Unnamed: 0 int64 0 2.34M | titles stringlengths 5 21.5M | abst stringlengths 1 21.5M |
|---|---|---|
2,317,700 | Heterotrophic denitrification strategy for marine recirculating aquaculture wastewater treatment using mariculture solid wastes fermentation liquid as carbon source: Optimization of COD/NO<sub>3</sub><sup>-</sup>-N ratio and hydraulic retention time. | Heterotrophic denitrification using mariculture solid wastes (MSW) fermentation liquid as carbon source is an economically and environmentally sustainable strategy for NO<sub>3</sub><sup>-</sup>-N removal in marine recycling aquaculture systems (RAS). The optimization of COD/NO<sub>3</sub><sup>-</sup>-N ratio (C/N) and... |
2,317,701 | Present clinical practice of breast cancer radiotherapy in Italy: a nationwide survey by the Italian Society of Radiotherapy and Clinical Oncology (AIRO) Breast Group. | To investigate the present attitude of the Italian Radiation Oncologists in the management of breast cancer (BC) concerning hypofractionated radiotherapy (hRT), partial-breast irradiation (PBI), re-irradiation (rRT) and radiotherapy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (post-NAC RT).</AbstractText>A nationwide, 21-point ques... |
2,317,702 | Irrigation of Zea mays with UASB-treated textile wastewater; effect on early irrigation of Zea mays with UASB-treated textile wastewater; effect on early growth and physiology. | In this study, mature seeds of Zea mays (Malka 16) were irrigated with untreated and UASB-treated wastewater with combination of 50% textile and 50% sewage at hydraulic retention times (HRTs) of 0, 5, 10, and 15 h. Four other treatments diluted with distilled water (DW) were also evaluated. Eight-week analysis of ... |
2,317,703 | Simultaneous sludge minimization, biological phosphorous removal and membrane fouling mitigation in a novel plant layout for MBR. | The integration of one anaerobic reactor in the mainstream (AMSR) of a pre-denitritication-MBR was evaluated with the aim to achieve simultaneous sludge minimization and phosphorous removal. The excess sludge production was reduced by 64% when the AMSR was operated under 8 h of hydraulic retention time (HRT). Th... |
2,317,704 | Biological purification of acidic Fenton effluent by a fungal consortium without pre-neutralization upon base addition: Microbial screening and performance. | Great progresses have been made to carry out Fenton oxidation under neutral or alkaline pH in which, nevertheless, organic acids and other acidic intermediates usually result in acidic Fenton effluent. To eliminate the classical neutralization step prior to biological treatment, acid-tolerant microbes were here screene... |
2,317,705 | A novel ex-situ bio-remediation process for perchlorate contaminated soil. | A novel, ex-situ remediation process for perchlorate contaminated soil is reported in this study. This approach comprises washing the contaminated soil with water, followed by treatment of the wash water in a bioreactor. The treated water reused for the next batch of soil, and the cycle continued. The pilot-scale treat... |
2,317,706 | Effects of hormones and hormone therapy on breast tissue in transgender patients: a concise review. | Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has become a mainstay medical treatment option for management of gender dysphoria in transgender patients of both biologic sexes. Very little is known about the long-term effects of steroid hormone modulation on breast tissue in this population. Most of the data available on the effect... |
2,317,707 | The impact of intraocular pressure fluctuations and other factors on conversion of ocular hypertension to primary open-angle glaucoma. | To evaluate the role of intraocular pressure (IOP) fluctuations and other factors on conversion of ocular hypertension to open-angle glaucoma (OAG) within a retrospective, longitudinal cohort study.</AbstractText>The study population included patients with ocular hypertension defined by IOP > 21 m... |
2,317,708 | Effectiveness and Safety of Acupuncture for Perimenopausal Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. | To determine the effectiveness and safety of acupuncture for perimenopausal depression.</AbstractText>We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, PubMed, EMBASE, CNKI, VIP Citation Databases, Wan Fang, and online trial registries such as ClinicalTrials.gov for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) ass... |
2,317,709 | Assessment of the Nutrient Removal Potential of Floating Native and Exotic Aquatic Macrophytes Cultured in Swine Manure Wastewater. | Although eutrophication and biological invasion have caused serious harm to aquatic ecosystems, exotic and even invasive plants have been used extensively in phytoremediation water systems in China. To identify native aquatic plants with excellent water restoration potential, two representative native floating aquatic ... |
2,317,710 | Can high rate algal ponds be used as post-treatment of UASB reactors to remove micropollutants? | The present study evaluated the removal capacity of a UASB-HRAP treatment system, combining anaerobic and microalgae-based, aerobic treatment, for eleven organic micropollutants present in raw sewage, including pharmaceuticals, estrogens and xenoestrogens. The UASB reactor and the HRAP were operated at a hydraulic rete... |
2,317,711 | Purified Terephthalic Acid Wastewater Treatment Using Modified Two-Stage UASB Bioreactor Systems. | Microbial community dynamics and PTA wastewater degradation performance of sequentially connected two-stage upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) bioreactors have been studied for 225 days. The working volume of acidogenic (R1) and methanogenic reactors (R2) have sixfold differences. Thus, the reactors operated u... |
