Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'ASAP 2020'

Dissertations on Asia and Australia's relations with Asia, either completed in 1999 or 2000 or in progress in 2000 in Australian universities. The list was compiled by Robert Elson from information supplied to the Asian Studies Association of Australia. Arranged by regions of Asia: general or comparative; Australia and Asia; East Asia; South Asia; Southeast Asia; West Asia.
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We introduce a simple approach extending the input language of Answer Set Programming (ASP) systems by multi-valued propositions. Our approach is implemented as a (prototypical) preprocessor translating logic programs with multi-valued propositions into logic programs with Boolean propositions only. Our translation is modular and heavily benefits from the expressive input language of ASP. The resulting approach, along with its implementation, allows for solving interesting constraint satisfaction problems in ASP, showing a good performance.

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La presente investigación pretende abordar, en el marco de la estrategia de la Política Exterior del Gobierno de Luiz Inácio Da Silva, la instrumentalización de su ascendiente suramericano como articulador de iniciativas multilaterales; en el caso de cooperación birregional, mediante la Cumbre ASPA (América del Sur-Países Árabes); para ejecutar el proyecto brasileño de liderazgo regional, proyectado al globo. Para lograr entender dicha Política Exterior (teniendo como antecedente general la administración del Barón de Río Branco) considero que es necesario el análisis de tres sucesos trascendentales que contribuyeron al proceso de consolidación de los factores que determinaron el impacto de los patrones de Política Exterior brasileña durante el período 2003-2010: 1. El principio de Pragmatismo Responsable; 2. El retorno de la democracia; y, 3. Los cambios producidos con la llegada de Da Silva a la Presidencia, que adhiere una nueva visión regional (la investigación se centrará en las dos últimas etapas). 1 Las tres etapas (entre otros factores que se desarrollaran a lo largo del Capítulo I) además de haber contribuido a la configuración de la Política Exterior durante la administración del Ex-Presidente Lula, tuvieron como eje rector, la generación de alianzas estratégicas en el ánimo de mejorar y aumentar la cooperación, concertación e integración entre los países suramericanos, así como para crear nuevos socios en diferentes esferas: económica, comercial, social, política; bajo el objetivo de potencializar tanto los recursos como acciones que provienen del Estado hacia el sistema internacional mediante la Autonomía por la Diversificación; el Equilibrio Blando; y, la Unidad Colectiva. 2 1 Celso Amorim, “Brazilian Foreign Policy under President Lula (2003-2010): an overview”. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, Vol. 53, Núm. Especial, diciembre de 2010, Scientific Electronic Library Online, Brasil. [en línea], Dirección URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0034- 73292010000300013&script=sci_arttext, [consulta: 06 de junio de 2014] y Roberto Russell y Juan Gabriel Tokatlian, “De la Autonomía Antagónica a la Autonomía Relacional: una mirada teórica desde el Cono Sur”. Posdata, Revista de Reflexión y Análisis Político. Argentina. No. 7, mayo de 2001, pp. 71-92. 2 Ibídem.

The thesis is focussed on project of a tool – a hot working clipping punch, where the hole is punched in the upsetting ends of stabilizer. We talk about punching of a two layered semi-finished product, in which burr is formed at the layer interface, which is undesirable from the point of the customer requirement. The stabilizer is mounted in the car chassis, where it is fastened to the axle with screws. The literature study is focused on the theory and problems of punching. In the practical part, several design solutions of cutter faces are discussed, from which three types of face shape were selected. This was associated with a change in the design of the ejector. Two tool materials were selected for comparison. The cutters were tested on an automatic forming centre. Finally, after summarizing and evaluating all the practical experiments, an optimal solution of a tool designed for punching a hole with a two layered semi-finished product is proposed.

