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The result of this approximation is that each mode is subject to an effective average potential created by all the expectation values of the other modes. Usually the modes are propagated self-consistently. The effective potentials governing die evolution of the mean-field modes will change in time as the system evolves. The advantage of this method is that a multi-dimensional problem is reduced to several one-dimensional problems. 

The first term in the brackets is the expectation value of the square of the dipole moment operator (i.e. the second moment) and the second term is the square of the expectation value of the dipole moment operator. This expression defines the sum over states model. A subjective choice of the average excitation energy As has to be made. 

Chemical process systems are subject to uncertainties due to many random events such as raw material variations, demand fluctuations, equipment failures, and so on. In this chapter we will utilize stochastic programming (SP) methods to deal with these uncertainties that are typically employed in computational finance applications. These methods have been very useful in screening alternatives on the basis of the expected value of economic criteria as well as the economic and operational risks involved. Several approaches have been reported in the literature addressing the problem of production planning under uncertainty. Extensive reviews surveying various issues in this area can be found in Applequist et al. (1997), Shah (1998), Cheng, Subrahmanian, and Westerberg (2005) and Mendez et al. (2006). 

The multiconfigurational self-consistent field (MCSCF) method in which the expectation value /is treated variationally and simultaneously made stationary with respect to variations in the Q and Cv,i coefficients subject to the constraints that the spin-orbitals and the full N-electron wavefunction remain normalized ... 

The variational method is then used to minimize the expectation value of total energy E = (cj) H (j)) under small variation of the ip s in (19), and subject to the normalization condition of cj) ()) H (1)) = 1. (This may be done by employing the method of Lagrangian undetermined multipliers). 

Hartree-Fock theory makes the fundamental approximation that each electron moves in the static electric field created by all of die other electrons, and then proceeds to optimize orbitals for all of the electrons in a self-consistent fashion subject to a variational constraint. The resulting wave function, when operated upon by the Hamiltonian, delivers as its expectation value the lowest possible energy for a single-detenninantal wave function formed from the chosen basis set. 

For over a century it has been known that two classes of variables have to be distinguished the microscopic variables, which are functions of the points of ClN and thus pertain to the detailed positions and motions of the molecules and the macroscopic variables, observable by operating on matter in bulk, exemplified by the temperature, pressure, density, hydro-dynamic velocity, thermal and viscous coefficients, etc. And it has been known for an equally long time that the latter quantities, which form the subject of phenomenological thermo- and hydrodynamics, are definable either in terms of expected values based on the probability density or as gross parameters in the Hamiltonian. But at once three difficulties of principle have been encountered. 

By appropriate manipulation, it is possible to determine the expected value of various functions of X, which is the subject of probability theory. For example, the expected value of X is simply the sum of squares of the values, each weighted by the probability of obtaining the value. 

It must be noted that the present analysis of Mc serves only as an approximate indication of the expected values of molecular weight between crosslinks. If one recalls that the values of x actor and porosity p used here are determined from best fitting of data by other investigators for similar coals it is evident that this analysis is subject to error. Experimental data for x and P are being obtained for our coals in our laboratory. However, this contribution shows how experimental data can be used to improve determination of Mc and to present, for the first time, approximate values of this important physical parameter of the crosslinked structure of coals. 

Clearly, this approach can also be used in the case of Slater basis sets and, moreover, in the case of universal Slater basis sets. Ruedenberg and co-workers104 105 have shown that, within the molecular orbital approximation, this systematic approach gives a series of energy values which smoothly approach the Hartree-Fock limit. Similarly smooth convergence is to be expected in the calculation of correlated wave functions and expectation values, and will be the subject of future studies in this area.106... 

For subject population of n, the expected values given in the table are multiplied by 1/t/n... 

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