Low-energy and low-cost separation of microalgae from water is important to the economics of microalgae harvesting and processing. Flotation under vacuum using a vacuum gas lift for microalgae harvesting was investigated for different airflow rates, bubble sizes, salinities and harvest volumes. Harvesting efficiency (HE) and concentration factor (CF) of the vacuum gas lift increased by around 5...

BACKGROUND Cystic fibrosis is no longer a terminal illness of childhood and mean survival is now over 30 years. Adult patients with atypical CF are increasingly being diagnosed. In Israel, all patients are still followed in pediatric centers. OBJECTIVES To describe our experience with adult CF, stressing the importance of adult-related health and psychosocial issues. METHODS Twenty-five CF ...

In the analysis and design of municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills, there are many uncertainties associated with the properties of MSW during and after MSW placement. Several studies are performed involving different laboratory and field tests to understand the complex behavior and properties of MSW, and based on these studies, different models are proposed for the analysis of time dependent s...

Background: Early childhood caries (ECC) is a severe type of dental caries affecting infants and pre-school children. Because of the infectious nature of the disease, the immunologic response by the host plays an essential role in its development. Objective: This study investigated the association between the presence of salivary sCD14 and ECC. Methods: This study was carried out on 40 healthy ...

This study was performed to investigate the effect of desalinated underground seawater (named as 'magma seawater', MSW) of Jeju Island in Korea on lipid metabolism and antioxidant activity. MSW was collected from underground of Han-Dong in Jeju Island, and freely given to high fat diet (HFD)-fed C57BL/6 mice for 10 weeks. Although there were no significant differences in the body weight changes...

Among the properties of homogeneity of incidence structures flagtransitivity obviously is a particularly important and natural one. Consequently, in the last decades flag-transitive Steiner t-designs (i.e. flag-transitive t-(v, k, 1) designs) have been investigated, whereas only by the use of the classification of the finite simple groups has it been possible in recent years to essentially char...

background: early childhood caries (ecc) is a severe type of dental caries affecting infants and pre-school children. because of the infectious nature of the disease, the immunologic response by the host plays an essential role in its development. objective: this study investigated the association between the presence of salivary scd14 and ecc. methods: this study was carried out on 40 healthy ...