The biotransformation of diclofenac during wastewater treatment was investigated. Attached growth biomass from a carrier-filled compartment of a hybrid-MBBR at the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland was used to test the biotransformation. Laboratory-scale incubation experiments were performed with diclofenac and carriers and high-resolution LC-QTof-MS was implemented to...

Multisite protein phosphorylation plays a fundamental role in metabolic regulation. To detect and quantify in vitro kinase phosphorylation activities, we developed a highly selective LC-MS/MS-based method using high resolution multiple reaction monitoring on a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer. This method eliminates the need for stable isotope labeling and enables multiparallel kinase target...

Precut papillotomy (PP) is a useful technique for overcoming a difficult biliary cannulation (DBC). Various techniques and devices have been introduced for successful PP. PP using needle-knife (NK) is the main modalities, and PP using pull-type papillotome, transpancreatic septotomy (TPS), was firstly introduced by Goff in 1995. After then TPS with or without guidewire or/and pancreatic stent w...

When one is seeking an expansion proof for a theorem of higher-order logic, not all necessary substitution terms can be generated by unification of formulas already present, so certain expansion options [5] are applied, and then a search for a p-acceptable mating [2] is made, using Huet's higher-order unification algorithm [8] to generate all remaining substitution terms. The expansion options ...

سابقه و هدف: در کشور ایران از حدود 5/88 میلیارد مترمکعب آب استحصال‌شده منابع سطحی زیرزمینی، ۸۳ یعنی 5/93 درصد به بخش کشاورزی اختصاص می‌یابد، بزرگ‌ترین مصرف‌کننده است. مصرف رو افزایش معلول جمعیت، سطح زیر کشت تولیدات هست که به‌تبع آن سبب کاهش دسترسی افت ایستابی تخلیه آبخوان‌ها شده آمارها نشان می‌دهند این استراتژیک، تهدید کمیت کیفیت است ­طوری ­که هم ­اکنون تعداد زیادی دشت­ های شرایط بحرانی قرار دا...

Introduction: Radiotherapy is an effective modality to treat esophageal carcinoma. Due to various inhomogenous tissues with a variety of physical and radiological properties which can cause uncertainty in accurate dose calculations in radiation therapy, accuracy of TPS is very important. The aim of this study was to quantify dose calculation accuracy of CoreplanTM TPS in an inh...

Thermoplastic starch (TPS) materials present several advantages to the plastic industry andwhen blended with other materials they can exhibit improved mechanical and moisturesensitivity properties compared to pure TPS materials. Further investigations on TPS: PVAblends are of particular interest due to their excellent compatibility and improved properties suchas tensile strength, elongation, to...

A dose calculation verification system (VS) was acquired and commissioned as a second check on the treatment planning system (TPS). This system reads DICOM CT datasets, RT plans, RT structures, and RT dose from the TPS and automatically, using its own collapsed cone superposition/convolution algorithm, computes dose on the same CT dataset. The system was commissioned by extracting basic beam pa...

Citalopram (CTR) is a worldwide highly consumed antidepressant which has demonstrated incomplete removal by conventional wastewater treatment. Despite its global ubiquitous presence in different environmental compartments, little is known about its behaviour and transformation processes during wastewater treatment. The present study aims to expand the knowledge on fate and transformation of CTR...

Due to the nonlinear deformation of the nonrigid and nonuniform biological tissues, it is difficult whereas important to correctly match a number of feature points distributed somewhat uniform in the tissues from MR images for deformation measurement. In this paper, the authors present TPS-SURF-SAC matching method and mismatching elimination method based on TPS clustering. Firstly the matching ...