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Application Of The Analytic Hierarchy Process For Selecting And Modeling Stormwater Best Management Practices, Kevin D. Young, Tamim Younos, Randel L. Dymond, David F. Kibler, David H. Lee Dec 2010

Application Of The Analytic Hierarchy Process For Selecting And Modeling Stormwater Best Management Practices, Kevin D. Young, Tamim Younos, Randel L. Dymond, David F. Kibler, David H. Lee

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Engineers are increasingly expected to consider several influential criteria when selecting a single best management practice (BMP) for stormwater management. These criteria include site physical characteristics; local, state, and federal pollution control ordinances; stakeholder input, and BMP implementation and long-term maintenance costs. This paper discusses the development of a software-aided approach based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) as a decision-making tool for selecting stormwater management BMPs. Supported with input from a geographic information system, the AHP can provide an objective, mathematically-based alternative to the existing, often subjective BMP selection approaches. In this study, the developed AHP decision support software …

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Watershed Retrofit And Management Evaluation For Urban Stormwater Management Systems In North Carolina, Kathy M. Debusk, William F. Hunt, Upton Hatch, Olha Sydorovych Dec 2010

Watershed Retrofit And Management Evaluation For Urban Stormwater Management Systems In North Carolina, Kathy M. Debusk, William F. Hunt, Upton Hatch, Olha Sydorovych

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

In response to water quality concerns in the Jordan Lake Reservoir and state and federal mandates, several cities in North Carolina are being required for the first time to reduce nutrient loads in stormwater from previously developed lands; that is, install retrofits. It is anticipated that similar requirements will become necessary for other urban areas in North Carolina. The goal of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of alternative approaches to stormwater management for existing developments within North Carolina cities. Geographic coverage of the study included a portion of the New Hope Creek watershed, located within the City of …

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Maintenance For Stormwater Treatment Practices, Andrew J. Erickson, John S. Gulliver, Joo-Hyon Kang, Peter T. Weiss, C. Bruce Wilson Dec 2010

Maintenance For Stormwater Treatment Practices, Andrew J. Erickson, John S. Gulliver, Joo-Hyon Kang, Peter T. Weiss, C. Bruce Wilson

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Maintenance is imperative to preserve performance and extend useable life of stormwater treatment practices. Increased attention to mass balance, numerical goals, total maximum daily loads (TMDLs), and antidegradation requirements has created the need for more emphasis on stormwater treatment practice maintenance in order to meet permitting and reporting requirements. The purpose of this paper is to advance short and long-term maintenance considerations so as to develop more realistic maintenance plans. To do so, a municipal public works survey was developed, distributed, and the results were analyzed. The results of the survey revealed that most (61 percent) cities and counties perform …

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Integration Of Education, Scholarship, And Service Through Stormwater Management, Andrea L. Welker, Bridget M. Wadzuk, Robert G. Traver Dec 2010

Integration Of Education, Scholarship, And Service Through Stormwater Management, Andrea L. Welker, Bridget M. Wadzuk, Robert G. Traver

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Education, scholarship, and service are the cornerstones of academia. This paper describes how the design, construction, and research of stormwater control measures on the campus of Villanova University has been used to integrate these three facets of academic life. To date, eleven stormwater control measures have been constructed on Villanova's campus. This paper will focus on how the authors have successfully used three of these stormwater control measures, a constructed stormwater wetland, a rain garden, and a porous asphalt/pervious concrete comparison study, to fulfil the university's commitments to education, scholarship, and service.

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Survey Says: Implications Of A Public Perception Survey On Stormwater Education Programming, Katie Giacalone, Catherine Mobley, Calvin Sawyer, James Witte, Gene Eidson Dec 2010

Survey Says: Implications Of A Public Perception Survey On Stormwater Education Programming, Katie Giacalone, Catherine Mobley, Calvin Sawyer, James Witte, Gene Eidson

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Effective watershed and stormwater education and public involvement programs strive to increase awareness of watersheds and landscape connectivity and also encourage behavior changes that may be contributing to water quality and quantity problems within a targeted basin. According to new guidance from the US Environmental Protection Agency on stormwater permit improvement, regulators are looking for programs to utilize targeted issues relevant to a community to guide the development of a comprehensive outreach program. In an effort to collect information on public perception, knowledge, behaviors and willingness to get involved in improved stormwater management, a telephone survey was implemented. This manuscript …

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Stormwater Management For A Record Rainstorm At Chicago, Stanley A. Changnon Dec 2010

