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Everett concludes that in systems where pore blocking can occur, pore size distribution curves derived from the desorption branch of the isotherm are likely to give a misleading picture of the pore structure in particular the size distribution will appear to be much narrower than it actually is. Thus the adsorption branch is to be preferred unless network effects are known to be absent. 

A remarkable property of the normal distribution is that, almost regardless of the distribution of x, sample averages x will approach the gaussian distribution as n gets large. Even for relatively small values of n, of about 10, the approximation in most cases is quite close. For example, sample averages of size 10 from the uniform distribution will have essentially a gaussian distribution. 

Since the t distribution relies on the sample standard deviation. s, the resultant distribution will differ according to the sample size n. To designate this difference, the respec tive distributions are classified according to what are called the degrees of freedom and abbreviated as df. In simple problems, the df are just the sample size minus I. In more complicated applications the df can be different. In general, degrees of freedom are the number of quantities minus the number of constraints. For example, four numbers in a square which must have row and column sums equal to zero have only one df, i.e., four numbers minus three constraints (the fourth constraint is redundant). 

Since the product is sold in units, the possible range of weekly sales is from —0.5 to +25.5 units. Therefore, the mean of the sales distribution will be... 

For dust-control work, it is recommended that a preliminary quah-tative examination of the dust first be made without a detailed particle count. A visual estimate of particle-size distribution will often provide sufficient guidance for a preliminaiy assessment of reqmrements for collection eqmpment. 

CX.0 = Z(=iCx.r represents the total number of counts that the prior distribution represents, and the a, the counts for each type of amino acid (not necessarily integers). Because different distributions will occur in multiple sequence alignments, the prior distribution for any position should be represented as a mixture of N Dirichlet distributions ... 

A statistieal representation of the yield strength for BS 220M07 is not available however, the eoeffieient of variation, Cv, for the yield strength of steels is eommonly given as 0.08 (Furman, 1981). For eonvenienee, the parameters of the Normal distribution will be ealeulated by assuming that the minimum value is —3 standard deviations from the expeeted mean value (Cable and Virene, 1967) ... 

The distribution coefficient is an equilibrium constant and, therefore, is subject to the usual thermodynamic treatment of equilibrium systems. By expressing the distribution coefficient in terms of the standard free energy of solute exchange between the phases, the nature of the distribution can be understood and the influence of temperature on the coefficient revealed. However, the distribution of a solute between two phases can also be considered at the molecular level. It is clear that if a solute is distributed more extensively in one phase than the other, then the interactive forces that occur between the solute molecules and the molecules of that phase will be greater than the complementary forces between the solute molecules and those of the other phase. Thus, distribution can be considered to be as a result of differential molecular forces and the magnitude and nature of those intermolecular forces will determine the magnitude of the respective distribution coefficients. Both these explanations of solute distribution will be considered in this chapter, but the classical thermodynamic explanation of distribution will be treated first. 

In the current review, the term effectiveness of air distribution will be used to describe the ratio of the occupied zone area (where thermal comfort and contaminant concentration are within ranges required by standards and codes) to the total occupied zone area. This hygienic criterion allows one to judge how well the HVAC system fulfills its main task—creating thermal comfort conditions and controlling contaminants in the occupied zone. 

The selectivity of a gel, defined by the incremental increase in distribution coefficient for an incremental decrease in solute size, is related to the width of the pore size distribution of the gel. A narrow pore size distribution will typically have a separation range of one decade in solute size, which corresponds to roughly three decades in protein molecular mass (Hagel, 1988). However, the largest selectivity obtainable is the one where the solute of interest is either totally excluded (which is achieved when the solute size is of the same order as the pore size) or totally included (as for a very small solute) and the impurities differ more than a decade in size from the target solute. In this case, a gel of suitable pore size may be found and the separation carried out as a desalting step. This is very favorable from an operational point of view (see later). 

The Weibull distribution will again find application in tlie case study reviewed in Section 21.6. 

A completely symmetrical distribution will have a skew = 0, and in a non-symmetric distribution the sign of the skew will depend upon the location of the tail of the distribution. 

We can see that the estimated spectra, while they come close to the actual spectra, have some significant problems. We can understand the source of the problems when we look at the spectrum of Component 4. Because we stated in equation [40] that we will account for all of the absorbance in the spectra, CLS was forced to distribute the absorbance contributions from Component 4 among the other components. Since there is no "correct 1 way to distribute the Component 4 absorbance, the actual distribution will depend upon the makeup of the training set Accordingly, we see that CLS distributed the Component 4 absorbance differently for each training set. We can verify this by taking the sum of the 3 estimated pure component spectra, and subtracting from it the sum of the actual spectra of the first 3 components ... 

Of course, even in the case of acyclic alkenes reaction enthalpy is not exactly zero, and therefore the product distribution is never completely statistically determined. Table V gives equilibrium data for the metathesis of some lower alkenes, where deviations of the reaction enthalpy from zero are relatively large. In this table the ratio of the contributions of the reaction enthalpy and the reaction entropy to the free enthalpy of the reaction, expressed as AHr/TASr, is given together with the equilibrium distribution. It can be seen that for the metathesis of the lower linear alkenes the equilibrium distribution is determined predominantly by the reaction entropy, whereas in the case of the lower branched alkenes the reaction enthalpy dominates. If the reaction enthalpy deviates substantially from zero, the influence of the temperature on the equilibrium distribution will be considerable, since the high temperature limit will always be a 2 1 1 distribution. Typical examples of the influence of the temperature are given in Tables VI and VII. 

For the more general case, the molecular weight distribution will be described by a weighted average of eqs. 17 and 18 (eq. 19) ... 

An average power constraint on the input distribution will be assumed of the form,... 

At very low temperatures the rotational energy, being subject to the law of ergonic distribution, will vanish, and hence Cr will approach the value fR in the case of hydrogen the molecular heat has been experimentally found by Eucken (12) to have the value 2 98 in liquid air. 

The solubility of LAS is dependent on various factors. For homologs with different molecular weights, it is normally the case that the higher the molecular mass, the lower the solubility. If the homologs have the same molecular weights, those with symmetrical isomer distribution will be easily dissolved branched homologs lead to a deterioration of solubility. The Na salts of the 2-and 3-phenylalkanes are less soluble then those of the internal phenyl isomers (for calcium salts the opposite is true) [187,188]. 

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