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INTRODUCTION Protect the oil wells to increase their longevity is now one of the major oil-producing countries is difficult. Each year, an extraordinary global budget for research on EOR and MEOR (enhanced oil recovery methods) is allocated. In addition, the owners of these vessels extraordinary efforts to exploit new, lower cost, and highly efficient techniques. A new and promising way to incr...

The teaching experience of the revised simplex method in matrix notation on the blackboard leads us to prepare a visualization alternative, useful for the constituting part of the education liturgy. According to our approach the educator does not spend anymore valuable time on boring calculations while the student understands complex mathematical concepts. Our courseware has unique features lik...

Model identification is one of the most important requirements for advanced control systems. Fast response and quick disturbance recovery of an advanced controller [1, 2] cannot be achieved without an accurate model of the plant. Although after years of development linear methods for model identification [3 5] have become mature, nonlinear identification methods are still needed in high perform...

Feng Liu*, Yi Yang**, Min Wu*** *Sichuan University, Yihuan Road South Section 24, 610065 Chengdu, PR China, e-mail: [email protected] *Sichuan Engineering and Technology College, Taishan Road 801, 618000 Deyang, PR China **Sichuan University, Yihuan Road South Section 24, 610065 Chengdu, PR China, e-mail: [email protected] ***Hubei 3611 Mechanical Co., Ltd., Renmin Road 168, 441002 Xiangfan, ...

Abstract Background Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are an emerging global problem that increases in-hospital mortality, length of stay, and cost. We performed a 6-year retrospective study to provide valuable insight into appropriate antibiotic use in HAI cases. also aimed understand how hospitals could reduce pathogen drug resistance population overuses antibiotics. Methods All data (2012–...

Bacterial overgrowth in the small bowel is known to occur in patients with persistent diarrhea, but it has been unclear if colonization alone causes fluid secretion. We studied isogenic, nontoxigenic Escherichia coli strains with colonizing factor antigen II (CFA/II) (1392+) and without CFA/II (1392-) in 18-h rabbit ileal loops. Neither strain produced fluid, but quantitative cultures of rabbit...

Language has been shown to influence non-linguistic cognitive operations such as colour perception, object categorization and motion event perception. Here, we show that language also modulates higher level processing, such as semantic knowledge. Using event-related brain potentials, we show that highly fluent Welsh–English bilinguals require significantly less processing effort when reading se...