Activation volume of selected liquid crystals in the density scaling regime.

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： Dawson G,Campbell K,Hashemi J,Lippmann SJ,Smith V,Carpenter K,Egger H,Espinosa S,Vermeer S,Baker J,Sapiro G

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We present two transmission-mode dielectric Fresnel-Zone Plate Lens (FZPL) antennas for use within the V-band spectrum. The proposed FZPs are realized via pure plastic material using two different additive manufacturing processes. The proposed FZP lenses are designed with half (λ/2) and quarter (λ/4) phase correction ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pourahmadazar J,Denidni TA

更新日期：2018-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Ion pumps and channels are responsible for a wide variety of biological functions. Ion pumps transport only one ion during each stimulus-dependent reaction cycle, whereas ion channels conduct a large number of ions during each cycle. Ion pumping rhodopsins such as archaerhodopsin-3 (Arch) are often utilized as light-d...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yamanashi T,Maki M,Kojima K,Shibukawa A,Tsukamoto T,Chowdhury S,Yamanaka A,Takagi S,Sudo Y

更新日期：2019-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Odontogenic infection of Porphyromonas gingivalis (P.g.), a major periodontal pathogen, exacerbates pathological progression of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). In this study, we aimed to clarify the detailed mechanism in which P.g. induced hepatic stellate cells (HSCs; key effector cells in liver fibrosis) activ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nagasaki A,Sakamoto S,Chea C,Ishida E,Furusho H,Fujii M,Takata T,Miyauchi M

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Solution-based methods represent the most widespread approach used to deposit hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite films for low-cost but efficient solar cells. However, solution-process techniques offer limited control over film morphology and crystallinity, and most importantly do not allow sequential film deposition...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bonomi S,Marongiu D,Sestu N,Saba M,Patrini M,Bongiovanni G,Malavasi L

更新日期：2018-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) suffer high mortality from arrhythmias linked to fibrosis, but are contraindicated to late gadolinium enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We present a quantitative method for gadolinium-free cardiac fibrosis imaging using magnetization transfer (MT) weighted MRI, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Stromp TA,Spear TJ,Holtkamp RM,Andres KN,Kaine JC,Alghuraibawi WH,Leung SW,Fornwalt BK,Vandsburger MH

更新日期：2018-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The GacS/GacA two-component system (also called GrrS/GrrA) is a global regulatory system which is highly conserved among gamma-proteobacteria. This system positively regulates non-coding small regulatory RNA csrB, which in turn binds to the RNA-binding protein CsrA. However, how GacS/GacA-Csr system regulates virulenc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ancona V,Lee JH,Zhao Y

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Radionuclide concentrations in environmental samples such as surface soils, plants and water were evaluated by high purity germanium detector measurements. The contribution rate of short half-life radionuclides such as (132)I to the exposure dose to residents was discussed from the measured values. The highest values ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hosoda M,Tokonami S,Tazoe H,Sorimachi A,Monzen S,Osanai M,Akata N,Kakiuchi H,Omori Y,Ishikawa T,Sahoo SK,Kovács T,Yamada M,Nakata A,Yoshida M,Yoshino H,Mariya Y,Kashiwakura I

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastroenterologists are still unable to differentiate between some of the most ordinary disorders of the gut and consequently patients are misdiagnosed. We have developed a swallowable gas sensor capsule for addressing this. The gases of the gut are the by-product of the fermentation processes during digestion, affect...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ou JZ,Cottrell JJ,Ha N,Pillai N,Yao CK,Berean KJ,Ward SA,Grando D,Muir JG,Harrison CJ,Wijesiriwardana U,Dunshea FR,Gibson PR,Kalantar-Zadeh K

更新日期：2016-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are vital for diverse biological functions, including vision, smell, and aging. They are involved in a wide range of diseases, and are among the most important targets of medicinal drugs. Tools that facilitate GPCR studies or GPCR-based technologies or therapies are thus critical to...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tegler L,Corin K,Pick H,Brookes J,Skuhersky M,Vogel H,Zhang S