2,317,712 | Moderately HRT vs. CRT for localized prostate cancer using image-guided VMAT with SIB: evaluation of acute and late toxicities. | This retrospective study aims at investigating the effects of moderately hypofractionated radiation therapy (HRT) on acute and late toxicities as well as on early biochemical control and therapeutic efficiency compared to conventional radiation therapy (CRT) in prostate cancer.</AbstractText>We analyzed 55 HRT pat... |
2,317,713 | Simple improvement of digested sludge quality: is postaeration the key? | Postaeration, where digested sludge is introduced into aerobic conditions, is a technology that could improve the quality of sludge and sludge liquor in many ways. Although it is a fairly simple process, only few data about the effect of postaeration have been published. In this study, batch experiments have been perfo... |
2,317,714 | Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome: Dilemmas for Further Management after Gonadectomy. | Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome is a rare condition, wherein a genetic male is phenotypically female and is raised as a female. Treatement requires timely gonadectomy, need for long term hormonal replaceent therapy, psycological and genetic counseling. The type, dose, duration of hrt is not well studied. Repro... |
2,317,715 | Does Hormone Replacement Therapy Impact the Prognosis in Endometrial Cancer Survivors? A Systematic Review. | The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on the prognosis in endometrial cancer (EC) survivors.</AbstractText>The research was conducted using the following electronic databases: MEDLINE (PubMed), Web of Science, ClinicalTrial.gov, and Cochrane Library. We performed a ... |
2,317,716 | Amoxicillin removal by pre-denitrification membrane bioreactor (A/O-MBR): Performance evaluation, degradation by-products, and antibiotic resistant bacteria. | Membrane bioreactors (MBRs) are one of the treatment technologies with the potential to remove emerging compounds from wastewater. The present work evaluated the efficiency of an MBR pilot system in removing amoxicillin from synthetic wastewater using a continuous flow pre-denitrification MBR (A/O-MBR) pilot unit. The ... |
2,317,717 | Magnetic field intervention on growth of the filamentous microalgae Tribonema sp. in starch wastewater for algal biomass production and nutrients removal: Influence of ambient temperature and operational strategy. | This paper investigated the effects of temperature and cultivation methods (batch or semi-continuous culture) on the filamentous microalgae Tribonema sp. biomass production and nutrients removal in starch wastewater under low intensity magnetic field (MF) intervention. The MF significantly promoted algal growth in the ... |
2,317,718 | Biological treatment of slaughterhouse wastewater: kinetic modeling and prediction of effluent. | In this study three modeling approaches consisting Modified Stover-Kincannon, multilayer perceptron neural network (MLPANN) and B-Spline quasi interpolation were applied in order to predict effluent of up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor and also to find the reaction kinetics. At first run, the average tota... |
2,317,719 | Evaluation of two different carriers in the biodegradation process of an azo dye. | The MBBR solution has been applied for the textile wastewater treatment. However, in order to develop cost-effective solutions, waste biomass can be used as carrier. Rice husks are agricultural waste which have been used as an adsorbent of dyes; besides, they can provide and sustain suitable microorganism communities f... |
2,317,720 | Phytoremediation performance of floating treatment wetlands with pelletized mine water sludge for synthetic greywater treatment. | Buckets containing floating reed (Phragmites australis</i>) simulated floating treatment wetlands (FTWs) and were used to improve the remediation performance of synthetic greywater (SGW). The aim of the study was to investigate the behaviour of FTWs for treatment of key contaminants within artificial greywater.</Abstra... |
2,317,721 | Domestic wastewater treatment by constructed wetland and microalgal treatment system for the production of value-added products. | The main aim of this study is to treat domestic wastewater in a hybrid Vertical Flow Constructed Wetland (VFCW-4.2 m<sup>2</sup>) and Microalgal Treatment System (MTS-1 m<sup>2</sup>). The objective is not only to treat Domestic wastewater (DW) but also to produce value-added products from microalgal biom... |
2,317,722 | Short-Term Intermittent Hypoxic Resistance Training Does Not Impair Osteogenic Response in Sea Level Residents. | <b><i>Background:</i></b> Osteogenic responses induced by training under hypoxia remain unclear. We aimed to investigate whether intermittent hypoxic resistance training affects osteogenic responses. <b><i>Materials and Methods:</i></b> Sixteen male participants underwent resistance training under normoxia (NRT; <i>n</... |
2,317,723 | Nitrite-shunt and biological phosphorus removal at low dissolved oxygen in a full-scale high-rate system at warm temperatures. | This study presents results from the City of St. Petersburg's (Florida) Southwest Water Reclamation Facility. This high-rate BNR plant (SRT ~ 5 days; HRT < 8 hr) achieves combined bioP and shortcut simultaneous nitrification and denitrification (SND) via nitrite in a simple BNR configur... |
2,317,724 | Risk Prediction After Myocardial Infarction by Cyclic Variation of Heart Rate, a Surrogate of Sleep-Disordered Breathing Assessed From Holter ECGs. | Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is common among cardiac patients, but its role as an independent risk predictor after myocardial infarction (MI) is unclear. SDB causes cyclic variation of heart rate (CVHR). The aim of this study was to score Holter ECGs of a large cohort of MI survivors for SDB-related CVHR to investi... |