Le régime syrien semble représenter pour les chercheurs et les analystes une vraie énigme au sens propre du terme. Depuis l’avènement au pouvoir en 2000 du jeune président Bashar al–Asad, fils du président Hafiz al-Asad, qui a forgé le régime de Damas pendant trente ans, les chercheurs et les observateurs ont tenté d’interpréter la nature de l’un des pouvoirs les plus actifs de la région et d’imaginer l’avenir plus ou moins proche. Le débat ouvert depuis les années quatre-vingt se poursuit toujours sur le caractère «confessionnel» ou «laïque» du régime syrien. Quelques études plus approfondies consacrées à «la question syrienne» ont souligné l’importance de l’aspect familial dans la définition des équilibres inhérents au système. Des chercheurs ont également mis l’accent sur le facteur du clientélisme, souvent plus décisif que les autres, dans la détermination des processus décisionnels chez les hauts dirigeants de l’Etat. Cette thèse essaye, par le biais d’une étude critique de données et d’informations disponibles au chercheur, de répondre aux questions cruciales suivantes: qui commande en Syrie et selon quels mécanismes ? Par conséquent, quel est le rôle actuel de la Syrie et à quel avenir se prépare-t-elle ? Plus exactement, quel que soit ce rôle, est-ce que la place qu’occupera l’islam peut être individualisée par une approximation raisonnable, si l’on admet qu’il en existe une ? C’est une question fondamentale non seulement pour les islamologues d’autant plus que les hypothèses sur de nouvelles alliances ou ruptures, soutenues sur la base de l’impact majeur ou mineur de l’islam du point de vue stratégique et, ou bien idéologique
The Syrian regime is a real enigma for scholars and analysts. In the year 2000, after the arrival to power of the young president Bashar al-Asad, son of the president Hafiz al-Asad, researchers and observers tried to explain the nature of one of the most active political systems in the region. The debate about the nature of the Syrian regime - mainly concerned with the “sectarian/secular” issue - has been going on since the eighties. Some in depth studies focused on the “Syrian question”, revealed the importance of the “familial” dimension for an explanation of the balances inside the system. Other scholars underlined the sectarian factor as the most decisive in determining the decision-making process in the higher echelons of the Syrian State. This thesis tries, through a critical evalutation of the relevant data, together with information available on the ground, to answer the following crucial questions: who rules Syria, and via what mechanisms? What kind of role awaits Syria in the future? And, more precisely, whatever this role may be, what place, if any, will Islam occupy in the future Syria? This is a fundamental question, not just for scholars of Islamic Studies, but also for those who attempt to explain the “Syrian track”, and the role of Islam in it, from their strategic or, sometimes ideological, points of view

The escalating cost of claims for Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) supports the need to review and upgrade current hearing conservation practices. The rise of these escalating costs and the need to protect the military personnel when training in extreme noise conditions has initiated an engineering investigation within the Department of National Defence (DND) and in collaboration with the University of Ottawa, to review the existing standards in the field of hearing protection test and evaluation, to propose technical recommendations and to identify the possible technical problems and gaps impacting the quality of the existing procedures. This study dealt with the estimation of the protection capability of Hearing Protection Devices (HPDs) in the case of high-level impulse noise from small firearms weapons that are a particularly damaging source of noise in military environments, representing an important cause of NIHL. Testing and evaluation based on a system engineering approach have been used in this work introducing: - A new testing approach, based on ANSI/ASA S12.42-2010, for testing HPDs when the impulse noise is generated by a small firearm; - A new evaluation approach for HPD performance, introducing a characterization approach using a sub-band analysis for dealing with impulse noise generated by a small firearm. The effectiveness of HPDs, taking into account the physiological human limitations induced by Bone Conduction (BC), is computed by using an innovative method attempting to better prevent the risk of NIHL when using small firearms.