Stormwater Management For A Record Rainstorm At Chicago, Stanley A. Changnon

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

A record setting 24-hour rainstorm hit Chicago in September 2008. It created an opportunity to assess its impacts and to compare the storm water management with that used in other recent rainstorms. Flooding impacted all forms of transportation and thousands of homes and businesses, 10,000 homes had to be evacuated. One lesson learned is that this storm's magnitude was enhanced by urban and lake influences on the atmosphere that extended over the large suburban areas west of the city. This helped intensify the rainfall over a large area. A second lesson learned is when 6-hour and 24-hour rainfall amounts exceed …

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Past Issues Of The Journal Of Contemporary Water Research And Education Dec 2010

Past Issues Of The Journal Of Contemporary Water Research And Education

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

No abstract provided.

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The Murray Ledger And Times, December 22, 2010, The Murray Ledger And Times Dec 2010

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 22, 2010, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

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Wetlands And Ponds For Stormwater Treatment In Subtropical Australia: Their Effectiveness In Enhancing Biodiversity And Improving Water Quality?, Margaret Greenway Dec 2010

Wetlands And Ponds For Stormwater Treatment In Subtropical Australia: Their Effectiveness In Enhancing Biodiversity And Improving Water Quality?, Margaret Greenway

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Stormwater best management practice is aimed at reducing potential downstream impacts on aquatic ecosystem health. Sediment basins, wetlands and ponds are commonly used in subtropical Australia for water-quality improvement; they also have the potential to enhance aquatic biodiversity in urbanised catchments. Two retrofit field sites in Brisbane, Australia were monitored for water quality and ecosystem health. The Golden Pond "wetland system" treatment train consisted of a sediment basin and two wetlands. The Bridgewater Creek "pond system", consisted of a sediment basin and five ponds. Suspended solids were reduced during wet weather, but increased during dry weather due to resuspension by …

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Best Management Practices For Stormwater Management In The Desert Southwest, Mahesh R. Gautam, Kumud Acharya, Mark Stone Dec 2010

Best Management Practices For Stormwater Management In The Desert Southwest, Mahesh R. Gautam, Kumud Acharya, Mark Stone

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Despite several decades of experience with stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs) in the United States, the application of such approaches in the Desert Southwest region has not received adequate attention. One reason for this shortcoming could be the general perception of the insignificance of BMPs in a region with little annual precipitation. However, the Desert Southwest still experiences relatively high rainfall intensity and runoff from rainfall. Sparse vegetation, steep topography, complex soils, unique geology, and rapid land development all contribute increase runoff response. Since the Desert Southwest hosts a large and rapidly growing population, stormwater BMPs are important for protecting …

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Macmillan Publishing Releases America And The British Imaginary In Turn-Of-The-Century Literature By Brook Miller, University Relations Dec 2010

Macmillan Publishing Releases America And The British Imaginary In Turn-Of-The-Century Literature By Brook Miller, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Miller's research and writing on varied British literary representations of America and Americans around the turn-of-the-century have received excellent reviews.

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Self-Insurance And The Potential Effects Of Health Reform On The Small-Group Market, Kathryn Linehan Dec 2010

Self-Insurance And The Potential Effects Of Health Reform On The Small-Group Market, Kathryn Linehan

National Health Policy Forum

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) as amended by the Health Care Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 makes landmark changes to health insurance markets. Individual and small-group insurance plans and markets will see the biggest changes, but PPACA also affects large employer and self-insured plans by imposing rules for benefit design and health plan practices. Over half of workers—most often those in very large firms—are covered by self-insured health plans in which employers (or employee groups) bear all or some of the risk of providing insurance coverage to a defined population of workers and their dependents. As PPACA …

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Earlier Buddhist Theories Of Free Will: Compatibilism, Rick Repetti Dec 2010

Earlier Buddhist Theories Of Free Will: Compatibilism, Rick Repetti

Publications and Research

This is the first part of a three-article series that examines Budd-hist accounts of free will. The present article introduces the issues and reviews earlier attempts by Frances Story, Walpola Rāhula, Luis Gómez, and David Kalupahana. These “early-period” authors advocate compatibilism between Buddhist doctrine, determinism (the doctrine of universal lawful causation), and free will. The second article reviews later attempts by Mark Siderits, Gay Watson, Joseph Goldstein, and Charles Goodman. These “middle-period” authors embrace either partial or full incompatibilism. The third article reviews recent attempts by Nicholas F. Gier and Paul Kjellberg, Asaf Federman, Peter Harvey, and B. Alan Wallace. …

