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A perspective review of applications of the computed tomography (CT) scan imaging technique for microscopic reservoir rock characterization

open access: yesDeep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
In this review, the application of micro‐CT and medical‐CT scanning in the oil and gas industry has been thoroughly discussed. Recent improvements in DRP and modern imaging techniques in the oil and gas industry have been modeled using both experimental and simulation work.
Achinta Bera   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design and Implementation of S-MARKS: A Secure Middleware for Pervasive Computing Applications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
As portable devices have become a part of our everyday life, more people are unknowingly participating in a pervasive computing environment. People engage with not a single device for a specific purpose but many devices interacting with each other in the
Ahamed, Sheikh Iqbal   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Studying interspecific population synchrony: current status and future perspectives

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Interspecific population synchrony, or co‐fluctuations in the population dynamics and demographic parameters of different species, is an important ecological phenomenon with major implications for the stability of communities and ecosystems. It is also central in the context of biodiversity loss, as interspecific synchrony can influence how ecological ...
Ragnhild Bjørkås   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implications of Selfish Neighbor Selection in Overlay Networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In a typical overlay network for routing or content sharing, each node must select a fixed number of immediate overlay neighbors for routing traffic or content queries.
Laoutaris, Nikolaos   +3 more
core  

Changing home care aides: Differences between family and non-family care in California Medicaid home and community-based services. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In California Medicaid home-and-community-based services (HCBS), recipients' family members receive payment as home care aides (HCAs). We analyzed data on first-time HCBS recipients to examine factors associated with the likelihood of switching HCAs ...
Bindman, Andrew B   +5 more
core  

Cultivating Capital for High School Newcomers: A Case Study of an Urban Newcomer Classroom

open access: yesJournal of ethnic and cultural studies, 2019
This qualitative case study examines how students in a high school newcomer program experience the development of social and cultural capital. Newcomer programs are created by K-12 schools with large influxes of refugees and immigrants.
R. Hos   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
wiley   +1 more source

Using Economic Classroom Experiments [PDF]

open access: yes
Economic classroom experiments are an excellent way to increase student interest, but getting started may be difficult. We attempt to aid the newcomer by recommending which experiments to use and describing the current resources available.
Dieter Balkenborg, Todd R. Kaplan
core  

Zika Virus: the Latest Newcomer

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2016
Since the beginning of this century, humanity has been facing a new emerging, or re-emerging, virus threat almost every year: West Nile, Influenza A, avian flu, dengue, Chikungunya, SARS, MERS, Ebola, and now Zika, the latest newcomer. Zika virus (ZIKV),
J. Saiz   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Munc18b Increases Insulin Granule Fusion, Restoring Deficient Insulin Secretion in Type-2 Diabetes Human and Goto-Kakizaki Rat Islets with Improvement in Glucose Homeostasis

open access: yesEBioMedicine, 2017
Reduced pancreatic islet levels of Munc18a/SNARE complex proteins have been postulated to contribute to the deficient glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) in type-2 diabetes (T2D).
Tairan Qin   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

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