The (C-H) bond dissociation energy in the methyl group of toluene

A, kinetic study of the pyrolysis of toluene by a flow technique has been made, and assuming Szwarc\u27s mechanism, two activation energies (78.3 and 84 kcal/mole depending on the temperature range used) have been derived for the dissociation of the (C-H) bond in the methyl group of toluene. The lower value agrees quite well with Szwarc\u27s, and the higher value turns out to be approximately the average of 77.5 and 89.9. The results of this research suggest 84 kcal/mole as the upper limit for the activation energy

Cognitive Science of Religion and the Study of Theological Concepts

Abstract The cultural transmission of theological con-cepts remains an underexplored topic in the cognitive sci-ence of religion (CSR). In this paper, I examine whether approaches from CSR, especially the study of content biases in the transmission of beliefs, can help explain the cultural success of some theological concepts. This approach reveals that there is more continuity between theological beliefs and ordinary religious beliefs than CSR authors have hitherto recognized: the cultural transmission of theological concepts is influenced by content biases that also underlie the reception of ordinary religious concepts

The (C-H) bond dissociation energy in the methyl group of toluene

A, kinetic study of the pyrolysis of toluene by a flow technique has been made, and assuming Szwarc's mechanism, two activation energies (78.3 and 84 kcal/mole depending on the temperature range used) have been derived for the dissociation of the (C-H) bond in the methyl group of toluene. The lower value agrees quite well with Szwarc's, and the higher value turns out to be approximately the average of 77.5 and 89.9. The results of this research suggest 84 kcal/mole as the upper limit for the activation energy.</p

A Plug-in Architecture Providing Dynamic Negotiation Capabilities for Mobile Agents

. The diversity of research and development work on agent technology has led to a strong distinction between mobile and intelligent agents. This paper presents an architecture aiming at providing a step towards the integration of these two aspects, concretely by providing an approach of dynamically embedding negotiation capabilities into mobile agents. In particular, the requirements for enabling automated negotiations including negotiation protocols and strategies, a plug-in component architecture for realizing such requirements on mobile agents, and the design of negotiation support building blocks as components of this architecture are presented. 1 Introduction In recent years, the development of agent technology has drawn particularly great attention of people working in very different fields of computer science such as distributed systems, artificial intelligence, system management and electronic commerce. This at a first glance quite surprising fact is essentially based on the ..

Generic Policy Management for Open Service Markets

The dynamic and evolutionary character of open electronic service markets with respect to both the application and the system infrastructure level requires appropriate system support mechanisms in order to dynamically configure business transactions and provide the required support services in flexible and individual ways. This paper proposes the use of policy management mechanisms to support flexible cooperation of applications and dynamic configuration of support services in electronic service markets. It argues that various such policy management mechanisms can be efficiently supported generically by a respective common policy management service. Accordingly, the paper presents a generic approach to both policy modeling and policy processing aspects of an open system support platform for electronic service markets. Keywords Policy Management, Interoperability, Dynamic Configuration, Electronic Markets 1 INTRODUCTION Open electronic service markets (EM) implemented on top of a het..

Interaction-Oriented Rule Management for Mobile Agent Applications

The characteristic features of delegation and interaction make the mobile agent programming paradigm on the one hand attractive for a wide range of distributed applications -- in particular those related to E-Commerce -- but on the other hand also pose a considerable semantical risk potential. In this paper, we present a generic approach of imposing rules on the behavior of mobile agents aiming primarily at reducing this kind of risk without impairing the agents&apos; basic decision logic and interaction ability. On the contrary, strong emphasis will be put on the algorithms, design and implementation of rules used to support the interaction between agents. Keywords: dynamic rule management, mobile agent, interaction support, ECommerce. 1 Introduction 1.1 Motivation Mobile agent technology is increasingly considered as the right mean to build innovative, user-friendly and more &quot;intelligent&quot; E-Commerce applications (s. [KJ98] for a broad overview). However, the reason of its popularity i..