Little is known about how water stress including drought and flooding modifies the ability of plants to resist simultaneous attack by insect feeding and transmission of insect-vectored pathogen. We analyzed insect population growth, feeding behaviors, virus transmission, and plant amino acid profiles and defense gene expression to characterize mechanisms underlying the interaction between water...

We present semianalytical solutions for cocurrent displacements with some degree of countercurrent flow. The solution assumes a one-dimensional horizontal displacement of two immiscible incompressible fluids with arbitrary viscosities and saturation-dependent relative permeability and capillary pressures. We address the impact of the system length on the degree of countercurrent flow when there...

in this paper we will give the character table of the irreducible rational representations of g=sl (2, q) where q= , p prime, n>o, by using the character table and the schur indices of sl(2,q).

‎in this paper‎, ‎we obtain the dimensions of symmetry classes of polynomials associated with‎ ‎the irreducible characters of the dihedral group as a subgroup of‎ ‎the full symmetric group‎. ‎then we discuss the existence of o-basis‎ ‎of these classes‎.

Introduction Paramagnetic chemical exchange saturation transfer (PARACEST) agents use water molecule exchange with lanthanide ions (Ln) and radiofrequency (RF) spin saturation to create negative contrast in MRI [1]. If the rate of exchange between the bound and bulk water locations is much slower than their frequency difference (i.e. kex << Δω) then RF spin saturation at the shifted bound water...

Multiphase ow simulation with various nonhomogeneous boundary conditions in ground water hydrology and petroleum engineering is considered The phase ow equations are given in a fractional ow formulation i e in terms of a saturation and a global pressure It is shown that most commonly used boundary conditions for groundwater hydrology and petroleum engineering problems can be incorporated into t...

Configurational-bias Monte Carlo (CBMC) simulations are used to establish the potential of CuBTC for separation of water/benzene, methanol/benzene, ethanol/benzene, and acetone/benzene mixtures. For operations under pore saturation conditions, the separations are in favor of molecules that partner benzene; this is due to molecular packing effects that disfavor benzene. CBMC simulations for adso...

A series of steady-state experiments have established relative permeability curves for two-phase flow of water in a porous medium. These experiments have minimized uncertainty in pressure, heat loss, and saturation. By attempting to maintain a constant pressure gradient, the experiments have provided a baseline from which to determine the effect of temperature on relative permeability. The use ...

6 Release of gases from intermediate level radioactive wastes encapsulated in cement-based wasteform grouts is a 7 major concern during the interim storage, transportation and operational stage of a phased geological repository 8 system. The ability of the wasteform grout to retain radioactive gases depends on its mass transport properties, 9 which evolve with age, water saturation degree and a...

We consider a charged porous material that is saturated by two fluid phases that are immiscible and continuous on the scale of a representative elementary volume. The wetting phase for the grains is water and the nonwetting phase is assumed to be an electrically insulating viscous fluid. We use a volume-averaging approach to derive the linear constitutive equations for the electrical current de...