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Evaluasi Pemekaran Kabupaten Sambas Berdasarkan 1 Peraturan Pemerintah Nomor 129 Tahun 2007, Roy V. Salomo, Lina Miftahul Jannah, Muh. Azis Muslim Dec 2010

Evaluasi Pemekaran Kabupaten Sambas Berdasarkan 1 Peraturan Pemerintah Nomor 129 Tahun 2007, Roy V. Salomo, Lina Miftahul Jannah, Muh. Azis Muslim

BISNIS & BIROKRASI: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi dan Organisasi

The year 1999 has been marked as the reform era where the old law on regional autonomy has been replaced with the new ones, i.e. Law Number 22 Year 1999 and Law Number 32 Year 2004. These two new laws have promoted the emergence of new local governments throughout Indonesia, as a process of amalgamation. Between 1999 and 2007 there were 173 new local governments emerged. The assumption that amalgamation will bring more fund and development to the new region (local government) has been the reason why this phenomenon emerged. The Municipality of Sambas is one of the examples. This …

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Rekonstruksi Konsepsi Supply-Side Tax Policy, Haula Rosdiana Dec 2010

Rekonstruksi Konsepsi Supply-Side Tax Policy, Haula Rosdiana

BISNIS & BIROKRASI: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi dan Organisasi

Supply-side tax policy is generally identified with tax cut and other forms of tax incentives. Nevertheless, there are many other forms of tax policy that give larger space for private sectors to increase their productivity. It is this enlarged meaning and essence of supply-side tax policy that need to be reconstructed to hinder the policy from being trapped into tax incentive polemic. By understanding its philosophy, the concept of supply-side tax policy can be reconstructed through regulations and deregulations. Government should develop regulations on specific transactions unambiguously in order to minimize tax dispute. Simultaneously, cost of taxation for government and …

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Penanganan Pengaduan Masyarakat Mengenai Pelayanan Publik, Sad Dian Utomo Dec 2010

Penanganan Pengaduan Masyarakat Mengenai Pelayanan Publik, Sad Dian Utomo

BISNIS & BIROKRASI: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi dan Organisasi

Citizen participation is a manifestation of people empowerment, an effort to improve people’s ability in decision making, as well as an attempt to control society’s own future. Local government in Semarang is aware of such urgency of participation and thus establishes the Center of Public Service Complaint Management (CPSCM) as an institution to coordinate, implement, and manage people’s complaints of public service. This research uses qualitative approach with Amstein’s ladder of citizen participation, and Burns, Hambleton & Hogget’s ladder of citizen empowerment as the main theories. This research aims to analyze factors that influence the effectiveness of CPSCM as an …

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Pengembangan Budaya Organisasi Di Lembaga Peradilan, Janedjri M. Gaffar Dec 2010

Pengembangan Budaya Organisasi Di Lembaga Peradilan, Janedjri M. Gaffar

BISNIS & BIROKRASI: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi dan Organisasi

This research concerns with organizational culture in a judiciary institution, with a case study at the Secretariat General and Clerk’s Office of the Indonesian Constitutional Court. The purpose of this research is to learn about the organizational culture growing in the institution, identify the appropriate culture and formulate choices of possible development. This research used qualitative approach. The data were collected through the method of observation, survey, and focus group discussion. The result of this research shows that in the dimension of external adaptation tasks, the culture developed in the Secretariat General and Clerk’s Office of the Indonesian Constitutional Court …

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Implementasi Kebijakan Konversi Desa Menjadi Kelurahan, Agnes Wirdayanti Dec 2010

Implementasi Kebijakan Konversi Desa Menjadi Kelurahan, Agnes Wirdayanti

BISNIS & BIROKRASI: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi dan Organisasi

The research aims to describe the factors that support the successful implementation of amalgamation policy of Depok from a County to a City from 2001 up to 2006. The research used descriptive qualitative approach. The result shows that theimplementation of the amalgamation policy ran well since there was no resistance from the people, County and City apparatuses. The factors that affect the amalgamation policy are: communication, resources, the executor’s attitude and the bureaucracy structure of City apparatuses; they become the main subject in the governance process. Quantitatively the number of City employees are sufficient, however qualitatively it is not adequate. …

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Aluminum And Solid Alkali Peroxide Galvanic Cell, Robert Frederick Benson, Andres M. Cardenas-Valencia, Lawrence C. Langebrake Dec 2010

Aluminum And Solid Alkali Peroxide Galvanic Cell, Robert Frederick Benson, Andres M. Cardenas-Valencia, Lawrence C. Langebrake

USF Patents

The present invention provides a galvanic cell having an aluminum anode and a cathode compartment design suitable for carrying out the aqueous electrochemical reaction between solid aluminum metal and aqueous peroxide ions. The galvanic cell is activated when water, aqueous hydroxide solution, or an aqueous salt solution is added to the cell. This reaction releases a significant amount of electrochemical energy from a small size (mass or volume) cell. This cell reaction and design leads to an improvement in energy released over state-of-the-art aluminum/hydrogen peroxide galvanic cells.

