BACKGROUND Bioethanol produced from the lignocellulosic fractions of sugar cane (bagasse and leaves), i.e. second generation (2G) bioethanol, has a promising market potential as an automotive fuel; however, the process is still under investigation on pilot/demonstration scale. From a process perspective, improvements in plant design can lower the production cost, providing better profitability ...

BACKGROUND Vascular calcification and accelerated atherosclerosis are major causes of death in haemodialysis (HD) patients. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a family of enzymes, involved in the biology of extracellular matrix and in atherogenesis. MMP1 and MMP3 contribute to the enlargement and instability of atherosclerotic plaque, respectively. The common polymorphisms on MMP1 (2G/2G) and...

This article tries to give some guidelines to optimize the 3G-2G and 3G-3G handovers, from the extracted experience of a real network in development. The purpose of the adjustment of the 3G-2G handover parameters is to offer the users with dual terminals a quality, equal or better than those ones with only 2G terminals, where in general, the 3G coverage is minor that the 2G one. On the other ha...

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We study the rational homotopy of the moduli space NX of stable vector bundles of rank two and fixed determinant of odd degree over a compact connected Riemann surface X of genus g ≥ 2. The symplectic group Aut(H1(X,Z)) ∼= Sp(2g,Z) has a natural action on the rational homotopy groups πn(NX)⊗ZQ. We prove that this action extends to an action of Sp(2g,C) on πn(NX)⊗ZC. We also show that πn(NX)⊗ZC ...

BACKGROUND Sugarcane is an attractive feedstock for ethanol production, especially if the lignocellulosic fraction can also be treated in second generation (2G) ethanol plants. However, the profitability of 2G ethanol is affected by the processing conditions, operating costs and market prices. This study focuses on the minimum ethanol selling price (MESP) and maximum profitability of ethanol pr...

Let g ≥ 3 and n ≥ 0, and let Mg,n be the mapping class group of a surface of genus g with n boundary components. We prove that Mg,n contains a unique subgroup of index 2g−1(2g − 1) up to conjugation, a unique subgroup of index 2g−1(2g + 1) up to conjugation, and the other proper subgroups ofMg,n are of index greater than 2g−1(2g+1). In particular, the minimum index for a proper subgroup of Mg,n...

Recent studies demonstrated that a single guanine insertion polymorphism in a matrix metalloprotease-1 promoter created an Ets binding site and affected the elevation of the transcriptional level of matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP-1). Furthermore, in tumor cell lines derived from melanoma and breast cancer, the incidence of the 2G / 2G genotype was significantly higher than that in the normal p...

To investigate the effects of matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP-1) gene polymorphisms on the onset of osteomyelitis in Chinese Han population.In all, 80 osteomyelitis patients (case group) and 81 healthy people (control group) were recruited into this case-control study. Polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism method was utilized to examine the genotypes of MMP-1 polymo...

Osmoregulation capabilities of two size groups (1 and 2g) of zander , Sander lucioperca, fingerlings were investigated survival rate, plasma osmolarity, sodium (Na+), chloride (Cl-) ion concentrations and cortisol level within 0, 6, 24, 72 and 240 h after abrupt transfer from freshwater to 7 and 12‰ salinity. Also, some hematological parameters were measured at 240h. The plasma osmolarity and ...