In developing this papeq I re-read some of Mud Edwards major contributions to the study of behavioral decision making (Edwards, 1954, 1962, 1992; von Wmterfeldt and Edwards, 1986) to remind myself about how he has viewed the developments of a half century of work on individual decision making that began with von Neuman and Morgenstern's (1947) theory of expected utility. I focused on three aspe...

an investigation was made to study the residual activity and air- borne effect of pirimiphos- methyl, at 2g a.i./m2 in hut scale trials on different surfaces in kazeroun, and bandar-abbas, south of iran. in kazeroun area, bio-assay contact mortality test with pirimiphos methyl on mud, wood, cement and plaster surfaces, 54 days after hut spraying, decreased from 100% to 46.7%, 61.25%, 36.6% and ...

Mud formed from environmental dust particles in humid ambient air significantly influences the performance of solar harvesting devices. This study examines the characterization of environmental dust particles and the chemo-mechanics of dry mud formed from dust particles. Analytical tools, including scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy, particle s...

There is little question that current role-playing MUD systems provide entertainment for their users. Nevertheless, experience with these systems, however entertaining, often falls short of the compelling, rich and varied experiences we associate with dramatic art. This limitation is in part due to the nature of control in MUDs. Control within a MUD is, by de nition, distributed; unlike convent...

This paper describes the application of a new methodology to estimate permeability of clastic rock formations based on the numerical simulation of the physics of mudfiltrate invasion. The methodology assumes a key well with a complete suite of well logs and rock-core laboratory measurements of porosity, permeability, capillary pressure, and relative permeability. For additional wells in the sam...

New-generation electromagnetic (EM) and sonic logging tools are capable of measuring multi-frequency multi-component data at multiple depths of investigation. This allows us to image the formation around the borehole by using an inversion method. A method is developed for directly obtaining porosity and fluid saturation distributions by simultaneously inverting borehole EM and sonic measurement...

We describe the successful application of a new method to estimate permeability and permeability anisotropy from transient measurements of pressure acquired with a wireline straddle-packer formation tester. Unlike standard algorithms used for the interpretation of formation-tester measurements, the method developed in this paper incorporates the physics of two-phase immiscible flow as well as t...

Environmental dusts settle on surfaces and influence the performance of concentrated solar energy harvesting devices, such as aluminum troughs. The characteristics of environmental dust and the effects of mud formed from the dust particles as a result of water condensing in humid air conditions on an aluminum wafer surface are examined. The dissolution of alkaline and alkaline earth compounds i...