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In this work, the petrophysical properties of Abu Madi reservoir in El-Qara Field at northern Nile Delta Basin (NDB) were evaluated depending on well logging data of two wells: El-Qara-2 and El-Qara-3. This evaluation revealed that in El-Qara-2 well, the promising gas zone is detected between depths of 3315 and 3358 m, while in El-Qara-3 well, the best gas interval is detected between depths of 3358 and 3371 m. In addition to the production test parameters (gas rate, condensate rate, gas gravity, condensate gravity, gas-to-oil ratio, flowing tubing head pressure, flowing bottom hole pressure, and static bottom hole pressure), the calculated petrophysical parameters (shale volume, total porosity, effective porosity, and water saturation) for both intervals were relatively similar. This confirms that the investigated wells were drilled at the same reservoir interval within Abu Madi Fm. The depth variation in the examined zones was attributed to the presence of buried normal faults between El-Qara-2 and El-Qara-3 wells. This observation may be supported from the tectonic influence during the deposition of Abu Madi Fm. as a portion of the Messinian syn-rift megasequence beneath the NDB.

The article is devoted to presenting the results of a comparative study of technical University of Bauman, MADI and MIREA. These results were obtained using a sociological questionnaire with closed-type questions. The questionnaire contained nine main thematic blocks: 1. Professional choice; 2. Profession; 3. Study and education; 4. Educating; 5. Professional and personal competence; 6. Teachers; Communication of students; 8. Humanitarian knowledge in the training of an engineer; 9. Intelligentsia. This article presents the results for the first three blocks. They were analyzed and interpreted.

Human fatalities and livestock depredation are the ultimate manifestation of human–tiger conflict (HTC). It is one of the major challenging issues that need to be sorted out where such incidences occur frequently. This study aimed to investigate the status of HTC and mitigation measures adopted by local communities in Madi valley adjacent of Chitwan National Park (CNP). Data were collected through household interviews (n=52, including 25% victim’s households), direct field observation and CNP archive records from 2014 to 2018. This study revealed that average livestock depredation was 15.60 (n=78, mean=5.06, SE±1.66) animals per year and among them goats were highly depredated animals (n=39, mean=7.80, SE±2.33). It also showed that livestock depredation trend increased at the rate of 4.1 animals per year but that of human casualties decreased at the rate of -0.3 persons per year during 2014 to 2018. Predation proof corrals, mesh wire fencing, traditional fencing using white cloths andlivelihood diversifications were the major local mitigation efforts adopted by local people. However, detailed studies on effectiveness of locally adopted mitigation techniques along with further investment to implement them from government line agencies and conservation partners are suggested for strengthening human-tiger co-existence in the study area.

Madi was a category-2 cyclonic storm formed over the south-western Bay of Bengal (BoB) in December 2013. It formed on 6th December as a depression, and by 8th December it became a very severe cyclo...

This work presents two new alternating direction implicit (ADI) schemes for solving parabolic interface problems in two and three dimensions. First, the ghost fluid method (GFM) is adopted for the first time in the literature to treat interface jumps in the ADI framework, which results in symmetric and tridiagonal finite difference matrices in each ADI step. The proposed GFM-ADI scheme achieves a first order of accuracy in both space and time, as confirmed by numerical experiments involving complex interface shapes and spatial–temporal dependent jumps. The GFM-ADI scheme also maintains the ADI efficiency — the computational complexity for each time step scales as O ( N ) for a total degree of freedom N in higher dimensions. Second, a new matched interface and boundary (MIB) scheme is constructed, which downgrades the quadratic polynomial bases in the existing second order MIB to linear ones. Interestingly, the resulting MIB-ADI or mADI scheme produces the same finite difference matrices as the GFM-ADI scheme in all dimensions. Hence, the mADI scheme can be regarded as an improvement of the GFM, because it calculates tangential jumps which are omitted in the GFM. Consequently, the present mADI scheme is constantly more accurate than the GFM-ADI in all numerical examples, while keeping the same computational efficiency. Nevertheless, the mADI scheme is semi-implicit due to tangential jump approximations, while the GFM-ADI scheme is fully implicit without tangential corrections. Thus, the GFM-ADI scheme could be more stable than the mADI scheme when a huge contrast is presented in diffusion coefficients.

