This work is aimed to produce endoglucanase through solid state fermentation in a packed bed bioreactor with the use of the fungus Myceliophtora sp. I-1D3b using a mixture of wheat bran (WB) and sugar cane bagasse (SCB) as culture medium. Preliminary tests were performed in polypropylene plastic bags, controlling the variables temperature (40, 45, and 50°C), initial moisture content (75, 80, an...

BACKGROUND The lignocellulosic enzymes of Trichoderma species have received particular attention with regard to biomass conversion to biofuels, but the production cost of these enzymes remains a significant hurdle for their commercial application. In this study, we quantitatively compared the lignocellulolytic enzyme profile of a newly isolated Trichoderma asperellum S4F8 strain with that of Tr...

Expression of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae CLN1 and CLN2 genes is cell cycle regulated, and the genes may be controlled by positive feedback. It has been proposed that positive feedback operates via Cln/Cdc28 activation of the Swi4/Swi6 transcription factor, leading to CLN1 and CLN2 transcription due to Swi4 binding to specific sites (SCBs) in the CLN1 and CLN2 promoters. To test this proposal,...

SUMMARY The Main Köpetdag Fault (MKDF) is a predominantly right-lateral strike-slip fault that dissects the northern edge of mountains Turkmenistan and Iran. represents northernmost expression deformation from Arabia-Eurasia collision to east Caspian Sea, plays an important role facilitating motion South Basin (SCB). Despite kinematic significance MKDF, previous geodetic measurements slip-rate ...

Clusters of Symmetric Multiprocessors (CSMP) are becoming an increasingly popular high-performance computing platform due to the commodity availability of multiprocessor nodes, mature SMP operating systems, low-latency, highbandwidth data networks, and superior price-performance ratio. Fast synchronization is crucial to making efficient use of SMP clusters. In this paper, we focus on one kind o...

Analysis of slow axonal transport in sciatic and primary visual systems of BB rats with spontaneous diabetes of 2.5-3.5 months duration revealed a delay in transport of the neurofilament (NF) subunits, tubulin, actin, and the 60, 52, and 30 kDa polypeptides in both systems. The polypeptides examined were not affected uniformly. Rather, the transport of the 60, 52, and 30 kDa polypeptides and th...

Beaked whales are diverse and species rich taxa. They spend the vast majority of their time submerged, regularly diving to depths of hundreds to thousands of meters, typically occur in small groups, and behave inconspicuously at the surface. These factors make them extremely difficult to detect using standard visual survey methods. However, recent advancements in acoustic detection capabilities...

OBJECTIVES We investigated homecare patients with dementia of Alzheimer's type (DAT; n = 36) or vascular dementia (VD; n = 36) and their care-providing relatives regarding clinical and psychosocial variables to determine whether DAT and VD impose different burdens on caregivers. METHOD All patients were diagnosed according to ICD-10 criteria. The diagnoses were confirmed by internal medical, ...

Pretreatment of biomass is one the most challenging steps in process second-generation (2G) ethanol and biochemical production. Dilute acid pretreatment a widely adapted convenient method to recover pentose (C5) as well hexose (C6) sugars due its featured solubilization hemicellulose cellulose before after enzymatic saccharification, respectively. In present study, dilute sulfuric (H2SO4) sugar...

An innovative technology for the mass production of stretchable printed circuit boards (SCBs) will be presented in this paper. This technology makes it possible for the first time to really integrate fine pitch, high performance electronic circuits easily into textiles and so may be the building block for a totally new generation of wearable electronic systems. An overview of the technology wil...