Plant growth can be promoted by the application of apple fruit fermentation (AFF), despite unclear of the underlying mechanisms, the effects involved in AFF on rhizosphere microorganisms have been hypothesized. We investigated the consequences of applying AFF alone or in combination with Bacillus licheniformis to strawberry tissue culture seedlings in vitro, the analyses of Denaturing Gradient ...

Bisphosphonates (BPs) are commonly used drugs in clinical practice. In this pilot study, we investigated whether bisphosphonate-related atypical femoral fractures (AFF) and osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) occurred simultaneously in the same group of patients. Six ONJ patients were examined by an orthopedic surgeon and 5 AFF patients were examined by a dentist to look for manifestations of simult...

Atypical femoral fractures – comorbidities and association with bone-specific therapies. Introduction: Although atypical femoral fractures (AFF) are generally rare events, several studies have indicated a potential link between AFF and long-term bone specific therapies (BST). The aim of this study was to analyze the frequency of AFF and potential associations with prior or ongoing BST. Methods:...

Azadinium spinosum (Elbrächter and Tillmann), a small marine dinoflagellate, has been recently described as a de novo producer of azaspiracid-1 and -2 (AZA1 and -2) diarrhoeic toxins. A culture of A. spinosum was established in our laboratory and optimised for pilot-scale production of this organism, to evaluate and understand AZA1 and -2 accumulation and biotransformation in blue mussels (Myti...

The aim of this study was to assess the effect of dietary eicosapentaenoic acid (20:5n-3) on hemocyte parameters such as hemocyte concentration, phagocytosis, and non-stimulated reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in Pacific oysters Crassostrea gigas, as well on proximate biochemical and fatty acid compositions. One-year-old oysters (C. gigas) were fed T-Isochrysis aff. galbana (T-Iso), wh...

This thesis primarily describes performance and decision heuristics of human operators intervention with an autonomous formation flight (AFF) system during monitoring of a station-keeping display. Due to mental and physical workloads, automation technologies have been applied to formation flight for precise station-keeping and resultant fuel reduction, shifting control authority from humans to ...

We construct the finite dimensional simple integral modules for the (degenerate) affine Hecke-Clifford algebra (AHCA), H aff Cℓ (d). Our construction includes an analogue of Zelevin-sky's segment representations, a complete combinatorial description of the simple calibrated H aff Cℓ (d)-modules, and a classification of the simple integral H aff Cℓ (d)-modules. Our main tool is an analogue of th...

We construct the finite dimensional simple integral modules for the (degenerate) affine Hecke-Clifford algebra (AHCA), H aff Cℓ (d). Our construction includes an analogue of Zelevin-sky's segment representations, a complete combinatorial description of the simple calibrated H aff Cℓ (d)-modules, and a classification of the simple integral H aff Cℓ (d)-modules. Our main tool is an analogue of th...

This paper describes the Advanced Forensic Format (AFF), which is designed as an alternative to current proprietary disk image formats. AFF offers two significant benefits. First, it is more flexible because it allows extensive metadata to be stored with images. Second, AFF images consume less disk space than images in other formats (e.g., EnCase images). This paper also describes the Advanced ...

The understanding of algal phylogeny is being impeded by an unknown number of events of horizontal gene transfer (HGT), and primary and secondary/tertiary endosymbiosis. Through these events, previously heterotrophic eukaryotes developed photosynthesis and acquired new biochemical pathways. Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase) is a key enzyme in the fatty acid synthesis and elongation pathways in al...