In the Manichaean Coptic Psalm-Book (c. ad 400) we find a hymn (PsB 144.1–146.13) addressed to Sethel/Seth. Hence, a French scholar, André Villey, titled it Hymne à Seth. This is an interesting work, since the biblical figure of Seth is the eponym of one of the two most important movements of Gnosticism, namely Sethianism. In my paper, firstly, I study the characteristics of the figure of Sethel/Seth in the Manichaean writings from Medinet Madi; secondly, I examine whether, as for Sethel/Seth, we can talk about the influence the Sethians on ‘the religion of Light’ or, on the contrary, whether his figure in the Manichaean writings was an original, Manichaean, reinterpretation. Finally, this analysis allows us to draw two important conclusions regarding Manichaeism as a religious system. The first of them is that the Manichaeans drew on a broad base of Judaeo-Christian literature, not only from Gnostic Sethianism. The other is that Manichaeism caused external figures such as Seth/Sethel to lose some of their characteristics in the process of being adapted to the needs of the mentioned religion.

Abu Madi Formation is a gas fertile rock unit in Nile Delta basin and the main gas production rocks in Baltim fields which located in the Mediterranean sea, north of Baltim city, Egypt. This rock ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of incorporating explicit instruction of scientific argumentation through practical work on 10th grade students’ skills in science process. This research used a quasi-experimental method which involved one control group and two experimental groups from two national secondary schools in the category of rural school were involved in this study. A total of 112 10th grade students from the three classrooms were assigned randomly as the conventional (CON) group, experimental group with Inquiry without Argument approach (IWA) group and the Modified Argument-Driven Inquiry approach (MADI) group. In order to evaluate the effects of intervention on the tenth-grade students, Science Process Skills Test (SPS Test) was administered as pre-test and post-test on the control and experimental groups. Data collected from the experimental study were described by means of descriptive analysis and inferential analysis involving ANOVA analyses. The results of ANOVA showed there exist significant differences in science process skills among the three groups where students in the MADI group showed better performance compared to the other groups. The results of this research have implication on researchers and practitioners keen on promoting biology science process skills through instructions of scientific argumentations given explicitly in learning environments of science practical work.

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The article addresses the problem of student dropout from technical university due to their academic failure. The modern technical universities face a decline in youth’s interest to technical and natural sciences and engineering specialties. In enrolling new students on these specialties the universities have to set lower standards and requirements for the admission. So, the students are less motivated, and the number of expelled students increases.The article presents the results of data analysis for the two leading areas of training at Moscow Automobile and Road State Technical University (MADI) – “Construction of unique buildings and structures” and “Land transport and technological means” carried out respectively at the Road-Building faculty (DSF) and the faculty of Automobile transport (ATF). The article adduces the total number of students in MADI, as well as the number of the enrolled students on the specified training directions, and the number of expelled students of all courses for the period from 1935 to 2018. The results in physics exams showed by undergraduate students were compared with the Unified State Exam scores in physics. There is a clear parallel between the Unified State Exam scores, an entrance testing and “residual knowledge” tests.The authors have also analyzed the results of an anonymous questioning among the same groups of students, which make it possible to understand their point of view on the problems of learning difficulties. The main reasons for student attrition are both the low scores of the applicants’ results of the Unified State Exam, and insufficient actions and ineffective strategies undertaken by the university to involve undergraduate students in its educational environment.

This work has been carried out to interpret the link between sequence stratigraphy of the incised valley deposits with the reservoir quality in the Abu Madi Formation in the Abu Madi and El Qar’a Fields, onshore Nile Delta, Egypt based on borehole and seismic data. The distribution of sand-body in the Abu Madi Formation revealed that the fluvial channel sandstones are not randomly distributed but are controlled by the fluctuation of the sea level (regression and transgression). Interpretation of sandstones distribution of the Abu Madi incised-valley within a sequence stratigraphic framework allows a better understanding of their characterization during burial. The Abu Madi Formation is made up of two sequences: the lower sequence-1 (SQ 1) and upper sequence-2 (SQ 2). Sequence-1 forms the basal part of the Abu Madi Formation. It consists of two systems tracts in all the studied wells, in which the lowstand systems tract is overlained by a transgressive systems tract (TST-1), except at AM-12 and AM-15 wells in the western and eastern sides of the studied area, respectively where it consists of only transgressive system tract (TST-1). The upper sequence-2 (SQ2) is recorded in all the studied wells except at AM-12 and AM-15 wells. It is composed of two systems tracts (LST-2 and TST-2); the lower lowstand systems tracts contains thin sandstone channel-fill interpreted as LST-2, above this sandstone channel-fill the tidal deposits interpreted as TST-2. The lowstand systems tracts of the studied Abu Madi Formation is considered good reservoir target in the studied area, its porosity ranged from 15 to 22%. It was formed due to a rapid fall in relative sea level below the shelf edge formed valley incision due to subaerial exposure of the continental shelf. The floodplain deposits of TST represent a good seal separating LST reservoirs and water bearing zone of lower sequence (SQ1) and upper sequence (SQ2) in each well. Keywords: Sequence stratigraphy, Abu Madi Formation, Well logging and seismic stratigraphy, Abu Madi and El Qar’a fields

