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What is SWOT analysis? What are the main aspects of SWOT analysis? How to write Good SWOT analysis of a company? Where to find information for SWOT analysis?
SWOT analysis is also known as TOWS analysis.
Environmental opportunities are only potential opportunities unless the organization can utilize resources to take advantage of them and until the strategic leader decides that it is appropriate to pursue the opportunity. It is therefore important to evaluate environment opportunities in relation to the strengths and weaknesses of the organization's resources, and in relation to the organizational culture. Real opportunities exist when there is a close fit between environment, values and resources. An evaluation of an organization's strengths and weaknesses in relation to environmental opportunities and threats is generally referred to as a SWOT analysis. The following report will look closely into the SWOT's concept, its main aspects, and criteria for successful and effective SWOT analysis.
Main Aspects of SWOT Analysis
SWOT has a long history as a tool of strategic and marketing analysis. No one knows who first invented SWOT analysis. It has features in strategy textbooks since at least 1972 and can now be found in textbooks on marketing and any other business disciplines. Its advocates say that it can be used to gauge the degree of "fit" between the organisation's strategies and its environment, and to suggest ways in which the organisation can profit from strengths and opportunities and shield itself against weaknesses and threats (Adams, 2005). However, SWOT has come under criticism recently. Because it is so simple, both students and managers have a tendency to use it without a great deal of thought, so that the results are often useless. Another problem is that SWOT, having been conceived in simpler times, does not cope very well with some of the subtler aspects of modern strategic theory, such as trade-offs (De Witt and Meyer, 1998).
Determine an organisation's strong points. This should be from both internal and external customers. A strength is a "resource advantage relative to competitors and the needs of the markets a firm serves or expects to serve"
(http://www.css.nccu.edu.tw/mepa/mepa_course/2005/kao/ 20060221_1.ppt#1). It is a distinctive competence when it gives the firm a comparative advantage in the marketplace. Strengths arise from the resources and competencies available to the firm.
Determine an organisation's weaknesses. This should be not only from its own point of view, but also more importantly, from those of the customers. Although it may be difficult for an organisation to acknowledge its weaknesses, it is best to handle the bitter reality without procrastination. A weakness is a "limitation or deficiency in one or more resources or competencies relative to competitors that impedes a firm's effective performance" (http://gift.postech.ac.kr/admin/bbs/data/summer_session_2004/ Corporate%20Strategy_ver%5B7%5D_final(1).ppt).
marketplace. After all, opportunities are everywhere, such as the changes in technology, government policy, social patterns, and so on. An opportunity is a major situation in a firm's environment. Key trends are one source of opportunities. Identification of a previously overlooked market segment, changes in competitive or regulatory circumstances, technological changes, and improved buyer or supplier relationships could represent opportunities for the firm.
No one likes to think about threats, but we still have to face them, despite the fact that they are external factors that are out of our control, for example, the recent economic slump in Asia. It is vital to be prepared and face threats even during turbulent times. A threat is a major unfavourable situation in a firm's environment. Threats are key impediments to the firm's current or desired position. The entrance of new competitors, slow market growth, increased bargaining power of key buyers or suppliers, technological changes, and new or revised regulations could represent threats to a firm's success.
Because SWOT is such a familiar and comforting tool, many students use it at the start of their analysis. This is a mistake. In order to arrive at a proper SWOT appraisal, other analyses need to be carried out first.
- Since opportunities and threats mostly arise from the environment, SWOT analysis needs to take account of the results of a full environmental analysis.
- It is impossible to gauge what an organisation's real strengths are until you have assessed its strategic resources - in fact, strategic resources and strengths are the same thing. There is a tendency for students to put down anything vaguely favourable that they can think of about a company as a strength. This temptation needs to be resisted - a strength is not a strength unless it makes a genuine difference to an organisation's competitiveness. The same is true of weaknesses.
For example, look at Southwest Airlines and Amazon.com. Both companies have important groups of potential customers to whom they offer poor service. Southwest ignores business passengers, and will not accept transfers from other airlines. Amazon makes people wait days to receive books that they can obtain instantly from their neighbourhood bookstores, and pay a delivery charge for the privilege. Surely, these are major threats. Southwest and Amazon have chosen not to give those customers priority. Serving them would divert resources from the firm's core markets, and dilute service to their main customers. Not serving them is certainly not a weakness; in a paradoxical way, it may be a strength.
The wizardry of SWOT is the matching of specific internal and external factors, which creates a strategic matrix and which makes sense. It is essential to note that the internal factors are within the control of organisation, such as operations, finance, marketing, and other areas. On the contrary, the external factors are out of the organisation's control, such as political and economic factors, technology, competition, and other areas. The four combinations are called the maxi-maxi (strengths/opportunities), maxi-mini (strengths/threats), mini-maxi (weaknesses/opportunities), and mini-mini (weaknesses/threats). Weihrich (1982) describes the four combinations as follows:
- Maxi-maxi (S/O). This combination shows the organisation's strengths and opportunities. In essence, an organisation should strive to maximise its strengths to capitalise on new opportunities.
- Maxi-mini (S/T). This combination shows the organisation's strengths in consideration of threats, e.g. from competitors. In essence, an organisation should strive to use its strengths to parry or minimise threats.
- Mini-maxi (W/O). This combination shows the organisation's weaknesses in tandem with opportunities. It is an exertion to conquer the organisation's weaknesses by making the most of any new opportunities.
- Mini-mini (W/T). This combination shows the organisation's weaknesses by comparison with the current external threats. This is most definitely defensive strategy, to minimise an organisation's internal weaknesses and avoid external threats.
