Metallic conduction induced by direct anion site doping in layered SnSe2.

abstract：:Roselle-Hibiscus sabdariffa L. leaves at different stages of growth, calyces and seeds were analyzed for nutritional and anti-nutritional factors. All the treatments contained a good but varied proportion of carbohydrate in a range of 26.93-54.13%, crude protein from 5.7 to 27.06%, crude fat 1.16-13.09%, crude fibre 1...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Salami SO,Afolayan AJ

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, an anatase/rutile mixed-phase titanium dioxide (TiO2) hierarchical network deposited with Au nanoparticles (Au/TiO2 ARHN) was synthesized using a facile hydrothermal method followed by a simple calcination step. Such a unique structure was designed for improving the light harvest, charge transportation/...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yen YC,Chen JA,Ou S,Chen YS,Lin KJ

更新日期：2017-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle damage and loss of muscle mass are triggered by immobilization, loss of appetite, dystrophies and chronic wasting diseases. In addition, physical exercise causes muscle damage. In damaged muscle, the N-terminal and C-terminal regions of titin, a giant sarcomere protein, are cleaved by calpain-3, and the resulti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Maruyama N,Asai T,Abe C,Inada A,Kawauchi T,Miyashita K,Maeda M,Matsuo M,Nabeshima YI

更新日期：2016-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cholecystectomy has been reported to be associated with increased risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the association between cholecystectomy and prognosis of HCC patients underwent curative resection has never been examined. Through retrospective analysis of the data of 3933 patients underwent...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li T,Wang SK,Zhi XT,Zhou J,Dong ZR,Zhang ZL,Sun HC,Ye QH,Fan J

更新日期：2016-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Myogenic differentiation proceeds through a highly coordinated cascade of gene activation that necessitates epigenomic changes in chromatin structure. Using a screen of small molecule epigenetic probes we identified three compounds which inhibited myogenic differentiation in C2C12 myoblasts; (+)-JQ1, PFI-1, and Bromos...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Roberts TC,Etxaniz U,Dall'Agnese A,Wu SY,Chiang CM,Brennan PE,Wood MJA,Puri PL

更新日期：2017-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to explore a new source of montmorillonite and to develop an extraction and purification protocol for its isolation from raw clay samples acquired from the Koh-e-Suleiman mountain range in Pakistan. The process involved the collection of raw clay from the source, identification and quantificati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nirwan JS,Farhaj S,Chaudhary MM,Khizer Z,Hasan SS,Angelis-Dimakis A,Gill A,Rasheed H,Abbas N,Arshad MS,Hussain T,Shahzad Y,Yousaf AM,Chohan TA,Hussain T,Merchant HA,Akram MR,Khan TM,Ashraf M,Conway BR,Ghori MU

更新日期：2020-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:After active lengthening contractions, a given amount of force can be maintained with less muscle activation compared to pure isometric contractions at the same muscle length and intensity. This increase in neuromuscular efficiency is associated with mechanisms of stretch-induced residual force enhancement. We hypothe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Seiberl W,Hahn D,Paternoster FK

更新日期：2016-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In insect societies, both queens and workers produce chemicals that reliably signal caste membership and reproductive status. The mechanisms that help to maintain the honesty of such queen and fertility signals, however, remain poorly studied. Here we test if queen signal honesty could be based on the shared endocrine...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Oliveira RC,Vollet-Neto A,Akemi Oi C,van Zweden JS,Nascimento F,Sullivan Brent C,Wenseleers T

更新日期：2017-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Small oligomers formed early along human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) aggregation is responsible for the cell death in Type II diabetes. The epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), a green tea extract, was found to inhibit hIAPP fibrillation. However, the inhibition mechanism and the conformational distribution of the s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mo Y,Lei J,Sun Y,Zhang Q,Wei G

