The use of microwave radar and radiometer in estimating soil moisture and vegetation parameters of land has shown a good potential. However, both experimental activities and theoretical results seem to indicate that important limitations to the actual use of monostatic radar exist. They are: in soil moisture applications the simultaneous disturbing effects of soil roughness and vegetation cover...

The decomposition of organic matter is a major biogeochemical process because of its effect on ecosystem productivity and its implications on climate change. Temperature and moisture are two variables that have a tremendous influence on microbial decomposition. Decomposition is also influenced by substrate type, in which higher quality substrates often have greater decomposition than lower qual...

the aim of the present research was to study the effects of weak cation exchange resins, polacrilex with exchangeable h+ and polacrillin potassium and strong cation exchange resin sodium polystyrene sulfonate on water uptake behavior of ranitidine hydrochloride. drug resin complexes (drc) were prepared and evaluated for the percentage of moisture gain when placed in a humidity chamber at 40e2 °...

Global carbon budget studies are currently dominated by temperature analysis since the importance of this meteorological variable on photosynthesis processes and soil carbon dynamics. Yet, the strong coupling between the carbon and hydrological cycles is a longstanding acquisition of the biogeophysical sciences. To take the important aspect of water limitation in carbon studies into account, wa...

This paper presents a new automatic framework for extracting and characterizing the dynamic shape of the 3D wetting front and its propagation, based in a sequence of tomographic images acquired as water (moisture) infiltrates in unsaturated soils. To the best of the authors' knowledge, the shape of the 3D wetting front and its propagation and progress over time has not been previously produced ...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the moisture effect on the strength of concrete specimens that has completely cured. This study is also aimed to develop relations that can be used to determine the properties of concrete with different moisture contents that are normally experienced in outside conditions. Numerous compressions and split tensile tests are performed. In order to better unders...

Silver is used as an antimicrobial agent in wound care products due to its effectiveness against a broad range of bacteria. Despite extensive use of silver-containing dressings, silver release measurements vary significantly for instance in release method and test fluid used, thus making it hard to compare results. In addition, existing methods for silver release involve the dressing being tota...

We present results from an experimental study of the impact of liquid drops onto powder beds which are pre-wetted with the impacting liquid. Using high-speed video imaging, we study both the dynamics of the initial spreading regime and drainage times once the drop has reached its maximum spread on the surface. During the initial spreading stage, we compare our experimental data to a previously ...