Dominant strains of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) isolated from honey bees were evaluated for their γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-producing ability. Out of 24 strains, strain Taj-Apis362 showed the highest GABA-producing ability (1.76 mM) in MRS broth containing 50 mM initial glutamic acid cultured for 60 h. Effects of fermentation parameters, including initial glutamic acid level, culture temperatur...

The response of the Baltic Sea spring bloom was studied in mesocosm experiments, where temperatures were elevated up to 6 C above the present-day sea surface temperature of the spring bloom season. Four of the seven experiments were carried out at different light levels (32–202 Wh m at the start of the experiments) in the different experimental years. In one further experiment, the factors ligh...

A 2 GHz acoustic phase measurement system has been developed and used for in-situ monitoring of thin film thickness and temperature in silicon wafer processing. Initial evaporation experiments in a vacuum station have shown a film thickness resolution of -1OOO A with a potential resolution to -1 A . The potential of this system for making temperature measurements has also been explored, and ini...

Long compact cylindrical rods, which consist of a titanium monoboride-based TiB-30 wt % Ti ceramic composite material, are synthesized during combustion of the initial components (titanium, boron) followed by high-temperature deformation. High-temperature deformation is found to affect the orientation of the hardening titanium monoboride phase in the sample volume and the phase composition of t...

Nanostructured manganese cobalt oxide spinel (MnCo2O4) are prepared by co-precipitation method and calcined at 650 and 750°C. Morphological studies show that by increasing the calcination temperature from 650 to 750°C, morphology of the particles changes from quasi-plate to polyhedral. The MnCo2O4 calcined at 650°C could deliver an initial discharge capacity of 1438 mAh g-1 under current densit...

methyl orange is one dye resulted from the textile industry. the aim of this study is to test theadsorption capacity of nickel oxide nanoparticles for removing the methyl orange from aqueoussolution. the parameters studied were the effect of temperature, contact time and initial ph ofsolution. results indicate that the removal efficiency of nickel oxide nanoparticles increases withincreasing co...

In the present research, we report the results of a systematic study on the adsorption properties of folic acid (FA) over functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) using the various factors, such as adsorbent dose, contact time, temperature, and initial FA concentration. Our results reveal that SWCNT is an excellent adsorbent for folic acid, with an adsorption percentage of up to 7...

It is a long time that the Simulated Annealing (SA) procedure has been introduced as a model-free optimization for solving NP-hard problems. Improvements from the standard SA in the recent decade mostly concentrate on combining its original algorithm with some heuristic methods. These modifications are rarely happened to the initial condition selection methods from which the annealing schedules...