Culturable bacteria from a full-scale desalination plant: Identification methods, bacterial diversity and selection of models based on membrane-biofilm community

Reverse Osmosis (RO) is an efficient and clean membrane-based technology for water desalination. This work presents a full-scale seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant simulator using MATLAB/Simulink that has been validated using the operational data from a local plant. It allows simulating the system behavior under different operating conditions with high flexibility and minimal cost.

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Bacterial diversity and bioprospecting for cold-active enzymes from culturable bacteria associated with sediment from a melt water stream of Midtre Loenbreen glacier, an Arctic glacier

Research in Microbiology ◽

10.1016/j.resmic.2009.08.008 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 160 (8) ◽

pp. 538-546 ◽

Cited By ~ 49

Author(s):

Puram Vishnu Vardhan Reddy ◽

Singireesu Soma Shiva Nageswara Rao ◽

Mambatta Shankaranarayanan Pratibha ◽

Buddhi Sailaja ◽

Bakka Kavya ◽

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Keyword(s):

Bacterial Diversity ◽

Culturable Bacteria ◽

Water Stream ◽

Cold Active Enzymes ◽

Melt Water ◽

Cold Active ◽

Arctic Glacier

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Minou Drouet

Genius in France ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691160658.003.0016 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Ann Jefferson

Keyword(s):

Public Interest ◽

Public Perception ◽

Full Scale ◽

The Public ◽

Selection Of ◽

Book Publication

This chapter examines the controversies surrounding the Minou Drouet affair, with Minou being a previously unknown eight-year-old child poet who had captured public interest. The publisher René Julliard had distributed a selection of her letters and poems in the form of a little pamphlet sent to critics, writers, and friends “to put down a marker” and provide advance publicity for the first commercial edition of Minou's poetry, Arbre, mon ami (Tree, my friend), which was scheduled to appear in January 1956, whereafter it sold forty-five thousand copies. In the meantime, and in the absence of any book publication, the affair took off and developed into a full-scale controversy as the authenticity of Minou's talent was called into question. This chapter considers Minou's story in light of the public perception on child prodigies—initially as objects of collective curiosity, and hereafter as the target of suspicion.

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Comparison of McCarthy General Cognitive Index and Wisc-R IQ for Educable Mentally Retarded, Learning Disabled, and Normal Children

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1980.47.2.591 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 47 (2) ◽

pp. 591-596 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Jack A. Naglieri

Keyword(s):

Mentally Retarded ◽

Learning Disabled ◽

Full Scale ◽

Normal Children ◽

Three Samples ◽

The Mean ◽

Educable Mentally Retarded ◽

The Relationship ◽

Selection Of

The relationship between the McCarthy General Cognitive Index and the WISC-R Full Scale IQ was examined for 20 educable mentally retarded, 20 learning disabled, and 20 normal children aged 6 to 8½ yr. Selection of children was conducted so that the three groups would be comparable with res pea to age, sex, and race. The mean McCarthy Indexes for the retarded and learning disabled samples were significantly lower than the mean WISC-R Full Scale IQs. When the Index and Full Scale IQ were converted to a common metric and compared, the mean index for the retarded and learning disabled samples remained lower than the Full Scale IQs, although the differences were nonsignificant. The measures correlated significantly for all three samples and ranged from .51 to .82.

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