The soil is a heterogeneous and anisotropic medium. Hydraulic conductivity, an intrinsic property of natural alluvial deposits varies both deterministically and randomly in space and has different values in various directions. In the present study, the permeability of natural deposits and its influence on the seepage flow through a natural alluvial deposit is studied. The 2D Finite Difference c...

Given the potential for rapid and microgeographical adaptation, ecologists increasingly are exploring evolutionary explanations for community patterns. Biotic selection can generate local adaptations that alter species interactions. Although some gene flow might be necessary to fuel local adaptation, higher gene flow can homogenise traits across regions and generate local maladaptation. Herein,...

The goal of this study was to examine the use of a constructed wetland to mitigate the ecological impacts of simulated diazinon runoff from agricultural fields into receiving waters, via 48 h aqueous and sediment bioassays using Hyalella azteca. Aqueous animal 48 h survival varied temporally and spatially in conjunction with measured diazinon concentrations. Sediment H. azteca survival varied t...

Laboratory experiments and numerical computations are conducted for plane channel flow with a streamwise-periodic array of cylinders. Well-ordered, globally stable flow states emerge from primary and secondary instabilities, in contrast with other wall-bounded shear flows, where instability generally leads directly to turbulence. A two-dimensional flow resembling TolhnienSchlichting waves arise...

The advances of remote sensing techniques allow for the generation dense point clouds to detect detailed surface changes up centimeter/millimeter levels. However, there is still a need an easy method derive such based on digital elevation models generated from while taking into consideration spatial varied uncertainty. We present straightforward method, Las2DoD, quantify change directly with sp...

Vascular endothelial cell migration is critical in many physiological processes including wound healing and stent endothelialization. To determine how preexisting cell morphology influences cell migration under fluid shear stress, endothelial cells were preset in an elongated morphology on micropatterned substrates, and unidirectional shear stress was applied either parallel or perpendicular to...