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The use of high-throughput sequencing for detection of viral sequences in complex samples from environment and industry
Metagenomics based on high throughput sequencing (HTS) has opened a new era of discovery and genomic characterization of viruses associated with a given host or environment. The search for novel viral sequences provides an excellent opportunity to improve early detection of pathogens, and to predict viral hosts and environmental reservoirs …
Development and application of a non-targeted screening workflow for chemical exposure assessment in human biomonitoring and related studies
Human exposure to environmental stressors is widespread. Highly dynamic, these chemical, physical and social factors, collectively termed as the exposome, interact with internal factors such as genetics, sex, gut microbiome and general health status, and dictate susceptibility and risk for an onset of diseases. Human exposure to the chemicals is …
Time-efficient method for monitoring electrochemical energy conversion systems
According to the EU’s Green Deal plan, one of the main objectives for the EU is to become a net-zero greenhouse emission society by 2050. Achieving this goal requires advancements across many areas ranging from energy production, conversion, distribution and energy storage where the key role is taken by the …
Optical emission spectroscopy as a tool for monitoring cold atmospheric pressure plasma processes
Non-equilibrium atmospheric pressure plasmas are used in many areas, such as food and agriculture, plasma medicine, plasma surface modification, material synthesis and deposition. Because of their versatility, many plasma setups have been developed. Of greater interest are those that operate at atmospheric pressure, like atmospheric pressure plasma jets (APPJs). Regarding …
Diversity, ecology and sensing of the toxic diatom Pseudo-Nitzschia in the Gulf of Trieste: doctoral disertation
This work focuses on a group of diatoms, belonging to the genus Pseudo-nitzschia, which is a globally important phytoplankton genus. Some species of the genus produce the toxin domoic acid, which is responsible for shellfish intoxication known as the amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP). These diatoms have few morphological features that …
Classification of wireless links using machine learning techniques
Due to the nature of the wireless transmission medium, wireless communications are characterised by notably larger losses of data packets than wired communications. The quality of wireless links is highly dependent on channel variations, interference and even transceiver imperfections. Such link uncertainty instigated the development of numerous techniques that can …
Spectroscopic characterization of conformations of short alanine peptides, poly-L-lysine and insulin during formation of amyloid fibrils
The process of protein folding describes the transition by which an unordered polypeptide chain attains its functional native three-dimensional structure. A detailed understanding of the principles which govern the protein folding, such as conformational preferences of amino acid residues, the neighbour residue effect and the solvent effects, remains an important …
Model for Monitoring and Assessment of a Public Health Care Network
It is hard to imagine the management of any system without monitoring it as a process of continuously gathering data and performing real-time analyses. In general, monitoring can improve the estimation of the current state, optimization of the business processes, identification of the critical elements and new opportunities, and prediction …
Parameter Estimation of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems with Application to Failure Prognostics
This dissertation addresses the problem of parameter estimation of stochastic, discrete-time, state-space models from input and output data. This class of problems can be found in many modern engineering applications, where the relationships in the real world processes have to be inferred from the observed data and available prior knowledge. …
Contribution to understanding of the mechanism of amyloid fibril formation and its effects on the cell
The presence of insoluble amyloid aggregates in various human tissues correlates with the development of many human disorders (amyloidoses), including neurodegenerative diseases. Deposition of the aggregated misfolded proteins in the brain, where aggregates can be localized extracellularly or intracellularly, is the main characteristic of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, prion diseases and …