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Exploring nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses in Tara Oceans microbial metagenomes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDVs) constitute a group of eukaryotic viruses that can have crucial ecological roles in the sea by accelerating the turnover of their unicellular hosts or by causing diseases in animals. To better characterize the
Acinas, Silvia G.   +27 more
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The Relevance of Rigour for Design Practise [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Design is an inverted discipline. The concept of rigour, as understood within the natural sciences, cannot be applied to Design Practice. Rigour for the natural sciences is a quality assurance mechanism ensuring that the knowledge bases of the ...
Spencer, Nick
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Environmental sciences at universities of applied sciences

open access: yesChimia, 2018
Three institutes of the Universities of Applied Sciences that are active in Chemistry and Life Sciences present a selection of their activities in the field of environmental sciences. These projects include analytical monitoring, removal of micropollutants, waste reduction and valorization.
Simon Crelier   +3 more
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Forecasting and Forecast Combination in Airline Revenue Management Applications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Predicting a variable for a future point in time helps planning for unknown future situations and is common practice in many areas such as economics, finance, manufacturing, weather and natural sciences. This paper investigates and compares approaches
Gabrys, Bogdan, Lemke, Christiane
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A review of instrumental variables estimation in the applied health sciences [PDF]

open access: yes
Health scientists often use observational data to estimate treatment effects when controlled experiments are not feasible. A limitation of observational research is non-random selection of subjects into different treatments, potentially leading to ...
Paul Grootendorst
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Reactor monitoring and safeguards using antineutrino detectors

open access: yes, 2008
Nuclear reactors have served as the antineutrino source for many fundamental physics experiments. The techniques developed by these experiments make it possible to use these very weakly interacting particles for a practical purpose.
Applied Antineutrino Physics   +16 more
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Mathematical modeling of Zika disease in pregnant women and newborns with microcephaly in Brazil

open access: yes, 2017
We propose a new mathematical model for the spread of Zika virus. Special attention is paid to the transmission of microcephaly. Numerical simulations show the accuracy of the model with respect to the Zika outbreak occurred in Brazil.Comment: This is a ...
Area, Ivan   +4 more
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Small-World Networks in Geophysics

open access: yes, 2010
Many geophysical processes can be modelled by using interconnected networks. The small-world network model has recently attracted much attention in physics and applied sciences.
Barthelemy   +13 more
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Swedish research in organic farming and food systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In Sweden research is mainly conducted by researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). The SLU departments of Soil Science, Ecology and Crop Production Science (now Crop Production Ecology), Entomology, Animal Nutrition and ...
Alm, Jessica   +2 more
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