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Halophilic microorganisms from man-made and natural hypersaline environments: Physiology, ecology, and biotechnological potential
What are hypersaline environments? Geologists or geochemists define saline lakes sensu lato as bodies of water with salinity more than 3 g/l (0.3%), while those sensu stricto (hypersaline) are bodies of water tha...
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Effects of GaN Thin Layer on InGaN at Electrolyte-Semiconductor Interface for the Application of Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting
Photoelectrochemical properties of nitride semiconductors are paid attention due to their possibilities of water splitting by visible light absorption. However, the photocurrent density of InxGa1-xN, which absorb...
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Development of a Thermal Rectifier Usable at High Temperature
By using Al-based metallic alloys characterized by a disordered structure and a narrow pseudogap of a few hundred meV in energy width persisting at the Fermi level, we succeeded in preparing materials possessi...
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Thermoelectric Properties of Carbon Nanotubes Added n-type CoSb3 Compound
Cobalt triantimonide compounds are well known as materials with good thermoelectric properties over temperature range of 550-900 K. For further improving thermoelectric performance, reduction of thermal conduc...
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Sphingomonas jejuensis sp. nov., isolated from marine sponge Hymeniacidon flavia
A Gram-negative, non-motile, rod shaped, and orange-pigmented chemoheterotrophic bacterium, strain MS-31T was isolated from the marine sponge Hymeniacidon flavia, collected from near Jeju Island, Korea. The Strai...
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Open AccessGain and loss of an intron in a protein-coding gene in Archaea: the case of an archaeal RNA pseudouridine synthase gene
We previously found the first examples of splicing of archaeal pre-mRNAs for homologs of the eukaryotic CBF5 protein (also known as dyskerin in humans) in Aeropyrum pernix, Sulfolobus solfataricus, S. tokodaii, a...
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Syntheses of Ni-doped and Fe-doped CoSb3 Thermoelectric Nanoparticles through Modified Polyol Process
Skutterudite CoSb3 compounds are of increasing interest as materials with good thermoelectric performance over the temperature range of 600 to 800 K, but the thermal conductivity of the materials is relatively hi...
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Synthesis of Thermoelectric Manganese Silicide by Mechanical Alloying and Pulse Discharge Sintering
Manganese silicide is a candidate for low-cost thermoelectric materials with low-environmental load. MnSi1.73 compound was studied as a thermoelectric material available for thermoelectric power generation using ...
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Novel Primary Dispersion in Viscoelastic Behavior of Ferroelectric Nylon 6
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Halophilic archaea isolated from man-made young (200 years) salt lakes in Slănic, Prahova, Romania
We isolated a number of extremely halophilic archaea from four salt lakes (Red Bath, Green Bath, Shepherd Bath and Bride Cave) located in Slanic Prahova, Romania. The characterization of 12 representative isol...
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Effect of Combined Addition of Silicon Carbide Whiskers and Fullerene Nanoparticles on Properties of Thermoelectric Zinc Antimonide
Thermoelectric power generation is a hopeful method harnessing waste thermal energy particularly covering a middle temperature range between 500 and 800K. A Zn4Sb3 compound is a promising “phonon glass electron c...
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Design and evaluation of n-type Si1-xGex as a thermoelectric-conversion material
Si1-xGex alloys show the high power generating efficiency as a thermoelectric- conversion material. We evaluate the thermoelectric power of the n-type SiGe system on the basis of the first principles calculations...
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In situ Raman spectroelectrochemistry of azobenzene monolayers on glassy carbon
In situ Raman spectra of chemisorbed azobenzene (AB) monolayers on glassy carbon (GC) electrodes were observed under potentiostatic conditions in acetonitrile (ACN) with tetrabutyl-ammonium tetrafluoroborate (...
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Accessibility Evaluation for Multimedia Content
Practices supporting Web accessibility are spread out all over the world. However, the accessibility of multimedia content and rich Internet applications has been little discussed. These types of content are u...
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Effect of fullerene addition on thermoelectric properties of n-type skutterudite compound
Thermoelectric power generation is a promising method for harnessing waste thermal energy, especially in the temperature range between 500 and 800 K. It is necessary to improve the performance of thermoelectri...
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Comparative Studies in Key Disagreement Correction Process on Wireless Key Agreement System
This paper describes the comparison of the error-correcting codes that is adopted by the key disagreement correction process about wireless key agreement system called ESPARSKEY that is expected to achieve inf...
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Thermoelectric properties of polycrystalline Si1-xGex grown by die-casting vertical Bridgman growth technique
The die-casting growth process combined with an advanced version of the Bridgman method was employed for manufacturing the multicrystalline bulk crystal of Si1−xGex. This process provides a form of phase transfor...
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Binding kinetics of11c-n-methyl piperidyl benzilate (11c-nmpb) in a rhesus monkey brain using the cerebellum as a reference region
The binding kinetics of11C-N-methyl piperidyl benzilate (11C-NMPB) in rhesus monkey brain were studied using animal positron emission tomography (PET) (SHR2000). This study is intended to assess the validity of t...
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Effects of anesthesia upon18F-FDG uptake in rhesus monkey brains
The kinetics of18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) in the monkey brain were monitored, and comparisons were made between the conscious state and when under ketamine and pentobarbital anesthesia. Rhesus monkeys were ...
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Natronolimnobius baerhuensis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Natronolimnobius innermongolicus sp. nov., novel haloalkaliphilic archaea isolated from soda lakes in Inner Mongolia, China
Three novel isolates of haloalkaliphilic archaea, strains IHC-005T, IHC-010, and N-1311T, from soda lakes in Inner Mongolia, China, were characterized to elucidate their taxonomic positions. The three strains wer...
