bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Variable Stimulated Reservoir Volume (SRV) Simulation: Eagle Ford Shale Case Study
Authors: Suliman B. , Meek R. , Hull R. , Bello H. , Portis D. , Richmond P. 
Published: April 2013

Abstract
Production data analysis and reservoir simulation of the Eagle Ford shale are very challenging due to the complex characteristics of the reservoir and the fluids. Eagle Ford reservoir complexity is expressed in the enormous vertical and horizontal petro-physical heterogeneity, stress-sensitive permeability, and existence of multi-scale natural fracture and fault systems. This complexity makes the prediction of the geometry and conductivity of the hydraulic fracture resulting from the stimulation process rather challenging. On the other hand, reservoir fluid complexity is demonstrated in multi-phase flow, liquid loading in the wellbore, condensate banking, etc. Based on this complexity, 3D reservoir modeling and numerical simulation have the relative advantage of addressing irregular fracture geometry, variable SRV, and multi-phase flow aspects. The South Texas Asset Team at Pioneer Natural Resources is establishing a workflow for dynamic reservoir modeling that can integrate all reservoir/wellbore parameters (formation evaluation, drilling, completion, stimulation, pre-/post-fracture surveillance, and well performance data) in order to address key questions relating to field development; such as depletion efficiency, drainage area, wells interference, and condensate banking effects. In this paper, a case study is presented to demonstrate the integration of various measurements and surveillance data to build a variable SRV reservoir model. The variable SRV model described here has the following building blocks: 1) Formation evaluation: included all the reservoir characterization data derived from logs and 3D seismic inversions and structural attributes. 2) Surveillance data integration: microseismic data (backbone for this work) are integrated with chemical and radioactive tracer logs. 3) Well performance data integration: Production data is used to determine different flow regimes during the well history and to set bounds for stimulation parameters, such as fracture half-length and permeability (Xƒ√k). 4) Numerical simulation: Micro-seismic attributes (density and magnitude) are converted to a permeability model after being calibrated with tracer logs and production flow regime parameters (Xƒ√k). PVT data is matched against an Equation of State (EOS) and input into the model.
Production data history matching, sensitivity and forecasting indicate the following: a) The SRV created by fracture stimulation has permeability fading away from the wellbore; b) Fracture geometry is variable and results in an irregular drainage area along the lateral; C) Onset of condensate banking near wellbore and along the fracture(s) can occur within the first year of production if draw down is not managed properly.
Book-Tax Differences as an Indicator of Financial Distress
Authors: Noga Tracy J. , Schnader Anne L. 
Published: April 2013

SYNOPSIS:
We contend that tax-related information, which has not yet been considered by extant research, can significantly improve bankruptcy prediction. We investigate the association between abnormal changes in book-tax differences (BTDs) and bankruptcy using a hazard model and out-of-sample testing as in Shumway (2001). We find that information regarding abnormal changes in BTDs significantly increases our ability to ex ante identify firms that have an increased likelihood of going bankrupt in the coming five-year period. The information provided by BTDs significantly adds information to traditional models for predicting bankruptcy, such as that proposed by Ohlson (1980), and also expands the prediction window beyond the traditional two-year time frame.
The Effects of Reward Type on Employee Goal Setting, Goal Commitment, and Performance
Authors: Presslee Adam , Vance Thomas W. , Webb R. Alan 
Published: April 2013

ABSTRACT:
The use of tangible rewards in the form of non-cash incentives with a monetary value has become increasingly common in many organizations (Peltier et al. 2005). Despite their use, the behavioral and performance effects of tangible rewards have received minimal research attention. Relative to cash rewards, we predict tangible rewards will have positive effects on goal commitment and performance but will lead employees to set easier goals, which will negatively affect performance. The overall performance impact of tangible rewards will depend on the relative strength of these competing effects. We conduct a quasi-experiment at five call centers of a financial services company. Employees at two locations earned cash rewards for goal attainment while employees at three locations earned points, with equivalent retail value to cash rewards, redeemable for merchandise. Results show that cash rewards lead to better performance through their effects on the difficulty of the goals employees selected. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
Data Availability: The data used in this study are available upon request.
Dual band triangular slotted stacked microstrip antenna for wireless applications
Authors: Singh Vinod , Ali Zakir , Singh Ashutosh , Ayub Shahanaz 
Published: April 2013

