When a dataset involves multiple classes, there is often a need to express the key contrasting features among these classes in humanly understandable terms, that is, to pro"le the classes. Commonly, one class is contrasted from the rest by aggregating the latter into a pseudo-class; alternatively, classes are treated separately without coordinating their pro"les with those of the other classes....

Permeability is the ability of porous rock to transmit fluids and one of the most important properties of reservoir rock because oil production depends on the permeability of reservoirs. Permeability is determined using a variety of methods which are usually expensive and time consuming. Reservoir rock properties with image analysis and intelligent systems has been used to reduce time and money...

Automatic discovery of semantic relations between resources is a key issue in Web-based intelligent applications such as document understanding and Web services. This paper explores how to automatically discover the latent semantic relations and their properties based on the existing association rules. Through building semantic matrix by the association rules, four semantic relations can be ext...

this study was performed to evaluate the results of 14 years of application of ilizarov method in treatment of infected non-:union:s of tibia and femur in patients with severe trauma and battlefield wounds. seventeen patients with long bone non:union: (14 were with infected non:union: of tibia out of whom two were associated with tibial bone defects and 3 with infected non-:union: of femur) wer...

conclusions our results in terms of asami scores are comparable with the published literature. furthermore, our return to work is better than most european studies (63%). all our patients said they would have the procedure again. we attribute this success partly to the multidisciplinary approach. we recommend early referral to a dedicated unit if there is any evidence of a non-::union::. result...

The main challenge facing the oil industry is to reduce development costs while accelerating recovery with maximizing reserves. One of the key enabling technologies in this area is intelligent well completions. Intelligent well technology (IWT) is a relatively new technology that has been adopted by many operators in recent years to improve oil and gas recovery. Intelligent well completions emp...