How to Write a Good SWOT Analysis
A successfully conducted SWOT involves identifying the following:
- The things an organisation does particularly well (strengths) or badly (weaknesses) at present.
- The factors that in the future may give the organisation potential to grow and increase its profits (opportunities) or may make its position weaker (threats). Opportunities and threats normally arise from changes in the environment, but sometimes have their origin inside the organisation - for example, if key machinery or people, functioning very effectively at present, are likely to break down or retire in a few years' time, that is a threat.
It is important to bear in mind what a SWOT is for. It is intended to summarise a strategic situation, with a view to deciding what the organisation should do next. A SWOT analysis should contain sufficient information for any reader to be able to see why a particular issue counts as a strength, weakness, opportunity or threat, and what the implications are for the firm that you are analysing.
For the same reason, there is no room for equivocation in a SWOT analysis - a factor can be a strength or a weakness, but not both. For example, a firm's IT system may provide good management reports but poor production control information. It is pointless to put this down as both a strength and a weakness that partially cancel each other out, since managers have only two choices: either they upgrade the system or they do not (Mintzberg, 1990). This means that you need to come to a definite answer to the question: On balance, is the IT system a strength or a weakness? Perhaps the lack of good production information is important, in which case the system needs to be upgraded. Perhaps it is vital to maintain the flow of management information, in which case the system should not be touched (Thompson, 2002). SWOT analysis aims to differentiate factors from being bad or good for the company's performance. In a SWOT analysis, the strengths and weaknesses of resources must be considered in relative and not absolute terms. It is important to consider whether they are being managed effectively as well as efficiently. Resources, therefore, are not strong or weak purely because they exist or do not exist. Rather, their value depends on how they are being managed, controlled and used.
SWOT analyses should only pick out issues that have a substantial effect on a firm's competitive situation. You should avoid the temptation to put down under "Strengths" almost everything you can think of that is vaguely favourable to the firm, and to classify anything remotely unfavourable as a weakness. It should be rare, to make a genuine difference to the organisations' profitability - a strategic resource. A weakness, similarly, is something that affects the organisation's cost or differentiation advantage. Old-fashioned equipment and authoritarian management styles, for instance, are only weaknesses if they lead to increased costs, poor quality or bad customer service (Thompson, 2002; Adams, 2005).
Lists of strengths and weaknesses should not include factors that are common to every firm in an industry. For example, you could not count "well-known brand" as a strength for a firm in the jeans or cosmetic industries such as L'Oreal, since many brands are equally famous. Instead of writing that main opportunities of the company are overseas expansion and brand extension, it is crucial to replace it with a broader definition and explanation. The example of a more successful explanation could be: "Eastern European markets, with developing spending power and proven appetite for Western consumer brands, represent opportunity. 25% of existing sales in airport outlets are to customers travelling to these countries". Another example could involve: "Competing firms have extended brands to cosmetics, spectacles, jeans and stationery. Likely opportunity for this firm to follow suit" (Adams, 2005).
Instead of saying that the threat of a firm is in exchange rate fluctuations, the statements of: "Appreciation of euro versus dollar likely to lead to reduced value of US profits (25% of total)" or "This is a specific threat that affects this firm because of its high proportion of US sales" could be appropriate (De Witt and Meyer, 1998).
In order to write a good SWOT the following criteria must be taken into account:
- Make your points long enough, and include enough detail, to make it plain why a particular factor is important, and why it can be considered as a strength, weakness, opportunity or threat. Include precise evidence, and cite figures, where possible.
- Be as specific as you can about the precise nature of a firm's strength and weakness. Do not be content with general factors like economies of scale.
- Avoid vague, general opportunities and threats that could be put forward for just about any organisation under any circumstances.
- Do not mistake the outcomes of a strength (such as profits and market share) for strengths in their own right;
- Improvement is not the same as strength - do not confuse the two;
- Avoid contradicting yourself in the course of the analysis, by having strengths and weaknesses that are essentially different aspects of the same strategy of resource. Come to a reasoned conclusion about whether the good points outweigh the bad ones, or vice versa.
Where to Find Information for SWOT Analysis
Students when finding the essential information for conducting SWOT analysis, would have to look at company's business reports, annual reviews, published performance data on financial resources, marketing and operations, including current suppliers and key stakeholders groups.
It can also be helpful to search various journals on marketing, strategy and human resources to find out more published and referenced information on the company's past experience, its current position and future objectives.
SWOT Analysis Limitations
A key element of strategic option formulation is the matching of organizational strengths and weaknesses with opportunities and threats which exist in the marketplace. SWOT analysis is widely recognized in the marketing and strategic management literature as a systematic way of achieving this end. A number of critics however have claimed that the output from a SWOT analysis is often either trivial or so broad as to be relatively meaningless in the context of making actual marketing decisions. Mintzberg (1990), for example, states that the assessment of strengths and weaknesses may be unreliable, being bound up with aspirations, biases and hopes. Therefore, it is important for strengths and weaknesses to be defined in the context of a situation. As a consequence, a creative problem-solving tool such as brainstorming may thus be a useful help in overcoming this difficulty.
SWOT analysis can be used in many ways to aid strategic analysis. The most common way is to use it as a logical framework guiding systematic discussion of a firm's resources and the basic alternatives that emerge from this resource-based view. What one manager sees as an opportunity, another may see as a potential threat. Likewise, a strength to one manager can be a weakness to another. Different assessments may reflect underlying power considerations within the firm or differing factual perspectives. Systematic analysis of these issues facilitates objectives internal analysis (Hill and Westbrook, 1997; Markides, 1999). Understanding the key opportunities and threats facing a firm helps its managers identify realistic options from which to choose an appropriate strategy and clarifies the most effective niche for the firm.
