Climate change and its impact on berry development

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The accumulation of berry solutes Since water transport is passive in plants, the berry needs first to accumulate solutes and develop an osmotic pressure in its vacuoles, in order to accumulate water, growth...

Dynamic balance of fresh water and salt water in a coastal aquifer

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Hydrodynamics in coastal aquifers Dynamic balance of fresh water and salt water in a coastal aquifer The intrusion of seawater in coastal aquifers was first conceptualized independently by Badon-Ghijben (1889) and Herzberg (1901)...

Classical terahertz microscopy: ‘T-ray imaging’

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Bibliographic review on sub-wavelength terahertz imaging Introduction to terahertz Terahertz (THz) radiation is commonly defined as electromagnetic waves whose frequencies spread from 0.1 THz to 10 THz, which corresponds to the wavelength range...

Nonlinear optical response of ZnO harmonic nanoparticles

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Harmonic nanoparticles The optical microscopy field is continuously evolving in order to improve the resolution and contrast of images. Numerous methods, such as confocal, dark-field, phase-contrast and polarization microscopy, are shown as improvements...

Diapycnal mixing in the ocean: from ocean sampling to ocean modelling

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Role of internal lee waves As we have seen in the previous section, the horizontal distribution and vertical structure of the diapycnal mixing, and through Eq. 1.3b turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate, is...

Maternal effects and environmental filtering shape seed fungal communities in oak trees

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Leaf processing for the analysis of within-canopy variations in microbial communities On each branch, four leaves were randomly chosen (Figure 1B), collected using sterilized nitrile gloves and placed on autoclaved filter papers. Each...

THE SPORT OF COMPETITIVE ALPINE SKIING

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » THE SPORT OF COMPETITIVE ALPINE SKIING OVERVIEW This section provides an overview of the sport of alpine skiing. The following content was shaped by the thorough work of previous PhD candidates (Gilgien, 2014;...

RECENT ADVANCES IN PEMFC CATHODE ELECTROCATALYSTS

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » PEMFC Overview Principle In batteries, electrochemical reactions are used to generate electricity, and the reacting materials, as well as the reaction products, are typically metals or other solid compounds (oxides, salts, etc.). In...

The physical processes of mush reawakening

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The physical processes of mush reawakening The rejuvenation of magmatic mush prior to eruption requires the destabilization of the force chains and the generation of eruptible magmas. Different scenarios have been proposed in...

An Original Method for Testing the Function of Binge Drinking

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » An Evolutionary Approach On Binge Drinking lens of the costly signal (Diamond, 1992; Greitmeyer, Kastenmüller & Fisher, 2013; Kacir, 2010) and life-history theories (Hill & Chow, 2002; Hill, Ross & Low, 1997; Kaplan...