更新日期：2016-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we study a system with two interacting qubits described by the Heisenberg model with dissipative terms, and analyze decay dynamics and the steady-state of geometric quantum discords. Our results indicate that we can ignore the interaction force in the z-direction and adjust the parameters to change the ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liang J,Zhang C

更新日期：2020-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper proposes a novel "micro-gun" structure for laser pulse propulsion. The "micro-bullets" (glass microspheres) are irradiated by a laser pulse with a 10 ns duration in a dynamic process. Experimental parameters such as the microsphere diameter and the laser pulse energy are varied to investigate their influenc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yu H,Li H,Cui L,Liu S,Yang J

更新日期：2017-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Delivering liquid through the void spaces in porous metals is a daunting challenge for a variety of emerging interface technologies ranging from battery electrodes to evaporation surfaces. Hydraulic transport characteristics of well-ordered porous media are governed by the pore distribution, porosity, and morphology. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pham QN,Barako MT,Tice J,Won Y

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell-type saturable absorber has been demonstrated by filling the single mode photonic crystal fiber (SMPCF) with tungsten disulfide (WS2) nanosheets. The modulation depth, saturable intensity, and non-saturable loss of this SA are measured to be 3.53%, 159 MW/cm(2) and 23.2%, respectively. Based on this SA, a passi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yan P,Liu A,Chen Y,Wang J,Ruan S,Chen H,Ding J

更新日期：2015-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of lactic acid from glycerol is a cascade catalytic procedure using multifunctional catalysts combined with oxidative and acidic catalytic sites. Therefore, a series of silver-exchanged phosphomolybdic acid catalysts (AgxH3-xPMo12O40, x = 1 ~ 3, abbreviated as AgxPMo) was designed and applied in glycerol ox...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tao M,Dan Zhang,Guan H,Huang G,Wang X

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial ischemia culminates in ATP production impairment, ionic derangement and cell death. The provision of metabolic substrates during reperfusion significantly increases heart tolerance to ischemia by improving mitochondrial performance. Under normoxia, glutamate contributes to myocardial energy balance as subst...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Maiolino M,Castaldo P,Lariccia V,Piccirillo S,Amoroso S,Magi S

更新日期：2017-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to examine the prospective association between first trimester HbA1c and gestational diabetes (GDM) and explore the utility of HbA1c for prediction of GDM. We used data from a case-control study within the prospective NICHD Fetal Growth Studies-Singleton Cohort (2009-2013), which enrolled 2,802 women at 12 U....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hinkle SN,Tsai MY,Rawal S,Albert PS,Zhang C

更新日期：2018-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-37 is a novel pro-angiogenic cytokine that potently promotes endothelial cell activation and pathological angiogenesis in our previous study, but the mechanisms behind the pro-angiogenic effect of IL-37 are less well understood. Extending our observations, we found that TGF-β interacts with IL-37, and potently enha...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhao M,Hu Y,Jin J,Yu Y,Zhang S,Cao J,Zhai Y,Wei R,Shou J,Cai W,Liu S,Yang X,Xu GT,Yang J,Corry DB,Su SB,Liu X,Yang T

更新日期：2017-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Tarim Basin is regarded as one of the most highly erodible areas in China. Desert comprises 64% of the land use in the Basin, but the desert-oasis ecotone plays a prominent role in maintaining oasis ecological security and stability. Yet, little is known concerning the magnitude of windblown sediment transport in ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pi H,Sharratt B,Lei J

更新日期：2017-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenases (BVMOs) are able to catalyze regiospecific Baeyer-Villiger oxygenation of a variety of cyclic and linear ketones to generate the corresponding lactones and esters, respectively. However, the enzymes are usually difficult to express in a functional form in microbial cells and are rather u...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Seo JH,Kim HH,Jeon EY,Song YH,Shin CS,Park JB

更新日期：2016-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In general, the poultry industry uses 0.5-1 ppm chlorine solution in the meat sanitization process. However, chlorine can react with organic material and produce halogenated organic compounds, notably chloroform, which causes bladder and rectal cancer in humans. For this reason, many industries try to avoid chlorine. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Royintarat T,Choi EH,Boonyawan D,Seesuriyachan P,Wattanutchariya W

