Non-local Optical Topological Transitions and Critical States in Electromagnetic Metamaterials.

abstract：:The Middle East is one of the most water stressed regions in the world, receiving the majority of its hydrological input during the winter, in the form of highly variable and scattered precipitation. The persistence of wintertime anticyclonic conditions over the region can deflect storm tracks and result in extended s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kumar KN,Molini A,Ouarda TBMJ,Rajeevan MN

更新日期：2017-09-26 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 present work aimed to find out the effect of different levels of hydrolysable tannin (HT) on serum hormonal profile, biochemical indices, lipid profile, apparent digestibility of nutrients and body weight gain in healthy female rats. Forty five adult healthy female rats of 8 weeks old were randomly divided into fi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Manzoor F,Nisa MU,Hussain HA,Ahmad N,Umbreen H

更新日期：2020-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a fatal form of leishmaniasis which affects 70 countries, worldwide. Increasing drug resistance, HIV co-infection, and poor health system require operative vaccination strategy to control the VL transmission dynamics. Therefore, a holistic approach is needed to generate T and B memory ce...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Khatoon N,Pandey RK,Prajapati VK

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased connectivity with the mainland has led to the arrival of many invasive species to the Galápagos Islands, including novel pathogens, threatening the archipelago's unique fauna. Here we consider the potential role of the mosquito Aedes taeniorhynchus in maintaining the flavivirus West Nile virus [WNV] should i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Eastwood G,Goodman SJ,Cunningham AA,Kramer LD

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the clinicopathological characteristics of Henoch-Schönlein purpura nephritis (HSPN) in Chinese adult patients and analyzed the renal outcomes and prognostic risk factors for progression to end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Adult patients who had biopsy-proven HSPN were studied. Their clinicopath...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang X,Wu X,Le W,Hao Y,Wu J,Zeng C,Liu Z,Tang Z

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Exhaled nitric oxide (eNO) is a useful biomarker of various physiological conditions, including asthma and other pulmonary diseases. Herein a fast and sensitive analytical method has been developed for the quantitative detection of eNO based on extractive electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (EESI-MS). Exhaled NO...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pan S,Tian Y,Li M,Zhao J,Zhu L,Zhang W,Gu H,Wang H,Shi J,Fang X,Li P,Chen H

更新日期：2015-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) is a neglected tropical disease caused by Trypanosoma brucei spp. The parasites are transmitted by tsetse flies and adapt to their different hosts and environments by undergoing a series of developmental changes. During differentiation, the trypanosome alters its prote...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wenzler T,Schumann Burkard G,Schmidt RS,Mäser P,Bergner A,Roditi I,Brun R

更新日期：2016-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive plant species often form dense mono-dominant stands in areas they have invaded, while having only sparse distribution in their native ranges, and the reasons behind this phenomenon are a key point of research in invasive species biology. Differences in species composition between native and invasive ranges ma...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zheng Y,Liao Z

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans, like all organisms, are subject to fundamental biophysical laws. Van Valen predicted that, because of zero-sum dynamics, all populations of all species in a given environment flux the same amount of energy on average. Damuth's 'energetic equivalence rule' supported Van Valen´s conjecture by showing a tradeoff ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Burger JR,Weinberger VP,Marquet PA

更新日期：2017-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Land-use intensification on arable land is expanding and posing a threat to biodiversity and ecosystem services worldwide. We develop methods to link funding for avian breeding habitat conservation and management at landscape scales to equilibrium abundance of a migratory species at the continental scale. We apply thi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mattsson BJ,Devries JH,Dubovsky JA,Semmens D,Thogmartin WE,Derbridge JJ,Lopez-Hoffman L

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Rab small GTPases play key roles in intracellular membrane trafficking. Rab33a promotes axon outgrowth of cultured rat hippocampal neurons by mediating the anterograde axonal transport of Golgi-derived vesicles and the concomitant exocytosis of these vesicles at the growth cone. However, the functions of Rab33 in vivo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang L,Urasaki A,Inagaki N

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Synesthesia, an anomalous blending of senses in which stimulation of one sensory modality produces sensation in a different modality, provides a unique opportunity to study how multimodal information is represented in the human brain. We investigated how pitch classes (do, re, mi, etc.) are associated with the three d...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Itoh K,Sakata H,Kwee IL,Nakada T

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The clotting factor prothrombin exists in equilibrium between closed and open conformations, but the physiological role of these forms remains unclear. As for other allosteric proteins, elucidation of the linkage between molecular transitions and function is facilitated by reagents stabilized in each of the alternativ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chinnaraj M,Chen Z,Pelc LA,Grese Z,Bystranowska D,Di Cera E,Pozzi N

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavior of clogging has a close relationship with the biofilm attached on inner surface of the pipeline in a drip irrigation system using reclaimed water. Therefore, inhibiting biofilm growth is the key to completely addressing the clogging problem. Water shear forces play a vital role in the formation, developme...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang T,Guo Z,Shen Y,Cui Z,Goodwin A

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Using dedicated contrast agents high-quality X-ray imaging of soft tissue structures with isotropic micrometre resolution has become feasible. This technique is frequently titled as virtual histology as it allows production of slices of tissue without destroying the sample. The use of contrast agents is, however, ofte...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dudak J,Zemlicka J,Karch J,Patzelt M,Mrzilkova J,Zach P,Hermanova Z,Kvacek J,Krejci F