Abstract
In this paper stacked configuration of microstrip antenna is used to produce dual wide band which is suitable for various wireless applications. Using triangular slot and stacking of foam substrate of dielectric constant 1, two bands of bandwidth 18.70% and 12.10% is obtained. The antenna is fed by coaxial probe feeding technique. The proposed patch antenna is designed on the foam substrate and simulated on the Zeland IE3D software.
Middle Earth’s Messianic Mythology Remixed: Gandalf’s Death and Resurrection in Novel and Film
Authors: Stucky Mark D. 
Published: April 2013

In the mythology of the very influential The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien employed several Christ figures, the most obvious being the wizard Gandalf. In Tolkien’s “fundamentally religious and Catholic” novel, the symbolism of Gandalf’s “death and resurrection” scenes was implicit, but Peter Jackson’s film versions visually made Gandalf’s Christ-figure symbolism more explicit. This article will explore: • The cultural impact of Tolkien’s mythology • The meaning of myth to Tolkien • The characteristics of a Christ figure • What a Christ figure subtext may add to the psychological/mythological impact of a work of art • How Gandalf’s death and resurrection scenes portrayed him as a Christ figure • How these two scenes in the films diverged from the book • The possible meaning of that divergence (of the mythology remixed)
Holy Acceptable Violence? Violence in Hockey and Christian Atonement Theories
Authors: Trothen Tracy 
Published: April 2013

L’hockey et le christianitsme sont souvent considerer des activité spirituels pour leur disciples et participants. Cet essai, écrit d’une perspective morale féministe, examine plusieur type de violence qui caractérise l’hockey professionnel au Canada, incluent la justice économique, commodification et sexualization des athletes, dévouement et héroisme, dommages physiques au cours des jeux, l’abus sexuel, et une mentalité dualistique qui rend les autre joueurs non-humaines. Des parallèles entre ces type de violence et des théories chrétiennes classiques d’expiation sont établis, avec attention aux conséquences. Le normalité de la violence des théories chrétiennes classiques d’expiation et dans l’hockey professionnel au Canada est discuté et critiquer. Hockey and Christianity are described as ways of being spiritual for followers and participants. This essay is written from a feminist ethical perspective and examines violence characterizing professional Canadian hockey including: economic justice, and commodification and sexualization of athletes; self-sacrifice and heroism; on-ice bodily harms; sexual abuse; and a dualistic mentality that alienates and negates the other. Parallels between this violence and classical Christian atonement theories are drawn, with attention to consequences. The normativity of violence both in classical Christian atonement theories and in professional Canadian hockey is argued and critiqued.
Le mot et la chose, l’hostie dans le matrimoine du Québec
Authors: Bauer Oliver 
Published: April 2013

Estimant insuffisante la distinction entre patrimoine matériel et immatériel, Olivier Bauer privilégie le concept de « matrimoine », une approche du patrimoine qui permet de valoriser le rôle des femmes, de reconnaître la valeur patrimoniale des biens indivis et de prendre en compte les mondes imaginaires qui leur sont associés. Jetant un regard neuf sur le Québec, il montre la place fondamentale que l’hostie y occupe, le mot fait partie du vocabulaire religieux, mais il est aussi le juron favori des Québécois ; la chose est consommée par les catholiques romains au moment de l’Eucharistie, mais elle est aussi vendue dans les magasins pour être grignotée comme goûter. Par conséquent, il propose d’inscrire l’hostie au matrimoine du Québec. Il énumère trois avantages qu’il y aurait à matrimonialiser l’hostie, reconnaître le rôle fondamental des femmes dans l’Eucharistie, refuser que l’Église catholique romaine s’attribue le monopole de l’hostie, prendre en compte le monde imaginaire du corps du Christ. Because he is unsatisfied with the classical distinction between tangible and intangible heritage, Olivier Bauer prefers using the old French word matrimoine to qualify a certain type of heritage (patrimoine). His approach makes it possible to focus on women’s role in heritage, recognize the value of goods without owners and to take into account the imaginary worlds which are associated for them. With a new look at Quebec culture, he shows the fundamental place that the host occupies there: the word belongs to religious vocabulary, but it is also the favourite swearword of the Quebecers; the thing is consumed by Roman Catholics at the time of Eucharist, but it is also sold in the stores to be eaten as a snack. Consequently, he proposes to register the host with the “matrimoine du Québec.” He enumerates three advantages that there would be considering the host as a piece of the matrimoine: to recognize the fundamental role of women in Eucharist, to refute notion that the Roman Catholic Church allots the monopoly of the host, to take into account the imaginary world of the body of Christ.St. Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal is the most popular centre of pilgrimage in Canada. At the Oratory there are three distinct locations of ritual activity, the votive chapel, the crypt church and the basilica, that are expressive of three different types of religion which can be interpreted along a continuum from folk to popular to elite Catholicism, respectively. A systematic examination of the ritual space and processes of these sites, as well as citations from the publications of the Oratory, make it clear that there is a tension between the elite and folk ritual expressions—a tension which I suggest is mediated, at least in part, by the locus of popular ritual activity, the crypt church.
Book Reviews
Authors: Luft Shanny , Rushton James , Barkman Adam , Ballan Joseph N. 
Published: April 2013