2,317,725 | Coagulation-flocculation and moving bed biofilm reactor as pre-treatment for water recycling in the petrochemical industry. | Water recycling and reuse is of important value in water-using sectors like petrochemical industry. The aim of this research was to optimise the pre-treatment of petrochemical wastewater to undergo a further membrane treatment, with the final objective of water recycling within the same industry. Laboratory coagulation... |
2,317,726 | Impact of hydraulic retention time on community assembly and function of photogranules for wastewater treatment. | Photogranules are dense, spherical agglomerates of cyanobacteria, microalgae and non-phototrophic microorganisms that have considerable advantages in terms of harvesting and nutrient removal rates for light driven wastewater treatment processes. This ecosystem is poorly understood in terms of the microbial community st... |
2,317,727 | Valorization of raw brewers' spent grain through the production of volatile fatty acids. | This work is focused on production of volatile fatty acids (VFA) through anaerobic digestion (AD) using raw (without pre-treatment) brewers' spent grain (BSG) as feedstock. VFAs are by-products from AD of organic wastes with wide potential industrial application in bioplastic production. A long term fed batch stirred-t... |
2,317,728 | [Borderline Ovarian Tumours: CNGOFS Guidelines for Clinical Practice - Hormonal Contraception and MHT/HRT after Borderline Ovarian Tumour]. | Contraceptive options and menopause management are frequent clinical issues among women previously treated for a borderline ovarian tumour (BOT).</AbstractText>To synthesize knowledge on BOT and risk related to hormonal contraception and to menopausal hormone therapy (MHT), and to propose recommendations on contracepti... |
2,317,729 | Accumulation of sulfonamide resistance genes and bacterial community function prediction in microbial fuel cell-constructed wetland treating pharmaceutical wastewater. | Microbial fuel cell constructed wetlands (CW-MFCs) with different circuit operation conditions and hydraulic retention time (HRT) were constructed to evaluate their ability to remove and accumulate pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) (sulfadiazine (SDZ), carbamazepine (CBZ), naproxen (NPX) and ibuprofen (... |
2,317,730 | Deep and high-efficiency removal of sulfate through a coupling system with sulfate-reducing and sulfur-oxidizing capacity under haloalkaliphilic condition. | Sulfide from anaerobic treatment of high-sulfate wastewater would always have some adverse effects on downstream processes. In this study, a coupling anaerobic/aerobic system was developed and operated under haloalkaliphilic condition to realize deep and high-efficiency removal of sulfate without production of sulfide.... |
2,317,731 | Does high estrogen level negatively affect pregnancy success in frozen embryo transfer? | High estrogen levels could reduce pregnancy rates by disrupting the implantation of the embryo into the endometrium in patients treated with fresh cycles of in vitro</i> fertilization. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of estrogen levels on the pregnancy and abortion rate in autologous frozen e... |
2,317,732 | Improving membrane photobioreactor performance by reducing light path: operating conditions and key performance indicators. | Microalgae cultivation has been receiving increasing interest in wastewater remediation due to their ability to assimilate nutrients present in wastewater streams. In this respect, cultivating microalgae in membrane photobioreactors (MPBRs) allows decoupling the solid retention time (SRT) from the hydraulic retention t... |
2,317,733 | Floating treatment wetlands: A review and bibliometric analysis. | Floating treatment wetlands (FTWs) have attained tremendous popularity for water purification purposes. Through this phyto-technology, naturally occurring macrophytes are allowed to grow on the water surface on a buoyant raft or a rigid support, keeping the plant roots permanently in contact with the water and removing... |
2,317,734 | Application of glycerol as carbon source for continuous drinking water denitrification using microorganism from natural biomass. | The contamination of water resources by nitrate is a global problem. Indeed, traditional treatment technologies are not able to remove this ion from water. Alternatively, biological denitrification is a useful technique for natural water nitrate removal. This study aimed to evaluate the use of glycerol as a carbon sour... |
2,317,735 | Hormone replacement therapy after surgery for epithelial ovarian cancer. | Women who have undergone surgical treatment for epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) may develop menopausal symptoms due to immediate loss of ovarian function following surgery and chemotherapy. Women may experience vasomotor symptoms, sleep disturbance, difficulty concentrating, sexual dysfunction, vaginal symptoms and acc... |
2,317,736 | Biokinetics of protein degrading <i>Clostridium cadaveris</i> and <i>Clostridium sporogenes</i> in batch and continuous mode of operations. | A quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (QPCR) was applied to estimate biokinetic coefficients of <i>Clostridium cadaveris</i> and <i>Clostridium sporogenes</i>, which utilize protein as carbon source. Experimental data of changes in peptone concentration and 16S rRNA gene copy numbers of <i>C. cadaveris</i>... |
2,317,737 | Simultaneous nitrogen removal and phosphorus recovery using an anammox expanded reactor operated at 25 °C. | While anammox is a cost-effective nitrogen treatment process for wastewater with high nutrient strength, phosphorus remains untouched during this process and needs further treatment. In this study, the nitrogen removal and phosphorus recovery were achieved simultaneously at 25 °C using an anammox expanded bed... |
