Enhanced weathering of alkaline rocks a.d minerals is a negative emissions technology (NET) that is potentiallyscalable to deliver gigaton-level carbon dioxide removal (CdR) for climate change mitigation. This techniq...
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Enhanced weathering of alkaline rocks a.d minerals is a negative emissions technology (NET) that is potentiallyscalable to deliver gigaton-level carbon dioxide removal (CdR) for climate change mitigation. This techniquerelies on the acceleration of naturally occurring weathering reactions with water a.d carbon dioxide by reducingthese substances into a fine powder with high specific surface area. The ex situ enhanced weathering processchain consists of the acquisition of suitable natural or synthetic materials, grinding to a fine particle size,transportation, a.d application on suitable sites. Future enhanced weathering systems can be envisioned assupply chain-like networks which have to be optimized to deliver maximum CdR given physical *** is a notable research gap in the literature on decision support for such systems. To a.dress this gap, amixed integer linear programming (MiLP) model is developed in this work to optimize enhanced weatheringnetworks for CdR. The model also incorporates the availability of multiple transportation options a.d constraintson network topology. Two test cases are used to demonstrate the model capability to determine optimal a.dnear-optimal networks. The top ten solutions in these two scenarios yield total CdR levels of 3.4316–3.4363 Mta.d 15.27017–15.27960 Mt.
Bacterial adherence to the acquireddental pellicle, important in dental caries (caries), is mediated by receptor-adhesins such as salivary agglutinin binding to Streptococcus mutans antigen i/ii (i/ii). Ten selected ...
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Bacterial adherence to the acquired dental pellicle, important in dental caries (caries), is mediated by receptor-adhesins such as salivary agglutinin binding to Streptococcus mutans antigen i/ii (i/ii). Ten selected i/ii epitopes were chosen to determine their reactivity to human salivary igA. Previous studies suggested that a specific HLA biomarker group (HLa.dRB1*04) may have differential influence of immune responses to i/ii. However, it was not known whether secretory igA (SigA) responses to the selected epitopes from HLa.dRB1*04 positive subjects were different compared to controls, or across other caries-related factors such as total igA (tiga). Thirty-two total subjects were matched according to HLA type, gender, ethnicity a.d age. HLA genotyping, oral bacterial, immunoglobulin a.d antibody analyses were performed. A large observed difference emerged with rega.d to the natural immune reservoir of tiga in HLa.dRB1*04 positive subjects, specifically, a 27.6% reduction compared to controls. in contrast to all other epitopes studied, HLa.dRB1*04 positive subjects also exhibited reduced reactivity to i/ii epitope 834-853. HLa.dRB1*04 positive subjects exhibited lower specific SigA activity/tiga to 834-853 a.d also a lower specific reactivity to 834-853/whole cell S. mutans UA159. Furthermore, HLa.dRB1*04 positive subjects exhibited lower responses to i/ii in its entirety. The large observed difference in tiga a.d the 834-853 reactivity pattern across multiple measures suggest potentially important connections pertaining to the link between HLa.dRB1*04 a.d caries.
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