STEAM Success: Utilizing Picturebook Biographies

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Dr. Eric M. Meslin is Director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, Professor of Medicine, and of Medical and Molecular Genetics in the Indiana University School of Medicine, and Professor of Philosophy in the School of Liberal Arts. He is also Assistant Dean for Bioethics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Meslin received his B.A. in Philosophy from York University (T...

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Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage: A Recipe for Success

In this paper, Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) is introduced and its advantages over ordinary steam injection is demonstrated. A simple simulation model is built and three scenarios of natural production, ordinary steam injection, and SAGD are compared in terms of their cumulative oil production and cumulative oil steam ratio. The results show that SAGD can significantly enhance oil prod...

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Refdbms is a database system for sharing bibliographic references among many users at sites on a wide-area networksuch as the Internet. This paper describes our experiences in building and using refdbms for the last two years. Itsummarizes the collection of facilities that refdbms provides, and gives detailed information on how well refdbmsfunctions as a collaborative, wide-area, di...

Biographies: Classic Paper

The early 1980s saw the development of some rather sophisticated distributed systems. These were not merely networked file systems: rather, using remote procedure calls, hierarchical naming, and what would now be called middleware, they allowed a collection of systems to operate as a coherent whole. One such system in particular was developed at Newcastle that allowed pre-existing applications ...