2,317,738 | Pituitary apoplexy mimicking meningoencephalitis: case report and scoping study. | <b>Background</b>: Pituitary apoplexy (PA) is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition that may require urgent surgical intervention.<b>Case Presentation</b>: We report a case of a patient who was initially diagnosed with meningoencephalitis (ME) based on clinical presentation and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) ana... |
2,317,739 | Biodegradation of reactive yellow dye using mixed cells immobilized in different biocarriers by sequential anaerobic/aerobic biotreatment: experimental and modelling study. | In this study, the application of immobilized mixed cells for decolourization, biodegradation, and detoxification of reactive yellow dye (RY15) in textile wastewater was investigated via a sequential anaerobic-aerobic process in bench-scale bioreactors and lab-scale bioreactors as well. The mixed cultures were immobili... |
2,317,740 | Carbon capture for blackwater: chemical enhanced high-rate activated sludge process. | Blackwater has more benefits for carbon recovery than conventional domestic wastewater. Carbon capture and up-concentration are crucial prerequisites for carbon recovery from blackwater, the same as domestic wastewater. Both chemical enhanced primary treatment (CEPT) and high-rate activated sludge (HRAS) processes have... |
2,317,741 | Fungal keratitis caused by a rare pathogen, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, in an east coast city of China. | To report a case of fungal keratitis caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides in an east coast city of China, which are rare pathogens that cause fungal keratitis in humans.</AbstractText>A 52-year-old man whose right eye was injured by a branch of an apple tree during farm work was referred to our Hospital. He was exa... |
2,317,742 | Loss of centromere function drives karyotype evolution in closely related <i>Malassezia</i> species. | Genomic rearrangements associated with speciation often result in variation in chromosome number among closely related species. <i>Malassezia</i> species show variable karyotypes ranging between six and nine chromosomes. Here, we experimentally identified all eight centromeres in <i>M. sympodialis</i> as 3-5-kb long ki... |
2,317,743 | Determining the Optimal Adjuvant Therapy for Improving Survival in Elderly Patients with Glioblastoma: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis. | Older patients with glioblastoma (GBM) are underrepresented in clinical trials. Several abbreviated and standard chemoradiotherapy regimens are advocated with no consensus on the optimal approach. Our objective was to quantitatively evaluate which of these regimens would provide the most favorable survival outcomes in ... |
2,317,744 | Diagnostic performance of modern imaging instruments in glaucoma screening. | To evaluate the applicability of imaging devices (spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (Cirrus SD-OCT), scanning laser polarimetry (GDx) and scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (Heidelberg Retinal Tomograph, HRT3)) for glaucoma screening in a middle-aged unselected population.</AbstractText>Participants of the popula... |
2,317,745 | Prediction of Response Time and Vigilance Score in a Sustained Attention Task from Pre-trial Phase Synchrony using Deep Neural Networks. | A real-time assessment of sustained attention requires a continuous performance measure ideally obtained objectively and without disrupting the ongoing behavioral patterns. In this work, we investigate whether the phasic functional connectivity patterns from short- and long-range attention networks can predict the toni... |
2,317,746 | Performance of a membrane-coupled high-rate algal pond for urban wastewater treatment at demonstration scale. | The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of an outdoor membrane-coupled high-rate algal pond equipped with industrial-scale membranes for treating urban wastewater. Decoupling biomass retention time (BRT) and hydraulic retention time (HRT) by membrane filtration resulted in improved process efficienc... |
2,317,747 | Postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy and colorectal cancer risk by molecular subtypes and pathways. | Postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was found to be associated with lower risk of colorectal cancer (CRC). However, little is known regarding associations with molecular subtypes of CRC. The current study includes female participants of a large German population-based case-control study (922 CRC cases and ... |
2,317,748 | The 17β-oestradiol treatment minimizes the adverse effects of protein restriction on bone parameters in ovariectomized Wistar rats: Relevance to osteoporosis and the menopause. | Insufficient protein ingestion may affect muscle and bone mass, increasing the risk of osteoporotic fractures in the elderly, and especially in postmenopausal women. We evaluated how a low-protein diet affects bone parameters under gonadal hormone deficiency and the improvement led by hormone replacement therapy (HRT) ... |
2,317,749 | Volatile fatty acid production from Kraft mill foul condensate in upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors. | The utilization of foul condensate (FC) collected from a Kraft pulp mill for the anaerobic production of volatile fatty acids (VFA) was tested in upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors operated at 22, 37 and 55°C at a hydraulic retention time (HRT) of ∼75 h. The FC consisted mainly of 11370,... |
