Biological agents are a heterogeneous group of particles or chemicals of microbial, animal, or plant origin. They emerge from numerous sources, some of which can be part of the everyday use of the building, are clearly harmful and therefore need t ...
Enzymatic biologic agents include proteases (e.g., trypsin, dispases), esterases (phospholipase A2), and nucleases (e.g., DNase, RNase), and are advantageous because of their specificity for biologic subst ...
Of the various biologic agents approved for RA, rituximab (Rituxan) and abatacept (Orencia) are the first to target B-cells. Rituximab is a monoclonal α-CD20 antibody that causes com ...
A manyfold of biological agents decompose wood, among them fungi and bacteria. They may attack different components, e.g. the brown-rot fungi mainly the polysaccharides, white-rot fungi all cell walls, and this at ...
Lignocellulose is a generic term for describing the main constituents in most plants, namely cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin. Lignocellulose is a complex matrix, comprising many different polysaccharides, phenolic polymers and proteins. Cell ...
Delhi, the capital city of India, has an ill repute of a polluted city specifically due to high ambient particulate concentration resulting Hazy conditions. Winter of 2012 in Delhi was characterized with high level of critical pollutants, which in ...
Sulfur emissions from the combustion of high sulfur coals has been a problem from the thirteenth century when the fossil fuel began to be used in London after the depletion of nearby wood supplies. The intensity of coal use increase ...
Marine ecosystems are part of the earth’s aquatic ecosystem. The habitats that make up this vast system range from the productive near shore regions to the barren ocean floor. The marine waters may be fully saline, brackish or nearly fresh. ...
Global climate change, which has become one of the most visible environmental concerns of the 21st Century, can impact human health both directly and indirectly . As with any rapidly evolving issue, the transition from a theoretical possib ...
A biological agent is a microscopic organism which includes all those that are genetically modified, a cell culture and a human endo-parasite, which may be able to provoke any infection, allergic reaction or toxicity. Agents are classified into 4 ...
Global climate change is occurring due to the accumulation of greenhouse gases (CO2, methane, CFCs, and others) and loss of natural carbon sinks, leading to enhancement of the natural greenhouse ...
A quasi group is an aggregate or combination, which lacks structure or organisation, and whose members may be unaware, or less aware, of the existence of groupings. Social classes, status groups, age and gender groups, crowds c ...
The application service provider (ASP) industry is moving toward relationship networks and focusing on core competencies. “According to the gospel of Cisco Systems, companies inclined to exist together within an &l ...
Advances in Computational Mathematics publishes high quality, accessible and original articles at the forefront of computational and applied mathematics, with a clear potential for impact across the sciences. The journal emphasizes three core ...
Mathematical models help us explore the dynamics and behaviour of these intracellular networks in greater detail. Models of increasing scale and complexity are being developed to probe cellular processes, often necessitating the use of several typ ...
a symmetric space is a pseudo-Riemannian manifold whose group of symmetries contains an inversion symmetry about every point. This can be studied with the tools of Riemannian geometry, leading to consequences in ...
Global warming is the ongoing rise of the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and has been demonstrated by direct temperature measurements and by measurements of various effects of the warming.It is ...
Deep genome sequencing is now providing extensive catalogues of somatic mutations and their frequencies in tumors. These data have stimulated the development of mathematical inference methods for elucidating how genetic evolution and clonal growth ...
An epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a biologic process that allows a polarized epithelial cell, which normally interacts with basement membrane via its basal surface, to undergo multiple biochemical changes tha ...
An expansion in oil volume that can occur when a solvent contacts a reservoir fluid. The swelling is due to the complete or partial dissolution of the solvent molecules into the reservoir fluid. When CO2 comes into contact ...