The objective of this study is to discover a synergistic effect between foam stability in bulk and micro-emulsion phase behaviour to design a high-performance chemical system for an optimized alkaline-surfactant-foam (ASF) flooding for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The focus is on the interaction of ASF chemical agents with oil in the presence and absence of a naphthenic acid component and in si...

We discuss the experimental evidence supporting the concept of universality of the rapidity gap probability in soft and hard diffraction, relate the gap probability to hadronic parton densities, and present a phenomenological model of diffraction in which the structure of the Pomeron is derived from the structure of the parent hadron. Predictions for diffractive deep inelastic scattering are co...

In this article, I first propose to reinterpret R. T. Craig’s (1999) call for a dialogue between communication perspectives as a formulation of design specs to which any constitutive model of communication should respond. I then propose to answer this call by metaphorically conceiving of communication as a form of ventriloquism, which translates our capacity to make other beings say or do thing...

We show that the dynamical contraction of n "internal" spacelike dimensions leads, in general, to the formation of a cosmic graviton background, similar to that produced by innation. By using a simple phenomenological model we discuss how to obtain information and constraints on the total number of extra dimensions, on their compactiication scale and on the kinematics of the dimensional reducti...

The ansatz of vanishing A and B parameters eliminates CP violating complex phases in soft supersymmetry-breaking parameters of the minimal supersymmetric standard model, and thus provides a simple solution to the supersymmetry CP problem. Phenomenological implications of this ansatz are investigated in the framework of minimal supergravity. We show that electroweak symmetry breakdown occurs, pr...

A physical mechanism for CPT violation is reviewed, which relies on chiral fermions, gauge interactions, and nontrivial spacetime topology. The nontrivial topology can occur at the very largest scale (e.g., at the “edge” of the universe) or at the very smallest scale (e.g., from a hypothetical spacetime foam). The anomalous effective gauge field action includes, most likely, a CPT–odd Chern–Sim...

Some selected topics involving photonic and leptonic rare B decays are reviewed. The interest in their measurement for the CKM phenomenology is underlined. They are also potentially interesting in searching for physics beyond the standard model. This is illustrated on the examples of the decays B → (K,K)ll and B → (ρ, ω)γ by contrasting their anticipated phenomenological profiles in the standar...

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Cellular materials, such as aluminum foams, have proven to be excellent energy absorbents. They can used crushable core in sacrificial cladding (SC) for blast load mitigation. In this study, the absorption capacity of a brittle mineral foam-based SC is investigated through finite element modeling using LS-DYNA software. The experimental set-up consists rigid steel frame with square cavity 300 m...