2,317,750 | Nitrate removal from low carbon-to-nitrogen ratio wastewater by combining iron-based chemical reduction and autotrophic denitrification. | Nitrate removal from low carbon-to-nitrogen ratio (C/N) wastewater has always been a knotty problem due to the deficiency of organics. Here, a novel iron-based chemical reduction and autotrophic denitrification (ICAD) system was developed. ICAD system could maintain average nitrate removal efficiency of 97.2% for 131&#... |
2,317,751 | Occurrence of banned and commonly used pesticide residues in concentrated leachate: Implications for ecological risk assessment. | Amounts of banned and current pesticides have been used in domestic and agricultural pest control, and their residues have accumulated along the waste stream. In this work, pesticides were characterized in concentrated leachates (CLs) from 5 municipal landfill sites, 2 incineration plants and 1 composting plant in six ... |
2,317,752 | Lung cancer incidence and mortality in relationship to hormone replacement therapy use among women participating in the PLCO trial: a post hoc analysis. | To evaluate the impact of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on the incidence and mortality of lung cancer among female participants in the prostate, lung, colorectal, and ovary (PLCO) trial.</AbstractText>All women participating in the PLCO trial with complete information about HRT exposure were included in the current... |
2,317,753 | Effect of hydraulic retention time, ZVI concentration, and Fe<sup>2+</sup> concentration on autotrophic denitrification efficiency with iron cycle bacterium strain CC76. | The immobilized reactor of iron-reducing bacteria and zero-valent iron (ZVI) integrated system was established. This study has shown that the effects of hydraulic retention times (9, 11, 13 h), ZVI concentrations (2, 4, 6, 8 mg/L), and Fe<sup>2+</sup> concentrations (5, 10, 15 mg/L) on the denitrif... |
2,317,754 | Serum concentrations of DDE, PCBs, and other persistent organic pollutants and mammographic breast density in Triana, Alabama, a highly exposed population. | Although some persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are considered human carcinogens, results from studies evaluating exposures and breast cancer risk have been inconsistent, potentially related to varying ages at exposure. Additionally, few studies evaluated the association between POPs exposure and mammographic breast... |
2,317,755 | Operation adjustments of an electrochemically coupled system for total nitrogen removal and the associated mechanism. | A coupled system consisting of sequencing batch reactor and microbial fuel cell (SBR-MFC) was designed to buffer pH drift and purify wastewater. The addition of nitrifying sludge and the adjustment of hydraulic retention time (HRT) were performed to achieve better removal of total nitrogen (TN). When anaerobic/aerobic/... |
2,317,756 | Electron storage and resupply modes during sulfur cycle enhanced nitrogen removal stability in electrochemically assisted constructed wetlands under low temperature. | In this work, an electrochemically assisted vertical flow constructed wetland (E-VFCW) achieved efficient PO<sub>4</sub><sup>3-</sup>-P (92.9-96.6%), NO<sub>3</sub><sup>-</sup>-N (50.8-91.8%) and TN (38.8-73.1%) removal from synthetic sewage effluent within 1-12 h at 12 °C. Abiotic reduction, Fe(II)-, S-... |
2,317,757 | A Comparative Study of Biogas Production from Cattle Slaughterhouse Wastewater Using Conventional and Modified Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) Reactors. | Cattle slaughterhouses generate wastewater that is rich in organic contaminant and nutrients, which is considered as high strength wastewater with a high potential for energy recovery. Work was undertaken to evaluate the efficiency of the 12 L laboratory scale conventional and a modified upflow anaerobic sludge blanket... |
2,317,758 | A novel integrated bio-reactor of moving bed and constructed wetland (MBCW) for domestic wastewater treatment and its microbial community diversity. | An MBBR and CW combo bio-reactor (MBCW) was designed as a novel hybrid process for simultaneous organic, nitrogen and phosphate removal through the long-term operation. The effect of the internal recycling rate (IRR), hydraulic retention time (HRT) and chemical oxygen demand/total nitrogen (C/N) ratio were all discusse... |
2,317,759 | Combination of the OSA process with thermal treatment at moderate temperature for excess sludge minimization. | This study investigated the chance to couple the conventional Oxic Settling Anaerobic (OSA) process with a thermic treatment at moderate temperature (35 °C). The maximum excess sludge reduction rate (80%) was achieved when the plant was operated under 3 h of hydraulic retention time (HRT). Compared with ... |
2,317,760 | Efficient partial-denitrification/anammox (PD/A) process through gas-mixing strategy: System evaluation and microbial analysis. | Partial denitrification (PD, NO<sub>3</sub><sup>-</sup>-N → NO<sub>2</sub><sup>-</sup>-N) provides a promising opportunity for anammox application in wastewater nitrogen removal. In this study, a continuous-flow PD/Anammox (PD/A) process operated with a novel gas mixing was reported in an up-flow anaer... |
2,317,761 | Pilot-scale application of sulfur-limestone autotrophic denitrification biofilter for municipal tailwater treatment: Performance and microbial community structure. | This work aimed to study a pilot-scale sulfur-limestone autotrophic denitrification biofilter (SLADB) to remove nitrogen from municipal tailwater. The capacity of nitrogen removal and spatial distribution of microbial community at low temperature condition were analyzed. Low temperature inhibits nitrogen removal; while... |
2,317,762 | Uterine cancer in breast cancer survivors: a systematic review. | Epidemiological evidence on the risk factors for uterine/endometrial cancer in breast cancer (BCa) survivors is limited and inconsistent. Therefore, we critically reviewed and summarized available evidence related to the risk factors for uterine/endometrial cancer in BCa survivors.</AbstractText>We conducted a literatu... |
