Sentences with phrase «water transport through»

Published in the journal Nature, the results of the study, funded in part by the Graphene Flagship, could improve our understanding of water transport through nanometre - scale channels in natural and artificial membranes.

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Through relief flights, the transportation of emergency supplies, airline employee volunteer efforts and fundraising programs facilitated through airline mileage programs, U.S. cargo and passenger carriers transported more than 4.5 million pounds of life - saving food, water and supplies, accommodated more than 6,500 evacuees, relocated hundreds of stranded pets and relaxed travel policies to more than 80 airports in the path of the hurrThrough relief flights, the transportation of emergency supplies, airline employee volunteer efforts and fundraising programs facilitated through airline mileage programs, U.S. cargo and passenger carriers transported more than 4.5 million pounds of life - saving food, water and supplies, accommodated more than 6,500 evacuees, relocated hundreds of stranded pets and relaxed travel policies to more than 80 airports in the path of the hurrthrough airline mileage programs, U.S. cargo and passenger carriers transported more than 4.5 million pounds of life - saving food, water and supplies, accommodated more than 6,500 evacuees, relocated hundreds of stranded pets and relaxed travel policies to more than 80 airports in the path of the hurricanes.

Surface tension holding the water molecules together as they are transported through the plant.

This led to the researchers» hypothesis: this collective orientation of water molecules probably plays an important role in the activation or the selection of transport through the membrane.

It affects how quickly water can be transported through the soil.

«The soil structure affects how easily water can be transported through the soil.

This 1.5 - millimeter - wide cross section of a vascular bundle (green and red center) is responsible for transporting water, minerals and nutrients through the trunk.

When this water, called submarine groundwater discharge (SGD), trickles through contaminated soil and rock, it can pick up and transport a variety of ions, nutrients, and chemicals to the sea — including pollutants that contribute to coastal dead zones and toxic algal blooms.

When plants absorb water through their roots, they use their xylem to transport water and nutrients through the plant.

The study conducted by the UZH researchers reveals that, through their unique network structure, rivers collect and transport DNA containing information on the organisms in the water and on land.

The major influences on ocean chemistry today are hydrothermal flow (hot water that has circulated through the crust) and surface weathering (the river transport of material eroded from land into the ocean).

In lab tests, Wang and colleagues proved the machines could move through water and pick up both olive oil and motor oil, transporting collections of droplets around.

Edwards explored this concept through the case studies of St. Joseph, Louisiana, where efforts to fix infrastructure that transported brown water saturated with iron, manganese, and lead were hindered by local corruption; Washington, D.C., where a covered - up water crisis led to increased miscarriage risks, fetal deaths, and lead poisoning in thousands of children; and Flint, Michigan, where a switch to a new water source without adding the anticorrosive agent orthophosphate to the water to protect pipes caused significant lead poisoning, an outbreak of the Legionella bacteria causing twelve deaths, and a breakdown of the water infrastructure.

Cziczo says the group's experimental results will help to improve Martian climate models, as well as scientists» understanding of how the planet transports water through the atmosphere.

They say the size of the pores in sapwood — which contains xylem tissue evolved to transport sap up the length of a tree — also allows water through while blocking most types of bacteria.

Finally, through a contact on Holbrook's list, I found Pablo Debenedetti, an expert in fluid thermodynamics at Princeton whose book, Metastable Liquids, includes a section on water transport in trees.

Mookherjee and Andreas Hermann from the University of Edinburgh estimate that in the deep Earth — roughly 250 to 370 miles into the mantle — water is stored and transported through a high - pressure form of the mineral brucite.

Comprising tiny rolled sheets of graphene oxide, these structures can zip around easily through both oil and water, picking up any oil particles they encounter and transporting them as cargo for later release.

Agre shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Roderick MacKinnon in 2003 for his discovery of aquaporins — channels that regulate and facilitate water molecule transport through cell membranes, a process essential to all living organisms.

Water is needed to transport all the nutrients, hormones and even wastes through our bodies, so it's important to avoid dehydration, an often overlooked aspect of disease.

Water regulates body temperature through perspiration, aids digestion, transports nutrients and oxygen to our cells, removes toxins from our body and it has so many more crucial functions.

Steroid and thyroid hormones are lipid soluble, which means they can be transported through lipids or fat, and the remaining through water.

The colon's job is to transport the vitamins, electrolytes, and water through the entire body.

It's based on the true story of Richard Phillips, a merchant mariner who transported goods through pirate infested waters near Somalia.

