Mechanical response along dilatant proportional strain loading paths 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Dilatancy and contractancy Dilatancy and contractancy are one of the most important properties of granular materials, defined by volume changes (increase and decrease, respectively) induced by shear defor-mation. The main lineage of understanding...

MODELING THE HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE OF LEBANESE CATCHMENTS .

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Rainfall-Runoff event-based studies Among the forty nine flood studies, twenty one includes useful information for quantative on 136 catchments and 191 events (Fig. 1.1c and Table 1.2). The analysis was only conducted on...

Effect of tree mixtures and water availability on belowground complementarity of fine roots of birch and pine planted on sandy podzol

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Field sampling The sampling took place in mid-March 2018 (at the very beginning of spring season) when roots are growing slowly or not at all, and that allowed us to minimize soil core...

Tracking of particles in the soil according to the hydraulic gradient under the water flow condition only:

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Description of the Hyporheic zone of a river The hyporheic zone is an important hydrological, chemical, biological interface and between the watercourse and groundwater. It was shown that the most important changes are...

Dealing with the high-dimensionality of spectral data

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Discriminative model Discriminative models learn the boundaries between classes without estimating class likelihood as illustrated in Figure 1.7b. K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) [Cover and Hart, 1967] is one of the simplest non-parametric discriminative classifier....

Model dynamics performance assessment: peakflows and low flows

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » HBV-96 The HBV-96 model is the operational model running within the Delft-FEWS plat-form at Deltares (see Chapter 4) (Berglov, 2009). HBV-96 is a conceptual semi-distributed hydrological model, originally created at the Swedish Meteorological...

Silica glass response under static hydrostatic compression .

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Laser-matter interaction theory The interaction mechanisms between matter and electromagnetic waves depend on the waves frequency range. The electromagnetic spectrum (Fig. 2.1) extends from low frequencies used for modern radio communication to high...

Revisiting SAMIR parameters setting for evapotranspiration and irrigation spatialization

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Direct measurements of ET The ET measurement methods are based on concepts which can be critical under semi-arid and arid environments for several reasons: (i) representativeness (ii) instrumentation (iii) microclimate and (iv) applicability....

Comparing RTOs to TTOs/universities as intermediaries in the scienceindustry relationship

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » RTOs challenges and transformation process In the current competitive and complex R&D landscape, RTOs are under significant pressure and are undergoing reforms in order to become more competitive and to have more impact...

Nematic Liquid Crystals as a Laboratory for Cosmology 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Topological Defects Formation According to the Hot Big Bang Model, which describes the history of the Uni-verse from the initial instant (“explosion”) to the present days, the Universe started about 14 billion years...