Introduction Powder metallurgy (p/M) is a rapidly expanding technology for manufacturing of structural parts. The PA4 process provides economical as well as technical benefits over conventional processing of wrought material. It is possible to fabricate high quality, complex parts to close tolerances without machining. The energy consumption is low and the material utilisation and productivity ...

Polymeric adsorbents (PAs) have been gaining increased attention for application in industrial wastewater (WW) treatment. However, most studies on evaluating PAs specifically emulsified oil removal are currently limited to performance screening through batch mode testing. Hence, this paper presents a thorough fixed-bed assessment of advanced the from WWs. A unique custom-built column setup was ...

Neutralizing antibodies to Bacillus anthracis protective antigen (PA), a component of anthrax toxin, mediate protection against anthrax. PA is antigenically complex and can elicit protective and nonprotective antibodies. Furthermore, vaccinated individuals demonstrate considerable variability in their antibody responses to PA. To explore the relationship between PA structure and antigenicity, w...

the synthesis of 4-(substituted benzylidene)-2-(pyrazin-2-yl) oxazol-5(4h)-one was achieved in two steps, in first step, pyrazine-2-carboxamide  dissolved in etoh, 10% koh solution with clch2cooh produced compound 2-(pyrazine-2-carboxamido) acetic acid (ii) and in second step, compound (ii) in (ch3co)2o with aromatic aldehyde, and catalyst potassium acetate produced title compounds 4-(substitut...

We report the first study to examine phylogenetic relationships and drug resistance mutations in HIV-1 pol sequences from Panama. For this study, we used plasma RNA samples from 135 HIV-1-infected subjects from Panama, of which 82 (61%) had AIDS and 53 (39%) were asymptomatic drug-naïve individuals. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that 133 (98%) subjects were infected with subtype B viruses and ...

The lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) are typically chronically infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We used an immunoproteomics approach to analyze the responses of patients to secreted P. aeruginosa proteins. Extracellular proteins from P. aeruginosa strain PAO1 that had been grown to stationary phase were separated by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and analyzed...

The phoPR operon encodes a response regulator, PhoP, and a histidine kinase, PhoR, which activate or repress genes of the Bacillus subtilis Pho regulon in response to an extracellular phosphate deficiency. Induction of phoPR upon phosphate starvation required activity of both PhoP and PhoR, suggesting autoregulation of the operon, a suggestion that is supported here by PhoP footprinting on the ...

The synthesis of 4-(substituted benzylidene)-2-(pyrazin-2-yl) oxazol-5(4H)-one was achieved in two steps, In first step, pyrazine-2-carboxamide  dissolved in EtOH, 10% KOH solution with ClCH2COOH produced compound 2-(pyrazine-2-carboxamido) acetic acid (II) and in second step, compound (II) in (CH3CO)2O with aromatic aldehyde, and catalyst potassium ace...

Right heart catheterization is often required to monitor intra-cardiac pressures in a number of disease states. Ultrasound contrast agents can produce pressure modulated subharmonic emissions that may be used to estimate right ventricular (RV) pressures. A technique based on subharmonic acoustic emissions from ultrasound contrast agents to track RV pressures noninvasively has been developed and...