The kinetics for the reduction of sulfate alone and for concurrent uranium [U(VI)] and sulfate reduction, by mixed and pure cultures of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) at 21 +/- 3 degrees C were studied. The mixed culture contained the SRB Desulfovibrio vulgaris along with a Clostridium sp. determined via 16S ribosomal DNA analysis. The pure culture was Desulfovibrio desulfuricans (ATCC 7757). ...

ions of networks, called structures, are studied. A structure consists of a set of nodes and a set of lines, such that each line connects two nodes. Lines are considered undirected: if a pair of nodes (u, v) is connected by a line, so is (v, u). A path between a source node u and a destination node v is a set of nodes and lines (u = u0), e1, u1, e2, u2, en−1, un−1, en, (un = v), where each line...

MOTIVATION Metal reduction kinetics have been studied in cultures of dissimilatory metal reducing bacteria which include the Shewanella oneidensis strain MR-1. Estimation of system parameters from time-series data faces obstructions in the implementation depending on the choice of the mathematical model that captures the observed dynamics. The modeling of metal reduction is often based on Micha...

Systems of m PDEs of Adv-Diff-React type have the following form, where the dependent variables (unknowns) are u = (u j (x, t)) m j=1 : Systems of m PDEs of Adv-Diff-React type have the following form, where the dependent variables (unknowns) are u = (u j (x, t)) m j=1 : ∂ ∂t u j + ∇ · (a j u j) = ∇ · (D j ∇u j) + f j , These PDEs model a lot of important phenomena, see These PDEs model a lot o...

In this paper, a goal programming model for the simple U-line balancing (ULB) problem is developed. The model is based on the integer programming formulation developed by Urban [Urban, Note: Optimal balancing of U-shaped assembly lines, Management Science 44(5) (1998) 738–741] for the ULB problem and the goal model of Deckro and Rangachari [Deckro, Rangachari, A goal approach to assembly line b...

This article presents a contrastive analysis between reading time and syntactic/semantic categories in Japanese. We overlaid the reading time annotation of BCCWJ-EyeTrack and a syntactic/semantic category information annotation on the ‘Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese’. Statistical analysis based on a mixed linear model showed that verbal phrases tend to have shorter reading tim...

We study the constraints on five–dimensional N = 1 heterotic M–theory imposed by a consistent anomaly–free coupling of bulk and boundary theory. This requires analyzing the cancellation of triangle gauge anomalies on the four–dimensional orbifold planes due to anomaly inflow from the bulk. We find that the semi–simple part of the orbifold gauge groups and certain U(1) symmetries have to be free...

We consider the most general generation-independent U(1) gauge symmetry consistent with the presence of Yukawa couplings for all quarks and leptons in the SUSY version of the Standard Model. This U(1) has generically mixed anomalies with SM groups, which cannot be cancelled by the Green-Schwarz mechanism of heterotic D = 4 strings. We argue that these anomalies can in principle be cancelled by ...

A computable error bound for mixed finite element methods is established in the model case of the Poisson–problem to control the error in the H(div,Ω) ×L2(Ω)–norm. The reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimate applies, e.g., to Raviart–Thomas, Brezzi-Douglas-Marini, and Brezzi-DouglasFortin-Marini elements. 1. Mixed method for the Poisson problem Mixed finite element methods are well-e...