The observational and measurement system in the micro environments to manipulate objects in the micro world is becoming necessary in many fields, such as manufacturing; “Micro Factory (Fig.1)”;one of the past Japanese national project, and medical usages; the micro surgery. Most of the past researches in the micro environments might be only focused on the micro manipulation but not on the micro...

The identification of lithofacies from well is usually an interpretative process based on geophysical logs since core and sidewall samples are not usually available. Despite being always sampled and described, cuttings are useful only as a reference for determining the rocks because a number of problems occur during the drilling and sampling activities. Well logs are in situ continuous records ...

Microorganisms become new sources for fabricating intricate micro/nano structures via bottom-up approaches. Produced from nature, microorganism biotemplates exhibit unique structural and material features over thousands of years revolution. They are considerably superior cost-effective complex heterogeneous when compared to other micro/nanofabrication techniques. Herein, the recent advances in ...

Over the last decades the research on monetary policy has largely concentrated on the impact of monetary authorities’ decisions on inflation and the fine-tuning of the macroeconomic, so that distributional effects of monetary policy which are non-trivial has been ignored. A view that has become increasingly popular since the financial crisis 2008 is that expansionary monetary policy can exacerb...

We have conducted an integrated study to investigate the petrophysical and geomechanical factors controlling the effectiveness of hydraulic fracturing (HF) in four subparallel horizontal wells in the Mississippi Limestone-Woodford Shale (MSSP-WDFD) play in Oklahoma. In two MSSP wells, the minimum horizontal stress Sh min indicated by the instantaneous shut-in pressures of the HF stages are sign...

Troglitazone glucuronidation in human liver and intestine microsomes and recombinant UDP-glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs) were thoroughly characterized. All recombinant UGT isoforms in baculovirus-infected insect cells (UGT1A1, UGT1A3, UGT1A4, UGT1A6, UGT1A7, UGT1A8, UGT1A9, UGT1A10, UGT2B7, and UGT2B15) exhibited troglitazone glucuronosyltransferase activity. Especially UGT1A8 and UGT1A10, whic...

Sediments of the Nezam-Abad area, south-east of Bam have been studied for the first time. Sedimentary facies are composed of thin-bedded clay, silt and fine grained sand interbedded with thin laminated limestone. Chemical analysis of X-Ray florescent indicates that more than 50% of sediments consist of silisium and aluminum oxide that can be used for reconstruction of environment. Ninety eight ...

Some major hydrocarbon-bearing basins are rich in shale with terrestrial facies China, which may provide abundant oil and gas resources. This work studied the Jurassic Lianggaoshan Formation Southeast Sichuan Basin of upper Yangtze Region. Core samples were chosen for total organic carbon content mineral composition analyses to classify lithofacies. Afterward, pore connectivity, wettability, mo...

The early evolution of the Misty Creek embayment (MCE), a prominent, northwest-trending sub-basin economically important Selwyn basin, is poorly understood. abrupt contact between Cambrian Stage 4 (traditional lower Cambrian) carbonate ramp strata Sekwi Formation and overlying Miaolingian middle deep-water, calciturbiditic Hess River has been regarded as diachronous. This transition, which mark...

A new species of pagurapseudid, Macrolabrum maui, is described from the lower eulittoral rocky shore on the East Coast of the North Island, New Zealand. It is similar to M. haikung from Bass Strait, Australia and M. distonyx from New Caledonia. Males and females show little dimorphism. Typical of the subfamily Pagurapseudinae, M. maui inhabits shells of micro-molluscs such as the gastropods Eat...