Local groundwater in coastal aquifers in Shenzhen has experienced heavy pumping since the 1980’s when Shenzhen began to expand very quickly from a fishing village to a modern city but lacked a public water supply. Meanwhile, large-scale land reclamation was carried out to meet the needs of various urbanization projects. In this paper we analyzed groundwater from a coastal aquifer system in Shen...

We show that a reversible pumping mechanism operating between two states of a kinetic network can give rise to Poisson transitions between these two states. An external observer, for whom the pumping mechanism is not accessible, will observe a Markov chain satisfying local detailed balance with an emerging effective force induced by the hidden pump. Due to the reversibility of the pump, the act...

The pharyngeal muscles of Caenorhabditis elegans are composed of the corpus, isthmus and terminal bulb from anterior to posterior. These components are excited in a coordinated fashion to facilitate proper feeding through pumping and peristalsis. We analysed the spatiotemporal pattern of intracellular calcium dynamics in the pharyngeal muscles during feeding. We used a new ratiometric fluoresce...

Due to their small dimensions, microfluidic devices operate in the low Reynolds number regime. In this case, the hydrodynamics is governed by the viscosity rather than inertia and special elements have to be introduced into the system for mixing and pumping of fluids. Here we report on the realization of an effective pumping device that mimics a ciliated surface and imitates its motion to gener...

INTRODUCTION In clinical practice, extracorporeal circulation (ECC) is normally performed with non-pulsatile flow by means of centrifugal or roller pumps, which makes it rather non-physiological for patients [1-3]. Currently used circuits are quite voluminous, characterized by large priming volumes and by extended blood contact with foreign surfaces. We have previously proposed an innovative EC...

We have established semiclassical kinetic equations for various spin correlated pumping phenomena incorporating spin rotation in wave functions. We employ this technique to study topological pumps and illustrate spin pumping in a few models where various spin configurations or topological motors drive adiabatic pumps. In the Rashba model we find that a topological spin pump is driven by a meron...

We present a thorough investigation of the optimum pumping configuration for L-band EDFA in order to maximize signal gain and minimize noise figure with forward and backward ASE pumping, by incorporating the selective property of the pump wavelength band from C-band EDFA section. A simulation of three-level rate equation has been carried out using 980 nm primary pump, 1570 nm as Lband signal wa...