... after induction and lysed by ultrasonication The cell extract was obtained by centrifugation at 20 000 g for 30 at °C Binding of the fusion proteins to chitin beads via the intein/ chitin binding ... Identification of a genetic locus essential for serotype b-specific antigen synthesisin Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans Infect Immun 66, 107–114 Leontein, K., Lindberg, B & Lonngren, J (1978) Assignment ... restriction map A flag indicates the putative promoter The horizontal lines show the DNA fragments inserted into pMCL210 used for nucleotide sequencing Abbreviations: H, HindIII; E, EcoRI; A, Acc65I;...
... SWT flushing-toilets and automatic washing machines; wastewater recycling (WWR); rainwater harvesting (RWH); and reduction in industrial sector ΔQ3 = SWT-flushing toilet + SWT washing machine+ WWR ... is the cascade use of waterfor cleaning rice and the washings would later be used for watering plants to utilize the remaining nutrients Likewise, making the most of rainwater by RWH should be ... non-revenue water: leakage and non-counted water Direct demand side control -Save -water type (SWT): flushing toilet and washing machine -Wastewater recycling (WWR) -Rainwater harvesting (RWH) -Reduction...
... will increase in a semi-exponential fashion Therefore, during intermediate and late stage of CO2 injection, it is expected that CO2 injectivity should greatly improve, resulting in low injection ... generated for each GA individual With this formulation, an arbitrary CO2 injection scenario beginning at t = is obtained by letting the parameter t increase from to The simulation domain for the ... determine a unique WAG injection pattern: CO2 injection rate, water injection rate, WAG ratio (the injected CO2 mass to injected water mass per cycle), and cycle duration Fitness function for optimization...
... Chlorine Oxidation; Naturally occurring minerals; Laterite; Limonite Introduction Arsenic contamination in drinking water and groundwater has increasingly been recognized in recent years and now has ... considerable attention towards developing suitable methods for lowering arsenic levels in drinking water Natural occurring contamination by arsenic has been also observed in the Red River delta of northern ... similar to that in Bangladesh In the present study, we investigated the applicability of a simple and economic technique for removing arsenic in groundwater during the treatment process inwater treatment...
... solvents for preparing non-oxide materials During these last 40 years hydrothermal reactions have been used inMaterials Chemistry [5, 11] or Materials Science for developing soft processing in advanced ... advanced inorganic materials [12] or for preparing functional ceramics [13, 14] The interest for non-oxide materials has led to the development of solvothermal reactions either for preparing novel materials ... routes appear promising for developing functional materials Geo-inspired materials The structure of natural materials can be a source of inspiration for the conception of novel materials Phyllosilicates...
... Multinationals inwater supply The past decade has shown a growing presence of multinationals in the drinking water sector It has been said that drinking water is gradually turning from a public resource into ... they now increasingly so by exporting water 20 / The global dimension of water governance in virtual form or even in real form The other side of the coin is the increasing dependency of water- scarce ... play a role in supporting developing water- poor nations, for instance by helping them to efficiently and sustainably use their scarce water resources What is a ‘sustainable water footprint’, given...
... Just recently, the independent committee investigating the disaster involving the space shuttle Columbia highlighted the importance of institutional culture in its findings, pointing to the self-protective ... of materials, combinatorial and high-throughput materials research methods show great promise in developing needed materials property data as inputs to modeling and for differentiating competing ... number of information-gathering and deliberative activities, including holding an interactive workshop in November 2003 on accelerating technology transition On the basis of this work, which included...
... upconverting phosphors Anal Chem 2005, 77:7348-7355 Nyk M, Kumar R, Ohulchanskyy TY, Bergey EJ, Prasad P: High contrast in vitro and in vivo photoluminescence bioimaging using near infrared to near infrared ... located in the lower OA region Obviously, with an increase of the ratio of OA/ (water plus ethanol), more n-hexane can be dissolved into their mixtures to form a stable system The actual point (point ... as-prepared nanoparticles under N atmosphere by heating them to 600°C, and maintaining this temperature for h After annealing, the particles aggregated into larger clusters (Figure 4A), and the XRD...
... clearly observed in the SiN matrix at a distance of about 5.6 nm from SiN/HfO interface The total SiN thickness (with embedded Ge-NCs) is 15.7 nm, indicating significant swelling of this layer ... thermal annealing is comparable, indicating the weak dependence of swelling effect on implantation energy [19] As discussed before, for low implantation energies, swelling effect is predominantly dependent ... carried out in the frequency range of 10-500 kHz This is to ascertain that most of the charging effect originated mainly from Ge-NCs and/or Ge-NCs-related traps with minimal influence from interface...
... RESULTS 3.1 CO2 flux from the forest floor The CO2 flux from the forest floor fluctuated seasonally, showing maximum in summer and minimum in winter The CO2 fluxes during the observation period ranged ... rubber stopper The gas in the headspace was sampled h and 24 h after closure The CO2 concentration in the headspace was preliminarily found to show a linear increase during this incubation period ... respiration, which increases in summer and decreases in winter [7] Rainfall and soil water content also affect the soil respiration, as is seen in the suppression of soil respiration by drought in Mediterranean...
