BANYAY, GREGORY ALLEN, M.S., June 2006, Mechanical Engineering EXAMINATION OF POLYMERIC FOAM AS AN ON-BOARD VEHICULAR HPR HYDROGEN STORAGE MEDIA (113 pp.) Director of Thesis: Bhavin V. Mehta One of the major hurdles to be traversed before a Hydrogen Economy becomes practical, and therefore abundant, is the problem of its storage. An ideal HPR pressure vessel exhibits uniformly sized, spherical ...

Microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) is a gripping bio-electrochemical device producing H2 gas from renewable biomass while at the same time treat wastewater.  Through extensive global research efforts in the latest decade, the performance of MECs, including energy efficiency, hydrogen production rate (HPR), and hydrogen recovery have achieved significant breakthroughs. However, employi...

The excessive use of fossil has resulted in the drastic exhaustion natural energy sources, leading to environmental challenges and crises. Owing rising demand there is a dire need shift towards renewable energies from lignocellulosic biomass. present study assessed co-production biohydrogen (H 2 ) biomethane (CH 4 by utilizing less explored halophyte Atriplexcrassifolia. Various reaction parame...

in order to detect hydrogen cyanide gene and to determine pseudomonas fluorescent efficiency in producing hydrogen cyanide for controlling the growth of rhizoctonia solanipathogen (the causal agent of sugar beet root and crown rot), samples were collected from sugar beet rhizosphere in sabzevar fields. after soil sampling and purification, 31 pseudomonas spp. isolates were separated on specific...

In Streptococcus thermophilus, lactose is taken up by LacS, a transporter that comprises a membrane translocator domain and a hydrophilic regulatory domain homologous to the IIA proteins and protein domains of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS). The IIA domain of LacS (IIALacS) possesses a histidine residue that can be phosphorylated by HPr(His~P), a protein component...

We reported that HER2/neu reduces the sensitivity of breast cancer cells to N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)retinamide (4-HPR) by suppressing nitric oxide production. We show that HER2/neu uses Akt to induce cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression and that inhibition of Akt or COX-2 increases 4-HPR-induced apoptosis and nitric oxide production. Apoptosis induced by the 4-HPR and COX-2 inhibitor combination, alt...

Women with germline mutations in the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 are at an increased risk of developing breast cancer. The synthetic retinoid N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)retinamide (4-HPR) has been shown to have a clinical chemopreventive activity in patients with premenopausal breast cancer. Since BRCA1 mutations are associated with an early-onset breast cancer, usually before menopause, we...

The effects of low-temperature stress on the glycolytic activity of the lactic acid bacterium Lactococcus lactis were studied. The maximal glycolytic activity measured at 30 degrees C increased approximately 2.5-fold following a shift from 30 to 10 degrees C for 4 h in a process that required protein synthesis. Analysis of cold adaptation of strains with genes involved in sugar metabolism disru...

Hydrogen peroxide exalts the reactivity of aqueous ozone by reasons that remain obscure. Should H2O2 enhance free radical production, as it is generally believed, a chain mechanism propagated by (.OH/.O2-) species would account for O3 decomposition rates in neat H2O, HR-O3, and in peroxone (O3 + H2O2) solutions, HPR-O3. We found, however, that: (1) the radical mechanism correctly predicts HR-O3...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Fenretinide (4-HPR) is a retinoic acid analogue, currently used in clinical trials in oncology. Metabolism of 4-HPR is of particular interest due to production of the active metabolite 4'-oxo 4-HPR and the clinical challenge of obtaining consistent 4-HPR plasma concentrations in patients. Here, we assessed the enzymes involved in various 4-HPR metabolic pathways. EXPERI...