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Mazrui, Ali A. "Islamic and Western Values." Foreign Affairs 76, no. 5 (1997): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20048203.

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Brittain, Victoria. "Western ‘values’ in ‘postcolonial’ Africa." Political Quarterly 93, no. 1 (December 20, 2021): 180–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-923x.13094.

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Ordzhonikidze, Mariia. "Russians' Perceptions of Western Values." Russian Politics & Law 46, no. 3 (May 2008): 43–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/rup1061-1940460303.

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Brown, Richard Maxwell. "Western Violence: Structure, Values, Myth." Western Historical Quarterly 24, no. 1 (February 1993): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/970005.

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Angle, S. C. "Western, Chinese, and Universal Values." Telos 2015, no. 171 (June 1, 2015): 112–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3817/0615171112.

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Ming, Cheng Kai. "Traditional Values and Western Ideas." Asian Journal of Public Administration 8, no. 2 (December 1986): 195–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02598272.1986.10800177.

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Saha, Arunoday. "Technological innovation and Western values." Technology in Society 20, no. 4 (November 1998): 499–520. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0160-791x(98)00030-x.

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Ordzhonikidze, Mariia. "Russians' Perceptions of Western Values." Russian Social Science Review 49, no. 6 (November 2008): 4–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10611428.2008.11065308.

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MAHBUBANI, KISHORE. "When Western Interests Trump Values." New Perspectives Quarterly 25, no. 3 (June 2008): 23–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5842.2008.00997.x.

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Sapio, F. "The "Four Nevers," Socialist Core Values, and "Western Values"." Telos 2015, no. 171 (June 1, 2015): 99–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.3817/0615171099.

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Thompson, Gordon Ross. "Music and values in Gujarati-speaking Western India." An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information, 1987. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=753729281&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=78910&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Colic-Peisker, Val. "Croatians in Western Australia: Migration, values and identity." Thesis, Colic-Peisker, Val (2000) Croatians in Western Australia: Migration, values and identity. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2000. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/50691/.

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This thesis explores the process of integration of two post-war waves of voluntary Croatian migrants to Australia. The study is focused on changes in migrants’ values and the feeling of identity. The research starts from the proposition that differences in the socio-economic background (class) of the two waves of migrants, largely coinciding with their rural versus urban origin, will be significant factors in determining their migration experience. The first group of Croatians migrated to Australia in the 1960s - early 1970s. This is the largest wave of Croatians that reached Australia. The second group is a smaller but still clearly identifiable wave of late-1980s - mid-1990s arrivals. Most of the 1960s wave of migrants are of peasant origin, with little formal education and limited English, who took working-class jobs upon arrival to Australia. They remain relatively uninvolved with the mainstream English-speaking society and mainly socialise within their ethnic communities. These communities have an important role in maintaining their traditional values and sense of identity, which are firmly connected to their native land and communities of origin. The recent wave of migrants arrived in Australia from Croatian cities. Most of them have a tertiary degree and hold professional jobs in Australia. Their sense of identity is based on their education and professional work rather than their ‘Croatianness’. They do not form ethnic communities and are integrated into mainstream society through their work and socialising with non-Croatians. Both groups experienced changes in their values and identity following migration, but to various degrees and in different ways. The 1960s group experienced ‘enlargement’ of their ethnic identity from local to national; this process can be viewed as a ‘modernisation’ of their ethnic identity. The turbulent political developments in Croatia in the 1990s influenced this process. The 1980s wave of urban professional migrants further ‘Westernised’ following migration by incorporating Australian cultural narratives, practices and values, and is developing a culturally hybrid identity. The meaning of the homeland and the type of connection to it significantly differ in the two groups. While the 1960s cohort fits into the idea of ‘diaspora’, the 1980s migrants do not define themselves by their connection to the homeland. The fact that the two groups of Croatians came from a communist country, dominated by authoritarianism in social and political life and egalitarianism in its ideological matrix, is relevant in the process of identity and value change following migration to Australia. Changes in Australian immigration policies, and society as a whole from the 1960s to the 1980s, also influenced the migration experience of the two groups of Croatians. This study challenges the way in which ‘outsiders gaze’ stereotypes the ethnicity of migrant groups on the basis of their country of origin. The two groups of Croatians do not form a single ethnic community in any sociologically meaningful way. The class differences between them largely outweigh the fact that they came from the same country.
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Soontiens, W., and Jager JW De. "South African values: A reflection on its ‘Western’ base." African Journal of Business Management, 2008. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1000398.

