Scaling Effect of Phosphorene Nanoribbon - Uncovering the Origin of Asymmetric Current Transport.

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection is conventionally diagnosed using serum antibody testing, microbial culture, and genetic testing. Recently, immunochromatography-based rapid mycoplasma antigen test kits have been developed and commercialised for rapid diagnosis of M. pneumoniae infection. However, as these kits do not ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Namkoong H,Yamazaki M,Ishizaki M,Endo I,Harada N,Aramaki M,Tanaka Y,Kaburagi S,Ichikawa M,Ohata T,Sakaguchi S,Saito F,Nakao A,Yuki H,Mitamura K

更新日期：2018-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present an ultraviolet responsive inorganic-organic hybrid solar cell based on titania/poly(3-hexylthiophene) (TiO(2)/P3HT) heterojuction. In this solar cell, TiO(2) is an ultraviolet light absorber and electronic conductor, P3HT is a hole conductor, the light-to-electrical conversion is realized by the cooper...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu J,Yue G,Xiao Y,Lin J,Huang M,Lan Z,Tang Q,Huang Y,Fan L,Yin S,Sato T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rice is the most important crop in the world, acting as the staple food for over half of the world's population. The evolutionary relationships of cultivated rice and its wild relatives have remained contentious and inconclusive. Here we report on the use of whole chloroplast sequences to elucidate the evolutionary an...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wambugu PW,Brozynska M,Furtado A,Waters DL,Henry RJ

更新日期：2015-09-10 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： Choi HS,Yoo HS,An Y,Yoon SY,Park SP,Kim YK

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Globally, a small percentage of oil is recovered from reservoirs using primary and secondary recovery mechanisms, and thus a major focus of the oil industry is toward developing new technologies to increase recovery. Many new technologies utilize surfactants, macromolecules, and even nanoparticles, which are difficult...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Eichmann SL,Burnham NA

更新日期：2017-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent severe European droughts raise the vital question: are we already experiencing measurable changes in drought likelihood that agree with climate change projections? The plethora of drought definitions compounds this question, requiring instead that we ask: how have various types of drought changed, how do these ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Stagge JH,Kingston DG,Tallaksen LM,Hannah DM

更新日期：2017-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Elymus nutans is an herbaceous plant that can be used to restore degraded alpine and subalpine ecosystems. Here, we evaluated how sowing density affects soil reinforcement and slope stabilization properties of vegetation-concrete structures. To investigate the optimal sowing density of E. nutans in vegetation-concrete...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tan X,Huang Y,Xiong D,Lv K,Chen F

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a leading cause of sudden death in aged people. Activation of ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) plays a critical role in the protein quality control and various diseases. However, the functional role of UPS in AAA formation remains unclear. In this study, we found that the proteasome...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ren H,Li F,Tian C,Nie H,Wang L,Li HH,Zheng Y

更新日期：2015-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus pseudotyping is a useful and safe technique for studying entry of emerging strains of influenza virus. However, few studies have compared different reassortant combinations in pseudoparticle systems, or compared entry kinetics of native viruses and their pseudotyped analogs. Here, vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hsu HL,Millet JK,Costello DA,Whittaker GR,Daniel S

更新日期：2016-10-18 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： Zhou Y,Sun W,Chen J,Tan H,Xiao Y,Li Q,Ji Q,Gao S,Chen L,Chen S,Zhang L,Chen W

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical weathering is a fundamental geochemical process regulating the atmosphere-land-ocean fluxes and earth's climate. It is under natural conditions driven primarily by weak carbonic acid that originates from atmosphere CO2 or soil respiration. Chemical weathering is therefore assumed as positively coupled with it...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Guo J,Wang F,Vogt RD,Zhang Y,Liu CQ

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:As an emerging sterilization technology, cold atmospheric plasma offers a dry, non-thermal, rapid process that is minimally damaging to a majority of substrates. However, the mechanisms by which plasma interacts with living cells are poorly understood and the plasma generation apparatuses are complex and resource-inte...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pai K,Timmons C,Roehm KD,Ngo A,Narayanan SS,Ramachandran A,Jacob JD,Ma LM,Madihally SV

更新日期：2018-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The Spike protein of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV2 contains an insertion 680SPRRAR↓SV687 forming a cleavage motif RxxR for furin-like enzymes at the boundary of S1/S2 subunits. Cleavage at S1/S2 is important for efficient viral entry into target cells. The insertion is absent in other CoV-s of the same clade, includ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Örd M,Faustova I,Loog M

更新日期：2020-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A three-year-long field experiment was conducted in a continuous grazing system with a variable stocking rate to evaluate effects of increasing nitrogen levels in Marandu grass (Brachiaria brizantha Hochst ex A. Rich Stapf "marandu") on herbage mass, forage accumulation rate (FAR), forage quality, stocking rate (SR), ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Delevatti LM,Cardoso AS,Barbero RP,Leite RG,Romanzini EP,Ruggieri AC,Reis RA

更新日期：2019-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Few-layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are known as true two-dimensional materials, with excellent semiconducting properties and strong light-matter interaction. Thus, TMDs are attractive materials for semitransparent and flexible solar cells for use in various applications. Hoewver, despite the recent pr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Akama T,Okita W,Nagai R,Li C,Kaneko T,Kato T

