The paper investigates the static and dynamic behavior of a continuous flow bioreactor for the aerobic biodegradation of municipal and industrial waste. The unstructured kinetic model for the bioreactor accounts for oxygen limitation in the bioreactor model while the growth rate is described by the biomass-dependent Contois model. This kinetic model is known to explain the aerobic biodegradatio...

PURPOSE Physical activity has been associated with reduced blood pressure in observational epidemiologic studies and individual clinical trials. This meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials was conducted to determine the effect of aerobic exercise on blood pressure. DATA SOURCES English-language articles published before September 2001. STUDY SELECTION 54 randomized, controlled trial...

In recent years, breakpoints (Bp) of muscle oxygenation have been measured in local muscles using near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to assess (predict) systemic aerobic capacity indices [lactate threshold (LT), gas exchange threshold (GET) and maximal oxygen uptake (VO2peak)]. We investigated muscular differences in the assessment (predictive) ability of the Bp of muscle oxygenation for aerobic...

Aerobic exercise reduces coronary heart disease risk, but the mechanisms of this protection are not fully understood. Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease mediated by monocyte-derived macrophages, which accumulate in arterial plaques and become activated to release factors, including cytokines, that cause damage. Here we studied the effects of aerobic training on monocyte production of tu...

The Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 fluxome under various oxygen conditions Abstract 1 The central metabolic fluxes of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 were examined under 2 carbon-limited (aerobic) and oxygen-limited (micro-aerobic) chemostat conditions using 13 C 3 labeled lactate as the sole carbon source. The carbon labeling patterns of key amino acids in 4 biomass were probed using both GC-MS and 13 ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium were exposed to linezolid (MIC of 2 mg/liter) under aerobic or anaerobic conditions in an in vitro pharmacodynamic model. Drug concentration and half-life were adjusted to simulate clinical dosing (600 mg twice daily) of linezolid. Linezolid produced a 2-log(10) killing at 24 h, and rates of killing agains...

BACKGROUND Although some trials assessed the effectiveness of aerobic exercise for Parkinson's disease (PD), the role of aerobic exercise in the management of PD remained controversial. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this systematic review is to evaluate the evidence about whether aerobic exercise is effective for PD. METHODS Seven electronic databases, up to December 2013, were searched to ident...

Numerous recent studies convincingly correlate the upper thermal tolerance limit of aquatic ectothermic animals to reduced aerobic scope, and ascribe the decline in aerobic scope to failure of the cardiovascular system at high temperatures. In the present study we investigate whether this 'aerobic scope model' applies to an air-breathing and semi-terrestrial vertebrate Rhinella marina (formerly...

Lab-scale tests were set up to investigate different options for achieving sustainability by reducing long-term landfill emissions. The options which have been studied and compared with the traditional anaerobic landfill for unprocessed refuse were: mechanical-biological pretreatment, landfill aeration with forced and with natural advective air flow (semi-aerobic), flushing. Combination of diff...

Background Previous studies strongly have supported importance of aerobic capacity for 2000m rowing performance [1-3] and there are few studies that demonstrated anaerobic capacity had critical role in rowing performance [4-6]. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between 2000m rowing performance and anaerobic capacity, which were estimated by critical power (CP) ...