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The historical socio-political development of South Africa renders a unique environment in respect of the influence of ‘Western’ cultural values impacting on ‘African’ values. This papers sets out to reflect on the values held by African youth based on a pre-existing ‘Western’ scale. In the first instance the nature of values is considered with a particular focus on group and organisational interaction. This is followed by the consideration of ‘African’ realities and their impact on trends towards convergence and divergence of values. The third part of the paper reflects on data collected from 182 young Africans by considering the nature and validity of value clusters. Overall the data provide mixed results in thatclusters show different levels of cohesiveness (reliability) and importance. The most cohesive‘environment’ cluster is deemed least important while the least reliable clusters of ‘family life’ and‘lifestyle’ are deemed significantly more important. Although more reliable as clusters, the ‘job andwork’ and ‘social and community’ clusters are deemed more important.
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O’Connor, Penelope E. "Past lives, present values: historic cultural values in the South-West Forests of Western Australia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/654.

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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the processes surrounding the assessment of places of cultural significance in Australia, and the extent to which they are achieving some of their key objectives.In the 1970s, Australia challenged the conventions of many other countries by developing a methodology for heritage assessment that aimed at identifying all the qualities that make a place significant. This contrasted with traditional practices that focussed on architectural style, design or historic associations. The Australian paradigm identifies four key evaluative criteria against which to assess the evidence about a place: aesthetic, historic, scientific and social value. This systematic, criterion based approach is now nationally regarded as representing best practice and has been adopted in all state heritage legislation. Internationally, several countries have developed codes of practice substantially on the basis of the Australian model.One consequence of the widespread acceptance of the principles used in Australia is a lack of investigation into their successful application. The methodology has come to function as a ‘primary frame’, a way of thinking that is so widely accepted it is applied without question. The concern with any primary frame is that those working within its parameters can become ‘frame blind’ and fail to recognise any disjunction between the frame’s objectives and the outcomes it achieves. One of the aims of this thesis is to draw attention to the presence and dominant nature of this primary frame and encourage greater critical reflection on the professional practice of cultural heritage.The research program undertaken for this thesis focuses on the particular issue of how the primary frame allows for the identification of cultural heritage values held by past communities. In examining this subject it addresses several key questions: Which places did historic communities value? Can such places be assessed in terms of contemporary heritage values as set out by the primary frame? What other forms of assessment may be valid? To what extent do places identified by today’s society as having heritage values correlate to those valued by historic communities? What implications does the identification of places valued by historic communities have for contemporary land management agencies? Are there other forms of assessment that could be developed to uncover historic community places and values?In addressing these questions, this thesis challenges many of the conventions that have developed around the current assessment methodology; conventions that work to undermine the holistic objective of the primary frame. The study does not, however, seek to develop an alternative model for heritage assessment and the approaches it uses are consistent with the primary frame. Nevertheless, the approaches may be confronting to many practitioners.The research program focussed on the physically and temporally discrete historic community living in what is now the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River in Western Australia between 1832 and 1880. From the extensive collection of letters, journals and diaries written by settlers held in local archives, places that were significant to the historic community were identified. Omissions were then identified by comparing these to places identified on other heritage lists.The findings demonstrate the extent to which the primary frame is being reframed through conventions and unofficial practices, and the degree to which this is overlooked, despite being inconsistent with the broad objectives of the primary frame. Some places that were significant to the historic community have been identified as important, but there is little acknowledgement in these assessments of past cultural associations. Other places have not been identified because they no longer have the same degree of significance that was accorded to them by the historic community.This thesis concludes that the potential for the primary frame to result in more holistic heritage assessments has yet to be realised, and that the assessment process is being constrained by conventions and reframing. In order to effect change, the evaluative criteria need to be more rigorously and expansively applied.In line with the regulations of Curtin University, this thesis is presented as a series of eight papers published in refereed publications. They are supported by four chapters, which introduce the topic, provide a theoretical context, explain the methodological approach and draw together the conclusions of the research. Each paper also has a brief introduction. Together, the papers and supporting material form the thesis.
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CHEN, SHU-CHUNG. "EASTERN AND WESTERN CULTURAL VALUES: IMPLICATION FOR TRAINING ASIAN COUNSELORS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1085605728.

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Chen, Shu-Chung. "Eastern and western cultural values implications for training Asian counselors /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=ucin1085605728.

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Uphill, Joanne. "Measuring values with the Schwartz Values Survey at a university in the Western Cape, South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5824.

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The aim of this study is to determine whether the Schwartz universal value types are the same for South African students compared to other international studies. A total of 136 students completed the Schwartz Values Survey across three academic study years. The survey reports respondent values and the extent of their religiosity on a Likert-scale. The measure for internal consistency reliability for eight of the ten motivational value types is good, with poor reliability scores for Stimulation and Security. No statistically significant difference presents across the student academic years. The motivational value type Tradition is consistent with a high degree of religiosity. Hedonism is consistent with a low degree of religiosity.
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Fu, Ho-ying, and 符可瑩. "The social cognitive mediation of multiple enculturation and values." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31238476.

