A forum is a valuable tool to foster reflection in an in-depth discussion; however, it forces the course mediator to continually pay close attention in order to coordinate learners’ activities. Moreover, monitoring a forum is time consuming given that it is impossible to know in advance when new messages are going to be posted. Additionally, a forum may be inactive for a long period and suddenl...

Recent numerical relativistic results demonstrate that the merger of comparable-mass spinning black holes has a maximum “recoil kick” of up to ∼ 4000 km s. However the scaling of these recoil velocities with mass ratio is poorly understood. We present new runs showing that the maximum possible kick parallel to the orbital axis does not scale as ∼ η (where η is the symmetric mass ratio), as prev...

Humanoid robots usually have a large number of degrees of freedom which turns humanoid control into a very complex problem. Humanoids are used in several RoboCup soccer leagues. In this work, the SimSpark simulator of the Simulation 3D will be used. This paper presents an automatic approach for developing humanoid behaviors based on the development of a generic optimization system. The paper de...

Good agreement with field data has been obtained when using a commercial kick simulator to analyse a 56 bbl gas kick taken in a 59 deg deviated wellbore. Fast kick detection and reaction are necessary when drilling at high rates of penetration since high pump rates, necessary for hole cleaning and cuttings transport, imply that a gas influx may be rapidly circulated to surface. A simulated exam...