Comparisons are presented of experimental and theoretical studies of the rotationally inelastic scattering of CD3 radicals with H2 and D2 collision partners at respective collision energies of 680 ± 75 and 640 ± 60 cm(-1). Close-coupling quantum-mechanical calculations performed using a newly constructed ab initio potential energy surface (PES) provide initial-to-final CD3 rotational level (n, ...

We report on measurements of differential cross sections (DCSs) for electron impact excitation of a series of Rydberg electronic-states in α-tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol (THFA). The energy range of these experiments was 20-50 eV, while the scattered electron was detected in the 10°-90° angular range. There are currently no other experimental data or theoretical computations against which we can d...

Genes and human languages are discrete combinatorial systems (DCSs), in which the basic building blocks are finite sets of elementary units: nucleotides or codons in a DNA sequence, and letters or words in a language. Different combinations of these finite units give rise to potentially infinite numbers of genes or sentences. This type of DCSs can be represented as an alphabetic bipartite netwo...

The function block (FB) concept has been adopted by the IEC61499 standard to define a model for the development of distributed control systems (DCSs). However, in our attempt to implement this model, we found that the FB approach is purely functional and does not exploit all the benefits of component-based development. In this paper we present our enhanced 4-layer architecture that proved to be...

The emergence of decentralized virtual currency systems based on cryptographic operations has been accompanied by efforts to utilize the technology as infrastructure for further applications besides cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. So-called Decentralized Consensus Systems (DCSs) could reshape financial and other information-based industries, where the invention, registration and transfer of a...

Recently, using midinfrared laser-induced electron diffraction (LIED), snapshots of a vibrating diatomic molecule on a femtosecond time scale have been captured [C.I. Blaga et al., Nature (London) 483, 194 (2012)]. In this Letter, a comprehensive treatment for the atomic LIED response is reported, a critical step in generalizing this imaging method. Electron-ion differential cross sections (DCS...

Differential cross sections (DCSs) for inelastic collisions of OH(X) with Xe have been measured at a collision energy of 483 cm(-1). The hydroxyl (OH) radicals were initially prepared in the X(2)Π3/2 (v = 0, j = 1.5, f) level using the hexapole electric field selection method. Products were detected state-selectively by [2 + 1] resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization of OH, combined with velo...

This dissertation devotes to the question whether the established technique of model based testing (MBT) can be applied to a special type of software component systems called dynamic component systems (DCSs). DCSs have the special characteristic that they support the change of component instance compositions during runtime of the system. In these systems, each component instance exhibits an own...

We demonstrate the successful implementation of genetic algorithm for the retrieval of atomic potentials using elastic differential cross sections DCSs between free electrons and atomic ions for electron energies from a few to several tens of electron volts. Since the DCSs over this energy region can be extracted from laser-generated high-energy photoelectron momentum spectra, the results sugge...