The water footprint of bioenergy. (57/129)

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Global potential for wind-generated electricity. (58/129)

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A randomised trial of home energy efficiency improvement in the homes of elderly COPD patients. (59/129)

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Biomass fuel use and indoor air pollution in homes in Malawi. (60/129)

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The food, fuel, and financial crises affect the urban and rural poor disproportionately: a review of the evidence. (61/129)

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Mass lead intoxication from informal used lead-acid battery recycling in dakar, senegal. (62/129)

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Placing microalgae on the biofuels priority list: a review of the technological challenges. (63/129)

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Culm in rice straw as a new source for sugar recovery via enzymatic saccharification. (64/129)

Rice straw was manually dissected and two main fractions were recovered: a culm and a leaf sheath/blade fraction, in order to evaluate their potential as feedstocks for the recovery of fermentable sugars. In the case of cv. Koshihikari and Milkyqueen, most soft carbohydrates (SCs: glucose, fructose, sucrose, starch, and beta-1,3-1,4-glucan) were present in the culms, reaching 47.9% and 89.2% of total SCs in the two main fractions. The results also indicated that beta-glucans (cellulose and beta-1,3-1,4-glucan) and xylan in the culms were more susceptible to direct enzymatic attack than those in the leaf sheath/blades. Thus the culm has high potential as a new feedstock for the extraction of fermentable sugars in a concentrated form, as compared to whole rice straw and the leaf sheath/blade. In this study, a novel method of separating a culm from the whole rice straw by means of wind power was also evaluated.  (+info)