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States in solution are described by similar concepts, except that filled and empty states correspond to different chemical species, namely the two components of a redox couple, R and O, respectively. These states differ from those of the metal in being localized. The R and O species cannot communicate with the electrode without first approaching it closely. Since R and O can exist in the solution inhomogeneously and our concern is with the mix of states near the electrode surface, it is better to express the density of states... 

Clarity and homogeneity of solutions inhomogeneity of solutions may look like trails or strings Temperature (important for the preparation of hydrophilic emulsions, formulations with thermolabile ingredients and sterilisation processes) pH measuring (for an in-process control pH measuring paper or indicator sticks may be used)... 

In this last case the coupling between chemical oscillations and hydrodynamics may lead to a complex spatial structuration of the solution inhomogeneous phase locking in the center of the layer and wave generation in the boundary layers. The spatial distribution of the excitable regions and the pacemakers should be related to the symmetry of the underlying convective pattern. Although there exists experimental evidence for the existence of such phenomena (8) more quantitative analysis are needed to explore all the possibilities briefly sketched in the present discussion. 

Fig. 13 Photo-absorption spectra of 4-acac-coumarin anion in methanol solution calculated at the TD-DFT (B3LYP/6-31G ) level, using a PCM solvation model (a), and measured experimentally in M methanol solutions (b). The computed absorption bands have been convoluted with a Gaussian function with FWHM = 90 nm to model the solution inhomogeneous broadening. Figure reproduced from Ref.53, Copyright 2011, American Chemical Society.

Expert systems. In situations where the statistical classifiers cannot be used, because of the complexity or inhomogeneity of the data, rule-based expert systems can sometimes be a solution. The complex images can be more readily described by rules than represented as simple feature vectors. Rules can be devised which cope with inhomogeneous data by, for example, triggering some specialised data-processing algorithms. 

Diffusion may be defined as the movement of a species due to a concentration gradient, which seeks to maximize entropy by overcoming inhomogeneities within a system. The rate of diffusion of a species, the flux, at a given point in solution is dependent upon the concentration gradient at that particular point and was first described by Pick in 1855, who considered the simple case of linear difflision to a planar surface ... 

For condensed species, additional broadening mechanisms from local field inhomogeneities come into play. Short-range intermolecular interactions, including solute-solvent effects in solutions, and matrix, lattice, and phonon effects in soHds, can broaden molecular transitions significantly. 

Normalizing. In this operation, steel is heated above its upper critical temperature (A ) and cooled in air. The purpose of this treatment is to refine the hot-roUed stmcture (often quite inhomogeneous), depending on the finishing temperature, and to obtain a carbide size and distribution that is more favorable for carbide solution on subsequent heat treatment than the eadier as-roUed stmcture. 

There are advantages to direct solid sampling. Sample preparation is less time consuming and less prone to contamination, and the analysis of microsamples is more straightforward. However, calibration may be more difficult than with solution samples, requiring standards that are matched more closely to the sample. Precision is typically 5% to 10% because of sample inhomogeneity and variations in the sample vaporization step. 

P. Attard. Spherically inhomogeneous fluids. II. Hard-sphere solute in a hard-sphere solvent. J Chem Phys 97 3083-3089, 1989. 

A set of equations (15)-(17) represents the background of the so-called second-order or pair theory. If these equations are supplemented by an approximate relation between direct and pair correlation functions the problem becomes complete. Its numerical solution provides not only the density profile but also the pair correlation functions for a nonuniform fluid [55-58]. In the majority of previous studies of inhomogeneous simple fluids, the inhomogeneous Percus-Yevick approximation (PY2) has been used. It reads... 

Numerical solution of Eq. (51) was carried out for a nonlocal effective Hamiltonian as well as for the approximated local Hamiltonian obtained by applying a gradient expansion. It was demonstrated that the nonlocal effective Hamiltonian represents quite well the lateral variation of the film density distribution. The results obtained showed also that the film behavior on the inhomogeneous substrate depends crucially on the temperature regime. Note that the film exhibits different wetting temperatures on both parts of the surface. For chemical potential below the bulk coexistence value the film thickness on both parts of the surface tends to appropriate assymptotic values at x cx) and obeys the power law x. Such a behavior of the film thickness is a consequence of van der Waals tails. The above result is valid when both parts of the surface exhibit either continuous (critical) or first-order wetting. 

To the best of our knowledge, there was only one attempt to consider inhomogeneous fluids adsorbed in disordered porous media [31] before our recent studies [32,33]. Inhomogeneous rephca Ornstein-Zernike equations, complemented by either the Born-Green-Yvon (BGY) or the Lovett-Mou-Buff-Wertheim (LMBW) equation for density profiles, have been proposed to study adsorption of a fluid near a plane boundary of a disordered matrix, which has been assumed uniform in a half-space [31]. However, the theory has not been complemented by any numerical solution. Our main goal is to consider a simple model for adsorption of a simple fluid in confined porous media and to solve it. In this section we follow our previously reported work [32,33]. 

C. W. Woodward, A. Yethiraj. Density functional theory for inhomogeneous polymer solutions. J Chem Phys 700 3181-3186, 1994. 

The oxidation methods described previously are heterogeneous in nature since they involve chemical reactions between substances located partly in an organic phase and partly in an aqueous phase. Such reactions are usually slow, suffer from mixing problems, and often result in inhomogeneous reaction mixtures. On the other hand, using polar, aprotic solvents to achieve homogeneous solutions increases both cost and procedural difficulties. Recently, a technique that is commonly referred to as phase-transfer catalysis has come into prominence. This technique provides a powerful alternative to the usual methods for conducting these kinds of reactions. 

We see from both equations 8.32 and 8.33 that the most unstable mode is the mode and that ai t) = 1 - 1/a is stable for 1 < a < 3 and ai t) = 0 is stable for 0 < a < 1. In other words, the diffusive coupling does not introduce any instability into the homogeneous system. The only instabilities present are those already present in the uncoupled local dynamics. A similar conclusion would be reached if we were to carry out the same analysis for period p solutions. The conclusion is that if the uncoupled sites are stable, so are the homogeneous states of the CML. Now what about inhomogeneous states ... 

The dependence of the in-phase and quadrature lock-in detected signals on the modulation frequency is considerably more complicated than for the case of monomolecular recombination. The steady state solution to this equation is straightforward, dN/dt = 0 Nss — fG/R, but there is not a general solution N(l) to the inhomogeneous differential equation. Furthermore, the generation rate will vary throughout the sample due to the Gaussian distribution of the pump intensity and absorption by the sample... 

The inhomogeneous soliton solution with boundary conditions Eq. (3.1) has the form of a hyperbolic tangent 15, 6J ... 

We will examine the applicability of this model to metallic solutions by using the refined version which considers that differences in atom sizes will give rise to local inhomogeneities of structure. Because of the negligible error, we will omit all terms having binary products of p, d, and 0, except for p2. 

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