Google Search Tip: The Case for Upper Case

“If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.” -- J. Russell Lynes (American Writer, b.1910)

GOOGLE SEARCH® TIP: OR vs. or

Something I learned by accident provides today’s Google® search tip: pay attention to CASE.

If you search Google® Scholar as much as I do, you probably blow past the advanced search form and start entering Boolean search strings directly into the search box.

If you do, know this … CASE matters.  Take a simple search for documents containing either dibenzothiophene or desulfurization.

Typing in the search string …

dibenzothiophene OR desulfurization

yields almost 65,000 hits.

Conversely, typing in the search string …

dibenzothiophene or desulfurization

yields less than one tenth (1/10^th) that.

Google ignores the lower case “or” and treats the remaining words as an AND statement

These two screen shots illustrate the point.

 

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Conference Alert: Independent Refineries China Summit

“I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it” -- Stephen Wright (American Actor and Writer, b.1955)

The 6th Annual Independent Refineries China Summit takes place on 20-22 March 2013 in Zhoushan, Zhejiang China.

I know this thanks to an email I received from Clarion, producer of the event.

Here is an excerpt …

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The oil map is being redrawn and the possibility for China to be the next big global product exporter is very real. China's crude-processing capacity will increase by 39.5 million metric tons a year to 614 million a year in 2013, while actual throughput will climb 5.4 percent to 489 million tons, according to China National Petroleum Corp. Will this new oil-refining capacity outpace demand growth and cause a fuel glut in China? What will be the impact on the global market?

The 6th Annual Independent Refineries China Summit takes place on 20-22 March 2013 in Zhoushan, Zhejiang China. It brings together the major oil refineries in China to discuss major developments and analyse the oil demand and supply situation. This is your chance to find out from the horse's mouth how upbeat refineries in China are on oil prices, what are the current challenges they are facing, what type of new investments are they planning, who do they plan to partner with, what are the potential new developments, and if there are any plans to become a global exporter.

Source: http://www.clarionevents.asia/

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If this looks interesting, you might want to bookmark the Clarion site for future reference.

While you’re at it, bookmark Clarion’s corporate site as well:

http://www.clarionevents.com/

Speaking of bookmarks, here are two tips that may save you a lot of future grief …

TIP #1: EXPORT your bookmarks periodically and store the file on your computer, in the Cloud, and on an external drive. You’ve spent several years creating this list … it would be a shame to lose it due to a computer crash



TIP #2: Add your bookmarks to your Delicious.com account. Not only is it another way to use the Cloud as another storage option. It also enables you to add descriptive text and tags to each bookmark, making it easy to search for them using keywords. It doesn’t matter how good your list is, if you can’t find what you’re looking for when you need it.

Conference Alert and Call for Papers: International Symposium on Hydrotreating / Hydrocracking Technologies

“There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.” -- G. K. Chesterton (English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936)

A LinkedIn contact alerted me to a Call for Papers for the International Symposium on Hydrotreating / Hydrocracking Technologies, which is part of the 246th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Indianapolis IN, September 8-12, 2013

Here are the details …

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Topics may include:
 Catalyst Preparation, Characterization, Testing, and Deactivation
 Commercial Catalyst Applications
 New Catalytic and Adsorption Materials
 Application of Nanomaterials
 Catalyst Regeneration and Rejuvenation
 Reactor Design and Process Configuration
 Feedstock Modification / Improvement / Characterization
 Kinetics / Thermodynamics
 Product Quality / Stability
 Molecular / Kinetic / Process Modeling
 Non-Catalytic Technology (Adsorption, Extraction, etc.)
 Heavy Oil, Shale Oil, Synthetic Oil, Liquefied Coal, and Biomass Processing/Co-processing
 
Organizers
 Omer Refa Koseoglu, Saudi Aramco
 Shigeki Nagamatsu, JGC Corporation
 Fabrice Bertoncini, IFP Energies nouvelles
 Lawrence (Larry) S. Kraus, Criterion Catalysts & Technologies
 Paul Robinson, Criterion Catalysts & Technologies

Contact: LinkedIn@koseoglu.com
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TODAY’S TIP: Find an expert’s publications in your field of interest by using the expert’s name as a key word.  For example, if you want to see what Omer Koseoglu has published on desulfurization, use the following Google® Scholar search string:

desulfurization koseoglu

Omer is a prolific author of articles and patents.  Here are three recent patents that result from the above search …

OXIDATIVE DESULFURIZATION IN FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING PROCESS
OR Koseoglu, A Bourane - US Patent 20,130,026,071, 2013 - freepatentsonline.com
Abstract: A process for catalytically cracking and oxidatively desulfurizing a hydrocarbon
feedstock containing organosulfur compounds is provided. Oxygen containing gas is
introduced with a cracking catalyst and the feed to form a suspension. At least a portion of ...

