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2,316,100 | Circulating miR-21, miR-146a and Fas ligand respond to postmenopausal estrogen-based hormone replacement therapy--a study with monozygotic twin pairs. | Biological aging is associated with physiological deteriorations, which are partly due to changes in the hormonal profile. MicroRNAs regulate various processes associated with cell senescence; differentiation, replication and apoptosis. Serum microRNAs have potential to serve as noninvasive markers for diagnostics/prog... |
2,316,101 | Neural correlates of behavior therapy for Tourette's disorder. | Tourette's disorder, also called Tourette syndrome (TS), is characterized by motor and vocal tics that can cause significant impairment in daily functioning. Tics are believed to be due to failed inhibition of both associative and motor cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical pathways. Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention fo... |
2,316,102 | [Correlating cup-to-disc ratios measured by HRT-III, SD-OCT and the new color imaging Laguna ONhE procedure]. | To examine correlations between cup-to-disc (C/D) ratios determined by the new Laguna ONhE (optic nerve hemoglobin) color imaging procedure, spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT), confocal scanning laser tomography using Heidelberg retina tomography (HRT), and examining retinal images.</AbstractText>C/D ra... |
2,316,103 | Anaerobic digestion of alkaline bleaching wastewater from a kraft pulp and paper mill using UASB technique. | Anaerobic digestion of alkaline kraft elemental chlorine-free bleaching wastewater in two mesophilic, lab-scale upflow anaerobic sludge bed reactors resulted in significantly higher biogas production (250±50 vs. 120±30 NmL g [Formula: see text]) and reduction of filtered total organic carbon (fTOC) (60±5... |
2,316,104 | Plant derived alternatives for hormone replacement therapy (HRT). | Abstract Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has undisputable positive effects on climacteric complaints, in the bone and on body weight but also several undesired side effects. Therefore, plant-derived alternatives are currently promoted. Phytoestrogens - primarily the isoflavones genistein, daidzein and coumestrol, ste... |
2,316,105 | The effect of chronic estrogen application on bile and gallstone composition in women with cholelithiasis. | Chronic application of third generation progestagens as contraceptives or hormone replacement therapy (HRT) could influence the serum lipid profile, and consequently the bile and gallstone composition. The aim of this study was to determine components of serum, bile and gallstones in women of reproductive age or postme... |
2,316,106 | Lying-down nystagmus and head-bending nystagmus in horizontal semicircular canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: are they useful for lateralization? | Lateralization of horizontal semicircular canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (HSC-BPPV) is very important for successful repositioning. The directions of lying-down nystagmus (LDN) and head-bending nystagmus (HBN) have been used as ancillary findings to identify the affected sites. This retrospective study was ... |
2,316,107 | Inter-test reference height variability--a major error factor in Heidelberg Retina Tomography glaucoma progression analysis based on stereometric parameters changes. | To investigate the role of reference height inter-test variability upon the variability of the stereometric parameters.</AbstractText>204 glaucomatous patients underwent a complete ophthalmological exam, including Heidelberg Retina Tomography 3 (HRT-3). The exclusion criteria were optic disc or retinal pathology that m... |
2,316,108 | First identification of a triple corneal dystrophy association: keratoconus, epithelial basement membrane corneal dystrophy and fuchs' endothelial corneal dystrophy. | To report the observation of a triple corneal dystrophy association consisting of keratoconus (KC), epithelial basement membrane corneal dystrophy (EBMCD) and Fuchs' endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD).</AbstractText>A 55-year-old male patient was referred to our cornea service for blurred vision and recurrent foreign... |
2,316,109 | Aerobic/anoxic post-treatment of anaerobically digested sewage sludge as an alternative to biological nitrogen removal from reject water. | Stabilisation and biological nitrogen removal (BNR) of anaerobically digested sewage sludge were studied in a post-aeration reactor at pilot scale working under alternating anoxic-aerobic conditions. Digested sludge came from a two-stage anaerobic digestion (thermophilic + mesophilic). The best post-aerator p... |
2,316,110 | Laparoscopic gonedectomy in a case of complete androgen insensitivity syndrome. | Complete Androgen insensitivity syndrome is a disorder of hormone resistance characterized by a female phenotype in an individual with an XY karyotype. The pathogenesis of CAIS involves a defective androgen receptor gene located on X-chromosome at Xq11-12and end organ insensitivity to androgens, although androgen conce... |
2,316,111 | Pharmaceuticals and consumer products in four wastewater treatment plants in urban and suburb areas of Shanghai. | Ten pharmaceuticals and two consumer products were investigated in four wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Shanghai, China. The concentrations of target compounds in the wastewater influents ranged from below the limit of quantification (LOQ) to 9340 ng/L, with the frequency of detection of 31-100%, and the removal... |
