As part of a larger, collaborative study, we conducted field experiments to investigate how rainfall signals propagate through an unsaturated soil profile, leading to a rapid pore pressure response and slope instability. We sprinkler-irrigated an entire, unchanneled headwater basin in the steep, humid Oregon Coast Range, and we drove the system to quasi steady state as indicated by tensiometers...

Increased dietary fat intake in general, and saturated fat specifically, will lead to the impairment of insulin action. The aim of this study was to find out the changes in hepatic glucose output in dependence of fat diet and a possible direct action of insulin and trogitazone in hepatocytes. Hepatocytes were isolated by a collagenase perfusion technique and cultured for 24 h in M 199 serum-fre...

The management and engineering assessments of geotechnical assets within the national transportation inventory require an appropriate knowledge permeability saturated unsaturated soils. Determination soils can be carried out using direct measurements, whereas that is often made indirect methods based on soil water retention curve. In this study attempt was to develop a novel approach for measur...

Lipid-induced insulin resistance is associated with intracellular accumulation of inhibitory intermediates depending on the prevalent fatty acid (FA) species. In cultured myotubes, ceramide and phosphatidic acid (PA) mediate the effects of the saturated FA palmitate and the unsaturated FA linoleate, respectively. We hypothesized that myriocin (MYR), an inhibitor of de novo ceramide synthesis, w...

The effect of saturated and unsaturated lipids on the composition of mesenteric lymph triglyceride-rich lipoproteins was studied in rats. A short-term steady-state infusion model was developed in mesenteric lymph fistula rats. Micellar solutions of linoleate, oleate, or palmitate were infused intraduodenally. Steady-state conditions of lymph flow, triglyceride, and apoA-I and apoB secretion rat...

abstract saturated water content is one of the important parameters which its measurement is necessary in estimation of soil water retention and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity curves. in several researches, saturated water content is assumed to be equal to soil total porosity. in some others, its value is estimated by pedotransfer functions using readily available parameters, such as bulk d...

this paper presents time domain fundamental solutions for the extended biot's dynamic formulations of two-dimensional (2d) unsaturated poroelasticity. unsaturated porous media is considered as a porous media in which the voids are saturated with two immiscible fluids, i.e. liquid and gas. at first, the corresponding explicit laplace transform domain fundamental solution is obtained in term...