Kinetics of the coefficient of friction of elastomers.

abstract：:The honey bee is threatened by biological agents and pesticides that can act in combination to induce synergistic effects on its physiology and lifespan. The synergistic effects of a parasite/pesticide combination have been demonstrated on workers and queens, but no studies have been performed on drones despite their ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kairo G,Biron DG,Ben Abdelkader F,Bonnet M,Tchamitchian S,Cousin M,Dussaubat C,Benoit B,Kretzschmar A,Belzunces LP,Brunet JL

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The SELEX (Systematic Evolution of Ligands by EXponential enrichment) method has been used successfully since 1990, but work is still required to obtain highly specific aptamers. Here, we present a novel approach called 'Competitive non-SELEX' (and termed as 'SELCOS' (Systematic Evolution of Ligands by COmpetitive Sel...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kushwaha A,Takamura Y,Nishigaki K,Biyani M

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a heterogeneous group of inherited disorders caused by mutations in a variety of genes that are mostly expressed by rod cells, which results in initial death of rod photoreceptors followed by gradual death of cone photoreceptors. RP is currently untreatable and usually leads to partial or ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang K,Xiao J,Peng B,Xing F,So KF,Tipoe GL,Lin B

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein ubiquitylation participates in a number of essential cellular processes including signal transduction and transcription, often by initiating the degradation of specific substrates through the 26S proteasome. Within the ubiquitin-proteasome system, deubiquitylating enzymes (DUBs) not only help generate and main...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hayama R,Yang P,Valverde F,Mizoguchi T,Furutani-Hayama I,Vierstra RD,Coupland G

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Dosimetry models using preclinical positron emission tomography (PET) data are commonly employed to predict the clinical radiological safety of novel radiotracers. However, unbiased clinical safety profiling remains difficult during the translational exercise from preclinical research to first-in-human studies for nov...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Garrow AA,Andrews JPM,Gonzalez ZN,Corral CA,Portal C,Morgan TEF,Walton T,Wilson I,Newby DE,Lucatelli C,Tavares AAS

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquisition of nutrients during intra-vacuolar growth of L. pneumophila within macrophages or amoebae is poorly understood. Since many genes of L. pneumophila are acquired by inter-kingdom horizontal gene transfer from eukaryotic hosts, we examined the presence of human solute carrier (SLC)-like transporters in the L....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Best A,Jones S,Abu Kwaik Y

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of human and animal in vitro or in vivo studies have investigated the relationship between dietary choline and betaine and cancer risk, suggesting that choline and betaine consumption may be protective for cancer. There are also a few epidemiologic studies exploring this relationship, however, with inconsiste...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sun S,Li X,Ren A,Du M,Du H,Shu Y,Zhu L,Wang W

更新日期：2016-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia characterized by the formation of amyloid plaques (Aβ). Over the last decade, the important role of the innate immune system for the disease development has been established. Chronic activation of microglial cells creates a proinflammatory environment, which...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Boza-Serrano A,Yang Y,Paulus A,Deierborg T

更新日期：2018-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Systems with a discrete rotational symmetry [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] that also have electromagnetic duality symmetry exhibit zero backscattering. The impact of breaking one of the two symmetries on the emerging backscattering has not yet been systematically studied. Here, we investigate the effect...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Abdelrahman MI,Slivina E,Rockstuhl C,Fernandez-Corbaton I

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Olive oil pomace (OOP) is a bio-waste rich in highly soluble polyphenols. OOP has been proposed as an additive in ruminant feeding to modulate rumen fermentations. Three groups of ewes were fed the following different diets: a control diet and two diets supplemented with OOP, obtained with a two-phase (OOP2) or three-...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mannelli F,Cappucci A,Pini F,Pastorelli R,Decorosi F,Giovannetti L,Mele M,Minieri S,Conte G,Pauselli M,Rapaccini S,Viti C,Buccioni A