2,316,112 | In vitro antioxidant profiling of seabuckthorn varieties and their adaptogenic response to high altitude-induced stress. | In the past few years, seabuckthorn plants have gained special attention due to their ability to grow in the harshest of the environment. This adaptability may be contributed by various antioxidants present in the plants besides other morphological adaptation. As in vivo studies cannot be justified without in vitro stu... |
2,316,113 | Wastewater treatment using integrated anaerobic baffled reactor and Bio-rack wetland planted with Phragmites sp. and Typha sp. | The purpose of this study is to examine the potential use of anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR) followed by Bio-rack wetland planted with Phragmites sp. and Typha sp. for treating domestic wastewater generated by small communities (751 mg COD/L, 500 SCOD mg/L, 348 mg BOD5/L). Two parallel laboratory-scale models showed th... |
2,316,114 | Nitrogen-converting communities in aerobic granules at different hydraulic retention times (HRTs) and operational modes. | This study determined how the activity and number of nitrogen-converting microorganisms varied with changes in hydraulic retention time (HRT) and the operating regime of aerobic granular sequencing batch reactors (GSBRs) treating high-nitrogen wastewater. Continuously aerated (O-mode) GSBRs were operated at HRTs of 10-... |
2,316,115 | Hypnotic relaxation therapy for reduction of hot flashes in postmenopausal women: examination of cortisol as a potential mediator. | Hypnotic relaxation therapy (HRT) has been shown to reduce hot flashes in postmenopausal women and breast cancer survivors. While the biological mechanism by which HRT reduces hot flashes is unknown, it has been speculated that reduction of stress mediates the intervention's effectiveness. The purpose of the present st... |
2,316,116 | Is hormone replacement therapy in post-menopausal women associated with a reduced risk of oesophageal cancer? | The rise in oesophageal adenocarcinoma incidence in women with age is delayed compared with men until the post-menopausal period. A matched cohort study was therefore undertaken of post-menopausal women on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to examine the association between HRT, oesophageal cancer and the potentially a... |
2,316,117 | The impact of risk-reducing gynaecological surgery in premenopausal women at high risk of endometrial and ovarian cancer due to Lynch syndrome. | Women with Lynch syndrome (LS) have a significantly increased lifetime risk of endometrial cancer (40-60 %) and ovarian cancer (7-12 %). Currently there is little evidence to support the efficacy of screening for the early detection of these cancers. Another option is risk-reducing hysterectomy and/or bilater... |
2,316,118 | [Influencing factors of sludge liquor treatment in UASBB]. | The effect of ammonia nitrogen concentration, temperature, pH, HRT and C/N ratio on ANAMMOX was studied. The reactor was fed with sludge liquor. The efficiency of nitrogen removal for the UASBB was researched under different ammonia nitrogen concentration, HRT, temperature, pH and C/N ratio when the influent rho(NH4(+)... |
2,316,119 | Agreement among graders on Heidelberg retina tomograph (HRT) topographic change analysis (TCA) glaucoma progression interpretation. | To evaluate agreement among experts of Heidelberg retina tomography's (HRT) topographic change analysis (TCA) printout interpretations of glaucoma progression and explore methods for improving agreement.</AbstractText>109 eyes of glaucoma, glaucoma suspect and healthy subjects with ≥5 visits and 2 good quality H... |
2,316,120 | Correlation between corneal thickness and optic disc morphology in normal tension glaucoma using modern technical analysis. | The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between central corneal thickness (CCT) and optic disc morphology in normal tension glaucoma (NTG). Patients with NTG underwent eye examination, optic disc imaging with Heildelberg Retina Tomograph II (HRT II) and ultrasound corneal pachymetry. The morphologica... |
2,316,121 | CFD simulation of vertical linear motion mixing in anaerobic digester tanks. | Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was used to simulate the mixing characteristics of a small circular anaerobic digester tank (diameter 6 m) equipped sequentially with 13 different plunger type vertical linear motion mixers and two different type internal draft-tube mixers. Rates of mixing of step injection of tracers... |
2,316,122 | Is postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy suitable after a cardio- or cerebrovascular event? | Vascular disease is the leading cause of death in women. One-third of acute events affect women below age 60, when the prevalence of menopausal symptoms is high. This raises the question if hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may be an appropriate treatment for individual women although vascular disease is generally cons... |
2,316,123 | Anastrozole versus tamoxifen as adjuvant therapy for Japanese postmenopausal patients with hormone-responsive breast cancer: efficacy results of long-term follow-up data from the N-SAS BC 03 trial. | Aromatase inhibitors are superior to tamoxifen as adjuvant therapy in postmenopausal patients with hormone-responsive breast cancer. We report the follow-up efficacy results from the N-SAS BC 03 trial (UMIN CTRID: C000000056) where anastrozole was compared with tamoxifen as adjuvant therapy in postmenopausal Japanese p... |
2,316,124 | Menopause and oral health. | Different phases of a woman's life: Puberty, menses, pregnancy, and menopause have varied influence on her oral health. During the menopause, women go through biological and endocrine changes, particularly in their sex steroid hormone production, affecting their health. Because the oral mucosa contains estrogen recepto... |
