Hypothesis / aims of study Loss of urethral support and atrophy of the intrinsic sphincter mechanism can result in SUI. Minimally invasive therapies for SUI offer injection of bulking materials into the periurethral tissues to improve urethral resistance. These therapies have had low success rates due to material migration, breakdown, and antigenicity. These bulking therapies only provide mass ...

Three groups of SBR reactors A, B and C with different aeration time were set up to culture the activated sludge which has already bulked. The results showed that settling performance in reactor A changed a little, but had been significantly improved. High-throughput sequencing significant inhibitory effect on growth Thothrix, longer was, more obvious inhibition was. When is than 6h, mode can e...

A model is outlined for the major biochemical respiratory mechanisms of a conceptualised heterotrophic facultative organism (representing the heterotrophic facultative mass of activated sludge) subjected to four different sets of conditions: steady-state aerobic, steady-state anoxic, steady-state aerobic changed to anoxic, and steady-state anoxic/anaerobic changed to aerobic. Proposals and impl...

Nocardioforms were genetically identified using PCR-REBA. PCR-REBA was able to identify many bacterial genera in one assay. PCR-REBA was able to determine that foams from different WWTPs contain various types of bacteria such as Gordonia spp., Millisia spp., Skermania spp., Tsukamurella spp., and Microthrix parvicella, while light microscopy cannot differentiate amongst them (except M. parvicel...

Sodium pentobarbital, a euthanasia drug, can persist in animal carcasses following euthanasia and can cause secondary toxicosis to animals that consume the remains. This experiment was conducted to observe the effects of composting on euthanized horse carcass degradation and sodium pentobarbital residues in compost material up to 367 d. Six separate compost bins were constructed on pastureland....

biofiltration method is one of the most commonly used and most effective methods to removepollutants from the exhaust gas flow from different industries. one of the most important categories of airpollutants is hap (hazardous air pollutants). this study assesses the ability of biofiltration method toremove and treat hap dea (diethanolamine) from a gas stream through a laboratory-scale biofilter...

Abstract The floodable volume of longwall gob can be great importance in developing accurate coal mine operation plans, particularly for water management and environmental control strategies. Given the inaccessibility difficulty direct measurement characteristics following recompression, hydrologic, geomechanical, spatial data principles were used to solve porosity height residual using a mathe...