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The most consistent sex differences in cognition are found for spatial ability, in which males, on average, outperform females. Utilizing a twin design, two studies have shown that females with male co-twins perform better than females with female co-twins on a mental rotation task. According to the Twin Testosterone ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Toivainen T,Pannini G,Papageorgiou KA,Malanchini M,Rimfeld K,Shakeshaft N,Kovas Y

更新日期：2018-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding RNAs that regulate a variety of biological processes. Recently, human liver-specific miRNA miR-122 has been reported to facilitate hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication in liver cells. HCV is one of the leading causes of liver diseases worldwide. In Pakistan, the estimated preval...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Butt AM,Raja AJ,Siddique S,Khan JS,Shahid M,Tayyab GU,Minhas Z,Umar M,Idrees M,Tong Y

更新日期：2016-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Diverse communities can adjust their trait composition to altered environmental conditions, which may strongly influence their dynamics. Previous studies of trait-based models mainly considered only one or two trophic levels, whereas most natural system are at least tritrophic. Therefore, we investigated how the addit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ceulemans R,Gaedke U,Klauschies T,Guill C

更新日期：2019-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the global spatio-temporal patterns of influenza dynamics. This is achieved by analysing and modelling weekly laboratory confirmed cases of influenza A and B from 138 countries between January 2006 and January 2015. The data were obtained from FluNet, the surveillance network compiled by the the World Health ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： He D,Lui R,Wang L,Tse CK,Yang L,Stone L

更新日期：2015-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Globally, lung cancer accounts for approximately 20% of all cancer related deaths. Five-year survival is poor and rates have remained unchanged for the past four decades. There is an urgent need to identify markers of lung carcinogenesis and new targets for therapy. Given the recent successes of immune modulators in c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Baird AM,Gray SG,Richard DJ,O'Byrne KJ

更新日期：2016-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of post-translational modifications of Plasmodium falciparum proteins, including phosphorylation and ubiquitination, are shown to have key regulatory roles during parasite development. NEDD8 is a ubiquitin-like modifier of cullin-RING E3 ubiquitin ligases, which regulates diverse cellular processes. Although...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bhattacharjee M,Adhikari N,Sudhakar R,Rizvi Z,Das D,Palanimurugan R,Sijwali PS

更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorus (P) is a non-renewable resource which may be depleted within next few decades; hence high P use efficiency is need of time. Plants have evolved an array of adaptive mechanisms to enhance external P acquisition and reprioritize internal utilization under P deficiency. Tissue specific biomass and P allocation...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Irfan M,Aziz T,Maqsood MA,Bilal HM,Siddique KHM,Xu M

更新日期：2020-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanostructure arrays such as nanowire, nanopillar, and nanocone arrays have been proposed to be promising antireflection structures for photovoltaic applications due to their great light trapping ability. In this paper, the optical properties of Si nanopillar and nanocone arrays in visible and infrared region were stu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang ZY,Zhang RJ,Wang SY,Lu M,Chen X,Zheng YX,Chen LY,Ye Z,Wang CZ,Ho KM

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During nervous system development growing axons can interact with each other, for example by adhering together in order to produce bundles (fasciculation). How does such axon-axon interaction affect the resulting axonal trajectories, and what are the possible benefits of this process in terms of network function? In t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Davis O,Merrison-Hort R,Soffe SR,Borisyuk R

更新日期：2017-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Free carriers, polarons (P), in conjugated polymers play a key role in the performance of optoelectronic devices. Here, we present solid evidence that P can be predominantly generated from polaron pairs (PP) in a poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) film under zero electric field. P formation from PP strongly depends on temp...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ogata Y,Kawaguchi D,Tanaka K

更新日期：2015-02-13 00:00:00