a soil bacterium capable of degrading chitin on chitin agar plates was isolated and identified as bacillus pumilus isolate u5 on the basis of 16s rdna sequence analysis. in order to optimize culture conditions for chitinase production by this bacterium, a two step approach was employed. first, the effects of several medium components were studied using the plackett-burman design. among various ...

To study the effect of pH on dietary fiber components of vegetables, beans, cauliflower, potatoes, peas and corn were cooked in buffers of pH 2, 4, 6, and 10. Water-soluble pectin and hemicellulose, water-insoluble pectin and hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin were quantitated in raw, cooked vegetables and cooking medium. Tenderness and pH of raw and cooked vegetables were determined. Texture ...

We describe a neuromorphic chip that uses binary synapses with spike timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) to learn stimulated patterns of activity and to compensate for variability in excitability. Specifically, STDP preferentially potentiates (turns on) synapses that project from excitable neurons, which spike early, to lethargic neurons, which spike late. The additional excitatory synaptic curr...

Objective: Acanthus syriacus (AS) is one of the valuable herbal plants with immunomodulatory potentials. The aim of this study is to assemble a phytochemical investigation of A. syriacus exploring its anti-inflammatory and antinociceptive properties...

BACKGROUND In modern biotechnology, there is a need for pausing cell lines by cold storage to adapt large-scale cell cultures to the variable demand for their products. We compared various cell culture media/solutions for cold storage of Vero-B4 kidney cells, a cell line widely used in biotechnology. RESULTS Cold storage in RPMI 1640 medium, a recommended cell culture medium for Vero-B4 cells...

In real-world environments of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), a major challenge in using clinical guidelines and protocols in a computer readable form is to provide (i) a clear, precise representation to handle the complex forms of uncertainty and timecritical situations which are common in the ICU domain and (ii) an execution engine to be able to tackle such a representation. This paper...

Abstract Surrounding the Milky Way (MW) is circumgalactic medium (CGM), an extended reservoir of hot gas that has significant implications for evolution MW. We used HaloSat all-sky survey to study CGM’s soft X-ray emission in order better define its distribution and structure. extend a previous southern CGM (Galactic latitude b < ?30°) include northern ( > 30°) find evidence at least two ...