BACKGROUND Although quantitative computed tomography (CT) has been used to analyze the lungs of patients with confirmed diagnoses of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), there are few reports to show the diagnosis during the early stage of ARDS. Using a canine model and quantitative CT, we aimed to develop an oleic acid (OA) induced ARDS regarding the early stage of ARDS that could impro...

A bacterial-based bioremediation product, LakeRelief™ by Novozymes (Waterguru LakeRelief, 2011), was tested in a series of experiments between October 2008 and March 2009 to evaluate its suitability as a short-term intervention technique to reduce algal blooms in the Swan-Canning River system. Results from fibreglass tank experiments (1100 L) suggested that the product did not actively attack a...

Experiments were designed to determine the significance of dark CO(2) fixation in excised maize roots, carrot slices and excised tomato roots grown in tissue culture. Bicarbonate-(14)C was used to determine the pathway and amounts of CO(2) fixation, while leucine-(14)C was used to estimate protein synthesis in tissues aerated with various levels of CO(2).Organic acids were labeled from bicarbon...

The present study aims at optimising the nitrification and denitrification phases at intermittently aerated process (activated sludge) removing nitrogen from municipal wastewater. The nitrogen removal performance recorded at 22 intermittently aerated plants was compared to the results obtained from the simulations given by the widely used ASM1. It is shown that simulations with a single value f...

We use the basic binomial option pricing method but allow someor all the parameters in the model to be uncertain and model this uncertaintyusing fuzzy numbers. We show that with the fuzzy model we can, with areasonably small number of steps, consider almost all possible future stockprices; whereas the crisp model can consider only n + 1 prices after n steps.

The cytotoxic effects of anthracyclines and other chemotherapeutic agents were examined in normally aerated and hypoxic Sarcoma 180 and EMT6 tumor cells in vitro. Adriamycin, daunomycin, and mitomycin C were selectively toxic to hypoxic Sarcoma 180 cells. The augmented sensitivity was not the result of an increase in susceptibility of oxygen-deprived cells toward antitumor agents in general. 1,...

A submerged biological filter packed with clayey schists from brick industrial waste as support material was used to treat landfill leachate. The pilot-scale plant consisted of two separated reactors, running in aerated and non-aerated conditions respectively. The leachate was taken from a landfill in Granada (southeast Spain) and was considered as partially stabilized with average chemical oxy...