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Open AccessSearch for patterns by combining cosmic-ray energy and arrival directions at the Pierre Auger Observatory
Energy-dependent patterns in the arrival directions of cosmic rays are searched for using data of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We investigate local regions around the highest-energy cosmic rays with ...
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Open AccessDisease Containment Strategies based on Mobility and Information Dissemination
Human mobility and social structure are at the basis of disease spreading. Disease containment strategies are usually devised from coarse-grained assumptions about human mobility. Cellular networks data, howev...
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Open AccessThe Anatomy of a Scientific Rumor
The announcement of the discovery of a Higgs boson-like particle at CERN will be remembered as one of the milestones of the scientific endeavor of the 21st century. In this paper we present a study of information...
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Microbiological characterization of a semi-enclosed sub-Antarctic environment: the Straits of Magellan
Among sub-Antarctic ecosystems, the microbiology of the Straits of Magellan has been poorly documented due to the scarcity of observations. In this context, the spatial distribution of microbiological paramete...
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Occurrence and characterization of psychrotolerant hydrocarbon-oxidizing bacteria from surface seawater along the Victoria Land coast (Antarctica)
A total of 253 hydrocarbon-oxidizing bacterial isolates were achieved from eight Antarctic surface seawater samples enriched on diesel oil at 4°C. Isolates were screened by amplified ribosomal DNA restriction ...
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Psychrophiles - Cold-Adapted Hydrocarbon-Degrading Microorganisms
Throughout the year a high percentage of the biosphere, about 85%, is permanently exposed to temperatures below 5°C. Despite the inhospitable nature of low-temperature environments they are successfully coloni...
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Distribution of Representative Oligotrophic Bacteria in a Pelagic Marine Environment (Ligurian Sea) by in situ Hybridization with rRNA-targeted, Fluorescently Labelled Oligonucleotides
The distribution of specific autochthonous oligotrophic bacteria in a surface layer (30 m depth) of a pelagic seawater station (DYFAMED, 28 miles off-shore, in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea) was studied b...
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Identification of Culturable Oligotrophic Bacteria within Naturally Occurring Bacterioplankton Communities of the Ligurian Sea by 16S rRNA Sequencing and Probing