Cette thèse a pour ambition de démontrer que le Conseil d'État est dépositaire d'une théorie de l’État, révélée à la lumière de son apport au droit constitutionnel de la Vème République. Ressuscité de ses cendres monarchiques par Napoléon, le Conseil d'État a traversé tous les régimes politiques sans jamais être supprimé. Sa participation à l'écriture du texte qui en réalise la synthèse pourrait dès lors ne rien devoir au hasard. En effet, en 1958, le Conseil d'État est associé à la transition constitutionnelle et à l'élaboration de la Constitution. Telle n'est ni son habitude, ni sa vocation. Pour le créateur du droit administratif, la constitution est une norme instable par essence ; au contraire, l'administration dont il a construit les règles se présente comme le fil ténu qui a tissé la continuité de l'État. La théorie des bases constitutionnelles du droit administratif doit donc être réexaminée, dans le sens du renversement : en 1958, le Conseil d'État insuffle au droit constitutionnel l'objectif de continuité de l'État, inscrit à l’article 5 de la Constitution, servi par le pouvoir règlementaire autonome de l’article 37 dégagé dès les arrêts Heyriès et Labonne. Sa jurisprudence constitutionnelle s'analyse ensuite comme un double renoncement : renoncement à une lecture parlementaire de la Constitution, pour une attestation de la pratique présidentielle, renoncement au dogme de la loi expression de la volonté générale, pour une défense de la Constitution en tant qu'ultime expression de la souveraineté nationale, notamment face au droit communautaire. Le Conseil d'État est donc passé d'une traditionnelle indifférence à la Constitution à son écriture et à sa défense
The French Conseil d’État was created by Napoleon in 1799, then went trough all of the different political regimes: monarchies, republics, empires. In 1958, he contributes for the first time to the writing of the new constitution. This is unusual : to him, the written constitution is an unstable rule, unlike administrative law that he built throughout centuries, contributing to the stability and the continuity of the State, despite political and constitutional instability. His contribution to the 1958 Constitution, which synthesis the different French heritages tends to look like an outcome. The theory of the constitutional basis of administrative law has to be re-examined: in 1958, the French Conseil d’État tend to feed constitutional law with his fundamental end which is the continuity of the State, for the first time explicitly written in the 1958 Constitution. He then interprets the constitution in a parliamentary way, before accepting the presidential reading. His constitutional jurisprudence must be seen like a renouncement to the rousseauiste conception of Law, as the general will’s expression, and the promotion of the written constitution, which is seen as the last expression of national sovereignty, especially to face European law. The French Conseil d’État went from a traditional indifference to the constitution, to writing and defending it

Cette thèse porte sur les réceptions des discours politiques télévisés par les citoyens ordinaires. En prenant pour terrain le Venezuela d’Hugo Chavez, ce travail propose un cadre d’analyse de la réception des discours politiques, focalisé sur les récepteurs, leurs pratiques concrètes, et attentif aux ancrages sociaux de ces processus. La réception se compose de différentes étapes, entre exposition, attention, interprétations et réceptions différées. Pour chacune de ces étapes, les rapports au politique des citoyens entrent en jeu, guidant et conditionnant leurs réceptions. Cette enquête multimodale et approfondie, entre entretiens collectifs, questionnaires, observations et entretiens individuels, met ainsi d’abord en lumière l’importance des conditions sociales de réceptions des discours politiques. Les résultats obtenus soulignent ensuite le rôle des compétences politiques et politisées, et plus largement des rapports au politique sur les interprétations, analysées ici en quatre types distincts : les interprétations par lecture politique, par moralisation, par identification et par matérialisation. Ces interprétations comme l’ensemble des mécanismes de réception relèvent en outre d’une forte dimension collective, socialement ancrée et tributaire des interactions qui se jouent au sein des collectifs de réceptions ordinaires, qu’ils soient domestiques, familiaux ou plus larges. Enfin, cette thèse permet de revenir sur les effets de la communication politique, par le bas et du point de vue de la réception
This dissertation explores ordinary Venezuelans’ receptions concerning Hugo Chavez’s political discourses on TV. Its aim is to propose an analytical frame focused on receivers and their concrete practices, including particular attention to the social anchoring of the entire reception process: exposition, attention, interpretations and deferred receptions. For each of these stages, relationships to politics come into play, guiding and conditioning their receptions. This in-depth multi-modal research is based on focus groups, questionnaires, observations and individual interviews, giving light to the importance of social conditions through the reception process. Main results highlight on the one hand the role of the political and politicized competences, and on the other hand the ordinary relations to politics through 4 different types of interpretation: through political lecture, through moralization, through identification and through materialization. The interpretation stage, as much as the integrality of the reception mechanisms, show a strong collective dimension, socially anchored and related to the interactions produced during the domestic, familiar or larger collectives. Finally, this study allows to explore the political communication effects research question, from the ordinary citizens’ point of view under a bottom-up perspective
Esta tesis explora las recepciones ordinarias de los discursos políticos televisados. En el marco de la Venezuela de Hugo Chávez, este trabajo propone un modelo de análisis de la recepción de los discursos políticos focalizado sobre los receptores, sus prácticas concretas, modelo atento también a los arraigamientos sociales de estos procesos. La recepción se compone de varias etapas, entre exposición, atención, interpretación y recepciones diferidas. Para cada una de estas etapas, las relaciones a lo político entran en juego, guiando y condicionando sus recepciones. Esta encuesta multimodal y profundizada, entre entrevistas colectivas, cuestionarios, observaciones y entrevistas individuales, destaca primero la importancia de las condiciones sociales de recepción de los discursos políticos. Los resultados obtenidos subrayan después el papel de las competencias políticas y politizadas, y más allá, de las relaciones a lo político sobre las interpretaciones, las cuales se analizan en cuatro tipos distintos: interpretaciones por lectura política, por moralización, por identificación y por materialización. Estas interpretaciones, tal cual como todos los mecanismos de recepción, tienen además una fuerte dimensión colectiva, socialmente determinada y tributaria de las interacciones que se juegan dentro de los colectivos de recepción ordinarios, que sean domésticos, familiares o de nivel más amplio. Al final, esta tesis permite de interrogar de nuevo los efectos de la comunicación política, desde abajo y del punto de vista de la recepción

