The second-order rate constant (k2) for the esterification of methoxyacetic acid with benzyl alcohol is reported in a range of ionic and molecular solvents. The solvent effects on esterification rate are examined by using a linear solvation energy relationship based on the Kamlet-Taft solvent scales (alpha, beta, and pi*). It is shown that the hydrogen bond basicity of the solvent is the domina...

We prove a new projection formula for the four-parameter family of orthogonal polynomials outside of the Askey-Wilson class. By carefully analyzing the recurrence relations we manage to overcome the lack of explicit expression for the orthogonality measure. Research partially supported by NSF grants #INT-03-32062, #DMS-05-04198, and by the C.P. Taft Memorial Fund. Permanent address: Faculty of ...

I shall base my comments on my experience as major economic adviser in the design of South Korea’s Second Five Year Plan, which changed its policy orientation radically.. In interpreting Korea’s strategy, I shall also draw upon my comparative and historical statistical studies ( with Professor Cynthia Taft Morris) on how interactions among economic, social and political institutions change syst...

This paper extends the authors earlier proposal for providing Ada with support for fine-grained parallelism with an execution model based on the concept of ab-stract executors, detailing the progress guarantees that these executors must pro-vide and how these can be assured even in the presence of potentially blocking operations. The paper also describes how this execution model can be applied ...