Numerical well testing is used mostly in oil/gas, geothermal, and coalbed methane injection/falloff well-testing interpretations while few published studies have been presented on how to adjust the models numerical experiments parameters. Meanwhile, there no simple highly applicable evaluation standard approximation degree between simulated field-measured pressure response. In this paper, seven...

This commentary refers to the article, Absent fetal hand: a case report, published in Australasian Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine May 2010 13 (2). This case raises difficult ethical issues about the use of medical imaging in pregnancy, including the role that a diagnosis of foetal disability or abnormality should play in decisions about late terminations. In Australia, late termination is ty...

This exploratory article examines several aspects of the complex problem of combining data on income and wealth into a single measure of economic well-being. Examples of income-wealth measures that have been used are described. Estimates of the economic well-being of age groups in the current period are presented for several measures. To examine the sensitivity of the results to the choice of m...

Progress towards gender equality involves changes in the traditional parental division - female caring and male breadwinning. One aspect is increased parental leave for fathers, which may benefit the health of mothers, children, and fathers themselves. We examined how social and health characteristics (2002) were associated with paternity leave in excess of the 'father quota' of 60 days (2003-2...