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Fairclough, Kelvin. "Assessing moral reasoning development through values education within a Western Australian independent school." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2000. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1366.

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The relationship between Values Education and corresponding moral reasoning development has been explored within a group of forty-six year eight students (twelve and thirteen years old). Participants were tested with a Sociomoral Reflection Objective Measure instrument to index their moral reasoning stage development (reported as a Moral Maturity Score). Randomly dividing the group into two equal proportions they were assigned to an Experimental or Control group. The Experimental group was presented with Values Education through exposure to age relevant moral dilemmas which envelope a societal value drawn from the Core Shared Values (Curriculum Council of Western Australia, 1998). Within each session the discussions were both inductive and didactic. After a ten-week exposure to forty-minute sessions the students were re-tested. The aim is to investigate evidence of significant change in moral development of the Experimental group compared to the Control group. The degree to which changes occur impinges upon the relevance of inclusion of Core Shared Values into the Curriculum Framework (Curriculum Council of Western Australia, 1998) being established in Western Australian schools. The Core Shared Values are to be infused into the curriculum in order to enrich the morality of students, the future societal generations, and raise the moral standards of our society. The presupposition is that the integration of these values will in fact enhance moral development through moral reasoning. The findings of this study did not support the premise that using a Values Education will improve the mora1 reasoning capacity of students within an experimental group above that of a control group. Even though overall improvements were made in both groups, neither reached statistical significance. Recommendations included in the body of the text include the consideration of a longitudinal study using values integrated into the curriculum rather than an interventionist approach.
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Turville, Christopher. "Techniques to handle missing values in a factor analysis /." [Campbelltown, N.S.W. : The Author], 2000. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030619.142126/index.html.

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Books on the topic "Western values"

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Clough, Shepard Bancroft. Basic values of Western civilization. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1985.

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1950-, Doeser M. C., and Kraay J. N, eds. Facts and values: Philosophical reflections from western and non-western perspectives. Dordrecht: M. Nijhoff, 1986.

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Driver, Bruce C. Western hydropower: Changing values/new visions. [Washington, D.C.?]: The Commission, 1997.

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Hilton, Kramer, and Kimball Roger 1953-, eds. The Survival Of Culture: Permanent Values In A Virtual Age. Chicago, Ill: Ivan R. Dee, 2002.

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Harding, Stephen. Contrasting values in Western Europe: Unity, diversity and change. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan in association with the European Value Systems Study Group, 1986.

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Asian values, western dreams: Understanding the new Asia. St Leonards, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin, 1999.

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Cunningham, Lawrence. Culture and values: A survey of the humanities. 7th ed. Boston, MA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2010.

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Cunningham, Lawrence. Culture and values: A survey of the humanities. 7th ed. Boston, MA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2010.

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Cunningham, Lawrence. Culture and values: A survey of the humanities. 6th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2006.

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Cunningham, Lawrence. Culture and values: A survey of the humanities. 7th ed. Boston, MA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2010.

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Book chapters on the topic "Western values"

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Irzik, Gürol. "Values and Western Science Knowledge." In Encyclopedia of Science Education, 1–4. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6165-0_384-2.

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Irzik, Gürol. "Values and Western Science Knowledge." In Encyclopedia of Science Education, 1093–96. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2150-0_384.

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Dunn, Dennis J. "Western Civilization." In A History of Orthodox, Islamic, and Western Christian Political Values, 57–87. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32567-5_4.

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Hogan, Tom. "Differences Between Micronesian and Western Values." In Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change, 767–91. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2014-3_21.

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Hogan, Tom. "Differences Between Micronesian and Western Values." In Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change, 1–25. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7035-8_21-1.

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Miller, William L., Stephen White, and Paul Heywood. "Postcommunist Values in a Western Perspective." In Values and Political Change in Postcommunist Europe, 389–412. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230377448_21.

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Iosifidis, Petros, and Mark Wheeler. "Western Media Policy Frameworks and Values." In Public Spheres and Mediated Social Networks in the Western Context and Beyond, 65–92. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-41030-6_4.

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Kangara, Tafadzwa. "African values in Western social work." In Becoming a Social Worker, 104–9. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003181989-19.

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Dunn, Dennis J. "The Resurgence of Western Values, 1945–2000s." In A History of Orthodox, Islamic, and Western Christian Political Values, 119–49. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32567-5_6.

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Doan, Michael D., and Susan Sherwin. "Relational Solidarity and Climate Change in Western Nations." In Bioethical Insights into Values and Policy, 79–88. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26167-6_6.

