Peculiar macrophagous adaptations in a new Cretaceous pliosaurid.

abstract：:The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte of North Greenland contains the first exceptionally preserved mat-ground community of the Cambrian, dominated, in terms of abundance, by trilobites but particularly characterized by iconic arthropods and lobopods, some also occurring in the Burgess shale. High-resolution photography, scan...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Strang KM,Armstrong HA,Harper DA

更新日期：2016-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.181113.]. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Campbell LAD,Tkaczynski PJ,Mouna M,Derrou A,Oukannou L,Majolo B,van Lavieren E

更新日期：2019-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, recent progress in graphic statics is combined with Williot displacement diagrams to create a graphical description of both statics and kinematics for two- and three-dimensional pin-jointed trusses. We begin with reciprocal form and force diagrams. The force diagram is dissected into its component cells...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： McRobie A,Konstantatou M,Athanasopoulos G,Hannigan L

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to obtain an electrochemical device between the electrostatic interaction of the electropolymerized porphyrin {CoTPyP[RuCl3(dppb)]4}, where TPyP = 5,10,15, 20-tetrapyridilphorphyrin and dppb = 1,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane, and gold nanoparticles (AuNPsn-), to be used as a voltammetric sen...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sousa LM,Vilarinho LM,Ribeiro GH,Bogado AL,Dinelli LR

更新日期：2017-12-20 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：:The ability to attribute intentions to others is a hallmark of human social cognition but is altered in paranoia. Paranoia is the most common positive symptom of psychosis but is also present to varying degrees in the general population. Epidemiological models suggest that psychosis risk is associated with low social ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Saalfeld V,Ramadan Z,Bell V,Raihani NJ

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A carefully designed map can reduce pedestrians' cognitive load during wayfinding and may be an especially useful navigation aid in crowded public environments. In the present paper, we report three studies that investigated the effects of map complexity and crowd movement on wayfinding time, accuracy and hesitation u...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zhao H,Thrash T,Grossrieder A,Kapadia M,Moussaïd M,Hölscher C,Schinazi VR

更新日期：2020-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge in robotic design is enabling robots to immediately adapt to unexpected physical damage. However, conventional robots require considerable time (more than several tens of seconds) for adaptation because the process entails high computational costs. To overcome this problem, we focus on a brittle star...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kano T,Sato E,Ono T,Aonuma H,Matsuzaka Y,Ishiguro A

更新日期：2017-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Feedback is typically incorporated in word learning paradigms, in both research studies and commercial language learning apps. While the common-sense view is that feedback is helpful during learning, relatively little empirical evidence exists about the role of feedback in spoken vocabulary learning. Some work has sug...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Krishnan S,Sellars E,Wood H,Bishop DVM,Watkins KE

更新日期：2018-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In evolutionary biomechanics it is often considered that gaits should evolve to minimize the energetic cost of travelling a given distance. In gait simulation this goal often leads to convincing gait generation. However, as the musculoskeletal models used get increasingly sophisticated, it becomes apparent that such a...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sellers WI,Hirasaki E

更新日期：2018-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Many important data types, such as the spike trains recorded from neurons in typical electrophysiological experiments, have a natural notion of distance or similarity between data points, even though there is no obvious coordinate system. Here, a simple Kozachenko-Leonenko estimator is derived for calculating the mutu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Houghton C

更新日期：2015-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:While various relationships between productivity and biodiversity are found in forests, the processes underlying these relationships remain unclear and theory struggles to coherently explain them. In this work, we analyse diversity-productivity relationships through an examination of forest structure (described by bas...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Bohn FJ,Huth A

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a novel method to simulate soft tissue deformation for virtual surgery applications. The method considers the mechanical properties of soft tissue, such as its viscoelasticity, nonlinearity and incompressibility; its speed, stability and accuracy also meet the requirements for a surgery simulator. Modifying...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Xu L,Lu Y,Liu Q

更新日期：2018-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:How do animals in groups organize their work? Division of labour, i.e. the process by which individuals within a group choose which tasks to perform, has been extensively studied in social insects. Variability among individuals within a colony seems to underpin both the decision over which tasks to perform and the amo...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Doran C,Stumpe MC,Sendova-Franks A,Franks NR

