Relationship between elevated soluble CD74 and severity of experimental and clinical ALI/ARDS.

abstract：:We report comparative indoor and outdoor stability testing of organic solar cells based on a blend between a donor-acceptor polyfluorene copolymer and a fullerene derivative. The outdoor testing was conducted for a period over 12,000 hours in Sheffield, England, with a Ts80 lifetime determined in excess of 10,000 hour...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Y,Yi H,Iraqi A,Kingsley J,Buckley A,Wang T,Lidzey DG

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetoelectric (ME) thin film composites consisting of sputtered piezoelectric (PE) and magnetostrictive (MS) layers enable for measurements of magnetic fields passively, i.e. an AC magnetic field directly generates an ME voltage by mechanical coupling of the MS deformation to the PE phase. In order to achieve high f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hayes P,Jovičević Klug M,Toxværd S,Durdaut P,Schell V,Teplyuk A,Burdin D,Winkler A,Weser R,Fetisov Y,Höft M,Knöchel R,McCord J,Quandt E

更新日期：2019-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Many amorphous materials show spatially heterogenous dynamics, as different regions of the same system relax at different rates. Such a signature, known as Dynamic Heterogeneity, has been crucial to understand the nature of the jamming transition in simple model systems and is currently considered very promising to ch...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pastore R,Pesce G,Caggioni M

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Many molecular system biology approaches recognize various interactions and functional associations of proteins that occur in cellular processing. Further understanding of the characterization technique reveals noteworthy information. These types of known and predicted interactions, gained through multiple resources, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kaushik AC,Mehmood A,Dai X,Wei DQ

更新日期：2020-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The North Atlantic is characterized by diatom-dominated spring blooms that results in significant transfer of carbon to higher trophic levels and the deep ocean. These blooms are terminated by limiting silicate concentrations in summer. Numerous regional studies have demonstrated phytoplankton community shifts to ligh...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hátún H,Azetsu-Scott K,Somavilla R,Rey F,Johnson C,Mathis M,Mikolajewicz U,Coupel P,Tremblay JÉ,Hartman S,Pacariz SV,Salter I,Ólafsson J

更新日期：2017-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical reservoir computing approaches have gained increased attention in recent years due to their potential for low-energy high-performance computing. Despite recent successes, there are bounds to what one can achieve simply by making physical reservoirs larger. Therefore, we argue that a switch from single-reservo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Freiberger M,Bienstman P,Dambre J

更新日期：2020-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of diet induced obesity and KO mice models, nitric oxide is implied to play an important role in the initiation of dyslipidemia induced insulin resistance. However, outcomes using iNOS KO mice have so far remained inconclusive. The present study aimed to assess IR in iNOS KO mice after 5 weeks of LFD feed...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kanuri BN,Kanshana JS,Rebello SC,Pathak P,Gupta AP,Gayen JR,Jagavelu K,Dikshit M

更新日期：2017-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The surveillance of infectious diseases is of great importance for disease control and prevention, and more attention should be paid to the Class B notifiable diseases in China. Meanwhile, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the annual growth of Chinese gross domestic product (GDP) would decelerate bel...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang T,Yin F,Zhou T,Zhang XY,Li XS

更新日期：2016-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Urbanization is associated with dramatic increases in noise and light pollution, which affect animal behaviour, physiology and fitness. However, few studies have examined these stressors simultaneously. Moreover, effects of urbanization during early-life may be detrimental but are largely unknown. In developing great ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Raap T,Pinxten R,Casasole G,Dehnhard N,Eens M

更新日期：2017-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme replacement therapies have revolutionized patient treatment for multiple rare lysosomal storage diseases but show limited effectiveness for addressing pathologies in "hard-to-treat" organs and tissues including brain and bone. Here we investigate the plant lectin RTB as a novel carrier for human lysosomal enzym...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Acosta W,Ayala J,Dolan MC,Cramer CL

更新日期：2015-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Si holds great promise as an alloying anode material for Li-ion batteries with improved energy density because of its high theoretical specific capacity and favorable operation voltage range. However, the large volume expansion of Si during electrochemical reaction with Li and the associated adverse effects strongly l...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Breitung B,Aguiló-Aguayo N,Bechtold T,Hahn H,Janek J,Brezesinski T

更新日期：2017-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Dust from grain and feed production may cause adverse health effects in exposed workers. In this study we explored circulating miRNAs as potential biomarkers of occupational grain dust exposure. Twenty-two serum miRNAs were analyzed in 44 grain dust exposed workers and 22 controls. Exposed workers had significantly up...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Straumfors A,Duale N,Foss OAH,Mollerup S

更新日期：2020-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence of T2DM in three population groups: rural, rural-to-urban migrants and urban dwellers. Data from the PERU MIGRANT Study was analysed. The baseline assessment was conducted in 2007-2008 using a single-stage random sample and further follow-up was undertaken in 2015-16...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ruiz-Alejos A,Carrillo-Larco RM,Miranda JJ,Anderson CAM,Gilman RH,Smeeth L,Bernabé-Ortiz A

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensitivity of the anatase and rutile phases of titanium dioxide to Swift Heavy Ion (SHI) irradiation was experimentally probed and compared with the predictions of the Coulomb explosion, analytical and inelastic thermal spike models of ion-matter interaction. Conforming to the predictions of all these models, our stu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rath H,Dash BN,Benyagoub A,Mishra NC

