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These characteristic absorption regions called group frequencies allow the analyst to detect the different elemental patterns and from them to reconstruct the molecule either by dej duct ion or by comparison with library reference spectra. The libraries contaih severaY hundred thousand spectra. 

Of course the typical seismic trace has many hundreds of reflections in it, all the way down from the surface to the deepest times measured. These days, engineers and geologists prefer to see the seismic in terms of the acoustic impedance rather than reflection data and this can be obtained by inversion from the seismic volume. Aseismic volume is made up of hundreds of thousands of traces. 

Evaluation data taken from the more than 8 thousand reports of the laboratory and field wire ropes inspections show that the visual methods and life time criteria are non adequate to real durability of the ropes in service [4]. The data show that only a very small percentage of all ropes was replaced in a proper time, when one has used a visual inspection. 

To speed up the process of attainment of the temperature steady value one can use special operations calculation without a kiln rotation, using large time intervals and calculation in two-dimensional R-tp geometry without regard for heat and mass transfer along an axis The program for realization of discussed simulation algorithms enables to calculate temperature in cells, a total number of which can not exceed 130 thousands A circular kiln structure can contain up to three layers. 

More than hundreds of physical methods, thousands of different types of units are used for NDT and TD currently and the expenses for all these activities are many tens billions of USD per year. 

On Russia territory there are about 100 thousands of dangerous enterprises and objects, comprising about 1500 nuclear facilities and 3000 chemical and biological extremely hazardous objects. The average period of emergency situations is 10 — 15 years for accidents and disasters with the material loss up to 2 billion USDs, and 15 — 45 days, when the material loss is up to 100 million USDs. 

In oil and gas industry of C.l.S. a lot of pipelines are in operation, including 206 thousand km of main gas pipelines, 65 thousand km of main oil pipelines, 6 thousand km of product pipelines and more than 300 thousand km of field pipelines of different applications. Two thirds of pipelines are more than 15 years old. 

The range of NDT and TD means to provide the technogenic safety is so wide (more than thousand types) that as an example we refer to only some of them recently developed in Moscow Scientific-Industrial Association Spectrum . 

In addition, NDT plays an important part in industrial maintenance. During plant shutdowns for instance, many thousands of ultrasonic wall thickness measurements are taken on piping, vessels, furnace tubes etc. All these thickness readings have to go into extensive data bases, and this process is, thanks to modem computers and data loggers, ever more automated. 

Ukraine has five nuclear power stations with fifteen reactors with a total power output of 13.6 thousand MW (13 reactors of WWR type and 2 reactors of RBMK type in the Chernobyl NFS). In addition there are 47 thermal power stations with a total power output of 32.4 thousand MW, 6 large hydraulic power stations on the Dnieper and 55 small stations on other rivers. 

Thousands Literature references. Tabic of Contents of many Proceedings and the monthly TOCs from many Journals. 

Alternatively, those at the other end of the market speak proudly of their own exclusive server But the true financial costs of this can range from US 30-100 thousand annually. Costs increase (rapidly) with the sophistication of functions offered. On the other hand, increased function is the reason for buying a server ... 

It has developed a real time method to compare successive non-destructive inspections of the steam generator tubes in nuclear power plants. Each tube provides a safety barrier between the primary and secondary coolant circuits. Each steam generator contains several thousands of tubes whose structural integrity must be ensured through the lifetime of the plant, Therefore, Laborelec performs extensive nondestructive tests after each plant outage. 

The results showed that some yards used ultrasonics to examine thousands of checkpoints for quality control purposes whilst others were content to examine the almost the minimum number that would be accepted. It is cleeu from the results that the minimum extent of NDE recommended by Classification Societies falls some way short of that applied for quality control purposes by some shipbuilders. 

Small metal clusters are also of interest because of their importance in catalysis. Despite the fact that small clusters should consist of mostly surface atoms, measurement of the photon ionization threshold for Hg clusters suggest that a transition from van der Waals to metallic properties occurs in the range of 20-70 atoms per cluster [88] and near-bulk magnetic properties are expected for Ni, Pd, and Pt clusters of only 13 atoms [89] Theoretical calculations on Sin and other semiconductors predict that the stmcture reflects the bulk lattice for 1000 atoms but the bulk electronic wave functions are not obtained [90]. Bartell and co-workers [91] study beams of molecular clusters with electron dirfraction and molecular dynamics simulations and find new phases not observed in the bulk. Bulk models appear to be valid for their clusters of several thousand atoms (see Section IX-3). 

