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Flexible plastic liners are sometimes installed into new and existing oil and gas pipelines to prevent corrosion of the pipe wall. A practical difficulty of this method is that the plastic liners are permeable to gases, which can collect and form an annular space between the lin…

This dissertation examines the political and economic significance of oil transportation in the Middle East. It argues that the June 1967 War and the closure of the Suez Canal from 1967 to 1975 transformed the patterns of oil transportation in the Middle East and shaped the hist…

Parallel systems are pervasive nowadays. Specifically, modern computers have embraced multicore architectures due to the difficulties of exploiting higher clock speeds on single-core CPUs. However, parallel programming is challenging. Determinacy race, in particular, is a common…