A Fractured North

Author : Erich Kasten,Igor Krupnik,Gail Fondahl
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783942883412

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A Fractured North by Erich Kasten,Igor Krupnik,Gail Fondahl Pdf

The remarkable opening of Siberia and the Russian Arctic to international social science research, starting in the early 1990s, has given rise to the spirit of cooperation, innova- tive partnerships, and the co-production of knowledge across boundaries and academic cultures. These interactions and the heartfelt relationships built by years of collabora- tions are now suspended or at least highly constrained after February 2022. This volume's essays explore various dimensions of the newly fractured North and of the war's impact that poses dilemmas to field practitioners. In this three-part volume, the first in the "Fractured North" series, scholars with decades-long experience in northern Russia document the breakdown of collegial relationships as state control has intensified. Early career professionals consider the ruinous impacts on their planned research trajectories and the new methods of "distant" anthropology. The volume includes several historical essays about the dilemmas that scholars encountered in the face of past repressive regimes and connection breakdowns, and what we might learn from how they dealt with these challenges.

Author : Karen Hertz,Julie Santy-Tomlinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319766812

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Fragility Fracture Nursing by Karen Hertz,Julie Santy-Tomlinson Pdf

This open access book aims to provide a comprehensive but practical overview of the knowledge required for the assessment and management of the older adult with or at risk of fragility fracture. It considers this from the perspectives of all of the settings in which this group of patients receive nursing care. Globally, a fragility fracture is estimated to occur every 3 seconds. This amounts to 25 000 fractures per day or 9 million per year. The financial costs are reported to be: 32 billion EUR per year in Europe and 20 billon USD in the United States. As the population of China ages, the cost of hip fracture care there is likely to reach 1.25 billion USD by 2020 and 265 billion by 2050 (International Osteoporosis Foundation 2016). Consequently, the need for nursing for patients with fragility fracture across the world is immense. Fragility fracture is one of the foremost challenges for health care providers, and the impact of each one of those expected 9 million hip fractures is significant pain, disability, reduced quality of life, loss of independence and decreased life expectancy. There is a need for coordinated, multi-disciplinary models of care for secondary fracture prevention based on the increasing evidence that such models make a difference. There is also a need to promote and facilitate high quality, evidence-based effective care to those who suffer a fragility fracture with a focus on the best outcomes for recovery, rehabilitation and secondary prevention of further fracture. The care community has to understand better the experience of fragility fracture from the perspective of the patient so that direct improvements in care can be based on the perspectives of the users. This book supports these needs by providing a comprehensive approach to nursing practice in fragility fracture care.

Author : John W. Lane (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Aquifers
ISBN : UOM:39015054258648

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An Integrated Geophysical and Hydraulic Investigation to Characterize a Fractured-rock Aquifer, Norwalk, Connecticut by John W. Lane (Jr.) Pdf

Author : John C. Lorenz,Scott P. Cooper
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119055860

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Applied Concepts in Fractured Reservoirs by John C. Lorenz,Scott P. Cooper Pdf

A much-needed, precise and practical treatment of a key topic in the energy industry and beyond, Applied Concepts in Fractured Reservoirs is an invaluable reference for those in both industry and academia Authored by renowned experts in the field, this book covers the understanding, evaluation, and effects of fractures in reservoirs. It offers a comprehensive yet practical discussion and description of natural fractures, their origins, characteristics, and effects on hydrocarbon reservoirs. It starts by introducing the reader to basic definitions and classifications of fractures and fractured reservoirs. It then provides an outline for fractured-reservoir characterization and analysis, and goes on to introduce the way fractures impact operational activities. Well organized and clearly illustrated throughout, Applied Concepts in Fractured Reservoirs starts with a section on understanding natural fractures. It looks at the different types, their dimensions, and the mechanics of fracturing rock in extension and shear. The next section provides information on measuring and analyzing fractures in reservoirs. It covers: logging core for fractures; taking, measuring, and analyzing fracture data; new core vs. archived core; CT scans; comparing fracture data from outcrops, core, and logs; and more. The last part examines the effects of natural fractures on reservoirs, including: the permeability behavior of individual fractures and fracture systems; fracture volumetrics; effects of fractures on drilling and coring; and the interaction between natural and hydraulic fractures. Teaches readers to understand and evaluate fractures Compiles and synthesizes various concepts and descriptions scattered in literature and synthesizes them with unpublished oil-field observations and data, along with the authors’ own experience Bridges some of the gaps between reservoir engineers and geologists Provides an invaluable reference for geologists and engineers who need to understand naturally fractured reservoirs in order to efficiently extract hydrocarbons Illustrated in full color throughout Companion volume to the Atlas of Natural and Induced Fractures in Core

