Casing deformation caused by fault and fracture sliding derived from fracturing has attracted growing attention. frequently occurs during the hydraulic process in Sichuan Basin. Although its mechanism been intensively studied, this issue is becoming increasingly severe demands immediate solutions, especially shale gas blocks of Changning-Weiyuan-Zhaotong. The present study summarizes analyzes r...

Extensive slug-test experiments have been performed at the Hydrogeological Experimental Site (HES) of Poitiers in France, made up of moderately fractured limestones. All data are publicly available through the "H+" database, developed within the scope of the ERO program (French Environmental Research Observatory, http://hplus.ore.fr). Slug-test responses with high-frequency (> 0.12 Hz) oscillat...

In this note we comment on a recent publication in this journal by the CERES (NA45) Collaboration [1]. The authors report to have determined an upper limit on the direct photon yield relative to the decay photon yield in S + Au collisions of 14 % and 7 % by two different methods, respectively. We argue that these limits are unsupported by the results and analysis of the CERES data. The systemat...

We calculate certain string correlation functions, originally introduced as order parameters in integer spin chains, for the spin-1/2 XXZ Heisenberg chain at zero temperature and in the thermodynamic limit. For small distances, we obtain exact results from Bethe Ansatz and exact diagonalization, whereas in the large-distance limit, field-theoretical arguments yield an asymptotic algebraic decay...

The reaction characteristics of four biomass materials (i.e. oil palm fiber, coconut fiber, eucalyptus, and Cryptomeria japonica) with non-oxidative and oxidative torrefaction at various superficial velocities are investigated where nitrogen and air are used as carrier gases. Three torrefaction temperatures of 250, 300, and 350 °C are considered. At a given temperature, the solid yield of bioma...

The collapse state of a rigid plastic material with the linearized Mises yield condition is computed. We use an infeasible point variant of the dual aane scaling algorithm for linear programming which is extremely eecient for this large sparse and ill conditioned problem. For a classical test problem we obtain better results than previously, both for the limit load and for the collapse elds, th...

In this paper, we show that perturbing a simple 3-d quadratic system with a center-type singular point can yield at least 10 small-amplitude limit cycles around a singular point. This result improves the 7 limit cycles obtained recently in a simple 3-d quadratic system around a Hopf singular point. Compared with Bautin’s result for quadratic planar vector fields, which can only have 3 small-amp...

Ensuring proper punctuation and letter casing is a key pre-processing step towards applying complex natural language processing algorithms. This especially significant for textual sources where are missing, such as the raw output of automatic speech recognition systems. Additionally, short text messages micro-blogging platforms offer unreliable often wrong casing. survey offers an overview both...

The radioactive isotope 22 Na is one of the primary tracer isotopes that may potentially be detectable by gamma-ray spectroscopy. This isotope is predicted to be produced in ONe nova explosions, yet no detection of its 1.275 MeV gamma-ray signature has been reported so far. In particular, 6 years of COMPTEL observations of the galactic bulge, a region that should be particularly rich in nova ex...