2,316,125 | Transfer of noncoding DNA drives regulatory rewiring in bacteria. | Understanding the mechanisms that generate variation is a common pursuit unifying the life sciences. Bacteria represent an especially striking puzzle, because closely related strains possess radically different metabolic and ecological capabilities. Differences in protein repertoire arising from gene transfer are curre... |
2,316,126 | Evaluation of outcomes and radiation complications in 65 cats with nasal tumours treated with palliative hypofractionated radiotherapy. | Feline nasal tumours (NTs) are locally invasive and occasionally metastasise to distant sites. Although palliative hypofractionated radiotherapy (HRT) is used, its efficacy and long-term complications have not been adequately evaluated. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of HRT in treating feline ma... |
2,316,127 | Preliminary Hormonal Correlations in Female Patients as a Function of Somatic and Neurological Symptom Clusters: An Exploratory Development of a Multi-Hormonal Map for Bio-Identical Replacement Therapy (MHRT). | Females develop multiple hormonal alterations and certain genes may be involved in the intensity of subsequent symptoms including both mood and drug seeking. Seventy Four (74) females were included (mean age=60.23, SD=9.21, [43-87]). A medical evaluation was completed with hormone screening using a number of statistica... |
2,316,128 | Hormone replacement therapy in the treatment of perimenopausal depression. | The menopause transition is associated with a two to fourfold increased risk in major depressive disorder (MDD) and clinical elevations in depressive symptoms. While the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying this increased risk remain uncertain, ovarian hormone fluctuation is believed to play a role. To the extent t... |
2,316,129 | [Clinical efficacy of Vitrum Memory in patients with glaucoma and dry form of age-related macular degeneration]. | The study was conducted to assess clinical efficacy of Vitrum Memory in therapeutic dosage for 3 months in patients with glaucoma and dry form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Survey data, visual acuity, biomicroscopy, computer perimetry, electrophysiological studies (EPS): visual evoked potentials (VEP) and ... |
2,316,130 | Optimization of solid state anaerobic digestion of the OFMSW by digestate recirculation: A new approach. | Dry anaerobic digestion (AD) of OFMSW was optimized in order to produce biogas avoiding the use of solid inoculum. Doing so the dry AD was performed irrigating the solid waste with liquid digestate (flow rate of 1:1.18-1:0.9 w/w waste/digestate; 21d of hydraulic retention time - HRT) in order to remove fermentation pro... |
2,316,131 | Assessment of the effects of naringenin-type flavanones in uterus and vagina. | The potential utilization of plant secondary metabolites possessing estrogenic properties as alternatives to the classical hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for the relief of postmenopausal complaints asks for an evaluation regarding the safety in reproductive organs. In order to contribute to the estimation of the saf... |
2,316,132 | Lifestyle influences on the association between pre-diagnostic hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer prognosis - results from The Danish 'Diet, Cancer and Health' prospective cohort. | The association between pre-diagnostic hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and breast cancer specific mortality as well as potential influences from other lifestyle factors on the association was investigated.</AbstractText>Female participants from the prospective cohort "Diet, Cancer, and Health" diagnosed with breast c... |
2,316,133 | Molecular modulation of estrogen-induced apoptosis by synthetic progestins in hormone replacement therapy: an insight into the women's health initiative study. | Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is widely used to manage menopausal symptoms in women and can be comprised of an estrogen alone or an estrogen combined with a progestin. The Women's Health Initiative demonstrated in their randomized trials that estrogen alone HRT decreases the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal ... |
2,316,134 | Simultaneous coproduction of hydrogen and ethanol in anaerobic packed-bed reactors. | This study evaluated the use of an anaerobic packed-bed reactor for hydrogen production at different hydraulic retention times (HRT) (1-8 h). Two reactors filled with expanded clay and fed with glucose (3136-3875 mg L(-1)) were operated at different total upflow velocities: 0.30 cm s(... |
2,316,135 | Enhancement of azo dye Acid Orange 7 removal in newly developed horizontal subsurface-flow constructed wetland. | Horizontal subsurface-flow (HSF) constructed wetland incorporating baffles was developed to facilitate upflow and downflow conditions so that the treatment of pollutants could be achieved under multiple aerobic, anoxic and anaerobic conditions sequentially in the same wetland bed. The performances of the baffled and co... |
2,316,136 | Confocal scanning laser tomography of the optic nerve head on the patients with Alzheimer's disease compared to glaucoma and control. | The purpose of this study was to evaluate optic nerve head (ONH) differences of the patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) measured by confocal scanning laser tomography [Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT) III] and compare with glaucoma and control subjects. Eighty-four patients were enrolled into the study: 44 eyes of ... |