更新日期：2018-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the improved Aesop's fable paradigm-a series of experiments originally used to test whether some animals understand the causality associated with water replacement-was used to explore the cognitive ability of Azure-winged magpies (Cyanopica cyanus). Experimental results on causal cue tasks showed that t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Y,Yu C,Chen L,Li Z

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:As mammalian herbivores feed, they often encounter noxious insects on plants. It is unknown how they handle such insects. We experimentally examined the behavioural responses of goats to the noxious spring-webworm (Ocnogyna loewii), and manipulated their sensory perception to reveal the process of insect detection. Go...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Berman TS,Ben-Ari M,Glasser TA,Gish M,Inbar M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR/Cas9-derived RNA-guided nucleases (RGNs) are DNA targeting systems, which are rapidly being harnessed for gene regulation and gene editing purposes in model organisms and cell lines. As bona fide gene delivery vehicles, viral vectors may be particularly fit to broaden the applicability of RGNs to other cell typ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Maggio I,Holkers M,Liu J,Janssen JM,Chen X,Gonçalves MA

更新日期：2014-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptochromes (CRYs) are an ubiquitously occurring class of photoreceptors, which are important for regulating the circadian rhythm of animals via a time-delayed transcription-translation feedback loop (TTFL). Due to their protein architecture and common FAD chromophore, they belong to the same superfamily as photolya...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Franz-Badur S,Penner A,Straß S,von Horsten S,Linne U,Essen LO

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural competence for genetic transformation refers to the natural ability of various bacteria to take up exogenous DNA from their surroundings and to incorporate internalized genetic information into their genomes. By promoting bacterial diversification and adaptability, this process represents a major driving force...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lichev A,Angelov A,Cucurull I,Liebl W

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Supercontinuum generation in Kerr media has become a staple of nonlinear optics. It has been celebrated for advancing the understanding of soliton propagation as well as its many applications in a broad range of fields. Coherent spectral broadening of laser light is now commonly performed in laboratories and used in c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ciret C,Gorza SP,Husko C,Roelkens G,Kuyken B,Leo F

更新日期：2018-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies support a protective role of lycopene against stroke occurrence or mortality, but the results have been conflicting. We conducted a meta-analysis to assess the relationship between dietary or circulating lycopene and stroke risk (including stroke occurrence or mortality). Relevant papers were c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li X,Xu J

更新日期：2014-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Although plants are essentially sessile in nature, these organisms are very much in tune with their environment and are capable of a variety of movements. This may come as a surprise to many non-botanists, but not to Charles Darwin, who reported that plants do produce movements. Following Darwin's specific interest on...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Guerra S,Peressotti A,Peressotti F,Bulgheroni M,Baccinelli W,D'Amico E,Gómez A,Massaccesi S,Ceccarini F,Castiello U

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Visualizing fast micrometer scale internal movements of small animals is a key challenge for functional anatomy, physiology and biomechanics. We combine phase contrast tomographic microscopy (down to 3.3 μm voxel size) with retrospective, projection-based gating (in the order of hundreds of microseconds) to improve th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mokso R,Schwyn DA,Walker SM,Doube M,Wicklein M,Müller T,Stampanoni M,Taylor GK,Krapp HG

更新日期：2015-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Human NAD-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase catalyzes the decarboxylation of isocitrate (ICT) into α-ketoglutarate in the Krebs cycle. It exists as the α2βγ heterotetramer composed of the αβ and αγ heterodimers. Previously, we have demonstrated biochemically that the α2βγ heterotetramer and αγ heterodimer can be allo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ma T,Peng Y,Huang W,Ding J

更新日期：2017-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Au nanoparticles (AuNPs), which easily aggregate in organic thin film, are observed to well-disperse in chicken albumen thin films. The incorporated AuNPs is distributed uniformly inside the thin film and is as dense as 650 (particles/μm(3)). In addition, enhanced ultraviolet (UV) fluorescence centered at 350 nm is ob...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tsung Chen I,Chang PH,Chang YC,Guo TF

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stickiness of cooked rice is important for eating quality and consumer acceptance. The first molecular understanding of stickiness is obtained from leaching and molecular structural characteristics during cooking. Starch is a highly branched glucose polymer. We find (i) the molecular size of leached amylopectin is...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li H,Fitzgerald MA,Prakash S,Nicholson TM,Gilbert RG

更新日期：2017-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 (BRCA1) located at chromosome 17q12-21 is a classic tumor suppressor gene, and has been considered as a significant role in hereditary breast cancers. Moreover, numerous studies demonstrated the methylation status of CpG islands in the promoter regions of BRCA1 gene was aberrant in ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang L,Long X

更新日期：2015-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In crystalline metals at small scales, the dislocation density will be increased by stochastic events of dislocation network, leading to a universal power law for various material structures. In this work, we develop a model obeyed by a probability distribution of dislocation density to describe the dislocation format...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang GR,Huang JC,Tsai WY

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Undertaking behaviour is an essential activity in social insects. Corpses are often recognized by a postmortem change in a chemical signature. Reticulitermes flavipes responded to corpses within minutes of death. This undertaking behaviour did not change with longer postmortem time (24 h); however, R. flavipes exhibit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sun Q,Haynes KF,Zhou X

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silicon, the workhorse of semiconductor industry, is being exploited for various functional applications in numerous fields of nanotechnology. In this paper, we report the fabrication of depth controllable amorphous silicon (a-Si) layers under 80 keV Ar+ ion sputtering at off-normal ion incidences of 30°, 40° and 50° ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gupta D,Umapathy GR,Singhal R,Ojha S,Aggarwal S

更新日期：2020-07-17 00:00:00