Synthetic biology has emerged as an exciting and promising new research field, garnering significant attention from both the scientific community and the general public. This interest results from a variety of striking features: synthetic biology is a truly interdisciplinary field that engages biologists, mathematicians, physicists and engineers; its research focus is applied; and it has enormo...

Coplanar shadowgrams provide an affordable mean to retrieve the 3d shape of an object especially when classical stereopsis fails (eg:textureless objects). Its principles are similar to the concepts used for Shape-From-Silhouettes with the only exception that here, light sources and cameras are interchanged. However, it is well known that any attempt to use the shadowgram to retrieve light sourc...

Synthetic biology is capable of delivering new solutions to key challenges spanning the bioeconomy, both nationally and internationally. Recognising this significant potential and the associated need to facilitate its translation and commercialisation the UK government commissioned the production of a national Synthetic Biology Roadmap in 2011, and subsequently provided crucial support to assis...

We intend to comment on some of those aspects of the theory of differential equations which we think are clarified (for us, at least) by means of the synthetic method. By this, we understand that the objects under consideration are seen as objects in one sufficiently rich category (model for SDG), allowing us, for instance, to work with nilpotent numbers, say d ∈ R with d = 0; but the setting s...

the aim of this study is to investigate the nitrate adsorption on granular ferric hydroxide (gfh). the effect of factors such as initial concentration of nitrate, ph, contact time, and adsorbent mass were determined. the study was done in laboratory–scale in which synthetic nitrate solutions in a batch reactor were placed in contact with the adsorbent to model adsorption kinetics. it was found ...

background and purpose:organic dyes with a complex structure are often toxic, carcinogenic, mutagenic, non-biodegradation and stable in the environment and if released to the environment without treatment can endanger the environment and human health. the aim was to evaluate the performance nanoscalezero-valent iron (nzvi) in the removal of dye acid red 18 (ar18) from aqueous solutions. materia...

halophilic and halotolerant microorganisms are good candidates for decolorization of azo dyeswhich are routinely used in the dyeing process in textile industries. in this paper, theoptimization of biological decolorization of synthetic dye solutions containing remazol black bby the previously isolated halophilic bacterium halomonas sp. d2 is investigated. in a primaryinvestigation using a one-f...

our research is directed at revealing the way cbd is approached in terms of the decision tofinance the actions it entails, with specific reference to the case of romania, in the context of the international/european and national regulations. after referring to the foreign and romanian professional literature, we shallproceed with a synthetic approach of the objectives related to cbd and the sus...

Precious metals are currently associated with selenium (naumannite, Ag2Se) and tellurium (calaverite, AuTe2; sylvanite, (Au,Ag)2Te4) to form species refractory to cyanidation. The aim of this preliminary work was to study the use of the solvent extraction technique to recover tellurium and selenium ions from a synthetic solution similar to the cyanidation effluents to recycle the free cyanide b...