Owing to the stringent environmental legislations, CO2 capture and sequestration is one of the viable solutions to reduce the CO2 emissions from various sources. In this context, Ionic liquids (ILs) are being investigated as suitable absorption media for CO2 capture. Due to their non-evaporative, non-toxic, and non-corrosive nature, these ILs have the potential to replace the existing solvents ...

This study spotlights the fundamental insights about the structure and static first hyperpolarizability (b) of a series of 2,4dinitrophenol derivatives (1–5), which are designed by novel bridging core modifications. The central bridging core modifications show noteworthy effects to modulate the optical and nonlinear optical properties in these derivatives. The derivative systems show significan...

An intermolecular potential energy surface for He(2)Br(2) complex in the ground state is calculated at the levels of fourth-order (MP4) Moller-Plesset and coupled-cluster [CCSD(T)] approximations, using large-core pseudopotential for Br atoms and the aug-cc-pV5Z basis set for He. The surface is characterized by three minima and the minimum energy pathways through them. The global minimum corres...

Analytical second derivatives for the normalized elimination of the small component (NESC) method are derived for the first time and implemented for the routine calculation of NESC vibrational frequencies and other second order molecular properties using the scalar relativistic form of NESC. Using response theory, the second derivatives of the transformation matrix U connecting the large and th...

-Previous research on House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) in Europe indicated that males with larger bibs are more likely to obtain nest sites with multiple potential nests. To test this observation experimentally, I created nest sites containing either one or two nest boxes. 1 found no morphological differences, including bib size, between males at single-box nest sites (SBNS’s) and those at do...

Despite the human capacity to survive and adapt, traumatic experiences can cause alterations in health, attitudes and behaviors, environmental and interpersonal functioning, and spiritual balance such that the memory of an event or a set of events taints all other experiences. The BE SMART (Become Empowered: Symptom Management for Abuse and Recovery from Trauma) group psychoeducation program is...

Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy affecting women in the United States. In 1988, the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics shifted from a clinical staging protocol to one based on surgical factors, making surgical staging the accepted treatment approach to endometrial cancers, with excellent survival compared to other gynecologic malignancies. The manu...