The interfacial tension of surfactant solutions is decreased with increasing surfactant concentration to obtain the critical micelle concentration (CMC). After that, the CMC values does not alter much. So this concentration is a critical point during surfactant flooding that is one of the chemical EOR techniques. The reduction of the CMC value is taken into consideration, since the surfactant f...

These formulas hold for any topological group-system 2, any subsystem Si of 2 , and the difference-system S —Si. (W. Mayer, Topologische Gruppensysterne, Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik, vol. 47 (1938); henceforth referred to as M, TG.) Here 5<(S) denotes the i-dimensional Betti group of S, while ^»(Si) and 5t-(S —Si) are these groups for Si and S —Si respectively. The symbol r( ), of cou...

Measurement of glycated proteins can be of use in diagnosis and monitoring of diabetic dogs. Its use in monitoring can be facilitated by comparison of results with a reference interval derived from levels in normal dogs. In this study, a commercial immunoturbidometric assay was used to measure glycosylated haemoglobin in 15 normal dogs over a 5-week period. Following statistical analysis of the...

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Genuine savings (GS) is an established measure of weak sustainability (WS). It can be shown, with the help of a dynamic optimisation model, that an economy with persistently negative GS cannot be regarded as weakly sustainable. The main conclusion drawn from the empirical estimates of GS presented in this paper is that many resource intensive, developing economies appear to be weakly unsustaina...

We prove some Liouville properties for suband supersolutions of fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations in the whole space. Our assumptions allow the coefficients of the first order terms to be large at infinity, provided they have an appropriate sign, as in OrnsteinUhlenbeck operators. We give two applications. The first is a stabilization property for large times of solutions to fully n...

Relationship marketing provides a new foundation for thinking, genuine change in values and ethics and a new logic that sees consumers as the prime drivers of the value creation process. It seems to have a lot to offer to social marketing, however, despite its potential, the social marketing field is responding slowly to relational thinking. This research demonstrates that relationship marketin...

Dialogue is today commonplace in evaluation discourse. It represents an ambition to involve different stakeholders in an open and power-free exchange of opinions and ideas about what is being evaluated. The aim of this article is to discuss how to manage dialogue in practice. An evaluation case is used to illustrate how the evaluator manages a dialogue in different phases of the evaluation proc...

This paper deals with the notion of residual income, which may be defined as the surplus profit that residues after a capital charge (opportunity cost) has been covered. While the origins of the notion trace back to the 19th century, in-depth theoretical investigations and widespread real-life applications are relatively recent and concern an interdisciplinary field connecting management accoun...