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Seepage Characteristics and Failure Prediction during the Complete Stress–Strain Process of Limestone under High Water Pressure

Applied Sciences, 2022
The seepage characteristics during the complete stress–strain process of limestone under high water pressure were simulated via an experimental study of limestone post-peak penetrating behavior, and an approach to predict the formation of the seepage ...
Chunyan Bao, Yong Yin, Shibin Tang, Annan Jiang, Hong Li   +4 more
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Impact of duration of land abandonment on soil properties

Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 2023
Abandonment of agricultural fields triggers the ecosystem recovery in the process referred to as secondary succession. The objective of this study was to find the impact of secondary succession during 12 years lasting abandonment of agricultural fields ...
Lichner Ľubomír, Šurda Peter, Toková Lucia, Hološ Slavomír, Kollár Jozef, Igaz Dušan   +5 more
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Comparison of Water-Repellent Detection Agents and Evaluation System Optimization of Soil Water-Repelling Rate

Advances in Civil Engineering
The determination and evaluation of severity rating of soil is an important part of the research on the engineering properties of water-repellent soil. It is still difficult to accurately obtain the soil water-repelling rate in essence, and there are a ...
Chen Yu, Liu Huang, Huang Zhi, Hu Xinye, Wu Junhua   +4 more
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Soil water repellency of two disturbed soils contaminated with different agricultural microplastics tested under controlled laboratory conditions

Geoderma
Soil water repellency (SWR) significantly affects plant growth, along with surface and subsurface hydrology, posing a challenge for agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability.
Železnikar Špela, Drobne Damjana, Hočevar Matej, Noč Matic, Pintar Marina   +4 more
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Spatial variability of water repellency in pine forest soil

Soil and Water Research, 2008
The variability of water repellency of pine-forest arenic regosols and its influence on infiltration processes were measured in southwest Slovakia.
Tomáš Orfánus, Zoltán Bedrna, Ľubomír Lichner, Paul D. Hallett, Karol Kňava, Michal Sebíň   +5 more
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Sterilized Polyhexanide-Releasing Chitosan Membranes with Potential for Use in Antimicrobial Wound Dressings

Membranes, 2023
Wound infection is a common complication of chronic wounds. It can impair healing, which may not occur without external help. Antimicrobial dressings (AMDs) are a type of external help to infected chronic wounds.
Luís M. Vaz, Rita Branco, Paula V. Morais, António Jorge Guiomar   +3 more
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Structural insights into an engineered feruloyl esterase with improved MHET degrading properties

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
A feruloyl esterase was engineered to mimic key features of MHETase, enhancing the degradation of PET oligomers. Structural and computational analysis reveal how a point mutation stabilizes the active site and reshapes the binding cleft, expading substrate scope.
Panagiota Karampa, Konstantinos Makryniotis, Theofani‐Iosifina Sousani, Evangelos Topakas, Vangelis Daskalakis, Maria Dimarogona   +5 more
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The water repellency of earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) casts depends on their particle size composition, organic carbon content and calcium carbonate content

Soil and Water Research
At the soil level, earthworms are key indicators of water-related processes which help soils to accept, retain, release and transmit water by influencing the soil structure through their burrowing, casts, and drilosphere.
Madalina Iordache, Liliana Brei, Isidora Radulov, Ioan Gaica, Daniel Dicu, Codruta Chis   +5 more
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Testing soil water repellency in a Sicilian area two years after a fire

Journal of Agricultural Engineering, 2019
The water drop penetration time (WDPT) technique was applied in 2018 to check persistence of soil water repellency (SWR) in a Sicilian mountain area affected by a wildfire on June 2016.
Vincenzo Bagarello, Giuseppe Basile, Gaetano Caltabellotta, Giuseppe Giordano, Massimo Iovino   +4 more
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Salmonella lipopolysaccharide‐containing supported lipid bilayers as platforms to study bacteriophage interactions

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We present robust protocols for the preparation of supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) incorporating either Salmonella smooth LPS or outer membrane vesicles (OMVs). We use a combination of quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM‐D) and fluorescence microscopy to both characterize the SLBs of various compositions and to probe their interactions ...
Hudson P. Pace, Alyssa Borges, Charles Arnaud, Tove Karlsson, Nina K. Bröker, Stefanie Barbirz, Marta Bally   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source