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Pervaporation-based hybrid processes: Technical and economic aspects in treating phenolic wastewater

In this paper the feasibility of combining pervaporation with conventional processes such as adsorption and steam stripping in a hybrid process to recover phenol from waste water is analysed taking technical and economical aspects into account. Compared to stand alone units it is found that hybrid processes based on pervaporation and conventional units can be an economic alternative for the meetin

An engineering approach to mass transfer performance for hollow fibre modules with shell-side axial feed flow

An generalised engineering approach based on the analogy between mass and heat transfer is proposed to benchmark the shell-side mass transfer coefficient for axial flow in hollow fibre modules from low to moderate packing densities. The trends obtained by this approach are similar to those of correlations found in the literature and differences between the approaches are discussed. Furthermore, ef

Pervaporation of aqueous ternary systems in biotechnology - Simulation of the pervaporation processes

The resistance-in-series model, used to describe the mass transfer through a membrane in pervaporation for binary systems, has been extended to include ternary and multi-component mixtures of different organic and inorganic compounds in aqueous solutions. The new model was used in a simulation including the membrane characteristics and the geometry of the pervaporation. Thus, the influence of proc

Functional characterization of a multi-cancer risk locus on chr5p15.33 reveals regulation of TERT by ZNF148

Genome wide association studies (GWAS) have mapped multiple independent cancer susceptibility loci to chr5p15.33. Here, we show that fine-mapping of pancreatic and testicular cancer GWAS within one of these loci (Region 2 in CLPTM1L) focuses the signal to nine highly correlated SNPs. Of these, rs36115365-C associated with increased pancreatic and testicular but decreased lung cancer and melanoma r

Exposing drug industry funding of UK patient organisations

From 2012 to 2016 the drug industry donated over £57m (€65m; $73m) to UK patient organisations, with the annual sum more than doubling over the period. The funding benefited a small number of organisations and activities related to research and public involvement. The industry gave priority to commercially high profile conditions. Industry payment disclosures had limited transparency

Meniscal tear - A feature of osteoarthritis

Meniscectomy is recognized as an important risk factor for the development of knee osteoarthritis (OA), a disease that traditionally has been considered as a simple "wear and tear" phenomenon. However, despite numerous reports, little evidence has been presented that a limited meniscal resection, compared with a more extensive resection, reduces the risk of OA by preserving meniscal function. Why?

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Forskare har ett särskilt ansvar i klimatfrågan, menar Emma Kritzberg vid Lunds universitet. Hon är en av dem som verkat för vegetariskt som standardval vid biologiska institutionen.

Contact activation products are new potential biomarkers to evaluate the risk of thrombotic events in systemic lupus erythematosus

Introduction: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have persistent platelet activation and an increased risk of thrombotic events, which cannot be accounted for by traditional cardiovascular risk factors. Factor (F)XII has a potentially important role in thrombus formation and is triggered by activated platelets. We therefore asked whether the contact system is involved in inflammation

Degradation of neutrophil extracellular traps co-varies with disease activity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Introduction: The ability to degrade neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) is reduced in a subset of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). NETs consist of chromatin covered with antimicrobial enzymes and are normally degraded by DNase-I, an enzyme which is known to have reduced activity in SLE. Decreased ability to degrade NETs is associated with disease activity. In the current study