Saint Francis University

About: Saint Francis University is a education organization based out in Loretto, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Osteoblast. The organization has 1694 authors who have published 2038 publications receiving 87149 citations.

Controlling Factors of Shale Gas Production: What can Artificial Intelligence Tell Us?

Abstract: Application of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technique has made development of shale gas reservoir successful in the United States during the past decade. Chasing its operational success, researchers have been studying to understand the fundamentals of shale gas production, which will provide valuable information to assist in optimization of shale reservoir development. Unfortunately, the mechanism of shale gas production has not been fully revealed so far, and most reservoir simulation models are adopting the mechanism of coalbed methane production to forecast shale gas development process, which might not be the real case. In this paper, instead of using numerical simulation model, artificial intelligence and data mining techniques are implemented to study the controlling factors of shale gas production and understand the impacts of reservoir, completion and stimulation parameters in a dynamic manner only according to the field data. A database of Marcellus shale reservoir is generated by integrating information such as well locations, well trajectories, reservoir characteristics, completion, hydraulic fracturing, and production parameters, etc. Neural network models are trained to learn the key performance impacting factors on shale gas production in a dynamic manner, which could assist reservoir management decisions.

Telling Transitions At The Table: Re-Served Seats of Higher Learning?

Abstract: This paper traces the transitions of first year students and other adults of the university as they partake in an intergenerational shared inquiry at a common table. My transformative research invites students, faculty, and staff to attend to (eat) and transform (digest) the moral and political encounters in successive becomings from their speaking positions at a common table. This dialogical partaking of words disrupts the market discourse of student as consumer and re-stories the university as a service organization where all organizational actors are consuming and being consumed. Eating together and telling transitions dissolve boundaries between service and knowledge, between students and other organizational actors, between serving and being served. To transform my writing into a service encounter, I re-present my research as the serving up of a multi-storied, multi-course meal at a common table. Bon appetit! Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License. This article is available in The Qualitative Report: http://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol6/iss1/2 Telling Transitions At The Table: Re-Served Seats of Higher Learning? by Dorothy Lander The Qualitative Report, Volume 6, Number 1 March, 2001

Baruch S. Blumberg (1925–2011): Researcher of Hepatitis B, polysaccharides, other areas of science

Abstract: Baruch S. Blumberg’s career started with investigating the physical chemistry of polysaccharides. It culminated with the discovery of the Hepatitis B virus and the vaccine to prevent infection with it. It was concluded with studying life forms under extreme terrestrial conditions as part of the new science astrobiology.

Physician Understanding of Patient Health Beliefs

Abstract: To the Editors:–Street and Haidet appropriately position physician understanding of patient health beliefs as a key feature of patient-centered care (How well do doctors know their patients? Factors affecting physician understanding of patients’ health beliefs).1 They make a compelling argument for the value of shared understanding, and provide evidence that consonance regarding health beliefs is more likely to be achieved if patients ask questions, express concerns, and offer opinions about their health during a medical encounter. Of course, health beliefs are just one of the many domains for which shared understanding is critical. At least as fundamental as patients’ beliefs about a health problem are their beliefs about health per se. For instance, physicians cannot be expected to successfully counsel patients for better health unless they understand how their patients think about health. In national surveys, we elucidated four distinct and robust conceptions of health in America: capacity (health is an enabling factor); control (health is the result of an individual’s behaviors); physical (health is completely physical, focused on the body and biomedical criteria); psychosocial (health is a mix of mental, emotional, social, and spiritual factors).2 The importance of assessing and addressing how people define health was reinforced by the finding that 30% of the overall survey sample did not view health as physical, suggesting that shared understanding about “health” is another important marker of truly patient-centered care.