Table of Contents

L. Kover, Foreword. A. Rosen, Twenty to Thirty Years of DV-X( Calculations: A Survey of Accuracy and Applications. H. Adachi, Electronic State Calculation of Transition Metal Cluster. H. Yukawa and M. Morinaga, The Nature of the Chemical Bond in Hydrogen Storage Compounds. B. Fricke, W.-D. Sepp, T. Bastug, S. Varga, K. Schulze, and J. Anton, Use of the DV-X( Method in the Field of Superheavy Atoms. R. Sekine, H. Nakamatsu, T. Mukoyama, J. Onoe,M. Hirata, M. Kurihara, and H. Adachi, Electronic Structures of Metal Carbides TiC and UC: Similarity and Dissimilarity. G.L. Gustav, Numerical Psuedopotentials within DV-X( Framework. A. Nagy, Density Functional Theory for Excited States.H. Adachi, Theoretical Calculation of Molecular Photoelectron Spectrum by the First-Principles DV-X( Molecular Orbital Method. H. Kimura, S. Imanaga, Y. Hayafunji, and H. Adachi, The Electronic Structure of Silicon Clusters. I. Cserny, Studies of the Valence Band of Tetrahedral Oxyanions. Y. Kowada and D.E. Ellis, Application of the Embedded Cluster Method to the Electronic State of Silicate Glasses. M. Takahashi, G.-C. Lai, K. Ohta, and F. Kanamaru, Bond Strength and ThermalStability of Transition Metal Nitrides. K. Fukushima and H. Endo, Electronic States of Impurities and Their Effect on Material Properties. M. Morishita, K. Koyama, A. Hatamoto, M. Morinaga, and H. Adachi, Electronic States of Oxygen Ions of Molten Slags Used for Iron and Steel Making. T. Mukoyama, K. Taniguchi, and H. Adachi, X-Ray Emission in Molecules. J. Kawai, DV-X( Calculation of X-Ray Emission Spectra. S. Yamashita, M. Fujiwara, Y. Kato, T. Yamaguchi, H. Wakita, and H. Adachi, X-Ray Absorption Near Edge Structure Study and DV-X( Calculations on Some Square-Planar Copper(II) Complexes with Macrocyclic Ligands. E. Hartman and C. Lauterbach, Scattered-Wave Description of Inner-Shell Processes in Small Molecules andClusters. M. Uda, T. Yamamoto, and T. Takenaga, Resonant Orbital Rearrangement During F 1s Ionization or Decay Process. Z. Kovacs, L. Kover, and H. Adachi, Charge Transfer in Al-Ni Alloys: A Spin-Selective Study. G. Paragi, I.K. Gyemant, and Z. Varga, Core-Electron Binding Energy Shifts in Aluminium. K. Ogasawara, I. Tanaka, and H. Adachi, Analysis or Core-Hole Effect in Cation L<->2,3-Edge of MgO, (-Al<->2 O<->3 and SiO<->2 Based on DV-X( Cluster Calculations. M. Uda, Concluding Remarks. Subject Index.

About the Author

I was born in Springfield, Mass, and Educated at Williams College (BA) and the University of New Hampshire (PhD). Following that, I was a postdoctoral at Uppsala University in Sweden, and at Northwestern University in Evanston. For the past four decades, I have worked in the Quantum Theory Project, Department of Physics, at the University of Florida. My interests have always been in the theory of molecular electronic structure. More recently, I have been working on the interaction of fast particles, mostly protons and alpha particles, with proto-biological molecules, in terms of the transfer of energy from the projectile to the molecular target, and the outcome of that energy transfer. Such energy transfer is primarily electronic, and the initial electronic excitation results in target electronic and vibrational excitation, ionization, fragmentation, charge exchange, and other processes. The study of these processes, known as stopping power, has applications in fields from microelectronics to tumor therapy. The investigations are interesting and continue.

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