Herd-level bovine tuberculosis risk factors: assessing the role of low-level badger population disturbance.

abstract：:The nanosecond laser-induced damage growth phenomenon on the exit surface of fused silica grating is investigated at 1064 nm and 355 nm separately and also simultaneously. Experiments are first carried out on damage sites on a plane fused silica sample showing two different morphologies, and a damage type is selected ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chambonneau M,Lamaignère L

更新日期：2018-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work the chalcopyrite CuIn3Se5-xTex (x = 0~0.5) with space group through isoelectronic substitution of Te for Se have been prepared, and the crystal structure dilation has been observed with increasing Te content. This substitution allows the anion position displacement ∆u = 0.25-u to be zero at x ≈ 0.15. Howe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lu Y,Chen S,Wu W,Du Z,Chao Y,Cui J

更新日期：2017-01-06 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： Winkowski M,Stacewicz T

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) are widely prescribed in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, little is known about predictors of ICSs therapeutic response. To investigate whether the variation in glucocorticoid-induced transcript 1 (GLCCI1) rs37973 is associated with ICS efficacy. A total of 204 clin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lei Y,Gao Y,Chen J,Li M,Wu X,Ning Q,Zhao J,Xiong W,Xu Y,Xie J

更新日期：2017-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between biodiversity and ecological functioning is a central issue in freshwater ecology, but how this relationship is influenced by hydrological connectivity stress is still unknown. In this study we analyzed the dynamic of the phytoplankton alpha diversity indices and their relationships with trophi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Meng F,Li Z,Li L,Lu F,Liu Y,Lu X,Fan Y

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:China has one of the highest rates of cesarean sections in the world. However, limited epidemiological studies have evaluated the risk factors for cesarean section among Chinese women. Thus, the aim of this cohort study was to investigate the associations between pre-pregnancy BMI, gestational weight gain (GWG) and th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xiong C,Zhou A,Cao Z,Zhang Y,Qiu L,Yao C,Wang Y,Zhang B

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous activity found in neural networks usually results in a reduction of computational performance. As a consequence, artificial neural networks are often operated at the edge of chaos, where the network is stable yet highly susceptible to input information. Surprisingly, regular spontaneous dynamics in Neural ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Marquez BA,Larger L,Jacquot M,Chembo YK,Brunner D

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Most pancreatic cancer (PC) patients manifest multiple liver metastases at the time of diagnosis. Activated platelets play a key role in tumor growth and tumor metastases. Mean platelet volume (MPV) is a platelet index and is altered in patients with malignancies. This study aimed to evaluate whether MPV can effective...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yin JB,Wang X,Zhang X,Liu L,Wang RT

更新日期：2018-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) standing system for rehabilitation of bone mineral density (BMD) in people with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). BMD recovery offers an increased quality of life for people with SCI by reducing their risk of fractures. The standing system developed comprises an i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zoulias ID,Armengol M,Poulton A,Andrews B,Gibbons R,Harwin WS,Holderbaum W

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Encephalitis is a hallmark of Nipah virus (NiV) infection in humans. The exact route of entry of NiV into the central nervous system (CNS) is unknown. Here, we performed a spatio-temporal analysis of NiV entry into the CNS of hamsters. NiV initially predominantly targeted the olfactory epithelium in the nasal turbinat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Munster VJ,Prescott JB,Bushmaker T,Long D,Rosenke R,Thomas T,Scott D,Fischer ER,Feldmann H,de Wit E

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doping with the optimum concentration of carriers (electrons or holes) can modify the physical properties of materials. Therefore, improved ways to achieve carrier doping have been pursued extensively for more than 50 years. Metal-intercalation is one of the most important techniques for electron doping of organic / i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Takahei Y,Tomita K,Itoh Y,Ashida K,Lee JH,Nishimoto N,Kimura T,Kudo K,Nohara M,Kubozono Y,Kambe T

更新日期：2016-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Silicon nanocrystals offer huge advantages compared to other semi-conductor quantum dots as they are made from an abundant, non-toxic material and are compatible with silicon devices. Besides, among a wealth of extraordinary properties ranging from catalysis to nanomedicine, metal nanoparticles are known to increase t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Goffard J,Gérard D,Miska P,Baudrion AL,Deturche R,Plain J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex phase transitions of vanadium dioxide (VO2) have drawn continual attention for more than five decades. Dynamically, ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) with atomic-scale spatiotemporal resolution has been employed to study the reaction pathway in the photoinduced transition of VO2, using bulk and strain-f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： He X,Punpongjareorn N,Liang W,Lin Y,Chen C,Jacobson AJ,Yang DS

更新日期：2017-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) are the cleanest, most efficient, and cost-effective option for direct conversion to electricity of a wide variety of fuels. While significant progress has been made in anode materials with enhanced tolerance to coking and contaminant poisoning, cathodic polarization still contributes con...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Choi S,Yoo S,Kim J,Park S,Jun A,Sengodan S,Kim J,Shin J,Jeong HY,Choi Y,Kim G,Liu M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural and mechanical properties of tissue and the interplay between them play a critical role in tissue function. We introduce the optomechanogram, a combined quantitative and qualitative visualization of spatially co-registered measurements of the microstructural and micromechanical properties of any tissue....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee W,Ostadi Moghaddam A,Shen S,Phillips H,McFarlin BL,Wagoner Johnson AJ,Toussaint KC Jr