Background The fetal heart rate (FHR) serves as a guide to fetal well-being during the first stage of delivery. The visual morphological analysis of the FHR during labor is subject to inter- and intra-observer variability – particularly when the FHR is abnormal. It has been suggested that automatic analysis of the FHR can reduce this variability. Objectives To compare 11 morphological FHR analyses (baseline computation, and detection of FHR decelerations and accelerations) produced by automatic analysis methods (AAMs) with an expert consensus. Materials and methods Eleven AAMs were reprogrammed (using the description published in the literature) and applied to 90 FHR recordings collected during the early phase of labor. Furthermore, the recordings were divided into three tertiles, according to the difficulty of analysis. The results of the morphological FHR analyses produced by the AAMs were compared with a consensus morphological analysis performed by four experts. In addition to standard discriminant criteria, a new morphological analysis discriminant index (MADI) was introduced; it provides an overall evaluation that collates all the individual criteria. Results The AAM developed by Lu and Wei's gave better results than the other AAMs for baseline computation. Regarding this method's detection of FHR decelerations and accelerations, the F-measure [95% confidence interval] was respectively 0.73 [0.67; 0.76] and 0.70 [0.64; 0.76]. The MADI indicated that Lu and Wei's AAM agreed best with the expert consensus (discordance: 7.3% [6.10; 8.60]). Conclusion Our study demonstrated the superiority of Lu and Wei's method for baseline computation and deceleration/acceleration detection, although there was still a significant degree of discordance versus expert consensus. The MADI appears to be a good overall index for evaluating AAMs with regard to the quality of baseline computation and acceleration/deceleration detection. The application of precise criteria and the methodology and software tools developed here should facilitate the evaluation of new AAMs and their comparison with other methods.

The article describes the history and the modern period of Russian as a foreign language teaching scientific and methodical school at the preparatory faculty for foreign students in Moscow Automobile and Roads State Technical University (MADI), which was founded in 1960s. The main principles of the school are adherence to activity-communicative and nationally-oriented approaches, teaching scientific speech style and the language of future profession, necessity of inter-subject coordination in creating study-books of the scientific speech style, using self-written manuals in teaching process, ensuring the conditions for integrating foreign students to sociocultural, linguistic and educational environment of the Russian university. The article presents a short historical review containing information about the main representatives of the scientific school and description of their most important methodical and scientific papers. The study pack “Russian for future engineers” is particularly analyzed. Its effectiveness is confirmed by such criteria as self-sufficiency and irredundancy of teaching material, developing communicative skills, successful students’ motivation, effective functional scheme of learning actions. One of the most important perspectives of MADI scientific school is developing electronic teaching means.

