The idea of injecting low salinity water into a petroleum reservoir is not novel and was often used in the 70’s prior to the injection of surfactant. Yet, recently it was shown that simply injecting sufficiently low salinity water improves oil recovery (LoSalTM). Many possible mechanisms concerning Low salinity waterflood have been proposed in the literature. This paper describes an experimenta...

Real-time multimedia streaming applications require a strict bounded end-to-end delay and are considered to be bursty as each video frame is typically transmitted as a burst of packets. In this paper we show how the distribution of video frame sizes can be used to efficiently dimension the IEEE 802.11e TXOP limit parameter to efficiently deal with this burstiness in order to enhance the transmi...

The paper is aimed at experimentally analyzing the different DAC glitch definitions and measurement methods proposed in literature and adopted by manufacturers. Unfortunately, in fact, there is no universally accepted and unambiguous definition of a glitch. Therefore, the presented research work can give contributions and ideas for discussions focused to solve this problem and develop a new sta...

In this paper we report the results of an experiment designed to examine the properties of a hybrid auction a Dutch-Vickrey auction, that combines a sealed bid ...rst-price auction with a sealed bid second-price auction. We developed an independent-private-values model that yielded various predictions in terms of equilibrium behavior and expected revenue. We then designed an experiment where in...

Abstract: The batted-ball performances of youth wood and nonwood bats are examined through experimental methods. The goals of the study are to build a database of performance data on youth bats using a hitting machine in a controlled laboratory environment and to examine how the lab data compare using three performance metrics including the current BPF certification metric. The performance metr...

We address the trajectory planning problem for a task which requires positioning and orienting an object firmly grasped by two hands at a visually specified goal configuration in the horizontal plane. The motor task involves three degrees of freedom (two translational and one rotational), and the motions of the arms are constrained by the physical coupling through the held object. Experimentall...

This paper investigates whether some part of the preference reversal phenomenon can be attributed to errors in the responses of subjects in experiments. Such errors have been well documented in other investigations of behaviour in risky decision problems but their relevance to the preference reversal phenomenon has not been explored. Building on earlier work, we develop an extended error model ...

The solidification heat transfer, melt convection and volume shrinkage in the casting of an energetic material are analyzed through numerical modeling and experimental investigation. The shrinkage resulting from phase change is considered through the volume of fluid method. The model is validated against an analytical solution and then applied to study the volume contraction during the casting ...

* We are grateful for the suggestions made by Gary Bornstein, Itzhak Gilboa, Daniele Paserman, Marc Rysman, and seminar audiences at the Hebrew University, and at the ESA Meeting in Strasbourg. An associate editor and two anonymous referees provided useful comments. Financial support from the Aims Byudks foundation is gratefully acknowledged. † Corresponding author. Department of Management and...

The rate coefficient of the reaction NHsX 3S−d+Hs2Sd→ k1a NsSd+H2sX Sg d is determined in a quasistatic laser-flash photolysis, laser-induced fluorescence system at low pressures s2 mbarø p ø10 mbard. The NHsXd radicals are produced via the quenching of NHsaDd sobtained by photolyzing HN3d with Xe whereas the H atoms are generated in a H2/He microwave discharge. The NHsXd concentration profile ...