The trichloroethylene (TCE) transformation rate and capacity of a mixed methanotrophic culture at room temperature were measured to determine the effects of time without methane (resting), use of an alternative energy source (formate), aeration, and toxicity of TCE and its transformation products. The initial specific TCE transformation rate of resting cells was 0.6 mg of TCE per mg of cells pe...

Batch experiments were performed to assess (i) the influence of pH, solution amendments, and mineral aging on the rates and products of trichloroethylene (TCE) transformation by iron sulfide (FeS) and (ii) the influence of pretreatment of iron metal with NaHS on TCE transformation rates. The relative rates of FeS-mediated transformation of TCE to different products were quantified by branching ...

Oral cancer is the most common head and neck cancer, found in 270,000 patients annually worldwide. Some cancers develop from precancerous lesions; however, there is no definitive clinico pathological factor or biomarker that reliably enables malignant transformation to be predicted in an individual patient. Early detection and early treatment of oral cancer are important for improving the survi...

We use a unique dataset of German banks’ exposure to interest rate risk to derive the following statements about their exposure to this risk and their earnings from term transformation. The systematic factor for the exposure to interest rate risk moves in sync with the shape of the term structure. At bank level, however, the time variation of the exposure is largely determined by idiosyncratic ...

The effect of different austenite grain size and different cooling rates on the austenite to ferrite transformation temperature and different ferrite morphologies in one Nb-microalloyed (HSLA) steel has been investigated. Three different austenite grain sizes were selected and cooled at two different cooling rates for obtaining austenite to ferrite transformation temperature. Moreover, samples ...

Abstract The individual effects of strain rate and temperature on the hardening a quenched partitioned steel have been examined. During quasistatic tests, resistive heating was used to simulate deformation-induced that occurs during high-strain-rate deformation, while martensitic transformation tracked by combination x-ray electron backscatter diffraction. Unique work rates under various therma...

Fluoroethene (FE) is a stable molecule in aqueous solution and its aerobic transformation potentially yields F-. This work evaluated if FE is a suitable surrogate for monitoring aerobic vinyl chloride (VC) utilization or cometabolic transformation. Experiments were carried out with three isolates, Mycobacterium strain EE13a, Mycobacterium strain JS60, and Nocardioides strain JS614 to evaluate i...

The Cooperative Family Registry for Breast Cancer Studies (CFRBCS) is an international multisite cooperative consortium of investigators who collaborate to ascertain families at risk for breast cancer. Sufficient blood was collected from each individual participating in the CFRBCS to permit the isolation of lymphocytes, distribution into four aliquots, and cryopreservation for future transforma...

The Cooperative Family Registry for Breast Cancer Studies (CFRBCS) is an international multisite cooperative consortium of investigators who collaborate to ascertain families at risk for breast cancer. Sufficient blood was collected from each individual participating in the CFRBCS to permit the isolation of lymphocytes, distribution into four aliquots, and cryopreservation for future transforma...

This paper proposes a Bayesian affine transformation of hidden Markov model (HMM) parameters for reducing the acoustic mismatch problem in telephone speech recognition. Our purpose is to transform the existing HMM parameters into its new version of specific telephone environment using affine function so as to improve the recognition rate. The maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation which merges t...