One of the historical deficiencies of SWOT analysis was the tendency to rely on a very general, categorical assessment of internal capabilities. The resource-based view came to exist in part as a remedy to this void in the strategic management field. It is an excellent way to identify internal strengths and weaknesses and use that information to enhance the quality of a SWOT analysis. Similarly, value chain analysis identifies elements of a company's capabilities and operations that are useful in conducting a SWOT analysis.
SWOT helps a company to see itself for better and for worse. Companies are inherently insular and inward looking SWOTs are a means by which a company can better understand what it does very well and where its shortcomings are. SWOTs will help the company size up the competitive landscape and get some insight into the vagaries of the marketplace.
SWOT analysis has been a framework of choice among many managers for along time because of its simplicity and its portrayal of the essence of sound strategy formulation - matching a firm's opportunities and threats wit its strengths and weaknesses. Central to making SWOT analysis effective is accurate internal analysis - the identification of specific strengths and weaknesses around which sound strategy can be built.
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F3 was originally developed by SeeBeyond's own Chris Oliver and the small group he headed, including Ricardo Rocha, and it's a tribute to both SeeBeyond and Sun that they were willing to stick with the project when another company might have written it off. It's great to be part of an outfit that is willing to take a chance on seemingly crazy ideas, and to keep supporting the people who dream them up, even when some of them fail.
More prosaically, Sun took a chance with its recent half price sale, which had the unintended bad effect of alienating our channel partners. But Sun recovered quickly, soothed the channel, Jonathan apologized, and life went on without recriminations. To my mind, Sun's encouragement of risk-taking ideas is one of its greatest strengths.


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Volume 121, Issue 22, 08 December 2004
Rydberg–London potential for diatomic molecules and unbonded atom pairs121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1830011View Description Hide Description
We propose and test a pair potential that is accurate at all relevant distances and simple enough for use in large-scale computer simulations. A combination of the Rydberg potential from spectroscopy and the London inverse-sixth-power energy, the proposed form fits spectroscopically determined potentials better than the Morse, Varnshi, and Hulburt–Hirschfelder potentials and much better than the Lennard-Jones and harmonic potentials. At long distances, it goes smoothly to the London force appropriate for gases and preserves van der Waals's "continuity of the gas and liquid states," which is routinely violated by coefficients assigned to the Lennard-Jones 6-12 form.
Fragile-to-strong liquid transition in deeply supercooled confined water121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1832595View Description Hide Description
Confining water in lab synthesized nanoporoussilica matrices MCM-41-S with pore diameters of 18 and 14 Å, we have been able to study the molecular dynamics of water in deeply supercooled states, down to 200 K. Using quasielastic neutron scattering and analyzing the data with the relaxing cage model, we determined the temperature variation of the average translational relaxation time and its -dependence. We find a clear evidence of an abrupt change of the relaxation time behavior at which we interpreted as the predicted fragile-to-strong liquid–liquid transition.
Atomistic simulations of biologically realistic transmembrane potential gradients121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1826056View Description Hide Description
We present all-atom molecular dynamics simulations of biologically realistic transmembrane potential gradients across a DMPC bilayer. These simulations are the first to model this gradient in all-atom detail, with the field generated solely by explicit ion dynamics. Unlike traditional bilayer simulations that have one bilayer per unit cell, we simulate a 170 mV potential gradient by using a unit cell consisting of three salt-water baths separated by two bilayers, with full three-dimensional periodicity. The study shows that current computational resources are powerful enough to generate a truly electrified interface, as we show the predicted effect of the field on the overall charge distribution. Additionally, starting from Poisson's equation, we show a new derivation of the double integral equation for calculating the potential profile in systems with this type of periodicity.
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- Theoretical Methods and Algorithms
Correlation energy extrapolation by intrinsic scaling. III. Compact wave functions121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1814937View Description Hide Description
The information gained in the context of extrapolating the correlation energy by intrinsic scaling is used to shorten the full configurational expansions of electronic wave function without compromising their chemical accuracy. The truncations are accomplished by judiciously limiting the participation of the ranges of predetermined approximate sets of natural orbitals in the various excitation categories.
Globally convergent trust-region methods for self-consistent field electronic structure calculations121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1814935View Description Hide Description
As far as more complex systems are being accessible for quantum chemical calculations, the reliability of the algorithms used becomes increasingly important. Trust-region strategies comprise a large family of optimization algorithms that incorporates both robustness and applicability for a great variety of problems. The objective of this work is to provide a basic algorithm and an adequate theoretical framework for the application of globally convergent trust-region methods to electronic structure calculations. Closed shell restricted Hartree–Fock calculations are addressed as finite-dimensional nonlinear programming problems with weighted orthogonality constraints. A Levenberg–Marquardt-like modification of a trust-region algorithm for constrained optimization is developed for solving this problem. It is proved that this algorithm is globally convergent. The subproblems that ensure global convergence are easy-to-compute projections and are dependent only on the structure of the constraints, thus being extendable to other problems. Numerical experiments are presented, which confirm the theoretical predictions. The structure of the algorithm is such that accelerations can be easily associated without affecting the convergence properties.
Variationally optimized basis orbitals for biological molecules121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1794591View Description Hide Description
Numerical atomic basis orbitals are variationally optimized for biological molecules such as proteins, polysaccharides, and deoxyribonucleic acid within a density functional theory. Based on a statistical treatment of results of a fully variational optimization of basis orbitals ( full optimized basis orbitals) for 43 biological model molecules, simple sets of preoptimized basis orbitals classified under the local chemical environment (simple preoptimized basis orbitals) are constructed for hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, and sulfur atoms, each of which contains double valence plus polarization basis function. For a wide variety of molecules we show that the simple preoptimized orbitals provide well convergent energy and physical quantities comparable to those calculated by the full optimized orbitals, which demonstrates that the simple preoptimized orbitals possess substantial transferability for biological molecules.
