The Bozhong oilfield (Hereinafter referred to as BZ oilfield) is a typical representative of complex fluvial reservoirs in the Bohai Sea, located southern with an average porosity 30.3% and permeability 643 × 10-3 μm2, belonging medium high reservoir, reservoir has good connectivity, underground crude oil viscosity 5 mPa·s. There are many plane fault blocks, longitudinal well section long, so o...

ear candling is an alternative medicine practice alleged to enhance general health by putting an end of a hollow candle in the ear canal and lighting up the other end of it. it also is advertised for cerumen and debris (bacteria and fungi) removal. ear candling is claimed to create negative pressure for drawing cerumen from the ear and to benefit the ears in many ways. it is however not free of...

A Buekenhout-Tits unital is defined to be a unital in PG(2, q2) obtained by coning the Tits ovoid using Buekenhout’s parabolic method. The full linear collineation group stabilizing this unital is computed, and related design questions are also addressed. While the answers to the design questions are very similar to those obtained for Buekenhout-Metz unitals, the group theoretic results are qui...

Early cone formation is a consistent issue in Fraser fir Christmas tree plantations the eastern United States. Growers must remove cones by hand, resulting significant labor costs, as degrade aesthetic value of trees. In this study, we conducted two series experiments collaboration with several farms to determine effectiveness applying plant growth regulators (PGRs), specifically GA-inhibitors,...

We report the use of an emergent, targeted fibrin spinal epidural blood patch with subarachnoid saline infusion to rapidly reverse "in-extremis" clinical and imaging signs of posterior-fossa coning brought about by acute-on-chronic intracranial hypotension, itself consequent to a cervicothoracic CSF leak. Treatment resulted in a dramatic recovery and eventual discharge with return to normal lif...

This thesis was set to tackle the gas coning problem in oil-rim reservoirs with horizontal wells. The focus was short term production planning in the sub-critical phase only. Different controllers were developed and assessed based on the objective of netpresent-value (NPV) of oil produced in the sub-critical phase. The reservoir model is a 1-D partial differential equation describing the dynami...