Higher Profile Research Articles

Practical Considerations for the Implementation of a Computer Based Corrosion Monitoring System

OVER the last few years, corrosion monitoring has gained a much higher profile in a wide variety of industries, including among others the aerospace and petrochemical sectors.

Voyages of the Valkyries: Recent Lesbian Pornographic Writing

One of the paradoxical effects of the feminist antipornography movement is that it has elicited vigorous, polemical and assertive calls for sexually explicit material by and for women. Feminist pornographic writers, lesbians in particular, have achieved a higher profile than they could ever have hoped for in the days when pornography was not one of the few really burning sites of feminist feeling.1 Vilification has proved to be good publicity, though hardly a pleasant experience for most (see Joan Nestle's 'My History with Censorship' (Nestle, 1988: 144), or Dorothy Allison's 'Public Silence, Private Terror' (Allison, 1984: 103)). It has also created an atmosphere of acute defensiveness and anxiety, so that reasoned debate becomes a near-impossibility. This, of course, is always the fault of the 'other side'. Gayle Rubin, for example, says:

Patriarchal Structures and Religious Education

This paper offers some general observations on patriarchy and its implications for religious educators. It refers in parts to my personal experience and suggests that women teachers should have a higher profile in the decision‐making, planning and assessing processes in religious education.

Community nurses must work for higher profile

Community nurses must work for higher profile

Education for Labour in Czechoslovakia: the shifting sands of responsibility

Summary Vocational training in secondary schools is currently coming under close scrutiny in Czechoslovakia, and every secondary school is now charged with providing at least a measure of vocational training. At a time when vocational training in British secondary education is being given a much higher profile than ever before, there may be lessons to learn from Eastern European experience. It is the purpose of this article to describe the Czechoslovak system of vocational training at secondary level, to discern some of the problems which it faces, and to identify trends in vocationalism in Czechoslovakia for the 1990s.

Ethnic issues and voting in the 1987 federal election

Abstract Although ethnic issues have had a higher profile in Australian politics in the 1980s, they still engender few party political differences among voters, showing that bipartisanship on immigration and multiculturalism remains important. However, a plurality of Australian voters now want an end to all immigration, a major change from twenty years ago. The patterns of ethnic voting which were observed in 1979 were maintained in the 1987 federal election, suggesting that the period between 1973 and 1979 represented a political fault‐line in ethnic voting in Australia. Overall, Labor is the net beneficiary from the ethnic vote; without support from Southern Europeans in the 1987 election, they would have trailed the Liberal‐National coalition by 2 per cent of the total vote.

Joint action against AIDS.

Nurses worldwide have made an unequivocal plea for the care of AIDS patients and those who are HIV positive to be given a much higher profile.

The Development of Military Industrial Relations in Australia

Military industrial relations issues in Australia have recently taken a higher profile with theformation of a specialist pay tribunal and the emergence of a representative personnel association. In traditional military settings, industrial relations matters usually receive little prominence because of the coercive and normative compliance structures associated with military employment. However, since the early 1960s studies of military organizations have raised the question of convergence between the military and other large organizations. These scholars have argued that post-war technological and social changes have largely removed the historical isolation of military systems. Applied to an industrial relations context, this thesis raises issues about Service personnel having greater access to civilian employee practices. A developmental analysis of changes in Australian military industrial relations since 1945 identified a progression from a traditional setting to one that, in some respects, resembles established civilian industrial systems. The analysis suggests that the convergence tendency is likely to continue.

Forest Pest Management and Training from an Industrial Perspective

Industrial forest pest management in Canada is a relatively new phenomenon and not yet well integrated into forest management regimes. However, pest management has gained a higher profile within the forest industry over the last decade and some companies are now routinely incorporating pest management principles and training into their forestry programs.

Trends in Management Training and Executive Education: The Revolution Continues

A recent survey of major American firms confirms that the trend to increased management training is gaining momentum. Courses relating to strategic planning and implementation, particularly with regard to productivity and competitiveness, are increasing, and more courses are customised to company needs. Monitoring and measuring results are also more important. Training executives will have a higher profile in the corporate structure.

UNIVERSAL AVAILABILITY OF PUBLICATIONS AND MUSIC

Universal Availability of Publications (UAP) presents special problems for music scores, which have received little attention to date in publications on the IFLA Programme. Some of these problems pose particular difficulties and are given general consideration: bibliographic peculiarities, format, publishing patterns and the international nature of the material involved. The nature of use is seen as being particularly important with factors such as a user's requirements for performance or study purposes, and the library's need to preserve or bind material, sometimes in conflict with UAP. A review of the current situation highlights a variety of national patterns of supply and provision presently in operation, few of which can be seen as adequate. General trends in music availability are discussed based on a number of recurrent themes arising from the national studies: developments in central and distributed methods of provision; perspectives on different categories of material; co‐operative against central acquisition; economic factors; new technology and the influence of publishers. General improvements in access and availability are dependent on those involved adopting a higher profile and recognizing all requirements of specialist materials.