The density of dislocations is usually stated in terms of the number of dislocation lines intersecting unit area in the crystal it ranges from 10 cm for good crystals to 10 cm" in cold-worked metals. Thus, dislocations are separated by 10 -10 A, or every crystal grain larger than about 100 A will have dislocations on its surface one surface atom in a thousand is apt to be near a dislocation. By elastic theory, the increased potential energy of the lattice near... 

I.P.P.D and its relatives have become standard procedures for the characterization of the structure of both clean surfaces and those having an adsorbed layer. Somoijai and co-workers have tabulated thousands of LEED structures [75], for example. If an adsorbate is present, the substrate surface structure may be altered, or reconstructed, as illustrated in Fig. VIII-9 for the case of H atoms on a Ni(llO) surface. Beginning with the (experimentally) hypothetical case of (100) Ar surfaces. Burton and Jura [76] estimated theoretically the free energy for a surface transition from a (1 x 1) to a C(2x 1) structure as given by... 

There is a number of very pleasing and instructive relationships between adsorption from a binary solution at the solid-solution interface and that at the solution-vapor and the solid-vapor interfaces. The subject is sufficiently specialized, however, that the reader is referred to the general references and, in particular, to Ref. 153. Finally, some studies on the effect of high pressure (up to several thousand atmospheres) on binary adsorption isotherms have been reported [154]. Quite appreciable effects were found, indicating that significant partial molal volume changes may occur on adsorption. 

Another powerftil class of instmnientation used to study ion-molecule reactivity is trapping devices. Traps use electric and magnetic fields to store ions for an appreciable length of time, ranging from milliseconds to thousands of seconds. Generally, these devices mn at low pressure and thus can be used to obtain data at pressures well below the range in which flow tubes operate. 

Due to the rather stringent requirements placed on the monochromator, a double or triple monocln-omator is typically employed. Because the vibrational frequencies are only several hundred to several thousand cm and the linewidths are only tens of cm it is necessary to use a monochromator with reasonably high resolution. In addition to linewidth issues, it is necessary to suppress the very intense Rayleigh scattering. If a high resolution spectrum is not needed, however, then it is possible to use narrow-band interference filters to block the excitation line, and a low resolution monocln-omator to collect the spectrum. In fact, this is the approach taken with Fourier transfonn Raman spectrometers. 

There are thousands of scientists whose work can be classified as vibrational spectroscopy. The following examples are meant to show the breadth of the field, but cannot be expected to constitute a complete representation of all the fields where vibrational spectroscopy is important. 

Unfortimately for modem crystallographers, all of tlie crystal stmctiires that could be solved by the choose-the-best-of-a-small-niunber-of-possibilities procedure had been solved by 1920. Bragg has been quoted as saying that the pyrite stmcture was very complicated , but he wrote, in about 1930, It must be realized, however, that (cases having one or two parameters) are still extremely simple. The more typical crystal may have ten, twenty, or forty parameters, to all of which values must be assigned before the analysis of the stmcture is complete. This statement is read with amusement by a modem crystallographer, who routinely works with hundreds and frequently with thousands of parameters. 

For these reasons, in the MCSCF method the number of CSFs is usually kept to a small to moderate number (e.g. a few to several thousand) chosen to describe essential correlations (i.e. configuration crossings, near degeneracies, proper dissociation, etc, all of which are often tenned non-dynamicaI correlations) and important dynamical correlations (those electron-pair correlations of angular, radial, left-right, etc nature that are important when low-lying virtual orbitals are present). 

The accuracy of most TB schemes is rather low, although some implementations may reach the accuracy of more advanced self-consistent LCAO methods (for examples of the latter see [18,19 and 20]). However, the advantages of TB are that it is fast, provides at least approximate electronic properties and can be used for quite large systems (e.g., thousands of atoms), unlike some of the more accurate condensed matter methods. TB results can also be used as input to detennine other properties (e.g., photoemission spectra) for which high accuracy is not essential. 

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