Work extraction from heat-powered quantized optomechanical setups.

abstract：:Controlling and reducing the formation of pathogenic biofilm on tooth surface is the key to the prevention and treatment of the biofilm-associated oral diseases. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), considered as possible future alternatives for conventional antibiotics, have been extensively studied for the control of bact...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang ZB,Shi X,Mao J,Gong SQ

更新日期：2016-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMP) are highly conserved immune effectors across the tree of life and are employed as combinations. In the beetle Tenebrio molitor, a defensin and a coleoptericin are highly expressed in vivo after inoculation with S. aureus. The defensin displays strong in vitro activity but no survival benef...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Makarova O,Johnston P,Rodriguez-Rojas A,El Shazely B,Morales JM,Rolff J

更新日期：2018-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The human sweet taste receptor (T1R2) monomer-a member of the G-protein coupled receptor family that detects a wide variety of chemically and structurally diverse sweet tasting molecules, is known to pose a significant threat to human health. Protein that lack crystal structure is a challenge in structure-based protei...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Arodola OA,Kanchi S,Hloma P,Bisetty K,Asiri AM,Inamuddin

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal (g.i.) large cell lymphoma is currently regarded as diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) despite a more favorable clinical outcome compared to other DLBCL. Cluster analyses on a transcriptome signature of NF-κB target genes of 30 g.i. marginal zone B-cell lymphomas (MZBL; 8 g.i. MZBL, 22 large cell M...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Barth TFE,Kraus JM,Lausser L,Flossbach L,Schulte L,Holzmann K,Kestler HA,Möller P

更新日期：2017-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the incidence of acute cardiac injury (ACI), the factors associated with ACI and the in-hospital mortality in patients with COVID-19, especially in severe patients. All consecutive in-patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 from Tongji Hospital in Wuhan during February 1 and March 29, 2020 were includ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： He X,Wang L,Wang H,Xie Y,Yu Y,Sun J,Yan J,Du Y,Shen Y,Zeng H

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A top-down scalable method to produce flexible water and blood repellent tubes is introduced. The method is based on replication of overhanging nanostructures from an aluminum tube template to polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) via atomic layer deposition (ALD) assisted sacrificial etching. The nanostructured PDMS/titania tu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hoshian S,Kankuri E,Ras RHA,Franssila S,Jokinen V

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum phase transition is one of the most interesting aspects in quantum many-body systems. Recently, geometric quantum discord has been introduced to signature the critical behavior of various quantum systems. However, it is well-known that topological quantum phase transition can not be described by the convention...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shan CJ,Cheng WW,Liu JB,Cheng YS,Liu TK

更新日期：2014-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) applying flow cytometry to separate cells on a molecular basis is a widespread method. We demonstrate that both fluorescent and unlabeled live cells in a Petri dish observed with a microscope can be automatically recognized by computer vision and picked up by a computer-contr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Környei Z,Beke S,Mihálffy T,Jelitai M,Kovács KJ,Szabó Z,Szabó B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between polypeptide composition, sequence, structure and function have been puzzling biologists ever since first protein sequences were determined. Here, we study the statistics of occurrence of all possible pentapeptide sequences in known proteins. To compensate for the non-uniform distribution of i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Poznański J,Topiński J,Muszewska A,Dębski KJ,Hoffman-Sommer M,Pawłowski K,Grynberg M

更新日期：2018-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Urothelial carcinoma (UC) is a common disease causing significant morbidity and mortality as well as considerable costs for health systems. Extensive aberrant methylation of DNA is broadly documented in early UC, contributing to genetic instability, altered gene expression and tumor progression. However the triggers i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Erichsen L,Seifert HH,Schulz WA,Hoffmann MJ,Niegisch G,Araúzo-Bravo MJ,Bendhack ML,Poyet C,Hermanns T,Beermann A,Hassan M,Theis L,Mahmood W,Santourlidis S