Understanding originality and innovation to be proposals that contribute to the interpretation of change and to the formation of a transnational field of art and visual culture from Latin America, this dossier for Artelogie investigates tensions between the historical avant-gardes of the early twentieth century, both in Latin America and Europe, and the neo avant-gardes that emerged globally between 1960 and 1990, approximately. The relationship between these vanguards has been fraught by theoretical and methodological difficulties posed by scholarly literatures that have assessed these phenomena, themselves by no means homogenous or coordinated, mostly in terms of derivation and creative exhaustion. This assessment has originated from the so-called centers of the art world and early universalist theories of the avant-garde rather than from their local places of art making and its circulation. These largely Eurocentric claims have foreclosed analysis of the historical significance of key moments in postwar art and their critical and innovative potential in comparative terms. The reappearance of collage and assemblage, and of grid and monochromatic painting, to name only a few avant-garde techniques, was a self-reflexive return, offering a critique of postwar societies. Neo avant-gardes consciously forged formal and informal networks that linked colleagues and strategies beyond their local scenes or nationalist histories. With this dossier we seek to investigate temporal, spatial, formal, and thematic synchronicities that emerge from both contact and divergence among artworks, artists, critics, curators, and other cultural agents. Through their critical comparison we expect to produce conceptualizations of postwar art history that generate and invert rather than merely add to dominant narratives to date. Entendiendo la originalidad y la innovación como propuestas que contribuyen a la interpretación del cambio y la formación de un campo transnacional, este número de Artelogie explora las tensiones entre las vanguardias históricas de principios del siglo XX (tanto latinoamericanas como europeas) y las neo-vanguardias que surgieron entre 1960 y 1990, aproximadamente, en el arte latino y latinoamericano. Hasta el presente esta relación ha estado plagada de dificultades teóricas y metodológicas planteadas por literaturas académicas que han evaluado estos fenómenos, que de ninguna manera son homogéneos o coordinados, sobre todo en términos de derivación y agotamiento creativo con respecto a los centros hegemónicos del mundo del arte. Esta perspectiva ha excluido el análisis del significado histórico de los momentos clave en el arte de la posguerra y su potencial crítico e innovador en términos comparativos. La reaparición del collage y el assemblage, y de la pintura abstracta y monocromática, por mencionar solo algunas técnicas vanguardistas, implicó un retorno autorreflexivo que ofreció una crítica de las sociedades de la posguerra. Los artistas de vanguardia forjaron conscientemente redes formales e informales que vincularon artistas y estrategias más allá de sus escenarios locales o historias nacionales. Con el presente dossier buscamos investigar estas sincronicidades que surgen tanto del contacto como de la divergencia. A través de su comparación crítica, esperamos producir conceptualizaciones de la historia del arte de la posguerra que generen e inviertan las denominaciones que ordenan la historia del arte, en lugar de simplemente agregar artistas a las narrativas globales que dominan hasta el presente.

Title of the thesis: Interaction between a teacher and a student compared group and individual teaching skiing. Objectives: The aim of this work was to find, which and how big differences are in the didactic interaction in comparison of group and individual ski lessons. Methods: In this work we used the method of observation, data collection was realized using a video camera and the subsequent recording was evaluated using the MADI method (modified analysis of didactic interaction). Results: From the results we found that the greatest difference was in the expression factual purportwhich in individual lessons grow avarage by 20%. Furthermore, in the individual lesson form grow education activity above organizational by on avarage10% and in the type of attitude activity integration has increased on avrage 7%. The results also showed that in the individual form of teaching did not appear activity without direct control. Conclusion: The biggest difference between individual and group teaching was the increase in individual teaching in the expression of the subject matter, integration attitude activities above the dominant, the teaching activity increased over the organizational and the performance of the pupil's activity was constantly under direct control. Key words: Individual and group skiing...

This research is a study to examine whether a “feminization of agriculture” has occurred in the study area through the household survey of the local farming system and the gendered division of agricultural labour and managerial responsibilities at Madi, Chitwan in 2018. According to the household survey (n=60), a strong gendered division of agricultural works exist in this area, thus men and women have clear responsibilities and restrictions. In activities like ploughing, irrigating, threshing and applying chemical fertilizer, men are mostly participated whereas in the most of the other activities like weeding, sowing, collecting firewood, collecting fodder, hoeing, manuring, milking, female are mostly involved. Average of about 208 rupees is paid higher to men than female in some agriculture works. Through the use of various fieldwork methods, it was observed that that women in some cases have to take on tasks that are generally considered “men’s work”. Although women are in charge of various managerial decisions related to the agricultural production, any major decisions are still controlled by men. The real influence of women as decision makers can therefore be questioned. The effects of different factors like caste, education and training has been analyzed which showed that with the increase of education and training, feminization in decision making role is increased. But if women get more work and just involved in the feminization of labour and no influence in decision-making processes the “feminization of agriculture” will be just a female exploitation not a feminization.Int. J. Appl. Sci. Biotechnol. Vol 6(3): 207-214

