Due to its rapid deployment, high-flexibility, and high-accuracy advantages, the unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV)-based differential synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography (D-TomoSAR) technique presents an attractive approach for urban risk monitoring. With sufficiently long spatial temporal baselines, it offers elevation velocity resolution beyond dimensions of range azimuth, enabling four-dim...

This work aimed to evaluate the influence of dry and wet heat processing on antioxidant profile activity in ora-pro-nobis leaves. The leaves were collected, washed, separated into three groups for treatments: application moist (hydrothermal cooking at 100 ºC / 4 minutes), (70 8 hours), control (raw material). characteristics evaluated: total soluble solids (SST), (ST), pH, phenolic compounds (C...

High-temperature stress can cause serious abiotic damage that limits the yield and quality of cotton plants. Heat Tolerance (HT) during different developmental stages guarantee a high under heat stress. HT is complex trait regulated by multiple quantitative loci (QTLs). In this study, F2 population derived from cross between MNH-886, heat-tolerant cultivar, MNH-814, heat-sensitive variety, was ...

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We have examined the involvement of Rac1 in nuclear factor kB (NFkB) activation by interleukin 1 (IL1). IL1 induced a rapid and sustained activation of Rac1 in the thymoma cell line EL4.NOB-1. Transient transfection with dominant negative RacN17 inhibited IL1-induced kB-dependent reporter gene expression but not IkBa degradation, whereas constitutively active RacV12 potentiated kB-dependent rep...

Existing access control systems are typically unilateral in that the enterprise service provider assigns the access rights and makes the access control decisions, and there is no negotiation between the client and the service provider. As access management systems lean towards being user-centric, unilateral approaches can no longer adequately preserve the user’s privacy, particularly where the ...

This study investigated the abundance and distribution of key functional microbial populations and their activities in a full-scale integrated fixed film activated sludge-enhanced biological phosphorus removal (IFAS-EBPR) process. Polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs) including Accumulibacter and EBPR activities were predominately associated with the mixed liquor (>90%) whereas nitrifying...

The dynamic reactor behaviour of a nitrifying inverse turbulent bed reactor, operated at varying loading rate, was described with a one-dimensional two-step nitrification biofilm model. In contrast with conventional biofilm models, this model includes the competition between two genetically different populations of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB), besides nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB). Prev...

We have found that lethal toxin from Clostridium sordellii, which specifically inactivates the low molecular weight G proteins Ras, Rap, and Rac, inhibits the activation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) by interleukin-1 (IL-1) in EL4.NOB-1 cells and primary fibroblasts. The target protein involved appeared to be Ras, because transient transfections with dominant negative RasN17 in...

This study attempts to investigate the effect of phenol on physicochemical properties and treatment performances of partial nitrifying granules (PNGs). Two sequencing batch reactors (SBRs) fed with synthetic ammonium wastewaters were operated in absence (R1) or presence (R2) of phenol. The PNGs in R1 maintained excellent partial nitrification performance and relatively stable physicochemical pr...