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Conference papers on the topic "Western values"

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Nagineni, Venu Gopal Rao, Richard Gary Hughes, David D'Souza, and Kenneth Michael Deets. "Evaluation of CO2 Injectivity From Waterflood Values." In SPE Western Regional Meeting. Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/132624-ms.

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Bitinayte, Elena. "Western Values in M. K. Gandhirs Social Philosophy." In 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.2.

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Andrews, Justin, and Sheldon Gorell. "Generating Missing Oilfield Data Using A Generative Adversarial Imputation Network GAIN." In SPE Western Regional Meeting. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/200766-ms.

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Abstract Missing values and incomplete observations can exist in just about ever type of recorded data. With analytical modeling, and machine learning in particular, the quantity and quality of available data is paramount to acquiring reliable results. Within the oil industry alone, priorities in which data is important can vary from company to company, leading to available knowledge of a single field to vary from place to place. With machine learning requiring very complete sets of data, this issue can require whole portions of data to be discarded in order to create an appropriate dataset. Value imputation has emerged as a valuable solution in cleaning up datasets, and as current technology has advanced new generative machine learning methods have been used to generate images and data that is all but indistinguishable from reality. Using an adaptation of the standard Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) approach known as a Generative Adversarial Imputation Network (GAIN), this paper evaluates this method and other imputation methods for filling in missing values. Using a gathered fully observed set of data, smaller datasets with randomly masked missing values were generated to validate the effectiveness of the various imputation methods; allowing comparisons to be made against the original dataset. The study found that with various sizes of missing data percentages withing the sets, the "filled in" data could be used with surprising accuracy for further analytics. This paper compares GAIN along with several commonly used imputation methods against more standard practices such as data cropping or filling in with average values for filling in missing data. GAIN, as well as the various imputation methods described are quantified for there ability to fill in data. The study will discuss how the GAIN model can quickly provide the data necessary for analytical studies and prediction of results for future projects.
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Wang, Xiao-xi. "Different Concepts of Values in Chinese and Western Movies." In 3d International Conference on Applied Social Science Research (ICASSR 2015). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icassr-15.2016.145.

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"Comparison of Differences in Eastern and Western Ethical Values." In 2018 International Conference on Culture, Literature, Arts & Humanities. Francis Academic Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.25236/icclah.18.053.

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JL, Guevara, and Trivedi Japan. "Towards a Machine Learning Based Dynamic Surrogate Modeling and Optimization of Steam Injection Policy in SAGD." In SPE Western Regional Meeting. SPE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/209245-ms.

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Abstract This paper presents a methodology for the identification of a dynamic-surrogate model and the optimization of steam injection rates of a multi-well heterogeneous SAGD process. The optimization refers to finding the steam injection rates at every time step (steam injection policy) that will maximize cumulative net present value at the end of the production horizon. The solution methodology consists of identifying one-step prediction non-linear models and then using these models in a recursive scheme to predict the established production horizon. These models are identified offline and then used as a substitute for the reservoir simulation model, considered computationally expensive, in the optimization process. This approach makes use of the reinforcement learning agent-environment interaction: based on the current state St, the agent takes an action At, and the environment transitions into a new state St+1 and offers a scalar reward Rt. Additionally, the well-known genetic algorithm is used for optimization purposes. The approach is applied to a multi-well reservoir simulation model, built using publicly available data that includes data from northern Alberta SAGD operations considering two (2) time step lengths: daily (Case 1) and weekly (Case 2). Furthermore, the performance of the approach is evaluated in terms of: i) Mean Absolute Error (MAE) between the predicted time-series and the true values (effectivity), ii) the effect of randomness of the design of experiments over the MAE (robustness regarding the design of experiments) and iii) changes in the variance of the errors over the prediction time frame (performance as number of time step prediction increases). Results show that for a daily time step (Case 1) the proposed approach was able to predict significantly well the selected output as opposed to Case 2 which exhibit much higher MAE values. Also, there is a small but important effect of the randomness of the design of experiments over the MAE values in both cases. Furthermore, Case 1 showed a significant higher level of robustness over the prediction than Case 2. In particular, the changes in variance of the error in Case 1 was much less that for Case 2.
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Ramirez, Alberto Jose, and Jessica Graciela Iriarte. "Novel Application to Recognize a Breakdown Pressure Event on Time Series Frac Data Vs. an Artificial Intelligence Approach." In SPE Western Regional Meeting. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/200846-ms.

