Comparing and modelling land use organization in cities.

abstract：:Gold nanoparticles provide a user-friendly and efficient surface for immobilization of enzymes and proteins. In this paper, we present a novel approach for enzyme bioconjugation to gold nanostars (AuNSs). AuNSs were modified with l-cysteine (Cys) and covalently bound to N-hydroxysulfosuccinimide (sulfo-NHS) activated ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Moses Phiri M,Wingrove Mulder D,Mason S,Christiaan Vorster B

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne protozoan disease; it mainly originates from the bite of sandfly and initiated when parasite is transmitted to human at metacyclic flagellated promastigote form. In the current study, a synthesis of a series of 4-substituted benzophenone ethers 1-20 was carried out in good yields and th...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Arshia.,Ahad F,Ghouri N,Kanwal.,Khan KM,Perveen S,Choudhary MI

更新日期：2018-05-16 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：:A novel signal denoising method is proposed whereby goodness-of-fit (GOF) test in combination with a majority classifications-based neighbourhood filtering is employed on complex wavelet coefficients obtained by applying dual tree complex wavelet transform (DT-CWT) on a noisy signal. The DT-CWT has proven to be a bett...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Naveed K,Shaukat B,Ur Rehman N

更新日期：2018-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Contamination of body surfaces can negatively affect many physiological functions. Insects have evolved different adaptations for removing contamination, including surfaces that allow passive self-cleaning and structures for active cleaning. Here, we study the function of the antenna cleaner in Camponotus rufifemur an...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Hackmann A,Delacave H,Robinson A,Labonte D,Federle W

更新日期：2015-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The shapes of vertebrate teeth are often used as hallmarks of diet. Here, however, we demonstrate evidence of frequent piscivory by cartilaginous fishes with pebble-like teeth that are typically associated with durophagy, the eating of hard-shelled prey. High-resolution micro-computed tomography observation of a jaw s...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Dean MN,Bizzarro JJ,Clark B,Underwood CJ,Johanson Z

更新日期：2017-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Studying animal cognition is meaningful because it helps us understand how animals adapt to the natural environment. Many birds build nests, clean their nests and reject foreign objects from their nests, which provide an optimal opportunity for studying their cognition toward foreign objects in nests. However, hand-ma...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yang C,Liang W,Møller AP

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantifying regulatory gene effects on dental morphology and function has implications for the underlying mechanisms that generated dental diversity in mammals. We tested the hypothesis that regulatory gene expression changes lead to differences in molars using a neural crest knockout of bone morphogenetic protein 7 (...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zurowski C,Jamniczky H,Graf D,Theodor J

更新日期：2018-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligninolytic enzymes, including laccase (Lac), manganese peroxidase (MnP) and lignin peroxidase (LiP), have attracted much attention in the degradation of contaminants. Genes of Lac (1827 bp), MnP (1134 bp) and LiP (1119 bp) were cloned from Aspergillus sp. TS-A, and the recombinant Lac (69 kDa), MnP (45 kDa) and LiP ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Liu S,Xu X,Kang Y,Xiao Y,Liu H

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition plays an important role in the formation and organization of animal groups. Many animals are capable of class-level recognition, discriminating, for example, on the basis of species, kinship or familiarity. Individual recognition requires that animals recognize distinct cues, and learn to associate these w...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Webster MM,Laland KN

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that whale and dolphin watching activities have detrimental effects on targeted cetacean populations. In Egypt, spinner dolphins regularly occur in the resting areas of Samadai, Satayah and Qubbat'Isa reefs. In-water human interactions with dolphins are regulated with a time-area closure s...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Fumagalli M,Cesario A,Costa M,Harraway J,Notarbartolo di Sciara G,Slooten E

更新日期：2018-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1665, Huygens observed that two identical pendulum clocks, weakly coupled through a heavy beam, soon synchronized with the same period and amplitude but with the two pendula swinging in opposite directions. This behaviour is now called anti-phase synchronization. This paper presents an analysis of the behaviour of ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Willms AR,Kitanov PM,Langford WF

更新日期：2017-09-06 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：:Rhythm is an essential component of human speech and music but very little is known about its evolutionary origin and its distribution in animal vocalizations. We found a regular rhythm in three multisyllabic vocalization types (echolocation call sequences, male territorial songs and pup isolation calls) of the neotro...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Burchardt LS,Norton P,Behr O,Scharff C,Knörnschild M