2,316,137 | Anaerobic digestion of municipal wastewater sludges using anaerobic fluidized bed bioreactor. | The anaerobic digestion of primary sludge (PS) and thickened waste activated sludge (TWAS) using an anaerobic fluidized bed bioreactor (AnFBR) employing zeolite particles as the carrier media was investigated at different organic loading rates (OLRs). PS was tested at OLRs from 4.2 to 39kgCOD/m(3)-d corresponding to hy... |
2,316,138 | Knowledge and attitude towards menopause and hormone replacement therapy in Chinese women. | To explore the knowledge and prevalence of menopausal symptoms as well as the use and attitude toward hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in Chinese women.</AbstractText>A cross-sectional study was conducted between May 2011 and April 2012 in Shanghai, China. The structured questionnaire addressing sociodemographic chara... |
2,316,139 | Effect of hydraulic retention time (HRT) on the biodegradation of trichloroethylene wastewater and anaerobic bacterial community in the UASB reactor. | This study utilizes the unique merits of an 8-L laboratory upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor for treating synthetic wastewater containing trichloroethylene (TCE). The reactor was operated at different hydraulic retention times (HRT) of 25, 20, 15, 10, and 5 h. TCE removal efficiency decreased from 99 ... |
2,316,140 | Treatment of phenolics, aromatic hydrocarbons, and cyanide-bearing wastewater in individual and combined anaerobic, aerobic, and anoxic bioreactors. | Studies were conducted on a mixture of pollutants commonly found in coke oven wastewater (CWW) to evaluate the biodegradation of various pollutants under anaerobic, aerobic, and anoxic conditions. The removal of the pollutants was monitored during individual bioreactor operation and using a combination of bioreactors o... |
2,316,141 | Comparisons between low-intensity resistance training with blood flow restriction and high-intensity resistance training on quadriceps muscle mass and strength in elderly. | High-intensity resistance training (HRT) has been recommended to offset age-related loss in muscle strength and mass. However, part of the elderly population is often unable to exercise at high intensities. Alternatively, low-intensity resistance training with blood flow restriction (LRT-BFR) has emerged. The purpose o... |
2,316,142 | An important role of endothelial hairy-related transcription factors in mouse vascular development. | The Hairy-related transcription factor family of Notch- and ALK1-downstream transcriptional repressors, called Hrt/Hey/Hesr/Chf/Herp/Gridlock, has complementary and indispensable functions for vascular development. While mouse embryos null for either Hrt1/Hey1 or Hrt2/Hey2 did not show early vascular phenotypes, Hrt1/H... |
2,316,143 | Shift of propionate-oxidizing bacteria with HRT decrease in an UASB reactor containing propionate as a sole carbon source. | Propionate is a main intermediate product, and its degradation is crucial for maintaining the efficiency and stability of an anaerobic reactor. However, there was little information about the effects of ecological factor on propionate-oxidizing bacteria. In current research, microbial community composition and quantita... |
2,316,144 | Cr(VI) and COD removal from landfill leachate by polyculture constructed wetland at a pilot scale. | Four subsurface horizontal-flow constructed wetlands (CWs) at a pilot scale planted with a polyculture of the tropical plants Gynerium sagittatum (Gs), Colocasia esculenta (Ce) and Heliconia psittacorum (He) were evaluated for 7 months. The CW cells with an area of 17.94 m(2) and 0.60 m (h) each and 0.5&... |
2,316,145 | Sex hormone replacement in disorders of sex development. | People with disorders of sex development (DSD) may have impaired sex steroid production or their gonads removed before, during or after adolescence, thus requiring hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to induce puberty and/or maintain secondary sexual characteristics, to optimize bone health, and to promote physical and s... |
2,316,146 | Inverse association between coffee consumption and risk of cholecystectomy in women but not in men. | <AbstractText Label="BACKGROUND & AIMS" NlmCategory="OBJECTIVE">There is conflicting epidemiologic evidence on whether coffee consumption reduces the risk of gallstone disease. We examined the association between coffee consumption and risk of cholecystectomy (as a proxy for symptomatic gallstone disease) in a pros... |
2,316,147 | Treatment of a submerged anaerobic membrane bioreactor (SAnMBR) effluent by an activated sludge system: the role of sulphide and thiosulphate in the process. | This work studies the use of a well-known and spread activated sludge system (UCT configuration) to treat the effluent of a submerged anaerobic membrane bioreactor (SAnMBR) treating domestic wastewater. Ammonia, phosphate, dissolved methane and sulphide concentrations in the SAnMBR effluent were around 55 mg NH4-N L(-1... |
2,316,148 | Estrogen plus progestin increase superoxide dismutase and total antioxidant capacity in postmenopausal women. | This cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate the behavior of blood antioxidant enzymes (superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase and glutathione peroxidase), plasma total antioxidant capacity and oxidative damage (lipid oxidation and protein carbonyl levels) and their relationship with the serum levels of steroid hormones ... |
2,316,149 | The influence of hormone replacement therapy on the salivary flow of post-menopausal women. | The aim of this study is to investigate the influence of hormone therapy on salivary flow in menopausal women. It is a case-control study involving 86 post-menopausal women. The case group consisted of 47 women undergoing estroprogestative or estrogen hormone replacement therapy (HRT), and the control group consisted o... |
