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Designing Small Molecules for Biodegradability by Boethling, R. S, Sommer, Elizabeth, DiFiore, David

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Improved method for estimating bioconcentration/bioaccumulation factor from octanol/water partition coefficient by Meylan, William M., Howard, Philip H., Boethling, Robert S., Aronson, Dallas, Printup, Heather, Gouchie, Sybil

“…A compound's bioconcentration factor (BCF) is the most commonly used indicator of its tendency to accumulate in aquatic organisms from the surrounding medium…”
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Improved method for estimating water solubility from octanol/water partition coefficient by Meylan, William M., Howard, Philip H., Boethling, Robert S.

“…Water solubility is a critical property in risk assessments for chemicals, but measured values are often unavailable. The most practical approach to estimating…”
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Screening for Persistent Organic Pollutants:  Techniques To Provide a Scientific Basis for POPs Criteria in International Negotiations by Rodan, Bruce D, Pennington, David W, Eckley, Noelle, Boethling, Robert S

“…The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is currently coordinating negotiations to develop a binding global agreement by late in the year 2000 to…”
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Group contribution method for predicting probability and rate of aerobic biodegradation by Boethling, Robert S, Howard, Philip H, Meylan, William, Stiteler, William, Beauman, Julie, Tirado, Nestor

“…Four mathematical models for predicting aerobic biodegradability from chemical structure are presented. The models are based on multiple regressions against…”
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Domain of EPI suite biotransformation models by Boethling, R.S., Costanza, J.

“…Knowledge of the interpolative region or applicability domain (AD) of structure-activity relationships is believed to improve predictive accuracy. The present…”
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U.S. EPA regulatory perspectives on the use of QSAR for new and existing chemical evaluations by Zeeman, M, Auer, C M, Clements, R G, Nabholz, J V, Boethling, R S

“…As testing is not required, ecotoxicity or fate data are available for approximately 5% of the approximately 2,300 new chemicals/year (26,000 + total)…”
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Predicting ready biodegradability in the Japanese ministry of international trade and industry test by Tunkel, Jay, Howard, Philip H., Boethling, Robert S., Stiteler, William, Loonen, Helene

“…Two new predictive models for assessing a chemical's biodegradability in the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) ready biodegradation…”
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Screening-level model for aerobic biodegradability based on a survey of expert knowledge by Boethling, Robert S, Sabljic, Aleksandar

“…A method of classifying untested chemicals as to whether or not they were readily biodegradable in receiving waters was developed on the basis of a set of the…”
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Finding and estimating chemical property data for environmental assessment by Boethling, Robert S., Howard, Philip H., Meylan, William M.

“…The ability to predict the behavior of a chemical substance in a biological or environmental system largely depends on knowledge of the physicochemical…”
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Does the semi-continuous activated sludge (SCAS) test predict removal in secondary treatment? by Boethling, Robert S., Howard, Philip H., Stiteler, William, Hueber, Amy

“…The semi-continuous activated sludge (SCAS) test was formalized by the U.S. Soap and Detergent Association in 1965. The SCAS procedure has also been adopted by…”
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Using Biowin™, Bayes, and batteries to predict ready biodegradability by Boethling, Robert S., Lynch, David G., Jaworska, Joanna S., Tunkel, Jay L., Thom, Gary C., Webb, Simon

“…Wether or not a given chemical substance is readily biodegradable is an important piece of information in risk screening for both new and existing chemicals…”
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Development of a predictive model for biodegradability based on BIODEG, the evaluated biodegradation data base by Howard, P H, Boethling, R S, Stiteler, W, Meylan, W, Beauman, J

“…A file of evaluated biodegradation data was used to develop a model for predicting aerobic biodegradability from chemical structure alone. Chemicals were…”
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Regulation of extracellular protease secretion in Pseudomonas maltophilia by Boethling, R S

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Effect of Concentration of Organic Chemicals on Their Biodegradation by Natural Microbial Communities by Boethling, R S, Alexander, M

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Molecular topology/fragment contribution method for predicting soil sorption coefficients by Meylan, William, Howard, Philip H, Boethling, Robert S

“…A new model for estimating soil sorption coefficients based on the first-order molecular connectivity index and a series of statistically derived fragment…”
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Expert systems survey on biodegradation of xenobiotic chemicals by Boethling, R S, Gregg, B, Frederick, R, Gabel, N W, Campbell, S E, Sabljic, A

“…To determine the feasibility of developing an expert system for biodegradability assessment, a survey was conducted in which biodegradation experts were asked…”
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Induction and Catabolite Repression of Glucosidases in Pseudomonas maltophilia by Boethling, R S

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A new assay for diaphorase activity in reagent formulations, based on the reduction of thiazolyl blue by Boethling, R S, Weaver, T L

“…This new assay procedure for diaphorase eliminates problems of high blank rates and nonlinear kinetics associated with other methods. The dye thiazolyl blue…”
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Factors for intermedia extrapolation in biodegradability assessment by Boethling, Robert S., Howard, Philip H., Beauman, Julie A., Larosch, Michael E.

“…In screening-level biodegradability assessment for xenobiotic chemicals it is often necessary to extrapolate from one environmental medium or set of conditions…”
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