更新日期：2016-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropogenic activities affect fish populations worldwide. River dams have profound impacts on ecosystems by changing habitats and hindering migration. In an effort to counteract such effects, a range of mitigation measures have been installed at hydroelectric power plants. However, not all individuals in a populatio...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Haraldstad T,Haugen TO,Kroglund F,Olsen EM,Höglund E

更新日期：2019-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance and shape of sesamoid bones within a tendon or ligament wrapping around a joint are understood to be influenced by both genetic and epigenetic factors. Ostriches (Struthio camelus) possess two sesamoid patellae (kneecaps), one of which (the distal patella) is unique to their lineage, making them a good ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chadwick KP,Shefelbine SJ,Pitsillides AA,Hutchinson JR

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent types of cancer today in women. The main avenue of diagnosis is through manual examination of histopathology tissue slides. Such a process is often subjective and error-ridden, suffering from both inter- and intraobserver variability. Our objective is to develop an automatic ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chan A,Tuszynski JA

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Aiming at the problem of the fatigue life prediction of rubber under the influence of temperature, the effects of thermal ageing and fatigue damage on the fatigue life of rubber under the influence of temperature are analysed and a fatigue life prediction model is established by selecting strain energy as a fatigue da...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zhang J,Xue F,Wang Y,Zhang X,Han S

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:MCM-41 was prepared through the sol-gel method and encapsulated by polydopamine (PDA) before being coordinated with metal ions to form a highly efficient sustained release system (M-PDA-MCM-41) for triazolone delivery. The characterization results confirmed the existence of the coordination bond between the PDA layer ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chen H,Huang G,Zhou H,Zhou X,Xu H

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurobiological and molecular studies suggest a dichromatic colour vision in canine species, which appears to be similar to that of human red-green colour blindness. Here, we show that dogs exhibit a behavioural response similar to that of red-green blind human subjects when tested with a modified version of a test co...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Siniscalchi M,d'Ingeo S,Fornelli S,Quaranta A

更新日期：2017-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Avoiding biological contaminants is a well-known manifestation of the adaptive system of disgust. In theory, animals evolved with such a system to prevent pathogen and parasite infection. Bodily products are human-universal disgust elicitors, but whether they also elicit avoidance behaviour in non-human primates has y...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sarabian C,Ngoubangoye B,MacIntosh AJJ

更新日期：2017-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Vocal pitch is used as an important communicative device by humans, as found in the melodic dimension of both speech and song. Vocal pitch is determined by the degree of tension in the vocal folds of the larynx, which itself is influenced by complex and nonlinear interactions among the laryngeal muscles. The relations...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Belyk M,Lee YS,Brown S

更新日期：2018-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160759.]. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： McRobie A

更新日期：2017-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We combined clinical, cytokine, genomic, methylation and dietary data from 43 young adult monozygotic twin pairs (aged 22-36 years, 53% female), where 25 of the twin pairs were substantially weight discordant (delta body mass index > 3 kg m-2). These measurements were originally taken as part of the TwinFat study, a s...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kibble M,Khan SA,Ammad-Ud-Din M,Bollepalli S,Palviainen T,Kaprio J,Pietiläinen KH,Ollikainen M

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to compare young and adult sprinters on several biomechanical parameters that were previously highlighted as performance-related and to determine the behaviour of several muscle-tendon units (MTU) in the first stance phase following a block start in sprint running. The ground reaction force (...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Aeles J,Jonkers I,Debaere S,Delecluse C,Vanwanseele B

更新日期：2018-06-13 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：:Insect wing veins are biological composites of chitin and protein arranged in a complex lamellar configuration. Although these hierarchical structures are found in many 'venous wings' of insects, very little is known about their physical and mechanical characteristics. For the first time, we carried out a systematic c...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Rajabi H,Shafiei A,Darvizeh A,Dirks JH,Appel E,Gorb SN

更新日期：2016-02-17 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：:Many cryptic species have been discovered in various taxonomic groups based on molecular phylogenetic analyses and mating experiments. Some sympatric cryptic species share equivalent resources, which contradicts the competitive exclusion principle. Two major theories have been proposed to explain the apparent lack of ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kurushima H,Yoshimura J,Kim JK,Kim JK,Nishimoto Y,Sayama K,Kato M,Watanabe K,Hasegawa E,Roff DA,Shimizu A

更新日期：2016-08-24 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