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2014-01-01
M. Haftani, A. Nouri, M. Moosavi, B. Bohloli, M.R. Maleki Javan
Size DependencyIn this study, uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) of limestone rocks was estimated by indentation testing on small rock fragments. Here, the effects of rock fragment dimensions (particularly area and thickness) on indentation indices were studied. The investigation shows size...
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Smeared Modeling of Hydraulic Fracture Using Partially Coupled Reservoir and Geomechanics Simulators
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Morteza Roostaei, Siavash Taghipoor, Alireza Nouri, Vahidoddin Fattahpour, Dave Chan
There are aspects of the hydraulic fracturing process that remain unresolved for weakly consolidated sandstones. These issues include fracture modes and geometries for weak sandstones, and higher-than-expected fracture pressure in some field projects. The development of shear bands and the...
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Social vulnerability and climate change adaptation: The critical importance of moving beyond technocratic policy approaches
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Kehler, Sarah, Birchall, S. Jeff
Planning policy can play a key role in effective, equitable climate change adaptation; however, its capacity remains undermined by technocratic approaches reliant on hard measures, discounting significant research on addressing sources of social vulnerability for successful adaptation policy. Not...
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Some insights into a sequential resource allocation mechanism for en route air traffic management
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This paper presents a game theoretic model of a sequential capacity allocation process in a congestible transportation system. In this particular application, we investigate the governing principles at work in how airlines will time their requests for en route resources under capacity shortfalls...
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2021-01-01
Shegelski, Victor A., Campbell, Erin O., Thompson, Kirsten M., Whitehouse, Caroline M., Sperling, Felix A. H.
The mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) is a significant destructive force in the pine forests of western Canada and has the capacity to spread east into a novel host tree species, jack pine (Pinaceae). New populations have been documented in central...
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Spatial characteristics of volatile communication in lodgepole pine trees: Evidence of kin recognition and intra-species support
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Hussain, Altaf, Rodriquez-Ramos, Jean C., Erbilgin, Nadir
Plant interactions using volatile organic compounds, particularly in the context of kin recognition have received considerable attention in recent years, but several discrepancies and conflicting results have restricted our understanding. We propose that some of these discrepancies in literature...
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2013-01-01
William F. Fagan, Mark A. Lewis, Marie Auger-Meth, Tal Avgar, Simon Benhamou, Greg Breed, Lara LaDage, Ulrike E. Schl€agel, Wen-wu Tang, Yannis P. Papastamatiou, James Forester, Thomas Mueller
Memory is critical to understanding animal movement but has proven challenging to study. Advances in animal tracking technology, theoretical movement models and cognitive sciences have facilitated research in each of these fields, but also created a need for synthetic examination of the linkages...
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2019-06-04
Jonathan R. Potts, Mark A. Lewis
Mathematical models of spatial population dynamics typically focus on the interplay between dispersal events and birth/death processes. However, for many animal communities, significant arrangement in space can occur on shorter timescales, where births and deaths are negligible. This phenomenon...
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Spreading Speed, Traveling Waves, and Minimal Domain Size in Impulsive Reaction-di®usion Models
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How growth, mortality, and dispersal in a species affect the species' spread and persistence constitutes a central problem in spatial ecology. We propose impulsive reaction-diffusion equation models for species with distinct repro- ductive and dispersal stages. These models can describe a...