The Messinian Qawasim and Abu Madi formations are the main hydrocarbon exploration targets in the onshore Nile Delta. Qawasim Formation constitutes prograditional deltaic system from prodelta and distal delta‐front (distal deltaic facies) to proximal delta‐front and delta‐plain (proximal deltaic facies). Abu Madi sediments on the other hand change upward from continental subaerial gravity‐flow and fluvial facies to marginal‐marine estuarine facies. The seismic attribute (RMS amplitude) and petrophysical analyses revealed that solely the Qawasim proximal deltaic and Abu Madi fluvial facies define the potential reservoir targets. The reservoir quality of the Qawasim distal deltaic and the Abu Madi estuarine facies was completely deteriorated during eodiagenesis by calcite and glauconite cementation (mean > 7.3% and 4.5%, respectively). Conversely, the depositional setting of the Qawasim proximal deltaic and Abu Madi fluvial facies favoured a precipitation of scattered eodiagenetic calcite (mean < 2.5%), which supported the facies framework against mechanical compaction and preserved the intergranular volume (IGV). Chemical compaction, smectite infiltration, quartz cementation, and clay minerals authigenesis were more pronounced in the relatively deeper Abu Madi fluvial facies. These burial attributes caused a large‐scale reservoir heterogeneity. Therefore, the relatively shallower Qawasim proximal deltaic facies presents the best reservoir target in the Messinian sequence of the Nile Delta. This study reveals that in analogous systems, the depositional environment largely controls the diagenetic pathways and, hence, the reservoir quality.

Field development typically requires detailed petrophysical analysis and well defined hydraulic flow units for comprehensive formation evaluation and reservoir characterization. In the present study, pay zones petrophysics are studied using an assembly of well log data from 8 wells together with core plugs measurements. Petrophysical analysis showed a good reservoir quality with average water saturation increasing toward the East and Southeast of the study area. Using a multi-linear regression technique on well logs and core data, permeability is estimated at well locations for flow unit characterization and flow capacity calculation. Results showed that five hydraulic flow units are identified through the studied wells, with relatively good correlation. Such correlation indicated a good continuity in the net pay zone of Abu Madi Formation in the Nile Delta reservoirs. The developed hydraulic flow units (HFUs) are classified according to its hydraulic conductivity into two main categories: the first category comprises the units with low permeability (K 1270 mD). The reservoir flow capacity (RFC) of these units indicated the development of 4 distinct classes (~11, ~30, ~80, and greater than 130 D.ft). The wells within the Northwestern part of the study area showed three HFUs that relatively vary from those located at the Southeast where two HFUs are only developed. In addition, the Southeastern part of the reservoir is characterized by good RFC as indicated by the development of high order HFUs (3, 4, and 5) compared to the Northeastern part with predominated low order HFUs (1, 2, and 3). Such results are crucial for the efficient field development and profound reservoir management of oil and gas fields in the Nile Delta.

espanolIsabelle Eberhardt, Leila Sebbar, Azza Filali, Malika Madi y Leila Marouane: estas cinco autoras, cuyas relaciones con el Magreb mostraremos, ponen en escena a mujeres locas en varios de sus relatos (cuatro relatos cortos y cuatro novelas). Recopilaremos las descripciones de las manifestaciones de aquella locura y los contextos en los cuales surgen los comportamientos considerados “anormales” por la narradora y/o los demas protagonistas. A continuacion, intentaremos destacar el origen y las causas de dicha locura (o presunta psicosis). De forma general, viene provocada por la violencia contra las chicas y/o las mujeres, bien sea parental, social, masculina o vinculada al contexto geografico-cultural. La imagen de las mujeres locas, para estas autoras magrebies, demuestra una exclusion que les impone un sistema patriarcal abusivo y que nos parece especifica de cierta literatura femenina del Magreb. francaisIsabelle Eberhardt, Leila Sebbar, Azza Filali, Malika Madi et Leila Marouane : ces cinq auteures, dont nous montrons d’abord le lien avec le Maghreb, mettent en scene des personnages de folles dans plusieurs de leurs recits (quatre nouvelles et quatre romans). Apres y avoir repris les descriptions des manifestations de cette folie et les contextes ou surgissent les comportements juges, par les autres personnages ou par la narratrice, anormaux, nous tenterons de degager les causes de cette folie (ou pretendue psychose) – generalement elle provient de la violence exercee sur la jeune fille ou la femme, sociale, parentale ou masculine, liee au contexte geographico-culturel. Comme telle, l’image de la folle chez les Maghrebines, manifestation d’une exclusion imposee par un systeme patriarcal abusif, nous parait specifique de cette litterature feminine du Maghreb. EnglishIsabelle Eberhardt, Leila Sebbar, Azza Filali, Malika Madi and Leila Marouane are five writers with Maghreban connections (as proved in this article) who, in their works (four short stories and four novels), depict several characters of mad women. Firstly, we aim to analyse the descriptions the authors use to express their characters’ madness, then we identify the contexts in which behaviours, considered as abnormal by the other characters or the narrator, erupt. Finally, we try to determine the origin of those women’s madness (or supposed psychosis). Generally, the answer can be found in the violence exerted on the young lady or woman, whether it be social, parental or masculine-based violence, in relation to the cultural and geographical context. As such, the representation of madness, originating from the exclusion imposed on women by an abusive patriarchal system, through the eyes of Maghrebi women, seems to be an inherent trait of women’s literature in Maghreb.