更新日期：2016-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Developed through evolution, brain neural system self-organizes into an economical and dynamic network structure with the modulation of repetitive neuronal firing activities through synaptic plasticity. These highly variable electric activities inevitably produce a spontaneous magnetic field, which also significantly ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang R,Fan Y,Wu Y

更新日期：2019-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoadiponectinemia and adiponectin resistance are implicated in the aetiology of obesity-related cardiometabolic disorders, hence represent a potential therapeutic axis. Here we characterised the effects of in vivo electrotransfer-mediated overexpression of the adiponectin receptors, AdipoR1 or AdipoR2, into tibialis...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Keshvari S,Henstridge DC,Ng C,Febbraio MA,Whitehead JP

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Across the planet the biogeographic distribution of human cultural diversity tends to correlate positively with biodiversity. In this paper we focus on the biogeographic distribution of mammal species and human cultural diversity. We show that not only are these forms of diversity similarly distributed in space, but t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hamilton MJ,Walker RS,Kempes CP

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The UCSC Cancer Genomics Browser (https://genome-cancer.ucsc.edu) offers interactive visualization and exploration of TCGA genomic, phenotypic, and clinical data, as produced by the Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network. Researchers can explore the impact of genomic alterations on phenotypes by visualizing gene and pro...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cline MS,Craft B,Swatloski T,Goldman M,Ma S,Haussler D,Zhu J

更新日期：2013-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation devices and applications have become ubiquitous over the last decade. However, it is unclear whether using GPS affects our own internal navigation system, or spatial memory, which critically relies on the hippocampus. We assessed the lifetime GPS experience of 50 regular driv...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dahmani L,Bohbot VD

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucositis is the limiting toxicity of radio(chemo)therapy of head and neck cancer. Diagnostics, prophylaxis and correction of this condition demand new accurate and objective approaches. Here we report on an in vivo longitudinal monitoring of the oral mucosa dynamics in 25 patients during the course of radiotherapy of...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Maslennikova AV,Sirotkina MA,Moiseev AA,Finagina ES,Ksenofontov SY,Gelikonov GV,Matveev LA,Kiseleva EB,Zaitsev VY,Zagaynova EV,Feldchtein FI,Gladkova ND,Vitkin A

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) associates gene sets and phenotypes, its use is predicated on the choice of a pre-defined collection of sets. The defacto standard implementation of GSEA provides seven collections yet there are no guidelines for the choice of collections and the impact of such choice, if any, is un...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bateman AR,El-Hachem N,Beck AH,Aerts HJ,Haibe-Kains B

更新日期：2014-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Generalized Auto-calibrating Partially Parallel Acquisitions (GRAPPA) has been widely used to reduce imaging time in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. GRAPPA synthesizes missing data by using a linear interpolation of neighboring measured data over all coils, thus accuracy of the interpolation weights fitting to the auto-ca...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xu L,Zheng Q,Jiang T

更新日期：2018-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR/Cas9 is a valuable tool for both basic and applied research that has been widely applied to different plant species. Nonetheless, a systematical assessment of the efficiency of this method is not available for the allotetraploid Brassica napus-an important oilseed crop. In this study, we examined the mutation e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang H,Wu JJ,Tang T,Liu KD,Dai C

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Once assumed only to be a waste product of anaerobe glycolytic activity, lactate is now recognized as an energy source in skeletal muscles. While lactate metabolism has been extensively studied in vivo, underlying cellular processes are poorly described. This study aimed to examine lactate metabolism in cultured human...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lund J,Aas V,Tingstad RH,Van Hees A,Nikolić N

更新日期：2018-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:M2BP (also called 90K) is an interferon-stimulated gene product that is upregulated in HIV-1 infection. A recent study revealed that M2BP reduces the infectivity of HIV-1 by inhibiting the processing of the viral envelope protein. Here we report that in addition to reducing viral infectivity, M2BP inhibits HIV-1 virio...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang Q,Zhang X,Han Y,Wang X,Gao G

更新日期：2016-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Inorganic semiconductors such as III-V materials are very important in our everyday life as they are used for manufacturing optoelectronic and microelectronic components with important applications span from energy harvesting to telecommunications. In some applications, these components are required to operate in hars...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ng WH,Lu Y,Liu H,Carmalt CJ,Parkin IP,Kenyon AJ

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in climate and atmospheric CO2 and nitrogen (N) over the last several decades have induced significant effects on forest carbon (C) cycling. However, contributions of individual factors are largely unknown because of the lack of long observational data and the undifferentiating between intrinsic factors and ex...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu C,Hember RA,Chen JM,Kurz WA,Price DT,Boisvenue C,Gonsamo A,Ju W

更新日期：2014-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging is a multifactorial process that results in progressive loss of regenerative capacity and tissue function while simultaneously favoring the development of a large array of age-related diseases. Evidence suggests that the accumulation of senescent cells in tissue promotes both normal and pathological aging. Oxic ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ottaviani A,Eid R,Zoccola D,Pousse M,Dubal JM,Barajas E,Jamet K,Lebrigand K,Lapébie P,Baudoin C,Giraud-Panis MJ,Rouan A,Beauchef G,Guéré C,Vié K,Barbry P,Tambutté S,Gilson E,Allemand D

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00