L’engagement du Conseil de l’Europe en faveur d’une éducation plurilingue intégrant altérité et diversité culturelle est fortement lié au souci de promouvoir la communication entre citoyens de langue et culture différentes, indispensable à la mobilité et à la compréhension réciproque. Dans ce nouveau référentiel s’inscrit la tendance à enseigner les disciplines non linguistiques, directement dans la L2. Cette méthode d’enseignement d’une matière par intégration d’une langue étrangère, appelée EMILE a vocation d’accélérer le processus d’apprentissage. Or, il s’est avéré, lors d’une recherche-action portant sur l’anglais juridique, qu’une méthode d’immersion complète telle qu’EMILE pouvait présenter certaines failles pour apprendre cette langue de spécialité très pointue. Pour combler ces failles, nous proposons la méthode LADMI (Linguistique appliquée à une autre discipline par méthode intégrative), qui est une modification du concept d’EMILE extrapolant à partir d’une certaine structure logique, suite à des observations particulières, afin de préserver à la fois la langue et le contenu de la DNL, le droit
The European Council’s policy of promoting linguistic and cultural diversity in the field of acquisition-teaching of foreign languages, has led to a profoundly modified situation in language learning. With the aim of encouraging mobility among students and teachers in the European education system, pluralinguistic methods, such as TIE-CLIL (Translanguage in Europe – Content and Language Integrated Learning) are used in an attempt to accelerate immersion programmes. However, in an action research undertaken in Legal English at the University of Nice, the conclusion was drawn that language immersion is not always feasible in Law. Therefore an integrated approach, Adjunct CLIL, based on logical observations, a modification of the concept CLIL : ALDIM (Applied Linguistics to another Discipline by Integrated Method), is suggested, to preserve both the quality of the language as well as content of the non-linguistic discipline, Law

