Membrane bioreactor-reverse osmosis process (MBR-RO) is widely applied in wastewater treatment, especially when high-quality treated water needed. Although MBR shows better performances the removal of pathogens than conventional activated sludge process, stable operation RO latter step MBR-RO depends on residual bacteria filtrate microfiltration membranes. Species and sizes found with 0.2 μm po...

The removal efficiency of 22 selected trace organic contaminants by sequential application of granular activated carbon (GAC) and simultaneous application of powdered activated carbon (PAC) with membrane bioreactor (MBR) was compared in this study. Both sequential application of GAC following MBR treatment (MBR-GAC) and simultaneous application of PAC within MBR (PAC-MBR) achieved improved remo...

We tested the hypothesis that sustained elevation in mean arterial pressure (MAP) alters the frequency-domain characteristics of efferent sympathetic nerve discharge (SND) after the return of MAP to control levels. Renal, lumbar, and splanchnic SND were recorded before, during, and after a 30-min increase in MAP produced by phenylephrine (PE) infusion in α-chloralose-anesthetized, spontaneously...

The mutagenicity of DNA double-strand break repair in Escherichia coli is controlled by DNA-damage (SOS) and general (RpoS) stress responses, which let error-prone DNA polymerases participate, potentially accelerating evolution during stress. Either base substitutions and indels or genome rearrangements result. Here we discovered that most small basic proteins that compact the genome, nucleoid-...

Symbolic noise detection (SND) has been shown to be highly effective in the Noisy Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma, in which an action can accidentally be changed into a different action. This paper evaluates this technique in two other 2 × 2 repeated games: the Noisy Iterated Chicken Game (ICG) and the Noisy Iterated Battle of the Sexes (IBS). We present a generalization of SND that can be wrapped ...

This paper presents an original filtering approach, called SND (Scoringbased Neighborhood Dominance), for the subgraph isomorphism problem. By reasoning on vertex dominance properties based on various scoring and neighborhood functions, SND appears to be a filtering mechanism of strong inference potential. For example, the recently proposed method LAD is a particular case of SND. We study a spe...

Renal and splanchnic sympathetic nerve discharge (SND) responses to increased (38-41 degrees C) internal temperature were determined in anesthetized young (3-6 mo old), mature (12 mo old), and senescent (24 mo old) Fischer 344 (F344) rats. We hypothesized that SND responses would be altered in senescent and mature rats as demonstrated by attenuated sympathoexcitatory responses to heating and by...

Treatment of landfill leachate is challenging, due to its characteristics such as age, dumping place, composition and origin of wastes. For this reason, the application of hybrid processes is helpful for complete treatment of contaminants present in the leachates. The addition of membrane operations to biological treatment technology offers new advantages for this method. For this aim, a bench-...

The term SSS was coined by Ferrer in 1968 who grouped together all the anatomic etiologies of sinus node disease (SND).1 Table1. We will explore how some patients with underlying SND can have coexisting AF either the effect of SND on atria via various mechanisms or via the underlying disease of the atria. SND is frequently associated with AF, forming the basis of the ”tachycardia-bradycardia sy...

We have combined a turbulent jet flow ozone contactor (TJC) with a membrane bioreactor (MBR) to establish a zero-discharge system in terms of excess sludge in the MBR. The TJC-MBR system was compared with the conventional MBR (Control-MBR) with respect to i) the size and zeta potential of the sludge particles, ii) the loosely bound extra-cellular polymeric substances (EPSs) and tightly bound EP...