elsewhere, the compound will work. Researchers may set up conditions in which the compound reacts with a number of chemicals, producing a vast array of compounds that have the same basic structure but differ by a chemical group or two. Somewhere in this collection may be a winner. 

All of the seeming paradoxes above can be resolved by remembering the difference between prediction and postdiction. You should be astonished if someone tells you in advance that you will pick the three of spades, the six of diamonds, and the eight of diamonds. You should be concerned if a town with a factory which produces a known liver carcinogen shows a statistically significant incidence of increased liver cancer. And if anyone can tell you for sure that the lottery ticket you are about to purchase will be a winner, by all means do it. 

To conclude, it is clearly evident that none of the mass deacidification processes just discussed meet the "ideal" criteria set forth in Table I. Without consideration of cost effectiveness and safety of operation, the Library of Congress DEZ process seems to be the winner. However, as a mass deacidification process the Koppers "Book Keeping" process may have more potential due to its straightforward and danger-free operation. 

The main result in [BWol] is that every solution converges to one of these equilibria. In particular, since at most one population has a nonzero component at equilibrium, no more than one population can survive. As expected, it is also shown that if < A, then Eq is the global attractor. The following result gives sufficient conditions for population X[ to be the winner. 

As an example, in 2006, the CUREs competition winner was Vijay Anand, a Duke University engineering management major with a project to treat infantile jaundice called BlueRay. BlueRay costs substantially less and lasts longer than currently available treatment devices, although it is stripped of many of the convenience factors typically seen in US devices. Vijay has continued to work on the project since winning, to the point where 200 units have been built and are scheduled for distribution. Vijay is well on his way to being a successful social entrepreneur. 

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