Biodegradation of selected hydrocarbons by novel bacterial strains isolated from contaminated Arabian Gulf sediment
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Three strains of novel bacteria were isolated from oil-contaminated sediment from the Arabian Gulf (Brevibacillus brevis T2C2008, Proteus mirabilis T2A12001, and Rhodococcus quinshengi TA13008). The isolated strains were tested for their degrading efficacy of low and high molecular hydrocarbon (naphthalene and pyrene). The efficacy of the two-hydrocarbon degradation by the isolates bacterial was determined at a temperature of 25 °C and 37 °C and pH of 5.0 and 9.0. In inoculated media at 37 °C, Rhodococcus qinshengi fully metabolized naphthalene and degrade 56% of pyrene. Brevibacillus brevis break down over 80% of naphthalene at room temperatures (25 °C). However, it was found that P. mirabilis and R. qinshengi biodegraded nearly 94% of naphthalene in the incubated media. The capacity for pyrene and naphthalene degradation in varying pH and temperature conditions was shown to be significant in Rhodococcus qinshengi because of its mineralization exceeding 50% across the tested pH and temperature. This implies that the isolated strains are ideal for biodegradation of contaminated sediment with naphthalene and pyrene.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".