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Plant-Based Biofuels
The largest share of organic carbon is stored on Earth in the form of plant biomass which contains a range of carbohydrate polymers such as cellulose and hemicellulose along with lignin, to make up the lignoce...
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Emerging Trends in Novel Technological Advancements in Oligosaccharide Production and Their Potential Applications as Prebiotics with Beneficial Effects
In the fast-growing global population, several health problems have arisen owing to bad lifestyles and consumption of unhealthy food. Prebiotics are a boon to reversing these ill effects and benefitting human ...
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Enzymes of Industrial Significance and Their Applications
Enzymes play an enormous role in enriching and saving various forms of life on earth including humans. Enzymes also called biological catalysts have immense applications in various industrial sectors such as b...
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Fundamentals and Industrial Applications of Modern Genetic Engineering
Biotechnological innovations have become crucial for the growth of three major industrial sectors of economy: fuel, pharmaceuticals and food. Genetic engineering utilizes various molecular biological technique...
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Follow-Up and Cosmetic Outcomes in Breast Oncoplasty
OBSC has now become the part of breast cancer routine surgical practice and the ultimate cosmetic objective of BCT is the attainment of two identical breasts. Follow-up of oncoplastic breast is challenging par...
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A Comparative Study of A*, RRT, and RRT* Algorithm for Path Planning in 2D Warehouse Configuration Space
Mobile robots are now being used in various interior and outdoor applications. The demands of Industry 4.0 are pushing robotic domains in the direction of decision-making. The autonomous robots should choose t...
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Design of Robotic Platform for ADAS Testing
Car systems continually improve, prompting automakers to imagine a is one of the fast-evolving car uses various technologies to detect the environment around the vehicle and then deliver information ...
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Energy Levels, Transition Data and SXRay Spectral Lines in W LXVII
A main ingredient for understanding the influence of Tungsten ‘W’ as a plasma impurity and its impact on the plasma in experimental investigation is primarily done with the help of the spatially resolved theor...
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Commercial Production of Biohydrogen Using Microbes
Biohydrogen is a clean fuel, which can be produced through direct or indirect biophotolysis, photo-fermentation, and dark fermentation by microorganisms. In dark fermentation, organic waste degradation and hyd...
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Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Applications of Xylan and Its Derivatives
Hemicelluloses are non-soluble plant cell wall polysaccharides that can be separated by alkali or hydrolyzed by dilute acids. Major hemicelluloses are xylan, glucuronoxylan, arabinoxylan, mannan, glucomannan, ...
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Antimicrobial Agents in Agriculture and Their Implications in Antimicrobial Resistance
Antimicrobial resistance in living organisms is reaching its peak and leading to the imminent global disaster. Bacterial, fungal, and parasitic species responsible for the transfer of antimicrobial resistance ...
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Thermostable Enzymes from Clostridium thermocellum
The production of bioenergy from wastes attracts worldwide attention to overcome energy crisis and increasing pollution (Thakur et al., Microbial fermentation and enzyme technology, Taylor and Francis Group, B...
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Biogas Biorefinery
Biogas is a gaseous fuel comprising methane and carbon dioxide as major constituents. It is produced by microbial consortium of acidogenic, acetogenic and methanogenic bacteria in the absence of oxygen from th...
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Xylanases for Food Applications
The development of new food products, improvement in food quality, and ease of food production process is of prime concern with the growing world population and rapidly rising demand for functional foods. Thes...
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α-l-Arabinofuranosidase: A Potential Enzyme for the Food Industry
Cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin, and lignin are the major components of plant cell wall. Hemicellulose is the second most abundant carbohydrate polymer on the earth. Hemicelluloses are branched, hetero-polysa...
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Ultrasound-Assisted Biodiesel Production Using KI-Impregnated Zinc Oxide (ZnO) as Heterogeneous Catalyst: A Mechanistic Approach
As a consequence of fast reduction of fossil fuel reservoirs in addition to environment concerns of global warming, the demand for clean and renewable alternate fuel has increased in recent years. Biodiesel c...
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Water Hyacinth as a Potential Source of Biofuel for Sustainable Development
Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), a noxious weed and fast growing perennial aquatic plant found in lakes and ponds all over Guwahati is affecting the ecosystem in a deleterious manner. It tampers with aquati...
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Manno-oligosaccharides as Prebiotic-Valued Products from Agro-waste
Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy, is carried out for primary products where a significant amount of agro-waste is produced. About 72% of fruits and vegetable production in India goes waste, due to...
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Ultrasound-Assisted Biodiesel Synthesis: A Mechanistic Insight
Use of ultrasound in intensification of biodiesel synthesis process is well-known. However, most of the published literature in this area has focused on results than rationale—in that the exact physical mechan...
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Pharmaceutical Enzymes
Enzymes are important in all living cells because they act as biological catalysts that accelerate chemical reactions without being consumed in the process. Enzymes are crucial elements of every living entity ...
