The importance of forest structure to biodiversity-productivity relationships.

abstract：:Answer selection is one of the key steps in many question answering (QA) applications. In this paper, a new deep model with two kinds of attention is proposed for answer selection: the double attention recurrent convolution neural network (DARCNN). Double attention means self-attention and cross-attention. The design ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Bao G,Wei Y,Sun X,Zhang H

更新日期：2020-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work is focused on the study of the effect that the casting solution concentration has on the morphology and gas separation performance of poly(ether-block-amide) copolymer membranes (Pebax® MH 1657). With this aim, three different concentrations of Pebax® MH 1657 in the casting solution (1, 3 and 5 wt%) w...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Martínez-Izquierdo L,Malankowska M,Sánchez-Laínez J,Téllez C,Coronas J

更新日期：2019-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Although high status is often considered a desirable quality, this may not always be the case. Different factors may moderate the value of high status along a dimension such as wealth (e.g. gender, perceiver income/education). For example, studies suggest men may value wealth and control over resources more than women...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Mattan BD,Cloutier J

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The mesoporous silicate molecular sieves were synthesized with polyether F127 as the template by the aerosol-assisted method for loading and release of ibuprofen (IBU). The synthesized samples were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and N2 adsorption-deso...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Hao L,Li X,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A shift-periodic map is a one-dimensional map from the real line to itself which is periodic up to a linear translation and allowed to have singularities. It is shown that iterative sequences xn+1 = F(x n ) generated by such maps display rich dynamical behaviour. The intege...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Stadlmann J,Erban R

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:This study proposes a probabilistic approach for the quantitative assessment of reach- and network-scale hydrological connectivity as dictated by river flow space-time variability. Spatial dynamics of daily streamflows are estimated based on climatic and morphological features of the contributing catchment, integratin...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Garbin S,Celegon EA,Fanton P,Botter G

更新日期：2019-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposed limestone karst landscapes, especially in the tropics, are often home to distinctive and specialized biotas. Among vertebrates, a particularly large number of karst-associated lizard taxa have been described, but for the vast majority, evidence of specific adaptions to karst is lacking. A number of studies, ho...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Nielsen SV,Oliver PM

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel alkyl lithium-based initiator with relatively large steric hindrance, tert-butyldimethylsiloxydimethylpropyl lithium (TBDMSODPrLi), was designed and synthesized. By using TBDMSODPrLi, hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) was prepared via anionic polymerization. The macromolecular structure of HTPB was char...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Min X,Fan X,Liu J

更新日期：2018-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector and feeds over 3 billion people. Bivalve shellfish aquaculture makes up 25% of global aquaculture production and is worth annually US$19 billion, but continued growth is currently limited by suboptimal diets and limited tools for disease control. New advances in microenca...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Willer D,Aldridge DC

更新日期：2017-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents simplified finite-element analysis procedures based on geometrical nonlinearity and ductile Mohr-Coulomb-Davis plasticity for analysis of bending behaviour of steel pipes subjected to lateral soil loading. A simple, and easy to implement, user-defined subroutine to represent soil stiffness using th...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Almahakeri M,Moore ID,Fam A

更新日期：2019-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a novel way of using a dynamical model for predictive tracking control that can adapt to a wide range of delays without parameter update. This is achieved by incorporating the paradigm of anticipating synchronization (AS), where a 'slave' system predicts a 'master' via delayed self-feedback. By treating the...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Eberle H,Nasuto SJ,Hayashi Y

更新日期：2018-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals are predicted to selectively observe and learn from the conspecifics with whom they share social connections. Yet, hardly anything is known about the role of different connections in observation and learning. To address the relationships between social connections, observation and learning, we investigated tra...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kulahci IG,Rubenstein DI,Bugnyar T,Hoppitt W,Mikus N,Schwab C

更新日期：2016-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology and ultrastructure of the shells of two balanid species have been examined, paying special attention to the three types of boundaries between plates: (i) radii-parietes, (ii) alae-sheaths, and (iii) parietes-basal plate. At the carinal surfaces of the radii and at the rostral surfaces of the alae, there...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Checa AG,Salas C,Rodríguez-Navarro AB,Grenier C,Lagos NA

更新日期：2019-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite a diversity of about 10 000 extant species, the sophisticated avian 'body plan' has not much changed once it was achieved around 160 Ma after the origin of powered flight. All birds are bipedal having wings, a rigid trunk, a short and ossified tail, a three-segmented leg and digitigrade feet. The avian neck, h...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Böhmer C,Plateau O,Cornette R,Abourachid A

更新日期：2019-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge in robotic design is enabling robots to immediately adapt to unexpected physical damage. However, conventional robots require considerable time (more than several tens of seconds) for adaptation because the process entails high computational costs. To overcome this problem, we focus on a brittle star...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kano T,Sato E,Ono T,Aonuma H,Matsuzaka Y,Ishiguro A

更新日期：2017-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of spoken languages has been studied since the mid-nineteenth century using traditional historical comparative methods and, more recently, computational phylogenetic methods. By contrast, evolutionary processes resulting in the diversity of contemporary sign languages (SLs) have received much less attent...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Power JM,Grimm GW,List JM

