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Soil moisture has a major influence on the partitioning between infiltration and runoff, and thus affects groundwater recharge, floodings, and the susceptibility of hillslopes to landslides. In addition, soil moisture can influence weather and climate, and the availability of water for plant growth directly affects agricultural productivity and food supply. [...]

Electrochemical cell fundamentals -- The simplest possible fuel cell -- Solid oxide cell model -- High temperature polymer electrolyte model -- Stack models -- Low temperature polymer electrolyte fuel cells and two-phase flow (continuum scale) -- Direct numerical simulation of porous media: Effective transport properties -- Micro-scale simulations - two-phase models, focusing on volume-of-fluid -- Implementation of pore network model in a finite volume computational fluid dynamics code -- Simulating polymer electrolyte fuel cell degradation using OpenFOAM and FAST-FC -- Redox flow batteries -- Liquid metal batteries

The proposed method exploits charged particles confined as a storage ring beam (proton, deuteron, possibly 3He) to search for an intrinsic electric dipole moment (EDM) aligned along the particle spin axis. Statistical sensitivities can approach 1029 e.cm. [...]

High-resolution imaging of the subsurface improves our understanding of thesubsurface flow and solute transportation that can directly help us protectgroundwater resources and remediate contaminated sites. The ground penetratingradar (GPR) is a useful non/minimal invasive method that consists of a transmitter(Tx) unit that emits electromagnetic (EM) waves and a receiver (Rx) that measuresthe arriving electromagnetic waves and can provide high-resolution tomograms of thesubsurface properties.In specific, the crosshole GPR setup in which two-neighbouring boreholes are placedin the earth can provide much more in-depth access to the target area [...]

Lack of basic sanitation and appropriate waste management, limited access to mineral and organic fertilizers, and land degradation are major public health and food security challenges, particularly in developing regions with financial and infrastructural limitations such as in Sub-Saharan Africa. Developing integrated interventions that address these challenges is of great relevance and is becoming more urgent as the effects of climate change increase and as the global population continuously rises. [...]

A profound understanding of the infiltration dynamics into the vadose zone is crucial to ourcapacity to link surface and subsurface processes for the description of the hydrologic cycle. Akey to establish reliable models describing the infiltration process is the knowledge of the soilhydraulic parameters. [...]

Spintronics is based on the transport of information by the spin of electronsrather than charge current so as to avoid the Joule heat. Among it,magnons, as the most elementary excitations in magnetic materials, haveemerged as a prominent tool in electrical and thermal manipulation andtransport of spin. [...]