Lower and upper bounds for the absolute free energy by the hypothetical scanning Monte Carlo method: Application to liquid argon and water121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1814355View Description Hide Description
The hypothetical scanning (HS) method is a general approach for calculating the absoluteentropyS and free energyF by analyzing Boltzmann samples obtained by Monte Carlo or molecular dynamics techniques. With HS applied to a fluid, each configuration i of the sample is reconstructed by gradually placing the molecules in their positions at i using transition probabilities (TPs). At each step of the process the system is divided into two parts, the already treated molecules (the "past"), which are fixed, and the as yet unspecified (mobile) "future" molecules. Obtaining the TP exactly requires calculating partition functions over all positions of the future molecules in the presence of the frozen past, thus it is customary to invoke various approximations to best represent these quantities. In a recent publication [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 9235 (2004)] we developed a version of HS called complete HSMC, where each TP is calculated from an MC simulation involving all of the future molecules (the complete future); the method was applied very successfully to Lennard-Jones systems (liquid argon) and a box of TIP3P water molecules. In its basic implementation the method provides lower and upper bounds for F, where the latter can be evaluated only for relatively small systems. Here we introduce a new expression for an upper bound, which can be evaluated for larger systems. We also propose a new exact expression for F and verify its effectiveness. These free energy functionals lead to significantly improved accuracy (as applied to the liquid systems above) which is comparable to our thermodynamic integration results. We formalize and discuss theoretical aspects of HSMC that have not been addressed in previous studies. Additionally, several functionals are developed and shown to provide the free energy through the analysis of a single configuration.
Correlation energy extrapolation by intrinsic scaling. I. Method and application to the neon atom121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1811603View Description Hide Description
Remarkably accurate scaling relations are shown to exist between the correlation energy contributions from various excitation levels of the configuration interaction approach, considered as functions of the size of the correlating orbital space. These relationships are used to develop a method for extrapolating a sequence of smaller configuration interaction calculations to the full configuration-interaction energy. Calculations of the neon atom ground state with the Dunning's quadruple ζ basis set demonstrate the ability of the method to obtain benchmark quality results.
Correlation energy extrapolation by intrinsic scaling. II. The water and the nitrogen molecule121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1811604View Description Hide Description
The extrapolation method for determining benchmark quality full configuration-interaction energies described in preceding paper [L. Bytautas and K. Ruedenberg, J. Chem. Phys. 121, 10905 (2004)] is applied to the molecules and As in the neon atom case, discussed in preceding paper [L. Bytautas and K. Ruedenberg, J. Chem. Phys. 121, 10905 (2004)] remarkably accurate scaling relations are found to exist between the correlation energy contributions from various excitation levels of the configuration-interaction approach, considered as functions of the size of the correlating orbital space. The method for extrapolating a sequence of smaller configuration-interaction calculations to the full configuration-interaction energy and for constructing compact accurate configuration-interaction wave functions is also found to be effective for these molecules. The results are compared with accurate ab initio methods, such as many-body perturbationtheory,coupled-cluster theory, as well as with variational calculations wherever possible.
A natural linear scaling coupled-cluster method121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1811606View Description Hide Description
It is shown that using an appropriate localized molecular orbital (LMO) basis, one is able to calculate coupled-cluster singles and doubles (CCSD) wave functions and energies for very large systems by performing full CCSD calculations on small subunits only. This leads to a natural linear scaling coupled-cluster method (NLSCC), in which total correlation energies of extended systems are evaluated as the sum of correlation energy contributions from individual small subunits within that system. This is achieved by defining local occupied orbital correlation energies. These are quantities, which in the LMO basis become transferable between similar molecular fragments. Conventional small scale existing molecular CCSD codes are all that is needed, the local correlation effect being simply transmitted via the appropriate LMO basis. Linear scaling of electronic correlation energy calculations is thus naturally achieved using the NLSCC approach, which in principle can treat nonperiodic extended systems of infinite basis set size. Results are shown for alkanes and several polyglycine molecules and the latter compared to recent results obtained via an explicit large scale LCCSD calculation.
Exact decoupling of the Dirac Hamiltonian. II. The generalized Douglas–Kroll–Hess transformation up to arbitrary order121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1818681View Description Hide Description
In order to achieve exact decoupling of the Dirac Hamiltonian within a unitary transformation scheme, we have discussed in part I of this series that either a purely numerical iterative technique (the Barysz–Sadlej–Snijders method) or a stepwise analytic approach (the Douglas–Kroll–Hess method) are possible. For the evaluation of Douglas–Kroll–Hess Hamiltonians up to a pre-defined order it was shown that a symbolic scheme has to be employed. In this work, an algorithm for this analytic derivation of Douglas–Kroll–Hess Hamiltonians up to any arbitrary order in the external potential is presented. We discuss how an estimate for the necessary order for exact decoupling (within machine precision) for a given system can be determined from the convergence behavior of the Douglas–Kroll–Hess expansion prior to a quantum chemical calculation. Once this maximum order has been accomplished, the spectrum of the positive-energy part of the decoupled Hamiltonian, e.g., for electronic bound states, cannot be distinguished from the corresponding part of the spectrum of the Dirac operator. An efficient scalar-relativistic implementation of the symbolic operations for the evaluation of the positive-energy part of the block-diagonal Hamiltonian is presented, and its accuracy is tested for ground-state energies of one-electron ions over the whole periodic table. Furthermore, the first many-electron calculations employing sixth up to fourteenth order DKH Hamiltonians are presented.