International Science Gains Higher Profile

International Science Gains Higher Profile

Chemists Seek a Higher Profile

Chemists Seek a Higher Profile

Climacteric expression and social context

Though on questioning, women everywhere would probably admit to subjective sensations, known to be associated with climacteric physiological changes, few actively complain of any discomfort these produce. ‘Climacteric symptoms’ are confined to the West. Their absence elsewhere has hitherto been explained by the stress-free-climacteric women enjoy in most other cultures. The rewards of middle life in these cultures are, however, generally limited to women who have raised sons. Others are as liable to stress as Western women. This article suggests that the absence of climacteric symptoms among them is because middle-life stress is not associated in these cultures with illness but is expressed in practical social counteraction. The expression of climacteric stress in medical terms also depends on the manner the climacteric is reached and its general relationship to the menstrual history. The onset of the climacteric tends to have a much higher profile when families are limited, a social custom almost confined to the West. Avoidance of pregnancy and promiscuity also result in troublesome morbid changes at this time. In fact it was these which first brought climacteric women to doctors. As this occurred when, coincidentally, care of the sick became an important aspect of Western culture, the welding of climacteric disturbances and medicine became inevitable. Biologically ‘worthless’, a climacteric woman is regarded as ‘nothing’ in most cultures. Her social standing depends entirely on her sons. Childless women have, however, evolved various compensatory strategems. They manage to obtain social children or, at times, even profit by their very worthlessness. The climacteric expression resembling the menopausal syndrome most, in non-Western countries, is the almost universal fear, throughout the southern and eastern Mediterranean, that a husband may discover the climacteric sterility of his wife and marry a second young and fertile woman. Nonetheless neither this syndrome, nor other behavioral disorders at this time, utilize the physiological sensations of the climacteric as symptoms.

ESF—low budget but higher profile

ESF—low budget but higher profile

Passive seismic makes sense for 4D reservoir monitoring

Stephen Wilson, Rob Jones, Will Wason, Daniel Raymer and Paul Jaques of Vetco Gray, Cornwall, UK (formerly part of ABB) describe how passive seismic monitoring technology is making its way into the mainstream as a value proposition for the management of hydrocarbon resources. The use of 4D seismic as a mainstream technology in the management of hydrocarbon reservoirs is now established. In contrast to the traditional perception of seismic technology as an exploration tool, the value of 4D seismic sits securely on the production side of oilfield technology. This shift in emphasis within the seismic industry to encompass both production and exploration work has recently taken on a higher profile as a result of the difficulty of increasing reserves purely by exploration. New production technology now offers an alternative path to increasing booked reserves. The widening scope of seismic applications and the increasing number of reservoir geophysicists is helping to bring forward another seismic technology capable of greatly improving our understanding of reservoir dynamics. That technology is passive seismic monitoring. During the past few years the implementation of passive seismic monitoring as a mainstream technology for the management of hydrocarbon resources has been gathering pace. Recent permanent passive seismic studies in Oman have shown the capabilities of this technology to provide information upon which reservoir management decisions can be made (Jones et al, 2004). Knowledge of the existence and capabilities of the technology within our industry is reaching a critical mass and the technological barriers to its uptake are disappearing. Perhaps the most critical of these barriers concerns the ability to monitor microseismic activity from within active wells during production or injection. Recent developments in downhole tool technology allow the deployment of downhole seismic sensors capable of a 30-40 db improvement in signal performance when compared with previous technologies (Jaques et al., 2003). In addition to improvements in tool technology, software applications capable of delivering automatic microseismic locations to the client’s desktop in real-time are now available (Jones and Wason, 2004). The advent of 4D has improved our ability to observe reservoir performance and make timely decisions about reservoir operations. The deployment of permanent ocean bottom systems provides scope for improving the speed with which reservoir management decisions can be made by reducing turnaround time. Passive seismic monitoring further supports this improved decision-making capability by delivering real-time information about the reservoir to the desktop within minutes. In terms of instrumentation, permanent downhole seismic sensors represent the cornerstone for the implementation of full-field continuous passive seismic monitoring. The prospect of permanent downhole seismic sensors for use during 4D studies offers the prospect of accurate well ties, wavelet characterisation and VSP on demand. The combined value proposition for passive seismic monitoring and 4D seismic using downhole instrumentation may now be sufficient to drive the deployment of these systems. Figure 1 illustrates this virtuous circle of 4D seismic promoting the take up of microseismic technology which in turn helps 4D to better resolve reservoir change. All of which is driven by the value proposition of new technology as a method of improving recovery, increasing NPV and booking reserves.