2,317,763 | Patient-Reported Functional Outcomes After Hypofractionated or Conventionally Fractionated Radiation for Prostate Cancer: A National Cohort Study in England. | The aim of the current study was to determine patient-reported functional outcomes in men with prostate cancer (PCa) undergoing moderately hypofractionated (H-RT) or conventionally fractionated radiation therapy (C-RT) in a national cohort study.</AbstractText>All men diagnosed with PCa between April 2014 and September... |
2,317,764 | Royal jelly attenuates nonalcoholic fatty liver disease by inhibiting oxidative stress and regulating the expression of circadian genes in ovariectomized rats. | Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has a high incidence in postmenopausal women and is accompanied by insulin resistance, obesity, and dyslipidemia. Royal jelly (RJ), a natural substance derived from hive, possesses numerous health-beneficial properties. Here, we evaluated the effects of RJ (150, 300, and 450
... |
2,317,765 | Retention time prediction of hydrocarbons in cryogenically modulated comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography: A method development and translation application. | Thermodynamic modeling of GC × GC separations provides a tool for rapid method evaluation and optimization. Separations of 95 hydrocarbons on two cryogenically modulated GC × GC systems (atmospheric outlet and vacuum outlet) are modeled, displaying average second dimension retentio... |
2,317,766 | Combined simultaneous enzymatic saccharification and comminution (SESC) and anaerobic digestion for sustainable biomethane generation from wood lignocellulose and the biochemical characterization of residual sludge solid. | Simultaneous enzymatic saccharification and comminution (SESC) was used for large-scale anaerobic digestion of wood lignocellulose to generate methane and unmodified lignin. During SESC, 10% aqueous mixture of powdered debarked wood from various species was subjected to bead milling with hydrolytic enzymes to generate ... |
2,317,767 | Estrogen activates Alzheimer's disease genes. | Women are at increased risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the reason why remains unknown. One hypothesis is that low estrogen levels at menopause increases vulnerability to AD, but this remains unproven.</AbstractText>We compared neuronal genes upregulated by estrogen in ovariectomized female rhesus macaques with a... |
2,317,768 | Hepatic focal nodular hyperplasia after pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: The impact of hormonal replacement therapy and iron overload. | The advent of techniques for the assessment of iron overload (liver T2*-MRI) has led to the awareness that focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) represents a possible incidental finding after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), though its pathogenesis is still unclear.</AbstractText>We performed a retrospective a... |
2,317,769 | Enhanced denitrification and power generation of municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) effluents with biomass in microbial fuel cell coupled with constructed wetland. | A microbial fuel cell-constructed wetland (MFC-CW) with water hyacinth is established to remove the nitrogen and organics from municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) effluents. Because insufficient carbon sources in influent might decrease pollutants removal efficiency and electricity generation, this research a... |
2,317,770 | Removal of veterinary antibiotics from swine wastewater using anaerobic and aerobic biodegradation. | High amounts of antibiotics, used in animal farms for the prevention of diseases, are released back into the natural environment with a possible risk of chronic toxicity to other organisms and the development of antibiotic-resistant genes. The antibiotics, including sulfonamides and β-lactams, detected in swine w... |
2,317,771 | Risk of hand osteoarthritis in new users of hormone replacement therapy: A nested case-control analysis. | To estimate the risk of hand osteoarthritis (HOA) associated with hormone replacement therapy (HRT).</AbstractText>We conducted a nested case-control study using data from the UKbased Clinical Practice Research Datalink (1998-2017). In the study inception cohort comprised women at age 45. We matched women with incident... |
2,317,772 | Enhancement on the removal of Rhodamine B (RhB) by means of the Enlarged Anode Electric Biological (EAEB) reactor. | The Enlarged Anode Electric Biological (EAEB) Reactor was proposed, as an alternative to the common BAF. The goal of this research was to develop a new process for simultaneously removing, NH<sub>4</sub><sup>+</sup>-N and Rhodamine B (RhB) from dyeing wastewater. The performance of EAEB was evaluated based on COD, NH<s... |
2,317,773 | Anaerobic treatment of glutamate-rich wastewater in a continuous UASB reactor: Effect of hydraulic retention time and methanogenic degradation pathway. | To investigate the anaerobic treatment efficiency and degradation pathways of glutamate-rich wastewater under various hydraulic retention times (HRTs), a lab-scale upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor was operated continuously for 180 days. Results showed that high chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficie... |
2,317,774 | Submerged anaerobic membrane bioreactor for low-concentration domestic sewage treatment: performance and membrane fouling. | A submerged anaerobic membrane bioreactor (SAnMBR) was used to treat low-concentration domestic sewage. The effects of hydraulic retention time (HRT) and organic load (OLR) on chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal, methanogenesis, and membrane fouling of the system were investigated. The SAnMBR achieved good COD removal... |
