Environmental offsets, resilience and cost-effective conservation.

abstract：:With an attempt to economically and efficiently improve the water resistance of defatted soya bean flour (DSF)-based wood adhesives, DSF was subjected to thermal treatment at various temperatures (65°C, 80°C, 95°C, 110°C and 125°C) for 30 min. The effects of thermal treatment temperature onto the chemical structure, c...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zhang BH,Fan B,Li M,Zhang YH,Gao ZH

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In the name of meritocracy, modern economies devote increasing amounts of resources to quantifying and ranking the performance of individuals and organizations. Rankings send out powerful signals, which lead to identifying the actions of top performers as the 'best practices' that others should also adopt. However, se...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Livan G

更新日期：2019-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Stochastic fluctuations in reaction-diffusion processes often have substantial effect on spatial and temporal dynamics of signal transductions in complex biological systems. One popular approach for simulating these processes is to divide the system into small spatial compartments assuming that molecules react only wi...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Lo WC,Zheng L,Nie Q

更新日期：2016-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal switching of traffic lights on a network of junctions is a computationally intractable problem. In this research, road traffic networks containing signallized junctions are simulated. A computer game interface is used to enable a human 'player' to control the traffic light settings on the junctions within the ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Box S

更新日期：2014-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Using density functional theory approaches, we follow the sequential addition of CF3 functional groups to the surface of the metallic endofullerene species Gd@C60. The presence of gadolinium in the interior of the cage strongly influences the addition sequence. The calculations are able to successfully identify end po...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ewels C,Rio J,Niwa H,Omachi H,Shinohara H,Rayson M,Briddon P

更新日期：2018-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Abemaciclib (Verzenio®) is approved as a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) for breast cancer treatment. In this study, in vitro phase I metabolic profiling of Abemaciclib (ABC) was done using rat liver microsomes (RLMs). We checked the formation of reactive intermediates in ABC metabolism using RLMs in the presence of p...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kadi AA,Darwish HW,Abuelizz HA,Alsubi TA,Attwa MW

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In the centuries since the enlightenment, the world has seen an increase in socioeconomic development, measured as increased life expectancy, education, economic development and democracy. While the co-occurrence of these features among nations is well documented, little is known about their origins or co-evolution. H...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ruck DJ,Bentley RA,Lawson DJ

更新日期：2020-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive species pose a serious threat to native species. In Europe, invasive grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) have replaced native red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) in locations across Britain, Ireland and Italy. The European pine marten (Martes martes) can reverse the replacement of red squirrels by grey squirre...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Twining JP,Ian Montgomery W,Price L,Kunc HP,Tosh DG

更新日期：2020-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The characterization of diet for the giant manta ray Manta birostris has been problematic given their large-scale movement patterns and the difficulty in obtaining stomach contents from this species. The large majority of existing information is based on observational data limited to feeding events at the sea surface ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Burgess KB,Couturier LI,Marshall AD,Richardson AJ,Weeks SJ,Bennett MB

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) is a severe complication of allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. There is a growing understanding of cGVHD, and several effective therapies for cGVHD have been reported. However, pancreatic cGVHD is a potentially untapped study field. Our thought-provoking stud...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Mukai S,Ogawa Y,Urano F,Kawakami Y,Tsubota K

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The applications of magnesium (Mg) alloys as biodegradable orthopedic implants are mainly restricted due to their rapid degradation rate in the physiological environment. In this study, Si-CaP micro-arc oxidation (MAO) coatings were prepared on a Mg-Zn-Ca alloy by a second-step MAO process at different voltages in ord...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Dou J,Zhao Y,Lu L,Gu G,Yu H,Chen C

更新日期：2018-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The design and synthesis of a series of theophylline derivatives containing 1,2,3-triazole moieties are presented. The corrosion inhibition activities of these new triazole-theophylline compounds were evaluated by studying the corrosion of API 5 L X52 steel in 1 M HCl medium. The results showed that an increase in the...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Espinoza-Vázquez A,Rodríguez-Gómez FJ,Martínez-Cruz IK,Ángeles-Beltrán D,Negrón-Silva GE,Palomar-Pardavé M,Romero LL,Pérez-Martínez D,Navarrete-López AM

更新日期：2019-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of binary response data commonly uses models linear in the logistic transform of probabilities. This paper considers some of the advantages and disadvantages of simple least-squares estimates based on a linear representation of the probabilities themselves, this in particular sometimes allowing a more dir...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Battey HS,Cox DR,Jackson MV

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Varanopids are a basal clade of small- to medium-sized non-therapsid synapsids, whose range extends from the late Pennsylvanian to the late middle Permian, and are found in North America, Russia, Europe and South Africa. The greatest varanopid diversity is observed at the fossiliferous cave deposits near Richards Spur...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Maho S,Gee BM,Reisz RR

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:As top predators, crocodilians have an acute sense of hearing that is useful for their social life and for probing their environment in hunting situations. Although previous studies suggest that crocodilians are able to localize the position of a sound source, how they do this remains largely unknown. In this study, w...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Papet L,Grimault N,Boyer N,Mathevon N