Sander, Lauren. Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement, reviewed by Shanny Luft Sammons, Martha C. War of the Fantasy Worlds: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien on Art and Imagination, reviewed by Cory James Rushton Bakker, Freek L. The Challenge of the Silver Screen: An Analysis of the Cinematic Portraits of Jesus, Rama, Buddha and Muhammad, reviewed by Adam Barkman Lindvall, Terry. Sanctuary Cinema: Origins of the Christian Film Industry, reviewed by Joseph N. Ballan
Book Reviews
Authors: Rycenga Jennifer , LaGrone Matthew , Mallinson Jeffrey , Craig Tim , Williams Joseph W. , Mercer Joanne , DeLashmutt Michael W. 
Published: April 2013

Moore, R. Laurence. Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in American History, reviewed by Jennifer Rycenga Riess, Steven A., ed. Sports and the American Jew, reviewed by Matthew LaGrone Whiteley, Raewynne J. and Beth Maynard, eds. Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalog, reviewed by Jeffrey Mallinson Clark, Lynn Schofield. From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural., reviewed by Tim Craig Horsley, Richard and James Tracy, eds. Christmas Unwrapped: Consumerism, Christ, and Culture, reviewed by Joseph W. Williams Mitchell, Jolyon and Sophia Marriage, eds. Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion and Culture, reviewed by Joanne Mercer Michael W. DeLashmutt, Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter: The Science-Fictional Religion of Philip K. Dick., reviewed by Michael W. DeLashmutt
Book Reviews
Authors: Craig Tim , Gilmour Michael , Bube Custodio , Williams Howell , Scott Jennifer , Yarri Donna 
Published: April 2013

Fox, Richard Wrightman. Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession, reviewed by Tim Craig Prothero, Stephen. American Jesus: How the Son of God became a National Hero, reviewed by Tim Craig Lattin, Don. Following Our Bliss: How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today, reviewed by Michael Gilmour John Granger. Looking for God in Harry Potter, reviewed by Paul Custodio Bube Byrne, Julie. O God of Players: The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs, reviewed by Howell Williams Hornstein, Shelley, Laura Levitt, and Laurence J. Silberstein, eds. Impossible Images: Contemporary Art After the Holocaust, reviewed by Jennifer A. Scott/ Stephen R. Kaufman and Nathan Braun Good News for All Creation: Vegetarianism as Christian Stewardship, reviewed by Donna Yarri
Ice flow relations for stress and strain-rate components from combined shear and compression laboratory experiments
Authors: Budd William F. , Warner Roland C. , Jacka T.H. , Li Jun , Treverrow Adam 
Published: April 2013

AbstractThe generalized (Glen) flow relation for ice, involving the second invariants of the stress deviator and strain-rate tensors, is only expected to hold for isotropic polycrystalline ice. Previous single-stress experiments have shown that for the steady-state flow, which develops at large strains, the tertiary strain rate is greater than the minimum (secondary creep) value by an enhancement factor which is larger for shear than compression. Previous experiments combining shear with compression normal to the shear plane have shown that enhancement of the tertiary octahedral strain rate increases monotonically from compression alone to shear alone. Additional experiments and analyses presented here were conducted to further investigate how the separate tertiary shear and compression strain-rate components are related in combined stress situations. It is found that tertiary compression rates are more strongly influenced by the addition of shear than is given by a Glen-type flow relation, whereas shear is less influenced by additional compression. A scalar function formulation of the flow relation is proposed, which fits the tertiary creep data well and is readily adapted to a generalized form that can be extended to other stress configurations and applied in ice mass modelling.
La visite d'Alexandre le Grand à Ilion / Troie
Authors: Courtieu Gilles 
Published: April 2013

