Alkaline/surfactant/polymer (ASP) flooding has been extensively applied to enhancing oil recovery. As an oil displacement agent, pe1troleum sulfonate (PS) is widely used in ASP pilot experiments. It is very important to find a petroleum sulfonate with a high interfacial activity and low adsorption loss. Anionic surfactant petroleum sulfonate is synthesized in a single-tube film sulfonation reac...

Quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) for estimating the adsorption of aliphatic alcohols onto activated carbon were developed using substructural molecular fragments (SMF) method. The adsorption capacity of activated carbon (gr/100grC) for 150 aliphatic alcohols onto activated carbon (AC) is studied under equilibrium conditions. Forward and backwards stepwise regression variable ...

OBJECTIVE This study is to define the statistical significance for detection of ESBL producers by the double disk synergy test and molecular test (Check-MDR CT102), microdilution test (VITEK 2 with AES) and double disk synergy test (DDST), as well as the microdilution test and molecular test. MATERIALS AND METHODS Phenotypic testing of 55 isolates Enterobacteriaceae (Escherichia coli (14/55),...

This study comprised 100 persons with antibodies to hepatitis C virus (HCV), including 77 intravenous drug users (IVDUs). They were tested with serological HCV typing assays (Murex HCV serotyping 1-6 assay; Chiron RIBA HCV Serotyping SIA). Patients with a positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for HCV (n = 66) were tested with genotyping molecular assays (Inno-Lipa HCV II test; Sorin GEN-ETI-...

objective: in-time diagnosis of streptococcus pneumoniae (s. pneumonia) can play a significant role in decreasing morbidity and mortality rate. applying molecular methods has gained popularity due to the existing limits of routine diagnostic methods. examining the expression of different genes of this bacterium through different molecular methods suggests that lyta gene has a higher sensitivity...

objectives: acinetobacter baumannii is a gram-negative, non-motile aerobic bacterium known as a nosocomial pathogen resisting often to broad range of antibiotics. the pathogen is a serious agent of mortality and morbidity in hospital particularly among immunocompromise patients. treatment and control of its infections is complicated owing to its high antibiotic resistance, survival in various e...

Abstract—In the present work, the alloy of Bismuth-lead is prepared on the basis of percentage of molecular weight 9:1, 5:5 and 1:9 ratios and grown by ZoneRefining Technique under a vacuum atmosphere. The EDAX of these samples are done and the results are reported. Micro hardness test has been used as an alternative test for measuring material’s tensile properties. The effect of temperature an...

A data set of 412 olfactory compounds, divided into animal, camphoraceous, ethereal and fatty olfaction classes, was submitted to an analysis by a Fuzzy Logic procedure called Adaptive Fuzzy Partition (AFP). This method aims to establish molecular descriptor/chemical activity relationships by dynamically dividing the descriptor space into a set of fuzzily partitioned subspaces. The ability of t...