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Abstract Breakdown pressure is the peak pressure attained when fluid is injected into a borehole until fracturing occurs. Hydraulic fracturing operations are conducted above the breakdown pressure, at which the rock formation fractures and allows fluids to flow inside. This value is essential to obtain formation stress measurements. The objective of this study is to automate the selection of breakdown pressure flags on time series fracture data using a novel algorithm in lieu of an artificial neural network. This study is based on high-frequency treatment data collected from a cloud-based software. The comma separated (.csv) files include treating pressure (TP), slurry rate (SR), and bottomhole proppant concentration (BHPC) with defined start and end time flags. Using feature engineering, the model calculates the rate of change of treating pressure (dtp_1st) slurry rate (dsr_1st), and bottomhole proppant concentration (dbhpc_1st). An algorithm isolates the initial area of the treatment plot before proppant reaches the perforations, the slurry rate is constant, and the pressure increases. The first approach uses a neural network trained with 872 stages to isolate the breakdown pressure area. The expert rule-based approach finds the highest pressure spikes where SR is constant. Then, a refining function finds the maximum treating pressure value and returns its job time as the predicted breakdown pressure flag. Due to the complexity of unconventional reservoirs, the treatment plots may show pressure changes while the slurry rate is constant multiple times during the same stage. The diverse behavior of the breakdown pressure inhibits an artificial neural network's ability to find one "consistent pattern" across the stage. The multiple patterns found through the stage makes it difficult to select an area to find the breakdown pressure value. Testing this complex model worked moderately well, but it made the computational time too high for deployment. On the other hand, the automation algorithm uses rules to find the breakdown pressure value with its location within the stage. The breakdown flag model was validated with 102 stages and tested with 775 stages, returning the location and values corresponding to the highest pressure point. Results show that 86% of the predicted breakdown pressures are within 65 psi of manually picked values. Breakdown pressure recognition automation is important because it saves time and allows engineers to focus on analytical tasks instead of repetitive data-structuring tasks. Automating this process brings consistency to the data across service providers and basins. In some cases, due to its ability to zoom-in, the algorithm recognized breakdown pressures with higher accuracy than subject matter experts. Comparing the results from two different approaches allowed us to conclude that similar or better results with lower running times can be achieved without using complex algorithms.
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Ekeregbe, Merit P. "The Use of Localized Well-Drainage Reservoir Pressure Model in Optimum Fracture Design." In SPE Western Regional Meeting. SPE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/209343-ms.

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Abstract This study is to determine the effective use of localized reservoir pressure of each well drainage area in a multi-well reservoir system model to determine optimum fracturing design for production improvement. A static bottom-hole pressure (BHP) survey may present different values for each well draining from the same reservoir but these different pressure values have not been incorporated into determining the performance of each individual well based on the pressure as seen by each well, rather an indeterminate average reservoir pressure is used. Fracturing as a concept of increasing reservoir permeability will further expose the well to reservoir pressure as seen by the individual well than the assumed single-value reservoir-wide pressure. This is so except when the fracture half-length is equal to the drainage length of the reservoir, connecting the whole reservoir to justify the single reservoir pressure effect if it is a single-well reservoir system. In reality, many reservoirs are multi-well reservoir systems and this simplified assumption may pose some drawbacks. The damaged wellbore area may truly be more exposed to the localized reservoir pressure as seen by the well than the apparent reservoir single value pressure assumed to determine drawdown and damage. In a multi-well reservoir system with each well-drainage area subjected to different reservoir pressures than the single reservoir pressure, fracturing and stimulation candidates screening may not present the actual effect of each well-drainage area static reservoir pressure. This paper is to present a new model that incorporates the average reservoir pressure for whole reservoir system and the reservoir pressure as seen by individual wells in the determination of the drawdown and damage. The knowledge of the different pressures in different well locations in the reservoir system will be utilized to present a linear flow model in well fracturing to enhance better well performance. With this new model, the actual and more realistic damage estimation and ways to achieve a linear flow for optimum performance through fracturing will be better understood. The effect of other flowing wells on the skin of the candidate well will enhance a better planning than is done now because the existing formulations are done with a single-well reservoir system in mind; no account for contributing skin of other flowing wells in the industry applied model approaches.
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Imikhelova, Svetlana S. "To the dialogue of Eastern and Western cultures in the work of Russian-speaking national writers." In Eurasian paradigm of Russia: values, ideas and experience. Buryat State University Publishing Department, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18101/978-5-9793-0814-2-75-77.

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Li, Yuanchun, and Iraj Ershaghi. "The Behavior of Unconsolidated Rocks in California Waterfloods Under High-Pressure Gradients." In SPE Western Regional Meeting. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/200878-ms.

