BACKGROUND Portal hypertension leads to the formation of portosystemic collateral veins in liver cirrhosis. The resulting shunting is responsible for the development of portosystemic encephalopathy. Although ammonia plays a certain role in determining portosystemic encephalopathy, the venous ammonia level has not been found to correlate with the presence or severity of this entity. So, it has b...

Housed pigs are often exposed to elevated concentrations of atmospheric ammonia. This aerial pollutant is widely considered to be an environmental stressor that also predisposes to reduced growth rates and poor health, although evidence to support this view is limited. Hepatic gene expression is very responsive to stress and metabolic effects. Two batches of growing pigs were therefore exposed ...

As a potential hydrogen storage material, ammonia borane (NH3BH3) has received extensive investigation among many solid-state chemical hydrides over the past few decades. 4 Ammonia borane is a lightweight molecular complex with a high hydrogen content (19.6 wt %) that exceeds the 2015 U.S. Department of Energy target (9 wt %) for on-board hydrogen storage systems. Consequently, substantial rese...

Black soils (Mollisols) of northeast China are highly productive and agriculturally important for food production. Ammonia-oxidizing microbes play an important role in N cycling in the black soils. However, the information related to the composition and distribution of ammonia-oxidizing microbes in the black soils has not yet been addressed. In this study, we used the amoA gene to quantify the ...

conclusions the ammonia degassing is a simple and suitable technology for ammonia removal at high concentration. undesirable removal efficiency (17%, 35.5% and 31%) can be occurred in suitable ph 11 in the presence of lower ammonia concentrations (50, 100 and 200 mg/l). results according to obtained results, the maximum removal efficiencies were determined 17%, 35.5%, 31%, 66%, and 85.5%, for 5...

Mollusks are some of the most important, abundant and diverse organisms inhabiting not only aquatic ecosystems, but also terrestrial environments. Recently, they have been used for bioremediation of aquaculture effluents; nevertheless, for that purpose it is necessary to analyze the capacity of a particular species. In this context, an experimental investigation was developed to evaluate the pe...

This paper proposes an alternative for the calculation of liquid entropy binary solutions is proposed in this form correlation equations with higher computation speed. These were obtained by using both least squares method modelling reference and a classical matrix computer solving modeling entropy. Goodness-of-fit parameters such as sum estimation errors (SSE), Pearson's factor (R-squared), ro...

BACKGROUND Fuel ethanol production from sustainable and largely abundant agro-residues such as sugarcane bagasse (SB) provides long term, geopolitical and strategic benefits. Pretreatment of SB is an inevitable process for improved saccharification of cell wall carbohydrates. Recently, ammonium hydroxide-based pretreatment technologies have gained significance as an effective and economical pre...

Biochar has received widespread attention as an eco-friendly and efficient material for immobilization of toxic heavy metals in aqueous environments. In the present study, three types of coconut fiber-derived biochars were obtained by pyrolyzing at three temperatures, i.e., 300, 500, and 700 °C. In addition, nine types of biochars were prepared by chemical modification with ammonia, hydrogen pe...