First-order semidefinite programming for the direct determination of two-electron reduced density matrices with application to many-electron atoms and molecules121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1810134View Description Hide Description
Direct variational calculation of two-electron reduced density matrices (2-RDMs) for many-electron atoms and molecules in nonminimal basis sets has recently been achieved through the use of first-order semidefinite programming [D. A. Mazziotti, Phys. Rev. Lett. (in press)]. With semidefinite programming, the electronic ground-state energy of a molecule is minimized with respect to the 2-RDM subject to N-representability constraints known as positivity conditions. Here we present a detailed account of the first-order algorithm for semidefinite programming and its comparison with the primal-dual interior-point algorithms employed in earlier variational 2-RDM calculations. The first-order semidefinite-programming algorithm, computations show, offers an orders-of-magnitude reduction in floating-point operations and storage in comparison with previous implementations. We also examine the ability of the positivity conditions to treat strong correlation and multireference effects through an analysis of the Hamiltonians for which the conditions are exact. Calculations are performed in nonminimal basis sets for a variety of atoms and molecules and the potential-energy curves for CO and
A canonical averaging in the second-order quantized Hamilton dynamics121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1812749View Description Hide Description
Quantized Hamilton dynamics (QHD) is a simple and elegant extension of classical Hamilton dynamics that accurately includes zero-point energy,tunneling,dephasing, and other quantum effects. Formulated as a hierarchy of approximations to exact quantum dynamics in the Heisenberg formulation, QHD has been used to study evolution of observables subject to a single initial condition. In present, we develop a practical solution for generating canonical ensembles in the second-order QHD for position and momentum operators, which can be mapped onto classical phase space in doubled dimensionality and which in certain limits is equivalent to thawed Gaussian. We define a thermal distribution in the space of the QHD-2 variables and show that the standard relationship becomes in the high temperature limit due to an overcounting of states in the extended phase space, and a more complicated function at low temperatures. The QHD thermal distribution is used to compute total energy, kinetic energy, heat capacity, and other canonical averages for a series of quartic potentials, showing good agreement with the quantum results.
- Gas Phase Dynamics and Structure: Spectroscopy, Molecular Interactions, Scattering, and Photochemistry
Methane activation by nickel cluster cations, Reaction mechanisms and thermochemistry of cluster- complexes121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1814095View Description Hide Description
The kinetic energy dependences of the reactions of with are studied in a guided ion beam tandem mass spectrometer over the energy range of 0–10 eV. The main products are hydride formation dehydrogenation to form and double dehydrogenation yielding These primary products decompose at higher energies to form and and are not observed. In general, the efficiencies of the single and double dehydrogenation processes increase with cluster size. All reactions exhibit thresholds, and cross sections for the various primary and secondary reactions are analyzed to yield reaction thresholds from which bond energies for nickel cluster cations to C, CD, and are determined. The relative magnitudes of these bond energies are consistent with simple bond order considerations. Bond energies for larger clusters rapidly reach relatively constant values, which are used to estimate the chemisorption energies of the C, CD, and molecular fragments to nickel surfaces.
Quantum effect on the internal proton transfer and structural fluctuation in the cluster121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1812739View Description Hide Description
The thermal equilibrium state of is investigated by means of an ab initio path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) method, in which degrees of freedom of both nuclei and electrons at finite temperature are quantized within the adiabatic approximation. The second-order Møller-Plesset force field has been employed for the present ab initio PIMD. At 5–200 K, is shown to have the structure that the proton is surrounded by the two units without any exchange of an atom between the central proton and the unit. At 5 K, the quantum tunneling of the central proton occurs more easily when the distance between the two units is shortened. At the high temperature of 200 K, the central proton is more delocalized in space between the two units, with less correlation with the stretching of the distance between the two units. As for the rotation of the units around the axis of the dihedral angle distribution is homogeneous at all temperatures, suggesting that the two units freely rotate around the axis, while this quantum effect on the rotation of the units becomes more weakened with increasing temperature. The influence of the structural fluctuation of on molecular orbital energies has been examined to conclude that the highest occupied molecular orbital–lowest unoccupied molecular orbital energy gap is largely reduced with the increase of temperature because of the spatial expansion of the whole cluster.
Multireference calculations of the phosphorescence and photodissociation of chlorobenzene121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1810135View Description Hide Description
Multireference complete active space self-consistent-field (CASSCF) and multireference CASSF second-order perturbation theory (MSCASPT2) calculations were performed on the ground state and a number of low-lying excited singlet and triplet states of chlorobenzene. The dual phosphorescence observed experimentally is clearly explained by the MSCASPT2 potential-energy curves. Experimental findings regarding the dissociation channels of chlorobenzene at 193, 248, and 266 nm are clarified from extensive theoreticalinformation including all low-energy potential-energy curves.
Electronic structure, vibrational stability, and predicted infrared-Raman spectra of the and clusters121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1803539View Description Hide Description
Recently an inorganic fullerine-like onion with near-perfect icosahedral symmetry in the crystalline phase was reported [M. J. Moses, J. C. Fettinger, and B. W. Eichhorn, Science 300, 778 (2003)]. This paper presents a detailed computational study in the framework of density functional theory on various aspects of this molecule. The electronic structure of the is investigated in its neutral as well as −3 charged state together with its subunits and by the all electron linear combination of Gaussian-type orbitals method. The bonding is studied by examining the integrated charge within atomic sphere, the electron localization function, changes in the electron density distribution, and from vibrational modes. We find that strong covalent As-As bonds seen in isolated become weaker in the and strong covalent As-Ni bonds are formed. The structural stability of all four clusters is examined by analyzing the energetics and by calculating the vibrational frequencies. Further, the infrared and Raman spectra is predicted for both the neutral and charged clusters. Finally, the energy barrier for removal of a single arsenic atom is calculated for the neutral cluster.