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Abstract Most waterfloods in California target sandstone formations that are unconsolidated in nature with high porosities and high permeabilities. These formations are also characterized by high Poisson ratios and low values of Young's Moduli. There has been a concern if, during the waterfloods of these types of formations, fracturing takes place at high-injection gradients. The influence of various factors on leak-off is studied in detail, indicating that with an increase in rock permeability, the leak-off velocity increases. This study included a comprehensive analysis of the characteristics of such soft formations and their responses to high injection gradients. We show that if the leak-off factors are adjusted to reflect high permeability and proper geomechanical properties, the probability of fracture formation is nil at injection gradients up to 0.9 psi/ft, for unconsolidated rooks. We computed estimated fracture width, fracture height, fracture length and noted for all three calculations, it takes gradients approaching 1psi/ft to note a non-trivial estimated value for these characteristics. This study shows that for unconsolidated formations like those in California targeted for waterfloods, the probability of fracture formation under pressure gradients of 0.9 psi/ft. is nil, and high injectivities can be exercised without the fear of fracture formation.
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Reports on the topic "Western values"

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Calkin, David, Kevin Hyde, Krista Gebert, and Greg Jones. Comparing resource values at risk from wildfires with Forest Service fire suppression expenditures: Examples from 2003 western Montana wildfire season. Ft. Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/rmrs-rn-24.

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Ruiz de Gauna, Itziar, Anil Markandya, Laura Onofri, Francisco (Patxi) Greño, Javier Warman, Norma Arce, Alejandra Navarrete, et al. Economic Valuation of the Ecosystem Services of the Mesoamerican Reef, and the Allocation and Distribution of these Values. Inter-American Development Bank, May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003289.

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Coral reefs are one of the most diverse and valuable ecosystems on Earth. The Mesoamerican Reef contains the largest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere. However, its health is threatened, so there is a need for a management and sustainable conservation. Key to this is knowing the economic value of the ecosystem. “Mainstreaming the value of natural capital into policy decision-making is vital” The value of environmental and natural resources reflects what society is willing to pay for a good or service or to conserve natural resources. Conventional economic approaches tended to view value only in terms of the willingness to pay for raw materials and physical products generated for human production and consumption (e.g. fish, mining materials, pharmaceutical products, etc.). As recognition of the potential negative impacts of human activity on the environment became more widespread, economists began to understand that people might also be willing to pay for other reasons beyond the own current use of the service (e.g. to protect coral reefs from degradation or to know that coral reefs will remain intact in the future). As a result of this debate, Total Economic Value (TEV) became the most widely used and commonly accepted framework for classifying economic benefits of ecosystems and for trying to integrate them into decision-making. This report estimates the economic value of the following goods and services provided by the MAR's coral reefs: Tourism & Recreation, Fisheries, Shoreline protection. To our knowledge, the inclusion of non-use values in the economic valuation of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System is novel, which makes the study more comprehensive.
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Ardakani, O. H., H. Sanei, L. R. Snowdon, P. M. Outridge, M. Obermajer, R. Stewart, R. Vandenberg, and K. Boyce. The accepted values for the internal Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) 9107 Rock-Eval 6 standard (Upper Cretaceous Second White Speckled Shale, Colorado Group), western Canada. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/298729.

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Liseroudi, M. H., O. H. Ardakani, P. K. Pedersen, R. A. Stern, J M Wood, and H. Sanei. Diagenetic and geochemical controls on H2S distribution in the Montney Formation, Peace River region, western Canada. Natural Resources Canada/CMSS/Information Management, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/329785.

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The Lower Triassic Montney Formation is a major siltstone dominated unconventional tight gas play in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB). In the Peace River region, the Montney Formation contains a regionally variable amount of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in gas-producing wells with western Alberta's wells having the highest concentrations. Previous studies on the source and distribution of H2S in the Montney Formation mainly focused on variations of H2S concentration and its relationship with other hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon gases, sulfur isotope composition of H2S, as well as organo-sulfur compounds in the Montney Formation natural gas. None of those studies, however, focused on the role of diagenetic and geochemical processes in the formation of dissolved sulfate, one of the two major ingredients of H2S formation mechanisms, and pyrite within the Montney Formation. According to the results of this study, the Montney Formation consists of two different early and late generations of sulfate minerals (anhydrite and barite), mainly formed by the Montney Formation pore water and incursion of structurally-controlled Devonian-sourced hydrothermal sulfate-rich fluids. In addition, pyrite the dominate sulfide mineral, occurred in two distinct forms as framboidal and crystalline that formed during early to late stages of diagenesis in western Alberta (WAB) and northeast British Columbia (NEBC). The concurrence of the late-stage anhydrite and barite and various types of diagenetic pyrite with high H2S concentrations, particularly in WAB, their abundance, and spatial distribution, imply a correlation between the presence of these sulfate and sulfide species and the diagenetic evolution of sulfur in the Montney Formation. The sulfur isotope composition of anhydrite/barite, H2S, and pyrite demonstrates both microbial and thermochemical sulfate reduction (MSR and TSR) controlled the diagenetic sulfur cycle of the Montney Formation. The relationship between the delta-34S values of the present-day produced gas H2S and other sulfur-bearing species from the Montney and other neighboring formations verifies a dual native and migrated TSR-derived origin for the H2S gas with substantial contributions of in situ H2S in the Montney reservoir.
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Kingston, A. W., A. Mort, C. Deblonde, and O H Ardakani. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) distribution in the Triassic Montney Formation of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Natural Resources Canada/CMSS/Information Management, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/329797.

