Sequencing batch reactor (SBR) is a versatile, eco-friendly, and cost-saving process for the biological treatment of nutrient-rich wastewater, at varying loading rates. The performance of a laboratory-scale SBR was monitored to ascertain the chemical oxygen demand (COD) and total nitrogen (T-N) removals under four different operating conditions, by varying the operating time for the nitrificati...

Volume-based registration (VBR) is the predominant method used in human neuroimaging to compensate for individual variability. However, surface-based registration (SBR) techniques have an inherent advantage over VBR because they respect the topology of the convoluted cortical sheet. There is evidence that existing SBR methods indeed confer a registration advantage over affine VBR. Landmark-SBR ...

This work deals with modeling and operation optimization of biological sequential batch reactors (SBR). The SBR is a fill-and-draw biological sludge system for wastewater treatment. In this system, wastewater is added to a single batch reactor, treated to remove undesirable components, and then, discharged. In this paper, a global model of a gas-solid-liquid SBR is presented to investigate and ...

Amajor effort to establish “scientifically-based research” (SBR) in education has been under way for some time (Feuer, Towne, & Shavelson, 2002). Key manifestations of this effort are found in the No Child Left Behind Act and the reauthorization and reorganization of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement as the Institute for Educational Science (Eisenhart & Towne, 2003). The most d...

The large-scale application of veterinary antibiotics in livestock industry makes swine wastewater an important source of antibiotics pollution. This work investigated the degradation of six selected antibiotics, including five sulfonamides and one macrolide, by Fenton's reagent in swine wastewater pretreated with sequencing batch reactor (SBR). The dosing mode and practical dosage of Fenton's ...

Removal efficiency of COD, NH4-N and PO4-P and NO3-N in five step SBR processes is widely influenced by hydraulic retention time of Anaerobic/Anoxic/Aerobic/Anoxic/Aerobic step of this system where the hydraulic retention time in each step is influence directly on removal efficiency of this system therefore the operator of this system cannot control on this system without experience or a contro...

Water treatment has become a source of concern as new pollutants and higher volumes of waste water must be treated. Emerging biological approaches, namely the use of bioreactors, for cleaning processes have been introduced. The use of bioreactors requires the development of efficient monitoring tools, preferably with real-time measurements. In this work, a couple of flow injection systems were ...

Imaging studies are necessary prior to subthalamic deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS). Dopamine transporter (DAT) imaging is a powerful tool for visualizing dopamine terminals in the striatum, but its usefulness in STN-DBS is unclear. Here, we retrospectively investigated the relationship between motor symptoms and the specific binding ratio (SBR) on DAT imaging in patients with Parkinson's disea...