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Surfaces of most materials, including natural and synthetic, porous and non-porous, and amorphous and crystalline, are fractal on a molecular scale. Mandelbrot defines that a fractal object has a dimension D which is greater than the geometric or physical dimension (0 for a set of disconnected points, 1 for a curve, 2 for a surface, and 3 for a solid volume), but less than or equal to the embedding dimension in an enclosed space (embedding Euclidean space dimension is usually 3). Various methods, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, are available to obtain... 

The applicability of scaling approach for analysis of mica catalytic activity in model reaction of reetherification is shown. The change of space dimension, in which passing reaction, essentially influences on its intensity. For reaction rate increase is required raising of both Euclidean space dimension and diffusivity of reagents. 

The structure of interface portrayed in the literature and that in this section appears to be a sharp boundary. In reality, this is not so. An interesting work by Wool indicates that the actual, interdiffused interface is nothing but fractals.Indeed, it has been suggested that all polymers can be described as r-fractals. Here r is defined by the scaling of the maximum radius of gyration with the total mass in fractal i.e., r - where r is assumed to be a superuniversal exponent, i.e., independent of the Euclidean space dimension d. Tha inverse of r has also been suggested to be the spectral dimension itself.We believe that the entire subject of fractal should have some impact in the future studies of polymer adsorption, wetting, and adhesion. 

That Dfractai givcs the expected result for simple sets in Euclidean space is easy to see. If A consists of a single point, for example, we have N A, e) = 1, Ve, and thus that / fractal = 0. Similarly, if A is a line segment of length L, then N A,e) L/e so that Dfraciai = 1. In fact, for the usual n dinien.sional Euclidean sets, the fractal dimension equals the topological dimension. There are nrore complicated sets, however, for wliic h the two measures differ. 

A locally one-dlinensional scheme (LOS) for the heat conduction equation in an arbitrary domain. The method of summarized approximation can find a wide range of application in designing economical additive schemes for parabolic equations in the domains of rather complicated configurations and shapes. More a detailed exploration is devoted to a locally one-dimensional problem for the heat conduction equation in a complex domain G = G -f F of the dimension p. Let x — (sj, 2,..., a- p) be a point in the Euclidean space R. ... 

It is possible, however, to avoid any violation of these fundamental properties, and derive a result on the local electron densities of non-zero volume subsystems of boundaryless electron densities of complete molecules [159-161]. A four-dimensional representation of molecular electron densities is constructed by taking the first three dimensions as those corresponding to the ordinary three-space E3 and the fourth dimension as that representing the electron density values p(r). Using a compactifi-cation method, all points of the ordinary three- dimensional space E3 can be mapped to a manifold S3 embedded in a four- dimensional Euclidean space E4, where the addition of a single point leads to a compact manifold representation of the entire, boundaryless molecular electron density. 

In contrast, SIMCA uses principal components analysis to model object classes in the reduced number of dimensions. It calculates multidimensional boxes of varying size and shape to represent the class categories. Unknown samples are classified according to their Euclidean space proximity to the nearest multidimensional box. Kansiz et al. used both KNN and SIMCA for classification of cyanobacteria based on Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR).44... 

In order to give a physical interpretation of special relativity it is necessary to understand the implications of the Lorentz rotation. Within Galilean relativity the three-dimensional line element of euclidean space (r2 = r r) is an invariant and the transformation corresponds to a rotation in three-dimensional space. The fact that this line element is not Lorentz invariant shows that world space has more dimensions than three. When rotated in four-dimensional space the physical invariance of the line element is either masked by the appearance of a fourth coordinate in its definition, or else destroyed if the four-space is not euclidean. An illustration of the second possibility is the geographical surface of the earth, which appears to be euclidean at short range, although on a larger scale it is known to curve out of the euclidean plane. 

In some publications (e.g., [208]), the E parameter is considered as a topological dimension and E+1 as die dimension of the corresponding Euclidean space. 

Each object or data point is represented by a point in a multidimensional space. These plots or projected points are arranged in this space so that the distances between pairs of points have the strongest possible relation to the degree of similarity among the pairs of objects. That is, two similar objects are represented by two points that are close together, and two dissimilar objects are represented by a pair of points that are far apart. The space is usually a two- or three-dimensional Euclidean space, but may be non-Euclidean and may have more dimensions. 

