The discovery over the past two decades of viable microbial communities within glaciers has promoted interest in the role of glaciers and ice sheets (the cryosphere) as contributors to subglacial erosion, global biodiversity, and in regulating global biogeochemical cycles. In situ or in-field detection and characterisation of microbial communities is becoming recognised as an important approach...

High-throughput DNA sequencing techniques allow for the identification and characterisation of microbes and their genes (microbiome). Using these new techniques, microbial populations in several niches of the human body, including the oral and nasal cavities, skin, urogenital tract and gastrointestinal tract, have been described recently. Very little data on the microbiome of companion animals ...

‎This paper is devoted to definition standard higher dimension shearlet group $ mathbb{S} = mathbb{R}^{+} times mathbb {R}^{n-1} times mathbb {R}^{n} $ and determination of square integrable subrepresentations of this group‎. ‎Also we give a characterisation of admissible vectors associated to the Hilbert spaces corresponding to each su brepresentations‎.

Current water quality guidelines for reclaimed wastewater have predominantly addressed risks associated with the presence of microbial organisms. Comparatively, chemical parameters have been largely overlooked or inadequately considered. Acceptable levels of chemical parameters will be dependant on the proposed reuse applications for the water and, in many cases, site-specific factors such as t...

Current study was to investigate the presence of dehalogenase in isolated bacterium from Selat Tebrau that can grow on 2,2-dichloropropionic acid (2,2-DCP is an active compound herbicide Dalapon®). Strain RN1, a Gram-negative and rod shape tentatively identified as Enterobacter cancerogenus based basic biochemical 16S rRNA gene analyses. The calculated cells doubling time were 5.29 hours growth...

Abstract Background Plastics now pollute marine environments across the globe. On entering these environments, plastics are rapidly colonised by a diverse community of microorganisms termed plastisphere. Members plastisphere have myriad functions typically found in any biofilm but, additionally, number studies claimed presence plastic-biodegrading organisms, although with little mechanistic ver...

Studies were carried out on the microbiological and physico-chemical changes which occurred during the ripening of five batches of Naples-type salami, manufactured without starter cultures. Salami were sampled internally and externally, and the following microbial groups were studied: lactic acid bacteria, Micrococcaceae and yeasts. The results obtained indicated that lactobacilli constituted t...