T HIS provocative remark has been attributed to the famous industrial statistician, Cuthbert Daniel, by Box et al. (2005) in their well-known text on the design of experiments. Split-Plot experiments were invented by Fisher (1925) and their importance in industrial experimentation has been long recognized (Yates (1936)). It is also well known that many industrial experiments are fielded as spli...

Studies about high-rise housing can be characterised by their diversity and disagreement. A variety of interpretations has been used to study the rationale and practices of constructing housing of this kind. The ambiguity of high-rise housing is partly related to the fact that the values and functions attributed to it have varied from continent to continent, between regions and within specific ...

The method of quantifier elimination by cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) takes a formula from the elementary theory of real closed fields as input, and constructs a CAD of the space of unquantified variables. This decomposition is truth invariant with respect to the input formula, meaning that the formula is either identically true or identically false in each cell of the decomposition...

The development of luciferase markers and other experimental techniques has allowed measurement of the timecourses of the expression of genes and proteins with remarkable accuracy. Since these data have been used to develop many mathematical models, it is important to ask whether this problem of model building is well-posed. Here, we focus on a common form of ordinary differential equation (ODE...

1. Improved understanding of social, political, economic, and ecological interactions and development of knowledge based interventions for improved health and well-being outcomes, through participatory research, led by Ecohealth partners jointly with the local and policy communities, on selected thematic entry points. 2. More informed policy making and improved policy implementation on issue ar...

Attachment to place may contribute to individuals’ well-being. We evaluated whether visualizing a place of attachment (compared with visualizing a nonattached familiar place) could increase the satisfaction of key psychological needs. Place attachment visualizations increased participants’ levels of selfesteem, meaning, and belonging. Furthermore, visualizing places at a certain geographical sc...

Based on the accurate understanding of reservoir, oil-water distribution and structure block A, main oil layers are locally developed in well blocks B C, favorable parts optimized, horizontal wells deployed according to principle “increasing production layer, not adding new platforms, section is easy be too long”. Apply drilling data carry out fine interpretation reservoir inversion prediction,...