Author : Taylor Brorby
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781324090878

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Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Taylor Brorby Pdf

"Brorby has written not only a truly great memoir, but also a frighteningly relevant one that speaks to the many battles we still have left to fight." —Jung Yun, New York Times Book Review From a young, gay environmentalist, a searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality “seems akin to a ticking bomb.” “I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power.” So begins Taylor Brorby’s Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North Dakota, “a place where there is no safety in a ravaged landscape of mining and fracking.” In visceral prose, Brorby recounts his upbringing in the coalfields; his adolescent infatuation with books; and how he felt intrinsically different from other boys. Now an environmentalist, Brorby uses the destruction of large swathes of the West as a metaphor for the terror he experienced as a youth. From an assault outside a bar in an oil boom town to a furtive romance, and from his awakening as an activist to his arrest at the Dakota Access Pipeline, Boys and Oil provides a startling portrait of an America that persists despite well-intentioned legal protections.

Author : Nadia C. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : In situ processing (Mining)
ISBN : UOM:39015077559204

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Predicting Flow Characteristics of a Lixiviant in a Fractured Crystalline Rock Mass by Nadia C. Miller Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Committee on Fracture Characterization and Fluid Flow
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996-08-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309049962

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Rock Fractures and Fluid Flow by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Committee on Fracture Characterization and Fluid Flow Pdf

Scientific understanding of fluid flow in rock fracturesâ€"a process underlying contemporary earth science problems from the search for petroleum to the controversy over nuclear waste storageâ€"has grown significantly in the past 20 years. This volume presents a comprehensive report on the state of the field, with an interdisciplinary viewpoint, case studies of fracture sites, illustrations, conclusions, and research recommendations. The book addresses these questions: How can fractures that are significant hydraulic conductors be identified, located, and characterized? How do flow and transport occur in fracture systems? How can changes in fracture systems be predicted and controlled? Among other topics, the committee provides a geomechanical understanding of fracture formation, reviews methods for detecting subsurface fractures, and looks at the use of hydraulic and tracer tests to investigate fluid flow. The volume examines the state of conceptual and mathematical modeling, and it provides a useful framework for understanding the complexity of fracture changes that occur during fluid pumping and other engineering practices. With a practical and multidisciplinary outlook, this volume will be welcomed by geologists, petroleum geologists, geoengineers, geophysicists, hydrologists, researchers, educators and students in these fields, and public officials involved in geological projects.

Author : G.H. Spence,J. Redfern,R. Aguilera,T.G. Bevan,J.W. Cosgrove, G.D. Couples,J.-M. Daniel
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781862393554

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Advances in the Study of Fractured Reservoirs by G.H. Spence,J. Redfern,R. Aguilera,T.G. Bevan,J.W. Cosgrove, G.D. Couples,J.-M. Daniel Pdf

Naturally fractured reservoirs constitute a substantial percentage of remaining hydrocarbon resources; they create exploration targets in otherwise impermeable rocks, including under-explored crystalline basement; and they can be used as geological stores for anthropogenic carbon dioxide. Their complex behaviour during production has traditionally proved difficult to predict, causing a large degree of uncertainty in reservoir development. The applied study of naturally fractured reservoirs seeks to constrain this uncertainty by developing new understanding, and is necessarily a broad, integrated, interdisciplinary topic. This book addresses some of the challenges and advances in knowledge, approaches, concepts, and methods used to characterize the interplay of rock matrix and fracture networks, relevant to fluid flow and hydrocarbon recovery. Topics include: describing, characterizing and identifying controls on fracture networks from outcrops, cores, geophysical data, digital and numerical models; geomechanical influences on reservoir behaviour; numerical modelling and simulation of fluid flow; and case studies of the exploration and development of carbonate, siliciclastic and metamorphic naturally fractured reservoirs.

Author : Lynn A. Crosby,Robert J. Neviaser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319089515

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Proximal Humerus Fractures by Lynn A. Crosby,Robert J. Neviaser Pdf

Proximal Humerus Fractures includes everything the orthopedic surgeon needs to know about the clinical management of these common shoulder injuries. Although non-operative treatment techniques are addressed and can be used in less severe circumstances, this book focuses mainly on the current operative treatment techniques for proximal humerus and tuberosity fractures, malunions and nonunions, including open reduction, percutaneous pinning, locking plate and intramedullary nail fixation, and humeral head hemiarthroplasty and reverse shoulder arthroplasty. A chapter on complications associated with these types of fractures and their management is also included. Dedicated to a common musculoskeletal injury, especially in athletes and the elderly suffering from osteoporosis, Proximal Humerus Fractures will be a valuable resource to all orthopedic surgeons and practitioners of sports medicine.

