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Ciganas e ciganos no Brasil e Portugal: uma análise comparativa acerca dos proc...
Cunha, J. R.; Magano, O.As ciganas e os ciganos estão presentes no Brasil e em Portugal há largo tempo, porém continuam a ser visíveis as diferenças em relação a pessoas não ciganas em termos de acesso a condições de vida condignas, por exemplo, no que se refere ao acesso à habitação, saúde, escolaridade e emprego. Na senda de conhecermos os fatores que em cada país conduzem à persistência desta situação desigualitária, neste artigo, ...
Monitoring intracellular polyphosphate accumulation in enhanced biological phos...
Mesquita, D. P.; Amaral, A. L.; Leal, C.; Carvalheira, Mónica; Cunha, J. R.; Oehmen, Adrian; Reis, Maria A. M.; Ferreira, Eugénio C.A rapid methodology for intracellular storage polyphosphate (poly-P) identification and monitoring in enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) systems is proposed based on quantitative image analysis (QIA). In EBPR systems, 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) is usually combined with fluorescence in situ hybridization to evaluate the microbial community. The proposed monitoring technique is based on a QIA...
Biopolymer monitoring using quantitative image analysis techniques
Carvalheira, Mónica; Mesquita, D. P.; Leal, Cristiano; Oehmen, Adrian; Carvalho, Gilda; Cunha, J. R.; Amaral, A. L.; Ferreira, Eugénio C.Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are intracellular biopolymers with many applications, particularly as substitutes of polypropylene and polyethylene, due to their thermoplastic properties and biocompatible nature. Furthermore, glycogen is a polysaccharide of glucose with high importance in the metabolism of microbial communities and polyphosphate is a microbial storage compound that should be recovered in order to ...
Prediction of intracellular storage polymers using quantitative image analysis ...
Mesquita, D. P.; Leal, C.; Cunha, J. R.; Oehmen, Adrian; Amaral, A. L.; Reis, Maria A. M.; Ferreira, Eugénio C.The present study focuses on predicting the concentration of intracellular storage polymers in enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) systems. For that purpose, quantitative image analysis techniques were developed for determining the intracellular concentrations of PHA (PHB and PHV) with Nile blue and glycogen with aniline blue staining. Partial least squares (PLS) were used to predict the standard anal...
Image analysis for automatic characterization of polyhydroxyalcanoates granules
Mesquita, D. P.; Selvaggio, Gianluca; Cunha, J. R.; Leal, Cristiano S.; Amaral, A. L.; Ferreira, Eugénio C.A new monitoring approach for polyhydroxyalcanoates (PHA) granules identification and characterization based on image analysis procedures is proposed. PHA granules were analyzed by Sudan Black B (SBB) staining in an enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) system. Color images captured on an optical microscope were analyzed through quantitative image analysis. The distribution of PHA granules was estimated...
Novel method to quantify intracellular accumulation of polyphosphate in EBPR sy...
Mesquita, D. P.; Amaral, A. L.; Leal, Cristiano; Carvalheira, Mónica; Cunha, J. R.; Oehmen, Adrian; Reis, Maria A. M.; Ferreira, Eugénio C.A new method for intracellular storage polyphosphate (poly-P)identification and quantification in enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) systems is proposed based on image analysis. In EBPR systems, 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) is usually combined with fluororescent in situ hybridization (FISH) to evaluate the microbial community. The proposed technique is based on an image analysis procedure spe...
Development of image analysis methodologies to quantify intracellular PHA, poly...
Amaral, A. L.; Leal, C. S.; Mesquita, D. P.; Cunha, J. R.; Oehmen, Adrian; Reis, M. A. M.; Ferreira, Eugénio C.In wastewater treatment plants (WWTP), enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) processes are performed by mixed cultures containing polyphosphate (PAO) and glycogen accumulating organisms (GAO). In these processes, it is of crucial importance to monitor the intracellular metabolism, namely glycogen, polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) and polyphosphate (polyP) inclusions, to determine its efficiency. However, tra...
Desenvolvimento de metodologias de análise de imagem para quantificar PHA, poli...
Amaral, A. L.; Leal, Cristiano S.; Mesquita, D. P.; Cunha, J. R.; Oehmen, Adrian; Reis, Maria A. M.; Ferreira, Eugénio C.O processo de remoção biológica de fósforo, em estações de tratamento de águas residuais, é um processo efetuado por culturas mistas contendo organismos acumuladores de polifosfatos (PAO) e de glicogénio (GAO). No decurso deste processo os microrganismos podem formar inclusões de glicogénio, polihidroxialcanoatos (PHA) e polifosfatos (poli-P). Neste processo, é fulcral monitorizar o metabolismo intracelular par...
Prediction of intracellular storage polymers using quantitative image analysis ...
Mesquita, D. P.; Leal, C.; Cunha, J. R.; Oehmen, Adrian; Amaral, A. L.; Reis, Maria A. M.; Ferreira, Eugénio C.Intracellular polymers, such as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) synthesized by microorganisms for energy and carbon storage, can be commercially used as biodegradable plastics in a wide range of applications. The possibility of obtaining high PHA contents (where the most common monomers found are poly-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) and poly-hydroxyvalerate (PHV)) from inexpensive inocula and raw materials emerges as a promi...