avo analysis is a technique which is widely used in industry and is applied on seismic prestack data. results from changes in seismic wave reflection amplitude versus offset can be used in extracting elastic properties and hence lithology and reservoirs pore fluid identification. before performing avo analysis studies, processing steps should be ensured that changes in reflection amplitude are ...

We review the definition of evolvability as it appears on the literature. In particular, the concept of software evolvability is compared with other system quality attributes, such as adaptability, maintainability and modifiability.

This paper incorporates a rich set of physical water quality attributes, as well as site and household characteristics, into a model of recreational lake usage in Iowa. Our analysis shows individuals are responsive to physical water quality measures. Willingness-to-pay estimates are reported based on improvements in these measures.

In today's healthcare system, there is an imbalance between what patients expect of caregivers' care and their perception of the care they get. How is it possible to reduce this imbalance? The aim of this paper was to describe attributes associated with meaningful encounters in the Swedish healthcare system based on patients' and caregivers' written narratives and to note the differences and si...

Integration of continual planning, monitoring, reasoning and lifelong experimental learning is necessary for a robot to deal with failures by gaining experience through incremental learning and using this experience in its future tasks. In this paper, we propose a scene interpretation system combining 3D object recognition and scene segmentation in order to maintain a consistent world model inv...

Unilateral nevoid telangiectasia syndrome (UNTS) can be classified into two major categories: congenital and acquired. There have been reports showing an increase in skin estrogen and progesterone receptors in patients with this syndrome. We report a male patient with acquired unilateral nevoid telangiectasia syndrome without any associated physiological or pathological conditions.<...

Decision support systems often require knowledge of users' preferences. However, preferences may vary among individual users or be diicult for users to articulate. This paper describes how user preferences can be acquired in the form of preference predicates by a learning apprentice system and proposes two new instance-based algorithms for preference predicate acquisition: 1ARC and Compositiona...

conclusions the results indicate a rapid increase in the number of hiv/aids cases in east azerbaijan, necessitating immediate attention and strategies to combat the rapid spread of the disease. development of provincial and national hiv/aids strategies demands more accurate and comprehensive hiv/aids surveillance. background this study was performed in response to the rapid propagation of hiv/a...

Real-world 3D models are primarily acquired as large unorganized discrete point sets with attributes. In this paper, we show how to reconstruct multi-scale implicit surfaces with attributes given those discrete point sets with attributes. In a preprocess, we first subdivide the global domain into overlapping local subdomains by computing a perfectly balanced binary tree. Second, we compute subs...