Microplastics (< 5 mm particles) are ubiquitous environmental contaminants, capable of providing an artificial substrate for the development microbial aggregates distinguished between water column, seston, and sediments distinct in taxonomic composition from those on natural surfaces such as sediment. These complex communities, constituted by prokaryotic eukaryotic microorganisms, repres...

Background: RADA16I represents one of promising hydrogel forming peptides. Several implementations of RADA16I hydrogels have proven successful in the field of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. However, RADA16I peptides used in various studies utilize synthetic peptides and so far, only two research articles have been published on RADA16I peptide recombinant producti...

results a plasmid construct, including sequences from the hbv genome and from the human gene htert, was generated as an isomolar multi-standard for hbv quantitation and normalization to the cellular contents. the specificity of the real-time assay for the cccdna was assessed using dane particles isolated on a density gradient. a comparison of liver tissue from 6 untreated and 6 treated patients...

Estimation of collapse performance is primarily conducted through Collapse Fragility Curves (CFC’s). The EDP-based approach is the main scheme for attaining such curves and employs IDA. Obtaining CFC’s from IDA results is tremendously time consuming and computationally demanding. Introduction of more efficient methods of seismic analysis, can potentially improve this issue. The Endurance Time (...