Geotechnical investigations of hydraulic conductivity and soil stratigraphy

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Hydraulic conductivity Hydraulic conductivity is defined as a measure of the ease with which water flows through a porous media (Jones & Mulholland, 2000). A variety of physical properties affects the hydraulic conductivity...

Solar energy harvesting through thermoelectric effect

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Thermoelectric coupling effect and energy harvesting Thermoelectric effect The thermoelectric effaect indicates that the thermal diffusion of the charge carriers in the thermoelectric material can generate electricity while an applied flow of charge...

Effect of homogalacturonan demethylesterification on apoplastic pH in Arabidopsis root

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » HG demethylesterification Upon secretion, HG can be selectively demethylesterified in muro by pectin methylesterases (PMEs) (Pelloux et al. 2007). PMEs are essential for the gelling behavior of pectins and the rheology (see below)...

Estimation of soil roughness using neural networks from sentinel-1 SAR data

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Sensitivity of radar signal to soil roughness Many studies (Aubert et al., 2011a; Baghdadi and Zribi, 2016; Baghdadi et al., 2008a; Gorrab et al.,  2015a) showed that the backscattering radar signal for bare...

Identifying the main explanatory variables using Random Forest modeling

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Stress, strain and tolerance of Septoria tritici blotch The preceding section described the yield components, the associated major fluxes along with the monocarpic senescence, and finally proposed a definition of the potential yield...

Optimal threshold in the case of GHG emissions from the European agricultural sector

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The economics of the adaptation to climate change Current mitigation efforts are unlikely to be sufficient to prevent significant climate change in the coming decades. There is thus a need to assess the...

PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY IN THE WESTERN GHATS BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT REFLECTS ENVIRONMENTAL FILTERING AND PAST NICHE DIVERSIFICATION OF TREES 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » PHYSICAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT: WESTERN GHATS OF INDIA The escarpment of the WG represents the elevated rim of the Deccan plateau running along India's south-western coast (8°-20°N) at elevations c.1200m (highest peak 2,695m)....

Nickel partitioning in leaves of Noccaea caerulescens during xylem and phloem transport

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Plant cultivation and harvest Seeds of T. arvense (collected in Nancy, France), A. murale (collected in Pojska, Albania) and N. caerulescens (collected in Puy de Wolf, France) were sown on agar and germinated...

How taste proximity affects consumer quality valuation of imported varieties: Evidence from the French agri-food sector 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Brown trout as a biological model for sexual selection Darwin (1871) often reflected on salmonid astonishing life histories, either because of their life cycles, or because of their intersexual differences in traits behavior...

Groundwater control of biogeochemical processes causing phosphorus release from riparian wetlands

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The P dilemma: too much vs. too little Despite the predictable oncoming of global P resources scarcity, the use efficiency of P fertilizers is still too low, with only 15-30% of the applied...