• The infection of white lupin ( Lupinus albus ) roots and the early stages in organogenesis of the lupinoid nodule are characterized in detail in this work. • Immunolabelling of Bradyrhizobium sp. ( Lupinus ) ISLU16 and green fluorescent protein labelling of Mesorhizobium loti NZP2037, two strains that induce nodulation in L. albus , allowed us to monitor the infection and morphogenesis proces...

Drilling and completion fluids may cause significant formation damage in oil gas reservoirs, directly affecting productivity. For many years, operators have applied different stimulation practices such as acidizing, oxidizers, chelating agents, enzyme treatment to remove associated with drilling filter cake. An enzyme-based biological was combined other chemicals or additives a selective well c...

In order to increase the rate of gas absorption, chemical reaction in the liquid phase is considered. The purpose of this paper was to simulate gas absorption process by a liquid film over a spherical packing incorporating eddy viscosity and diffusivity. Second order chemical reaction for two different cases (fast and slow) were considered. The system partial differential equations obtained...

Plant growth rate is largely determined by the transition between the successive phases of cell division and expansion. A key role for hormone signaling in determining this transition was inferred from genetic approaches and transcriptome analysis in the Arabidopsis root tip. We used the developmental gradient at the maize leaf base as a model to study this transition, because it allows a direc...

This paper evaluates the suitability of a newly developed hybrid “Langmuir-Maxwell” and “LangmuirSmoluchowski” slip/jump boundary conditions in the Navier-Stokes-Fourier equations for nano/micro backward-facing step geometry flow which experiences separation and reattachment. Additionally, this paper investigates the effect of different parameters such as step pressure ratio, inflow temperature...

We used the FUSE (Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer) satellite to observe O VI emission along two sightlines towards the edge of the interaction zone (IZ) between the Loop I superbubble and the Local Bubble. One sightline was chosen because material in the interaction zone blocks distant X-ray emission, and should thus do the same for non-local O VI emission. We measured an O VI intensity ...

This paper is a continuation of earlier work [6] in which we presented an automatic domain decomposition method for the solution of gas dynamics problems which require a localized resolution of the kinetic scale. The basic idea is to couple the macroscopic hydrodynamics model and the microscopic kinetic model through a buffer zone in which both equations are solved. Discontinuities or sharp gra...

Amorphous hydrogenated carbon (a-C:H) films offer a wide range of applications due to their extraordinary material properties like high hardness, chemical inertness and infrared transparency. The films are usually deposited in low temperature plasmas from a hydrocarbon precursor gas, which is dissociated and ionized in the plasma and radicals and ions impinging onto the surface leading to film ...