In the context of data mining, infrequent association rules may be beneficial for analysing rare or extreme cases with very low support values and high confidence. In researching risky situations or allocating specifi...
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Background: Human-designed oligotrophic environments, such as cleanrooms, harbor unique microbial communities shaped by selective pressures like temperature, humidity, nutrient availability, cleaning reagents, and rad...
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Background: Human-designed oligotrophic environments, such as cleanrooms, harbor unique microbial communities shaped by selective pressures like temperature, humidity, nutrient availability, cleaning reagents, and radiation. Maintaining the biological cleanliness of NASA’s mission-associated cleanrooms, where spacecraft are assembled and tested, is critical for planetary protection. Even with stringent controls such as regulated airflow, temperature management, and rigorous cleaning, resilient microorganisms can persist in these environments, posing potential risks for space missions. Results: During the Phoenix spacecraft mission, genomes of 215 bacterial isolates were sequenced and based on overall genome-related indices, 53 strains belonging to 26 novel species were recognized. Metagenome mapping indicated less than 0.1% of the reads associated with novel species, suggesting their rarity. Genes responsible for biofilm formation, such as BolA (COG0271) and CvpA (COG1286), were predominantly found in proteobacterial members but were absent in other non-spore-forming and spore-forming species. YqgA (COG1811) was detected in most spore-forming members but was absent in Paenibacillus and non-spore-forming species. Cell fate regulators, COG1774 (YaaT), COG3679 (YlbF, YheA/YmcA), and COG4550 (YmcA, YheA/YmcA), controlling sporulation, competence, and biofilm development processes, were observed in all spore-formers but were missing in non-spore-forming species. COG analyses further revealed resistance-conferring proteins in all spore-formers (n = 13 species) and eight actinobacterial species, responsible for enhanced membrane transport and signaling under radiation (COG3253), transcription regulation under radiation stress (COG1108), and DNA repair and stress responses (COG2318). Additional functional analysis revealed that Agrococcus phoenicis, Microbacterium canaveralium, and Microbacterium jpeli contained biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) for ε-poly-L-lysine, benefic
This study provides the first published data on the ingestion of solid marine debris, microplastics (MPs), and oil/tar by marine and coastal birds in the Middle East, focusing on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman coas...
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作者:
Abel, Kate D.
Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Management Program School of Systems and Enterprises United States
About a decade ago, a movement was started at Stevens Institute of Technology to infuse the Capstone experience with systemsengineering (SE) and engineering Management (EM) knowledge. However the discipline specific ...
The benefits of modularization, such as reusability and upgradeability, remain underutilized in space. Exploiting these advantages after a spacecraft is launched introduces too much cost and risk in the current paradi...
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Interdependency among critical infrastructure (CI) is an increasing phenomenon. The 21st century has been defined by events that have changed individuals' perceptions of what CI is and its risks and vulnerabilitie...
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(纸本)9781627482820
Interdependency among critical infrastructure (CI) is an increasing phenomenon. The 21st century has been defined by events that have changed individuals' perceptions of what CI is and its risks and vulnerabilities. One of the major critical infrastructures is the energy sector as described by public policy, and oil is an important component of this sector. This paper explores the relationships between oil and other infrastructures. We argue that the relationship between oil and other systems has changed the structure of the oil industry. How to manage this new structure is an emerging issue that requires attention from a systems approach. Whether oil is in its crude form or refined form, its value cannot be minimized due to its various applications. Oil and its derivatives are not an independent infrastructure;they are interconnected to other forms of energy and other infrastructures. These interconnections have increased risk and vulnerability from hostile nations, terrorists, criminals, and incompetent operators. We conclude that oil is critical to the well-being of humanity and yet is so fragile that it can be affected by cascading events from other critical infrastructure due coupling and pervasive computing technologies. Copyright, American Society for engineering Management, 2012.
This paper presents our response to the national need to educate more students in the area of power systemsengineering. Our Electric Energy systems Control program (EESCP) is described, both in terms of (1) individua...
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It is highly recognized that difficulties involved in teaching programming in an introductory course, arise from the cognitive process complexity that is necessary for developing this ability. Previous studies on the ...
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Diseases based on eating disorders have been considered a health issue worldwide. It is worrying due to the increased complexity of treatments for diseases such as Diabetes, Hypertension, Obesity, and Anorexia. We pre...
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Learning difficulties in Computer Science (CS) are a multicausal problem that promotes student dropout in CS undergraduate programs. This results from the students' psychological, emotional, and motivational impli...
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