In the present investigation, the results of extensive benchmarking study of density functional theory (DFT) methods on some catalytically important metal dimers have been reported. The calculations were carried out on Al2, Ti2, V2, Cr2, Mn2, Fe2, Co2, Ni2, Cu2, and Zn2 using DFT functionals such as GGA, meta GGA, hybrid meta GGA along with recently developed Minnesota functionals. The bond len...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Childhood obesity has been associated with high refined sugar intake. The relationship between sucrose intake and development of dental caries has been established. The aim of this study was to determine the association between age-specific body mass index (BMI-for-age) and dental caries in children. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study a total of 1003 child...

Presented in this work are the results of a quantum chemical study of oxygen adsorption on small Aun and Au−n (n=2,3) clusters. Density functional theory(DFT), second order perturbation theory (MP2), and singles and doubles coupled clustertheory with perturbative triples [CCSD(T)] methods have been used to determine the geometry and the binding energy of oxygen to Aun. The multireference charac...

In this study the molecular geometries, experimental vibrational and electronic absorption spectra and quantum chemical calculations of free dimethyl phenylphosphonite, (C8H11PO2), (with synonym, dimethoxyphenylphosphine or phenyldimethoxyphosphine) (Abbreviated as DMPP) and its [Cd(DMPP)].Cl2.H2O metal halide complex have been investigated by using elemental analysis, FT-IR, micro-Raman and UV...

First-principles density functional theory (DFT) is used to study the solid-state modifications of carbon dioxide up to pressures of 60 GPa. All known molecular CO2 structures are investigated in this pressure range, as well as three non-molecular modifications. To account for long-range van der Waals interactions, the dispersion corrected DFT method developed by Grimme and co-workers (DFT-D3) ...

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A DFT algorithm, the Extended Subband DFT (ESB−−DFT), is presented, which aims to overcome the problem of low accuracy the Subband DFT (SB−−DFT) algorithm suffers from, when applied in its approximate mode for signals with full spectrum. The proposed ESB−DFT is based upon the analysis of the input signal using a Filter Bank (FB) and the computation of its DFT from the lower length DFTs that cor...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to prospectively investigate the influence of ventricular fibrillation (VF) durations of 5, 10 and 20 s on the defibrillation threshold (DFT) during implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation. BACKGROUND Although the DFT using monophasic waveforms has been shown to increase with VF duration in humans, the effect of VF duration on defibri...