Education, Inspection and State Formation: A Preliminary Statement

simulation and experimental studies for prediction mineral scale formation in oil field during mixing of injection and formation water

abstract: mineral scaling in oil and gas production equipment is one of the most important problem that occurs while water injection and it has been recognized to be a major operational problem. the incompatibility between injected and formation waters may result in inorganic scale precipitation in the equipment and reservoir and then reduction of oil production rate and water injection rate. ...

Inspection of West Sussex Local Education Authority

effects of first language on second language writing-a preliminary contrastive rhetoric study of farsi and english

to explore the idea the investingation proposed, aimed at finding whether the performances of the population of iranians students studying english in an efl context are consistent in l1 and l2 writing taks and whether there is a cross-linguistic transfer in this respect. in this regard the subjects were instructed to write four compositions-two in english and two in farsi-which consisted of an ...

RoboCup in Higher Education: A Preliminary Report

Since team-based projects have been proven to be an effective pedagogical tool, we have been using RoboCup challenges as the basis for class projects in undergraduate courses. This paper unifies several independent efforts in this direction and presents early work in the development of shared resources and evaluation. We outline three courses and describe the related class projects in order to ...

Network Formation Preliminary and Incomplete

I study a network based mechanism of norm enforcement in a community where agents play a Prisoner’s Dilemma with changing partners. Agents may choose a number of close friends. Communication to close friends within the network enforces cooperation. In a world with noiseless communication, it is optimal that each agent has close contacts to all other network members. Moreover, it is optimal to h...