In case of reaction course in the Euclidean spaces the value D is equal to the dimension of this space d and for fractal spaces D is accepted equal to spectral dimension ds [6], By plotting p i=( 1 -O) (where O is conversion degree) as a function of t in log-log coordinates the value D from the slope of these plots can be determined. It was found, that the mentioned plots fall apart on two linear parts at t<100 min with small slope and at PT00 min the slope essentially increases. In this case the value ds varies within the limits 0,069-3,06. Since the considered reactions are proceed in Euclidean space, that is pointed by a linearity of kinetic curves Q-t, this means, that the reesterefication reaction proceeds in specific medium with Euclidean dimension d, but with connectivity degree, characterized by spectral dimension ds, typical for fractal spaces [5],... 

Many of you are probably asking what is outside the universe The answer is unclear. I must reiterate that this question supposes that the ultimate physical reality must be a Euclidean space of some dimension. That is, it presumes that if space is a hypersphere, then the hypersphere must sit in a four-dimensional Euclidean space, allowing us to view it from the outside. As the authors of the Scientific American article point out, nature need not adhere to this notion. It would be perfectly acceptable for the universe to be a hypersphere and not be embedded in any higher-dimensional space. We have difficulty visualizing this because we are used to viewing shapes from the outside. But there need not be an outside. ... 

Let us calculate, for future reference, the dimension of the complex vector space of homogeneous polynomials (with complex coefficients) of degree n on various Euclidean spaces. Homogeneous polynomials of degree n on the real line R are particularly simple. This complex vector space is onedimensional for each n. In fact, every element has the form ex for some c e C. In other words, the one-element set x" is a finite basis for the homogeneous polynomials of degree n on the real line. 

Let us assume the existence of a four-dimensional (4D) flat Euclidean space E = (u,x,y,z), where the time dimension u = vut behaves exactly the same as the three spatial dimensions [102, 104]. Further, let S be filled with a fluid of preons (=tiny particles of mass m and Planck length dimensions). These particles are in continual motion with speed "V = (vH, vx, vy, vz) = (v , V). No a priori limits are set on the speed vu of preons along the u -axis.8... 

The representation of the sampling by a unipolar, single-rotation-axis, U(l) sampler of a SU(2) continuous wave that is polarization/rotation-modulated is shown in Fig. 2, which shows the correspondence between the output space sphere and an Argand plane [28]. The Argand plane, S, is drawn in two dimensions, x and v, with z = 0, and for a set snapshot in time. A point on the Poincare sphere is represented as P(t,x,y,z), and as in this representation t = 1 (or one step in the future), specifically as P(l,x,y,z). The Poincare sphere is also identified as a 3-sphere, S 1, which is defined in Euclidean space as follows ... 

The objects considered are sets of points embedded in a Euclidean space. The dimension of the Euclidean space that contains the object under study is called the embedding dimension, de, e.g., the embedding dimension of the plane is de= 2 and of 3-dimensional space is de =3. 

In the previous section we analyzed the random walk of molecules in Euclidean space and found that their mean square displacement is proportional to time, (2.5). Interestingly, this important finding is not true when diffusion is studied in fractals and disordered media. The difference arises from the fact that the nearest-neighbor sites visited by the walker are equivalent in spaces with integer dimensions but are not equivalent in fractals and disordered media. In these media the mean correlations between different steps (UjUk) are not equal to zero, in contrast to what happens in Euclidean space cf. derivation of (2.6). In reality, the anisotropic structure of fractals and disordered media makes the value of each of the correlations u-jui structurally and temporally dependent. In other words, the value of each pair u-ju-i-- depends on where the walker is at the successive times j and k, and the Brownian path on a fractal may be a fractal of a fractal [9]. Since the correlations u.juk do not average out, the final important result is (UjUk) / 0, which is the underlying cause of anomalous diffusion. In reality, the mean square displacement does not increase linearly with time in anomalous diffusion and (2.5) is no longer exact. 

With a I-frame, one introduces a time axis appearing as a parameter in Eq. (1), the space component provides a mean to define a multidimensional Euclidean configuration space, x = x1,..., x ), that is, sets of real numbers. The space dimension is determined by the number of degrees of freedom related to constitutive elements of the material system these coordinates belong to an abstract cartesian product space, whereas origin and relative orientations of I-frames belong to laboratory space. Spin degrees of freedom are separately handled. 

In the first of these methods, the Dimension Expansion - Reduction (DER) method, the nuclear position vectors of the 3D Euclidean space are transformed into multidimensional vectors in a nonlinear manner, and the actual geometric transformation is carried out by a simple, linear matrix transformation in a multidimensional space, of dimensions n > 3, followed by a reduction of dimension to 3D. In the second method, the Weighted Affine Transformations (WAT) method, the transformation is confined to the 3D Euclidean space, and a nonlinearly-weighted average of linear, affine transformations by simplices of nuclear positions is used. 

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