The ability to select low-cost, high-performance surfactants for a wide range of crude oils under a wide range of reservoir conditions has improved dramatically in recent years. Surfactant formulations (surfactant, co-surfactant, co-solvent, alkali, polymer, and electrolyte) were developed by using a refined phase behavior approach. Such formulations nearly always result in more than 90% oil recovery in core flood when good surfactants with good mobility control are used. The advances that have improved performance, reduced cost, increased robustness, and extended the range of reservoir conditions for these formulations are described in this work. There are thousands of possible combinations of the chemicals that could be tested for each oil and each chemical combination requires many observations over a long time period at reservoir temperature for proper evaluation. It would take too long, cost too much and in many cases not even be feasible to test all combinations. In practice the scientific understanding is used to match up the surfactant/co-surfactant/co-solvent characteristics with the oil characteristics, temperature, salinity, hardness and so forth. Synthesized and new surfactants with much larger hydrophobes and more branching than previously available were tested. New classes of co-solvents and co-surfactants with superior performance were test to improve aqueous solubility. These new developments resulted in improved ASP formulations for both oils that react with alkali to make soap and oils that do not. Many of these developments are synergistic and taken together represent a breakthrough in reducing the cost of chemical flooding and thus its commercial potential.
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Accurate simulation of chemical flooding requires a detailed understanding of numerous complex mechanisms and model parameters where grid size has a substantial impact upon results. In this research we show the effect of grid size on parameters such as phase behavior, interfacial tension, surfactant dilution and salinity gradient for chemical flooding of a very heterogeneous oil reservoir. The effective propagation of the surfactant slug in the reservoir is of paramount importance and the salinity gradient is a key factor in ensuring the process effectiveness. The larger the grid block size, the greater the surfactant dilution, which in turn erroneously reduces the effectiveness of the process indicated with low simulated oil recoveries. We show that the salinity gradient is not adequately captured by coarse grid simulations of heterogeneous reservoirs and this leads to performance predictions with lower recovery compared to fine grid simulations. Due to the highly coupled, nonlinear interactions of the many chemical and physical processes involved in chemical flooding, it is better to use fine-grid simulations rather than coarse grids with upscaled physical properties whenever feasible. However, the upscaling methodology for chemical flooding presented in this work accounts approximately for some of the more important effects, as demonstrated by comparison of fine grid and coarse grid results and is very different than the way other enhanced oil recovery methods are upscaled. This is a step towards making better performance predictions of chemical flooding for large field projects where it is not currently feasible to perform the large number of simulations required to properly consider different designs, optimization, risk and uncertainty using fine-grid simulations.
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O presente relatório debruça-se sobre o trabalho desenvolvido na Autoridade de Segurança Alimentar e Económica, com especial incidência sobre as tarefas realizadas relacionadas com o tema do branqueamento de capitais e financiamento do terrorismo. A Autoridade de Segurança Alimentar e Económica, doravante ASAE, é a autoridade administrativa nacional, especializada para as áreas de segurança alimentar e fiscalização económica. Tem por missão a fiscalização e prevenção do cumprimento da legislação reguladora do exercício das atividades económicas, nos setores alimentar e não alimentar. Com o crescente reforço da prevenção e combate do branqueamento de capitais e financiamento do terrorismo, surgiu a Lei n.º 83/2017, de 18 de agosto, que estabelece diversas medidas de natureza preventiva e repressiva, e que veio alargar o número de entidades sujeitas ao cumprimento das suas normas, bem como o catálogo de deveres e obrigações. No âmbito da referida lei, compete à ASAE a fiscalização dos deveres que incidem sobre entidades não financeiras, nomeadamente nas atividades comerciais e de prestação de serviços não submetidas à supervisão de outra autoridade sectorial específica. A ASAE, como autoridade sectorial, tem como responsabilidade do ponto de vista preventivo, o poder de regulamentar os deveres previstos na lei acima indicada, de modo a que o quadro normativo seja cumprido conforme os objetivos estabelecidos e haja uma efetiva gestão dos riscos de branqueamento de capitais e financiamento do terrorismo por parte das entidades obrigadas. Tendo em conta que a ASAE tem um leque bastante alargado de atribuições, iremos igualmente mencionar neste relatório outras atividades desenvolvidas durante o estágio, nomeadamente a análise de reclamações do Livro de Reclamações, esclarecimento de questões jurídicas colocadas por entidades e utentes e ainda a elaboração de modelos de decisão em processos contraordenacionais, fazendo uma abordagem crítica dos problemas colocados.
This report focuses on the work developed in the Economic and Food Safety Authority (ASAE), with particular focus on the tasks related to the subject of money laundering and terrorism financing. The Economic and Food Safety Authority is the national specialized administrative authority in the context of food safety and economic supervision. ASAE is responsible for the discipline of the exercise of economic activities in the food and non-food sectors, by monitoring and preventing any violation by the enforcement of regulation legislation. ASAE is a national authority, with administrative autonomy, that acts as a police and law enforcement body. With the increasing enhancement of preventing and combating money laundering and terrorism financing, the Law No. 83/2017, of 18 August, which sets out various measures of preventive and repressive nature, has expanded the type of entities liable to its compliance, as well as the catalog of their duties and obligations. Within the scope of this law, the ASAE is responsible for supervising the implementation of the obligations by the non-financial entities, particularly on commercial activities and services that are not liable to the supervision of other sectorial authority. The ASAE, as sectoral authority, has also the responsibility, and in a preventive way, to clarify and elucidate the duties and obligations, so that the legal framework is complied in accordance with its objectives and to accomplish an effective management of money laundering and financing of terrorism risks by the obligated entities. Considering that the ASAE has a wide range of responsibilities, we will also mention, in this report, other activities carried out during the internship, such as the analysis of complaints written in the complaints book, clarification of legal questions submitted by entities and citizens, and the elaboration of decision-models on counter-administrative processes, and after all make a critical approach to the exposed problems.

