Double refractory gold concentrates were subjected a two-stage microbial process to destroy both sulfides and carbonaceous matter. In the first stage, the well-known sulfide biooxidation process, which utilizes chemolithotrophic bacteria was used to oxidize sulfides and in the second stage carbonaceous matter is destroyed using the bacterium Streptomyces setonii. After biooxidation of sulfides ...

Polystyrene-grafted-polyglycidol (PS-PG), a water-compatible resin, is applied for the extraction of precious metal in effluents of electroplating process. The extractions of gold (I) and silver (I) cyanide using this resin are investigated. More than 99% of gold and 99% of silver ions of the originally dissolved could be extracted from the aqueous phase to polymer phase. Recycling of the resin...

BACKGROUND The text descriptions in electronic medical records are a rich source of information. We have developed a Health Information Text Extraction (HITEx) tool and used it to extract key findings for a research study on airways disease. METHODS The principal diagnosis, co-morbidity and smoking status extracted by HITEx from a set of 150 discharge summaries were compared to an expert-gene...

This paper describes the collection, annotation and linguistic analysis of a gold standard for knowledge-rich context extraction on the basis of Russian and German web corpora as part of ongoing PhD thesis work. In the following sections, the concept of knowledge-rich contexts is refined and gold standard creation is described. Linguistic analyses of the gold standard data and their results are...