Examination of the crystal growth paths for racemic solutions
... a situation (xA) is obtained from (x-1A), (x-1Z) and (x+1Z). A situation (xZ) can only be obtained from (x-1A).
By using the same notations i, j and Ui, j these equations are:
Ui, j = 0.5 Ui-1, j-1 + 0.5 Ui-1, j + 0.5 Ui-1, j+1 j odd (eq.1);
Ui, j = 0.5 Ui-1, j-1 j even (eq.2).
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... molecular to the systemic levels (Udgaonkar 2001). However, the thermodynamic principle of entropy remains essential in explaining why
life is possible.
• In order for living things to stay at a low level of entropy, they must receive energy from their surroundings and inevitably disorder it.
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... Chemical Reactions and Entropy Change
A chemical equation alone does not contain enough
information for you to reliably determine whether entropy
increases or decreases during the reaction but:
Entropy usually decreases when gas particles combine into
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Industrial Inorganic Chemistry
... (2) To understand the factors involved in the production of such compounds.
(2) To specify the challenges faced in such preparations.
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Fall 2009 Final Review
... The probability of occupancy would actually depend on many factors such as the
season, but for simplicity we assume the overall occupancy rate of 60% only depends on
external factors. Let X represents the number of rooms occupied on a random selected
day.
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Kullback–Leibler divergence
In probability theory and information theory, the Kullback–Leibler divergence (also information divergence, information gain, relative entropy, KLIC, or KL divergence) is a non-symmetric measure of the difference between two probability distributions P and Q. Specifically, the Kullback–Leibler divergence of Q from P, denoted DKL(P‖Q), is a measure of the information lost when Q is used to approximate P: The Kullback–Leibler divergence measures the expected number of extra bits (so intuitively it is non negative; this can be verified by Jensen's inequality) required to code samples from P when using a code optimized for Q, rather than using the true code optimized for P. Typically P represents the ""true"" distribution of data, observations, or a precisely calculated theoretical distribution. The measure Q typically represents a theory, model, description, or approximation of P.Although it is often intuited as a metric or distance, the Kullback–Leibler divergence is not a true metric — for example, it is not symmetric: the Kullback–Leibler divergence from P to Q is generally not the same as that from Q to P. However, its infinitesimal form, specifically its Hessian, is a metric tensor: it is the Fisher information metric.Kullback–Leibler divergence is a special case of a broader class of divergences called f-divergences.It was originally introduced by Solomon Kullback and Richard Leibler in 1951 as the directed divergence between two distributions.It can be derived from a Bregman divergence.