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Evaluating Bacillus flexus as bioremediators for ammonia removal in shrimp culture water and wastewater and characterizing microbial communities in shrimp pond sludge
The accumulation of nitrogen compounds in shrimp farming water and effluent presents a major challenge. Ammonia is a form of nitrogen that limits shrimp growth due to its potential toxicity and effects on shri...
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Open AccessCritical review and functional safety of a battery management system for large-scale lithium-ion battery pack technologies
The battery management system (BMS) is the main safeguard of a battery system for electric propulsion and machine electrification. It is tasked to ensure reliable and safe operation of battery cells connected ...
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Astrocyte-Derived Exosomes in an iPSC Model of Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar I Disorder (BP) is a serious, recurrent mood disorder that is characterized by alternating episodes of mania and depression. To begin to identify novel approaches and pathways involved in BP, we have o...
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Open AccessGenome-wide map** of Myc binding and gene regulation in serum-stimulated fibroblasts
The transition from quiescence to proliferation is a key regulatory step that can be induced by serum stimulation in cultured fibroblasts. The transcription factor Myc is directly induced by serum mitogens and...
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Feasibility of Using the Wavelet-Phase Stability in the Objective Quantification of Neural Correlates of Auditory Selective Attention
In this paper, we study the feasibility of using the wavelet-phase stability (WPS) in extracting the correlates of selective attention by comparing its performance to the widely used linear interdependency mea...
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Medical Image Pixel Extraction via Block Positioning Subtraction Technique for Motion Analysis
This paper presents a study on image pixels via block based technique using block positioning subtraction technique to determine the motion estimation. Motion estimation occurs in areas of interest while proce...
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Monte Carlo Simulation of the Crystal Size Distribution with Attrition Effects in a Mixed Suspension Crystallizer
The effects of attrition on crystal size distribution in a continuous mixed suspension crystallizer were predicted by a Random Breakage model. The crystal size distribution was computed by Monte Carlo (MC) tec...
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Polydiacetylene Macromolecules in Solution: Rods, Coils and Gels
In this review of work at the Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids at UCSB, we summarize the results obtained from spectroscopic studies, quasi-elastic light scattering and field induced birefringence of ...
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Superconductivity in bulk A15 Nb3Si under pressure
We have determined the effect of hydrostatic pressureP on the superconducting transition temperatureT c of bulk, A15 Nb3Si. For 0≤P≤20 kbar (2 GPa),T c decrease linearly with increasing pressure at a rate ∂T c/∂P