更新日期：2019-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of multicellularity was a major transition in evolution and set the stage for unprecedented increases in complexity, especially in land plants and animals. Here, we explore the genetics underlying a de novo origin of multicellularity in a microbial evolution experiment carried out on the green alga Chlam...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Herron MD,Ratcliff WC,Boswell J,Rosenzweig F

更新日期：2018-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Social insects live in dense groups with a high probability of disease transmission and have therefore faced strong pressures to develop defences against pathogens. For this reason, social insects have been hypothesized to invest in antimicrobial secretions as a mechanism of external immunity to prevent the spread of ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Penick CA,Halawani O,Pearson B,Mathews S,López-Uribe MM,Dunn RR,Smith AA

更新日期：2018-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrochemical performance of an energy conversion and storage device like the supercapacitor mainly depends on the microstructure and morphology of the electrodes. In this paper, to improve the capacitance performance of the supercapacitor, the all-pseudocapacitive electrodes of lamella-like Bi18SeO29/BiSe as th...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ma G,Hua F,Sun K,Fenga E,Peng H,Zhang Z,Lei Z

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Many scientists communicate with the public about risks associated with scientific issues, but such communication may have unintended consequences for how the public views the political orientations and the credibility of the communicating scientist. We explore this possibility using an experiment with a nationally re...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Vraga E,Myers T,Kotcher J,Beall L,Maibach E

更新日期：2018-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes, synonymous codons are unevenly used. Such differential usage of optimal or non-optimal codons has been suggested to play a role in the control of translation initiation and elongation, as well as at the level of transcription and mRNA stability. In the case of membrane prote...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sanguinetti M,Iriarte A,Amillis S,Marín M,Musto H,Ramón A

更新日期：2019-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The past 5 years have witnessed claims that infants as young as six months of age understand the meaning of several words. To reach this conclusion, researchers presented infants with pairs of pictures from distinct semantic domains and observed longer looks at an object upon hearing its name as compared with the name...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kartushina N,Mayor J

更新日期：2019-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Declines in pollinator abundance and diversity are not only a conservation issue, but also a threat to crop pollination. Maintained infrastructure corridors, such as those containing electricity transmission lines, are potentially important wild pollinator habitat. However, there is a lack of evidence comparing the ab...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Hill B,Bartomeus I

更新日期：2016-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.140292.]. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Middleburgh SC,King DM,Lumpkin GR

更新日期：2015-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A new Triassic neopterygian is described on the basis of a large three-dimensional neurocranium from the Rhaetian (Late Triassic) of the Kössen Formation (Schesaplana, Grisons, Switzerland). CT scanning reveals neurocranial features similar to Dapedium, suggesting that this new genus, Scopulipiscis saxciput gen. et sp...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Latimer AE,Giles S

更新日期：2018-08-15 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：:Selection among alternative theoretical models given an observed dataset is an important challenge in many areas of physics and astronomy. Reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC) is an extremely powerful technique for performing Bayesian model selection, but it suffers from a fundamental difficulty and it re...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Farr WM,Mandel I,Stevens D

更新日期：2015-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A shift-periodic map is a one-dimensional map from the real line to itself which is periodic up to a linear translation and allowed to have singularities. It is shown that iterative sequences xn+1 = F(x n ) generated by such maps display rich dynamical behaviour. The intege...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Stadlmann J,Erban R

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on domestication are blooming, but the developmental bases for the generation of domestication traits and breed diversity remain largely unexplored. Some phenotypic patterns of human neurocristopathies are suggestive of those reported for domesticated mammals and disrupting neural crest developmental programme...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sánchez-Villagra MR,Geiger M,Schneider RA

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giraffidae are represented by many extinct species. The only two extant taxa possess diametrically contrasting cervical morphology, as the okapi is short-necked and the giraffe is exceptionally long-necked. Samotherium major, known from the Late Miocene of Samos in Greece and other Eurasian localities, is a key extinc...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Danowitz M,Domalski R,Solounias N

更新日期：2015-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Wildlife researchers often rely on demographic data collected from harvested animals to estimate population dynamics. But demographic data from harvested animals may be non-representative if hunters/trappers have the ability and motivation to preferentially select for certain physical traits. Hunter preference is well...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Allen ML,Roberts NM,Van Deelen TR

更新日期：2018-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Multituberculate mammals thrived during the Mesozoic, but their diversity declined from the mid-late Paleocene onwards, becoming extinct in the late Eocene. The radiation of superficially similar, eutherian rodents has been linked to multituberculate extinction through competitive exclusion. However, characteristics p...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Adams NF,Rayfield EJ,Cox PG,Cobb SN,Corfe IJ

更新日期：2019-03-27 00:00:00