In-water recompressionIn-water recompression (IWR) or underwater oxygen treatment is the emergency treatment of decompression sickness (DCS) by returning the diver underwater to help the gas bubbles in the tissues, which are causing the symptoms, to resolve. It is a procedure that exposes the diver to significant risk which should be compared with the risk associated with the available options and balanced against the probable benefits.
AmoebozoaLes amibozoaires (Amoebozoa) (du grec amoibē signifiant « transformation ») constituent un grand groupe de protozoaires simples, . À ne pas confondre avec les amiboïdes (également nommés rhizopodes), qui sont un sous-groupe des amibes, avec environ d'organismes vivants unicellulaires hétérotrophes. Leur pseudopode est appelé lobopode. Ils peuvent plus rarement être équipés de flagelles pour assurer leur mobilité. La plupart sont unicellulaires, et sont souvent rencontrés dans les sols et les milieux aquatiques, où ils cohabitent avec d'autres organismes.
Leaching model (soil)A leaching model is a hydrological model by which the leaching with irrigation water of dissolved substances, notably salt, in the soil is described depending on the hydrological regime and the soil's properties. The model may describe the process (1) in time and (2) as a function of amount of water applied. Leaching is often done to reclaim saline soil or to conserve a favorable salt content of the soil of irrigated land as all irrigation water contains salts.
CtenophoraLes cténophores (Ctenophora, du grec ktenos, « peigne » et phorein, « porter », référence à la structure en peigne de leurs rangées de cils) ou cténaires sont des organismes marins carnivores transparents et à symétrie rotationnelle. Ils sont planctoniques et pélagiques (plus rarement benthiques) et représentés par près de 150 espèces, répandues dans tous les océans du monde. Ils se déplacent grâce à des cils locomoteurs alignés en 8 rangées sur des plaques ciliées et formant des peignes.
Sense of communitySense of community (or psychological sense of community) is a concept in community psychology, social psychology, and community social work, as well as in several other research disciplines, such as urban sociology. It focuses on the experience of community rather than its structure, formation, setting, or other features. The latter is the province of public administration or community services administration which needs to understand how structures influence this feeling and psychological sense of community.
Hyperbaric treatment schedulesHyperbaric treatment schedules or hyperbaric treatment tables, are planned sequences of events in chronological order for hyperbaric pressure exposures specifying the pressure profile over time and the breathing gas to be used during specified periods, for medical treatment. Hyperbaric therapy is based on exposure to pressures greater than normal atmospheric pressure, and in many cases the use of breathing gases with oxygen content greater than that of air.
BioirrigationBioirrigation refers to the process of benthic organisms flushing their burrows with overlying water. The exchange of dissolved substances between the porewater and overlying seawater that results is an important process in the context of the biogeochemistry of the oceans. Marine coastal ecosystems often have organisms that destabilize sediment. They change the physical state of the sediment. Thus improving the conditions for other organisms and themselves.
