Enhanced power factor via the control of structural phase transition in SnSe.

abstract：:Higher plants have been shown to experience a juvenile vegetative phase, an adult vegetative phase, and a reproductive phase during its postembryonic development and distinct lateral organ morphologies have been observed at the different development stages. Populus euphratica, commonly known as a desert poplar, has de...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ma X,Ma J,Fan D,Li C,Jiang Y,Luo K

更新日期：2016-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The sulfur-selenium doped carbon quantum dots (S,Se-CQDs) were synthesized by one-step through hydrothermal method in this study, which have high fluorescence quantum yield (43%) and advanced ability to scavenge reactive oxygen species (ROS). They were characterized by transmission electron microscope (TEM), nuclear m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang G,Lin Y,Zhang L,Yan Z,Wang Y,Liu Y

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Feedback information is essential for us to adapt appropriately to the environment. The feedback-related negativity (FRN), a frontocentral negative deflection after the delivery of feedback, has been found to be larger for outcomes that are worse than expected, and it reflects a reward prediction error derived from th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gu Y,Hu X,Pan W,Yang C,Wang L,Li Y,Chen A

更新日期：2016-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia is one of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders with complex genetic etiology. Accumulating evidence suggests that energy metabolism and oxidative stress play important roles in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Dysfunction of mitochondrial respiratory chain and altered expression of complex I sub...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li X,Zhang W,Tang J,Tan L,Luo XJ,Chen X,Yao YG

更新日期：2015-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleic acid amplification tests have become a common method for diagnosis of STIs due to their improved sensitivity over immunoassays and traditional culture-based methods. Isothermal nucleic acid amplification methods offer significant advantages over polymerase chain reaction (PCR) because they do not require sophi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Eboigbodin KE,Hoser MJ

更新日期：2016-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:While fluorescence microscopes and atomic force microscopes are widely used to visualize, track, and manipulate single biomolecules, the resolution of these methods is limited by sample drift. To minimize drift, active feedback methods have recently been used to stabilize single molecule microscopes on the sub-nanomet...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Schmidt PD,Reichert BH,Lajoie JG,Sivasankar S

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Scattering of H2 on CO is of great importance in astrophysics and also is a benchmark system for comparing theory to experiment. We present here a new 6-dimensional potential energy surface for the ground electronic state of H2-CO with an estimated uncertainty of about 0.6 cm(-1) in the global minimum region, several ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Faure A,Jankowski P,Stoecklin T,Szalewicz K

更新日期：2016-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Glyoxalase pathway plays an important role in stress adaptation and many clinical disorders. The first enzyme of this pathway, glyoxalase I (GlxI), uses methylglyoxal as a substrate and requires either Ni(II)/Co(II) or Zn(II) for activity. Here we have investigated the origin of different metal ion specificities of Gl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kaur C,Vishnoi A,Ariyadasa TU,Bhattacharya A,Singla-Pareek SL,Sopory SK

更新日期：2013-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The Southern Ocean has taken up more than 40% of the total anthropogenic carbon (Cant) stored in the oceans since the preindustrial era, mainly in subantarctic mode and intermediate waters (SAMW-AAIW). However, the physical mechanisms responsible for the transfer of Cant into the ocean interior remain poorly understoo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Langlais CE,Lenton A,Matear R,Monselesan D,Legresy B,Cougnon E,Rintoul S

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Murraya koenigii (MK) leaf being a rich source of bioactive secondary metabolites has received inordinate attention in drug development research. Formation of secondary plant metabolite(s) in medicinal plants depends on several factors and in this study the cause of variation in bioavailability and content of a vital ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kandimalla R,Das M,Barge SR,Sarma PP,Koiri DJ,Devi A,Karki AK,Kumar A,Devi R,Pal BC,Talukdar NC,Samanta SK

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A major goal of biology is to develop a quantitative ligand-binding assay that does not involve the use of radioactivity. Existing fluorescence-based assays have a serious drawback due to fluorescence quenching that accompanies the binding of fluorescently-labeled ligands to their receptors. This limitation of existin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Breen CJ,Raverdeau M,Voorheis HP

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Coherent, optically dressed media composed of two-level molecular systems without inversion symmetry are considered as all-optically tunable sources of coherent radiation in the microwave domain. A theoretical model and a numerical toolbox are developed to confirm the main finding: the generation of low-frequency radi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gładysz P,Wcisło P,Słowik K

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanoporous electrodes have received great attention because of their unique electrochemical properties. Here, the electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activities at porous Pt layers with pore dimensions in the microporous range were examined. The OER activity of the porous Pt layers in acidic media increas...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lim T,Sung M,Kim J

更新日期：2017-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The impacts of climatic changes on forests may appear gradually on time scales of years to centuries due to the long generation times of trees. Consequently, current forest extent may not reflect current climatic patterns. In contrast with these lagged responses, abrupt transitions in forests under climate change may ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Serra-Diaz JM,Maxwell C,Lucash MS,Scheller RM,Laflower DM,Miller AD,Tepley AJ,Epstein HE,Anderson-Teixeira KJ,Thompson JR

更新日期：2018-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this work is to make a case for epidemiological models with fractional exponent in the contribution of sub-populations to the incidence rate. More specifically, we question the standard assumption in the literature on epidemiological models, where the incidence rate dictating propagation of infections i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Taghvaei A,Georgiou TT,Norton L,Tannenbaum A