C–Cl bond fission dynamics and angular momentum recoupling in the 235 nm photodissociation of allyl chloride121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1812757View Description Hide Description
The photodissociation dynamics of allyl chloride at 235 nm producing atomic fragments is investigated using a two-dimensional photofragment velocity ion imaging technique. Detection of the and products by [2+1] resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization shows that primary C–Cl bond fission of allyl chloride generates 66.8% and 33.2% The fragments evidenced a bimodal translational energy distribution with a relative weight of low kinetic energy /high kinetic energy of 0.097/0.903. The minor dissociation channel for C–Cl bond fission, producing low kinetic energy chlorine atoms, formed only chlorine atoms in the spin–orbit state. The dominant C–Cl bond fission channel, attributed to an electronic predissociation that results in high kinetic energy Cl atoms, produced both and atomic fragments. The relative branching for this dissociation channel is The average fraction of available energy imparted into product recoil for the high kinetic energy products was found to be 59%, in qualitative agreement with that predicted by a rigid radical impulsive model. Both the spin–orbit ground and excited chlorine atom angular distributions were close to isotropic. We compare the observed ratio produced in the electronic predissociation channel of allyl chloride with a prior study of the chlorine atom spin–orbit states produced from HCl photodissociation, concluding that angular momentum recoupling in the exit channel at long interatomic distance determines the chlorine atom spin–orbit branching.
Anchoring the potential energy surface of the cyclic water trimer121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1799931View Description Hide Description
Six cyclic stationary points on the water trimer potential energy surface have been fully optimized at the MP2 level with the aug-cc-pVQZ basis set. In agreement with previous work, harmonic vibrational frequencies indicate that two structures are minima, three are transition states connecting minima on the surface while the remaining stationary point is a higher-order saddle point. The 1- and n-particle limits of the electronic energies of each of these six structures were estimated by systematically varying both the basis sets and theoretical methods. The former limit was approached with the and families of basis sets while MP2, CCSD(T), and BD(TQ) calculations helped examine the latter. Core correlation effects have also been assessed at the MP2 level with the series of basis sets These data have been combined to provide highly accurate relative energies and dissociation energies for these stationary points.
Action spectroscopy and temperature diagnostics of by chemical probing121(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1810512View Description Hide Description
Infrared absorption spectroscopy of few hundred ions trapped in a 22-pole ion trap is presented using chemical probing as a sensitive detection technique down to the single ion level. By exciting selected overtone transitions of the vibrational band using an external cavitydiode laser an accurate diagnosticsmeasurement of the effective translational and rotational temperatures of the trapped ions was performed. The absolute accuracy of the measured transition frequencies was improved by a factor of four compared to previous plasma spectroscopymeasurements using velocity modulation [Ventrudo et al., J. Chem. Phys. 100, 6263 (1994)]. The observed buffer gas cooling conditions in the ion trap indicate how to cool trapped ions into the lowest ortho and para rotational states. Future experiments will utilize such an internally cold ion ensemble for state-selected dissociative recombination experiments at the heavy ion storage ring Test Storage Ring (TSR).


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Colombian soldiers guard communication towers on a strategic hill in Toribio, in Colombia's turbulent southwest region, Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Authorities retook the hilltop from Nasa Indians who had forcibly dislodged soldiers a day before. Members of the 115,000-strong Nasa tribe are insisting the military and leftist rebels leave their traditional lands. They say they are tired of being caught in the crossfire of Colombia's long-running conflict. (AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez)


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Guys, Johnny Depp is finally coming back to the movies in something that doesn't involve weird makeup or a pirate's outfit. His new film Transcendence (in theaters now) looks ridiculously cool—in essence, it's about a guy who gets his conscience uploaded into a computer and starts going power crazy. But with a plot this ambitious, who's to say how much we'll actually understand? Confusing movies are a staple in Hollywood though, and they make obsessive people like me want to rewatch them over and over until something, anything, makes sense. These 12 movies are the ones that made my mind hurt the most. See if you agree.
Honorable Mentions: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, InceptionDonnie Darko
This film is almost impossible to explain properly because it's just so insanely confusing. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a troubled high school kid who is told by a man in a scary bunny costume that the world will end in 28 days. And that's about all that makes sense right off the bat.
Christopher Nolan has always made films that make you think long after the credits roll. Memento is one of his first—and still one of his best—in that arena. The film stars Guy Pearce as a man trying to find his wife's killer. But here's the kicker: He has retrograde amnesia, which means he can't make any short-term memories. The film also goes backward and forward in time, at the same time, but it's definitely worth the multiple viewings.
I think David Lynch is a crazy person. He's brilliant, but he's a crazy person. If you don't believe me, just try to watch Eraserhead and tell me what you think it's about. I've seen it a few times, and all I know for sure is that the film follows a man who is caring for his deformed child.
This is director Darren Aronofsky's first appearance on this list, and it's also his first film. Pi is a psychological thriller about a deeply paranoid man who believes that everything in the world can be understood through numbers and number sequences.
Mulholland Drive
David Lynch, take two. This Lynchian creation is a little less confusing, but not by much. However, it's a brilliant film about an aspiring actress who befriends an amnesiac woman living in her aunt's apartment. To explain to you how strange and confusing this movie is would be difficult, but here's an example: The neo-noir film begins with a bunch of people doing the jitterbug. Seriously.
Vanilla Sky
Cameron Crowe may be best known for giving us one of the most quotable romantic comedies of all time with Jerry Maguire ("You complete me," anyone?), but he also made this insane film about a man who survives a car crash and the strange things that happen to him in the aftermath. It's based on the equally strange Spanish film Open Your Eyes.