This head with its individual features and portrait characteristics, represents a private person from Medinet Madi in Fayum, dated to latest years of Marcus Aurelius or Commodus reigns. The ivy wreath connects the subject to a theatrical performance, with more probable poetic career. Such subject is attested for the first time from Egypt, and interestingly from a Fayum town, where no evidence for a theatre or theatrical activity is known.The sculpture shows the Alexandrian stuccon technique, which perhaps was known in the Egyptian chora by 2nd century AD. The polychromic scheme used in addition to material suggest it local carving in Medinet Madi. Most important is that the portrait-head presents an interesting archaeological testimony for the vivid picture of theatrical activities and performance in Egypt during Ptolemaic and Roman ages, richly detailed in papyri and literary sources. Cette tête sculptée de particulier provient de Medinet Madi au Fayoum. Elle date des dernières années du règne de Marc Aurèle ou de celui de Commode. La couronne de lierre dont elle est dotée permet de relier ce personnage aux performances théâtrales, une carrière de poète étant dans ce cas probable. Ce type de sujet est attesté pour la première fois en Égypte. Il est d’ailleurs intéressant de noter qu’il provient d’une ville du Fayoum dans laquelle aucune trace d’activités théâtrales n’a jusque-là été reconnue.Cette sculpture témoigne de la technique du stuc alexandrin, qui était peut-être connue dans la chôra égyptienne au ii e s apr. J.-C. La présence du schéma polychrome et l’étude du matériel suggèrent qu’il s’agit d’une sculpture locale. Elle constitue un témoin archéologique d’importance sur les activités théâtrales et artistiques de l’Égypte ptolémaïque et romaine, au contraire si richement détaillées dans les sources écrites.

West Al Khilala Field is considered as gas producing from Abu Madi Miocene sandstone Formation. It lies at the central onshore Nile Delta and covers about 47.6 km2. The petrophysical parameters (porosity, permeability, water saturation and net-to-gross ratio) as well as static modelling of the Abu Madi reservoir from well logs are carried out. The porosity model reflected good porosity in the study area especially in the massive sandstone unit with values range from 18% to 27%, while low porosity value are recorded in the layered and basal sandstone units with values range from 1% to 24%. The permeability model displayed values range from 50 md to 2000 md in the massive sandstone unit that increases towards the southeast direction reflected a high promising for hydrocarbon prospecting. The permeability values of the layered and basal sandstone units range from 0.5 md to 700 md with mean value of 40 md reflected a tight permeability due to the presence of shale streaks. The water saturation (Sw) model of the layered and massive sandstone units indicated hydrocarbon-bearing intervals with values from 10% to 64.7%, while the basal sandstone unit is highly saturated with water from 65% up to 100%. The volumetric calculation of the reservoir showed that the reservoir contained about 246 BSCF as a recoverable gas.

The objective of the present study is to evaluate the reservoir characteristics of the Late Miocene Abu Madi Formation (Abu Madi Levels II and III) at Abu Madi-El-Qara-Nidoco area, northern Nile Delta, Egypt. The study area is located between Longitude 31° 13` 48`` -31° 24` 36``E and Latitude 31° 21` 36``- 31° 37` 12`` N. Open-hole wireline log data of seven wells are used in this study. The petrophysical characteristics of the studied formation are thoroughly investigated to elucidate its hydrocarbon potentialities. The vertical variation of the petrophysical characteristics is presented as Lithosaturation cross-plots. The parameters distribution maps (shale volume, porosity, fluid saturation, net pay thickness and hydrocarbon saturation) are constructed to represent the lateral variation of petrophysical characteristics. The shale model shows that the dominant shale is mainly of dispersed and laminated types. The constructed neutron-bulk density, neutron-sonic and M-N crossplots display that the main reservoir lithology is sandstone intercalated mainly with dispersed shale and minor laminated shale in Level III and dispersed to laminated shale in Level II. It is also shown that Abu Madi Formation has poor to very good porosities range from 0.03 to 0.22 for Level II and from 0.06 to 0.19 for Level III. The most favorable places for hydrocarbon reservoirs occupy southwestern part for Abu Madi Level II reservoir and in the middle, the middle-west, the middle-east and the southeastern parts for Abu Madi Level III reservoir.

