The First Nakba Novel? on Standing with Palestine

I wish to take this opportunity to respond to Bart Moore-Gilbert's essay “Palestine, Postcolonialism and Pessoptimism” by suggesting how its concerns might be amplified through a consideration of Ethel Mannin's nakba novel The Road to Beersheba (1963b). I offer my reading of Mannin's novel in the spirit of an unfinished dialogue with Bart Moore-Gilbert's work and as a tribute to his commitment to justice

Kebudayaan islam/ Pickthall

224 hal.; 21 cm

Using High Throughput DNA Sequencing to Evaluate the Accuracy of Serial Dilution Based Tests of Microbial Activities in Oil Pipelines

AbstractMicrobial activities have detrimental effects on industrial infrastructure. If not controlled, microbial presence can result in corrosion, biofilm formation, and product degradation. Serial dilution tests are routinely used for evaluating presence and abundance of microorganisms by diluting samples and culturing microbes in specific media designed to support microorganisms with particular properties, such as sulfate reduction.A high-throughput sequencing approach was used to evaluate changes in microbial composition during four standard serial dilution tests. Analysis of 159 isolates revealed significant differences in the microbial compositions of sequential serial dilution titers and identified several cases where: (a) bacteria known to have a detrimental metabolic function (such as acid production) were lost in the serial dilution medium designed to test for this function; (b) bacteria virtually absent in the original sample became dominant in the serial dilution medium. These observations raise concerns regarding the accuracy and overall usefulness of serial dilution tests.</jats:p