BACKGROUND Metabolic syndrome (MetS) and insulin resistance (IR) strongly promote macrovascular complications and endothelial dysfunction. They accelerate the progression of renal dysfunction in chronic kidney disease patients. However, their correlation with residual renal function (RRF) and peritoneal characteristics have never been investigated. METHODS The inter-relationships of IR (homeo...

The present review examines recent experimental findings in root transport phenomena in terms of the composite transport model (CTM). It has been a well-accepted conceptual model to explain the complex water and solute flows across the root that has been related to the composite anatomical structure. There are three parallel pathways involved in the transport of water and solutes in roots - apo...

A field tracer experiment was conducted in a lateral flow field in the weathered and highly fractured upper 6 m of a 40-m-thick clay-rich till plain in southwestern Ontario. In the upper 3 m where fractures are closely spaced (<0.13 m) the advancing front (C/Co = 0.01) of the nonreactive solute tracers, bromide and O, migrated at rates of 0.01 to 0.07 m/d, over distances of 4 and 6 m and under ...

determination of the best method to estimate the dispersion rate is very important to ensure accuracy of the computed data. the aim of this research is studying of transport length effects of dispersion of conservative tracer nacl in soils with different texture using several solute transport models including brigham, fried-combernous and solutions of the advection-dispersion equation with inve...

Modeling subsurface solute transport is difficult-more so than modeling heads and flows. The classical governing equation does not always adequately represent what we see at the field scale. In such cases, commonly used numerical models are solving the wrong equation. Also, the transport equation is hyperbolic where advection is dominant, and parabolic where hydrodynamic dispersion is dominant....

The plasma membrane proton pump (H+-ATPase) energizes solute uptake by secondary transporters. Wild-type Arabidopsis plasma membrane H+-ATPase (AHA2) and truncated H+-ATPases lacking 38, 51, 61, 66, 77, 92, 96, and 104 C-terminal amino acids were produced in yeast. All AHAS species were correctly targeted to the yeast plasma membrane and, in addition, accumulated in interna1 membranes. Removal ...

[1] A fractal mobile/immobile model for solute transport assumes power law waiting times in the immobile zone, leading to a fractional time derivative in the model equations. The equations are equivalent to previous models of mobile/immobile transport with power law memory functions and are the limiting equations that govern continuous time random walks with heavy tailed random waiting times. T...

River topography is famously fractal, and the fractality of the sediment bed surface can produce scaling in solute residence time distributions. Empirical evidence showing the relationship between fractal bed topography and scaling of hyporheic travel times is still lacking. We performed experiments to make highresolution observations of streambed topography and solute transport over naturally ...

This paper presents an experimental and computational investigation of coupled consolidation and contaminant transport in compressible porous media. Numerical simulations were performed using the CST2 computational model in which a dual-Lagrangian framework is used to separately follow the motions of fluid and solid phases during consolidation. Diffusion and large strain consolidation tests wer...