Despite their biological importance, a significant number of genes for secondary metabolite biosynthesis (SMB) remain undetected due largely to the fact that they are highly diverse and are not expressed under a variety of cultivation conditions. Several software tools including SMURF and antiSMASH have been developed to predict fungal SMB gene clusters by finding core genes encoding polyketide...

An enrichment step is proposed to simulated moving bed chromatography with fractionation and feedback (FF-SMB), a new variation of SMB, to concentrate recyclates before they are fed back into the unit. Effectiveness of this operation is evaluated by systematic optimization studies. Case studies reveal that enriching recyclates is advantageous to FF-SMB and provides further improvement in separa...

Self-mutilative behaviors (SMB) were examined in a sample of male veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The primary objective was to determine the prevalence of SMB and any physical, cognitive, or affective antecedents and correlates for these behaviors. Participants included 509 male veterans with PTSD and levels of PTSD, depression, alcohol use, hostility, and impulsivity were e...

Maintaining good soil productivity in rice paddies is important for global food security. Numerous methods have been developed to evaluate paddy soil productivity (PSP), most based on soil physiochemical properties and relatively few on biological indices. Here, we used a long-term dataset from experiments on paddy fields at eight county sites and a short-term dataset from a single field experi...

We investigate the roles of disorder on low-temperature transport in SmB$_6$ crystals grown by both Al flux and floating zone methods. used inverted resistance method with Corbino geometry to whether variations standard plateau arises from a surface or bulk channel samples. The results show significant sample-dependent residual conduction, contrast smaller amounts conduction previously observed...

Seventy postpuberal dairy heifers were assigned to remain untreated (n = 26) or to receive the Syncro-Mate-B (SMB) treatment (n = 44). Untreated heifers were inseminated at 12 hr after detection of estrus, while SMB-treated heifers were inseminated either at 48 hr after implant removal (group 1) or at 12 hr after detection of estrus (group 2). Jugular blood was collected at regular intervals fr...

The simulated moving bed (SMB) process has been extensively used in industrial separations for binary and pseudo-binary separations. In pseudo-binary mixtures because the desired component is the most or least retained, the other components do not have to be separated. The UOP Parex process for p-xylene purification is an example. When non-target components have similar adsorption behaviors, th...

Two experiments were conducted to assess the effect of buck exposure to synchronize estrus in mature and pre-pubertal norgestomet-treated crossbred (criolloxdairy breeds) goats. In experiment 1, 100 mature goats (25 per group) under range conditions were either teased at 48 or 24h before Sincromate-B (SMB; 9 days treatment of 2mg norgestomet) implant withdrawal. A third group was exposed to buc...

Abstract. Recent work has identified complex perennial supraglacial stream and river networks in areas of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) ablation zone. Current surface mass balance (SMB) models appear to overestimate meltwater runoff these compared in-channel measurements discharge. Here, we constrain SMB using hillslope routing model (HRR), a spatially explicit flow used terrestrial hydrology,...

We present a new parameterisation that relates surface mass balance (SMB: the sum of surface accumulation and surface ablation) to changes in surface elevation of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) for the MAR (Modèle Atmosphérique Régional: Fettweis, 2007) regional climate model. The motivation is to dynamically adjust SMB as the GrIS evolves, allowing us to force ice sheet models with SMB simulat...