Osmotic concentration (OC), a form of forward osmosis (FO) but without draw solution recovery, can be applied for reducing wastewater disposal volumes in the oil & gas industry. Within this industry, is often disposed by injection through wells into deep underground reservoirs. By volumes, sustainability reservoir improved. In application OC, seawater or brine from desalination plant serves as ...

1. We have not observed gross increases in plasma volume in glomerulonephritis, nephrosis, or nephrosclerosis, even when the concentration of plasma proteins was much below normal. Our results indicate the probability that "hydremic plethora" does not occur. 2. The low protein concentration frequently observed in the plasma in nephritis is not due to increased plasma volume but to a decrease of...

Black Bengal goat is the heritage and one of the potential genetic resources of Bangladesh. Genetic and phenotypic parameters for semen characteristics and their relationships with scrotal circumference in Black Bengal bucks were estimated in this experiment. Genetic parameters were estimated by residual maximum likelihood procedure, fitting an animal model ignoring maternal genetic or permanen...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of first morning urinary volume (collected on three different non-consecutive days), fasting blood glucose (determined on the first and third days of urine collection), and glycosylated hemoglobin (determined on the first and third days of urine collection) on the albumin concentration in first morning urine samples collected on three diff...

background: in natural waters and/or aquaculture facilities, fish are often exposed to chromium waste and demonstrate cumulative deleterious effects. to our knowledge, there are no studies concerning the effects of trivalent cr on c. carpio hematology. this study presents hematological and some biochemical parameters of common carp, cyprinus carpio, affected by sublethal concentration of trival...

Neutralized DNA gels exhibit a reversible volume transition when CaCl2 is added to the surrounding aqueous NaCl solution. In this paper, a systematic study of the osmotic and mechanical properties of Na-DNA gels is presented to determine, qualitatively and quantitatively, the effect of Ca-Na exchange on the volume transition. It is found that in the absence of CaCl2 the DNA gels exhibit osmotic...

Volume changes in single L6 myoblasts (myoballs) exposed to nystatin solutions were followed on single cell level by means of quantitative video image analysis. The myoblasts swelled in nystatin solutions. The volume change was dependent on the nystatin concentration, the threshold concentration being 12.5 mumol/l of nystatin freshly dissolved in Krebs solution. The threshold effect was triphas...

The concentration dependence of the translational self diffusion rate, D (s), has been measured for a range of micelle and mixed micelle systems. Use of bipolar gradient pulse pairs in the longitudinal eddy current delay experiment minimizes NOE attenuation and is found critical for optimizing sensitivity of the translational diffusion measurement of macromolecules and aggregates. For low volum...