Ordinary behavior

Video surveillance is a powerful and effective method for recognizing suspicious activities. Image processing methods are being improved to the point where they can automatically identify out-of-the-ordinary behaviors from many cameras and alert appropriate personnel so that response efforts can be focused. Video surveillance also provides a strong psychological deterrent to an attack. 

In this chapter, as in the previous chapter, we have problems with labels. Diagnostic terminology in clinical practice often complicates our understanding of the scientific literature on mental disorder. Many psychiatric diagnoses—labels that describe which symptoms characterize a psychiatric disorder and distinguish it from another—have varied with time and place over many years, with much debate still going on to this day about where to draw the line between the normal and the abnormal and between various states of the abnormal. Ordinary behavior in one culture may not be considered ordinary behavior... 

Surfactants have also been of interest for their ability to support reactions in normally inhospitable environments. Reactions such as hydrolysis, aminolysis, solvolysis, and, in inorganic chemistry, of aquation of complex ions, may be retarded, accelerated, or differently sensitive to catalysts relative to the behavior in ordinary solutions (see Refs. 205 and 206 for reviews). The acid-base chemistry in micellar solutions has been investigated by Drummond and co-workers [207]. A useful model has been the pseudophase model [206-209] in which reactants are either in solution or solubilized in micelles and partition between the two as though two distinct phases were involved. In inverse micelles in nonpolar media, water is concentrated in the micellar core and reactions in the micelle may be greatly accelerated [206, 210]. The confining environment of a solubilized reactant may lead to stereochemical consequences as in photodimerization reactions in micelles [211] or vesicles [212] or in the generation of radical pairs [213]. 

In the same section, we also see that the source of the appropriate analytic behavior of the wave function is outside its defining equation (the Schibdinger equation), and is in general the consequence of either some very basic consideration or of the way that experiments are conducted. The analytic behavior in question can be in the frequency or in the time domain and leads in either case to a Kramers-Kronig type of reciprocal relations. We propose that behind these relations there may be an equation of restriction, but while in the former case (where the variable is the frequency) the equation of resh iction expresses causality (no effect before cause), for the latter case (when the variable is the time), the restriction is in several instances the basic requirement of lower boundedness of energies in (no-relativistic) spectra [39,40]. In a previous work, it has been shown that analyticity plays further roles in these reciprocal relations, in that it ensures that time causality is not violated in the conjugate relations and that (ordinary) gauge invariance is observed [40]. 

At very short times the modulus is on the order of 10" ° N m comparable to ordinary window glass at room temperature. In fact, the mechanical behavior displayed in this region is called the glassy state, regardless of the chemical composition of the specimen. Inorganic and polymeric glasses... 

Whereas there is extensive Hterature on design methods for azeotropic and extractive distillation, much less has been pubUshed on operabiUty and control. It is, however, widely recognized that azeotropic distillation columns are difficult to operate and control because these columns exhibit complex dynamic behavior and parametric sensitivity (2—11). In contrast, extractive distillations do not exhibit such complex behavior and even highly optimized columns are no more difficult to control than ordinary distillation columns producing high purity products (12). 

With a reactive solvent, the mass-transfer coefficient may be enhanced by a factor E so that, for instance. Kg is replaced by EKg. Like specific rates of ordinary chemical reactions, such enhancements must be found experimentally. There are no generalized correlations. Some calculations have been made for idealized situations, such as complete reaction in the liquid film. Tables 23-6 and 23-7 show a few spot data. On that basis, a tower for absorption of SO9 with NaOH is smaller than that with pure water by a factor of roughly 0.317/7.0 = 0.045. Table 23-8 lists the main factors that are needed for mathematical representation of KgO in a typical case of the absorption of CO9 by aqueous mouethauolamiue. Figure 23-27 shows some of the complex behaviors of equilibria and mass-transfer coefficients for the absorption of CO9 in solutions of potassium carbonate. Other than Henry s law, p = HC, which holds for some fairly dilute solutions, there is no general form of equilibrium relation. A typically complex equation is that for CO9 in contact with sodium carbonate solutions (Harte, Baker, and Purcell, Ind. Eng. Chem., 25, 528 [1933]), which is... 

Few mechanisms of liquid/liquid reactions have been established, although some related work such as on droplet sizes and power input has been done. Small contents of surface-ac tive and other impurities in reactants of commercial quality can distort a reac tor s predicted performance. Diffusivities in liquids are comparatively low, a factor of 10 less than in gases, so it is probable in most industrial examples that they are diffusion controllech One consequence is that L/L reactions may not be as temperature sensitive as ordinary chemical reactions, although the effec t of temperature rise on viscosity and droplet size can result in substantial rate increases. L/L reac tions will exhibit behavior of homogeneous reactions only when they are very slow, nonionic reactions being the most likely ones. On the whole, in the present state of the art, the design of L/L reactors must depend on scale-up from laboratoiy or pilot plant work. 

Clean metallic aluminum is extremely reactive. Even exposure to air at ordinary temperatures is sufficient to promote immediate oxidation. This reactivity is self-inhibiting, however, which determines the general corrosion behavior of aluminum and its alloys due to the formation of a thin, inert, adherent oxide film. In view of the great importance of the surface film, it can be thickened by anodizing in a bath of 15% sulfuric acid (H2SO4) solution or by cladding with a thin layer of an aluminum alloy containing 1 % zinc. 

At atmospheric conditions, most ordinary gases such as air, nitrogen, etc., exhibit P-V-T behavior that is well represented by the above equation. When n moles of an ideal gas undergo a change of state, then... 

In Chapter 5 we pointed out that at ordinary temperatures and pressures all gases follow the ideal gas law. Unfortunately, there is no simple "equation of state" that can be written to correlate the properties of liquids or solids. There are two reasons for this difference in behavior. 

In computing ordinary short-term characteristics of plastics, the standard stress analysis formulas may be used. For predicting creep and stress-rupture behavior, the method will vary according to circumstances. In viscoelastic materials, relaxation data can be used in Eqs. 2-16 to 2-20 to predict creep deformations. In other cases the rate theory may be used. 

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