Im Friihjahr 334, iiberquert Alexander von Makedonien den Hellespont, den Grossteil seiner Truppen zuriicklassend. Er verweilt einige Tage in der Troas und zieht in den bes- cheidenen Ort Ilion ein. Die literarischen Quellen, die auf dem direkten Zeugnis von Kallisthenes beruhen, bieten unterschiedliche, aber detaillierte Berichte von dieser Episode und man kann jetzt die neuen Befunde auswerten, die von der Archâologie gelierert werden, um ein Bild davon zu gewinnen, wie damais aussah.
Der junge Konig wird mit Unterwurfigkeit empfangen und er opfert der Athene Ilias, wie es angemessen ist Er fuhrt weitere Riten und symbolische Akte durch, wobei sich Dinge ereignen, die im Detail analysiert werden mûssen, um die jeweiligen wirklichen ursachen zu verstehen : sind sie banal oder aussergewohnlich, einem individuellen Enthu- siasmus geschuldet oder dem politischen Geschick, lediglich auf dem Ort beschranlet oder gebunden an den allgemeinden Kontext der Eroberung.
Auf dièse Weise wird man das Verhalten von Alexander in Ilion verstehen und die Beweggriinde unterscheiden konnen, die eine Replik auf die persische Invasion von 480 sind, Einfluss der homerischen Gedichte auf seine Persônlichkeit und vor allem der Wille das Bild des idealen Verhalten eines Kônigs in einer griechischen Stadt zu verbrei- ten, in Asien eroberten wàhrend er wenige monate zuvor die Stadt Theben ausgelôscht hatte.
La figure d'Ulysse dans la poésie de Séféris
Authors: Oktapoda-Lu Efstratia 
Published: April 2013

Pour le poète grec Georges Séféris, Homère représente la Grécité et Ulysse estja figure par excellence pour exprimer la souffrance et les tourmentes du peuple grec. À travers l'Odyssée et les anciennes figures de la tradition grecque et par une sorte d'anachronisme, en mêlant les éléments mythiques aux éléments contemporains, Séféris montre dans sa poésie l'actualité d'Homère et sa capacité à exprimer la problématique contemporaine pour la nation grecque.
Identifié à Ulysse de l'éternel retour, contraint lui-même de vivre à l'étranger, le poète souffre de ce désir du nostos. Ulysse exprime alors pour Séféris sa douleur et son amertume d'être loin de la Grèce, mais aussi son désir d'y retourner. Au-delà de la symbolique de la xenitia et du nostos, le héros homérique est surtout pour Séféris un héros surnaturel qui est grâce à son expérience un guide et un père humble et familier. Séféris voit donc en Ulysse un symbole de la tradition grecque et de tout ce qu'elle a offert au poète : l'amour pour la vie et pour sa langue, l'humanité, la modestie, la simplicité, la connaissance, le calme, l'encouragement, la protection et le bonheur. La mission du poète est de maintenir son amour pour la vie et pour son pays, malgré les difficultés qu'il peut avoir à affronter. Dans le cas de Séféris, ces difficultés sont la tragédie de la guerre et le rétrécissement de l'hellénisme survenus au lendemain du désastre de l'Asie Mineure et de l'arrivée des réfugiés en Grèce.
Les conditions historiques de la Grèce après la défaite de 1922 et l'état de décomposition de la civilisation occidentale ne peuvent offrir au poète que des images d'épaves, de monuments en ruine, d'absence et de privation. Séféris écrit alors une Odyssée à l'envers, la chronique d'un échec, celui de l'Asie Mineure. Ulysse n'aura pas la fin héroïque de YOdyssée. Pour Séféris, Ulysse, comme ses compagnons, sera un anti-héros, un éternel naufragé. La nouvelle épopée d'Ulysse et de ses compagnons aura pour protagonistes des personnages marqués par la perte de leur héroïsme.
La poésie séférienne est une Odyssée moderne dans laquelle unité et cohérence se font jour par le biais de la répétition de mêmes motifs et par la présence d'un personnage central qui sert de voix pour tous les hommes, de tout âge, tourmentés par la nostalgie et les tentations, par les joies d'un errant qui se souvient, dans un voyage apparemment interminable. C'est la manière du poète de sauver du naufrage le Néohellénisme d'après-guerre.
La philia dionysiaque dans le Cyclope d'Euripide
Authors: Nikolsky Boris 
Published: April 2013