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron deposits are a phenotypic trait of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs). Histological iron imaging and contrast-agent free magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can detect these deposits, but their presence  in human cancer, and correlation with immunotherapeutic response is largely untested. Here, primarily using thes...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Leftin A,Ben-Chetrit N,Joyce JA,Koutcher JA

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Coastal protection design heights typically consider the superimposed effects of tides, surges, waves, and relative sea-level rise (SLR), neglecting non-linear feedbacks between these forcing factors. Here, we use hydrodynamic modelling and multivariate statistics to show that shallow coastal areas are extremely sensi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Arns A,Dangendorf S,Jensen J,Talke S,Bender J,Pattiaratchi C

更新日期：2017-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic nephropathy is characterised by the excessive amount of extracellular matrix in glomeruli and tubulointerstitial space. Lysyl oxidase-like 2 (LOXL2) is elevated in renal fibrosis and known to play key roles in ECM stabilisation by facilitating collagen cross-links, epithelial to mesenchymal transition and myo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Stangenberg S,Saad S,Schilter HC,Zaky A,Gill A,Pollock CA,Wong MG

更新日期：2018-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Y-box proteins are multifunctional nucleic acid-binding proteins involved in various aspects of gene regulation. The founding member of the Y-box protein family, YB-1, functions as a transcription factor as well as a principal component of messenger ribonucleoprotein particles (mRNPs) in somatic cells. The nuclear...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Matsumoto K,Kose S,Kuwahara I,Yoshimura M,Imamoto N,Yoshida M

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:N-linked glycosylation is one of the predominant post-translational modifications involved in a number of biological functions. Since experimental characterization of glycosites is challenging, glycosite prediction is crucial. Several predictors have been made available and report high performance. Most of them evalua...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pitti T,Chen CT,Lin HN,Choong WK,Hsu WL,Sung TY

更新日期：2019-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:High-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is one of the first events in the process of carcinogenesis in cervical and head and neck cancers. The expression of the viral oncoproteins E6 and E7 are essential in this process by inactivating the tumor suppressor proteins p53 and Rb, respectively, in addition to their...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Barr JA,Hayes KE,Brownmiller T,Harold AD,Jagannathan R,Lockman PR,Khan S,Martinez I

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of reverse-engineering the evolution of a dynamic network, known broadly as network archaeology, is one of profound importance in diverse application domains. In analysis of infection spread, it reveals the spatial and temporal processes underlying infection. In analysis of biomolecular interaction network...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sreedharan JK,Magner A,Grama A,Szpankowski W

更新日期：2019-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Gut dysbiosis contributes to the development of a dysfunctional gut barrier, facilitating the translocation of bacteria and inflammagens, and is implicated in colorectal cancer (CRC) pathogenesis. Such 'leaky gut' conditions result in systemic inflammation, of which a hallmark is increased hypercoagulability. Fluoresc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： de Waal GM,de Villiers WJS,Forgan T,Roberts T,Pretorius E

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical trials have recently demonstrated the effectiveness of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in preventing HIV infection. Consequently, PrEP may soon be used for epidemic control. We model the dynamic interactions that will occur between treatment programs and potential PrEP interventions in resource-constrained co...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Supervie V,Barrett M,Kahn JS,Musuka G,Moeti TL,Busang L,Blower S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Missing heritability" in genome wide association studies, the failure to account for a considerable fraction of heritability by the variants detected, is a current puzzle in human genetics. For solving this puzzle the involvement of genetic variants like rare single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and copy number var...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nagao Y

更新日期：2015-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Furanodiene is a natural terpenoid isolated from Rhizoma Curcumae, a well-known Chinese medicinal herb that presents anticancer effects in various types of cancer cell lines. In this study, we have successfully established zebrafish xenografts with 5 various human cancer cell lines; and validated these models with ant...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhu XY,Guo DW,Lao QC,Xu YQ,Meng ZK,Xia B,Yang H,Li CQ,Li P

更新日期：2019-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Bee pollination is an indispensable component of global food production and plays a crucial role in sustainable agriculture. The worldwide decline of bee populations, including wild pollinators, poses a threat to this system. However, most studies to date are situated in temperate regions where Apini and Bombini are v...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nunes-Silva P,Piot N,Meeus I,Blochtein B,Smagghe G

更新日期：2016-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Dolphin morbillivirus (DMV) has been responsible for several outbreaks of systemic infection and has resulted in cetacean strandings in the Mediterranean. In August-October 2016, seven striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) stranded on the Sicilian coastline (Italy) tested positive for DMV. Tissue samples from brain...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mira F,Rubio-Guerri C,Purpari G,Puleio R,Caracappa G,Gucciardi F,Russotto L,Loria GR,Guercio A

更新日期：2019-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Wave propagation is an important characteristic for pattern formation and pattern dynamics. To date, various waves in homogeneous media have been investigated extensively and have been understood to a great extent. However, the wave behaviors in heterogeneous media have been studied and understood much less. In this w...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cui X,Huang X,Hu G

更新日期：2016-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is a globally important crop for sugar and bioenergy production. Its highly polyploid, complex genome has hindered progress in understanding its molecular structure. Flow cytometric sorting and analysis has been used in other important crops with large genomes to dissect the genome into comp...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Metcalfe CJ,Li J,Giorgi D,Doležel J,Piperidis N,Aitken KS

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00