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Showing 1 to 20 of 138 for “"WGS"”.
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Women's and gender studies instruction : teaching to replace the Renaissance man in the face of conservatism
… fail to understand the purpose or benefit of a WGS education while instructors struggle to find pedagogical works to utilize in their teaching. Although studies have offered insight into student experiences and learning outcomes in WGS classrooms, they offer little in terms of the instructors’ …
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Structure-activity relationships for the water-gas shift reaction over supported metal catalysts
<p>The Water-Gas Shift (WGS) reaction (CO + H<sub>2</sub>O → CO<sub>2</sub> + H<sub>2</sub>) is an important chemical process for industrial hydrogen production. The overall goal of this project is to use kinetic experiments and <em>in situ</em> characterization techniques in tandem, in order to …
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Genetic Sequencing in Healthy Populations
… more widely available, Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) will move into the clinical space, providing massive amounts of information about patients. Many have suggested using this technology in the standard screening of healthy populations. This brings ethical dilemmas as well, particularly when …
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Comparative genomics of Listeria species isolated from the meat processing chain in South Africa
… the applications of Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) of meat products isolated from food and food processing facilities to enhance understanding of the overall distribution of genomic elements that contribute toward the pathogenicity and survival of Listeria spp. including L. monocytogenes, L. …
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Genomic surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at local, regional and national levels
… rapid progression of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) technologies over the past decade has provided highly detailed and discriminatory insights into the epidemiology of MRSA. However, WGS is still not implemented in the routine surveillance of MRSA at a local, regional or national level. This …
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Estimating telomere length from whole genome sequencing data
… their applications to whole genome sequencing (WGS) data. Telomerecat is a tool for estimating telomere length from WGS data. The strength of Telomerecat lies in its applicability. This applicability is due to a number of advantages over previous attempts to estimate telomere length from WGS. …
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Comparative genomics of repetitive elements between maize inbred lines B73 and Mo17
… model system, we analyzed whole genome shotgun (WGS) sequences for the two maize inbred lines B73 and Mo17 using k-mer analysis to quantify the differences between the two genomes. Significant differences were identified in highly repetitive sequences, including centromere, 45S ribosomal DNA …
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Computational Fluid Dynamics of High Temperature Shift Reaction of Reformate Gas in Fixed Bed and Membrane Reactors
… the product of reforming, the water gas shift (WGS) reaction is required. The conduction of the WGS reaction in a membrane reactor (MR) is a process intensive technology that not only increases hydrogen yield and purity but also reduces costs due to lesser energy required and lesser number of …
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INFLUENCES OF INTERFACES AND PROMOTERS ON THE WATER-GAS SHIFT REACTION OVER SUPPORTED NOBLE METAL CATALYSTS
The water-gas shift reaction (WGS) is an important reaction to produce high purity
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The Application of Chaos Game Representations and Deep Learning for Grapevine Genetic Testing
… testing, we explored a whole genome sequencing (WGS)-based approach by taking advantage of the latest next-generation sequencing technologies (NGS) for achieving the best accuracy and better availability at affordable cost. To address the challenges of the extremely high dimensional nature of the …
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Elucidating the Genetic Basis of Canine Progressive Retinal Atrophies in Several Breeds of Dog
… 33 in LA dogs. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) analysis of a PRA-affected LA revealed a long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1) insertion in the predicted promoter region of the retinal candidate gene, IMPG2. Validation of the LINE-1 insertion determined it segregated with disease and …
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Analysis of driver gene mutations in oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma
… African population by whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and whole-exome sequencing (WES). Normal and tumour DNA and RNA was isolated from OSCC patient biopsies prior to the commencement of any form of chemotherapy or radiotherapy. WGS was performed on 31 samples, while WES was conducted on 67 …
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Advancing RNA Virus Discovery and Biology with Whole Genome Sequencing
… amplicon-based whole-genome sequencing (WGS) approach to identify viral genomes of hantaviruses and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) within reservoir and spillover hosts.</p> <p>In my research studies, I used the amplicon-based WGS approach to define the …
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Solution combustion catalysts for the water-gas shift reaction
… of the largest component, the Water Gas-Shift (WGS) reactor, which could be achieved by an increase in the catalytic activity via alternative catalyst synthesis techniques. Solution combustion synthesis (SCS) is one such technique that could be used since it allows for the preparation of …
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Kinetic models for the Pt/CeO₂ catalysed water-gas shift reaction
… on demand. Currently, the water-gas shift (WGS) reactor is one of the largest components in a fuel processing train and thus opportunity exists to reduce the size of this reactor. To design future WGS catalysts and an optimised fuel processor, the reaction kinetics taking place must be …
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Range-Based Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Navigation Expressed in Geodetic Coordinates
… implemented in the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84) coordinate reference system. The navigation system is not restricted to the WGS 84 ellipsoid and can be applied to any reference ellipsoid. This thesis documents the formulation of the navigation system in geodetic coordinates. Experimental …
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Atomic Level Study Of Water-Gas Shift Catalysts Via Transmission Electron Microscopy And X-Ray Spectroscopy
<p>Water-gas shift (WGS), CO + H<sub>2</sub> O [Special characters omitted.] CO<sub>2</sub> + H<sub>2</sub> (ΔH° = -41 kJ mol<sup> -1</sup> ), is an industrially important reaction for the production of high purity hydrogen. Commercial Cu/ZnO/Al<sub>2</sub> O<sub>3</sub> catalystsare employed to …
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Water-gas shift conversion in microchannel reactors using noble metal catalysts
… study was aimed at the water-gas-shirhift (WGS) stage within this train. The basis of the study was the comparison of three commercial supported noble metal WGS catalysts and a state-¬‐of-¬‐the-¬‐art industrial iron/chromium high temperature WGS catalyst. All the catalysts were applied …
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The Epidemiology and Evolution of Rifampicin Mono Resistant Tuberculosis in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa
… transmission through whole genome sequence (WGS) derived clusters among RR-TB strains. Methods: Routinely diagnosed RR-TB isolates are stored in a biobank at Stellenbosch University (SU). Clinical data (Médecins sans Frontières and additional data requested from the Western Cape Provincial …
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A genome wide approach to identify factors asociated with vancomycin non-susceptibility in Staphylococus aureus
… infections. Further, whole genome sequencing (WGS) offers a tool to identify factors such as multi locus sequence types (MLSTs) or single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that may aid in identifying or predicting the presence of hVISA. This study therefore utilized a stepwise phenotypic approach …
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