Quantum ratchet in two-dimensional semiconductors with Rashba spin-orbit interaction.

abstract：:Thermoelectrics is a challenging issue for modern and future energy conversion and recovery technology. Carbon nanotubes are promising active thermoelectic materials owing to their narrow bandgap energy and high charge carrier mobility, and they can be integrated into flexible thermoelectrics that can recover any wast...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nonoguchi Y,Ohashi K,Kanazawa R,Ashiba K,Hata K,Nakagawa T,Adachi C,Tanase T,Kawai T

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Dogs (Canis familiaris) are the first animals to be domesticated by humans and the only ones domesticated by mobile hunter-gatherers. Wolves and humans were both persistent, pack hunters of large prey. They were species competing over resources in partially overlapping ecological niches and capable of killing each oth...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lahtinen M,Clinnick D,Mannermaa K,Salonen JS,Viranta S

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a new technique to observe macroautophagy in the brain in vivo, and examined whether fasting induced macroautophagy in neurons and how the induction was different between Alzheimer's disease (AD) model and control mice. Lentivirus for EGFP-LC3 injected into the brain successfully visualized autophagosome ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen X,Kondo K,Motoki K,Homma H,Okazawa H

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional myeloablative conditioning (MAC) regimens often cause severe regimen-related toxicity (RRT). Furthermore, many patients suffer from poor quality of life in accordance with the increase in long-term survivors. We therefore devised a reduced-toxicity myeloablative conditioning (RTMAC) regimen consisting of ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hirabayashi K,Nakazawa Y,Sakashita K,Kurata T,Saito S,Yoshikawa K,Tanaka M,Yanagisawa R,Koike K

更新日期：2014-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigating cytokines in tear fluid and saliva may offer valuable information for understanding the pathogenesis of primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS). Cytokine profiles in both tear fluid and saliva of pSS patients, non-Sjögren's syndrome (non-SS) subjects with sicca symptoms, and healthy controls without sicca compl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen X,Aqrawi LA,Utheim TP,Tashbayev B,Utheim ØA,Reppe S,Hove LH,Herlofson BB,Singh PB,Palm Ø,Galtung HK,Jensen JCL

更新日期：2019-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Serratia marcescens is one of the important nosocomial pathogens which rely on quorum sensing (QS) to regulate the production of biofilm and several virulence factors. Hence, blocking of QS has become a promising approach to quench the virulence of S. marcescens. For the first time, QS inhibitory (QSI) and antibiofilm...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sethupathy S,Ananthi S,Selvaraj A,Shanmuganathan B,Vigneshwari L,Balamurugan K,Mahalingam S,Pandian SK

更新日期：2017-11-27 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： Dai LP,Li XF,Feng QM,Zhang LX,Liu QY,Xu EP,Wu H,Wang ZM

更新日期：2020-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmission electron microscopy and related analytical techniques have been widely used to study the microstructure of different materials. However, few research works have been performed in the field of glasses, possibly due to the electron-beam irradiation damage. In this paper, we have developed a method based on ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cheng S,Yang G,Zhao Y,Peng M,Skibsted J,Yue Y

更新日期：2015-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomass waste products from green algae have recently been given new life, as these polysaccharides have potential applications in industry, agriculture, and medicine. One such polysaccharide group called ulvans displays many different, potentially useful properties that arise from their structural versatility. Hence,...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Melcher RL,Neumann M,Fuenzalida Werner JP,Gröhn F,Moerschbacher BM

更新日期：2017-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Particle shape plays a crucial role in determining packing characteristics. Real particles in nature usually have rounded corners. In this work, we systematically investigate the rounded corner effect on the dense packings of spherotetrahedral particles. The evolution of dense packing structure as the particle shape c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jin W,Lu P,Li S

更新日期：2015-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Many remarkable properties of graphene are derived from its large energy window for Dirac-like electronic states and have been explored for applications in electronics and photonics. In addition, strong electron-phonon interaction in graphene has led to efficient photo-thermo energy conversions, which has been harness...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tian Y,Tian H,Wu YL,Zhu LL,Tao LQ,Zhang W,Shu Y,Xie D,Yang Y,Wei ZY,Lu XH,Ren TL,Shih CK,Zhao J

更新日期：2015-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity, often represented by higher body mass index (BMI), is not yet fully understood as a potential risk factor for poor clinical outcomes of prostate cancer (PCa) after radical prostatectomy (RP). This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between BMI and biochemical recurrence (BCR)-free survival in RP patient...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yu YD,Byun SS,Lee SE,Hong SK

更新日期：2018-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:PC4 is an abundant single-strand DNA binding protein that has been implicated in transcription and DNA repair. Here, we show that PC4 is involved in the cellular DNA damage response. To elucidate the role, we used the DT40 chicken B cell model, which produces clustered DNA lesions at Ig loci via the action of activati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Caldwell RB,Braselmann H,Schoetz U,Heuer S,Scherthan H,Zitzelsberger H

更新日期：2016-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies have detected white matter microstructural changes in essential tremor (ET). However, it is still unclear whether these changes are related to cognitive deficits, which have been described in ET patients. DTI-derived fractional anisotropy, mean diffusivity (MD), axial diffusivity...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Benito-León J,Mato-Abad V,Louis ED,Hernández-Tamames JA,Álvarez-Linera J,Bermejo-Pareja F,Domingo-Santos Á,Collado L,Romero JP

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The (p)ppGpp signal molecules play a central role in the stringent response (SR) to adapt to nutrient starvation in bacteria, yet the carbohydrate starvation induced adaptive response and the roles of SR in this response is not well characterized, especially in Gram-positives. Here, two (p)ppGpp synthetases RelA and R...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang T,Zhu J,Wei S,Luo Q,Li L,Li S,Tucker A,Shao H,Zhou R

