BACKGROUND Remediation of tert-butyl alcohol (TBA) in subsurface waters should be taken into consideration at reformulated gasoline contaminated sites since it is a biodegradation intermediate of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE), and tert-butyl formate (TBF). The effect of temperature on TBA biodegradation has not been not been published in the literature. METHODS...

1. The anabolic agent trenbolone acetate (3-oxo-17beta-hydroxy-4,9,11-oestratriene acetate; TBA) given subcutaneously to female rats increased their growth rate compared with that of the placebo-treated controls. 2. The increased growth rate of the TBA-treated rats was not a consequence of an increased water retention. The TBA-treated rats had a significantly higher (P less than 0.01) total car...

Structure and bonding patterns in tert-butanol (TBA)−water mixtures are investigated by using molecular dynamics simulations with the effective fragment potential (EFP) method. EFP is a model potential in which all parameters are obtained from a set of ab initio calculations on isolated fragment molecules. Mixed-basis EFP potentials (called “EFPm”) for water and TBA molecules were prepared and ...

At each of three locations, 400 steers and an equal number of heifers were randomized to 10 treatment groups. The purpose of the studies was to evaluate the response of feedlot steers and heifers to single implants containing a combination of estradiol benzoate (EB) and trenbolone acetate (TBA) at two different ratios each at three doses. The selected ratios corresponded to 1E2(estradiol-17 bet...

A thrombin binding aptamer (TBA) is a synthetic 15-nt DNA oligomer that binds human alpha thrombin with high specificity and reversibly suspends the coagulation cascade and platelet formation. It has been established that TBA folds intramolecularly into a G-quadruplex (GQ) structure in solution, forming two G tetrads and three loops1. Two TT loops play a critical role in recognizing the target ...

Real-time heuristic search algorithms are used for planning by agents in situations where a constantbounded amount of deliberation time is required for each action regardless of the problem size. Such algorithms interleave their planning and execution to ensure real-time response. Furthermore, to guarantee completeness, they typically store improved heuristic estimates for previously expanded s...

BACKGROUND In Fontan and atrial switch patients, transcatheter ablation is limited by difficult access to the pulmonary venous atrium. In recent years, transbaffle access (TBA) has been described, but limited data document its safety and utility. METHODS AND RESULTS All ablative electrophysiological study cases of this population performed between January 2006 and December 2010 at Boston Chil...