Establishing the limits of efficiency of perovskite solar cells from first principles modeling.

abstract：:Fundamental cell signaling mechanisms that regulate dynamic remodeling of the extracellular matrix (ECM) in mechanically loaded tissues are not yet clearly understood. Trabecular meshwork (TM) tissue in the eye is under constant mechanical stress and continuous remodeling of ECM is crucial to maintain normal aqueous h...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tellios N,Belrose JC,Tokarewicz AC,Hutnik C,Liu H,Leask A,Motolko M,Iijima M,Parapuram SK

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Multilevel severe compressive myelopathy is a challenging disorder for the surgeons, the aim of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of a newly designed ultrasonic burr as an assistant tool to the ultrasonic scalpel in laminectomy for this disease. This is a retrospective comparative study, the included sub...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen Y,Chang Z,Yu X,Song R,Huang W

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer patients often use dietary supplements while on therapy, but little is known about interactions of supplements with cancer chemotherapy. Black raspberries (BRB) have anti-cancer effects, but have not been evaluated for interference with chemotherapy for castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Here we studied...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Eskra JN,Schlicht MJ,Bosland MC

更新日期：2019-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have demonstrated that inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients are at an increased risk of developing anxiety and/or depression. IBD patients with depression/anxiety have higher rates of hospitalization and increased disease severity than those without. So far, there is a paucity of data concerning the impac...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gao X,Tang Y,Lei N,Luo Y,Chen P,Liang C,Duan S,Zhang Y

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most prevalent neurodegenerative diseases, yet current therapeutic treatments are inadequate due to a complex disease pathogenesis. The plant polyphenol apigenin has been shown to have anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective properties in a number of cell and animal models; however...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Balez R,Steiner N,Engel M,Muñoz SS,Lum JS,Wu Y,Wang D,Vallotton P,Sachdev P,O'Connor M,Sidhu K,Münch G,Ooi L

更新日期：2016-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The low-temperature heat capacity of (U1-yThy)O2 and 238Pu-doped UO2 samples were determined using hybrid adiabatic relaxation calorimetry. Results of the investigated systems revealed the presence of the magnetic transition specific for UO2 in all three intermediate compositions of the uranium-thorium dioxide (y = 0....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vălu SO,De Bona E,Popa K,Griveau JC,Colineau E,Konings RJM

更新日期：2019-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a hybrid sequential prediction model called "Deep Sequence", integrating radiomics-engineered imaging features, demographic, and visual factors, with a recursive neural network (RNN) model in the same platform to predict the risk of exudation within a future time-frame in non-exudative AMD eyes. The propose...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Banerjee I,de Sisternes L,Hallak JA,Leng T,Osborne A,Rosenfeld PJ,Gregori G,Durbin M,Rubin D

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jamal S,Khubaib M,Gangwar R,Grover S,Grover A,Hasnain SE

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells operate in noisy molecular environments via complex regulatory networks. It is possible to understand how molecular counts are related to noise in specific networks, but it is not generally clear how noise relates to network complexity, because different levels of complexity also imply different overall number o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cardelli L,Csikász-Nagy A,Dalchau N,Tribastone M,Tschaikowski M

更新日期：2016-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Erwinia tracheiphila is a bacterial plant pathogen that causes a fatal wilt infection in some cucurbit crop plants. Wilt symptoms are thought to be caused by systemic bacterial colonization through xylem that impedes sap flow. However, the genetic determinants of within-plant movement are unknown for this pathogen spe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rocha J,Shapiro LR,Kolter R

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) belong to the most common medication in geriatric medicine. They are known to reduce osteoclast activity and to delay fracture healing in young adult mice. Because differentiation and proliferation in fracture healing as well as pharmacologic actions of drugs markedly differ in the elderl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Menger MM,Bremer P,Scheuer C,Rollmann MF,Braun BJ,Herath SC,Orth M,Später T,Pohlemann T,Menger MD,Histing T

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:High mobility channel thin-film-transistor (TFT) is crucial for both display and future generation integrated circuit. We report a new metal-oxide TFT that has an ultra-thin 4.5 nm SnO2 thickness for both active channel and source-drain regions, very high 147 cm(2)/Vs field-effect mobility, high ION/IOFF of 2.3 × 10(7...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shih CW,Chin A,Lu CF,Su WF

更新日期：2016-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a polarization beam splitter (PBS) with a footprint of only 600 × 790 nm2 operating at a wavelength of λ = 1550 nm, which is the smallest PBS ever demonstrated. This device uses CMOS-compatible materials, namely, silicon and silica. The present PBS comprises two Si waveguides with different geometrical aspe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lai MS,Huang CC

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:As an important method for building blocks synthesis, whole cell biocatalysis is hindered by some shortcomings such as unpredictability of reactions, utilization of opportunistic pathogen, and side reactions. Due to its biological and extensively studied genetic background, Pseudomonas putida KT2440 is viewed as a pro...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang Y,Lv M,Zhang Y,Xiao X,Jiang T,Zhang W,Hu C,Gao C,Ma C,Xu P