更新日期：2020-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Tolerance to Dutch elm disease (DED) has been linked to the rapid and/or high induction of disease-responsive genes after infection with the fungus Ophiostoma novo-ulmi. Although the fungal infection by O. novo-ulmi primarily takes places in xylem vessels, it is still unclear how xylem contributes to the defense again...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sherif SM,Erland LA,Shukla MR,Saxena PK

更新日期：2017-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Several microbes, including Staphylococcus epidermidis (S. epidermidis), a Gram-positive bacterium, live inside the human nasal cavity as commensals. The role of these nasal commensals in host innate immunity is largely unknown, although bacterial interference in the nasal microbiome may promote ecological competition...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen HW,Liu PF,Liu YT,Kuo S,Zhang XQ,Schooley RT,Rohde H,Gallo RL,Huang CM

更新日期：2016-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-modal three dimensional (3D) optical imaging combining both structural sensitivity and molecular specificity is highly desirable in biomedical research. In this paper, we present a method termed oblique scanning laser microscopy (OSLM) to combine optical coherence tomography (OCT), for simultaneously volumetric ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang L,Capilla A,Song W,Mostoslavsky G,Yi J

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:While safety of fasting therapy is debated in humans, extended fasting occurs routinely and safely in wild animals. To do so, food deprived animals like breeding penguins anticipate the critical limit of fasting by resuming feeding. To date, however, no molecular indices of the physiological state that links spontaneo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bertile F,Fouillen L,Wasselin T,Maes P,Le Maho Y,Van Dorsselaer A,Raclot T

更新日期：2016-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common liver disease. Previous studies on the association between Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection and NAFLD are inconsistent. Our study was aimed to find out the relationship between HP infection and NAFLD. We performed a large cross-sectional study in northern Chinese...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang T,Chen X,Xia C,Liu H,Yan H,Wang G,Wu Z

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Many human introns carry out a function, in the sense that they are critical to maintain normal cellular activity. Their identification is fundamental to understanding cellular processes and disease. However, being noncoding elements, such functional introns are poorly predicted based on traditional approaches of sequ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chorev M,Joseph Bekker A,Goldberger J,Carmel L

更新日期：2017-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper is an essential trace metal that has been implicated in angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels. As tumor growth relies on establishing a functional capillary network for blood supply, copper chelation therapy may hold promise as an anti-cancer strategy by suppressing angiogenesis. To test the anti-ang...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Heuberger DM,Harankhedkar S,Morgan T,Wolint P,Calcagni M,Lai B,Fahrni CJ,Buschmann J

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cumulative effects of hepatic injury due to hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections and aflatoxin-B1 (AFB1) exposure are the major risk factors of HCC. Understanding early metabolic changes involving these risk factors in an animal model closely resembling human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is critical for biomarker ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yaligar J,Teoh WW,Othman R,Verma SK,Phang BH,Lee SS,Wang WW,Toh HC,Gopalan V,Sabapathy K,Velan SS

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Intense geomagnetic storms can cause severe damage to electrical systems and communications. This work proposes a counting process with Weibull inter-occurrence times in order to estimate the probability of extreme geomagnetic events. It is found that the scale parameter of the inter-occurrence time distribution grows...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Moriña D,Serra I,Puig P,Corral Á

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrowetting lenses has attracted researchers in many fields, such as biology, beam shaping, and drug delivery. Previous research on electrowetting lens has focused on neither expanding the dynamic focal length range nor reducing the wavefront aberration. However, the properties with large numerical aperture and...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Song X,Zhang H,Li D,Jia D,Liu T

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astragalus membranaceus (HUANG QI, HQ) is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. Researchers have widely concerned its antitumor effect. At present, there is still a lack of research on the treatment of laryngeal cancer with HQ. In this study, we integrated data from the weighted gene co-expression network of larynge...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dong KF,Huo MQ,Sun HY,Li TK,Li D

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytic acid (PA) is the primary phosphorus (P) storage compound in the seeds of cereals and legumes. Low PA crops, which are considered an effective way to improve grain nutrient availability and combat environmental issues relating to seed P have been developed using mutational and reverse genetics approaches. Here, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Perera I,Fukushima A,Akabane T,Horiguchi G,Seneweera S,Hirotsu N

更新日期：2019-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Anserine/carnosine supplementation improves cerebral blood flow and verbal episodic memory in elderly people, as we previously reported. Anserine's buffering activity is superior to that of carnosine at neutral pH. In human sera, carnosine but not anserine is rapidly cleaved by carnosinase, limiting its effectiveness....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kaneko J,Enya A,Enomoto K,Ding Q,Hisatsune T

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Oryza coarctata (KKLL; 2n = 4x = 48, 665 Mb) also known as Porteresia coarctata is an extreme halophyte species of genus Oryza. Using Illumina and Nanopore reads, we achieved the assembled genome size of 569.9 Mb, accounting 85.69% of the estimated genome size with N50 of 1.85 Mb and 19.89% repetitive region. We also ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mondal TK,Rawal HC,Chowrasia S,Varshney D,Panda AK,Mazumdar A,Kaur H,Gaikwad K,Sharma TR,Singh NK

更新日期：2018-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Current anti-influenza therapy depends on administering drugs soon after infection, which is often impractical. We assessed whether combinations of oseltamivir (a neuraminidase inhibitor) and T-705 (a nonspecific inhibitor of viral polymerases) could extend the window for treating lethal infection with highly pathogen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Marathe BM,Wong SS,Vogel P,Garcia-Alcalde F,Webster RG,Webby RJ,Najera I,Govorkova EA

更新日期：2016-05-25 00:00:00