Low biomass
Detectability of biosignatures in a low biomass simulation of martian sediments
... with low biomass, this means ingesting a high sample mass to retrieve a detect- able ...at low biomass, especially where there may be background levels of organic ...very low levels ...
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Mapping and estimating the total living biomass and carbon in low-biomass woodlands using Landsat 8 CDR data
... high biomass, closed canopy forests and high leaf area index [25]; par- ticularly for the tropical rainforests [24] and secondary successional forests ...and low biomass woodlands, such as the miombo ...
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Small RNA profiling of low biomass samples: identification and removal of contaminants
... with low RNA content, in particular human blood plasma, on which this kit was used because it was amongst those showing the highest yields in studies comparing different kits [62– ...in low biomass ...
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KatharoSeq Enables High-Throughput Microbiome Analysis from Low-Biomass Samples
... the low-throughput method (see ...a low-cost quality assurance/QC method typically used to test whether enough library product was produced by a PCR or library construction for next- generation sequencing, ...
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Controlling for Contaminants in Low-Biomass 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing Experiments
... Contaminated laboratory reagents in 16S rRNA gene-based experiments have long been recognized in the scientific literature (23). Several groups have recently investi- gated the impact of bacteria arising from DNA ...
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Assessing the influence of low head weirs and low head ‘on weir’ hydropower on the phytobenthic biofilm
... and low flow during summer months. Where nutrient levels are low, grazing pressure is high or when there has been a high flood event the effects of reduced flow could be masked and communities could be ...
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Implications of allometric model selection for county-level biomass mapping
... Jenkins biomass estimates were com- pared to both biomass and maximum forest height in an attempt to understand the drivers of allometric variability as well as the associated implications for ...
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Towards precision quantification of contamination in metagenomic sequencing experiments
... ultra-low biomass samples such as respiratory fluid, quantification of the contamination within a given batch of biological samples can be used to determine a minimum mass input below which sequencing ...
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Medium-low temperature hydrothermal hydrolysis kinetic characteristics of concentrated wet microalgae biomass
... According to similar dissolve mutually theory, lipid should be only dissolved into nonpolar solvents such as hexane. However, hexane can hardly access into wet microalgae because of the water layer surround cell wall. ...
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Optimisation of the use of biomass for energy production (Optimierung der energetischen Biomassenutzung)-a funding programme introduces itself
... of Biomass for Energy Production ” ("Biomass for Energy ” ) has started and fostered a wide range of projects to combine sustainable energy supply and climatic ...
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Low Temperature Ignition of Biomass
... Although biomass shares many properties with coal, there are some disadvantageous features, es- pecially the heightened propensity for low temperature ignition during conveying and processing, and the ...
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Use of Green Mussel Shell as a Desulfurizer in the Blending of Low Rank Coal-Biomass Briquette Combustion
... of low rank coal-biomass briquette combustion, therefore also recommendded for the coal ...the low rank coal-PKS briquette by using the green mussel shell desulfurizer mostly followed the first order ...
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Benthic Disturbance-Recovery Dynamics after Construction Impact in Mountain River Mzymta (Sochi, Black Sea Basin)
... and biomass (Gilyarov, 1969; Magurran, ...and biomass values of zoobenthos displayed a lognormal distribution which differs markedly from the normal ...
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Molecular Analysis of Primary Vapor and Char Products during Stepwise Pyrolysis of Poplar Biomass
... Hybrid poplar sawdust was ground using an in-house, motorized, ground-glass, laboratory mill into a sufficiently fine pulp that poplar particles stayed suspended in water for over 1 h. A total of 1 μL of the poplar ...
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Effect of long time oxygen exposure on power generation of microbial fuel cell with enriched mixed culture
... Although this study was able to culture exoelectrogen from aerobic sludge originated from trickling filter, the electrochemical performance was way too low from results that have been reported in other ...
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Design and Fabrication of low cost Briquetting machine and Estimation of Calorific values of Biomass Briquettes.
... from biomass materials (sawdust) of Afzeliaafricana, Daniella oliveri and Rice husk at 20% 30%, and 40% starch binder ...husk biomass recorded the highest heating value of ...
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Differential metamorphic effects on nitrogen isotopes in kerogen extracts and bulk rocks
... seafloor, their isotopic composition was archived in the sedimentary record. Initially, this nitrogen is thus all organic-bound. However, through biomass degradation in sediments during diagenesis, ammonium is ...
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The implications of reduced metabolic rate in resource limited corals
... In this study, we demonstrate that scleractinian corals belonging to the massive Porites spp. functional group are capable of metabolic depression when resources are limited, as revealed by the 30% reduction in ...
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A cost effective technique for generating preservable biomass smoke extract and measuring its effect on cell receptor expression in human bronchial epithelial cells
... colleagues, biomass smoke from the combustion of horse dung was pumped into a chamber in which human small airway epithelial cells were exposed ...of biomass smoke for subsequent re-use ...co-workers, ...
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SHORT COMMUNICATION CHANGE OF ADAPTIVE PLASTICITY OF ORYZA RUFIPOGON GRIFF. IN RESPONSE TO VARIATION OF GROWTH HABITATS
... duration, biomass and grain yield and assimilate concentration of reproductive organs were low in the dryland ecotype, but high in the other two ecotypes, although the proportion of biomass ...
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