2,316,150 | The impact of aeration on the competition between polyphosphate accumulating organisms and glycogen accumulating organisms. | In wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), aeration is the major energetic cost, thus its minimisation will improve the cost-effectiveness of the process. This study shows that both the dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration and aerobic hydraulic retention time (HRT) affect the competition between polyphosphate accumula... |
2,316,151 | Effects of volumetric load in an anaerobic sequencing batch biofilm treating industrial saline wastewater. | Mustard tuber wastewater is of high salinity ([Cl(-1)]=18∼23 g L(-1)), high organic content (chemical oxygen demand, COD=4000±100 L(-1)) and biodegradability (BOD5/COD≈0.5). The anaerobic sequencing batch biofilm reactor (ASBBR) pre-treatment, an important step to meet national d... |
2,316,152 | Biodegradability of oily wastewater using rotating biological contactor combined with an external membrane. | A novel implementation of a hybrid membrane bioreactor (HMBR) has been studied in this paper. It is utilized as combination of rotating biological contractor (RBC) and an external membrane, as a new biological system for oily wastewater treatment.</AbstractText>Chemical oxygen demand (COD) and total petroleum hydrocarb... |
2,316,153 | Prevention and treatment of venous thromboembolism during HRT: current perspectives. | Many large trials in the past 15 years have proven an increased risk of vascular complications in women using oral, mostly non-bioidentical, hormone therapy. The risk of vascular complications depends on the route of administration (oral versus transdermal), age, duration of administration, and type of hormones (bioide... |
2,316,154 | Flicker defined form perimetry in glaucoma suspects with normal achromatic visual fields. | To evaluate if repeated flicker-defined form (FDF) perimetry can detect visual field (VF) defects in glaucoma suspects with normal findings in achromatic standard automated perimetry (SAP).</AbstractText>Patients with optic nerve heads (ONHs) or retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) findings clinically suspicious for glauco... |
2,316,155 | Bio-entrapped membrane reactor and salt marsh sediment membrane bioreactor for the treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater: treatment performance and microbial communities. | In this study, a bio-entrapped membrane reactor (BEMR) and a salt marsh sediment membrane bioreactor (SMSMBR) were evaluated to study the organic treatment performance of pharmaceutical wastewater. The influences of hydraulic retention time (HRT) and salinity were also studied. The conventional biomass in the BEMR cann... |
2,316,156 | Simultaneous partial nitritation and anammox at low temperature with granular sludge. | Autotrophic nitrogen removal in the main stream appears as a prerequisite for the implementation of energy autarchic wastewater treatment plants. To investigate autotrophic nitrogen removal a lab-scale gas-lift sequencing batch reactor with granular sludge was operated for more than 500 days. The reactor was operated a... |
2,316,157 | Integrated Cr(VI) removal using constructed wetlands and composting. | The present work was conducted to study integrated chromium removal from aqueous solutions in horizontal subsurface (HSF) constructed wetlands. Two pilot-scale HSF constructed wetlands (CWs) units were built and operated. One unit was planted with common reeds (Phragmites australis) and one was kept unplanted. Influent... |
2,316,158 | The treatment of PPCP-containing sewage in an anoxic/aerobic reactor coupled with a novel design of solid plain graphite-plates microbial fuel cell. | Synthetic sewage containing high concentrations of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs, mg/L level) was treated using an anoxic/aerobic (A/O) reactor coupled with a microbial fuel cell (MFC) at hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 8 h. A novel design of solid plain graphite plates (SPGRPs) was used fo... |
2,316,159 | Performance and microbial response during the fast reactivation of Anammox system by hydrodynamic stress control. | Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (Anammox) has become a promising method for biological nitrogen removal. However, this biotechnology application is always limited due to the low growth rate and biomass yield of Anammox bacteria. This study investigated the process of fast reactivation of an Anammox consortium idled for 2 ... |
2,316,160 | Settling basin design in a constructed wetland using TSS removal efficiency and hydraulic retention time. | Using total suspended solid (TSS) removal efficiency and hydraulic retention time (HRT) as design parameters a design guideline of a settling basin in a constructed wetland (CW) was suggested; as well as management of sediment and particle in the settling basin. The CW was designed to treat the piggery wastewater efflu... |
2,316,161 | Complementary/alternative and conventional medicine use amongst menopausal women: results from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. | Large population-based studies of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and conventional medicine use amongst menopausal women are lacking. This study helps address this gap by analysing data from a nationally representative sample of 10011 Australian women aged 59-64 years. Overall, 39% of menopausal women cons... |
