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iii Acknowledgements iv Introduction  Data  Identifying the Spatial Pattern and its Dynamics  Methods  Results  Modelling the Spatial Pattern and its Dynamics  Methods  Results  Discussion  Conclusion  Literature Cited  tables . Summary information about the nine study plots  . Estimated parameters for the Poisson cluster processes  figures . Plot   . Plot   3. Pl...

Photoinduced single-electron-transfer promoted oxidation of 2,5-diphenyl-1,5-hexadiene by using N-methylquinolinium tetrafluoroborate/biphenyl co-sensitization takes place with the formation of an intense electronic absorption band at 476 nm, which is attributed to the 1,4-diphenylcyclohexane-1,4-diyl radical cation. The absorption maximum (lambda(ob)) of this transient occurs at a longer wavel...

Kinetic studies of the reactions of α-bromoacetanilides [YC6H4NHC(=O)CH2Br] with substituted benzylamines (XC6H4CH2NH2) have been carried out in dimethyl sulfoxide at 35.0 C. The Hammett plots for substituent (Y) variations in the substrate (log kN vs. σY) are biphasic concave upwards/downwards with breaks at Y = 4-Cl (σY = 0.23). The Hammett coefficients ρY and the cross-interaction constant ρ...

A series of paddlewheel diruthenium(ii, ii) complexes with various chlorine-substituted benzoate ligands (Cl-series) was synthesized as tetrahydrofuran (THF) adducts [Ru2(ClxPhCO2)4(THF)2]; where ClxPhCO2(-) = o-chlorobenzoate, ; m-chlorobenzoate, ; p-chlorobenzoate, ; 2,3-dichlorobenzoate, ; 2,4-dichlorobenzoate, ; 2,5-dichlorobenzoate, ; 2,6-dichlorobenzoate, ; 3,4-dichlorobenzoate, ; 3,5-dic...

Three distinct four-component supramolecular nanorotors were prepared, using, for the first time, bipyridine instead of phenanthroline stations in stator. Following our established self-sorting protocol to multicomponent nanodevices, self-assembled by mixing stator, rotators with various pyridine head groups, copper(I) ions and 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane (DABCO). Whereas exchange a vs. stati...

The energetics and kinetics of the reaction of variously substituted benzyl radicals with a model alkene were calculated at the G3(MP2)-RAD//B3-LYP/6-31G(d) level of theory to determine whether such reactions are amenable to Hammett analysis. The reactions were studied both in the gas phase and in toluene solution in the temperature range 298-353 K; calculations include 1D-hindered rotor correc...

We present a preliminary search for D-D mixing using the decays D → Kππ, additionally presenting Dalitz-plot distributions and a measurement of the branching ratio for this mode. A new tagging technique is used to produce the doubly Cabibbo-suppressed Dalitz plot, which in turn is used to motivate the method used for the D-mixing search. We analyze 230.4 fb of data collected from the BABAR dete...

When creating interactive drama computer games then it is frequently useful to be able to generate a plot to use as a background for the drama and to use as a knowledge base for Non-Player Characters. In this article a new engine is proposed that dynamically creates new game plots for a murder mystery based game. The game engine uses Bayesian networks to create a new plot based on a probability...