In energy supply chain management (ESCM), the members try to make long-term contracts for supplying stably and reducing cost. Currently, optimizing ESCM is a complex problem with two social issues: environmental regulations uncertainties. First, have been tightened in countries around world, leading eco-friendly management. As result, it has become imperative buyer consider not only total opera...

Understanding the structural dynamics of a catalyst under reaction conditions is challenging but crucial regarding design. Here, by combination in situ/operando characterization and first-principles modelling, we show that supported rhodium (Rh) catalysts undergo restructuring at atomic scale response to carbon monoxide (CO), gaseous product formed during steam reforming methane. Despite transf...

Citation: van Tetering MAJ, de Groot RHM and Jolles J (2018) Teacher-Evaluated Self-Regulation Is Related to School Achievement and Influenced by Parental Education in Schoolchildren Aged 8–12: A Case–Control Study. Front. Psychol. 9:438. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00438 Teacher-Evaluated Self-Regulation Is Related to School Achievement and Influenced by Parental Education in Schoolchildren Aged 8...

Cu-mordenite (Cu-MOR) catalysts with different copper loadings were prepared, characterized and examined in continuous, gas-flow synthesis of methyl acetate (MA) by dimethyl ether (DME) carbonylation. Improved activity selectivity observed for Cu-MOR up to 1 wt% Cu X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) temperature-programmed reduction hydrogen (H2-TPR) us...

We propose a novel high directive antenna based on 1-D cavity resonator which is composed of a layer of air and a layer of anisotropic left-handed material. Resonance conditions for such a cavity resonator are analyzed, and in the cavity, the resonant frequency is independent of the lateral thickness. A cavity antenna can be made ultra-thin based on the aforementioned property. DOI: 10.2529/PIE...

Macrophage-colony stimulating factor (M-CSF) has well-known effects on murine bone marrow, but its colony stimulating activity for human bone marrow is controversial. After treatment of human bone marrow with L-phenylalanine methylester (PME), macrophage-colonies (CFU-M) were induced by M-CSF in a dose-dependent fashion. The optimal concentration of recombinant human-macrophage colony stimulati...

Gastrointestinal nematode infections are one of the main health/economic issues in sheep industries, worldwide. Indicator traits for resistance such as faecal egg count (FEC) are commonly used in genomic studies; however, published results are inconsistent among breeds. Meta (or joint)-analysis is a tool for aggregating information from multiple independent studies. The aim of this study was to...

Severe deficiency of osteoclasts, monocytes, and peritoneal macrophages in osteopetrotic (op/op) mutant mice is caused by the absence of functional macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF). To clarify the role of M-CSF in the osteoclast differentiation, we established a clonal stromal cell line OP6L7 capable of supporting hemopoiesis from newborn op/op mouse calvaria. Although very few macr...

Effects of green tea extract (GTE) on the activity of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes and pharmacokinetics of simvastatin (SIM) were investigated in rats. Inhibitory effects of GTE on CYP3A activity were investigated in rat hepatic microsomes (RHM) using midazolam (MDZ) 1'-hydroxylation as a probe reaction. SD female rats received a single oral dose of GTE (400 mg/kg) or troleandomycin (TAO, a CY...