The paradox of sleeper’s disconnection from outside world

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The function of sleep disconnection Disconnection as conservation Sleep may render prey more vulnerable to their predators. Yet, it has also been suggested that immobility could actually make the sleeper less detectable than...

LAKE SEDIMENT DNA REVEALS LONG-TERM IMPACTS OF LIVESTOCK FARMING ON PLANT COMMUNITY COMPOSITION AND VARIABILITY (ARTICLE B)

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Material and methods Study site and coring Lake Savine is located in the Haute-Maurienne massif of the French-Italian Alps (2447m a.s.l., Figure 3-1). The lake’s catchment has a 3.5 km2 surface, rising up...

Modelling planet-debris disks interactions

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Eccentric planets and debris disks At least 20% of the extrasolar planetary systems are known to harbor debris disks (Marshall et al. 2014). The first debris disk was discovered in 1984, when the...

A NURBS-based Topology Optimisation Algorithm 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The Additive Layer Manufacturing Technology ALM has experienced an important spread in the last decades and several technologies have been developed. Each technology is suited for a speci c application and for well-de...

Phenotypic differentiation within a foundation grass species correlates with species richness in a subalpine community

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Community assembly: from genes to communities Community assembly rules (Diamond 1975) are a set of debatable rules in ecology (Rule 1: Forbidden species combinations, and Rule 2: Reduce niche overlap, Diamond 1975). These...

Synthetic biology, metabolic engineering and chassis strains

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Synthetic biology tools for Y. lipolytica Synthetic biology is an emerging discipline that aims to apply engineering princi-ples to biological systems to render them more controllable, standardized, and predict-able. In order to accomplish...

Climate and Agriculture : Empirical evidence for Countries and Agroecological Zones of the Sahel 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Climate change: definitions, measures and models In this first section, we discuss and define the climate and global warming, their measures and the models used to measure climate and climate change. Definitions Climate...

Sensitivity function approach: phase noise transfer function and pulses finite duration corrections

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » New experimental setup for the determina-tion of h/mRb The principle of our determination of h/mRb is based on the measurement of the recoil velocity vr of an atom, i.e. the velocity an atom...

Cell cycle and cytoskeleton reorganization during giant cell formation

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Plant-parasitic nematodes Unlike the free-living form in soil, plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs) are scourge for agriculture worldwide. These small roundworms are able to infect thousands of plant species and cause a disastrous global crops...

Thermal transport at the nanoscale

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Thermoelectric effect Thermoelectrics is defined as the science and technology associated with thermoelectric generation and refrigeration [4]. Thermoelectric effect is the direct conversion of temperature differences to electric voltage and vice versa. The...