Variations Around Water: bodies, encounters and translation processes

Sensory Ecology of Bats around Bodies of Water

Assessment of radioactive contamination in water bodies around mine workings using radiation counter

The vulnerability of water bodies to contamination within the neighbourhood of open mine cast environ cannot be overemphasized. Evidence of radioactive trace elements associated with the target minerals in the Plateau State (Nigeria) showed the extent of this vulnerability. In order to address this challenge, the radioactivity levels of water samples from mine ponds, streams, wells, and borehol...

Around and beyond 53BP1 Nuclear Bodies

Within the nucleus, sub-nuclear domains define territories where specific functions occur. Nuclear bodies (NBs) are dynamic structures that concentrate nuclear factors and that can be observed microscopically. Recently, NBs containing the p53 binding protein 1 (53BP1), a key component of the DNA damage response, were defined. Interestingly, 53BP1 NBs are visualized during G1 phase, in daughter ...

Seismic imaging in and around salt bodies

Seismic imaging of evaporite bodies is notoriously difficult due to the complex shapes of steeply dipping flanks, adjacent overburden strata, and the usually strong acoustic impedance and velocity contrasts at the sediment-evaporite interface. We consider the geology of salt bodies and the problems and pitfalls associated with their imaging such as complex raypaths, seismic velocity anisotropy,...

Variations around disordered close packing

The most suitable paradigms and tools for investigating the structure of granular packings are reviewed and discussed in the light of some recent empirical results. I examine the ‘typical’ local configurations, their relative occurrences, their correlations, their organization and the resulting overall hierarchical structure. The analysis of very large samples of monosized spheres packed in a d...