Author : William Drozdiak
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393608694

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Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West by William Drozdiak Pdf

A Financial Times Best Political Book of 2017 An urgent examination of how the political and social volatility in Europe impacts the United States and the rest of the world. The dream of a United States of Europe is unraveling in the wake of several crises now afflicting the continent. The single Euro currency threatens to break apart amid bitter arguments between rich northern creditors and poor southern debtors. Russia is back as an aggressive power, annexing Crimea, supporting rebels in eastern Ukraine, and waging media and cyber warfare against the West. Marine Le Pen’s National Front won a record 34 percent of the French presidential vote despite the election of Emmanuel Macron. Europe struggles to cope with nearly two million refugees who fled conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa. Britain has voted to leave the European Union after forty-three years, the first time a member state has opted to quit the world’s leading commercial bloc. At the same time, President Trump has vowed to pursue America First policies that may curtail U.S. security guarantees and provoke trade conflicts with its allies abroad. These developments and a growing backlash against globalization have contributed to a loss of faith in mainstream ruling parties throughout the West. Voters in the United States and Europe are abandoning traditional ways of governing in favor of authoritarian, populist, and nationalist alternatives, raising a profound threat to the future of our democracies. In Fractured Continent, William Drozdiak, the former foreign editor of The Washington Post, persuasively argues that these events have dramatic consequences for Americans as well as Europeans, changing the nature of our relationships with longtime allies and even threatening global security. By speaking with world leaders from Brussels to Berlin, Rome to Riga, Drozdiak describes the crises. the proposed solutions, and considers where Europe and America go from here. The result is a timely character- and narrative-driven book about this tumultuous phase of contemporary European history.

Author : C. A. Kaehler,Paul A. Hsieh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Groundwater
ISBN : UCR:31210025009216

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Hydraulic Properties of a Fractured-rock Aquifer, Lee Valley, San Diego County, California by C. A. Kaehler,Paul A. Hsieh Pdf

Author : Susan A. New,Jean-Philippe Bonjour
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0854045856

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Nutritional Aspects of Bone Health by Susan A. New,Jean-Philippe Bonjour Pdf

A review of the role of diet in the development and maintenance of bone health throughout the lifecycle and prevention of osteoporosis in later life, this reference includes key areas such as epidemiology, genetics and the impact of non-nutritional exogenous factors influencing the skeleton.

Author : Edward F. McCarthy,Frank J. Frassica
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107041233

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Pathology of Bone and Joint Disorders Print and Online Bundle by Edward F. McCarthy,Frank J. Frassica Pdf

Fully updated new edition covering all aspects of bone and joint diseases in one easily readable volume. Color illustrations throughout.

Author : Nirupama Rao
Publisher : Penguin Enterprise
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0143460129

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The Fractured Himalaya by Nirupama Rao Pdf

A deep dive into understanding India-China relations Why did India and China go to war in 1962? What propelled Jawaharlal Nehru's 'vision' of China? Why is it necessary to understand the trans-Himalayan power play of India and China in the formative period of their nationhoods? The past shadows the present in this relationship and shapes current policy options, strongly influencing public debate in India to this day. Nirupama Rao, a former Foreign Secretary of India, unknots this intensely complex saga of the early years of the India-China relationship. As a diplomat-practitioner, Rao's telling is based not only on archival material from India, China, Britain and the United States, but also on a deep personal knowledge of China, where she served as India's Ambassador. In addition, she brings a practitioner's keen eye to the labyrinth of negotiations and official interactions that took place between the two countries from 1949 to 1962. The Fractured Himalaya looks at the inflection points when the trajectory of diplomacy between these two nations could have course-corrected but did not. Importantly, it dwells on the strategic dilemma posed by Tibet in relations between India and China-a dilemma that is far from being resolved. The question of Tibet is closely interwoven into the fabric of this history. It also turns the searchlight on the key personalities involved-Jawaharlal Nehru, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and the 14th Dalai Lama-and their interactions as the tournament of those years was played out, moving step by closer step to the conflict of 1962.

Author : Peter Dietrich,Rainer Helmig,Martin Sauter,Heinz Hötzl,Jürgen Köngeter,Georg Teutsch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540270126

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Flow and Transport in Fractured Porous Media by Peter Dietrich,Rainer Helmig,Martin Sauter,Heinz Hötzl,Jürgen Köngeter,Georg Teutsch Pdf

This book addresses the characterization of flow and transport in porous fractured media from experimental and modeling perspectives. It provides a comprehensive presentation of investigations performed and analyzed on different scales.