Publications by authors named "L Boyadjieva"

Hemp, Cannabis sativa, was reintroduced to the US in 2014 after 50 years of prohibition. Since then, growers have focused primarily on cannabinoid production using female plants. Thus, most modern hemp has been asexually propagated in greenhouses and transplanted into fields.

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Purpose: To evaluate the response rate and overall survival (OS) of chemotherapy-naïve patients with metastatic colorectal adenocarcinoma treated with 4 different chemotherapy regimens.

Patients And Methods: One hundred fifty-eight patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) were included in this prospective study. The treatment regimens were as follows: a) Intraarterial (i.

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The applicability of a recently published modification of the chemostat, named "titrostat", for microbial continuous-flow purification of toluene-contaminated air is discussed. This article describes the operative range and the toluene elimination efficiency of a 2-l titrostat running with a mixed bacterial culture dominated by two Acinetobacter species: A. calcoaceticus and A.

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We describe a method for continuous cultivation of microorganisms utilizing liquid or gaseous water insoluble substrates as a single source of carbon and energy. The water insoluble substrate, which is also the growth-limiting factor, enters the cultivation space as a manually adjustable single-compound material flow. All nonlimiting nutrients (with the exception of oxygen) enter the cultivation space as ingredients of titrant solution which feed rate is reliably coupled to the rate of substrate addition by means of the system titrator.

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