Dionysian philia in Euripides' Cyclops
The article deals with one of the key motifs of Euripides' Cyclops, the motif of philia. The rational philia of humans (Odysseus and his comrades) coexists in the drama with another philia, the natural and spontaneous Dionysian philia, which is represented by the affection felt by Silenus and the satyrs towards Dionysus and wine. Though these two kinds of philia are very different, the former being particularly human and the latter possessing savage and bestial character, they are nonetheless united in their common opposition to the Cyclops' extreme unsociability and autarky. This opposition is expressed by both social and gastronomic motifs : the Dionysian philia is associated with wine, while the absence of philia displayed by the Cyclops is connected with his cannibalism. Such a combination of social and gastronomic motifs goes back to The Odyssey, but Euripides modifies his Homeric model, placing it in the Dionysian context.
La « société homérique » et le don
Authors: Zurbach Julien 
Published: April 2013

Gift-giving in the "Homeric society"
The gift as defined by Marcel Mauss (the «Maussian gift») is in use in almost every study of the last decades on homeric society as well as, more generally, in studies on Early iron age or archaic Greece or even later periods. The present article confines itself to the Homeric society: apart from some very general anthropological references, it is the homeric poems which define the model of gift-giving put in use in most historical and archaeological studies. This is justified because it is here, in the field of Homeric studies, that gift-giving has been for the first time put in use as a general explicative principle through the work ofM. Finley. It is therefore necessary to go back to Finleys argumentation, to its complexity and to its shortcomings. The efficiency of the concept itself can in this way be questioned. After that we will underline the importance of what does not, in the Homeric society, coincide with gift-giving: this is the exploitation of land, notably through establishing precise statuses for the workforce, and taxation mechanisms. Homeric society appears as a status society where mobilization of workforce and agricultural products are founded on a sometimes brutal domination. Gift-giving is a kind of relationship between aristocrats and, as a general lecture of all social and political relations, completely ideological. Homeric society is not a competitive society based on unstable personal statuses, on the contrary.
II tema del cadavere nei lamenti funebri omerici
Authors: Gagliardi Paola 
Published: April 2013

Le thème du cadavre dans les lamentations funèbres homériques
Le thème du cadavre, très important dans les représentations homériques, est développé d'une manière significative dans les lamentations funèbres des deux poèmes épiques. Leur analyse permet de comprendre les caractéristiques des plaintes homériques et des variations subtiles par rapport à la tradition réelle, telles qu'elles font concorder les expressions de la douleur (quelquefois de la protestation) avec la Weltanschauung héroïque de la célébration de la mort à la guerre.
Cet étude met en évidence les différences dans le traitement des lamentations entre l'Iliade, où elles sont plus nombreuses et variées, et l'Odyssée, dans laquelle elles semblent plus rares et banalisées.
« Mais devançant Ménélas, Hélène... » (Od. XV, 172). Hélène et Ménélas au chant IV de l'Odyssée
Authors: Perceau Sylvie 
Published: April 2013

Remembering the past: Helen and Menelaus in Odyssey IV
In Odyssey IV, the poet subtly sets forth two mechanisms of memory whose differences he shows in performance. Before Telemachus who as not yet revealed his identity, Menelaus appears as a man with a rational memory (as expressed by the verbs νοέω and μεμνημένος), who weighs things and deliberates before taking decisions. His intellectual and factual memory refers to the memory of a common past that can be brought to mind by remembering, and ends in a speech of commemoration. Appearing before Menelaus, Helen displays an immediate, spontaneous memory in relation with the thumos, a personal memory based on a lived sensation and expressing itself in images, when she recognizes Telemachus at first glance, as when she immediately recognized Ulysses in the past, in spite of his beggars disguise, on his entring Troy. This presentation of two kinds of memory, of a voluntary and an involuntary type, can be compared with Marcel Proust's analysis found in A la Recherche du Temps perdu.