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale high-throughput plant phenotyping (sometimes called phenomics) is becoming increasingly important in plant biology and agriculture and is essential to cutting-edge plant breeding and management approaches needed to meet the food and fuel needs for the next century. Currently, the application of these appro...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kuhlgert S,Austic G,Zegarac R,Osei-Bonsu I,Hoh D,Chilvers MI,Roth MG,Bi K,TerAvest D,Weebadde P,Kramer DM

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Four model polyurethane (PU) hard segments were synthesized by reaction of butanol with four typical diisocyanates. The four diisocyanates were aromatic 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (4,4'-MDI) and MDI-50 (50% mixture of 2,4'-MDI and 4,4'-MDI), cycloaliphatic 4,4'-dicyclohexylmethane diisocyanate (HMDI) and linear...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Jiang L,Ren Z,Zhao W,Liu W,Liu H,Zhu C

更新日期：2018-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We simulate an actin filament as an automaton network. Every atom takes two or three states and updates its state, in discrete time, depending on a ratio of its neighbours in some selected state. All atoms/automata simultaneously update their states by the same rule. Two state transition rules are considered. In semi-...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Adamatzky A

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans stand out among animals for their unique capacities in domains such as language, culture and imitation, yet it has been difficult to identify cognitive elements that are specifically human. Most research has focused on how information is processed after it is acquired, e.g. in problem solving or 'insight' tasks...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ghirlanda S,Lind J,Enquist M

更新日期：2017-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Wetlands provide important ecosystem services to rural communities. However, wetlands are often on communal land, so they may become degraded when individual users act to maximize their personal benefit from ecosystem services without bearing the full environmental costs of their actions. Although it is possible to ma...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Owethu Pantshwa A,Buschke FT

更新日期：2019-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, recent progress in graphic statics is combined with Williot displacement diagrams to create a graphical description of both statics and kinematics for two- and three-dimensional pin-jointed trusses. We begin with reciprocal form and force diagrams. The force diagram is dissected into its component cells...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： McRobie A,Konstantatou M,Athanasopoulos G,Hannigan L

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Aiming at the problem of the fatigue life prediction of rubber under the influence of temperature, the effects of thermal ageing and fatigue damage on the fatigue life of rubber under the influence of temperature are analysed and a fatigue life prediction model is established by selecting strain energy as a fatigue da...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zhang J,Xue F,Wang Y,Zhang X,Han S

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Contamination of body surfaces can negatively affect many physiological functions. Insects have evolved different adaptations for removing contamination, including surfaces that allow passive self-cleaning and structures for active cleaning. Here, we study the function of the antenna cleaner in Camponotus rufifemur an...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Hackmann A,Delacave H,Robinson A,Labonte D,Federle W

更新日期：2015-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Our sense of depth perception is mediated by spatial filters at different scales in the visual brain; low spatial frequency channels provide the basis for coarse stereopsis, whereas high spatial frequency channels provide for fine stereopsis. It is well established that monocular blurring of vision results in decrease...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Li RW,So K,Wu TH,Craven AP,Tran TT,Gustafson KM,Levi DM

更新日期：2016-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic wires in highly dense arrays, possessing unique magnetic properties, are eagerly anticipated for inexpensive and scalable fabrication technologies. This study reports a facile method to fabricate arrays of magnetic wires directly assembled from well-dispersed α″-Fe16N2/Al2O3 and Fe3O4 nanoparticles with avera...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Li Q,Kartikowati CW,Iwaki T,Okuyama K,Ogi T

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual animals can often move more safely or more efficiently as members of a group. This can be as simple as safety in numbers or as sophisticated as aerodynamic or hydrodynamic cooperation. Here, we show that individual plant-animal worms (Symsagittifera roscoffensis) can move to safety more quickly through floc...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Worley A,Sendova-Franks AB,Franks NR

更新日期：2019-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Difluoromethanesulfonyl hypervalent iodonium ylides 2 were developed as electrophilic difluoromethylthiolation reagents for a wide range of nucleophiles. Enamines, indoles, β-keto esters, silyl enol ethers and pyrroles were effectively reacted with 2 affording desired difluoromethylthio (SCF2H)-substituted compounds i...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Arimori S,Matsubara O,Takada M,Shiro M,Shibata N

更新日期：2016-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The characterization of diet for the giant manta ray Manta birostris has been problematic given their large-scale movement patterns and the difficulty in obtaining stomach contents from this species. The large majority of existing information is based on observational data limited to feeding events at the sea surface ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Burgess KB,Couturier LI,Marshall AD,Richardson AJ,Weeks SJ,Bennett MB

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a novel method to simulate soft tissue deformation for virtual surgery applications. The method considers the mechanical properties of soft tissue, such as its viscoelasticity, nonlinearity and incompressibility; its speed, stability and accuracy also meet the requirements for a surgery simulator. Modifying...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Xu L,Lu Y,Liu Q

更新日期：2018-02-14 00:00:00