- Page 1 and 2: UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO ESCOLA DE ENG
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- Page 7 and 8: ABSTRACT The tendency of wool to fe
- Page 9 and 10: TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT IV RESUM
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- Page 31 and 32: 1.1.3 FELTING AND SHRINKAGE One of
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pectinases, lipases and cellulases
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treatment but always with correspon
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1.5 DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS In resear
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despite being a vital component to
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among others; though this methodolo
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CHAPTER 2 TREATMENT OF WOOL FIBRES
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2.2 MATERIAL AND METHODS 2.2.1 ENZY
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2.2.6 FELTING AND PILLING Felting a
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2.3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Protease
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adsorption. This was manifested in
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higher, indicating wool fibre degra
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Table 2.1 - Values for the relative
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activity could not adsorb considera
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3. CHEMICAL MODIFICATIONS ON PROTEI
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phosphate buffer pH 7.5. Aggregatio
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of the unmodified standard and modi
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interactions among them. As can be
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having about 20 fold the size of un
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A 280 nm 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 E 0
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found that with 0.25% GTA, the degr
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disrupted form, which means, in the
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4. THE USE OF REVERSIBLY WATER-SOLU
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4.2.4 STABILITY MEASUREMENTS The fr
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4.2.8 WOOL PRE-TREATMENTS AND ENZYM
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4.3.1 EFFECT OF PH AND TEMPERATURE
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time increased about 5 fold. At roo
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values upon immobilization have bee
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given in Figure 4.4. The Eudragit-E
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treatment. In the case of native Es
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already referred. The fibers that w
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CHAPTER 5 OPTIMIZATION OF A SERINE
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5.2 MATERIAL AND METHODS 5.2.1 ENZY
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Table 5.1 - Factor levels used acco
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and the coupling time were also var
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These high complexes might correspo
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5.3.1 EFFECT OF PARAMETERS IN CONJU
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The contour plot for the activity i
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model did not show lack of fit and
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5.3.3 EFFECT OF PARAMETERS IN CONJU
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Table 5.6 - Analysis of variance (A
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concentration were kept at its lowe
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Specific Activity (U/mg) 10 8 6 4 2
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CHAPTER 6 GENERAL DISCUSSION "The w
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The fact that the proteases were bi
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compound. Several other approaches
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CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PE
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7.2 FUTURE PERSPECTIVES Further stu
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BIBLIOGRAPHY "Nothing in this world
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Bigi A, Cojazzi G, Panzavolta S, Ru
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Cong L, Kaul R, Dissing U, Mattiass
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Fiadeiro JM, Roldan L, Stevens C, F
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Julia MR, Pascual E, Erra P (2000).
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Negri AP, Cornell HJ, Rivett DE (19
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Sardar M, Roy I, Gupta MN (2000). S
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Teotia S, Sharma S, Gupta MN (2003)
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APPENDIX A TREATMENT OF ANIMAL HAIR
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WO 03/097927 PCT/PT02700008 DESCRIP
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Several enzymatic methods have been
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warming and stirring, activated, an
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treatment was conducted at 37ºC, f
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damage just the cortex layer of the