Mr. Nobody
Jared Leto stars at the title character, but without his trademark locks, in this movie about the last mortal on Earth who is reminiscing about the most important moments in his life while his memory is still intact. Another visually stunning but totally strange movie. It probably would have made more sense if Leto had that hair we've all come to know and love.
Primer is about four friends who are inventing error-checking systems for their clients, until two of them discover that they have a box that can double and even quadruple the space-time continuum of anything that enters it. It's a completely confusing movie from start to finish, but the impressive part is that the whole thing was made for only $7,000. That alone is enough to warrant a few tries at trying to understand this mind-bending story line.
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick's 2011 movie starring Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain is stunning, but with all the incredible imagery, the story gets completely lost. The movie is supposedly about explaining the origins and meaning of life through the experiences of one man's memories of growing up in 1950s Texas. But it's hard to get that across when there are images of dinosaurs and only 17 minutes of dialogue. Total.
Ryan Gosling is a great actor, but I doubt even he can properly explain this movie to me in a way I'll fully understand. Stay is about a guy who survives a car crash and is given a therapist to deal with his issues. The ending of the movie supposedly gives an explanation for the rest of the film, but there are hints that there is more than meets the eye. I don't want to give anything away though because I want you all to see it and then come back and try to explain that ending to me. I also want to give you a chance to look at Ryan Gosling for two hours, so you're welcome
2001: A Space Odyssey
The oldest movie on this list and probably the best. The story, for those of you haven't seen Stanley Kubrick's brilliant film, is about a lot of things but the most time is spent on a group of astronauts who journey to Jupiter with the man-made, all-too-human computer HAL 9000. When HAL starts to malfunction, he tries to kill everyone on board, and the story just gets more and more confusing from there. Just watch it. It's totally weird (and totally worth it).
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Hi ladies i didnt want to start thinking of names yet but couldnt help myself lol.
We know we either want Aiden James or Vinnie James for a boy.
We are pretty certain it will be a girl though and determined to go back to a name we originally loved which is Ruby. We initially thought Ruby Mae....but its so common. Our last namenis Yallop which is weird lol so we like something quite simple for a first and middle name. We have an Emily Jane.
I like Ruby Rose but dont know if thats too weird. I.like something that is 1 syllabol. And not too out there. Can anyone suggest anything - thanks ladies


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We will move two applications to production (A and B); application A will have 9 thousands of Web users and B 4 thousands of Web users (total 13 thousands Web users). Each application is executing in separate cluster and each cluster with two LPARs. The applications are using DB2 JDBC driver type 2 and type 4 to access DB2 V8.1 on z/OS V1.8. We are moving to production these applications without do any previous Stress testing.
We have 4 Web Servers on z/OS (two per system V5.3). The applications are provided by third Part Company. The WebSphere Application Server for z/OS is V6.0.1 at Service level 18.104.22.168.
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The applications have EJBs and WAR components.
5. Which are the recommended values for number of connection for DB2 on Data Sources, for MQ, on Web Container?
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Bathos, the shop and online business, is owned and managed by Paul Barrett, a transplanted Englishman, living in Tennessee. Since 1998, Bathos has been serving up delicious bath and body confections in a fresh, new way, on historic Main Street in Franklin. Along with his fiancée, Stacy (a transplanted Canadian, who, in 2003, fell in love with, and ended up working alongside, Paul), they are the creativity and hard work behind Bathos. Every product available in the store is handmade by the two of them- starting from scratch, using safe, natural ingredients, which are free of the harmful chemicals that seem to fill just about every personal care item on the market today! Bathos was featured in the November 2005 issue of Southern Living and rated one of the top 50 shops in the South, in Southern Living's November 2006 issue!
What began as a hobby of soap making, has evolved into a personal care and bath line of products, that shatter the myth that commercially produced soaps, bubble baths and body creams are the only options for today's consumers. Using safe, natural ingredients and essential oils, Bathos products don't rely on cheap fillers and chemicals to make their items effective.
Soap is an ancient craft, and legends tell of its origins in Greece, where women washing their clothing in a stream, realized the oozing substance from the sacrificial alter at Sappos, made their clothing cleaner. This substance, the fat and oils of the sacrificial animals, mixed with the ash of the sacrificial fires, had created soap. A recipe for soap was found on a clay tablet from ancient Babylonia, dating 2200 BC.
We still make soap in much the same way, mixing oils and lye (an alkali base, as were the sacrificial ashes) until it saponifies (changes it's chemical structure), and produces soap. What we don't use is animal fat (called tallow), to make our soaps. Instead our oils are all vegetable based, using primarily olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil and shea butter to produce soap that is moisturizing on your skin, and a gentle cleanser, free from chemical additives such as sodium lauryl (laureth) sulfates, or (Butyl, Ethyl, or Methyl) parabens. We use essential oils for fragrance whenever possible (excluding essential oils where animal extraction is involved, such as musk, or in instances where a flower or plant simply does not produce a viable essential oil - such as honeysuckle).
The same principles are applied to all our products. We purchase organic, natural ingredients whenever possible, we know what goes in our products and we are happy to share the ingredients information with our customers. Our consumers are increasingly aware of the harmful, long-term effects that chemicals can have on their skin and their health. We do not test on animals - this is where our friends and family come in handy! (We do, however, wash our dogs, Henry and Ellie, in "Hair To The Throne" Shampoo!) Our products were created out of our personal desire for natural alternatives, and many were created as a result of our customers' requests. We hope you enjoy the results!