更新日期：2014-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we show that diffraction segregates the polarization singularities according to their handedness. Polarization singularities are superpositions of left and right handed circular polarization vortex states. In the superposition, the component states possess different orbital angular momenta depending on...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Deepa S,B S BR,Senthilkumaran P

更新日期：2019-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have evaluated gene expression in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains to identify mechanistic processes, but have been limited by the size of the datasets studied. Here we have implemented a novel meta-analysis approach to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in published datasets comprising 450...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li X,Long J,He T,Belshaw R,Scott J

更新日期：2015-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to characterize the type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) epidemic and the role of key risk factors in Jordan between 1990-2050, and to forecast the T2DM-related costs. A recently-developed population-level T2DM mathematical model was adapted and applied to Jordan. The model was fitted to six population-based surve...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Awad SF,Huangfu P,Dargham SR,Ajlouni K,Batieha A,Khader YS,Critchley JA,Abu-Raddad LJ

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

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：:Tendon is composed of fascicles bound together by the interfascicular matrix (IFM). Energy storing tendons are more elastic and extensible than positional tendons; behaviour provided by specialisation of the IFM to enable repeated interfascicular sliding and recoil. With ageing, the IFM becomes stiffer and less fatigu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Godinho MSC,Thorpe CT,Greenwald SE,Screen HRC

更新日期：2017-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) operating in the near-infrared spectral region are gaining growing relevance for emerging photonic technologies, such as lab-on-chip platforms for medical diagnostics, flexible self-medicated pads for photodynamic therapy, night vision and plastic-based telecommunications. The ach...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sassi M,Buccheri N,Rooney M,Botta C,Bruni F,Giovanella U,Brovelli S,Beverina L

更新日期：2016-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of the choroid in the eye is crucial for our understanding of a range of ocular diseases and physiological processes. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging provides the ability to capture highly detailed cross-sectional images of the choroid yet only a very limited number of commercial OCT instrument...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kugelman J,Alonso-Caneiro D,Read SA,Hamwood J,Vincent SJ,Chen FK,Collins MJ

更新日期：2019-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Novelty seeking (NS) is a personality trait reflecting excitement in response to novel stimuli. High NS is usually a predictor of risky behaviour such as drug abuse. However, the relationships between NS and risk-related cognitive processes, including individual risk preference and the brain activation associated with...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang Y,Liu Y,Yang L,Gu F,Li X,Zha R,Wei Z,Pei Y,Zhang P,Zhou Y,Zhang X

更新日期：2015-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The placenta has emerged as an attractive source of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) because of the absence of ethical issues, non-invasive access, and abundant yield. However, inflammatory cell invasion into grafts negatively impacts the survival and efficacy of transplanted cells. Previous studies have shown that synth...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tian KW,Zhang YY,Jiang H,Han S

更新日期：2018-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The impacts of flooding are expected to rise due to population increases, economic growth and climate change. Hence, understanding the physical and spatiotemporal characteristics of risk drivers (hazard, exposure and vulnerability) is required to develop effective flood mitigation measures. Here, the long-term trend i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tanoue M,Hirabayashi Y,Ikeuchi H

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gyamfi J,Lee YH,Eom M,Choi J

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:While cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) are established and partly included in the diagnostic criteria, no blood biomarkers are available. Here, we assessed the utility of serum neurofilament light chain (NF-L) and tau protein in comparison to CSF markers (NF-L and phosphorylated...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Steinacker P,Blennow K,Halbgebauer S,Shi S,Ruf V,Oeckl P,Giese A,Kuhle J,Slivarichova D,Zetterberg H,Otto M

更新日期：2016-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmosis is the movement of solvent across a permselective membrane induced by a solute-concentration gradient. Now in 'Forward Osmosis' it is empirically observed that the diffusion of the solute is counter to that of the solvent i.e. there is so-called "reverse salt diffusion". However it has been recently suggested,...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu JJ,Field RW

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The Salicornia europaea L. (SE) plant is a halophyte that has been widely consumed as a seasoned vegetable, and it has been recently reported to counteract chronic diseases related to oxidative and inflammatory stress. In this study, we performed an initial phytochemical analysis with in vitro biochemical tests and ch...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Karthivashan G,Park SY,Kweon MH,Kim J,Haque ME,Cho DY,Kim IS,Cho EA,Ganesan P,Choi DK

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimized strategy to further increase the success rate of ablation for ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) from the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) is challenging. Recent studies have shown that the pulmonary sinus cusp (PSC) region may be the origin of certain RVOT VAs. We evaluated the efficacy of preferential...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xie Y,Liu A,Jin Q,Zhang N,Jia K,Lin C,Ling T,Chen K,Pan W,Wu L

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently there has not been a systematic, objective assessment of the metabolic capabilities of the human platelet. A manually curated, functionally tested, and validated biochemical reaction network of platelet metabolism, iAT-PLT-636, was reconstructed using 33 proteomic datasets and 354 literature references. The n...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Thomas A,Rahmanian S,Bordbar A,Palsson BØ,Jamshidi N

更新日期：2014-01-29 00:00:00