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Combined Fiber-Optic Absorption And Emission Measurement Apparatus, Nicholas Djeu Dec 2010

Combined Fiber-Optic Absorption And Emission Measurement Apparatus, Nicholas Djeu

USF Patents

Disclosed is a spectroscopic system having a fiber-optic probe for simultaneous IR and Raman measurement. The probe includes a single strand of optical fiber, such as sapphire which is suitable for IR absorption measurements as far as 4 μm and Raman excitation at wavelengths as short as 300 nm. The probe is immersed in the sample and functions in the evanescent wave mode for both IR absorption and Raman scattering measurements. The sensing system makes possible the synergistic, and simultaneous, analysis of both IR and Raman data in an integrated device.

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Excitation Band-Gap Tuning Of Dopant Based Quantum Dots With Core-Inner Shell-Outer Shell Div, Swadeshmukul Santra, Soumitra Kar Dec 2010

Excitation Band-Gap Tuning Of Dopant Based Quantum Dots With Core-Inner Shell-Outer Shell Div, Swadeshmukul Santra, Soumitra Kar

UCF Patents

A composition and method for fabricating and tuning a dopant based core-shell semiconductor having a quantum dot core with an excitation band-gap are provided. A quantum dot core composed of an alloy of cadmium sulfide (CdS) and zinc sulfide (ZnS) as semi-conductor materials include a dopant of manganese (Mn) added to the core and an outer shell of zine sulfide (ZnS). The dopant based core/shell quantum dot semiconductor of the present invention allows the fine tuning of an excitation band-gap, covering a wide range (from 2.4 eV to ~4 eV). When doped with Mn, these alloy Qdots emit bright yellow/orange …

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E Goldstein (Jpm) Letter To Gary Cohen Re Use Of Dimon Quotes, Eric Goldstein Dec 2010

E Goldstein (Jpm) Letter To Gary Cohen Re Use Of Dimon Quotes, Eric Goldstein

Documents

This letter is addressed to Gary J. Cohen

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Unl Physicists Model Potential 4-D Imaging Technique, Tom Simons, Hua-Chieh Shao, Anthony F. Starace Dec 2010

Unl Physicists Model Potential 4-D Imaging Technique, Tom Simons, Hua-Chieh Shao, Anthony F. Starace

Anthony F. Starace Publications

A long-standing goal of science is to be able to understand how matter behaves at the atomic and subatomic level. How electrons rearrange when atoms or molecules come together is the essence of chemistry, and the ability to manipulate those rearrangements is the goal of the emerging sphere of nanotechnology. A fuller understanding could lead to enormous scientific and technological breakthroughs. Unfortunately, significant problems confront scientists and engineers in attacking the question. Not only are atoms and molecules very small, requiring highly specialized equipment to "see" them, everything at the atomic level happens very, very fast. For example, an electron …

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Dean Logan's Blog: The Passing Of A Friend, Roger Williams University School Of Law Dec 2010

Dean Logan's Blog: The Passing Of A Friend, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law School Blogs

No abstract provided.

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Purification Of Solar Grade Silicon Using Electromagnetic Field, Anping Dong, Lucas N.W. Damoah, Lifeng Zhang, Hui Zhu Dec 2010

Purification Of Solar Grade Silicon Using Electromagnetic Field, Anping Dong, Lucas N.W. Damoah, Lifeng Zhang, Hui Zhu

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Non-metallic particles and the metallic impurity elements in the solar cell silicon have a strong detrimental effect on the conversion efficiency of the solar cell. Removing these impurities is one of the important tasks for silicon refining. the current paper proposed a new approach to purify silicon - electromagnetic (EM) separation. Since the non-metallic particles and the metallic impurity elements are non- or less conductive while the molten silicon is well conductive, under EM field, the Lorenz force will push the particles to the boundary layer, thus separate these inclusions. in the current study, a high frequency EM field was …

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Persepsi Nasabah Terhadap Penerapan Sistem Layanan Produk Dan Jasa E-Banking, Mieke Suharini Dec 2010

