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Composition, Fractionation, Techno-Functional Properties and Applications of Milk Fat Globule Membrane–Derived Material
Milk fat occurs as globules with a non-polar lipid core composed primarily of triglycerides and surrounded by the milk fat globule membrane (MFGM). Because of its cellular membrane origin, the MFGM is the rich...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Analyzing the Academic Approaches to Learning of Portuguese College Students Through the Psychometric Study of a Questionnaire
Background: Assessing the college students’ more often utilized approaches to learning, as they are understood by Biggs and his collaborators could be paramount to infer the way students learn. Such know...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Competition Model for the Offer: An Experiment of Management Simulation
It is observed that contemporary learning tools have their logic of development grounded in learning and not merely in the traditional teaching practice. In other words, learning happens by the experimental ac...
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Article
An Evaluation of Kinetic Models in the Biodesulfurization of Synthetic Oil by Rhodococcus erythropolis ATCC 4277
Biodesulfurization is an eco-friendly technology applied in the removal of sulfur from fossil fuels. This technology is based on the use of microorganisms as biocatalysts to convert the recalcitrant sulfur com...
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Article
Desulfurization and denitrogenation of heavy gas oil by Rhodococcus erythropolis ATCC 4277
Some of the noxious atmospheric pollutants such as nitrogen and sulfur dioxides come from the fossil fuel combustion. Biodesulfurization and biodenitrogenation are processes which remove those pollutants throu...
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Article
Continuous lipase-catalyzed esterification of soybean fatty acids under ultrasound irradiation
This work investigates the continuous production of alkyl esters from soybean fatty acid (FA) charges using immobilized Novozym 435 as catalyst. The experiments were performed in a packed-bed bioreactor evalua...
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Article
Synthesis of Eugenol Esters by Lipase-Catalyzed Reaction in Solvent-Free System
Enzymatic esterification of eugenol is a matter of great scientific and technological interest due to the well-known drawbacks of the chemical-catalyzed route as well as the potential use of produced compounds...
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Article
Brain death in children: a cross-section study enrolling five Brazilian pediatric ICUs
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Article
Methylmalonic aciduria: Follow-up and enzymology on the original case after 36 years
A 36-year follow-up on the original patient described with methylmalonic aciduria has shown that she has methylmalonyl-CoA apomutase deficiency. The main clinical problem associated with her methylmalonic acid...
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Article
Role of Intracellular Calcium Stores on the Effect of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors on Phosphorylation of Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein in Hippocampal Slices from Immature Rats
Phosphorylation of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in slices from immature rats is stimulated by glutamate via a group II metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR II) and by absence of external Ca2+ in react...
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Article
B-Type natriuretic peptide assessment in coronary arterial bypass graft surgery
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MODS in mechanically ventilated patients
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Chapter
Progress towards the Genetic Transformation of Four Tropical Acacia Species: Acacia Mangium, Acacia Crassicarpa, Acacia Mearnsii and Acacia Albida
The genus Acacia includes about 1100 species, which are mostly shrubs and small trees of the dry savannas and arid regions of Australia, Africa, India and the Americas. Of these, A. mangium, A.crassicarpa, A. mea...
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Prepubertal male pseudohermaphroditism due to 17-ketosteroid reductase deficiency: diagnostic value of a hCG test and lack of HLA association
Most patients with male pseudohermaphroditism (MPH) due to 17-ketosteroid reductase (17-KSR) deficiency were diagnosed at or after puberty when significant virilization occurred. We report 2 prepubertal sibs (...
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Cytogenetics of South American akodont rodents (Cricetidae). V. Segregation of chromosome No. 1 polymorphism inAkodon molinae
Akodon molinae is polymorphic with 2n=42, 43, 44, where the metacentric autosome No. 1 is homologous to 2 acrocentrics 1a and 1b. Matings between 2n=43 heterozygotes 1/1a, 1b gave a surplus of 1/1 offspring, a m...