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the performance of CSF biomarkers for predicting risk of clinical decline and conversion to dementia in non-demented patients with cognitive symptoms. CSF samples from patients in two multicentre longitudinal studies (ADNI, n = 619; BioFINDER, n = 431) were analysed. Aβ(1-42), tTau and pTau CSF concentrat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Blennow K,Shaw LM,Stomrud E,Mattsson N,Toledo JB,Buck K,Wahl S,Eichenlaub U,Lifke V,Simon M,Trojanowski JQ,Hansson O

更新日期：2019-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional (2D) gold nanoparticles can possess novel physical and chemical properties, which will greatly expand the utility of gold nanoparticles in a wide variety of applications ranging from catalysis to biomedicine. However, colloidal synthesis of such particles generally requires sophisticated synthetic tech...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shin Y,Lee C,Yang MS,Jeong S,Kim D,Kang T

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Atmospheric new particle formation (NPF) and growth significantly influences climate by supplying new seeds for cloud condensation and brightness. Currently, there is a lack of understanding of whether and how marine biota emissions affect aerosol-cloud-climate interactions in the Arctic. Here, the aerosol population ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dall Osto M,Beddows DCS,Tunved P,Krejci R,Ström J,Hansson HC,Yoon YJ,Park KT,Becagli S,Udisti R,Onasch T,O Dowd CD,Simó R,Harrison RM

更新日期：2017-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-phenotype analysis has drawn increasing attention to high-throughput genomic studies, whereas only a few applications have justified the use of multivariate techniques. We applied a recently developed multi-trait analysis method on a small set of bacteria hypersensitive response phenotypes and identified a singl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang B,Li Z,Xu W,Feng X,Wan Q,Zan Y,Sheng S,Shen X

更新日期：2017-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of well-vascularised, endosteal bone in the medullary region of long bones of nonavian dinosaurs has been invoked as being homologous to medullary bone, a specialised bone tissue formed during ovulation in birds. However, similar bone tissues can result as a pathological response in modern birds and in no...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chinsamy A,Cerda I,Powell J

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Underutilization due to performance limitations imposed by species and charge transports is one of the key issues that persist with various lithium-ion batteries. To elucidate the relevant mechanisms, two groups of characteristic parameters were proposed. The first group contains three characteristic time parameters, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang F,Peng P

更新日期：2016-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing interest in healthy eating has lead to an increase in the consumption of vegetables, associated with a rising number of bacterial outbreaks related to fresh produce. This is the case of the outbreak in Germany, caused by a O104:H4 enteroaggregative E. coli strain lysogenic for a Stx phage. Temperate Stx phag...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Quirós P,Muniesa M

更新日期：2017-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly researchers are looking to bring together perspectives across multiple scales, or to combine insights from different techniques, for the same region of interest. To this end, correlative microscopy has already yielded substantial new insights in two dimensions (2D). Here we develop correlative tomography ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Burnett TL,McDonald SA,Gholinia A,Geurts R,Janus M,Slater T,Haigh SJ,Ornek C,Almuaili F,Engelberg DL,Thompson GE,Withers PJ

更新日期：2014-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive species are characterized by their ability to colonize new habitats and establish populations away from their native range. In this sense, these plants are expected to have plastic responses to adapt to the environmental pressures during the invasion process. Hence, the role of natural selection is essential ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dematteis B,Ferrucci MS,Coulleri JP

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental method for fabrication of a nanocomposite metamaterial based on a self-assembly of titanium dioxide microtubes with encapsulated gold nanoparticles (NPs) is proposed. The formation of microtubes is induced by laser irradiation in the presence of an external magnetic field. It is shown that the variatio...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kutrovskaya S,Kucherik A,Osipov A,Samyshkin V,Istratov A,Kavokin AV

