A high percentage of the pigments produced by Talaromyces spp. remains inside the cell, which could lead to a high product concentration inhibition. To overcome this issue an extractive fermentation process, perstraction, was suggested, which involves the extraction of the intracellular products out of the cell by using a two-phase system during the fermentation. The present work studied the ef...

Recent trends in German life expectancy show a considerable increase. Most of this increase has resulted from decreasing mortality at older ages. Patterns of oldest old mortality (ages 80+) differed significantly between men and women as well as between East and West Germany. While West German oldest old mortality decreased since the mid 1970s, comparable decreases in East Germany did not becom...

Objectives: To examine whether older parents in China would benefit more from daughters’ care than from sons’ care. Methods: Analysis of the unique datasets of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey conducted in 2002, 2005 and 2008-2009 in 22 provinces. Results: As compared to having son(s), having daughter(s) is significantly more beneficial at older ages in China, with regards to m...

ARMIN BISCHOFF, LISÈLE CRÉMIEUX, MARIE SMILAUEROVA, CLARE S. LAWSON, SIMON R. MORTIMER, JIRI DOLEZAL, VOJTECH LANTA, ANDREW R. EDWARDS, ALEX J. BROOK, MIRKA MACEL, JAN LEPS, THOMAS STEINGER and HEINZ MÜLLER-SCHÄRER 1 University of Fribourg, Department of Biology, Unit of Ecology and Evolution, Chemin du musée 10, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland, University of South Bohemia, Branisovska 31, CZ-370...

Krim alas bedak adalah jenis riasan dekoratif, yang biasanya mengandung bahan tabir surya. Dibenzalaseton merupakan salah satu agen surya organik potensial. Dalam krim tipe minyak dalam air, tingkat pemulihan fase tidak selalu meningkat bahkan jika konsentrasinya tinggi. Namun, menggunakan kombinasi dua pengemulsi, seperti span 80 dan tween 80, optimal mungkin solusi tepat. Penelitian ini bertu...

The fraction in which direct contact occurs between micellar-phase phenanthrene and the bacterial cell surface was estimated by measuring the toxicity of nonionic surfactant (Tween 80 and Triton X-100) solutions to the phenanthrene-degrading bacterium, Pseudomonas putida P2. Cell viability of completely dissolved phenanthrene decreased by 30% at concentrations greater than 0.3 mg L(-1), which i...

The activities of OPT-80 against 453 intestinal bacteria were compared with those of seven other drugs. OPT-80 showed good activity against most clostridia, staphylococci, and enterococci, but streptococci, aerobic and facultative gram-negative rods, anaerobic gram-negative rods, and Clostridium ramosum were resistant. Poor activity against anaerobic gram-negative rods may maintain colonization...