This paper aims to determine the validity of the LAB-MADI module using the Content Validity Index (CVI) and Percentage Calculation Method (PCM). The survey was conducted through the evaluation of six experts via purposive sampling. The instrument used for the evaluation was the content validity instrument. Based on the results of the analysis, the mean scores of CVI and PCM of the LAB-MADI module were 0.97 and 87.22%, respectively while the mean scores of CVI and PCM of eight practical activities based on the seven stages of the MADI model were 0.98 and 81.88% respectively. The results of the study indicate that the module has high validity in the six criteria assessed (suitability for target students, feasibility, time allocation and improving the dependent variables under study: argumentation skills, science process skills and concepts of diffusion and osmosis). Therefore, this module has great potential as a good module. This module is therefore recommended to be used and tested for its effectiveness. The module is also a form of alternative teaching method to guide biology teachers so that they can add value to students in terms of argumentation skills, science process skills and Biology concepts through practical work.

Resumen Se realizó un análisis de la generación de los residuos producidos en el Campus Central del Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, tanto para los materiales recuperados por el Centro de Acopio Institucional (MADI), así como para los residuos enviados al relleno sanitario. Las cantidades de los residuos valorizables fueron proporcionados por el MADI. Se emplearon referencias bibliográficas para contar con las cantidades de los residuos orgánicos provenientes de la Soda Comedor. Las cantidades de residuos enviados al relleno sanitario se obtuvieron mediante un estudio de composición durante el primer semestre del 2013 y 2014, basándose en la metodología recomendada por el Ministerio de Salud de Costa Rica, MINSA. Los tipos de residuos se simplificaron en tres categorías: valorizable, compostable y no recuperable. Se escogió el 50% de los centros de transferencia de materiales, que son enviados al relleno. El estudio de composición se basó en muestras que variaron entre el 23,3 y el 73,4% de la masa total de residuos de los centros de transferencia. Se encontró que del total de residuos enviados al relleno un (60 ± 1) % no eran valorizables, mientras que un (29 ± 2) % y un (12 ± 1) % pudieron ser recuperados por MADI o compostables, respectivamente. Para el 2015, el MADI recuperó el 63% de los residuos con potencial valorizable y la Soda Comedor un 66% de los residuos de alimentos. Sin embargo, se debe trabajar en una estrategia que pueda mejorar el desempeño de la gestión de residuos sólidos institucionales. Abstract An analysis of the generation of the waste produced at the Central Campus of the Costa Rica Institute of Technology was carried out, both, for the materials recovered by the Institutional Collection Center (MADI), as well as for the waste sent to the landfill. The amounts of the recoverable materials were provided by MADI. Literature references were used to count the quantities of organic waste from the Institutional Restaurant. The amount of waste sent to the landfill were obtained through a composition study during the first semester of 2013 and 2014, based on the methodology recommended by the Costa Rica Ministry of Health (MINSA). The waste types of this methodology were simplified into three categories: recoverable, compostable and non-recoverable. 50 % of the transfer stations of waste sent to landfill were chosen. The composition study was carried out on samples that varied between 23.3 and 73.4 % of the total mass of waste from the chosen transfer stations. It was found that from the total waste sent to the landfill (60 ± 1) % were not recoverable, while (29 ± 2) % and (12 ± 1) % were recoverable by MADI or compostable, respectively. For 2015, MADI recovered 63% of the total waste with recyclable potential of the total institutional waste stream, and the Restaurant 66% of total food waste. However, the institute must work on a strategy that can improve the performance of the integral management of institutional solid waste.