Persepsi Nasabah Terhadap Penerapan Sistem Layanan Produk Dan Jasa E-Banking, Mieke Suharini

BISNIS & BIROKRASI: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi dan Organisasi

This research analyzes the customer's perception towards the application of e-banking service system applied by Bank Mandiri, starting from the end of the year 2005. The respondents of this research are Bank Mandiri Costumers living in Jakarta. This research used quantitative approach. The result shows that the majority of the respondents generally gave a positive response towards the indicators used in this research. Even so, some indicators, such as responsiveness, promotion, product variety, and information intake for the customers, are still not seen in particular by the respondents. This means the majority of bank customers in Jakarta think that the …

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Analisis Dan Penilaian Kinerja Portofolio Optimal Saham-Saham Lq-45, Umanto Eko Dec 2010

Analisis Dan Penilaian Kinerja Portofolio Optimal Saham-Saham Lq-45, Umanto Eko

BISNIS & BIROKRASI: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi dan Organisasi

Portfolio is basically related to how one allocates a number of stocks into various investment types that results on optimal profits. By making diversification, investor may reduce the rate of risk and at the same time optimize the rate of expected return. Based on that, this research raises the problem of how to design an optimal portfolio simulation, i.e. a combination of liquid shares LQ 45 listed in Jakarta Stock Exchange (Now is known as Indonesia Stock Exchange, after the merger with Surabaya Stock Exchange) in the period of 2002- 2007 by using Single Index Model and Constant Correlation Model. …

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Theatre Of The Arts: Caribbean Intertextuality And The Muse Of Place, Lara B. Cahill-Booth Dec 2010

Theatre Of The Arts: Caribbean Intertextuality And The Muse Of Place, Lara B. Cahill-Booth

Open Access Dissertations

Theatre of the Arts: Caribbean Intertextuality and the Muse of Place is a literary geography that explores how specific environments shape imaginative interventions into history and language. I begin by examining the unity of Derek Walcott's vision of the sea, tracing its ties to oral history, literary canon, and personal reveries of emplacement in Omeros and other epic-minded poems. I follow the sea to its continental origins, examining the Guyanas, an Amazonian bioregion on the borderlands of Guyana, Brazil, and Venezuela, as a place imaginatively remapped by twentieth-century novelists Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, Mario de Andrade, and Pauline Melville. I …

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A Comparative Analysis Of Changes In Postural Control Following Training Using The Wii Balance Program And Standardized Falls Prevention Programs, Alessandra Pluchino Dec 2010

A Comparative Analysis Of Changes In Postural Control Following Training Using The Wii Balance Program And Standardized Falls Prevention Programs, Alessandra Pluchino

Open Access Dissertations

Declines in balance and postural control are believed to be the major neuromuscular factors that contribute to an increased risk of falling with age. Balance training has been reported to be an effective tool for increasing these parameters in older fallers, but its effectiveness in improving balance in higher-functioning, independent-living elders is uncertain. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to compare the impact of two formal balance-training interventions (Tai Chi and standardize balance exercise program [SBEP]) and an activity-promoting video game, the Wii Fit balance program. METHODS: Twenty-nine healthy, independent seniors (72.10 ± 7.80) were randomly assigned to eight …

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Metastable Anions Of Dinitrobenzene: Resonances For Electron Attachment And Kinetic Energy Release, A. Mauracher, S. Denifl, A. Edtbauer, M. Hager, M. Probst, Olof E. Echt, T. D. Maerk, P. Scheier, T. A. Field, K. Graupner Dec 2010

Metastable Anions Of Dinitrobenzene: Resonances For Electron Attachment And Kinetic Energy Release, A. Mauracher, S. Denifl, A. Edtbauer, M. Hager, M. Probst, Olof E. Echt, T. D. Maerk, P. Scheier, T. A. Field, K. Graupner

Physics & Astronomy

Attachment of free, low-energy electrons to dinitrobenzene (DNB) in the gas phase leads to DNB as well as several fragment anions. DNB, (DNB-H), (DNB-NO), (DNB-2NO), and (DNB-NO(2)) are found to undergo metastable (unimolecular) dissociation. A rich pattern of resonances in the yield of these metastable reactions versus electron energy is observed; some resonances are highly isomer-specific. Most metastable reactions are accompanied by large average kinetic energy releases (KER) that range from 0.5 to 1.32 eV, typical of complex rearrangement reactions, but (1,3-DNB-H)(-) features a resonance with a KER of only 0.06 eV for loss of NO. (1,3-DNB-NO)(-) offers a rare …

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