Chapter One contains a lengthy discussion of tafsír, outlining its meaning, its need to the present study and the different forms in which it exists, whilst at the same time clarifying its obscurities and commending it as an indispensable science. Chapter Two offers a concise overview of five Qur'ánic commentators selected for this particular study. This assessment is based on the eras from which they emerged which has a definite bearing on their commentaries. Chapter Three is a résumé of my subject's biography adopted primarily from Qur'ánic sources. As a frequently mentioned prophet in the Qur'án the story of Músá [p.b.u.h] is drawn from various chapters highlighting substantial aspects of his life. Chapter Four concentrates on two frequently mentioned events in the life of prophet Músá [ p.b.u.h], namely, his call to prophethood and the proclamation to the pharaoh and his people. Chapter Five concludes this work by presenting an overview of the perspectives of the different commentators.
Religious Studies and Arabic
M.A.

In 2001, Syria opened its media outlets to private ownership for the first time in over forty years. This thesis conducts a critical discourse analysis of the economic coverage of the sole Syrian political daily newspaper al-Watan and asks how media liberalization in Syria is more so emblematic of pro-market economic reforms as opposed to media reform. In this sense, it is the economic content of al-Watan that signifies how a private media outlet – under the guiding force of “red lines” and other regulatory mechanisms, yet financially “liberated” via advertising revenue and wealthy regime-friendly backers – can demonstrate its utility to the regime by providing a reiteration of its social-market economic policies all the while existing as a public embodiment of the regime’s willingness to embrace a marketized Syrian society. Simply put, al-Watan is a perfect vehicle for propagating the regime’s gradualist pro-market reforms in the public sphere.
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The overall objective of this research was to gain an insight into the challenges encountered during chemical flooding under high hardness conditions. Different aspects of this problem were studied using a combination of laboratory experiments and simulation studies. Chemical Flooding is an important Enhanced Oil Recovery process. One of the major components of the operational expenses of any chemical flooding project, especially Alkali Surfactant Polymer (ASP) flooding is the cost of softening the injection brine to prevent the precipitation of the carbonates of the calcium and magnesium ions which are invariably present in the formation brine. Novel hardness tolerant alkalis like sodium metaborate have been shown to perform well with brines of high salinity and hardness, thereby eliminating the need to soften the injection brine. The first part of this research was aimed at designing an optimal chemical flooding formulation for a reservoir having hard formation brine. Sodium metaborate was used as the alkali in the formulation with the hard brine. Under the experimental conditions, sodium metaborate was found to be inadequate in preventing precipitation in the ASP slug. Factors affecting the ability of sodium metaborate to sequester divalent ions, including its potential limitations under the experimental conditions were studied. The second part of this research studied the factors affecting the ability of novel alkali and chelating agents like sodium metaborate and tetrasodium EDTA to sequester divalent ions. Recent studies have shown that both these chemicals showed good performance in sequestering divalent ions under high hardness conditions. A study of the geochemical species in solution under different conditions was done using the computer program PHREEQC. Sensitivity studies about the effect of the presence of different solution species on the performance of these alkalis were done. The third part of this research focused on field scale mechanistic simulation studies of geochemical scaling during ASP flooding. This is one of the major challenges faced by the oil and gas industry and has been found to occur when sodium carbonate is used as the alkali and the formation brine present in situ has a sufficiently high hardness content. The multicomponent and multiphase compositional chemical flooding simulator, UTCHEM was used to determine the quantity and composition of the scales formed in the reservoir as well as the injection and production wells. Reactions occurring between the injected fluids, in situ fluids and the reservoir rocks were taken into consideration for this study. Sensitivity studies of the effect of key reservoir and process parameters like the physical dispersion and the alkali concentration on the extent of scaling were also done as a part of this study.
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