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The Montney Formation is a highly productive hydrocarbon reservoir with significant reserves of hydrocarbon gases and liquids making it of great economic importance to Canada. However, high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) have been encountered during exploration and development that have detrimental effects on environmental, health, and economics of production. H2S is a highly toxic and corrosive gas and therefore it is essential to understand the distribution of H2S within the basin in order to enhance identification of areas with a high risk of encountering elevated H2S concentrations in order to mitigate against potential negative impacts. Gas composition data from Montney wells is routinely collected by operators for submission to provincial regulators and is publicly available. We have combined data from Alberta (AB) and British Columbia (BC) to create a basin-wide database of Montney H2S concentrations. We then used an iterative quality control and quality assurance process to produce a dataset that best represents gas composition in reservoir fluids. This included: 1) designating gas source formation based on directional surveys using a newly developed basin-wide 3D model incorporating AGS's Montney model of Alberta with a model in BC, which removes errors associated with reported formations; 2) removed injection and disposal wells; 3) assessed wells with the 50 highest H2S concentrations to determine if gas composition data is accurate and reflective of reservoir fluid chemistry; and 4) evaluated spatially isolated extreme values to ensure data accuracy and prevent isolated highs from negatively impacting data interpolation. The resulting dataset was then used to calculate statistics for each x, y location to input into the interpolation process. Three interpolations were constructed based on the associated phase classification: H2S in gas, H2S in liquid (C7+), and aqueous H2S. We used Empirical Bayesian Kriging interpolation to generate H2S distribution maps along with a series of model uncertainty maps. These interpolations illustrate that H2S is heterogeneously distributed across the Montney basin. In general, higher concentrations are found in AB compared with BC with the highest concentrations in the Grande Prairie region along with several other isolated region in the southeastern portion of the basin. The interpolations of H2S associated with different phases show broad similarities. Future mapping research will focus on subdividing intra-Montney sub-members plus under- and overlying strata to further our understanding of the role migration plays in H2S distribution within the Montney basin.
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Kingston, A. W., O. H. Ardakani, G. Scheffer, M. Nightingale, C. Hubert, and B. Meyer. The subsurface sulfur system following hydraulic stimulation of unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs: assessing anthropogenic influences on microbial sulfate reduction in the deep subsurface, Alberta. Natural Resources Canada/CMSS/Information Management, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/330712.

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Hydraulic fracturing is a reservoir stimulation technique that involves the injection of high-pressure fluids to enhance recovery from unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs. Often this involves the injection of surface waters (along with additives such as biocides) into formational fluids significantly different isotopic and geochemical compositions facilitating geochemical fingerprinting of these fluid sources. In some instances, the produced fluids experience an increase in hydrogen sulfide (H2S) concentration over the course of production resulting in an increased risk to health and safety, the environment, and infrastructure due to the toxic and corrosive nature of H2S. However, questions remain as to the origin and processes leading to H2S formation following hydraulic fracturing. In this study, we analyzed a series of produced waters following hydraulic fracturing of a horizontal well completed in the Montney Formation, Western Canada to evaluate variations in geochemical and microbiological composition over time and characterize potential sulfur species involved in the production of H2S. Initially, sulfur isotope ratios (d34S, VCDT) of dissolved sulfate in produced water had a baseline value of 27per mil similar to the d34S value of 25per mil for solid anhydrite derived from core material. Subsequently, d34S values of sulfate in produced fluids sequentially increased to 35per mil coincident with the appearance of sulfides in produced waters with a d34SH2S value of 18per mil. Oxygen isotope values of dissolved sulfate exhibited a synchronous increase from 13.2per mil to 15.8per mil VSMOW suggesting sulfate reduction commenced in the subsurface following hydraulic fracturing. Formation temperatures are <100°C precluding thermochemical sulfate reduction as a potential mechanism for H2S production. We suggest that microbial reduction of anhydrite-derived sulfate within the formation is likely responsible for the increase in H2S within produced waters despite the use of biocides within the hydraulic fracturing fluids. Initial assessments of microbial communities indicate a shift in community diversity over time and interactions between in situ communities and those introduced during the hydraulic fracturing process. This study indicates that biocides may not be fully effective in inhibiting microbial sulfate reduction and highlights the role anthropogenic influences such as hydraulic fracturing can have on the generation of H2S in the subsurface.
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Reger, R. D., and T. K. Bundtzen. Multiple glaciation and gold-placer formation, Valdez Creek Valley, western Clearwater Mountains, Alaska. Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.14509/2288.

