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Eurobonds not denominated in US dollars are converted to their US dollar equivalent using the exchange rate on the day the bonds are priced. Fitch s universe and default calculations are not impacted by exchange rate fluctuations beyond this date. 

The potential uncertainty in estimating the price of future Li-ion batteries depends on many factors. In BatPaC, the 95% confidence intervals for the price charged to OEM for the battery pack are automatically calculated. The uncertainty ranges are specific for the performance requirements of the battery. The three major categories of uncertainty in the default calculation of battery price are ... 

HF, DFT, GVB, and RCI calculations can be performed within Jaguar s main module. HF is the default calculation in Jaguar and. although no electron correlation is included, many properties, particularly for organic molecules, can nevertheless be calculated accurately at this level of theory. HF also forms the basis for many higher level calculations. 

MINDO/3, MNDO, MNDO/C, AM1, and PM3 are implemented in VAMP. Default calculations employ the RHF formalism (half-electron for open-shell species), but UHF and annihilated UHF (AUHF) are also available. 

You can usually use the default values. If the calculation exceeds the iteration limit before it reaches the convergcriec limit, llieti th ere is m osl I ikely con vergeri ce failti re. Sim ply in creasin g tli e limits is un likely to help, I ll e nils COM vergeii ce accelerator, (see SCF Convergence on page 47), wli ich is available for all the SCF... 

I lie default restraints are appropriate for molcciilar dyriam ics calculations where larger force constants would create undesirable h igh frequency motion s hut much larger force con slants may be desired for restrained geometry oplim i/ation. ... 

The angles ot, p, and x relate to the orientation of the dipole nionient vectors. The geonieti y of interaction between two bonds is given in Fig. 4-16, where r is the distance between the centers of the bonds. It is noteworthy that only the bond moments need be read in for the calculation because all geometr ic features (angles, etc.) can be calculated from the atomic coordinates. A default value of 1.0 for dielectric constant of the medium would normally be expected for calculating str uctures of isolated molecules in a vacuum, but the actual default value has been increased 1.5 to account for some intramolecular dipole moment interaction. A dielectric constant other than the default value can be entered for calculations in which the presence of solvent molecules is assumed, but it is not a simple matter to know what the effective dipole moment of the solvent molecules actually is in the immediate vicinity of the solute molecule. It is probably wrong to assume that the effective dipole moment is the same as it is in the bulk pure solvent. The molecular dipole moment (File 4-3) is the vector sum of the individual dipole moments within the molecule. 

Caleulations by the more rigorous proeedure yield, in MM3, a sum of (a) bond energies, (b) steric energy, (c) vibrational zero point and thermal energies, and (d) structural features POP and TORS. Energies (a), (b), and (d) are calculated as before. Bond energy parameters appear to be quite different from those of the default MM3 calculations canied out so far because zero point and thermal energies are not included in the parameters but are added later. 

The reaction coordinate is calculated in a number of steps. If too few steps are used, then the points that are computed will follow the reaction coordinate less closely. Usually, the default number of points computed by software packages will give reasonable results. More points may be required for complex mechanisms. This algorithm is sometimes called the IRC algorithm, thus creating confusion over the definition of IRC. 

There are many technical details involved in SCRF calculations, many of which the user can control. Readers of this book are advised to use the default values as much as possible unless they have carefully examined the original literature and tested their modifications. PCM methods are generally more accurate than the Onsager and COSMO methods. 

There is a screen to set up the calculation that has menus for the most widely used functions. Many users will still need to know many of the keywords, which can be typed in. There was no default comment statement, so the input file created would not be valid if the user forgot to include a comment. A calculation can be started from the graphic interface, which will be run interactively by default. The script that launches the calculation was not too dilficult to modify for use with a job-queueing system. 

Set this threshold to a small positive constant (the default value is 10" ° Hartree). This threshold is used by HyperChem to ignore all two-electron repulsion integrals with an absolute value less than this value. This option controls the performance of the SCF iterations and the accuracy of the wave function and energies since it can decrease the number of calculated two-electron integrals. 

HyperChem avoids the discontinuity and anisotropy problem of the implied cutoff by imposing a smoothed spherical cutoff within the implied cutoff. When a system is placed in a periodic box, a switched cutoff is automatically added. The default outer radius, where the interaction is completely turned off, is the smallest of 1/2 R, 1/2 R and 1/2 R, so that the cutoff avoids discontinuities and is isotropic. This cutoff may be turned off or modified in the Molecular Mechanics Options dialog box after solvation and before calculation. 

In computational chemistry it can be very useful to have a generic model that you can apply to any situation. Even if less accurate, such a computational tool is very useful for comparing results between molecules and certainly lowers the level of pain in using a model from one that almost always fails. The MM+ force field is meant to apply to general organic chemistry more than the other force fields of HyperChem, which really focus on proteins and nucleic acids. HyperChem includes a default scheme such that when MM+ fails to find a force constant (more generally, force field parameter), HyperChem substitutes a default value. This occurs universally with the periodic table so all conceivable molecules will allow computations. Whether or not the results of such a calculation are realistic can only be determined by close examination of the default parameters and the particular molecular situation. ... 

The critical characteristic on each component was analysed, calculated from the analysis and the value obtained was plotted against the process capability indices, Cpk and Cp, for the characteristic in question. See Appendix V for descriptions of the 21 components analysed, including the values of Cp and Cp from the SPC data supplied. Note that some components studied have a zero process capability index. This is a default value given if the process capability index calculated from the SPC data had a mean outside either one of the tolerance limits, which was the case for some of the components submitted. Although it is recognized that negative process capability indices are used for the aim of process improvement, they have little use in the analyses here. A correlation between positive values (or values which are at least within the tolerance limits) will yield a more deterministic relationship between design capability and estimated process capability. 

Although not strictly part of a model chemistry, there is a third component to every Gaussian calculation involving how electron spin is handled whether it is performed using an open shell model or a closed shell model the two options are also referred to as unrestricted and restricted calculations, respectively. For closed shell molecules, having an even number of electrons divided into pairs of opposite spin, a spin restricted model is the default. In other words, closed shell calculations use doubly occupied orbitals, each containing two electrons of opposite spin. 

Open shell systems—for example, those with unequal numbers of spin up and spin down electrons—are usually modeled by a spin unrestricted model (which is the default for these systems in Gaussian). Restricted, closed shell calculations force each electron pair into a single spatial orbital, while open shell calculations use separate spatial orbitals for the spin up and spin down electrons (a and P respectively) ... 

All frequency calculations include thermochemical analysis of the system. By default, this analysis is carried out at 298.15 K and 1 atmosphere of pressure, using the principal isotope for each element type. Here is the start of the ermochemistry output for formaldehyde ... 

We can compute all of the results except those in the first row by running just three jobs QCISD(T,E4T] calculations on HF and fluorine and a Hartree-Fock calculation on hydrogen (with only one electron, the electron correlation energy is zero). Note that the E4T option to the QCISDfT) keyword requests that the triples computation be included in the component MP4 calculation as well as in the QCISD calculation (they are not needed or computed by default). 

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