Linear Filtering for Time-Delay Systems

A linear filtering problem is studied in which the signal process(x(t):t 0) is described by a stochastic differential equationwhere time delays are present in both the noise input and thex variable. By means of a transformation new to the filteringliterature, we reduce the signal equation to a delay-free stochasticevolution equation; this permits us to solve the problem byapplication of the theory of infinite-dimensional linear filtering.     

NANOSECOND KINETIC ABSORPTION AND CALORIMETRIC STUDIES OF CYCLOPENTENONE: THE TRIPLET, SELF-QUENCHING, AND THE PREDIMERIZATION BIRADICALS

The photolysis of 2-cyclopentenone has been studied by a combination of kinetic absorption spectrophotometry and time-resolved photoacoustic calorimetry. The lifetime of the cyclopentenone triplet is strongly concentration dependent and corresponds to a value of 380 +/- 75 ns at infinite dilution in acetonitrile. The biradical intermediate (or pair of isomeric biradicals) immediately preceding formation of photodimer forms with very high efficiency upon quenching of triplet cyclopentenone by a second ground state cyclopentenone molecule and has an energy of 47 kcal/mol relative to two molecules of reactant. Quenching of the cyclopentenone triplet by conjugated dienes is much slower than expected, which is the reason that early estimates of the triplet lifetime were much too short.     

The vapour pressure of glassy crystals of dimers

(Molecular Physics, 1996, 87, 1349–1361)     

Greenhouse atmospherics: mega-deaths or macro-engineering?

An enhanced Earth-atmosphere greenhouse effect-Homo sapiens psychological coupling is proposed. Macro-engineering may be a stimulated response to man-induced changes in our most fundamental resource: the air.