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SAN JOSE -- A special task force convened at San Jose State after allegations that a black student was relentlessly bullied by his white roommates has told President Mo Qayoumi all eyes will be on him as he considers their recommendations, due for release Friday.
"The victim, his parents and the world have been watching us and now they are watching you," said former Judge LaDoris Cordell, who led the 18-member special task force. "I am confident that you and your administration will do the right thing now that our work is done," she said at the panel's final meeting Thursday.
Qayoumi later said it was vital to move forward quickly on the recommendations, which urge a formal focus on diversity training and close monitoring of biased behavior.
The panel on Friday is expected to release its final recommendations, including a cabinet-level diversity office to improve the campus environment, more training for residence hall staff and faculty, and a required diversity course for new students.
The starkly worded recommendations reflect campus racial issues unresolved for decades and urge the administration to openly and resolutely address them. Cordell told Qayoumi the family of the bullied freshman "were enthusiastically supportive of all of the recommendations," according to their attorney, Carl Douglas.
The Special Task Force on Racial Discrimination concluded that San Jose State should:
In November, four white SJSU freshmen were charged with misdemeanor hate crime and battery, accused of bullying their black roommate and snapping a bicycle lock around his neck. The freshmen also displayed a Confederate flag in the suite, according to a public fact-finding report requested by the campus.
The four students -- who reportedly told police the abuse was just a prank -- were suspended while their criminal and campus discipline cases proceed.
Freshman Donald Williams Jr. filed a $5 million claim against the university in March, blaming the dorm adviser and school officials for ignoring warning signs of the abuse.
After news of the incident broke in November, some students and faculty pointed to an in-depth -- but never publicized -- sociological study revealing the racism some students described at San Jose State's campus.
It also found that white students felt "invisible" in discussions about race and diversity.
The study was commissioned by a previous president and submitted to incoming President Qayoumi in 2011. He disbanded the advisory group behind the project, the Campus Climate Committee, and set up his own diversity commission.
The Campus Climate Committee began meeting again, informally, after the bullying incident. The task force has recommended campus leaders formally reinstate the group and link it to the president's office.
The task force has asked the president to publish a timeline for implementing the recommendations within 45 days.
In an interview after the meeting, Qayoumi said his administration would move quickly.
"This incident was such a horrible experience for the student and the campus has had such a very challenging time," he said. "It is vital for us to implement the task force recommendations so we can quickly make this a better, more livable campus community."
Reporter David E. Early contributed to this report. Follow Katy Murphy at Twitter.com/katymurphy.


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By his day-slashed calendar he knew that tomorrow was the day. And for the first time he did not want to go. . . . Still, when the day broke in an incredible splash of sun, he gathered his things. (1941.17)
This is the day when many of the residents of the Bottom die, and the passage reminds us that our choices can have unpredictable consequences. Had Shadrack chosen to stay home that day, it's possible that the tunnel accident might never have happened. But when he chooses to fulfill his annual duty, his choice impacts the entire town.


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For every donated item, Mountain Equipment Recyclers, Inc. donates 50% of the sale to local non-profits. For every consigned item sold, 5% of the sale is given to the same organizations.
With this policy, a donated or consigned item, whether it is a $10 shirt, or a $1,000 bike, benefit a local non profit.
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Wizz Air is looking to increase the number of flights it operates between Luton Airport and Bucharest.
The low-cost airline already operates a number of services between the London travel hub and Eastern Europe, and the extra services are part of its expansion of its base in the Romanian capital.
From December 15th, Wizz Air will be adding a fifth aircraft in Bucharest, significantly increasing its services to Luton Airport from three to 14 per week.
John Stephenson, executive vice- president of the carrier, said: "Once again having the right business model has proven to deliver great results: we are very satisfied with our business performance in Romania."
Additional services will also be offered between Bucharest and Milan Bergamo, Rome Ciampin and Paris Beauvais.
Wizz Air will also be adding a new service between Luton Airport and Brno in the Czech Republic in December, as well as increasing the number of flights to Prague.
Seats are available on the new route from CZK 337 (£11.23) one way, including taxes.


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Wine Flavoring BBQ Smoking Chips for Gas or Charcoal Grills
Fire Up The Flavor
Nothing enhances the flavor of grilled meat, poultry, fish and vegetables like the rich and complex character of Napa Valley Gourmet Oak Chips.
Made from real vintage oak wine barrels, our chips contain all the mystery and magic that goes into Napa Valley wine making. We are so sure that your food experience will be enhanced, we guarantee it!
We offer three different Napa Valley Gourmet Oak Chip products to meet your smoke flavoring requirements.
For best results, soak 2 handfuls of Napa Valley Gourmet Oak Chips in water
for 30 minutes to 2 hours prior to use, then drain. You cannot over soak the chips
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WRAP flies Souther California fires.
The Wildfire Research and Applications Program (WRAP) team responded to an emergency request by California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES) and other national agences (FEMA, NASA HQ) for intellicence assistance on 11 wildfires raging in Southern California last week. The team deployed from Ames to Dryden, the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, ID, and to various incident cmmand centers (ICs) within 24-hours of the request. The team conducted four missions, Oct. 24-28 (~ 40-hrs. total), flying NASA's Ikhana unmanned aerial system (UAS) with the Ames' developed AMS-WILDFIRE sensor onboard. The mission delivered real-time data to all fire ICs, county, and city emergency ops centers via the ARC-developed Collaborative Decision Environment (CDE) that incorporates GoogleEarth as an information visualization tool. Over 40,000 downloads of data from the ARC server were requested, and over 150 simultaneous users of CDE were supported each day during the six-day mission. The AMS sensor provided burn area assessment imagery that simultaneously supported recovery efforts with active fire imagery collection.
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