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Research on materials can lead to more economical processing under extreme conditions and to reduced capital and operating costs. There are strong incentives to find constraction materials for process units that are derived from domestic resources, that are less contaminating of process and environment, and that have the following properties ... 

Notice that the left-hand side of this rule contains two types of clauses. The first type is the variable values of the current state and those necessary to compute the new state, while the second, represented by = computes the value of the variable in the new state. This last clause enables the procedural information about how to compute the state variables to be attached to the reasoning. We must, however, be careful about how much of the computation we hide procedurally, and how much we make explicit in the rules. The level to which computation can be hidden will be a function of the theories we employ to try to obtain new dominance and equivalence conditions. If we do not hide the computation, we will be able to explicitly reason about it, and thus may find simplifications or redundancies in the computation that will lead to more computationally efficient procedures. 

Furthermore, conjugate poles on the imaginary axis are BIBO stable—a step input leads to a sustained oscillation that is bounded in time. But we do not consider this oscillatory steady state as stable, and hence we exclude the entire imaginary axis. In an advanced class, you should find more mathematical definitions of stability. 

With experimentally obtained data, which always contain random noise, such questions as uniqueness are academic. With noise, an exact solution is impossible to obtain, and the best that one may do, in a statistical sense, is to find the solution that is most probable. Even a solution that is most probable (overall) is not always what is desired. A unique solution is forced by the criterion or method of solution adopted, such as minimizing the sum of squares or maximum deviation. Each of these criteria produces a solution that is optimum in some sense. Various aspects of the error will be minimized in each of these slightly differing solutions. We may want to choose the criterion that minimizes some aspect of this error (or emphasizes some other aspect of the restoration). However, we may want to choose some particular criterion simply because it leads to more convenient mathematical manipulation or faster numerical calculation. 

Monolayers discussed in Section 4.2 also introduce order preorganizing molecules. An analogous photochemical reaction making use of this phenomenon was carried out in diacetylene monolayers on gold [47b]. At present most one-pot reactions are of no practical importance. However, their occurence in prostaglandin synthesis [48] indicates that they will find their applications leading to more environmentally clean technologies. 

He found that C frequently is close to 1.75, and it is the practice of some workers to use this value for all substances and vary only A, B and D. While Eqs. (6) and (7) give a better fit to the vapor pressures of some compounds than the Antoine equation, the accuracy is more often not quite as good. Also, the estimation of vapor pressures by the extrapolation of Eqs. (6) and (7) beyond the highest pressure of the original data appears to lead to more error than one would obtain upon extrapolation of the Antoine equation. Finally, Eqs. (6) and (7) are much more difficult to use when one wishes to find the temperature corresponding to a given pressure. 

The results for n = 1 differ somewhat from those obtained by Benson, Balk, and White (2), because of the different repulsive parameters adopted in the present calculations. The compatibility of the two sets of computations was confirmed by rerunning the original single layer program with the new data inserted. Use of Cubicciotti s repulsive parameters appears to lead to more consistent results in the surface distortion calculations in particular, it was impossible to find stable equilibrium configurations for models with n 2, using the data for sodium chloride employed by Benson, Balk, and White (2). 

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