Naturally fractured reservoirs are highly dependent on capillary forces to recover hydrocarbons during water injection. Water can spontaneously imbibe and expel oil if positive exist; purely counter-current all sides of the matrix blocks exposed water; predominantly co-current with some production simultaneously. The latter is referred as a spontaneous imbibition (SI) setup. Wettability alterat...

• Ultrasound-assisted ultra-wet (US-UWet) impregnation synthetic method is presented. Mixed cupric and cuprous oxides nanoclusters (< 4 nm) were decorated on TiO 2 P25. The nanocomposite showed H formation capability under low power UV irradiation. additive free oxidation of biomass derived model platform chemicals was studied. Nanocomposite revealed higher selectivity comparing to P25 for HMF ...

Disturbance regimes are changing worldwide, and the consequences for ecosystem function and resilience are largely unknown. Functional diversity (FD) provides a surrogate measure of ecosystem function by capturing the range, abundance and distribution of trait values in a community. Enhanced understanding of the responses of FD to measures of vegetation structure at landscape scales is needed t...

(1) Dear Alice, Are wet dreams in a sexually active 23 year old male unusual? ?Voice HAS cracked (2) Dear Alice, I only had about three to four "wet dreams" in my entire life and now I'm 20 years old. I wonder if it is normal, or it's because I masturbate often that I don't have these kinds of dreams. Is there a way of having one like that again? ? A Dreamer (3) Dear Alice, I have a normal sex ...

(1) Dear Alice, Are wet dreams in a sexually active 23 year old male unusual? ?Voice HAS cracked (2) Dear Alice, I only had about three to four "wet dreams" in my entire life and now I'm 20 years old. I wonder if it is normal, or it's because I masturbate often that I don't have these kinds of dreams. Is there a way of having one like that again? ? A Dreamer (3) Dear Alice, I have a normal sex ...

graduate school to study biology. At first, it was as if I was starting over, taking classes I had bypassed as an undergraduate, such as Introductory Organic Chemistry. But my motivation to master a new field made the experience enjoyable rather than frustrating. Moreover, I was captivated by the science. In my biology classes, I felt I was being offered gold nuggets of information that earlier...

(1) Dear Alice, Are wet dreams in a sexually active 23 year old male unusual? ?Voice HAS cracked (2) Dear Alice, I only had about three to four "wet dreams" in my entire life and now I'm 20 years old. I wonder if it is normal, or it's because I masturbate often that I don't have these kinds of dreams. Is there a way of having one like that again? ? A Dreamer (3) Dear Alice, I have a normal sex ...

Superhydrophobic surfaces let water droplets roll off with low friction and falling droplets rebound, leaving the surfaces completely dry. Such extremely water repellent surfaces are found in nature on lotus leaves, the legs of water striders and feather coatings of birds, and portray a beautiful example of ingenious biological design. They provide an exciting research avenue for physicists and...

Most studies on granular physics have focused on dry granular media, with no liquids between the grains. However, in geology and many real world applications (e.g., food processing, pharmaceuticals, ceramics, civil engineering, constructions, and many industrial applications), liquid is present between the grains. This produces inter-grain cohesion and drastically modifies the mechanical proper...