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The widely used mood stabilizer valproate (VPA) causes perturbation of energy metabolism, which is implicated in both the therapeutic mechanism of action of the drug as well as drug toxicity. To gain insight into these mechanisms, we determined the effects of VPA on energy metabolism in yeast. VPA treatment increased ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Salsaa M,Pereira B,Liu J,Yu W,Jadhav S,Hüttemann M,Greenberg ML

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Metagenome studies are becoming increasingly widespread, yielding important insights into microbial communities covering diverse environments from terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to human skin and gut. With the advent of high-throughput sequencing platforms, the use of large scale shotgun sequencing approaches is n...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lindgreen S,Adair KL,Gardner PP

更新日期：2016-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic steatosis (HS) can exacerbate acute pancreatitis (AP). This study aimed to investigate the relation between α1-antitrypsin (AAT) and acute pancreatitis when patients have HS. Using proteomic profiling, we identified 18 differently expressed proteins pots in the serum of rats with or without HS after surgical e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang Q,Du J,Yu P,Bai B,Zhao Z,Wang S,Zhu J,Feng Q,Gao Y,Zhao Q,Liu C

更新日期：2015-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Scleroderma is a refractory autoimmune skin fibrotic disorder. Alterations of microRNAs in lesional skin could be a new approach to treating the disease. Here, we found that expression of miR-155 was up regulated in lesional skin tissue from patients with either systemic or localized scleroderma, and correlated with f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yan Q,Chen J,Li W,Bao C,Fu Q

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is characterized by high infiltration and rapid growth. The function of the stem cell population is to control and maintain cell regeneration. Therefore, it is necessary to study the prognostic value of stem cell-related genes in LUAD. Signature genes were screened out from 166 stem cell-rel...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang Z,Shi M,Zhou H,Wang J,Zhang HJ,Shi J-

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of copy number variations (CNVs) is a first-tier clinical diagnostic test for children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD), which reveals the genetic cause of the disorder in more than 20%. These are mostly known microdeletion/microduplication syndromes, but variants of unknown clinical significance (VOU...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Krgovic D,Kokalj Vokac N,Zagorac A,Gregoric Kumperscak H

更新日期：2018-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology of stress cardiomyopathy (SCM), also known as takotsubo syndrome, is poorly understood. SCM usually occurs sporadically, often in association with a stressful event, but clusters of cases are reported after major natural disasters. There is some evidence that this is a familial condition. We have e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lacey CJ,Doudney K,Bridgman PG,George PM,Mulder RT,Zarifeh JJ,Kimber B,Cadzow MJ,Black MA,Merriman TR,Lehnert K,Bickley VM,Pearson JF,Cameron VA,Kennedy MA

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the temporal changes in the radiocesium distribution in forests contaminated by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, we monitored the 137Cs concentration and inventory within forests from 2011 to 2015 across nine plots containing variable tree species and different contamination levels. The...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Imamura N,Komatsu M,Ohashi S,Hashimoto S,Kajimoto T,Kaneko S,Takano T

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of bacteria and fungi to communicate with each other is a remarkable aspect of the microbial world. It is recognized that volatile organic compounds (VOCs) act as communication signals, however the molecular responses by bacteria to fungal VOCs remain unknown. Here we perform transcriptomics and proteomics...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Schmidt R,Jager V,Zühlke D,Wolff C,Bernhardt J,Cankar K,Beekwilder J,Ijcken WV,Sleutels F,Boer W,Riedel K,Garbeva P

更新日期：2017-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Having an abundance of motor solutions during movement may be advantageous for the health of musculoskeletal tissues, given greater load distribution between tissues. The aim of the present study was to understand whether motor abundance differs between people with and without low back pain (LBP) during a low-load lif...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liew BXW,De Nunzio AM,Srivastava S,Falla D

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the tremendous progress of quantum cryptography, efficient quantum communication over long distances (≥ 1000 km) remains an outstanding challenge due to fiber attenuation and operation errors accumulated over the entire communication distance. Quantum repeaters (QRs), as a promising approach, can overcome both...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Muralidharan S,Li L,Kim J,Lütkenhaus N,Lukin MD,Jiang L

更新日期：2016-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that ABCD4 does not localize to peroxisomes but rather, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), because it lacks the NH2-terminal hydrophilic region required for peroxisomal targeting. It was recently reported that mutations in ABCD4 result in a failure to release vitamin B12 from lysosomes. A simil...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kawaguchi K,Okamoto T,Morita M,Imanaka T

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Insecticides and other agrochemicals have become indispensable components of the agricultural system to ensure a notable increase in crop yield and food production. As a natural consequence, chemical residues result in significantly increased contamination of both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The present study ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Basal WT,Ahmed ART,Mahmoud AA,Omar AR

更新日期：2020-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Hirsutella sinensis mycelium (HSM), the anamorph of Cordyceps sinensis, is a traditional Chinese medicine that has been shown to possess various pharmacological properties. We previously reported that this fungus suppresses interleukin-1β and IL-18 secretion by inhibiting both canonical and non-canonical inflammasomes...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang TT,Lai HC,Ko YF,Ojcius DM,Lan YW,Martel J,Young JD,Chong KY

更新日期：2015-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The d-band center model of Hammer and Nørskov is widely used in understanding and predicting catalytic activity on transition metal (TM) surfaces. Here, we demonstrate that this model is inadequate for capturing the complete catalytic activity of the magnetically polarized TM surfaces and propose its generalization. W...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bhattacharjee S,Waghmare UV,Lee SC

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00