A water-soluble polysaccharide was isolated from the culture filtrate of a fungal strain, Sphaeropsis sp. TNPT116-Cz, as a novel insect chitinase inhibitor. It was purified to chromatographic homogeneity by ethanol precipitation, anion-exchange and gel filtration chromatography. Its molecular weight was estimated to be 16 kDa by gel filtration HPLC. Monosaccharide analysis showed that it contai...

recourse to a purported ideal of societal homogeneity has become common in the context of the refugee reception crisis – not only in japan, as leppold et al report, but also throughout europe. calls for societal homogeneity in europe originate from populist movements as well as from some governments. often, they go along with reduced social support for refugees and asylum seekers, for example i...

The present study had as a goal to purify and characterize the lipolytic fraction secreted by a strain of Rhizopus sp. Only 3 steps of purification were necessary to achieve SDS-PAGE homogeneity. One band with 37.5 KDa molecular mass and with 1446 U/ mg specific activity was obtained. The purified fraction presented 2 lipase isoforms; both showed optimum activity at 50oC, and were stable betwee...

The aim of the present paper is to investigate the surface waves in a non-homogeneous, isotropic, visco-elastic solid medium of nth order including time rate of strain. The theory of generalized surface waves has firstly been developed and then it has been employed to investigate particular cases of waves, viz., Stonely and Rayleigh, Love type. The wave velocity equations have been obtained for...

Myocardial elastography (ME) is a non-invasive, ultrasound-based strain imaging technique, which can detect and localize abnormalities in myocardial function. By acquiring radio-frequency (RF) frames at high frame rates, the deformation of the myocardium can be estimated, and used to identify regions of abnormal deformation indicative of cardiovascular disease. In this study, the primary object...