更新日期：2020-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The strong adhesion of sub-micron sized particles to surfaces is a nuisance, both for removing contaminating colloids from surfaces and for conscious manipulation of particles to create and test novel micro/nano-scale assemblies. The obvious idea of using detergents to ease these processes suffers from a lack of contr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Feldmann D,Maduar SR,Santer M,Lomadze N,Vinogradova OI,Santer S

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a highly contagious and devastating viral disease affecting mainly sheep and goats, but also a large number of wild species within the order Artiodactyla. A better understanding of PPR transmission dynamics in multi-host systems is necessary to efficiently control the disease, in pa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bataille A,Kwiatek O,Belfkhi S,Mounier L,Parida S,Mahapatra M,Caron A,Chubwa CC,Keyyu J,Kock R,Jones BA,Libeau G

更新日期：2019-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated changes in the temporospatial features of hourly precipitation during the warm season over mainland China. The frequency and amount of hourly precipitation displayed latitudinal zonation, especially for light and moderate precipitation, which showed successive downward change over time in northeastern ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Miao C,Sun Q,Borthwick AG,Duan Q

更新日期：2016-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.), which unquestionably play an economically important role in pollination and agricultural production, are at risk of decline. To study changes in gene expression in insects upon exposure to pesticides or other external stimuli, appropriate reference genes are required for data normalizati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wieczorek P,Frąckowiak P,Obrępalska-Stęplowska A

更新日期：2020-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Geometric frustration, in which competing interactions give rise to degenerate ground states, potentially induces various exotic quantum phenomena in magnetic materials. Minimal models comprising triangular units, such as triangular and Kagome lattices, have been investigated for decades to realize novel quantum phase...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yamaguchi H,Okubo T,Kittaka S,Sakakibara T,Araki K,Iwase K,Amaya N,Ono T,Hosokoshi Y

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The outstanding optoelectronics and photovoltaic properties of metal halide perovskites, including high carrier motilities, low carrier recombination rates, and the tunable spectral absorption range are attributed to the unique electronic properties of these materials. While DFT provides reliable structures and stabil...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tao SX,Cao X,Bobbert PA

更新日期：2017-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Aortic stenosis (AS) is the most common form of valve disease. Once symptoms develop, there is an inexorable deterioration with a poor prognosis; currently there are no therapies capable of modifying disease progression, and aortic valve replacement is the only available treatment. Our goal is to study the progression...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mourino-Alvarez L,Iloro I,de la Cuesta F,Azkargorta M,Sastre-Oliva T,Escobes I,Lopez-Almodovar LF,Sanchez PL,Urreta H,Fernandez-Aviles F,Pinto A,Padial LR,Akerström F,Elortza F,Barderas MG

更新日期：2016-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of TLR4 by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induces both pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokine production in macrophages. Type 4 phosphodiesterases (PDE4) are key cAMP-hydrolyzing enzymes, and PDE4 inhibitors are considered as immunosuppressors to various inflammatory responses. We demonstrate here that P...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang JX,Hsieh KC,Chen YL,Lee CK,Conti M,Chuang TH,Wu CP,Jin SC

更新日期：2017-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-polarization conversion plays an important role in visible light manipulation. Metasurface with asymmetric structure can be used to achieve polarization conversion of linearly polarized light. Based on this, we design a quasi-periodic dendritic metasurface model composed of asymmetric dendritic cells. The simula...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fang ZH,Chen H,An D,Luo CR,Zhao XP

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) from the two main spawning populations in the Mediterranean and Gulf of Mexico occur together in the western, central and eastern Atlantic. Stock composition of catches from mixing areas is uncertain, presenting a major challenge to the sustainable management of the fisheries. T...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Brophy D,Rodríguez-Ezpeleta N,Fraile I,Arrizabalaga H