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical fibers have been utilized in various fields owing to their superior guiding performance. However, the modification of optical properties and light manipulation in fibers are restricted by the limitation of the core and cladding materials. In addition, the spot size of the light is constrained by the diffractio...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim M,Kim S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Applications for high resolution 3D profiles, so-called grayscale lithography, exist in diverse fields such as optics, nanofluidics and tribology. All of them require the fabrication of patterns with reliable absolute patterning depth independent of the substrate location and target materials. Here we present a comple...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rawlings CD,Zientek M,Spieser M,Urbonas D,Stöferle T,Mahrt RF,Lisunova Y,Brugger J,Duerig U,Knoll AW

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolomic and transcriptomic approaches were used to dissect the enhanced disease resistance in the plants harbouring a RNA interfering construct of OsWRKY62 and OsWRKY76 (dsOW62/76) genes. The primary metabolic pathways were activated in dsOW62/76 compared with wild-type (ZH17) plants, revealed by increased accumul...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liang X,Chen X,Li C,Fan J,Guo Z

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a new class of nonlinear systems was introduced, in which the self-trapping of fundamental and vortical localized modes in space of dimension D is supported by cubic self-repulsion with a strength growing as a function of the distance from the center, r, at any rate faster that r(D). These systems support ro...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Driben R,Meier T,Malomed BA

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS), e.g. generated by cold physical plasma (CPP) or photodynamic therapy, interfere with redox signaling pathways of mammalian cells, inducing downstream consequences spanning from migratory impairment to apoptotic cell death. However, the more austere impact of RONS on cancer ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ravandeh M,Kahlert H,Jablonowski H,Lackmann JW,Striesow J,Agmo Hernández V,Wende K

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (cALL) are at higher risk of developing cardiometabolic complications. We aimed at exploring the associations between biomarkers of inflammation, oxidative stress, endothelial function, endotoxemia and cardiometabolic risk factors. We conducted a cross-sectional anal...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Morel S,Léveillé P,Samoilenko M,Franco A,England J,Malaquin N,Tu V,Cardin GB,Drouin S,Rodier F,Lippé S,Krajinovic M,Laverdière C,Sinnett D,Lefebvre G,Levy E,Marcil V

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytophthora root and stem rot of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] caused by Phytophthora sojae is a destructive disease worldwide. Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) is one of the most extensively studied enzymes related to plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. However, the molecular mechanism of PAL in soyb...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang C,Wang X,Zhang F,Dong L,Wu J,Cheng Q,Qi D,Yan X,Jiang L,Fan S,Li N,Li D,Xu P,Zhang S

更新日期：2017-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive control refers to the processes that permit selection and prioritization of information processing in different cognitive domains to reach the capacity-limited conscious mind. Although previous studies have suggested that the capacity of cognitive control itself is limited, a direct quantification of this ca...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu T,Dufford AJ,Mackie MA,Egan LJ,Fan J

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Gas-filled hollow-core fiber (HCF) pulse post-compressors generating few- to single-cycle pulses are a key enabling tool for attosecond science and ultrafast spectroscopy. Achieving optimum performance in this regime can be extremely challenging due to the ultra-broad bandwidth of the pulses and the need of an adequat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Conejero Jarque E,San Roman J,Silva F,Romero R,Holgado W,Gonzalez-Galicia MA,Alonso B,Sola IJ,Crespo H

更新日期：2018-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel sesquiterpene methylcyclopentenedione, penicilliumin B (1), was obtained from a deep sea-derived fungus Penicillium sp. F00120, together with three known sesquiterpene cyclohexenones (2-4). Penicilliumin B (1), presenting the first example with the sesquiterpene cyclopentenedione skeleton as natural products, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lin X,Wu Q,Yu Y,Liang Z,Liu Y,Zhou L,Tang L,Zhou X

更新日期：2017-09-07 00:00:00