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The work done increases the energy of the total system and one must now decide how to divide this energy between the field and the specimen. This separation is not measurably significant, so the division can be made arbitrarily several self-consistent systems exist. The first temi on the right-hand side of equation (A2.1.6) is obviously the work of creating the electric field, e.g. charging the plates of a condenser in tlie absence of the specimen, so it appears logical to consider the second temi as the work done on the specimen. 

HypcrCb cm in tegrates cq tiation s 26 an d 27 to describe tb c mot ion s of atom s. In the absence of temperature regulation, tli ere are no external sources or depositories of energy, fhat is. no other energy terms exist in the Hamiltonian, and the total energy of the system is con slant. 

Because energy is not conserved in a time-dependent system, it is not meaningful to ascribe a certain energy to a TS trajectory in the way that the fixed point and the NHIM in an autonomous system exist at different energies. Instead, there is typically a single TS trajectory that is uniquely defined by the... 

One reason for the inefficiencies of constraint methods is that they may prevent an efficient sampling of the set (x) = . This is illustrated by Fig. 4.2. It is common that many pathways separated by high energy barriers exist to go from A to B. In constrained simulation, the system can get trapped in one of the pathways. In the most serious cases, this leads to quasi-nonergodic effect where only a part of the set (x) is effectively explored. In less serious cases, the convergence is quite slow. 

Up to this point, we assumed that a system exists in a one-phase region over the range of densities and energies sampled. If a phase transition exists then in principle,... 

The difference between equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems exists in the time-dependence of the latter. An example of a non-equilibrium property is the rate at which a system absorbs energy when stirred by an external influence. If the stirring is done monochromatically over a range of frequencies an absorption spectrum is generated. Another example of a non-equilibrium property is the relaxation rate by which a system reaches equilibrium from a prepared non-equilibrium state. 

In conclusion, TDS of adsorbates on single crystal surfaces measured in ultrahigh vacuum systems with sufficiently high pumping speeds provides information on adsorbate coverage, the adsorption energy, the existence of lateral interactions between the adsorbates, and the preexponential factor of desorption, which in turn depends on the desorption mechanism. Analysis of spectra should be done with care, as simplified analysis procedures may easily give erroneous results. 

To overcome those deficits of existing instruments, the MOREHyS (Model for Optimisation of Regional Hydrogen Supply) model was developed as a novel tool to assess the introduction of hydrogen as a vehicle fuel by means of an energy-system analysis.2 In the next section, the main features of the MOREHyS model are described. 

Practice is quite different. The main reason for the current rapid growth of biomass conversion systems is the feasibility of using existing refinery systems and installed secondary energy systems. 

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