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Open AccessThe eastern extent of seasonal iron limitation in the high latitude North Atlantic Ocean
The availability of iron (Fe) can seasonally limit phytoplankton growth in the High Latitude North Atlantic (HLNA), greatly reducing the efficiency of the biological carbon pump. However, the spatial extent of...
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Genetics of Accessing and Exploiting Hydrocarbons
Hydrocarbons abound in the environment and microorganisms are often capable of assimilating and degrading these normally recalcitrant molecules. In order to achieve this, bacteria have developed specific adapt...
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Extrusion Pumps for Hydrocarbons: An Efficient Evolutionary Strategy to Confer Resistance to Hydrocarbons
Efflux pumps of the RND family are primarily involved in the extrusion of hydrocarbons. These pumps, specific to gram-negative bacteria, are composed of three components. Two components are transmembrane prote...
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Removal of Hydrocarbons and Other Related Chemicals via the Rhizosphere of Plants
Recalcitrant organic toxic chemicals have accumulated for decades as a consequence of industrial activity. The use of plants in bioremediation of soils has been proposed as an attractive strategy however, plan...
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Protocols for the Characterization of Solvent Tolerant Microorganisms: Construction and Characterization of Mutants
A number of microorganisms exhibit the unusual property of being tolerant to high concentrations of organic solvents such as toluene, xylenes, ethylbenzene, 1-octanol, 1-decanol, etc. in the culture medium. Th...
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Membrane Composition and Modifications in Response to Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Gram Negative Bacteria
Bacterial cells are surrounded by a cellular envelope composed of the cytoplasmic membrane and the cell wall. The cytoplasmic membrane is a phospholipid bilayer that provides an appropriate matrix for the func...
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Using the World Wide Web to Develop Competencies Around the Globe
Medical education is in a revolution. Increasing social, scientific, and technological pressures are causing a shift toward the delivery of radiology learning initiatives that are more effective and efficient....
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The European Multiple System Atrophy-Study Group (EMSA-SG)
Introduction. The European Multiple System Atrophy-Study Group (EMSA-SG) is an academic network comprising 23 centers across Europe and Israel that has constituted itself already in January 1999. This internation...
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Abnormal response to inotropic stimulation in young asymptomatic type I diabetic patients demonstrated by serial gated myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging
In subjects without underlying cardiac disease dobutamine is known to enhance systolic LV function and LV relaxation. As end-systolic (ES) and end-diastolic (ED) volumes (V) can be derived from gated SPECT we ...
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Pioneers of movement disorders: Georges Gilles de la Tourette
Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette (1857–1904), a French neurologist and pupil of Jean Martin Charcot at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, has gained common recognition through his descriptio...
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A comparison of the Index of Complexity Outcome and Need (ICON) with the Peer Assessment Rating (PAR) and the Index of Orthodontic Treatment Need (IOTN)
This paper investigates a new orthodontic occlusal index, the Index of Outcome, Complexity and Need (ICON). It suggests that this single index can replace the ...
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Prerequisites for high-quality magnetic tunnel junctions: XPS and NMR study of Co/Al bilayers
Aluminum films with thicknesses ranging from 1 nm to 12 nm have been sputtered on 20 nm thick Co layers. The properties of the Co/Al bilayers were studied by X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) and spin-ech...
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The influence of Al2O3 particulate reinforcement on cyclic stress response and fracture behavior of 6061 aluminum alloy
The cyclic stress response characteristics and cyclic fracture behavior of aluminum alloy 6061 discontinuously reinforced with particulates of Al2O3 are presented and discussed. The 6061/Al2O3 composite specimens...
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Pea Genes Associated with the Non-Host Resistance to Fusarium Solani are also Induced by Chitosan and in Race-Specific Resistance by Pseudomonas Syringae
Many of the disease resistance traits in plants can be transferred within the species using conventional cross-breeding techniques. These specific traits are often inherited as single mendelian genes and often...
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377 DEVELOPMENTAL INCREASE IN THE CARDIAC CHRONOTROPIC RESPONSE TO ISOPROTERENOL (IS)
The ovine chronotropic response to injection of catecholamines is reported to increase during gestation, exhibit denervation supersensitivity, but is similar to the adult after birth. This study examined the d...
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