2,317,775 | Biogas production from recycled paper mill wastewater by UASB digester: Optimal and mesophilic conditions. | The anaerobic digestion (AD) has become an alternative source and an attractive treatment method. Up-flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) digester has been designed to treat the Recycled paper mill wastewater (RPMW) in Morocco. This paper provides a research on anaerobic digestion of RPMW using UASB technology. The UAS... |
2,317,776 | Performance evaluation of two trickling filters removing LAS and caffeine from wastewater: Light reactor (algal-bacterial consortium) vs dark reactor (bacterial consortium). | Micropollutant removal efficiencies of two trickling filters - operated under light and dark conditions were studied and compared. Linear alkylbenzene sulphonate (LAS) and caffeine were selected as model micropollutants. Both lab-scale trickling-filter type reactors were packed with polyurethane foam sponge cubes (2&#x... |
2,317,777 | Comorbid Cupulolithiasis Is Rare in Patients With Horizontal Semicircular Canal Canalolithiasis. | Considering that otolith particles pass through the canal until attaching to the cupula in the canal-side horizontal semicircular canal (HSCC) cupulolithiasis, comorbidity of HSCC canalolithiasis and cupulolithiasis may occur. We aimed to investigate the incidence of comorbidity of cupulolithiasis in patients with HSCC... |
2,317,778 | Effects of horse-riding therapy and rhythm and music-based therapy on functional mobility in late phase after stroke. | Persons with stroke commonly have residual neurological deficits that seriously hamper mobility.</AbstractText>To investigate whether horse-riding therapy (H-RT) and rhythm and music-based therapy (R-MT) affect functional mobility in late phase after stroke.</AbstractText>This study is part of a randomized controlled t... |
2,317,779 | The influence of hormone replacement therapy on lung cancer incidence and mortality. | Data regarding the effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are mixed. We hypothesized HRT would have a protective benefit with reduced NSCLC incidence among women in a large, prospective cohort.</AbstractText>We used data from the multicenter randomized Prostate, Lung, Colorec... |
2,317,780 | Hormone replacement therapy and lung cancer risk in women: a meta-analysis of cohort studies: Hormone replacement therapy and lung cancer risk. | Discordant results about the causal relationship between hormone replacement therapy use (HRT) and lung cancer risk in women had been reported. We therefore conducted a meta-analysis of cohort studies to evaluate this association.</AbstractText>The PubMed and Embase databases were searched. Fixed- or random-effects mod... |
2,317,781 | [Mortality within 30 days of receiving systemic chemotherapy at a regional oncology unit]. | The use of systemic chemotherapy has survival and palliation benefits in oncological patients. Mortality at 30 days after the administration of systemic chemotherapy is considered as a quality and safety indicator of oncological patient care. The international mortality threshold is 5%, which is the figure used to comp... |
2,317,782 | Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Prophylaxis After Abdominoplasty and Liposuction: A Review of the Literature. | The aim of this review article was to study recent articles and summarise the guidelines, indications, risks and benefits of using VTE prophylaxis in patients undergoing abdominoplasty and liposuction.</AbstractText>A search of PubMed was performed using selected keywords related to the topic. Based on the inclusion an... |
2,317,783 | [Nitrogen Removal from Mature Landfill Leachate via Denitrification-Partial Nitritation-ANAMMOX Based on a Zeolite Biological Aerated Filter]. | A combined process of denitrification-partial nitritation-ANAMMOX based on a zeolite biological aerated filter (ZBAF) was applied to treat mature landfill leachate. We investigate the partial nitritation characteristics of the ZBAF and the nitrogen removal performance as well as the carbon removal performance of the co... |
2,317,784 | [Effects of Intermittent Starvation on the Operation of the SNAD Process]. | We report on and discuss the effects of intermittent starvation on the operation of the simultaneous partial nitrification, ANAMMOX, and denitrification (SNAD) process. The SNAD process was carried out in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) at room temperature (22℃±3℃), and the intermittent starvation w... |
2,317,785 | [Pilot Study on Start-up and Stable Operation at Low Temperature Based on Denitrifying Phosphorus Removal]. | In order to understand the denitrifying and phosphorus removal characteristics of denitrifying phosphate-accumulating organisms (DPAOs), a pilot scale (20 m<sup>3</sup>) denitrifying and phosphorus removal experiment was carried out using a modified University of Cape Town (UCT) process at low temperatures of (6-16)&#x... |
2,317,786 | [Performances Analysis of an Upflow Anaerobic Filter for Domestic Sewage Treatment]. | Upflow anaerobic filter (UAF) with actual domestic wastewater were examined in this study. The Impacts of hydraulic retention time (HRT) on the performance of a UAF and a primary methanogen group were investigated at mesophilic conditions. The chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal rate was more than 75% after 28 days ac... |
2,317,787 | Box-Behnken response surface approach to identify factors affecting membrane fouling in a hybrid membrane bioreactor treating domestic sewage. | The effect of hydraulic retention time (HRT) and sludge retention time (SRT) on extracellular polymer substrate (EPS) content and resistance of a hybrid membrane bioreactor (HMBR) treating domestic sewage was analyzed by Box-Behnken response surface methodology. The quadratic response surface model demonstrated signifi... |
