Although the pressure chamber has gained wide acceptance as a convenient method for the measurement of plant water status, the relationship between the pressure observed in the chamber and other parameters of plant water status remains unclear. If one assumes that the spatial arrangement of water in the shoot is the same under pressure as it was in the intact plant, the positive pressure (P) an...

BACKGROUND Water drinking increases blood pressure profoundly in patients with autonomic failure and substantially in older control subjects. The mechanism that mediates this response is not known. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied the effect of drinking tap water on seated blood pressure in 47 patients with severe autonomic failure (28 multiple system atrophy [MSA], 19 pure autonomic failure pa...

Using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, a new approach based on the behavior of pressurized water out of a nanopore (1.3-2.7 nm) in a flat plate is developed to calculate the relationship between the water surface curvature and the pressure difference across water surface. It is found that the water surface curvature is inversely proportional to the pressure difference across surface at nano...

Displacement of oil and water in porous media of reservoir rocks is described by relative                      permeability curves, which are important input data for reservoir performance simulation and drive mechanism studies. Many core studies, such as multiphase relative permeability, capillary pressure and saturation exponent determination, depend on the volume fractions of multiphase flui...

The effects of simulated orthodontic forces such as centrifugal force or water pressure on sodium fluoride (NaF)-induced cytotoxicity against mouse osteoblast-like cells MC3T3-E1 were investigated. Loading with centrifugal force (44.5 g/cm2) or water pressure (5 g/cm2) slightly reduced the cell proliferation and additively enhanced the cytotoxic activity of millimolar concentrations of NaF. NaF...