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Green, D. W., W. W. Von Segen, and S. A. Willits. Western hardwoods : value-added research and demonstration program. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/fpl-gtr-85.

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Shaw, Kristi Lee, and Geoff Bridgman. Creating Appreciation and Community Support for Mothers Caring for a Child with an Anxiety Disorder. Unitec ePress, February 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.34074/mono.097.

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This research examined a unique approach to anxiety disorder, one of the most prevalent and growing mental health concerns internationally. It uncovered the mostly invisible and challenging experiences of mothers caring for a child with an anxiety disorder and the value of their reciprocal relationships with their children for both their health and wellbeing. In addition, it explored social identity in making meaningful connection using a generative action-oriented social approach to address anxiety in the community. An appreciative inquiry, using social constructionist theory, and underpinned by elements of kaupapa Māori values, was utilised to explore the research questions. The data was collected via paired interviews, focus groups and small questionnaires with three to four mothers, after which thematic analysis was undertaken to identify important themes.There were four key themes discovered in the findings: (1) the mothers’ ongoing and challenging experiences of being silenced and isolated on the fringes, navigating the quagmire of social and institutional systems to help them help their children; (2) the mothers’ learning to cope by creating calm in the home, the child, and in themselves, often requiring them to ‘suspend’ their lives until their children become more independent; (3) the mothers employing a mother as advocate identity to face the challenges, and co-creating a mother as advocate group identity to continue to face those challenges to design a collective initiative;and (4) the value of freedom that the mothers experienced participating in the appreciative inquiry process with other mothers facing similar challenges and sharing their stories.This study demonstrates how appreciative inquiry is aligned with and supports the value of social identity theory and creating meaningful connections to help position and address anxiety disorder in the community. A key insight gained in this study is that our current social and institutional systems create disconnection in many facets of Western life, which contributes to the generation and perpetuation of stigmatisation, isolation and anxiety disorder. Within a Western capitalistic and individualistic culture, mental illness has become predominantly pathologised and medicated, positioning anxiety disorder within the child, and relegating the social dimension of the biopsychosocial approach as almost irrelevant. As mothers in this system spend valuable energy advocating for more support for their children, they put their own mental health at risk. There is no one solution; however, this study demonstrates that when mothers are supported through an appreciative inquiry process, strengthening their personal and social identities, there is the potential for health and wellbeing to increase for them, their children and the community.
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Bano, Masooda. Curricula that Respond to Local Needs: Analysing Community Support for Islamic and Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), August 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-wp_2022/103.

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Involving local communities in school management is seen to be crucial to improving the quality of education in state schools in developing countries; yet school-based management committees remain dormant in most such contexts. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with a rich network of community-supported Islamic and Quranic schools in the state of Kano in northern Nigeria—a sub-Saharan African region with very low education indicators, low economic growth, and political and social instability—this paper shows how making school curricula responsive to local value systems and economic opportunities is key to building a strong sense of community ownership of schools. Under community-based school management committees, control over more substantive educational issues—such as the content of school curricula and the nature of aspirations and concepts of a good life that it promotes among the students—remains firmly in the hands of the government education authorities, who on occasion also draw on examples from other countries and expertise offered by international development agencies when considering what should be covered. The paper shows that, as in the case of the urban areas, rural communities or those in less-developed urban centres lose trust in state schools when the low quality of education provided results in a failure to secure formal-sector employment. But the problem is compounded in these communities, because while state schools fail to deliver on the promise of formal-sector employment, the curriculum does promote a concept of a good life that is strongly associated with formal-sector employment and urban living, which remains out of reach for most; it also promotes liberal values, which in the local communities' perception are associated with Western societies and challenge traditional values and authority structures. The outcomes of such state schooling, in the experience of rural communities, are frustrated young people, unhappy with the prospect of taking up traditional jobs, and disrespectful of parents and of traditional authority structures. The case of community support for Islamic and Quranic schools in northern Nigeria thus highlights the need to consider the production of localised curricula and to adjust concepts of a good life to local contexts and economic opportunities, as opposed to adopting a standardised national curriculum which promotes aspirations that are out of reach.
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