2,316,162 | Effects of two different nutrient loads on microalgal production, nutrient removal and photosynthetic efficiency in pilot-scale wastewater high rate algal ponds. | When wastewater treatment high rate algal ponds (HRAP) are coupled with resource recovery processes, such as biofuel production, short hydraulic retention times (HRTs) are often favoured to increase the microalgal biomass productivity. However, short HRT can result in increased nutrient load to the HRAP which may negat... |
2,316,163 | Organic semiconductor wastewater treatment using a four-stage Bardenpho with membrane system. | Electronic wastewater from a semiconductor plant was treated with a pilot-scale four-stage Bardenpho process with membrane system. The system was operated over a 14-month period with an overall hydraulic retention time (HRT) ranging from 9.5 to 30 h. With a few exceptions, the pilot plant consistently treated the elect... |
2,316,164 | Reuse of drinking water treatment residuals in a continuous stirred tank reactor for phosphate removal from urban wastewater. | This work proposed a new approach of reusing drinking water treatment residuals (WTR) in a continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) to remove phosphate (P) from urban wastewater. The results revealed that the P removal efficiency of the WTR was more than 94% for urban wastewater, in the condition of initial P concentrati... |
2,316,165 | A novel application of red mud-iron on granulation and treatment of palm oil mill effluent using upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor. | The performance of the upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor that used red mud-iron (RM-Fe) for methane production for the treatment of palm oil mill effluent (POME) at various hydraulic retention time (HRT) was determined. POME was used as the substrate carbon source. The biogas production rate was 1.7 l biogas/h wi... |
2,316,166 | Osteoporosis medication dispensing for older Australian women from 2002 to 2010: influences of publications, guidelines, marketing activities and policy. | Developments in anti-osteoporosis medications (AOMs) have led to changes in guidelines and policy, which, along with media and marketing strategies, have had an impact upon the prescribing of AOM. The aim was to examine patterns of AOM dispensing in older women (aged 76-81 years at baseline) from 2002 to 2010.</... |
2,316,167 | Associations between cadmium exposure and circulating levels of sex hormones in postmenopausal women. | Recent epidemiological as well as in vivo and in vitro studies collectively suggest that the metalloestrogen cadmium (Cd) could be a potential risk factor for hormone-related cancers in particularly breast cancer. Assessment of the association between Cd exposure and levels of endogenous sex hormones is of pivotal impo... |
2,316,168 | 3D hierarchical rutile TiO2 and metal-free organic sensitizer producing dye-sensitized solar cells 8.6% conversion efficiency. | Three-dimensional (3D) hierarchical nanoscale architectures comprised of building blocks, with specifically engineered morphologies, are expected to play important roles in the fabrication of 'next generation' microelectronic and optoelectronic devices due to their high surface-to-volume ratio as well as opto-electroni... |
2,316,169 | Interactions between preparations containing female sex hormones and dietary supplements. | An increasing number of premenopausal women use contraception whereas postmenopausal women use hormone replacement therapy (HRT). This long-term hormone therapy poses a high risk of interactions with dietary supplements. Taking estrogens at the same time as selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs), biologically-a... |
2,316,170 | Performance of on-site pilot static granular bed reactor (SGBR) for treating dairy processing wastewater and chemical oxygen demand balance modeling under different operational conditions. | The performance and operational stability of a pilot-scale static granular bed reactor (SGBR) for the treatment of dairy processing wastewater were investigated under a wide range of organic and hydraulic loading rates and temperature conditions. The SGBR achieved average chemical oxygen demand (COD), biological oxygen... |
2,316,171 | Bioelectricity generation in an integrated system combining microbial fuel cell and tubular membrane reactor: effects of operation parameters performing a microbial fuel cell-based biosensor for tubular membrane bioreactor. | A bio-cathode microbial fuel cell (MFC) with tubular membrane was integrated to construct a microbial fuel cell-tubular membrane bioreactor (MFC-TMBR) system, in which the bio-cathode MFC was developed as a biosensor for COD real-time monitoring in TMBR and the performance was analyzed in terms of its current variation... |
2,316,172 | Performance and kinetic evaluation of semi-continuously fed anaerobic digesters treating food waste: role of trace elements. | This study investigated the effects of trace elements (TEs) on the anaerobic digestion (AD) of food waste (FW) in laboratory-scale semi-continuously fed anaerobic digesters. The duration of digesters operation was approximately 400 days. Organic loading rates (OLRs) ranged from 1.0 to 5.5 g VS L(-1) d(-1) at 37 °C... |
2,316,173 | Effects of pathological respiratory pattern on heart rate turbulence in sleep apnea. | Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is characterized by recurrent episodes of partial or complete upper-airway obstruction during sleep. Although cardiac autonomic impairment is involved in the development of cardiovascular disease in OSAS, the mechanism underlying this derangement is rather unknown. It can be asse... |
2,316,174 | [Influences of hydraulic retention time on the ethanol type fermentation hydrogen production system in a hybrid anaerobic baffled reactor]. | Effect of hydraulic retention time (HRT) on bio-hydrogen production and operational stability of ethanol-type fermentation was investigated in a hybrid anaerobic baffled reactor (HABR) using brown sugar as substrate. The results showed that five HRTs were examined, ranging from 8 to 36 h. At a HRT of 12 h, the highest ... |
