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The novel element in these models is the introduction of a third phase in the Hashin-Rosen model, which lies between the two main phases (inclusions and matrix) and contributes to the progressive unfolding of the properties of the inclusions to those of the matrix, without discontinuities. Then, these models incoporate all transition properties of a thin boundary-layer of the matrix near the inclusions. Thus, this pseudo-phase characterizes the effectiveness of the bonding between phases and defines a adhesion factor of the composite. 

In order to characterize the interaction between different clusters, it is necessary to consider the mechanism of cluster identification during the process of the DA algorithm. As the temperature (Tk) is reduced after every iteration, the system undergoes a series of phase transitions (see (18) for details). In this annealing process, at high temperatures that are above a pre-computable critical value, all the lead compounds are located at the centroid of the entire descriptor space, thereby there is only one distinct location for the lead compounds. As the temperature is decreased, a critical temperature value is reached where a phase transition occurs, which results in a greater number of distinct locations for lead compounds and consequently finer clusters are formed. This provides us with a tool to control the number of clusters we want in our final selection. It is shown (18) for a square Euclidean distance d(xi,rj) = x, — rj that a cluster Rj splits at a critical temperature Tc when twice the maximum eigenvalue of the posterior covariance matrix, defined by Cx rj =... 

The computer-reconstructed catalyst is represented by a discrete volume phase function in the form of 3D matrix containing information about the phase in each volume element. Another 3D matrix defines the distribution of active catalytic sites. Macroporosity, sizes of supporting articles and the correlation function describing the macropore size distribution are evaluated from the SEM images of porous catalyst (Koci et al., 2006 Kosek et al., 2005). Spatially 3D reaction-diffusion system with low concentrations of reactants and products can be described by mass balances in the form of the following partial differential equations (Koci et al., 2006, 2007a). For gaseous components ... 

In order to establish a better-motivated connection to resonance theory, the fixed-nuclei / -matrix can be converted to a phase matrix = k(q)R, or to the corresponding unitary matrix... 

With current computational methods, accurate fixed-nuclei R-matrices RFN can be obtained that interpolate smoothly in a vibrational coordinate q and in the electronic continuum energy e. The fixed-nuclei phase matrix T///v is defined such that... 

As described above, time-delay analysis [389] of the energy derivative of the phase matrix 4> determines parametric functions that characterize the Breit-Wigner formula for the fixed-nuclei resonant / -matrix R[N(q e). The resonance energy eKS(q), the decay width y(q). and the channel-projection vector y(q) define R and its associated phase matrix such that tan = k(q)R , where... 

Blending of the high heat resistant terpolymer with ABS to form a miscible matrix phase, as defined in Figure 4, is of course, expected to increase the heat resistance of the ABS. The data in Table II, taken from references (2-4), provide a systematic representation of the variation of DTUL with terpolymer/ABS blend composition for the AN, IB, and MM-containing terpolymers (both glassy and rubber-modified). In some of these cases, as noted, a copolymer of a-methyl styrene/acrylonitrile was added to the formulation. From these data it is apparent that DTUL does, indeed, increase with increasing terpolymer concentration in the blends. Moreover, the effect of the terpolymer composition on DTUL of the blends is... 

Note that Uq is exactly the t/-matrix defined by the free-particle operator of Eq. (17), where the arbitrary phase of Eq. (43) has been fixed to zero. A direct evaluation of Eq. (43) for the case of vanishing external potential yields a formulation of Uq in terms of (2 x 2)-blocks,... 

According to the nature of the dispersed phase in the mixture, uses of electrical conductivity can be divided into two major groups. In the first group, the dispersed phase (the solid particles in slurry systems or the oil droplets in oil-in-water emulsions) consists of loose particles dispersed in a continuous phase (matrix). The particles have a defined shape... 

The most frequent disposal of most of the polymer-based heterogeneous materials family takes place by the dispersed phase/matrix mode. So the dispersed phase components may be identified by the finite size of each of their domains, being surrounded by the continuous matrix. Both the size and the geometry of the particles featuring the dispersed phase together with their surface properties govern the transport phenomenon across the interphase between the dispersed particles and the continuous matrix. According to the interface approach defined in the previous section, it is obvious that the domain size and its distribution confine the interfacial volume available for effective transport flows between the matrix and the disperse phase. 

It should be noticed that the general a-transformation defined by Eq. (36) does not necessarily retain the synunetiy properties of the original physical phase matrix given by Eq. (2). However, these synunetiy properties also are preserved for reduced phase matrices of the form... 

The calculated matrix Hartree-Fock energies for the ground state of the CO molecule with a nuclear separation of 2.132 Bohr are presented in Table 3 for the sequence of regularized even-tempered basis sets in the gas phase and in each of the three continuum models described in section 2. In this Table, N defines the size of the basis set each set in the sequence containing 2N s-type functions and N p-type functions. is the gas phase matrix Hartree-Fock energy. and are the total matrix Hartree-... 

It has been shown that eiyslalhne phase morphology in nanocomposites polymer/oigano-clay with semiciyslalline matrix defines the dimension of fractal space, in which the indicated nanocomposites stmctuie is formed. In its turn, this dimension inflnences strongly on both deformational behavior and mechanical characteristics of nanocomposites. 

Similarly, the current density ij in the matrix phase is defined to refer to the superficial area and not to the area of an individual phase. Within a pore, in the absence of homogeneous chanical reactions, a differential material balance can be written... 

So long as the field is on, these populations continue to change however, once the external field is turned off, these populations remain constant (discounting relaxation processes, which will be introduced below). Yet the amplitudes in the states i and i / do continue to change with time, due to the accumulation of time-dependent phase factors during the field-free evolution. We can obtain a convenient separation of the time-dependent and the time-mdependent quantities by defining a density matrix, p. For the case of the wavefiinction ), p is given as the outer product of v i) with itself. 

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