Plant peels could be a potential source of novel pectinases for use in various industrial applications due to their broad substrate specificity with high stability under extreme conditions. Therefore, the extraction conditions of a novel pectinase enzyme from pitaya peel was optimized in this study. The effect of extraction variables, namely buffer to sample ratio (2:1 to 8:1, X₁), extraction t...

Compression in column-oriented databases has been proven to offer both performance enhancements and reductions in storage consumption. This is especially true for read access as compressed data can directly be processed for query execution.Nevertheless, compression happens to be disadvantageous when it comes to write access due to unavoidable re-compression: write-access requires significantly ...

Recently, NAND flash memory has been used for a storage device in various mobile computing devices such as MP3 players, mobile phones and laptops because of its shock-resistant, low-power consumption, and nonevolatile properties, However, due to the very distinct characteristics of flash memory, disk based systems and applications may result in severe performance degradation when directly adopt...

STUDY QUESTION Does pre-mixing stored serum samples with assay buffer improve the reproducibility of the Beckman Gen II assay for anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH)? SUMMARY ANSWER Pre-mixing serum samples with assay buffer is a prerequisite for reproducible measurement of AMH in serum using the Beckman Coulter Gen II assay. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY Discrepancies in the results obtained from AMH ass...

Moss, C. Wayne (North Carolina State University, Raleigh), and M. L. Speck. Release of biologically active peptides from Escherichia coli at subzero temperatures. J. Bacteriol. 91:1105-1111. 1966.-Freezing and storage of Escherichia coli at -20 C in phosphate buffer resulted in loss of cell viability and a pronounced leakage of cellular material which had maximal absorption at 260 mmu. Greater ...

In this paper, we compare the theoretical and simulated bit error rate (BER) performance of an all-optical active recirculating fibre loop buffer (RFLB) employed at the transmitter node of an optical time division multiplexed based (OTDM) system, for several buffer storage times (delays). To the best of our knowledge, we believe that this is the first time a theoretical model detailing BER perf...

The retention of nutrients in narrow, vegetated riparian buffer strips (VBS) is uncertain and underlying processes are poorly understood. Evidence suggests that buffer soils are poor at retaining dissolved nutrients, especially phosphorus (P), necessitating management actions if P retention is not to be compromised. We sampled 19 buffer strips and adjacent arable field soils. Differences in nut...

Small n ×n switches are key components of multistage interconnection networks used in multiprocessors as well as in the communication coprocessors used in multicomputers. The design of the internal buffers in these switches is of critical importance for achieving high throughput low latency communication. We discuss several buffer structures and compare them in terms of implementation complexit...

As buffer cache is used to overcome the speed gap between processor and storage devices, performance of buffer cache is a deciding factor in verifying the system performance. Need of improved buffer cache hit ratio and inabilities of the Least Recent Used replacement algorithm inspire the development of the proposed algorithm. Data reuse and program locality are the basis for determining the ca...

Modern parallel filesystems such as Lustre are designed to provide high, scalable I/O bandwidth in response to growing I/O requirements; however, the bursty I/O characteristics of many data-intensive scientific applications make it difficult for back-end parallel filesystems to efficiently handle I/O requests. A burst buffer system, through which data can be temporarily buffered via high-perfor...