{ Methods are developed for design of linear tomographic reconstruction algorithms with speciied properties. Assuming a starting model with constant slowness, an algorithm with the following properties is found: (1) The optimum constant for the starting model is determined automatically. (2) The weighted least-squares error between the predicted and measured traveltime data is as small as possi...

Works conducted in logistics management mostly emphasize the importance of a ‘time compression’ strategy to develop a sustainable competitive advantage. At the level of the design, manufacturing or distribution of products to consumers, high-speed orientation is now considered to be a universal source of performance. Drawing from current developments in the French food retailing industry, the p...

one of the common problems in reflection seismic records in the land is the existence of surface waves with high amplitude and low frequency which cause the most important parts of reflective signals to be masked. therefore, it is necessary to attenuate them by processing and acquisition methods. as it is impossible to attenuate the surface waves completely, and sometimes it is likely to damage...

Cognitive rehabilitation treatment (CRT) has been described in patients with brain injury, but it has not been attempted in cases of cognitive dysfunction without organic cause. This case report describes CRT of neurocognitive impairment in a 54-year-old female patient with conversion disorder (CD). She experienced difficulties with regard to speaking, motor function, and pain symptoms, which d...

primary assumption in most problems of elasticity theory in petroleum geophysics is that the elastic media is isotropic. laboratory experiments confirmed that most rocks are anisotropic. if in one medium, properties vary with directions, it is named as anisotropic. knowledge about anisotropy reduces risk and cost of hydrocarbon production. in the present study, anisotropy of a carbonate reservo...

One of the most critical decisions in the design of a localslant-stack transform (LSST) is the selection of its aperture, or more precisely, the selection of the appropriate number of traces and their weighting coefficients for each slant stack. The challenge is to achieve a good compromise between the slowness and the spatial resolution. Conventionally, the window size is chosen in a more intu...

In this thesis, we investigate slowness as an unsupervised learning principle of sensory processing. Two aspects are given particular emphasis: (a) the mathematical analysis of Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) as one particular implementation of slowness learning and (b) the question, how slowness learning can be implemented in a biologically plausible fashion. In the first part of the thesis, we de...

Acoustic wave propagation in elastic media is characterized by the slowness surface. The slowness surface consists of three sheets associated with three modes of wave propagation and the two outer sheets can have zero-curvature locally. It is shown that the outmost sheet can admit extraordinary zero-curvature and the slowness curve can appear as a straight line locally. Using the perturbation m...

Obsessional slowness is regarded as an uncommon but severely disabling variant of obsessive-compulsive disorder. This paper examines the psychopathology, classification, pathophysiology and treatment of obsessional slowness. It argues that primary obsessional slowness does not require classification as a separate syndrome because it can be found to be secondary to recognised phenomena of obsess...