Abstract BACKGROUND Three lab‐scale sequencing batch reactors were used to investigate the effects of Fe 3+ on aerobic granular sludge (AGS) formation, nutrient removal, and microbial community. RESULTS The addition 6 12 mg L −1 could not shorten granulation time. However, compared reactor without (average volume index at 30 min (SVI ) 70.8 mL g ; stable average particle size 548 μm), helped im...

OBJECTIVE Aicardi-Goutières syndrome (AGS) is an early-onset encephalopathy resembling congenital viral infection that is characterized by basal ganglia calcifications, loss of white matter, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lymphocytosis, and elevated interferon-alpha levels in the CSF. Studies have shown that AGS is an autosomal-recessive disease linked to mutations in 5 genes, encoding the 3'-repair...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Astragaloside (AGS) extracted from radix astragalin (Huangqi) has been considered to be beneficial to liver diseases. In this study, we examined the role played by AGS in alleviating hepatic fibrosis function via protease-activated receptor-2 (PAR2) mechanisms. We hypothesized that AGS affects PAR2 signaling pathway thereby improving hepatic function in rats with hepatic fibrosi...

Industrial effluents often contain organic pollutants and variable salinity levels, making their treatment challenging. The high content of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in the aerobic granular sludge (AGS) is thought to protect microbial communities from stressful conditions. Ammonium phosphate removal, EPS production, morphology were assessed a lab-scale AGS reactor operated during...

The present paper introduces aggregative spaces and their category AGS, and then establishes a dual adjunction between AGS and the category Agop of aggregation operators on bounded partially ordered sets. Spatial aggregation operators and sober aggregative spaces, enabling us to restrict the dual adjunction between AGS and Agop to a dual equivalence between the full subcategory of Agop consisti...

Several years ago, the AGS controls group was given the task of developing software for the RHIC accelerator. Like the AGS, the RHIC control system needs to control and monitor equipment distributed around a relatively large geographic area. A local area network connects this equipment to a collection of UNIX workstations in a central control room. Similar software had been developed for the AG...