Hierarchical self-assembly of chiral fibres from achiral particles.

abstract：:The placenta provides all the nutrients required for the fetus through pregnancy. It develops dynamically, and, to avoid rejection of the fetus, there is no mixing of fetal and maternal blood; rather, the branched placental villi 'bathe' in blood supplied from the uterine arteries. Within the villi, the feto-placental...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Clark AR,Lin M,Tawhai M,Saghian R,James JL

更新日期：2015-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A tumour is a heterogeneous population of cells that competes for limited resources. In the clinic, we typically probe the tumour by biopsy, and then characterize it by the dominant genetic clone. But genotypes are only the first link in the chain of hierarchical events that leads to a specific cell phenotype. The rel...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Gallaher J,Anderson AR

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodontitis is a polymicrobial, biofilm-caused, inflammatory disease affecting the tooth-supporting tissues. It is not only the leading cause of tooth loss worldwide, but can also impact systemic health. The development of effective treatment strategies is hampered by the complicated disease pathogenesis which is be...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Bloch S,Tomek MB,Friedrich V,Messner P,Schäffer C

更新日期：2019-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Owls are an order of birds of prey that are known for the development of a silent flight. We review here the morphological adaptations of owls leading to silent flight and discuss also aerodynamic properties of owl wings. We start with early observations (until 2005), and then turn to recent advances. The large wings ...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Wagner H,Weger M,Klaas M,Schröder W

更新日期：2017-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2017.0015.]. ...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Müller GB

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:As a novel class of biomaterials, nucleopeptides, via the conjugation of nucleobases and peptides, usually self-assemble to form nanofibres driven mainly by hydrogen bonds. Containing nucleobase(s), nucleopeptides have a unique property-interacting with nucleic acids. Here we report the design and characterization of ...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Du X,Zhou J,Li X,Xu B

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of high strength and high toughness is a desirable feature that structural materials should display. However, while in the past, engineers had to compromise on either strength or toughness depending on the requested application, nowadays, new toughening strategies are available to provide strong materi...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Berardo A,Pantano MF,Pugno NM

更新日期：2016-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The scattering strength of a random medium relies on the geometry and spatial distribution of its components as well as on their refractive index. Anisotropy can, therefore, play a major role in the optimization of the scattering efficiency in both biological and synthetic materials. In this study, we show that, by ex...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Jacucci G,Onelli OD,De Luca A,Bertolotti J,Sapienza R,Vignolini S

更新日期：2019-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dual-Wavelength Echidna Lidar (DWEL), a full waveform terrestrial laser scanner (TLS), has been used to scan a variety of forested and agricultural environments. From these scanning campaigns, we summarize the benefits and challenges given by DWEL's novel coaxial dual-wavelength scanning technology, particularly f...

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authors： Li Z,Schaefer M,Strahler A,Schaaf C,Jupp D

更新日期：2018-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, far from arguing that evolutionary approaches to our own species permit us to describe the fundamental character of human nature, a prominent group of cultural evolutionary theorists has instead argued that the very idea of 'human nature' is one we should reject. It makes no sense, they argue, to spea...

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authors： Lewens T

更新日期：2017-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we show that solutions to ordinary differential equations describing the large-population limits of Markovian stochastic epidemic models can be interpreted as survival or cumulative hazard functions when analysing data on individuals sampled from the population. We refer to the individual-level survival...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： KhudaBukhsh WR,Choi B,Kenah E,Rempała GA

更新日期：2020-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in design, sensing and control have led to aerial robots that offer great promise in a range of real-world applications. However, one critical open question centres on how to improve the energetic efficiency of aerial robots so that they can be useful in practical situations. This review paper provides...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Karydis K,Kumar V

更新日期：2017-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite there being many studies that have evaluated breast implant rupture, there is no consensus about causes and incidence. Most studies lack a multifactorial analysis of what causes breast implants to rupture. To fill this gap, an experimental protocol was developed to compare ruptured and intact Poly Implant Prot...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Ramião NG,Martins PS,Barroso ML,Santos DC,Fernandes AA

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasound elastography is a technique used for clinical imaging of tissue stiffness with a conventional ultrasound machine. It was first proposed two decades ago, but active research continues in this area to the present day. Numerous clinical applications have been investigated, mostly related to cancer imaging, and...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Treece G,Lindop J,Chen L,Housden J,Prager R,Gee A

更新日期：2011-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic remodelling of actin stress fibres (SFs) allows non-muscle cells to adapt to applied forces such as uniaxial cell shortening. However, the mechanism underlying rapid and selective disassembly of SFs oriented in the direction of shortening remains to be elucidated. Here, we investigated how myosin crossbridge c...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Matsui TS,Kaunas R,Kanzaki M,Sato M,Deguchi S

