Exploring the catalytic hydrothermal liquefaction of Namibian encroacher bush.

An urgent ecological issue is the threat posed by invasive species, which are becoming more widespread especially in Africa. These encroachments damage ecosystems, pose a threat to biodiversity, and outcompete local plants and animals. This article focuses on converting Acacia Mellifera from Namibia, commonly known as encroacher bush (EB) into high-quality drop-in intermediates for the chemical and transport industry via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL).

Quality assessment in in vivo NMR spectroscopy: VI. Multicentre quantification of MRS test signals.

In this paper the results are presented of a joint European quantitative data-analysis study on a series of in vivo NMR time-domain test signals. The purpose of this study was to investigate, whether the quantitative MRS results from the various European biomedical research-centres can be made more comparable and reproducible. From the results of the study it can be concluded that in case of heavily overlapping NMR lines the quantifications should be done by some form of model function fitting and that, whenever possible, prior knowledge on the quantitative parameters should be incorporated into the quantification algorithms.