Teaching points that are covered in the topic are listed below: Understand that it is important to be able to grow plants well because they provide food and other items for us To know that all food chains begin with a green plant To understand the function of the parts of a plant To understand that plants need leaves in order to grow well To plan an appropriate investigation To make careful observations and measurements of plants growing To use simple apparatus to measure the height of plants in standard measures To use results to draw conclusions and provide explanations To know that water is transported through the stem to other parts of the plant To know that that plants need light for healthy growth To know that plants need water, but not unlimited water, for healthy growth To know that temperature can affect the growth of plants To ask questions about the growth of plants To plan a fair test To write a clear conclusion

This takes place over five days where the children design ways to ensure the well - being of Chamonix through five themes: energy, food, water, waste and transport.

Ritchie Blackmore's Smoke on the Water riff comes through so clearly that one is almost transported back to that famous fire in Montreux, the requisite volume required for any proper listening of Deep Purple's anthem accompanied by precious little distortion.

As part of the New Jersey Gold Coast, Hoboken's waterfront was part of the Port of New York and New Jersey and through the 20th Century many industries flourished in the area because of rapid industrialization and easy access to water transport for goods.

From Maun, we drive north to embark a traditional Delta mode of transport - the Mokoro, a dugout canoe pushed through the waters with poles by local guides.

Hi, we are booked up to stay at hotel in October, i have heard you can book tickets for the water park through the hotel, i know this is closed in October, however can you book tickets for the theme park and if so does it include transport?

Once you have taken the air conditioned transport leading through this exciting tour you will reach a bubble of pure cultural and physical beauty both in and out of the water and well away from any tourists.

Transporting the viewer through these memories are bejewelled sculptures of boats, featured in the show and named after various bodies of water, creeks, lakes and seas.

We know that current technologies, which use large amounts of clean water to transport small amounts of excreta through expensive pipes to costly treatment plants, are unworkable and unaffordable in much of the world.

By default, water at the surface does not move (a «slab ocean»), but it is also possible to prescribe ocean heat transport or to take wind - driven ocean heat transport in low latitudes into account through a simple one - dimensional model driven by surface winds.

Variability of circumpolar deep water transport onto the Amundsen Sea Continental shelf through a shelf break trough

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate locaTRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate locatransport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate locatransport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local vaWATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local vawater consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local vawater to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

Warm surface water flows from the tropical South Atlantic, through the Caribbean, and is then transported, via the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift, to the northernmost North Atlantic.

(Sec. 215) Establishes within the EPA a WaterSense program to identify and promote water efficient products, buildings and landscapes, and services in order to: (1) reduce water use; (2) reduce the strain on water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure; (3) conserve energy used to pump, heat, transport, and treat water; and (4) preserve water resources through voluntary labeling of, or communications about, products, buildings and landscapes, and services that meet the highest water efficiency and performance standards.

Water monitoring will be done through a comprehensive and integrated approach that quantifies and assesses the sources, transport, loadings, fate, and types of oil sands contaminants in the Athabasca River system and effects on key aquatic ecosystem components (both within the oil sands development area and in downstream receiving environments) that are measures of ecosystem health and integrity (fish, invertebrates).

Icelandic scientists say they have discovered a new overturning site, where cold, dense, deep water is formed and transported through a separate route towards the Denmark Strait and further south into the Atlantic Ocean.

Through horizontal averaging, variations of water vapor and temperature that are related to the horizontal transport by the large - scale circulation will be largely removed, and thus the water vapor and temperature relationship obtained is more indicative of the property of moist convection, and is thus more relevant to the issue of water vapor feedback in global warming.

The significance of this observation is that it confirms that the inflow of Pacific summer water (PSW) in the late 1990s through wind forcing of near - surface transport was both unusually warm and unusually strong.

Observations suggest that variability in oceanographic conditions in the Arctic is very largely driven by the consequences of the flows through open passages to both Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which themselves respond to the different and characteristic variability of the circulation patterns of each ocean: each inflow is not only variable in volume of water transported but also in the temperature of the water imported.

It transports water at a rate of 30 million cubic meters per second (30 sverdrups) through the Florida Straits.

They need sunlight, air, brackish water and land that is amenable getting transport vehicle lanes to and through it.

New York - based BioHitech has created the Eco Digester to help companies deal safely with their food waste, converting it into grey water that is then transported through standard sewer lines.

Thermal energy as heat and that carried in water vapor is transported through the atmosphere towards space.

This is the first time we've seen waters this warm in any of the fjords in Greenland... the subtropical waters are flowing through the fjord very quickly, so they can transport heat and drive melting at the end of the glacier.

Gray, L., I. Joughin, S. Tulaczyk, V.B. Spikes, R. Bindschadler, and K.C. Jezek,» Evidence for subglacial water transport in the West Antarctic ice sheet through three - dimensional satellite radar interferometry», Geophys.

Furthermore the reduction of the Loop Current transport through the Gulf of Mexico would decrease its direct interference with the oil and gas operations in the Gulf, and reduce the amount of warm water accumulated inside the Loop and warm - core rings which detach from the Loop.