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However, it is sometimes quite difficult to separate costs and particularly manufacturing overhead costs into fixed and variable components. In the long term virtually all costs are variable. The difference between the two methods assumes great importance in inventory evaluation. In cost accounting, costs are identified with cost centers. These are accounting devices which may or may not have a physical existence. In the simplest case of a plant manufacturing a single product, the entire plant may be the cost center. 

Other nonproduction costs such as indirect labor may vary hnearly with the production rate and represent the variable component of the overhead. Costs that are neither fixed nor variable but occur in dis-... 

A guide word (or phrase) is a perturbation on a process variable, component or system. 

Air is the source of six industrial gases, N2, O2. Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe. As the mass of the earth s atmosphere is approximately 5 X 10 million tonnes, the supply is unlimited and the annual industrial production, though vast, is insignificant by comparison. The composition of air at low altitudes is remarkably constant, the main variable component being water vapour which ranges from 4% by volume in tropical jungles to very low values in cold or arid climates. Other minor local variations result from volcanism or human activity. The main invariant part of the air has the following composition (% by volume, bp in parentheses) ... 

First, the amplitude cj,(0,Of, is calculated by Eq. (91). Then, taking the Fourier inversion of the amplitude, the space-variable component of the surface concentration fluctuation is obtained,... 

Number of variables (component flow rates) = 9 Number of independent material balance equations = 3... 

Non-linear pricing Non-linear prices usually consist of a two-part tariff. One part is fixed and does not depend on the quantity of the product consumed. The simplest way to establish this tariff is to estimate the potential loss (L) at the point where price = CMg and divide it by the number (N) of potential users, that is, the tariff equals L/N. The other part varies with the quantity consumed. In the case in which the variable component is fixed according to the marginal cost, the price structure is efficient and at the same time the company can avoid incurring a deficit. 

Prior to their work with the Strecker reaction the Jacobsen group reported a combinatorial approach to the discovery of coordination complexes (29). A modular approach was taken in the synthesis of libraries of potential ligands for transition metals. Four variable components were used. Two amino acids were placed at positions 1 and 2, with a turn element connecting these groups (Scheme 9). The... 

Lipid A constitutes the covalently bound lipid component and the least variable component of LPS (25). It anchors LPS to the bacterial cell by hydrophobic and electrostatic forces and mediates or contributes to many of the functions and activities that LPS exerts in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. In the following sections, the primary structure of lipid A of different Gram-negative bacteria is described, together with some of its characteristic biological properties. Furthermore, this article describes some of the principal methods that have been used for the structural analysis of lipid A and discusses their merits and limitations. 

Principal component analysis (PCA) can be considered as the mother of all methods in multivariate data analysis. The aim of PCA is dimension reduction and PCA is the most frequently applied method for computing linear latent variables (components). PCA can be seen as a method to compute a new coordinate system formed by the latent variables, which is orthogonal, and where only the most informative dimensions are used. Latent variables from PCA optimally represent the distances between the objects in the high-dimensional variable space—remember, the distance of objects is considered as an inverse similarity of the objects. PCA considers all variables and accommodates the total data structure it is a method for exploratory data analysis (unsupervised learning) and can be applied to practical any A-matrix no y-data (properties) are considered and therefore not necessary. 

The first is transport. The air, with its variable components, requires the inspiratory activity of the respiratory muscles—namely, the diaphragm and intercostals (the muscle between the ribs). The action of these muscles is under both voluntary and involuntary central nervous system control thus, gas flow can be adjusted to maintain a steady state of gas exchange. Air must also be provided to the upper airway for speech. 

In the system under consideration the independently variable components are the ions Hga , SO/, H, OH and electrons, since all the constituents present can be regarded as composed of two or more of these. 

If z is perpendicular to a nearly perfect surface, the tunneling current can be decomposed into a constant (that is, independent of x), and a small variable component that represents the features, or corrugation of the surface. 

Oleuropein, a conjugate of hydroxytyrosol (3,4-dihydroxybenzyl alcohol), is a characteristic but very variable component of olives and olive oil. After consumption of 25 ml virgin olive oil, hydroxytyrosol, 3-(9-methylhydroxytyrosol (homovanillyl alcohol), and homovanillic acid increase in plasma, as conjugates, predominantly glucuronide ° Oleuropein may be deconjugated by the gut microflora. 

In the components analysis, components can be found with a strong relationship to only a single variable. This single variable component could also be considered to be the unique factor. The two models really aim at the same results and the differences are primarily of definition and sematlcs. The model as expressed in equation 17 can be expressed in matrix notation as... 

For the sake of illustration the constant relative standard deviation (cvj for the three variable components was set to 5%. The demands concerning the calculation of the robustness coefficient were to have a deviation in the crushing strength (6> ) of ION at most with a reliability (m ) of 0.95. 

In the next sections, the reactions from Table II will be discussed in the sequence corresponding to the procedure of kinetic parameter evaluation. At first, parameters of each single reaction are evaluated separately using the data obtained from laboratory experiments with the simplest inlet gas composition (i.e., the basic components plus one variable component). The resulting parameter values are then further tuned according to the results from the measurements focused on particular reaction subsystems (e.g. HC + 02 + N0), where also the inhibition and selectivity constants are evaluated. The complete reaction system is considered in the final step of the data fitting (cf. Kryl et al., 2005). 

But no more than two of these five species are actually under independent control of the experimenter, because the dissociated ionic species concentrations are fixed by equilibrium conditions and are therefore not independent variables from the viewpoint of the experimenter. For example, if H20 and H2S04 are chosen as the two independently variable components, then the concentrations [H+], [HS04 ], [S04 ] of the remaining species could be determined by one ionic balance condition... 

By a component we mean the smallest number of independently variable components from which the composition of each phase can be expressed (directly or in the form of a chemical equation). 

Model Equations to Predict Deposition Rate. Appropriate constitutive expressions are needed to evaluate each of the rate terms in the component molar balances. The final model equations must predict the deposition rate, r(d, ZnS), as a function of independent control variables—component incident fluxes, r(i, Zn) and r(i, S), and the substrate temperature. 

The present author has proposed a four-dimensional (4D) hydrodynamic model that allows for a variable component of the 4-velocity along the time axis [102, 103], The model leads to a 4D force as the gradient of the 4-pressure the 3D-electromagnetic force is a particular case [104],... 

Fig. 2.3 (a) The visible-band EEL spectra of unexposed (dashed line) and hydrogenated (solid line) Cm films shown in Fig. 2.2, spectra labeled (a) and (d), compared with the extinction curve of the variable component (open circles) detailed in Webster (1997). (b) The far-UV to near-IR EEL spectrum of the hydrogenated Cm film (solid line) in Fig. 2.2 (d) compared to the mean interstellar extinction curve (open circles). The vertical scales of the EEL spectra and extinction curves in Fig. 2a and b are incommensurable, and the EEL spectra are arbitrarily scaled to give reasonable qualitative agreement for comparison... 

In the Monte Carlo approach, there are no inherent limitations on the complexity of the exposure equation, the number of component variables, the probability distributions for the variable components, or the number of iterations. This freedom from limitations is especially useful in simulating the distributions of a LADD for the different exposure scenarios considered here. As its name suggests, a LADD is the average over all the days in an individual s lifetime of the dose of a chemical (e.g., atrazine, simazine, or both) received as a result of his or her exposure from one or more exposure pathways (e.g., water, diet, or herbicide handling). Because the exposure equation can explicitly consider each day individually, the values of the equation s variable components can vary from day to day and have different distributions for different ages and different lifespan projections. 

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