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Stable and high-rate nitrogen removal from reject water by partial nitrification and subsequent anammox
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Enzymatic digestion of corncobs pretreated with low strength of sulfuric acid for bioethanol production
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Effects of substrate stiffness and cell density on primary hippocampal cultures
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Influences of biofluid sample collection and handling procedures on GC–MS based metabolomic studies
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Gradient decrement of annealing time can improve PCR with fluorescent-labeled primers
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Automated single nucleotide polymorphism typing using bead array in capillary tube
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