Clostridium difficile causes antibiotic-associated diarrhea and pseudomembraneous colitis and is responsible for a large and increasing fraction of hospital-acquired infections.Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is an alternate treatment option for recurrent C.difficile infection (RCDI) refractory to antibiotic therapy.It has recently been disc
Enzymatic saccharification is used to convert polysaccharides in lignocellulosic biomass to sugars which are then converted to ethanol or other bio-based fermentation products.The efficacy of commercial cellulase preparations can potentially increase if lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase (LPMO) is included.However, as LPMO requires both a reductant
This article presents a novel transmission-only calibration technique for free-space quasi-optical material characterization, based on rotating the sample around its axis to vary the angle of incidence under which the sample is illuminated.In contrast to common time domain approaches, each frequency point is evaluated individually.Thus, no minimum
From 2018 on, the Nizhny Arkhyz Archaeological Expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the National Research University Higher School of Economics, and the U.D.Aliev Karachay-Cherkessia State University has been conducting comprehensive inte