The Monod model is a classical microbiological model much used in microbiology, for example to evaluate biodegradation processes. The model describes microbial growth kinetics in batch culture experiments using three parameters: the maximal specific growth rate, the saturation constant and the yield coefficient. However, identification of these parameter values from experimental data is a chall...

The Monod model is a classical microbiological model much used in microbiology, for example to evaluate biodegradation processes. The model describes microbial growth kinetics in batch culture experiments using three parameters: the maximal specific growth rate, the saturation constant and the yield coefficient. However, identification of these parameter values from experimental data is a chall...

Although there is now a good measure of agreement between Monte Carlo and high-temperature series expansion estimates for Ising (n = 1) models, published results for the critical temperature from series expansions up to 12th order for the three-dimensional classical Heisenberg (n = 3) and XY (n = 2) model do not agree very well with recent high-precision Monte Carlo estimates. In order to clari...

Six-day-old rats received 20 forward pairings of an odor-conditioned stimulus (CS) with one of two unconditioned stimuli (UCS); 1) intra-oral milk infusions or 2) stroking with a sable-hair brush. These UCS's produce a common general response of increased behavioral activity, but different specific behaviors. For each UCS, additional pups received backward pairings of the CS and UCS, random pai...

We summarize findings of comparative studies in different cells cultures susceptible to ASFV infection, through the analysis of virus components and infectious virus particles production, as alternative means to grow field and laboratory ASFV strains. We also provide different methods to assay the infectivity of ASFV samples and to purify the infective virus particles. Finally we describe the g...