PROCESS FOR OXIDATIVE DESULFURIZATION WITH INTEGRATED SULFONE DECOMPOSITION
OR Koseoglu, A Bourane - US Patent 20,130,030,236, 2013 - freepatentsonline.com
Abstract: The process provided herein is concerned with disposal of oxidized sulfur
compounds formed by oxidative desulfurization. The process uses solid base catalyst in the
presence of a caustic solution or solid base catalyst pretreated with a base and eliminates ...

PROCESS FOR SULFONE CONVERSION BY SUPER ELECTRON DONORS
…, A Bourane, OR Koseoglu - US Patent …, 2013 - freepatentsonline.com
... For instance, the oxidative desulfurization of one thousand tons of a hydrotreated diesel ... The
aliphatic sulfur compounds are easily desulfurized using the hydrodesulfurization method but
some of the ... can hinder the sulfur atom removal and are moderately harder to desulfurize. ...

Conference Alert and Call for Papers: Saudi-Japan Symposium on Catalysts

“"Begin at the beginning,", the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” -- Lewis Carroll (English Logician, Mathematician, Photographer, Author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 1832-1898)

The Annual Saudi-Japan Symposium on Catalysts in Petroleum Refining & Petrochemicals is to be held in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, December 1-2, 2013.

It is sponsored by King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (www.kfupm.edu.sa/catsymp )

The Symposium Web site has a call for papers on the following topics:

Refining/Environmental
 Production of ULSD; ULSG
 FCC and Additives
 Isomerization & Reforming
 Fuels Processing
 Nanocatalytic applications

Polymers/Petrochemicals
 Alkane Oxidation
 Dehydrogenation
 Polymerization Catalysis
 LPG Aromatization
 Alkylation of Aromatics

According to the Web site …

The annual Saudi-Japan symposium on catalysts serves as a forum for presenting latest developments in applied catalytic research, promoting exchange of interdisciplinary ideas, and stimulating new developments. The symposium is organized jointly by the Center for Refining & Petrochemicals (CRP) and Center of Research Excellence in Petroleum Refining & Petrochemicals (CoRE-PRP) at KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, the Japan Petroleum Institute (JPI), and Japan Cooperation Center, Petroleum (JCCP), Tokyo, Japan.

 
Abstracts of proposed papers are due SOON … by March 30, 2013, to be precise.  Sorry for not posting this earlier, but I just stumbled on the Symposium during my peripatetic wanderings on the Internet.

Jump to the Symposium Web site (www.kfupm.edu.sa/catsymp ) for more details, including contact information.

The English as a Second Language Factor

“The original is unfaithful to the translation.” -- Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986)

While fluent in my native tongue of American English, I have not been able to master any other language.  I have studied Spanish, Russian, and Arabic.  In each case, I have progressed no further than the level of a kindergartner.  So when I see abstracts written in English by researchers whose native tongue is a language other than English, I admire their ability to do as well as they do, despite the grammatical errors.

Which brings me to the point of today’s tip: using Google® Translate, or any other Web based translation tool, to help find keywords in a language other than one’s native tongue.

Pretend, for example, that I am a researcher whose native language is Chinese.  I have a functional understanding of English, but an incomplete grasp of technical vocabulary.  And let’s say that I want to Google® for technical articles pertaining to dibenzothiophene, but I can’t remember the English word for dibenzothiophene.

I go to Google®, click “More” and then “Even More,” scroll down the list and click on “Translate.”

I choose “From Chinese” and “To English,” and then enter the following in the “Chinese” search box:
二苯並噻吩

Now I see the key word, in English, that I need to use to Google® for articles written in English that pertain to my topic.

As I browse the results, I can reverse the process.  Since, in this pretend scenario, my English is not 100%, I may run across technical terms that I am not familiar with.  I can use Google® Translate to translate those words “From English” and “To Chinese.”

Theoretically, I could use Google® Translate to translate the whole English language article into Chinese … but I am not sure I would trust the result.

I would welcome any comments on this Google® Translate tip.  And, I would welcome any reader’s LinkedIn invitation.  My LinkedIn profile is:

www.linkedin.com/in/jeansteinhardtresearch