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The concentration of four mineral salts in the medium for the production of carboxymethylcellulase (CMCase) by Psychrobacter aquimaris LBH-10 were optimized using orthogonal array method (OAM) and response surface method (RSM) and their results from two statistical methods were compared. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) of data from central composite design (CCD) based on OAM indicated that potassium phosphate gave the highest percentage participation for cell growth as well as production of CMCase. However, their relative participations of four salts for cell growth were different from those for production of CMCase. The ANOVA of results from RSM indicated that highly significant factors ("probe>F" less than 0.0001) for cell growth were K2HPO4 and (NH4)(2)SO4, whereas those for production of CMCase were K2HPO4, NaCl, and MgSO4 center dot 7H(2)O. The optimal concentration of K2HPO4, NaCl, MgSO4. 7H(2)O, and (NH4)(2)SO4 for cell growth extracted by Design Expert Software based on RSM were 7.10, 0.84, 0.24, and 0.33 g/L, respectively, whereas those for production of CMCase were 3.00, 0.52, 0.34, and 0.45 g/L. The optimal concentrations of salts for cell growth and production of CMCase using RSM basically coincided with those using OAM as well as those from 'one-factor-at-a-time' method. The production of CMCase by P aquimaris LBH-10 with optimized concentrations of salts was 273.0 U/mL, which was enhanced by 1.27 times higher than the previous report.

Motivated by fundamental molecular physics and by atmospheric and planetary sciences, the valence excitations of N-2 gas have seen several decades of intensive study, especially by electron-energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS). It was consequently surprising when a comparison of nonresonant inelastic x-ray scattering (NIXS) and nonresonant EELS found strong evidence for violations of the first Born approximation for EELS when leaving the dipole scattering limit. Here we reassess the relative strengths of the constituent resonances of the lowest-energy excitations of N-2, encompassed by the so-called Lyman-Birge-Hopfield (LBH) band, expanding on the prior, qualitative interpretation of the NIXS results for N-2 by both quantifying the generalized oscillator strength of the lowest-energy excitations and also presenting a time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculation of the q dependence of the entire low-energy electronic excitation spectrum. At high q, we find that the LBH band has an unexpectedly large contribution from the octupolar w(1)Delta(u) resonance exactly in the regime where theory and EELS experiment for the presumed-dominant a(1)Pi(g) resonance have previously had substantial disagreement, and also where the EELS results must now be expected to show violations of the Born approximation. After correcting for this contamination, the a(1)Pi(g) generalized oscillator strength from the NIXS results is in good agreement with prior theory. The NIXS spectra, over their entire q range, also find satisfactory agreement with the TDDFT calculations for both bound and continuum excitations.