Transmittance defined

The term transmittance (T) at a given wave length is defined by... 

The attenuation of electromagnetic radiation as it passes through a sample is described quantitatively by two separate, but related terms transmittance and absorbance. Transmittance is defined as the ratio of the electromagnetic radiation s power exiting the sample, to that incident on the sample from the source, Pq, (Figure 10.20a). 

The fifth type of tap is unique in that the downstream tap location varies depending of the orifice P ratio. This tap is located at the vena contracta the location where the stream issuing from the orifice attains its minimum cross section. The location of this tap is defined from the upstream face of the orifice as is the D/2 tap. The downstream tap for corner, flange, and pipe taps is measured from the downstream face of the orifice. Vena contracta taps maximize the measured differential pressure. For modem transmitters this is not an important consideration and this type of tap is no longer widely used. 

A guarded hot-plate method, ASTM D1518, is used to measure the rate of heat transfer over time from a warm metal plate. The fabric is placed on the constant temperature plate and covered by a second metal plate. After the temperature of the second plate has been allowed to equiUbrate, the thermal transmittance is calculated based on the temperature difference between the two plates and the energy required to maintain the temperature of the bottom plate. The units for thermal transmittance are W/m -K. Thermal resistance is the reciprocal of thermal conductivity (or transmittance). Thermal resistance is often reported as a do value, defined as the insulation required to keep a resting person comfortable at 21°C with air movement of 0.1 m/s. Thermal resistance in m -K/W can be converted to do by multiplying by 0.1548 (121). 

Define Iq to be the intensity of the light incident upon the sample and I to be the intensity of the beam after it has interacted with the sample. The goal of the basic inftared experiment is to determine the intensity ratio I/Iq as a function of the frequency of the light (w). A plot of this ratio versus the frequency is the infrared spectrum. The inftared spectrum is commonly plotted in one of three formats as transmittance, reflectance, or absorbance. If one is measuring the fraction of light transmitted through the sample, this ratio is defined as... 

Electromagnetic (EM) Conductivity Measures the electrical conductivity of materials in microohms over a range of depths determined by the spacing and orientation of the transmitter and receiver coils, and the nature of the earth materials. Delineates areas of soil and groundwater contamination and the depth to bedrock or buried objects. Surveys to depths of SO to 100 ft are possible. Power lines, underground cables, transformers and other electrical sources severely distort the measurements. Low resistivities of surficial materials makes interpretation difficult. The top layers act as a shunt to the introduction of energy info lower layers. Capabilities for defining the variation of resistivity with depth are limited. In cases where the desired result is to map a contaminated plume in a sand layer beneath a surficial clayey soil in an area of cultural interference, or where chemicals have been spilled on the surface, or where clay soils are present it is probably not worth the effort to conduct the survey. 

Thermal transmittance (t/-value) defines the ability to an element of structure to transmit heat under steady-state conditions. It is a measure of the quantity of heat that will flow through unit area in unit time per unit difference in temperature of the individual environments between which the structure intervenes. It is calculated as the reciprocal of the sum of the resistance of each component part of the structure, including the resistance of any air space or cavity and of the inner and outer surfaces. It is expressed as W/m K. 

The insulation effectiveness of elements of building structures is represented by the //-value or thermal transmittance. As defined in Section 11.3.1, the //-value is the reciprocal of the sum of the thermal resistances and can be expressed as ... 

Opacity or transparency is important when the amount of light to be transmitted is a consideration. These properties are usually measured as haze and luminous transmittance. As reviewed haze is defined as the percentage of transmitted light through a test specimen that is scattered more than 2.5° from the incident beam. Luminous transmittance is the ratio of transmitted light to incident light. Table 5-7 provides the optical and various other properties of different transparent plastics. 

This finding suggests that the fast calcium events we have recently identified are not a peculiarity of astrocytes in cell culture but may correspond to events taking place in astrocytes of the living brain. Establishing whether fast calcium events in vivo are associated to transmitter release via SLMV exocytosis, becomes, therefore, of the outmost importance in order to define the type of modulatory influence exerted by astrocytes on neighboring neuronal circuits. 

This diagram shows the energy spectrum of a given source, coupled with a filter of defined transmittance, which is established by a detector of known spectral response, as modified by a standard source and modified to that of a Standard Observer. Once an instrument has been set up properly with the proper optical... 

Communication among all individuals involved in an LSMBS is crucial. Lines of communication must be clearly defined and must be in place well before the study is initiated. Therefore, lines of communication between the persons who collect and ship commodities, the field phase managemenf sfudy personnel, fhe analytical laboratories, and overall study management must all be clearly established prior to study initiation. This delineation of the lines of communication must include oral and written communication, including the transmittal of raw data such as sample collection logs and chain of custody forms. 

ACh regulates the cortical arousal characteristic of both REM sleep and wakefulness (Semba, 1991, 2000 Sarter Bruno, 1997, 2000). Medial regions of the pontine reticular formation (Figs. 5.2 and 5.7) contribute to regulating both the state of REM sleep and the trait of EEG activation. Within the medial pontine reticular formation, presynaptic cholinergic terminals (Fig. 5.1) that release ACh also are endowed with muscarinic cholinergic receptors (Roth et al, 1996). Autoreceptors are defined as presynaptic receptors that bind the neurotransmitter that is released from the presynaptic terminal (Kalsner, 1990). Autoreceptors provide feedback modulation of transmitter release. Autoreceptor activation... 

OL behavior is assessed simply by monitoring the transmission of a (usually solution) sample as a function of the incoming laser fluence measured in joules per square centimeter (rather than intensity in watts per square centimeter).22,23 Limiting thresholds Fth, defined as the incident fluence at which the actual transmittance falls to 50% of the corresponding linear transmittance, are then commonly quoted. Since excited-state absorption processes generally determine the OL properties of molecules, the excited-state structure and dynamics are often studied in detail. The laser pulse width is an important consideration in the study of OL effects. Compounds (1-5)58-62 are representative non-metal-containing compounds with especially large NLO and/or OL... 

Since the measurement of reflectance and transmittance are defined by essentially the same equation, we will couch our discussion in terms of a transmittance measurement. The important difference lay, as we discussed previously, in the nature of the error superimposed on the measurement. Therefore, we begin by noting that transmittance (T) is defined by the equation 41-1 ... 

Experimental measurements are usually made in terms of transmittance (I), which is defined as ... 

Turbidimetry is ideally suited to detect the temperature at which a transparent polymer solution turns opaque. The temperature corresponding to the onset of the increase of the scattered light intensity is usually taken as the cloud-point temperature, TcP, although some authors define the cloud point as the temperature for which the transmittance is 80% (or 90%) of the initial value. This technique is commonly known as the cloud-point method [199]. Turbidimetry was employed, for instance, to show that the cloud-point temperature of aqueous PNIPAM solutions does not depend significantly on the molar mass of the polymer [150]. 

One defining characteristic of transmitter glutamate is its accumulation in synaptic vesicles. The concentration of... 

The value of s (the absorbance of a 1 M solution in a 1 cm cell) depends upon the nature of the absorbing species and on the wavelength of the incident radiation. Absorbance is thus seen to be directly proportional both to the concentration of the absorbing species and to the thickness of the absorbing medium. It is related to transmittance T defined as I/I0 (the fraction of radiation transmitted) by the equation... 

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