A 10 L continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) system was developed for a two-stage hydrogen fermentation process with an integrated alkaline treatment. The maximum hydrogen production rate reached 218.5 mL/L h at a cornstalk concentration of 30 g/L, and the total hydrogen yield and volumetric hydrogen production rate reached 58.0 mL/g-cornstalk and 0.55-0.57 L/L d, respectively. A 10 L up-flow ...

DNA polymerase preferentially incorporate dAMP opposite abasic sites (A-rule). The mechanism of the A-rule can be studied by analyzing three dissected stages of the reaction including (i) initial nucleotide insertion, (ii) proofreading excision of the inserted nucleotide and (iii) extension of the nascent primer terminus. To assess the role of the stage (ii) in the A-rule, kinetic parameters of...

The Web of Linked Data forms a single, globally distributed Web. Querying this dataspace poses new challenges that are not addressed by traditional research on federated query processing. Linked data integration applications must meet the requirements of efficient query processing in the distributed setting. This paper presents QEF-LD, a query engine that enables the efficient execution of fede...

EDN-LD is a set of conventions for representing linked data using Extensible Data Notation (EDN) and a library for conveniently working with those representations in the Clojure programming language. It provides a lightweight alternative to existing linked data tools for many common use cases, much in the spirit of JSON-LD. We present the motivation and design of EDN-LD, and demonstrate how it ...

and Applied Analysis 3 Definition 4. Let X be a Banach space and ΩX the bounded set ofX. The Kuratowski’s measure of noncompactness is the map α : ΩX → [0,∞) defined by α (D) = inf {d > 0 : D ⊆ n ⋃ i=1 Di, diam (Di) ≤ d} , (8) hereD ∈ ΩX. One will use the following basic properties of the α measure and Sadovskii’s fixed point theorem here (see [37– 39]). Lemma 5. Let D1 and D2 be two bounded se...

Previous research has shown contradictory results regarding the acceptance of xenotransplantation (XT) by kidney patients. This variance in attitude towards XT could be explained by differences in knowledge of XT, the availability of alternative treatment options, specific beliefs and cognitions of the patient, and differences in the health status of the patients. We studied 61 patients in this...

BACKGROUND Several studies in the last few years have shown that the standard 250 micro g dose used in ACTH stimulation test may be very high and have suggested that a dose of 1 micro g may be sufficient for evaluating hypothalamo-pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis. AIMS To evaluate the role of low dose ACTH stimulation test in patients with suspected Secondary Adrenal Insufficiency (SAI). SUBJEC...

This artifact is based on IceDust2, a data modeling language with derived values. The provided package is designed to support the claims of the companion paper: in particular, it allows users to compile and run IceDust2 specifications. Instructions for building the IceDust2 compiler from source in Spoofax are also provided. 1998 ACM Subject Classification D.3.2 Data-flow languages

We present our effort to extend and complement the core modules of the Distributed and Unified Numerics Environment DUNE (http://dune-project.org) by a well tested and structured collection of utilities and concepts. We describe key elements of our four modules dune-xt-common, dune-xt-grid, dune-xt-la and dune-xt-functions, which aim at further enabling the programming of generic algorithms wit...

We consider the optimal design of sequential transmission over broadcast channel with nested feedback. Nested feedback means that the channel output of the outer channel is also available at the decoder of the inner channel. We model the communication system as a decentralized team with three decisionmakers—the encoder and the two decoders. Structure of encoding and decoding strategies that min...