2,317,788 | Unindicated hysterectomies in India: the aftermath. | Unindicated hysterectomy is a disturbing problem in India. Women are counselled into the procedure by the fear of cancer, and by reinforcing their notion that unrelated somatic problems are solved by the removal of the uterus. This is a case of a woman from the state of Bihar, India, who was referred to us after an uni... |
2,317,789 | Menopausal Hormone Replacement Therapy and the Risk of Ovarian Cancer: A Meta-Analysis. | <b>Background:</b> Findings by epidemiologic studies on menopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and the risk of ovarian cancer are inconsistent. This study aimed to assess the association of menopausal HRT with the risk of ovarian cancer by histological subtype. <b>Methods:</b> A literature search was performed in... |
2,317,790 | An urban biorefinery for food waste and biological sludge conversion into polyhydroxyalkanoates and biogas. | This study focuses on the application of the concept of circular economy, with the creation of added-value marketable products and energy from organic waste while minimizing environmental impacts. Within this purpose, an urban biorefinery technology chain has been developed at pilot scale in the territorial context of ... |
2,317,791 | Controlling methane and hydrogen production from cheese whey in an EGSB reactor by changing the HRT. | This study assessed the effects of hydraulic retention time (HRT; 8 h-0.25 h) on simultaneous hydrogen and methane production from cheese whey (5000 mg carbohydrates/L) in a mesophilic (30 °C) expanded granular sludge bed (EGSB) reactor. Methane production was observed at HRTs from 4 to 0.... |
2,317,792 | Assessment of a batch-flow free water surface constructed wetland planted with Rhynchospora corymbosa (L.) Britton for campus greywater treatment. | A pilot-scale batch-flow free water surface (FWS) constructed wetland (CW) system planted with Rhynchospora corymbosa (L.) Britton was developed with a hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 2.5 days. The average porosity of the substrate was 0.55 and calculated hydraulic loading rate (HLR) was 3.96 (g BOD/m<sup>2</sup... |
2,317,793 | Therapeutic Anabolic and Anticatabolic Benefits of Natural Chinese Medicines for the Treatment of Osteoporosis. | Osteoporosis is a bone disease characterized by increasing osseous fragility and fracture due to the reduced bone mass and microstructural degradation. Primary pharmacological strategies for the treatment of osteoporosis, hormone replacement treatment (HRT), and alendronate therapies may produce adverse side-effects an... |
2,317,794 | Selenite removal from wastewater using fungal pelleted airlift bioreactor. | This study investigated the removal of selenite from wastewater using the fungus Asergillus niger KP isolated from a laboratory scale inverse fluidized bed bioreactor. The effect of different carbon sources and initial selenite concentration on fungal growth, pellet formation and selenite removal was first examined in ... |
2,317,795 | Elbasvir/grazoprevir in women with hepatitis C virus infection taking oral contraceptives or hormone replacement therapy. | Some direct-acting antiviral regimens for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection pose safety or efficacy concerns if coadministered with drugs containing ethinyl estradiol. The present analysis was conducted to examine the impact of concomitant oral contraceptive pills (OCP) or hormone replacement therapy (HRT) during treat... |
2,317,796 | Association of hormone replacement therapy with mortality in colorectal cancer survivor: a systematic review and meta-analysis. | Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use has shown to be associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer, however, its impact on survival among women with colorectal cancer remains uncertain. This meta-analysis aimed to systematically assess the survival benefit of HRT use in patients with colorectal cancer.</Abstract... |
2,317,797 | Hormone Therapy as a Protective Factor for Age-Related Macular Degeneration. | <b><i>Purpose</i></b>: The purpose of this study was to determine if the use of menopausal hormone therapy (HT) is related to the development of neovascular (NV) age-related macular degeneration (AMD), geographic atrophy (GA) and/or early/intermediate AMD.<b><i>Methods</i></b>: A case-control study was conducted from p... |
2,317,798 | Impact of salt accumulation in the bioreactor on the performance of nanofiltration membrane bioreactor (NF-MBR)+Reverse osmosis (RO) process for water reclamation. | The impacts of salt accumulation, through adjusting the solid retention time (SRT), in the bioreactor on the bioprocess as well as membrane performance of a high retention nanofiltration membrane bioreactor (NF-MBR) and subsequent reverse osmosis (RO) process for water reclamation are addressed in this study. The build... |
2,317,799 | Nitrification in multistage horizontal flow treatment wetlands for landfill leachate treatment.<Pagination><StartPage>135376</StartPage><MedlinePgn>135376</MedlinePgn></Pagination><ELocationID EIdType="doi" ValidYN="Y">10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135376</ELocationID><ELocationID EIdType="pii" ValidYN="Y">S0048-9697(19)353... | One of the key challenges in landfill leachate treatment is removing organic matter (OM) and ammonium nitrogen (NH<sub>4</sub><sup>+</sup>-N) at a low cost. To evaluate the feasibility of treatment wetlands for diluted (3:10) landfill leachate treatment with OM and NH<sub>4</sub><sup>+</sup>-N oxidation, a lab-scale sh... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.