Compaction-induced permeability reduction in a producing reservoir rock/soil can be significant, but nevertheless is often neglected or overly simplified in reservoir simulations. Provided examples show that the commonly used compaction models in reservoir simulators are not capable of capturing the actual spatial variation of the compaction, which generally is more complex than the simplified ...

Ventricular non-compaction is a rare cardiomyopathy characterized by numerous, excessively prominent ventricular trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses communicating with the ventricular cavity. The lesion is postulated to result from an intrauterine developmental arrest that stops compaction of the myocardial fiber meshwork. This cardiomyopathy affects the left ventricle, with or wit...

Compaction of the mouse embryo, which takes place at the 8-cell stage, is dependent upon the adhesion molecule E-cadherin (uvomurulin), but does not require protein synthesis, suggesting that post-translational modification(s) is (are) implicated in the setting up of this phenomenon. The demonstration recently that E-cadherin is phosphorylated at the 8-cell stage just before compaction supports...

The organisation of the large volume of mammalian genomic DNA within cell nuclei requires mechanisms to regulate chromatin compaction involving the reversible formation of higher order structures. The compaction state of chromatin varies between interphase and mitosis and is also subject to rapid and reversible change upon ATP depletion/repletion. In this study we have investigated mechanisms t...

In laboratory experiments, we investigated how media with varying ratio of peat:sand and two levels of compaction influence dispersal success of entomopathogenic nematode (EPN) species with different foraging strategies: Steinernema carpocapsae (ambusher), Heterorhabditis downesi (cruiser) and Steinernema feltiae (intermediate). Success was measured by the numbers of nematodes moving through a ...

Soil compaction first affects physical properties, as compaction occurs when soil particles are pressed together, reducing pore space between them and increasing the soil bulk density (Lipiec & Hatano, 2003; Raper, 2005; Reintam, 2006; Reintam et al., 2009). Soil compaction also influences chemical and biological processes, such as decreasing organic carbon (C) and N mineralization, the concent...

This paper presents a general method to compact the rst-order part of functional languages with call-by-value semantics for ne-grain parallel machines like VLIW or super-scalars. This work extends previous works on compaction in two ways. First, it deenes a new formal system for the compaction problem usable to design a meta-compiler for these machines. Second, the compaction is directly applie...

Isolated ventricular non-compaction of myocardium is an unclassified cardiomyopathy with an underlying mechanism of a morphogenetic abnormality involving an arrest of compaction of the loose myocardial meshwork during fetal ontogenesis. The diagnosis of this unusual condition can be readily mistaken for idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and it should be considered in evaluation of patients with...

The application of stress to multiphase solid-liquid systems often results in morphological instabilities. Here we propose a solid-solid phase transformation model for roughening instability in the interface between two porous materials with different porosities under normal compression stresses. This instability is triggered by a finite jump in the free energy density across the interface, and...

One method for compacting executable computer code is to replace commonly repeated sequences of instructions with macro instructions from a decoding dictionary. The size of the decoding dictionary is often small in comparison to the number of all possible macros. Choosing the macros that yield the best compaction is a di cult subset selection problem because multiple, but colliding, macros may ...