A multicomponent enzyme-complex prevents efficient degradation of the plant cell wall for biorefinery. In this study, the method of identifying glycoside hydrolases (GHs) to degrade hemicelluloses was demonstrated. The competence of C. cellulovorans, which changes to be suitable for degradation of each carbon source, was used for the method. C. cellulovorans was cultivated into locust bean gum ...

Chinese medicinal herbs have been consumed for thousands of years for the purpose of healthy aging. Lycium barbarum is valued in Chinese culture for its benefits to anti-aging, vision, kidney and liver. Recent studies showed that extracts from L. barbarum possess biological activities including anti-aging, anti-tumor, immune-stimulatory and cytoprotection. Most of these studies emphasized that ...

Following the work carried out on guar gum in our first paper of a series, the "pressure cell" solubilization method was applied to two other less highly substituted galactomannans: locust bean gum (LBG) and tara gum. True molecular solution of the polymers was achieved using appropriate temperature, time, and pressure regimes. The technique of capillary viscometry was used to determine the int...

We report results of deep optical spectroscopy with Subaru/FOCAS for Lyman Break Galaxy (LBG) candidates at z ∼ 5. So far, we made spectroscopic observations for 24 LBG candidates among ∼ 200 bright (z < 25.0) LBG sample and confirmed 9 objects to be LBGs at z ∼ 5. Intriguingly, these bright LBGs show no or a weak Lyα emission and relatively strong low ionization interstellar metal absorption l...

Characteristics of high-efficiency gas turbine cogeneration systems using low Btu gas (LBG) are first analysed. Raising the turbine inlet temperature and incorporating a regenerator are both investigated as methouds to improve the efficiency of the cogeneration system (CGS). Taking a gas obtained by pyrolyzing municipal refuse as an example of an LBG, various thermodynamic characteristics of th...

In ‘‘A Robust Transformation Procedure,’’ Martin and Vanberg (2007, hereafter MV) propose a new method for rescaling the raw virgin text scores produced by the ‘‘Wordscores’’ procedure of Laver, Benoit, and Garry (2003, hereafter LBG). Their alternative method addresses two deficiencies they argue exist with the transformation of virgin text scores proposed by LBG: First, that the LBG transform...

We present a survey for z ∼ 3 Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) associated with damped Lyman α systems (DLAs) with the primary purpose of determining the DLA-LBG cross-correlation. This paper describes the acquisition and analysis of imaging and spectroscopic data of 9 quasar fields having 11 known z ∼ 3 DLAs covering an area of 465 arcmin. Using deep uBVRI images, 796 LBG candidates to an apparent R...

We image 19 quasars with 22 damped Lyman α (DLA) systems using the F160W filter and the Near-Infrared Camera and Multiobject Spectrograph aboard the Hubble Space Telescope, in both direct and coronagraphic modes. We reach 5σ detection limits of ∼H=22 in the majority of our images. We compare our observations to the observed Lyman-break population of high-redshift galaxies, as well as Bruzual & ...

In this paper, a novel face recognition system using Vector quantization (VQ) technique is proposed. Four different VQ algorithms namely LBG, KPE, KMCG and KFCG are used to generate codebooks of desired size. Euclidean distance is used as similarity measure to compare the feature vector of test image with that of trainee images. Proposed algorithms are tested on two different databases. One is ...

PURPOSE To optimize the dose of a hydro solution containing 2.5% mannitol and 0.2% locust bean gum (LBG) for small bowel MRI in terms of bowel distension and patient acceptance. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 10 healthy volunteers ingested a hydro solution containing 2.5% mannitol and 0.2% LBG. Four different volumes (1500, 1200, 1000, and 800 ml) were assessed on four different examination...