更新日期：2016-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a deep learning model - Probabilistic Prognostic Estimates of Survival in Metastatic Cancer Patients (PPES-Met) for estimating short-term life expectancy (>3 months) of the patients by analyzing free-text clinical notes in the electronic medical record, while maintaining the temporal visit sequence. In a si...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Banerjee I,Gensheimer MF,Wood DJ,Henry S,Aggarwal S,Chang DT,Rubin DL

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The enhancement and control of non-linear phenomena at a nanometer scale has a wide range of applications in science and in industry. Among these phenomena, high-harmonic generation in solids is a recent focus of research to realize next generation petahertz optoelectronic devices or compact all solid state EUV source...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Franz D,Kaassamani S,Gauthier D,Nicolas R,Kholodtsova M,Douillard L,Gomes JT,Lavoute L,Gaponov D,Ducros N,Février S,Biegert J,Shi L,Kovacev M,Boutu W,Merdji H

更新日期：2019-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrothermal reduction is a promising approach for graphene oxide (GO) reduction since it is environmentally friendly, simple, and cost effective. We present a detailed study of structural changes occurring in graphene oxide during the reduction process. The correlations between the interlayer spacing, chemical states...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang HH,De Silva KKH,Kumara GRA,Yoshimura M

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The finding that mature forest ecosystems increase carbon in woody tissues and mineral soils indicates that the original equilibriums are being pushed to a higher state. The final driving forces will probably be increasing CO2 and nitrogen deposition, global warming, and changes to precipitation patterns. However, whi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xiao Y,Zhou G,Zhang Q,Wang W,Liu S

更新日期：2014-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The movement protein VP37 of broad bean wilt virus 2 (BBWV 2) forms tubules in the plasmodesmata (PD) for the transport of virions between cells. This paper reports a mutual association between the BBWV 2 VP37-tubule complex and PD at the cytological level as determined by transmission electron microscopy. The generat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xie L,Shang W,Liu C,Zhang Q,Sunter G,Hong J,Zhou X

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The electric field control of functional properties is an important goal in oxide-based electronics. To endow devices with memory, ferroelectric gating is interesting, but usually weak compared to volatile electrolyte gating. Here, we report a very large ferroelectric field-effect in perovskite heterostructures combin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yamada H,Marinova M,Altuntas P,Crassous A,Bégon-Lours L,Fusil S,Jacquet E,Garcia V,Bouzehouane K,Gloter A,Villegas JE,Barthélémy A,Bibes M

更新日期：2013-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the tight-binding model for a graphene tube with perimeter N threaded by a magnetic field. We show exactly that this model has different nontrivial topological phases as the flux changes. The winding number, as an indicator of topological quantum phase transition (QPT) fixes at N/3 if N/3 equals to its intege...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lin S,Zhang G,Li C,Song Z

更新日期：2016-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ginseng rusty root (GRR) symptom is one of the primary diseases of ginseng. There has been a problem of ginseng rusty root, leading to a severe decline in the quality of ginseng. To clarify the relationship between root symptoms of ginseng rust and soil, the physical and chemical properties, enzyme activity, community...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bian X,Xiao S,Zhao Y,Xu Y,Yang H,Zhang L

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cooperative behaviors are common in humans, and they are the fundamental basis of our society. Theoretical and experimental studies have modeled environments where the behaviors of humans, or agents, have been restricted to analyze their social behavior. However, it is important that such studies can be generalized to...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Takano M,Wada K,Fukuda I

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Exosomes contain cell-specific collections of bioactive materials including proteins, lipids, and RNAs that are transported to recipient cells to exert their impacts. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) can function as tumor suppressor or oncogenic genes and miR-21 is one of the most frequently up-regulated miRNAs in solid tumors incl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sun LH,Tian D,Yang ZC,Li JL

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemoparasites are responsible for some of the most prevalent and debilitating canine illnesses across the globe, whilst also posing a significant zoonotic risk to humankind. Nowhere are the effects of such parasites more pronounced than in developing countries in the tropics where the abundance and diversity of ectop...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huggins LG,Koehler AV,Ng-Nguyen D,Wilcox S,Schunack B,Inpankaew T,Traub RJ

更新日期：2019-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening and in silico modeling are critical activities for the reduction of experimental costs. They also speed up research notably and strengthen the theoretical framework, thus allowing researchers to numerically quantify the importance of a particular subset of information. For example, in fields such as cancer a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Blanco JL,Porto-Pazos AB,Pazos A,Fernandez-Lozano C

更新日期：2018-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing interest in the conservation and utilization of crop wild relatives (CWR) in international food security policy and research. Legumes play an important role in human health, sustainable food production, global food security, and the resilience of current agricultural systems. Pea belongs to the ancien...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Smýkal P,Hradilová I,Trněný O,Brus J,Rathore A,Bariotakis M,Das RR,Bhattacharyya D,Richards C,Coyne CJ,Pirintsos S

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which is one of the main drivers of Earth's inter-annual climate variability, often causes a wide range of climate anomalies, and the advance prediction of ENSO is always an important and challenging scientific issue. Since a unified and complete ENSO theory has yet to be establish...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yan J,Mu L,Wang L,Ranjan R,Zomaya AY

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spreading rumors on the Internet has become increasingly pervasive due to the proliferation of online social media. This paper investigates how rumors are amplified by a group of users who share similar interests or views, dubbed as an echo chamber. To this end, we identify and analyze 'rumor' echo chambers, each of w...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Choi D,Chun S,Oh H,Han J,Kwon TT

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00