Pore-Scale Study of Transport and Mixing in Porous Media in the Context of Enhanced Oil Recovery by Hamid, Hossein

“…In addition, micro-model experiments were conducted to show other oil recovery mechanisms such as oil droplet coalescence, oil mobilization, and oil detachment from dead end pores under the influence of ultrasonic waves. …”
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Effect of surfactants’ tail number on the PVDF/GO/TiO2-based nanofiltration membrane for dye rejection and antifouling performance improvement by Mohamat, R., Suriani, A. B., Mohamed, A., Muqoyyanah, Muqoyyanah, Othman, M. H. D., Rohani, R., Mamat, M. H., Ahmad, M. K., Azlan, M. N., Mohamed, M. A., Birowosuto, M. D., Soga, T.

“…Higher surfactants’ tail number resulted in higher oxidation process which then provided more interaction between the GO and PVDF. Based on the dead-end cell measurement, PVDF/TC14-GO/TiO2 presented a slightly higher dye rejection efficiency of 92.61% as compared to PVDF/AOT4-GO/TiO2 membrane (92.39%). …”

Nanocomposite PVDF/TiO₂ Photocatalytic Membranes for Micropollutant Removal in Secondary Effluent by Juan C. Aldana, Marta Pedrosa, Adrián M. T. Silva, Joaquim L. Faria, Juan L. Acero, Pedro M. Álvarez

“…Filtration tests were carried out in continuous mode using a dead-end filtration cell to evaluate the performance of the prepared membranes in removing the selected MPs. …”
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Molecular epidemiology and pathology of spirorchiid infection in green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) by Phoebe A. Chapman, Helen Owen, Mark Flint, Ricardo J. Soares Magalhães, Rebecca J. Traub, Thomas H. Cribb, Myat T. Kyaw-Tanner, Paul C. Mills

“…We found no evidence of a characteristic pathway of the eggs to the exterior; instead the results suggest that a high proportion of eggs become lost in dead-end tissues. The most common lesions observed were granulomas affecting most organs with varying severity, followed by arteritis and thrombi in the great vessels. …”
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Implementation of an automated process for Limnospira indica harvesting and culture medium recycling for space applications by Jordan Tallec, Jordan Tallec, Jordan Tallec, Marie Vandermies, Céline Coene, Brigitte Lamaze-Lefebvre, Dries Demey, Matthieu Frappart, Estelle Couallier

“…First, a Biomass Harvesting Unit (BHU) separates the biomass produced in the PBR from the culture medium with dead-end filtration. Second, the Medium Filtration Unit (MFU) further treats the culture medium to retain the dissolved organic compounds using crossflow filtration. …”
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Legacy of logging roads in the Congo Basin: How persistent are the scars in forest cover? by Fritz Kleinschroth, Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury, Plinio Sist, Fréderic Mortier, John R. Healey

“…Field based inventories confirmed significant differences between all three categories in density and richness of woody species and cover of dominant herbs. We used dead‐end road segments, built for timber exploitation, as sampling units. …”
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Control of Human Anelloviruses by Cytosine to Uracil Genome Editing by Anne L. Timmerman, Joanna Kaczorowska, Martin Deijs, Margreet Bakker, Lia van der Hoek

“…Within a lineage, mutational dynamics varied over time and few fixations of mutations were detected, indicating that C to U editing is a dead end for a virus genome. We detected an editing coldspot in the GC-rich regions, suggesting that the GC-rich region is crucial for genome packaging, since only packaged virus particles were included in the analysis. …”
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Synthesis of aromatic amino acids from 2G lignocellulosic substrates by Patricia Godoy, Ana García‐Franco, María‐Isabel Recio, Juan‐Luis Ramos, Estrella Duque

“…In addition, the open reading frame T1E_2822, encoding glucose dehydrogenase, was knocked‐out to avoid the production of the dead‐end product xylonate. We generated a set of DOT‐T1E‐derived strains that metabolized glucose and xylose simultaneously in culture medium and that reached high cell density with generation times of around 100 min with glucose and around 300 min with xylose. …”
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Proteomic analysis of retinal pigment epithelium cells after exposure to UVA radiation by Jiunn-Liang Chen, Chun-Tzu Hung, Joseph Jordan Keller, Hsien-Chung Lin, Yu-Jen Wu

“…Visual inspection was first achieved with inverted light microscopy and then the DeadEnd™ Fluorometric TUNEL System was used to observe nuclear DNA fragmentation. …”
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Effect of Loading and Functionalization of Carbon Nanotube on the Performance of Blended Polysulfone/Polyethersulfone Membrane during Treatment of Wastewater Containing Phenol and... by Mabusha S. Rameetse, Oluseyi Aberefa, Michael O. Daramola

“…The performance of the membrane was tested with synthetic wastewater containing 20 ppm of phenol and 20 ppm of benzene using a dead-end filtration cell at a pressure ranging from 100 to 300 kPa. …”
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Hydraulic Resistance and Macromolecular Structure of Aerobic and Anaerobic Mixed-Culture Extracellular Polymeric Substances Gel Layers: Opportunities and Challenges by Emanuel Fonseca Dinis Costa, Emanuel Fonseca Dinis Costa, Maria Cristina Gagliano, Antoine Kemperman, Antoine Kemperman, Huub H. M. Rijnaarts, Rob G. H. Lammertink, Hardy Temmink, Hardy Temmink