更新日期：2018-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Low Haemoglobin concentration (Hb) among women of reproductive age is a severe public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. This study investigated the effects of putative socio-demographic factors on maternal Hb at different points of the conditional distribution of Hb concentration. We utilised quantile regression t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Amugsi DA,Dimbuene ZT,Kyobutungi C

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil-transmitted nematodes (STNs), namely hookworms, whipworms, and ascarids, are extremely common parasites, infecting 1-2 billion of the poorest people worldwide. Two benzimidazoles, albendazole and mebendazole, are currently used in STN mass drug administration, with many instances of low/reduced activity reported....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Elfawal MA,Savinov SN,Aroian RV

更新日期：2019-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Aldehyde-oxidase-4 (AOX4) is one of the mouse aldehyde oxidase isoenzymes and its physiological function is unknown. The major source of AOX4 is the Harderian-gland, where the enzyme is characterized by daily rhythmic fluctuations. Deletion of the Aox4 gene causes perturbations in the expression of the circadian-rhyth...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Terao M,Barzago MM,Kurosaki M,Fratelli M,Bolis M,Borsotti A,Bigini P,Micotti E,Carli M,Invernizzi RW,Bagnati R,Passoni A,Pastorelli R,Brunelli L,Toschi I,Cesari V,Sanoh S,Garattini E

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a time-efficient semi-automated axon quantification method using freeware in human cranial nerve sections stained with paraphenylenediamine (PPD). It was used to analyze a total of 1238 facial and masseteric nerve biopsies. The technique was validated by comparing manual and semi-automated quantification ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Engelmann S,Ruewe M,Geis S,Taeger CD,Kehrer M,Tamm ER,Bleys RLAW,Zeman F,Prantl L,Kehrer A

更新日期：2020-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Although recovery following a stroke is limited, undamaged neurons under the right conditions can establish new connections and take on-board lost functions. Sonic hedgehog (Shh) signaling is integral for developmental axon growth, but its role after injury has not been fully examined. To investigate the effects of Sh...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Berretta A,Gowing EK,Jasoni CL,Clarkson AN

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Although most of the near non-equilibrium microstructures of alloys produced by laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing (AM) are being reported at a rapid rate, the accountable thermokinetics of the entire process have rarely been studied. In order to exploit the versatility of this AM process for the de...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pantawane MV,Ho YH,Joshi SS,Dahotre NB

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The charge transport properties of hybrid halide perovskites are investigated with a combination of density functional theory including van der Waals interaction and the Boltzmann theory for diffusive transport in the relaxation time approximation. We find the mobility of electrons to be in the range 5-10 cm(2)V(-1)s(...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Motta C,El-Mellouhi F,Sanvito S

更新日期：2015-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the spreading of cell aggregates deposited on adhesive substrates decorated with microparticles (MPs). A cell monolayer expands around the aggregate. The cells on the periphery of the monolayer take up the MPs, clearing the substrate as they progress and forming an aureole of cells filled with MPs. We study t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Beaune G,Lam AYW,Dufour S,Winnik FM,Brochard-Wyart F

更新日期：2017-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cenozoic climate cooling at the advent of the Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT), ~33.7 Ma ago, was stamped in the ocean by a series of climatic events albeit the impact of this global climatic transition on terrestrial environments is still fragmentary. Yet archival constraints on Late Eocene atmospheric circulation a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sorrel P,Eymard I,Leloup PH,Maheo G,Olivier N,Sterb M,Gourbet L,Wang G,Jing W,Lu H,Li H,Yadong X,Zhang K,Cao K,Chevalier ML,Replumaz A

更新日期：2017-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of vaccines and antiviral treatment, along with the increasing number of cases of Zika virus (ZIKV) and Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infections, emphasize the need for searching for new therapeutic strategies. In this context, the marine brown seaweed Canistrocarpus cervicornis has been proved to hold great anti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cirne-Santos CC,de Souza Barros C,de Oliveira MC,Rabelo VW,Azevedo RC,Teixeira VL,Ferreira DF,de Palmer Paixão ICN