2,316,175 | [AF + BAF for treating effluent in the sewage plant of the resin and chemical industry park]. | The anaerobic filter (AF) and biological aerated filter (BAF) were employed to treat the effluent in a sewage plant of the resin and chemical industry park. The ceramsite was used in BAF. In this study, the influent COD was 200-300 mg x L(-1) and the pilot model scale was 2-4 L x d(-1). According to the results, the AF... |
2,316,176 | Optimization of process performance in a granule-based anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor. | In this study, the individual and interactive effects of influent substrate concentration (TNinf), hydraulic retention time (HRT) and upflow velocity (Vup) on the performance of anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) in a granule-based upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor were investigated by employing respon... |
2,316,177 | Evaluation of different periods of estrogen replacement onset in the tibia of ovariectomized rats. | Estrogen deficiency results in increased bone turnover and can lead to osteoporosis. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) seems to be the most effective means of reducing bone loss and fractures. However, the effects of the period of HRT onset on bone tissue require further elucidation. This study aimed to evaluate the ef... |
2,316,178 | Trends in organ donor management: 2002 to 2012. | Refinements in donor management have resulted in increased numbers and quality of grafts after neurologic death. We hypothesize that the increased use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has been accompanied by improved outcomes over time.</AbstractText>Using the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network donor database... |
2,316,179 | Modelling cometabolic biotransformation of organic micropollutants in nitrifying reactors. | Cometabolism is the ability of microorganisms to degrade non-growth substrates in the presence of primary substrates, being the main removal mechanism behind the biotransformation of organic micropollutants in wastewater treatment plants. In this paper, a cometabolic Monod-type kinetics, linking biotransformation of mi... |
2,316,180 | Simultaneous removal of nitrogen, phosphorus and COD in an integrated OCO reactor. | An integrated OCO reactor with two side-ditch separators based on the anaerobic/anoxic/oxic (A2/O) process was developed for municipal wastewater treatment in this study. The effects of dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration, hydraulic retention time (HRT) and the ratio of chemical oxygen demand (COD) to total nitrogen (C... |
2,316,181 | Acidification of non-medicated and oxytetracycline-medicated cattle manures during anaerobic digestion. | Possible adverse effects of a commonly used veterinary antibiotic, oxytetracycline (OTC), on acidogenic phase of anaerobic digestion of cattle manure along with optimum operating conditions were investigated. A standard veterinary practice of 50 ml OTC solution (20 mg/kg cattle weight) was injected into the muscles of ... |
2,316,182 | Hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] removal by the electrochemical ion-exchange process. | In the present investigation, the performance of a laboratory-scale plate and frame-type electrochemical ion-exchange (EIX) cell on removal ofhexavalent chromium from synthetic wastewater containing 5 mg/l of Cr(VI) was evaluated under varying applied voltages. Ruthenium dioxide-coated titanium plate (RuO2/Ti) was used... |
2,316,183 | Modified septic tank-anaerobic filter unit as a two-stage onsite domestic wastewater treatment system. | This study demonstrates the performance evaluation of a uniquely designed two-stage system for onsite treatment of domestic wastewater. The system consisted of two upflow anaerobic bioreactors, a modified septic tank followed by an upflow anaerobic filter, accommodated within a single cylindrical unit. The system was s... |
2,316,184 | Safety of hormonal replacement therapy and oral contraceptives in systemic lupus erythematosus: a systematic review and meta-analysis. | There is conflicting data regarding exogenous sex hormones [oral contraceptives (OC) and hormonal replacement therapy (HRT)] exposure and different outcomes on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). The aim of this work is to determine, through a systematic review and meta-analysis the risks associated with estrogen use f... |
2,316,185 | Development of droplet digital PCR assays for methanogenic taxa and examination of methanogen communities in full-scale anaerobic digesters. | Droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) is a new DNA quantification platform without an external DNA calibrator. This study examined methanogen communities in four full-scale anaerobic digesters treating municipal sewage sludge, using ddPCR with taxon-specific primer/TaqMan probe sets (5 orders, 11 families, and 13 genera), many o... |
2,316,186 | Tertiary treatment for wastewater reuse based on the Daphnia magna filtration - comparison with conventional tertiary treatments. | Tertiary treatments are required to permit safe reuse of wastewater. The performance of a new biological tertiary treatment based on the filtration by a population of Daphnia magna was studied and compared with the performance of other conventional tertiary treatments such as coagulation-flocculation, settling tank, di... |
