suspended sediment resulted from distributed soil erosions facilitates nutrient transportation and influences soil depletion. phosphorus (p) is one of the major limiting nutrients controlling eutrophication of surface water. irregular p load pulsed by heavy rainfall may damage the ecological quality of downstream waters. p transport study during rainfall events is important in both predicting a...

INTRODUCTION: A loss of nutrient supply has long been thought to be a major factor leading to disc degeneration and recent in vivo measurements have supported this hypothesis. Solute transport from the blood vessels through the endplate into the disc, measured by following gadolinium [1] or nitrous oxide [2] transport, has found that effective endplate permeability falls significantly in degene...

Using basic thermodynamic principles we derive a Cahn–Hilliard–Darcy model for tumour growth including nutrient diffusion, chemotaxis, active transport, adhesion, apoptosis and proliferation. The model generalises earlier models and in particular includes active transport mechanisms which ensure thermodynamic consistency. We perform a formally matched asymptotic expansion and develop several sh...

The significance of the transport of nutrient-rich hypolimnetic water via the benthic boundary layer (BBL) to the productivity of Mono Lake was studied using a coupled hydrodynamic and ecological model validated against field data. The coupled model enabled us to differentiate between the role of biotic components and hydrodynamic forcing on the internal recycling of nutrients necessary to sust...

Long-distance transport via the vasculature in plants is critical for nutrient dissemination, as well as transport of growth regulatory molecules such as hormones. Evidence is now accumulating that protein and RNA molecules also use this transport pathway, possibly to regulate developmental and physiological processes.

the use of fertilizers in agriculture is a potential source of environmental pollution especially in ‎water quality and soil resources. the study of effective factors on water and nutrient transport ‎through soil profile is helpful for nutrient management to minimize adverse impacts on environment ‎and nitrate leaching below root zone. in this study, for assessing the nitrate transportation bel...

Pregnancy is generally a co-operative interaction between mother and fetus in which the evolutionary genetic interests of both benefit from production of healthy offspring. While this view is largely supported by empirical data, Kinship Theory predicts that mother and fetus will disagree over the optimum level of maternal investment that maximises their respective fitnesses. This conflict will ...