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Networks are mathematical structures that are universally used to describe a large variety of complex systems such as the brain or the Internet. Characterizing the geometrical properties of these networks has become increasingly relevant for routing problems, inference and data mining. In real growing networks, topolo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu Z,Menichetti G,Rahmede C,Bianconi G

更新日期：2015-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the electronic structure and lattice dynamics in the ferromagnet MnBi using first-principles calculations and a tight-binding model. The band structure around the Fermi level is dominated by Bi-p states which are the primary contributors to the magnetic anisotropy energy in the low temperature structure. A ti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shanavas KV,Parker D,Singh DJ

更新日期：2014-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on neutron diffraction, thermal expansion, magnetostriction, dielectric, and specific heat measurements on polycrystalline FeCr2S4 in external magnetic fields. The ferrimagnetic ordering temperatures TC ≈ 170 K and the transition at TOO ≈ 10 K, which has been associated with orbital ordering, are only weakly...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bertinshaw J,Ulrich C,Günther A,Schrettle F,Wohlauer M,Krohns S,Reehuis M,Studer AJ,Avdeev M,Quach DV,Groza JR,Tsurkan V,Loidl A,Deisenhofer J

更新日期：2014-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We identify a new instability in electrostatic actuators dubbed quasi-static pull-in. We report experimental evidence of the instability and study its characteristics in two types of micro actuators operating in ambient air. We found that the underlying mechanism is a fast-slow dynamic interaction between slowly-varyi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Al-Ghamdi MS,Khater ME,Abdel-Rahman EM,Nepomuceno EG

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth dynamics of Ga(In)N semiconductors by Plasma-Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy (PAMBE) at low temperatures (T = 450 °C) is here investigated. The presence of droplets at the growth surface strongly affects the adatom incorporation dynamics, making the growth rate a decreasing function of the metal flux imping...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Azadmand M,Barabani L,Bietti S,Chrastina D,Bonera E,Acciarri M,Fedorov A,Tsukamoto S,Nötzel R,Sanguinetti S

更新日期：2018-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA double-strand breaks pose a direct threat to genomic stability. Studies of DNA damage and chromatin dynamics have yielded opposing results that support either increased or decreased chromatin motion after damage. In this study, we independently measure the dynamics of transcriptionally active or repressed chromati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Whitefield DB,Spagnol ST,Armiger TJ,Lan L,Dahl KN

更新日期：2018-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuned gene expression is crucial to the proper growth and response to the environmental changes of an organism. To enable tunable gene expression as designed is desirable in both scientific research and industrial application. Here, we introduce a novel promoter switching method based on the DDI2 promoter (PDDI2) that...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang Y,Zhang K,Li H,Xu X,Xue H,Wang P,Fu YV

更新日期：2019-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation is an important epigenetic mark that regulates gene expression. Dnmt1 plays an important role in maintaining DNA methylation patterns on daughter DNA strands. Studies have shed light into the functional role of Dnmt1 regulation in the hematopoietic and epidermal systems. Here we show that Dnmt1 is requ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu R,Kim KY,Jung YW,Park IH

更新日期：2016-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Because histologic types are subjective and difficult to reproduce between pathologists, tissue morphology often takes a back seat to molecular testing for the selection of breast cancer treatments. This work explores whether a deep-learning algorithm can learn objective histologic H&E features that predict the clinic...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rawat RR,Ortega I,Roy P,Sha F,Shibata D,Ruderman D,Agus DB

更新日期：2020-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) plays an important role on fibrogenesis in heart disease. MicroRNAs have exhibited as crucial regulators of cardiac homeostasis and remodeling in various heart diseases. MiR-19a-3p/19b-3p expresses with low levels in the plasma of heart failure patients. The purpose of our study ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zou M,Wang F,Gao R,Wu J,Ou Y,Chen X,Wang T,Zhou X,Zhu W,Li P,Qi LW,Jiang T,Wang W,Li C,Chen J,He Q,Chen Y

更新日期：2016-04-21 00:00:00