Low dissolved oxygen (DO) is a common feature of many estuarine and shallow-water environments, and is often attributed to anthropogenic nutrient enrichment from terrestrial-fluvial pathways. However, recent events in the U.S. Pacific Northwest have highlighted that wind-forced upwelling can cause naturally occurring low DO water to move onto the continental shelf, leading to mortalities of ben...

Anaerobic bioreactors have been developed to remove perchlorate from water, but backwashing and operational interruptions can expose biofilms to oxygen. While it is well known that oxygen is a preferential electron acceptor to perchlorate for perchlorate-respiring bacteria, little is known about the effect of oxygen exposure or redox potentials on perchlorate reduction. Four different dissolved...

Dissolved oxygen (DO) content is a critical measure of the ability of water bodies to support healthy aquatic ecosystems. To better understand DO behaviour in large cold-region rivers, a onedimensional water quality model is setup for a ~200 km reach of the lower Athabasca River below Fort McMurray, Alberta using the Mike-11 modelling system. A river-ice model is applied to reproduce ice condit...

We describe a new device with parallel optical measurement of dissolved oxygen (DO) and pH in up to nine shake flasks applicable in any conventional shaking incubator. Measurement ranges are 0-500% of air saturation for oxygen and 5.5-8.5 for pH. It was used to characterize growth profiles of different L-lysine producing strains of Corynebacterium glutamicum, of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and of ...

Enzymatic oxidation of 3,4-dihydroxyphenyl-L-alanine (L-DOPA) with laccase from Trametes versicolor was investigated. The highest enzyme activity at pH 5.4 and at 25 °C was found. The reaction kinetics and the effect of dissolved oxygen concentration on the reaction rate were evaluated. A mathematical model, comprised of double-substrate Michaelis-Menten kinetics and mass balances for L-DOPA an...

Robust statistical tools were applied on the water quality datasets with the aim of determining the most significance parameters and their contribution towards temporal water quality variation. Surface water samples were collected from four different sampling points during dry and wet seasons and analyzed for their physicochemical constituents. Discriminant analysis (DA) provided better results...

The effects of environmental factors on variations of dissolved oxygen (DO) saturation was assessed in 2 estuaries (Bilbao and Urdaibai) in the Bay of Biscay with contrasting hydrography and anthropogenic impact, for the period 1997 to 2006, using generalised additive models (GAMs) and generalised additive mixed models (GAMMs). Spatial and temporal variations in DO saturation and the current se...

Structural proteins of the poultry pathogen, infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV), were expressed in the baculovirus/insect cell expression system. To date, several reports have indicated that animal virus structural proteins are expressed only at low yield in this system. In this article, several factors were examined to enhance yield. These include medium, dissolved oxygen level, and the ad...