Elevated suspended solids are a widespread stressor of aquatic ecosystems, but their effects on growth and reproduction in freshwater mussels are largely unknown. We fertilized experimental ponds to create a gradient in total suspended solids (TSS) and examined the effects of TSS on growth, nutritional status, reproduction, and clearance rate in Ligumia subrostrata. The number of females that b...

A long-term (10 month exposure) experiment on effects of suspended sediment on the mortality, growth, and recruitment of the reef corals Montipora capitata and Porites compressa was conducted on the shallow reef flat off south Moloka'i, Hawai'i. Corals were grown on wire platforms with attached coral recruitment tiles along a suspended solid concentration (SSC) gradient that ranged from 37 mg l...

Estimate of sediment load is required in a wide spectrum of water resources engineering problems. The nonlinear nature of suspended sediment load series necessitates the utilization of nonlinear methods to simulate the suspended sediment load. In this study Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are employed to estimate daily suspended sediment load. Two different ANN algorithms, Multi Layer Perce...

We have fabricated suspended carbon nanotube (CNT) devices specifically designed for biological sensing applications. We use 6-inch-wafer processes to maximize yield. Our fabrication process produces suspended CNT with clean surfaces and minimal environ mental noise. The electrode layout is compatible with a microfluidic system for delivering liquids and biological molecules to the sensor. We r...

Pollock, Mary E. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). Use of dialyzing culture technique for high yield of Mycoplasma. J. Bacteriol. 90:1682-1685. 1965.-The saprophytic pleuropneumonia-like organism, Mycoplasma laidlawii, type A, was cultivated within a dialyzing membrane suspended in a reservoir of uninoculated medium. Generation time was not decreased by this method, but the period of acti...

We study the growth of colonies of the yeast Pichia membranaefaciens on agarose film. The growth conditions are controlled in a setup where nutrients are supplied through an agarose film suspended over a solution of nutrients. As the thickness of the agarose film is varied, the morphology of the front of the colony changes. The growth of the front is modeled by coupling it to a diffusive field ...

background: given the increasing importance of suspended particles and reporting weather conditions in the amount of ultraviolet radiation in many countries, in this study, the data of the maximum amounts of pollution by suspended particles with the size of 10, 2.5 and1 microns (pm10, pm2.5, pm1) which were reported in 1-hour time-series and global ultraviolet index (uvi) were used to predict t...