“…In this study, sEPS fractions recovered from aerobic and anaerobic reactors were analyzed and tested to build-up EPS gel layers on a 0.2 µm pore size polycarbonate carrier. Dead-end filtration experiments showed that anaerobic sEPS layers, which have a low polysaccharide:protein (PS:PN) ratio, had a lower hydraulic resistance than the aerobic sEPS gel layers, which show a high PS:PN ratio. …”
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FPGA Implementation of Homotopic Path Planning Method with Automatic Assignment of Repulsion Parameter by Hector Eduardo De Cos-Cholula, Gerardo Ulises Diaz-Arango, Luis Hernandez-Martinez, Hector Vazquez-Leal, Arturo Sarmiento-Reyes, Maria Teresa Sanz-Pascual, Agustin Leobardo Herrera-May, Roberto Castaneda-Sheissa

“…Then, an automatic algorithm of the repulsion parameter for the HPPM method is presented, using as a reference the minimum distance between the center of each obstacle with respect to the homotopic ideal path; furthermore, an algorithm is proposed for discriminating dead-end routes and collision risk trajectories, which allows us to obtain a feasible free-collision path that takes into account the robot dimensions. …”
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Metaheuristic method for searching quasi-optimal route based on the ant algorithm and annealing simulation by Tetiana Neskorodieva, Eugene Fedorov, Maryna Chychuzhko, Vladyslav Chychuzhko

“…Third, the modification of the ant algorithm by calculating the length of the edges based on the Chebyshev distance, placing all ants in the initial vertex, checking for a dead-end, checking that the target vertex has been reached, and using Moore's neighborhood allows solving problems of the shortest path in the world of tiles. …”
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Quantifying the invasion risk of West Nile virus: Insights from a multi-vector and multi-host SEIR model by Martina Ferraguti, Afonso Dimas Martins, Yael Artzy-Randrup

“…To determine which life-history traits affect WNV invasion into susceptible communities the most, we constructed an epidemiological Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered model with three vector (eco)types, Culex pipiens pipiens, Cx. pip. molestus, and their hybrids, and two vertebrate hosts, birds (as amplifying hosts) and humans (as dead-end hosts). We investigated how differences in feeding preferences and transmission rates influenced WNV transmission across different habitats and two seasons (Spring versus Summer), to investigate the impact of increasing mosquitoes on the WNV transmission risk. …”
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5-HIAA induces neprilysin to ameliorate pathophysiology and symptoms in a mouse model for Alzheimer’s disease by Christian Klein, Guy Roussel, Susana Brun, Cristina Rusu, Christine Patte-Mensah, Michel Maitre, Ayikoe-Guy Mensah-Nyagan

“…We found that 5-hydroxyindolacetic acid (5-HIAA), the final metabolite of serotonin, considered until now as a dead-end and inactive product of serotonin catabolism, significantly reduces brain Aβ in the transgenic APPSWE mouse model for AD-related Aβ pathology and in the phosphoramidon-induced cerebral NEP inhibition mouse model. 5-HIAA treatment improves memory performance in APPSWE mice. …”
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Evolutionary Timeline and Genomic Plasticity Underlying the Lifestyle Diversity in <italic toggle="yes">Rhizobiales</italic> by Sishuo Wang, Andrew Meade, Hon-Ming Lam, Haiwei Luo

“…The rates of lifestyle transitions are highly variable; nodule association is more likely to be lost than gained, whereas animal association likely represents an evolutionary dead end. We searched for statistical correlations between gene presence and lifestyle and identified genes likely contributing to the transition and adaptation to the same lifestyle in divergent lineages. …”
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Coding undiagnosed rare disease patients in health information systems: recommendations from the RD-CODE project by Céline Angin, Monica Mazzucato, Stefanie Weber, Kurt Kirch, Waed Abdel Khalek, Houda Ali, Sylvie Maiella, Annie Olry, Anne-Sophie Jannot, Ana Rath

“…The period of searching for a diagnosis, called diagnostic delay, sometimes leads to a diagnostic dead end when the patient’s disease is impossible to diagnose after undergoing all available investigations. …”
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The Genetic Basis of Host Preference and Resting Behavior in the Major African Malaria Vector, Anopheles arabiensis. by Bradley J Main, Yoosook Lee, Heather M Ferguson, Katharina S Kreppel, Anicet Kihonda, Nicodem J Govella, Travis C Collier, Anthony J Cornel, Eleazar Eskin, Eun Yong Kang, Catelyn C Nieman, Allison M Weakley, Gregory C Lanzaro

“…Malaria transmission is dependent on the propensity of Anopheles mosquitoes to bite humans (anthropophily) instead of other dead end hosts. Recent increases in the usage of Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets (LLINs) in Africa have been associated with reductions in highly anthropophilic and endophilic vectors such as Anopheles gambiae s.s., leaving species with a broader host range, such as Anopheles arabiensis, as the most prominent remaining source of transmission in many settings. …”
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Biosynthesis of fragrance 2-phenylethanol from sugars by Pseudomonas putida by Patricia Godoy, Zulema Udaondo, Estrella Duque, Juan L. Ramos

“…The improvements resulted from preventing dead-end product accumulation from shikimate and limiting the catabolism of potential pathway intermediates in the Ehrlich pathway. …”
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A CRISPR-Cas9 screen reveals a role for WD repeat-containing protein 81 (WDR81) in the entry of late penetrating viruses by Anthony J. Snyder, Andrew T. Abad, Pranav Danthi

“…Consistent with the role of WDR81 in impacting the maturation of endosomes, WDR81-deficiency led to the accumulation of reovirus particles in dead-end compartments. Though WDR81 was dispensable for infection by VSV (vesicular stomatitis virus), which exits the endosomal system at an early stage, it was required for VSV-EBO GP (VSV that expresses the Ebolavirus glycoprotein), which must reach the late endosome to initiate infection. …”
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