recently, a renewed interest arises in the application of nanotechnology for the upstream petroleum industry. in particular, adding nanoparticles to fluids may drastically benefit enhanced oil recovery and improve well drilling, by changing the properties of the fluid, rocks wettability alteration, advanced drag reduction, strengthening the sand consolidation, reducing the inter-facial tension and...

7 In this paper, we propose a cancellable fingerprint template technique based on our previous work on multi-line code (MLC) (Wong et al., 2012). The modification and improvement focuses on the change of MLC values and the generation of binary MLC. In addition, an enhanced similarity measure is also proposed to compensate the loss in accuracy for binary MLC, called the dynamically weighted inte...

Radar REMPI is a microwave-scattering-based resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization diagnostic technique [1] which has been applied to detect trace species in air [2], measure electron loss rates [3], and measure temperature in gas mixtures and flames [4]. The resonance enhanced technique provides high selectivity in measuring species of interest, and hence can be used to measure the density ...

Background: Protection of hematopoietic system has become a primary goal in the development of novel medical countermeasures against ionization radiation and radiotherapy. This study was to explore the role of rapamycin in normal tissues against radiation. Materials and Methods: Mice were pretreated with rapamycin by i.p. every other day for five times before 5 Gy or 8.5 Gy γ-ray whole bo...

This study investigates the relation of non-invasive myocardial work and viability following ST-segment elevation infarction (STEMI) assessed on late gadolinium contrast enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance (LGE CMR) characterizes remote zone using parameters. STEMI patients who underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) were included. Several parameters derived from speckle trac...