According to a report by Peru's oil and gas licensing agency, Perupetro, as of November 2013 there were 50 oil and gas concessions in the exploration stage – 28 in the Amazon, two in the sierra.
We estimated that the study had 0.8 power to detect odds ratios (OR) of ≥2 in the exploration stage and 1.5 in the replication stage, respectively.
The study was designed to identify candidate loci in the exploration stage and check them in a larger group of patients and controls in the replication stage (Fig. 1).
where γ is a parameter regulating the speed of adaptation of the pheromone values to new values, which is in accordance with the ant sampling in route exploration stage; γ is maintained at 0.7;j indicates the intermediate node on this route; and c i g is defined as shown in Equation (1).
In the exploration stage, ε0=1 and ε f =0.01.
In the exploration stage the environment is partitioned into locations, each characterized by a set of scale-invariant keypoints.
Ecclestone points to Aluminum Corp. of China 's $792 million buyout of Peru Copper, a Vancouver firm also in the exploration stage and Toronto-traded.
The study design specified that successful selection of a goal and initiation of work on an action plan during training would signal entry into the Implementation stage of EPIS, whereas sites that did not select a goal would remain in the Exploration stage as the Experiment period began.
We used an observational research method which is based on Symbolic Interactionism [ 50] in the "exploration" stage to investigate the clinical practice with regard to the question, which ethical problems are relevant and how can they be further characterized [ 31].
In order to predict CMC (coalbed methane content) accurately in advance during exploration stage with limited data in Pannan coalfield, Southwest China, the prediction models of CMC (coalbed methane content) were established using quantification theory on the foundation of limited data obtained from the exploratory bores.