更新日期：2011-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper proposes methods and technologies that advance the state of the art for modelling the musculoskeletal system across the spatial and temporal scales; and storing these using efficient ontologies and tools. We present population-based modelling as an efficient method to rapidly generate individual morphology ...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Fernandez J,Zhang J,Heidlauf T,Sartori M,Besier T,Röhrle O,Lloyd D

更新日期：2016-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing need for patient-specific and holistic modelling of the heart to support comprehensive disease assessment and intervention planning as well as prediction of therapeutic outcomes. We propose a patient-specific model of the whole human heart, which integrates morphology, dynamics and haemodynamic para...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Mihalef V,Ionasec RI,Sharma P,Georgescu B,Voigt I,Suehling M,Comaniciu D

更新日期：2011-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the predictions of game theory is that cooperative behaviours are vulnerable to exploitation by selfish individuals, but this result seemingly contradicts the survival of cooperation observed in nature. In this review, we will introduce game theoretical concepts that lead to this conclusion and show how the spa...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Lambert G,Vyawahare S,Austin RH

更新日期：2014-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemoattractant gradients are usually considered in terms of sources and sinks that are independent of the chemotactic cell. However, recent interest has focused on 'self-generated' gradients, in which cell populations create their own local gradients as they move. Here, we consider the interplay between chemoattracta...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Mackenzie JA,Nolan M,Insall RH

更新日期：2016-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Most ecological interactions occur in environments that are spatially and temporally heterogeneous-'patchy'-across a wide range of scales. In contrast, most theoretical models of ecological interactions, especially large-scale models applied to societal issues such as climate change, resource management and human heal...

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authors： Grünbaum D

更新日期：2012-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinicians face many challenges when diagnosing and treating breast cancer. These challenges include interpreting and co-locating information between different medical imaging modalities that are used to identify tumours and predicting where these tumours move to during different treatment procedures. We have develope...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Babarenda Gamage TP,Malcolm DTK,Maso Talou G,Mîra A,Doyle A,Nielsen PMF,Nash MP

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Apart from interacting, prey and predators may also avoid each other by moving into refuges where they lack food, yet survive by switching to an energy-saving physiological state. Lotka-Volterra models of predator-prey interactions ignore this option. Therefore, we have modelled this game of 'joining versus opting out...

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authors： Staňková K,Abate A,Sabelis MW,Buša J,You L

更新日期：2013-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell migration participates in a variety of physiological and pathological processes such as embryonic development, cancer metastasis, blood vessel formation and remoulding, tissue regeneration, immune surveillance and inflammation. The cells specifically migrate to destiny sites induced by the gradually varying conce...

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authors： Wu J,Mao Z,Tan H,Han L,Ren T,Gao C

更新日期：2012-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of life on Earth (and elsewhere) must have occurred in a milieu that is far from equilibrium, such as at alkaline hydrothermal vents that would have harboured built-in gradients in temperature, redox potential and pH along with precipitated iron-bearing minerals capable of separating these gradients, con...

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authors： Ponce A

更新日期：2019-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel class of ultra-thin fibres, which affect microbial growth, were explored. The microbial properties of poly(methyl methacrylate) fibres containing 2, 4 and 8 wt% of graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) were studied. GNPs were dispersed in a polymeric solution and processed using pressurized gyration. Electron microsco...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Matharu RK,Porwal H,Ciric L,Edirisinghe M

更新日期：2018-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Must higher level biological processes always be derivable from lower level data and mechanisms, as assumed by the idea that an organism is completely defined by its genome? Or are higher level properties necessarily also causes of lower level behaviour, involving actions and interactions both ways? This article uses ...

journal_title：Interface focus

authors： Noble D

更新日期：2012-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual memory is crucial to navigation in many animals, including insects. Here, we focus on the problem of visual homing, that is, using comparison of the view at a current location with a view stored at the home location to control movement towards home by a novel shortcut. Insects show several visual specialization...

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authors： Stone T,Mangan M,Wystrach A,Webb B

更新日期：2018-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:How did people in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries account for sleep loss? This article answers this question through an in-depth analysis of the life-writings of six early modern women and men that suffered from periodic or persistent episodes of sleep loss. It focuses on the ways in which these health crises ...

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authors： Handley S

更新日期：2020-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:'Bioinspiration'-using phenomena in biology to stimulate research in non-biological science and technology-is a strategy that suggests new areas for research. Beyond its potential to nucleate new ideas, bioinspiration has two other interesting characteristics. It can suggest subjects in research that are relatively si...

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authors： Whitesides GM

更新日期：2015-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-site enzymes, defined as where multiple substrate molecules can bind simultaneously to the same enzyme molecule, play a key role in a number of biological networks, with the Escherichia coli protease ClpXP a well-studied example. These enzymes can form a low latency 'waiting line' of substrate to the enzyme's ca...

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authors： Hochendoner P,Ogle C,Mather WH

更新日期：2014-06-06 00:00:00