更新日期：2019-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Living kangaroos, wallabies and rat-kangaroos (Macropodoidea) constitute the most ecologically diverse radiation of Australasian marsupials. Indeed, even their hallmark bipedal hopping gait has been variously modified for bounding, walking and climbing. However, the origins of this locomotory adaptability are uncertai...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Den Boer W,Campione NE,Kear BP

更新日期：2019-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposed limestone karst landscapes, especially in the tropics, are often home to distinctive and specialized biotas. Among vertebrates, a particularly large number of karst-associated lizard taxa have been described, but for the vast majority, evidence of specific adaptions to karst is lacking. A number of studies, ho...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Nielsen SV,Oliver PM

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing amount of plastic littered into the sea may provide a new substratum for benthic organisms. These marine fouling communities on plastic have not received much scientific attention. We present, to our knowledge, the first comprehensive analysis of their macroscopic community composition, their primary pr...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Pauli NC,Petermann JS,Lott C,Weber M

更新日期：2017-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Highwall mining (HWM) technology is an efficient method for exploiting residual coal resources in Chinese open-pit coal mines. However, on-site personnel and equipment can be damaged by the instability of the highwall mining residual coal pillars and subsidence of final end-walls. This paper considers the geological c...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wang F,Zhang C

更新日期：2019-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural selection favours a restricted host breadth in disease vector mosquitoes, indicating that there is an adaptive value associated with maintaining plasticity in host preference. One mechanism to maintain such plasticity is via the detection of generic cues by conserved peripheral olfactory pathways, which when p...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Majeed S,Hill SR,Birgersson G,Ignell R

更新日期：2016-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171563.]. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Limpanuparb T,Roongruangsree P,Areekul C

更新日期：2020-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Social interactions are a defining behavioural trait of social animals. Discovering characteristic patterns in the display of such behaviour is one of the fundamental endeavours in behavioural biology and psychology, as this promises to facilitate the general understanding, classification, prediction and even automati...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Bode NW,Sutton A,Lacey L,Fennell JG,Leonards U

更新日期：2017-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In the field of evaluative conditioning (EC), two opposing theories-propositional single-process theory versus dual-process theory-are currently being discussed in the literature. The present set of experiments test a crucial prediction to adjudicate between these two theories: Dual-process theory postulates that eval...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Heycke T,Aust F,Stahl C

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking is associated with shorter leucocyte telomere length (LTL), a biomarker of increased morbidity and reduced longevity. This association is widely interpreted as evidence that smoking causes accelerated LTL attrition in adulthood, but the evidence for this is inconsistent. We analysed the association between smo...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Bateson M,Aviv A,Bendix L,Benetos A,Ben-Shlomo Y,Bojesen SE,Cooper C,Cooper R,Deary IJ,Hägg S,Harris SE,Kark JD,Kronenberg F,Kuh D,Labat C,Martin-Ruiz CM,Meyer C,Nordestgaard BG,Penninx BWJH,Pepper GV,Révész D,S

更新日期：2019-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research has provided evidence that mood can spread over social networks via social contagion, but that, in seeming contradiction to this, depression does not. Here, we investigate whether there is evidence for the individual components of mood (such as appetite, tiredness and sleep) spreading through US adoles...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Eyre RW,House T,Hill EM,Griffiths FE

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper develops a closed-form approximate solution for a penny-shaped hydraulic fracture whose behaviour is determined by an interplay of three competing physical processes that are associated with fluid viscosity, fracture toughness and fluid leak-off. The primary assumption that permits one to construct the solu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Dontsov EV

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen is cycled throughout ecosystems by a suite of biogeochemical processes. The high complexity of the nitrogen cycle resides in an intricate interplay between reversible biochemical pathways alternatively and specifically activated in response to diverse environmental cues. Despite aggressive research, how the f...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Lamba S,Bera S,Rashid M,Medvinsky AB,Sun GQ,Acquisti C,Chakraborty A,Li BL

更新日期：2017-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent identification of the bio-duck call as Antarctic minke whale (AMW) vocalization allows the use of passive acoustic monitoring to retrospectively investigate year-round spatial-temporal patterns in minke whale occurrence in ice-covered areas. Here, we present an analysis of AMW occurrence patterns based on a...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Filun D,Thomisch K,Boebel O,Brey T,Širović A,Spiesecke S,Van Opzeeland I

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual signals often compromise camouflage because of their conspicuousness. Pigmentation patterns, on the contrary, aid in camouflage. It was hypothesized that a particular type of pattern-barred plumage in birds, whereby pigmented bars extend across feathers-could simultaneously signal individual quality, because di...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Marques CI,Batalha HR,Cardoso GC

更新日期：2016-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerial habitats present a challenge to find food across a large potential search volume, particularly for insectivorous bats that rely on echolocation calls with limited detection range and may forage at heights over 1000 m. To understand how bats use vertical space, we tracked one to five foraging flights of eight co...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： O'Mara MT,Wikelski M,Kranstauber B,Dechmann DKN

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00