... Discussion The CO2 laser was first introduced into Otolaryngology by Jako and Strong in 1972 [7] At a wavelength of 10,600 nm, this laser is rapidly absorbed by the waterin the tissues ensuring minimal ... cutting and coagulation while minimizing collateral tissue injury Decreasing overall tissue injury has obvious clinical implications with regard to surgical precision and less obvious clinical ... PFBA CO2 laser fiber causes less depth of thermal damage when compared with harmonic scalpel at recommended settings at the surgical margin While it is tempting to extrapolate these findings into...
... alternative drinking water schemes in contributing to increased sustainable access in rural and periurban settings of developing nations cannot be overemphasized [18] One of such local interventions in ... where public drinking water supply is endemic is packaged drinking water [19] This form of packaged water is usually distributed and sold in sachets (Figure 1) Packaged water refers to water that ... sachet water machine) Sachets stocked in bigger bags and ready for distribution Figure Waterfor drinking and domestic purposes: Nigerian Water Supply Model Figure Water treatment process in a...
... starting point for developing nextgeneration class I HDACIs with increased selectivity and decreased toxicity Finally, we are currently searching for novel γ-glutamyl-cysteine synthetase inhibitors ... combination (currently in progress in our laboratories) is expected to provide insight into these phenomena Moreover, the "therapeutic window" (i.e the differential toxicity in uninfected vs infected ... evaluated the HIV-1 activating effects of buthionine sulfoximine (BSO), which depletes glutathione by inhibiting γ-glutamyl cysteine synthetase (a limiting step in glutathione synthesis) [27,30] BSO,...
... apparatus required for obtaining samples by coring or sawing is described in ASTM C 42.§ Sampling by drilling is not applicable for this test and shall not be used 3.2—Sample processing apparatus: ... 5— Sampling 5.1—Reduce the size of a minimum 300 gm sample as specified in Section 6, and divide this sample to a minimum 30 gm representative sample for use in the chloride † For more information ... Proceed in accordance with the reference ASTM C 114, starting with the procedure specified in Section 19.5.3 and continuing to the end of Section 19.5.8 7.2.3 Make a blank determination by using...
... control map for Quang Nam province Binh Dinh province: The La Tinh river basin originates in Quang Ngai and central Binh Dinh and discharges into the sea near Hoai Huong in the north of Binh Dinh The ... solutions for coastal soils in Binh Dinh and Quang Ngai Intentions for future projects include: identification of land for biofuel crops; planning for crop and water management systems for reducing ... irrigation for dragon fruit in Binh Thuan province and table grapes in Ninh Thuan province Water requirements for dragon fruit were determined and evaluation of partial rootzone drying (PRD) indicated...
... possible for the synthesis reaction to occur in oil -in -water (O/W) droplet [155-159] Within the nano-size O/W droplet (2–100nm), the addition of reducing, oxidizing or precipitating agents resulted in ... solvent eliminated the metal-precursors/solvent interaction, resulting in a controlled synthesis condition Both ‘hot-injection’ and ‘heating-up’ thermal decomposition methods in high boiling point solvent ... the applied AMF For multi-domain magnetic nanoparticles, the heating mechanism involves the hysteresis losses due to magnetic domain walls movement In contrary, for single domain magnetic nanoparticles...
... techniques have been used inin situ synthesis of oligonucleotides, including inkjet printing [46, 47], micro-contact printing [48], and photolithography [49, 50] Ink-jet printing technology has been ... easily obtained during the final oxidation by using different nucleophiles other than water [28, 29] However, undesired side reaction during coupling and incomplete oxidation in the final step ... shots of the software for controlling oligonucleotide synthesis The software was programmed under LabVIEW (a) The information input interface (b) The synthesis monitoring interface ...
... magnetic stripes Unlike nanosecond laser machining, processing of magnetic materials using femtosecond laser does not create any domain pinning effects [10] In addition, A Semerok et al has shown that ... pressure term in Equation (2.4) becomes dominant This creates a tensile force and causes material expansion Ablation takes place when the expanding force exceeds that of binding force determined by ... radiation on the surface of Finemet ribbons These lines represent new pinning centres for domain wall movements, leading to the increase of the static coercivity as seen in Figure 2.8 It was observed...
... Sampling point A is the mouth of the river; point B, the drainage in the paddy fields surrounded by forests; point C, the drainage of the paddy fields surrounded by the upland fields; and point ... relative errors are about 10% for point B, 30% for point C and 20% for point D In addition, Fig shows the verification of the TN concentration at point A every 10 when rainfall occurred (15 and 16 ... forests The TN concentration at point C is higher than that at point B because upland fields are located behind it The TN concentration at point D is 46.7 mg·L–1 because the water is spring water...