2,316,187 | Development of a down-flow hanging sponge reactor for the treatment of low strength sewage. | The process performance of a down-flow hanging sponge (DHS) reactor for treating low strength sewage (biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) 20-50 mg/L) was investigated in Bangkok, Thailand. The hydraulic retention time (HRT) was set at 4 h during the start-up period and was reduced to 1.5 h in a stepwise manner. Throughout ... |
2,316,188 | Differentiation in the microbial ecology and activity of suspended and attached bacteria in a nitritation-anammox process. | A directed differentiation between the biofilm and suspension was observed in the molecular microbial ecology and gene expression of different bacteria in a biofilm nitritation-anammox process operated at varying hydraulic residence times (HRT) and nitrogen loading rates (NLR). The highest degree of enrichment observed... |
2,316,189 | Male genital mutilation (amputation) and its complications: a case report. | Genital losses from ritual attacks are often reported in the media and often discussed in the social media but are hardly reported in medical literature. Male genital mutilation (MGM) refers to permanent modification of the external genitalia that involves ablation of genital tissues.When found, it is usually as a cons... |
2,316,190 | Polyphosphate- and glycogen-accumulating organisms in one EBPR system for liquid dairy manure. | Two enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) sequencing batch reactors (SBR1, SBR2) treating liquid dairy manure were operated with the same hydraulic retention time (HRT) and solids retention time (SRT), but with different aeration cycles. During eight months of operation, both SBRs achieved good removal of total... |
2,316,191 | Optic nerve head deformation in glaucoma: the temporal relationship between optic nerve head surface depression and retinal nerve fiber layer thinning. | To investigate the temporal relationship between optic nerve head (ONH) surface depression and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thinning measured by confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (CSLO) and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT), respectively, during the course of glaucoma progression.</Abstract... |
2,316,192 | A review of paroxetine for the treatment of vasomotor symptoms. | Studies in recent years have exposed concerns about the safety of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in the treatment of vasomotor symptoms (VMS) in menopausal women. Numerous studies have examined the use of antidepressants for relief of VMS. Despite recommendations to deny approval of paroxetine mesylate (Brisdelle&#x... |
2,316,193 | Deciphering the proteomic signature of human endometrial receptivity. | Are there any proteomic differences between receptive (R) and non-receptive (NR) endometrial receptivity array (ERA)-diagnosed endometria obtained on the same day of a hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) treatment cycle?</AbstractText>There is a different proteomic signature between R and NR ERA-diagnosed endometrium ob... |
2,316,194 | Role of algal biofilm in improving the performance of free surface, up-flow constructed wetland. | The role of algal biofilm in a pilot-scale, free-surface, up-flow constructed wetland (CW), was studied for its effect on chemical oxygen demand (COD), ammonia and phosphate removal during three seasons-autumn, winter and early spring. Effect of hydraulic retention time (HRT) was also investigated in presence and absen... |
2,316,195 | Microbial community structure and pharmaceuticals and personal care products removal in a membrane bioreactor seeded with aerobic granular sludge. | A process involving the use of membrane bioreactor seeded with aerobic granular sludge (GMBR) was applied to the treatment of sewage containing pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs). The removal effects of five kinds of medicines in the reactor were investigated, and the microbial communities were construc... |
2,316,196 | Comparison of single-stage and two-phase anaerobic sludge digestion systems - Performance and microbial community dynamics. | This study compared reactor performance and the respective microbial community dynamics in the conventional single-stage and 2-phase anaerobic digestion (AD) systems, treating municipal sludge to generate methane. The 2-phase system's COD and VS reduction, and methane production could be maintained throughout the three... |
2,316,197 | Revised proposal for the prevention of low bone mass in patients with classic galactosemia. | Decreased bone mass is frequently encountered in classic galactosemia, an inborn error of galactose metabolism. This decrease is most prominent in adults, but is already seen in prepubertal children with increased risk of osteoporosis and fractures later in life. Therefore, bone health in patients with classic galactos... |
2,316,198 | Enhanced struvite recovery from wastewater using a novel cone-inserted fluidized bed reactor. | The feasibility of struvite recovery at low (12.5 mg/L) and high (120 mg/L) phosphorus concentrations was studied by constructing a novel fluidized bed reactor with cones (FBRwc) and without cones (FBRwoc). The crystallization process was continuously operated for 133 days under different hydraulic retention times (HRT... |
2,316,199 | Mixed sulfur-iron particles packed reactor for simultaneous advanced removal of nitrogen and phosphorus from secondary effluent. | A mixed sulfur-iron particles packed reactor (SFe reactor) was developed to simultaneously remove total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) of the secondary effluent from municipal wastewater treatment plants. Low effluent TN (<1.5 mg/L) and TP (<0.3 mg/L) concentrations were simultaneously obtained... |
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