Hominibacterium faecale gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic L-arginine-degrading bacterium isolated from human feces.

Two anaerobic, mesophilic bacteria SF3 and ASD5510 were isolated from human feces in two different countries. Strain SF3 shared 99.9% of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with strain ASD5510, and 92.

gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, pyruvate-degrading bacterium from Shengli oilfield, and proposal of fam. nov. in the phylum .

A strictly anaerobic, thermophilic, Gram-stain-negative bacterium, named as strain S15, was isolated from oily sludge of Shengli oilfield in PR China. Cells of strain S15 were straight or slightly curved rods with 0.4-0.

Correlating subword articulation with lip shapes for embedding aware audio-visual speech enhancement.

In this paper, we propose a visual embedding approach to improve embedding aware speech enhancement (EASE) by synchronizing visual lip frames at the phone and place of articulation levels. We first extract visual embedding from lip frames using a pre-trained phone or articulation place recognizer for visual-only EASE (VEASE). Next, we extract audio-visual embedding from noisy speech and lip frames in an information intersection manner, utilizing a complementarity of audio and visual features for multi-modal EASE (MEASE).

gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic formate-utilizing bacterium isolated from Shengli oilfield, and proposal of four novel families and ord. nov. in the phylum .

A novel obligately anaerobic, thermophilic and formate-utilizing bacterium K32 was isolated from Shengli oilfield of China. Cells were straight rods (0.4-0.

Description of gen. nov., sp. nov., and proposal of ord. nov. containing two novel families of fam. nov. and fam. nov.

A Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped, chemoorganotrophic and anaerobic bacterium, strain SK-G1, was isolated from oily sludge sampled at the Shengli oilfield in PR China. Growth occurred with 0-30 g l NaCl, at 40-65 °C and at pH 6.0-8.

Petroclostridium xylanilyticum gen. nov., sp. nov., a xylan-degrading bacterium isolated from an oilfield, and reclassification of clostridial cluster III members into four novel genera in a new Hungateiclostridiaceae fam. nov.

A rod-shaped, Gram-stain-positive, obligately anaerobic, xylan-degrading bacterium, SK-Y3, was isolated from oily-sludge of Shengli oilfield, China. Optimum growth occurred at 50 °C, at pH 7.5 and without addition of NaCl.

Coexistence and competition of sulfate-reducing and methanogenic populations in an anaerobic hexadecane-degrading culture.

Background: Over three-fifths of the world's known crude oil cannot be recovered using state-of-the-art techniques, but microbial conversion of petroleum hydrocarbons trapped in oil reservoirs to methane is one promising path to increase the recovery of fossil fuels. The process requires cooperation between syntrophic bacteria and methanogenic archaea, which can be affected by sulfate-reducing prokaryotes (SRPs). However, the effects of sulfate on hydrocarbon degradation and methane production remain elusive, and the microbial communities involved are not well understood.

Neuropeptide S reduces propofol- or ketamine-induced slow wave states through activation of cognate receptors in the rat.

Intracerebroventricular injection of NPS reduces the duration of the ketamine- or thiopental-induced loss of the righting reflex in rats. But the specific EEG activities are unknown. We therefore sought to examine the effects of the NPS-NPSR system on anesthetic-induced characteristics of EEG power spectra and sleep-wake profiles.

Local coding based matching kernel method for image classification.

This paper mainly focuses on how to effectively and efficiently measure visual similarity for local feature based representation. Among existing methods, metrics based on Bag of Visual Word (BoV) techniques are efficient and conceptually simple, at the expense of effectiveness. By contrast, kernel based metrics are more effective, but at the cost of greater computational complexity and increased storage requirements.

Deep bottleneck features for spoken language identification.

A key problem in spoken language identification (LID) is to design effective representations which are specific to language information. For example, in recent years, representations based on both phonotactic and acoustic features have proven their effectiveness for LID. Although advances in machine learning have led to significant improvements, LID performance is still lacking, especially for short duration speech utterances.

DNA-SIP reveals that Syntrophaceae play an important role in methanogenic hexadecane degradation.

The methanogenic degradation of linear alkanes is a common process in oil-impacted environments. However, little is known about the key players involved in this process. Here, the hexadecane-degrading organisms in a methanogenic, hexadecane-degrading consortium designated M82 obtained from Shengli oilfield and maintained at 35°C for over 4 years, were identified by DNA-stable isotope probing with UL-¹³C-hexadecane, followed by density-resolved terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis, cloning and phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA gene fragments.

Novel bacterial groups dominate in a thermophilic methanogenic hexadecane-degrading consortium.

A methanogenic hexadecane-degrading consortium designated SK originating from the Shengli oil field was cultured at 55 °C. The structure and dynamics of the microbial community during successive transfers were examined using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) fingerprinting and sequencing of 16S rRNA gene fragments. The archaeal community was mainly composed of hydrogenotrophic methanogens affiliated with Methanothermobacter crinale and acetoclastic methanogens related to Methanosaeta thermophila.

Neuropeptide S facilitates mice olfactory function through activation of cognate receptor-expressing neurons in the olfactory cortex.

Neuropeptide S (NPS) is a newly identified neuromodulator located in the brainstem and regulates various biological functions by selectively activating the NPS receptors (NPSR). High level expression of NPSR mRNA in the olfactory cortex suggests that NPS-NPSR system might be involved in the regulation of olfactory function. The present study was undertaken to investigate the effects of intracerebroventricular (i.