Magnetite-ENR polymer electrolytes doped with various % wt of LiCF3SO3 salt were synthesized in-situ in the presence of ENR and cast into film doped with LiCF3SO3. XRD results confirmed the purity of the as-formed magnetite particles. The diffraction peaks assigned for LiCF3SO3 become more intense as the concentration of salt is increased. FTIR analyses showed that both “free” (dissociation) an...

Downloa kground: Studies have shown that supplementation of adult men with selenium-enriched yeast (SY) rotective against prostate cancer (PCa) and also reduced oxidative stress and levels of prostatec antigen. Here, we determined the effect of SY supplementation on global serum protein expresn healthy men to provide new insights into the mechanism of selenium chemoprevention; such ns may also ...

Triclosan (TCS) is a widely used antimicrobial agent and TCS resistance is considered to have evolved in diverse organisms with extensive use of TCS, but distribution of TCS resistance has not been well characterized. Functional screening of the soil metagenome in this study has revealed that a variety of target enoyl acyl carrier protein reductases (ENR) homologues are responsible for the majo...

Methods for detection of two fecal indicator viruses, F+ and somatic coliphages, were evaluated for application to recreational marine water. Marine water samples were collected during the summer of 2007 in Southern California, United States from transects along Avalon Beach (n=186 samples) and Doheny Beach (n=101 samples). Coliphage detection methods included EPA method 1601 - two-step enrichm...

Determination of the pile capacity is always a major concern for the safe geotechnical engineering design. Different direct and indirect methods have been proposed for determining pile bearing capacity such as static and dynamic approaches. Each method depends on the condition of the soil and type of pile as well as accessibility to necessary information. In this study bearing capacity of drive...

Constructed wetlands (CWs), including floating treatment (FTWs), possess great potential for treating excessive nutrients in surface waters, where, however, the ubiquitous presence of antibiotics, e.g., enrofloxacin (ENR), is threatening performance CWs. In developing a more efficient and resilient system, we explored responses FTW to ENR, using tank 1, repeatedly exposed 2 as control. Plant gr...

Abstract Microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) as an ideal choice of biomaterial for specific applications. In this study, PHA was synthesized and purified from Pseudomonas mendocina PSU. These obtained then determined its monomer composition found that 3-hydroxybutyrate (3HB) a major component, in addition, the molecular weight were also investigated. The average Mw 8.39 ×10 4 when grown MSM ...

Multi-component nanohybrids comprising of organo-modified montmorillonite (MMT) and immiscible biopolymer blends of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) and epoxidized natural rubber (ENR-50) were prepared by solvent casting technique. The one and three dimensional morphology of PHB/ENR-50/MMT systems were studied using Polarizing Optical Microscopy (POM) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). Differ...

This paper presents a method to characterize the excess noise ratio (ENR) of an unmatched avalanche noise diode for application as an on-wafer noise source. It is based on the determination of a broadband device noise circuit-model from its measured reflection coefficient and noise powers. Measured ENR is used to calibrated a noise receiver up to 40 GHz. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave...

Sulfur or peroxide crosslinking is the most common and conventional method to develop elastomeric materials. A new approach crosslink epoxidized natural rubber (ENR) by aminopropyl terminated polydimethylsiloxane (AT-PDMS) described, intending a kind of hybrid organic–inorganic elastomers. The curing reaction accelerated using hydroquinone as catalyst. formation structure evident from appearanc...