Whether edema is primarily due to changes in the blood or to changes in the fixed tissues is still an open question. Marcel Labbe and P. L. Violle (1) found that a frog's gastrocnemius muscle placed in normal human blood plasma loses from 3 to 4 per cent of its weight during the first few hours, remains constant then for about twentyfour hours, and regains its original weight at about the forti...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The smoke-derived compound karrikinolide (KAR(1)) shows significant potential as a trigger for the synchronous germination of seeds in a variety of plant-management contexts, from weed seeds in paddocks, to native seeds when restoring degraded lands. Understanding how KAR(1) interacts with seed physiology is a necessary precursor to the development of the compound as an effi...

The structures of inkjet coatings commonly contain a high concentration of fine diameter pores together with a large pore volume capacity. To clarify the interactive role of the porous structure and the coincidentally occurring swelling of binder during inkjet ink vehicle imbibition, coating structures were studied in respect to their absorption behaviour for polar and non-polar liquid. The abs...

In this study, a grain-scale modelling technique has been developed to generate the capillary pressure-saturation curves for swelling granular materials. This model employs only basic granular properties such as particles size distribution, porosity, and the amount of absorbed water for swelling materials. Using this model, both drainage and imbibition curves are directly obtained by pore-scale...

Winged bean seeds require imbibition treatment to ensure fast and uniform germination. Seed soaking has been commonly used; however, it is unclear if this a safe method for winged seeds. Solid matrix priming (SMP) an that combines seeds, water in specific ratio. It allows imbibe under controlled uptake. We investigated the effect of treatments on seed germination white bean. Soaked had signific...

Imbibition is an important mechanism of recovery during waterflooding and low flow-back fracking in shale reservoirs. Experiments were carried out to study the development imbibition samples. The effects clay minerals, especially illite IS, mainly investigated discussed. under different pressures was conducted compared. influence minerals on significant complex. It shown that content IS small c...

The water retention curve (WRC) represents a key function in unsaturated soil mechanics as it can be applied for the modeling of hydro-mechanical behaviour soils. macroscopic WRC is characterised by different phenomena, such hysteresis upon cyclic drainage and imbibition. With help modern X-ray computed tomography hydraulic experiments that performed CT scanning environment, so-called situ expe...

In this work, neutron imaging was used to visualize and study invasion phenomena in fibrous porous transport layers (PTLs) of titanium felt under different flow conditions gas liquid phase. The experiments were realized with cells that contained a channel separated by PTLs thicknesses pore size distributions. can be characterized counter-current water air joint imbibition drainage processes. dy...

The performance of petroleum recovery methods is dependent on the characteristics of the reservoir rock, oil quality, and formation water. One fundamental feature for considering petroleum recovery methods is the wettability of the rock reservoir. Also, this feature impacts the displacement of fluids in the rock reservior. In the case of the limestone, which normally features oil wettability, e...

The underlying mechanism for spontaneous imbibition in a water–gas system plays significant role hydraulic fracturing sandstone gas reservoirs. objective of this study is to characterize the heterogeneity low-permeability sandstones and investigate their effect on from perspective pore scale. We selected different cores with various structures evaluate impact dynamics imbibition. heterogeneitie...