Experiments with an annular thermoacoustic engine employing quasiadiabatic interaction between traveling acoustic waves and an inhomogeneously heated porous material indicate the presence of a closed-loop mass flux. A qualitative modeling of the enthalpy flux in the thermoacoustic core provides an opportunity to estimate the thermal convection associated with this mass flux, by using temperature measurement at different positions in the system. The estimated acoustically induced mass flux is in accordance with recent theoretical results.
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January 2025
Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 229, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
The deep Southern Ocean (SO) circulation plays a key role in the storage and release of CO in Earth's climate system. The uptake and release of CO strongly depend on the redistribution of well and poorly ventilated deep ocean water masses. Recently, evidence was found for possible stronger Pacific deep water overturning and subsequent intrusion into the SO during periods of reduced AMOC.
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Interdisciplinary Program of Bioenergy and Biomaterials Graduate School, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, Republic of Korea; Department of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 61186, Republic of Korea. Electronic address:
This study was aimed to develop a highly productive microbial fermentation process for gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) production from glucose. For this, an efficient GABA-producing E. coli strain was firstly developed through metabolic engineering with a strategy of increasing the flux of GABA biosynthetic pathway and deleting or repressing the GABA shunt pathways that compete with GABA biosynthesis.
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January 2025
MOE Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation Microbiology, College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300457, P. R. China.
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January 2025
Université Paris Cité - Institut de Physique du globe de Paris, CNRS, F75005 Paris, France.
Nanoparticles (NPs) exhibit high reactivity and mobility in the environment, and a significant capacity to penetrate living organisms, potentially leading to harmful effects. Volcanoes are the second major source of natural NPs emitted into the atmosphere, with an estimated flux of 342 Tg/year. Few studies have focused on their fate.
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Molecular Biosciences PhD Program, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, United States.
Riparian spiders are used in ecotoxicology as sentinels of bioavailable contaminants that are transferred from aquatic to terrestrial habitats via emergent aquatic insects. Spiders in the family Tetragnathidae are particularly of interest because a high proportion of their diet consists of emergent aquatic insects and their contaminant loads reflect the amount transferred through the food web to riparian predators. The transfer of contaminants can be determined through food web tracers such as stable isotopes and polyunsaturated fatty acids; however, it is unclear how contaminants and tracers vary over the course of a year.
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