Degradation of 17 -Estradiol by a Gram-Negative Bacterium Isolated from Activated Sludge in a Sewage Treatment Plant in Tokyo, Japan Katsuhiko Fujii,* Shintaro Kikuchi, Masataka Satomi, Noriko Ushio-Sata, and Naoki Morita Department of Applied Chemistry, Muroran Institute of Technology, Mizumoto, Muroran 050-8585, Fisheries Research Agency, Fukuura, Kanazawa, Yokohama 236-8648, Department of Sc...

High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan Department of Materials Structure Science, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), AIST Central-5, Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, Sennan-gun, Osaka 590-0494, Japan Department of Mate...

Simone Biasco 1, Lianhe Li 2, Edmund H. Linfield 2, A. Giles Davies 2 and Miriam S. Vitiello 1,* 1 NEST, CNR—Istituto Nanoscienze and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza San Silvestro 12, 56127 Pisa, Italy; [email protected] 2 School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK; [email protected] (L.L.); [email protected] (E.H.L.); [email protected]...

Abstract Aim Surgical repair of a complex defect after resection Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans. Materials-methods: protuberans, is an uncommon soft tissue tumor that involves the dermis, subcutaneous fat, and in rare cases, muscle fascia. We present 49-year-old patient diagnosed with anterior abdominal wall who underwent Mohs surgery to achieve complete resection, resulting 12cmx10cm epigastr...

Cassava mosaic disease (CMD) and cassava brown streak (CBSD) are two important biotic constraints affecting (Manihot esculenta Crantz) production in sub-Saharan Africa, the deployment of varieties dually resistant to both diseases is most effective realistic way reducing losses. Crosses were carried out between a Tanzanian local cultivar (Namikonga) South American genotype (AR37-80) develop dua...

We illustrate the correspondence between uncertainty sets in robust optimization and some popular risk measures in finance, and show how robust optimization can be used to generalize the concepts of these risk measures. We also show that by using properly defined uncertainty sets in robust optimization models, one can construct coherent risk measures, and address the issue of the computational ...

We report on the first measurement of the Eu isotope fractions (Eu and Eu) in s-process element–enhanced metal-poor stars. We use these ratios to investigate the Sm branching of s-process nucleosynthesis. The measurement was made by detailed study of Eu ii lines that are significantly affected by hyperfine splitting and isotope shifts in spectra of the carbon-rich very metal poor stars LP 625 4...