The samples were seared on the outside in order to reduce superficial contamination, sealed into sterile stomacher bags and stored at -20°C for maximum one and a half months until they were shipped to Switzerland for culture.
It shows that the two-phase TWRN protocol can achieve a maximum throughput gain of one half over the three-phase TWRN.
Additionally, the maximum EI (EImax) and the shear stress required to cause one half of this maximum (SS1/2) were determined using the Lineweaver-Burk approach and nonlinear curve fitting using a nonlinear curve-fitting algorithm available in a commercial statistical package (Prism 6.2, GraphPad Software Inc., La Jolla, CA).
As for the distance between the rows, the transmission coefficient becomes a maximum when it is about one half of the wave length, suggesting that this condition should be avoided to achieve the advantage of the breakwater in reducing wave transmission.
Titers were defined as the reciprocal of the dilution of serum giving one half the maximum OD.
The Michaelis constant K m is a measure of the concentration of substrate at which the rate of the reaction is one half its maximum, Vmax.
FTIR-RM = Fourier Transform Infrared microspectroscopy in reflectance mode; FWHM = full width at one half the maximum height; qBSE = quantitative backscattered electron; SEM/SDD-EDS = scanning electron microscopy/silicon drift detector energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry; XRD = X-ray diffraction.
The full width at one half the maximum height (FWHM) above background values of the well resolved 002 diffraction peak (25.8°) of the apatite in Calc7 and Calc8 as well as these of bone, dentin, enamel, physiological and highly crystalline apatites were determined with the Jade 6.1 software (Materials Data, Inc., Livermore, CA, USA) using the Pseudo Voigt function to model the peak shape.
Under closed system conditions, calcite dissolution by carbonic acid leads to a 50% dilution of the 14C concentration [1, 2], causing a maximum FRE of one half-life of 14C, about 5,370 years.
The power amplifier efficiency is assumed equal for both high-power amplifiers; however, HPA 1 and 2 are designed to transmit up to one fourth and to one half of the maximum transmitted power of HPA 3, respectively.
