Structural attribute-processing relationships

The first round of interviews focused on estabUshing a baseUne measure of the focal company s leadership, culture, structure and performance at the time the transformational process began. In addition data was collected on the relationships and the extent of information transfer that existed between the supply chain partners. The second round of interviews was designed to monitor changes in these attributes, processes and relationships over the 12 month period and to probe the factors that promoted or hindered the change process. 

Various laws restrict the values of the process quantities. These laws may represent either fundamental, empirical physicochemical relationships or experimentally identified equations (from statistical modelling or from dimensional analysis particularizations). In contrast to statistical or dimensional analysis based models [1.14], which are used to fix the behaviour of signal transformers, the models of transport phenomena are used to represent generalized phases and elementary phase connections. Here, the model equations reveal all the characterizing attributes given in the description of a structure. They include balance equations, constitutive equations and constraints. 

It appears that the incorporation of metal adatoms into adsorbate structures stabilizes the reaction intermediates, and therefore, can be expected to be a general phenomenon on catalytic metal surfaces, at least for metal particles large enough to be considered as metallic. The dynamic processes of incorporation, release, and mass transport of metal adatoms may occur on the time scale of surface reactions and affect the reactive behavior of the intermediates, that is to say, the reaction kinetics. Indeed, STM studies have shown that the kinetic oscillation in some surface reactions can be partially attributed to the spatial organization of reactive species on the surfaces and the structural change in such complex surfaces on the time scale of reaction [69]. The structural complexity of the active surfaces and the origin of unusual surface reaction kinetics are of interest, and may be connected. Recently, such a relationship was established in the autocatalytic decomposition of formate and acetate on the Ni(llO) surface [21]. 

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