This quasi-experimental mixed-methods design examined the effects of a Modified Argument-Driven Inquiry (MADI) on elementary school boys’ and girls’ engagement in learning science (ELS) and performance of argumentation. Thirty-two children were randomly selected to participate in a two-semester 24-h intervention, forming an experimental group (EG, 13 boys, 19 girls); another 36 children were also randomly selected from the same two schools as a comparison group (CG, 20 boys, 16 girls). All participants completed pretest and posttest at the beginning and 1 month after each semester’s intervention. A well-structured student questionnaire was used to assess the participants’ ELS and quality of argumentation. In addition, four target children with the highest or the lowest scores on pretest were purposively recruited for weekly classroom observations and two-wave interviews for triangulation and consolidation of quantitative findings. The results from the repeated measures ANOVA revealed that the EG boys and girls made significant and continuous improvement in the quality of argumentation from the first to the second semesters. In contrast, the CG girls presented significantly lower scores than the boy counterparts. In addition, the results of the ANCOVA measures indicated that the EG girls of high engagement made a significant improvement in the quality of argumentation than the girls of low engagement. This study provides a fresh insight to support the use of a MADI intervention as an effective strategy for improving girls’ continuous ELS and high quality of argumentation.

Literature by the Arab diaspora in the United States has promoted dialectical interpretations of authors' cultural identities, balancing their ancestral cultural identities with those of their new country. In regards to the bicultural identity found in the Arabic-language poetry of Elia Abu Madi, it can be seen that the poet produced several discourses portraying a bicultural reality. The historical essence of Arabic diaspora literature is found not only in its social expressions and representations, but also in the interactions of Arabic and American culture that have produced a bicultural identity. It consists of five key concepts: sign analysis, which functions to reveal the meaning of signs or symbols in the material object; interpreter analysis, which functions to discover the correlations between authors' intents and readers' horizons of expectation; effect analysis, which functions to reveal the influence of literary works on their readers; reference analysis, which functions to reveal authors' repertoires; and context or conditions analysis, which functions to reveal the bicultural identity of authors. This research concludes that, in the author's bicultural identity, the United States is positioned as a prosperous country of dynamic multiculturalism, where people are passionate in their work and art. Meanwhile, Lebanon is positioned as a country where people live mechanically, facing hardship and minimal productivity owing to their lack of security. Conversely, although the United States is prosperous and safe, owing to its orientation towards religious pluralism, its people are more positivistic and material in their lives. They thus tend to ignore spiritual aspects.

This dataset presents data collected from household surveys from Upper Madi Watershed of Nepal describing the benefits of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) to people of mountain ecosystems, their perceptions of climate change, and perceived impacts of climate change on NTFPs ecosystem services. The data were collected from 278 households that were randomly selected from the four villages in the watershed during the period September to December 2019. The survey assessed socio-demographic information; collected and utilized NTFPs; perceptions of climate change, and; perceived impacts of climate change on NTFPs ecosystem services. These data are important in understanding the benefits of non-timber forest products in mountain ecosystems and the impacts of climate change as the benefits and impacts are currently not well understood. The data will be helpful in formulation and implementation of adaptation strategies to sustain the supply, protection, and management of NTFPs in mountain ecosystems.

In the automotive sector, the cumulative damage calculation method generally applied is the Palmgren–Miner-Hypothesis with its modification according to Haibach (steeper slope of the SN-line after the knee-point) as a means of also including the damage by stress amplitudes below the knee-point. This approach results in the total damage sum of the spectrum Dspec. However, the resulting question is the value of the allowable damage sum Dal for the evaluation of Dspec ⩽ Dal. The only design code that considers the assessment of cast iron components under spectrum loading is the FKM-Guideline of the Cooperative Research Association for Mechanical Engineering (FKM, Frankfurt/Germany) for designing machine components. Here, the theoretical Palmgren–Miner-damage sum Dth = 1.0 is still suggested as the allowable damage sum Dal despite the fact that this damage sum renders unsafe calculated fatigue lives in about 90% of all published results. The results obtained with component-like notched specimens of modern high-strength cast iron alloys (Rm = 650–800 MPa) such as EN-GJS-500-7, SiboDur 700-10 and MADI (Machinable Austempered Ductile Iron), which were investigated under a standard Gaussian spectrum for chassis applications and also for a fuller injection pump spectrum, suggest the allowable damage sum Dal = 0.3 for fatigue life estimations of components manufactured with these materials can be proposed; i.e. the allowable fatigue life is about one third compared to calculations with the theoretical damage sum Dth = 1.0 that is still used.