更新日期：2020-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Although graphene is a typical two dimensional materials, it has converted to multi-dimensional materials with many unique properties. As an example, the one dimensional graphene fiber is fabricated by utilizing ionic liquid as coagulation and functional diamines as cross-linkers to connect graphene oxide layers. The ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fan T,Zhao C,Xiao Z,Guo F,Cai K,Lin H,Liu Y,Meng H,Min Y,Epstein AJ

更新日期：2016-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory development of the human brain begins prenatally, allowing cortical auditory responses to be recorded at an early age in preterm infants. Despite several studies focusing on the temporal characteristics of preterm infants' cortical responses, few have been conducted on frequency analysis of these responses. In...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Daneshvarfard F,Abrishami Moghaddam H,Dehaene-Lambertz G,Kongolo G,Wallois F,Mahmoudzadeh M

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Komagataeibacter nataicola is an acetic acid bacterium (AAB) that can produce abundant bacterial cellulose and tolerate high concentrations of acetic acid. To globally understand its fermentation characteristics, we present a high-quality complete genome sequence of K. nataicola RZS01. The genome consists of a 3,485,1...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang H,Xu X,Chen X,Yuan F,Sun B,Xu Y,Yang J,Sun D

更新日期：2017-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines how a move from traditional post-harvest operations of smallholder rice farms in the Ayeyarwaddy delta, Myanmar, to improved post-harvest operations affected income, energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE). Harvest and post-harvest losses were investigated in a field experiment with 5...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gummert M,Nguyen-Van-Hung,Cabardo C,Quilloy R,Aung YL,Thant AM,Kyaw MA,Labios R,Htwe NM,Singleton GR

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A topical medication combining calcipotriol (Cal) and betamethasone dipropionate (BDP) has proven effective in a number of randomized controlled trials performed in patients with psoriasis, but its mechanism of action has not been fully elucidated. We investigated whether the combination of Cal and BDP (Cal/BDP) in th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Satake K,Amano T,Okamoto T

更新日期：2019-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Scholtes C,Bellemin S,Martin E,Carre-Pierrat M,Mollereau B,Gieseler K,Walter L

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) play an important role in the transfer of biomolecules between cells. To elucidate the intercellular transfer fate of EVs in vivo, we generated a new transgenic (Tg) rat model using green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged human CD63. CD63 protein is highly enriched on EV membranes via traff...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yoshimura A,Kawamata M,Yoshioka Y,Katsuda T,Kikuchi H,Nagai Y,Adachi N,Numakawa T,Kunugi H,Ochiya T,Tamai Y

更新日期：2016-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection promotes a generalized activation of host responses that involves not only CD4 T cells, but also cells of the microenvironment, which are not directly infected, such as endothelial cells. The mechanisms triggering HIV-1-associated vascular alterations remain poorly...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Balducci E,Leroyer AS,Lacroix R,Robert S,Todorova D,Simoncini S,Lyonnet L,Chareyre C,Zaegel-Faucher O,Micallef J,Poizot-Martin I,Roll P,Dignat-George F

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the intriguing evolution of the dynamical spin correlations of the frustrated spinel ZnMn2O4. Inelastic neutron scattering and magnetization studies reveal that the dynamical correlations at high temperatures are 1D. At lower temperature, these dynamical correlations become 2D. Surprisingly, the dynamical...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Disseler SM,Chen Y,Yeo S,Gasparovic G,Piccoli PM,Schultz AJ,Qiu Y,Huang Q,Cheong SW,Ratcliff W

更新日期：2015-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia-inducible transcription factors (HIF) form heterodimeric complexes that mediate cell responses to hypoxia. The oxygen-dependent stability and activity of the HIF-α subunits is traditionally associated to post-translational modifications such as hydroxylation, acetylation, ubiquitination, and phosphorylation. H...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fala AM,Oliveira JF,Adamoski D,Aricetti JA,Dias MM,Dias MVB,Sforça ML,Lopes-de-Oliveira PS,Rocco SA,Caldana C,Dias SMG,Ambrosio ALB

更新日期：2015-08-03 00:00:00