liquid-phases adsorption equilibrium of phenol onto two naturally available soils namely kalathur soil (kr) and adhanur soil (ar) were studied. the experimental data were analyzed using fourteen isotherm models, ranging from single-parametric model to multi-parametric models (up to 5 parameters) of the system. results show that in general the accuracy of models to fit experimental data improve...

Display of peptides on the surface of bacteria offers many new and exciting applications in biotechnology. Fimbriae is a good candidate for epitope display on the surface of bacteria. The potential of CS3 fimbriae of enterotoxigenic E. coli as a display system has been investigated. A novel cell surface display system with metal binding property was developed by using CS3 fimbriae. Short metal ...

Methods Prospective randomized 48-week study to evaluate the efficacy of a psychoeducative intervention based on health beliefs to promote adherence in a sample of naı̈ve HIV-1-infected men who started antiretroviral therapy. Participants were randomized to follow three intervention visits to promote adherence with the use of projective drawing techniques, Life-steps and Motivational interview (...

The driver energy in many dense plasma experiments is almost exclusively coupled into one species and, thus, a two-temperature plasma is created after a short relaxation. Beam particles or field ionization can also create a nonequilibrium charge state distribution. Although ionization kinetics and temperature equilibration usually occur on separated time scales (for solid density ≈ 100 fs and ≈...

We study the resonant interaction of charged particles with a gravitational wave propagating in the non-empty interstellar space in the presence of a uniform magnetic field. It is found that this interaction can be cast in the form of a parametric resonance problem which, besides the main resonance, allows for the existence of many secondary ones. Each of them is associated with a non-zero reso...

Plasma treatment is the most popular surface modification process of polymers. A small cold plasma zone treatment is an important modification technique in modern industry. In this study, the effect of gas flow direction on plasma treatment was investigated. In order to decrease the plasma zone area, we added a separate cylinder to surround the upper electrode. The separate cylinder is effectiv...

The propagation of compressional MHD waves is studied for an externally driven system. It is assumed that the combined action of the external sources and sinks of the entropy results in the harmonic oscillation of the entropy (and temperature) in the system. It is found that with the appropriate resonant conditions fast and slow waves get amplified due to the phenomenon of parametric resonance....

With the development of 3D technology, many 3D commercial movies are being released widely. In addition to cinemas, some well-known commercial video websites have started to provide traditional anaglyph 3D broadcast services ‘‘red and blue color display.’’ Owing to this trend, another multimedia revolution begins. However, there are too many choices of display technologies for users, such as an...

emerging technologies such as biotheraputics are widely view as the source of new types of competitive advantage. despite their huge potential gaining advantages from these technologies requires adopting different types of managerial skills and insight than those utilized in the context of incremental improvements. this makes established firms particularly vulnerable to the challenges of these ...