Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) is potentially useful to increment oil recovery from a reservoir beyond primary and secondary recovery operations using microorganisms and their metabolites. Stimulation of bacterial growth for biosurfactant production and degradation of heavy oil fractions by indigenous microorganisms can enhance the fluidity and reduce the capillary forces that retain th...

Dates to which data relate The effectiveness data used to populate the model came from studies published between 1984 and 2003. The resource use data were derived from studies published between 1990 and 2003 and were augmented by authors' assumptions. The cost data were derived from official sources (Medicare Fee Schedule reimbursement rates) and referred to the year 2004. All costs were report...

so far a number of works on the heat flux anomalies of the earth surface based on the satellite images and underground water as seismic precursors have been carried out. in this paper the soil temperature data at 1m depth (deep enough to filter temperature variation due to high frequency meteorological forcings) has been considered to see if there are connections between earthquakes in bam and ...

2014 A review of low temperature techniques as applied to neutron scattering studies is presented. Methods of temperature measurements especially carbon thermometry are discussed. Problems of heat transfer are treated in detail for different kind of samples and some solutions are proposed. Revue Phys. Appl. 19 (1984) 677-683 SEPTEMBRE 1984, The number of neutron scattering studies at temperatur...

the purpose of this research was identifying socio-economic characteristics affected on respondents’ participation in contract farming. the survey was conducted using structured questionnaire in populous states namely kedah, kelantan, terengganu, pahang, perak, selangor and johor in peninsular malaysia. a total of one-hundred and sixty seven ffv farmers were randomly selected and personally int...

in this investigation, using mann – kendall graphical-statistical test, which is one of the proposed methods of world meteorological organization (wmo) for time series analysis, the change trend of long – term mean of annual minimum and maximum temperatures in iran will be studied. to evaluate this trend and access a suitable pattern in this situation, average of annual minimum and maximum ...

The marriage model due to Gale and Shapley and the assignment model due to Shapley and Shubik are standard in the theory of two-sided matching markets. We give a common generalization of these models by utilizing discrete concave functions and considering bounded side payments. We show the existence of a pairwise stable outcome in our model. Our present model is a further natural extension of t...

The present study examined the effect of the geometric parameters of the Rockfill dams on the 2D static analysis of slope stability. In this regard, several numerical models analyzed for eight heights, three slopes of upstream and downstream, three vertical and skewed core thicknesses and four different impounding time stages namely, "End of Construction", "Full Reservoir", "Half Full Reservoir...

OBJECTIVE This study proposed an alternative to brand loyalty as the explanation for the continued price rigidity of patent-expired brand-name prescription drugs despite the increase in market entry of generic drugs facilitated by the 1984 Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act. Study hypotheses were to test (1) whether market entries of new-product extensions are associated wit...