Background: Increasing worldwide contamination with hydrocarbons has urged environmental remediation using biological agents such as bacteria. Our goal here was to study the phylogenetic relationship of two crude oil degrader bacteria and investigation of their ability to degrade hydrocarbons. Materials and Methods: Phylogenetic relationship of isolates was determined using morphological and...

Data security is a major concern for everyone in today’s informational world. Encryption is the process of encoding messages or information in such a way that only authorized parties can read it. It is one of the major information security solutions. Hash Stream1-Synthetic Initialization Vector (HS1-SIV) is a recently developed and fast encryption algorithm. In this paper1, we present a hardwar...

A substantial strengthening of the South American monsoon system (SAMS) during Heinrich Stadials (HS) points toward decreased cross-equatorial heat transport as the main driver of monsoonal hydroclimate variability at millennial time scales. In order to better constrain the exact timing and internal structure of HS1 over tropical South America, we assessed two precisely dated speleothem records...

To effectively develop and utilize high-quality Tianfu broilers, this study evaluated the morphological structural characteristics of immune organs such broilers with different strains (HS1 HS2) at developmental stages analyzed distribution mast cells by toluidine blue staining. Moreover, localization expression immunoglobulin, complement C3, C4 CD3 in were also detected. The results showed tha...

δ13C records from the mid-depth Atlantic show a pronounced decrease during Heinrich Stadial 1 (HS1), deglacial episode of dramatically weakened Meridional Ocean Circulation (AMOC). Proposed explanations for this include greater fraction δ13C-depleted southern sourced water (SSW), in North Deep Water (NADW) end-member, and accumulation respired organic carbon. However, relative importance these ...

The petroleum-derived degrading Dietzia cinnamea strain P4 recently had its genome sequenced and annotated. This allowed employing the data on genes that are involved in the degradation of n-alkanes. To examine the physiological behavior of strain P4 in the presence of n-alkanes, the strain was grown under varying conditions of pH and temperature. D. cinnamea P4 was able to grow at pH 7.0-9.0 a...

BACKGROUND Two novel viruses named circo-like virus-Brazil (CLV-BR) hs1 and hs2 were previously discovered in a Brazilian human fecal sample through metagenomics. CLV-BR hs1 and hs2 possess a small circular DNA genome encoding a replication initiator protein (Rep), and the two genomes exhibit 92% nucleotide identity with each other. Phylogenetic analysis based on the Rep protein showed that CLV...

Background: It is unclear if the burden associated with schizophrenia is affected by the type and severity of patient's symptoms. Objective: This study aims to quantify healthcare resource use associated with different profiles of schizophrenia symptoms. Study design: Post-hoc analysis of data from a naturalistic follow-up study. Setting: Secondary psychiatric services in France, Germany and th...