Implementation of a quantum controlled-SWAP gate with photonic circuits.

abstract：:The effect of free mate choice on the relative magnitude of fitness benefits has been examined among various species. The majority of the data show significant fitness benefits of mating with partners of an individual's own choice, highlighting elevated behavioral compatibility between partners with free mate choice. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sorokowski P,Groyecka A,Karwowski M,Manral U,Kumar A,Niemczyk A,Marczak M,Misiak M,Sorokowska A,Huanca T,Conde E,Wojciszke B,Pawłowski B

更新日期：2017-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In insects, the transition from juvenile development to the adult stage is controlled by juvenile hormone (JH) synthesized from the corpora allata (CA) glands. Whereas a JH-free period during the last juvenile instar triggers metamorphosis and the end of the growth period, the reappearance of this hormone after the im...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Borras-Castells F,Nieva C,Maestro JL,Maestro O,Belles X,Martín D

更新日期：2017-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of substitution of Nb by Mo in Nb40Ti30Ni30 was investigated with respect to microstructural features and hydrogen dissolution, diffusion and permeation. As-cast Nb40-xMoxTi30Ni30 (x = 0, 5, 10) alloys consist of primary bcc-Nb phase and binary eutectic (bcc-Nb + B2-TiNi). The substitution of Nb by Mo reduc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li X,Liang X,Liu D,Chen R,Huang F,Wang R,Rettenmayr M,Su Y,Guo J,Fu H

更新日期：2017-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Results from epidemiological and prospective studies indicate a close association between periodontitis and diabetes. However the mechanisms by which periodontal pathogens influence the development of prediabetes/diabetes are not clear. We previously reported that oral administration of a periodontal pathogen, Porphyr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ilievski V,Toth PT,Valyi-Nagy K,Valyi-Nagy T,Green SJ,Marattil RS,Aljewari HW,Wicksteed B,O'Brien-Simpson NM,Reynolds EC,Layden BT,Unterman TG,Watanabe K

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2b protein of Cucumber mosaic virus has a role in nearly all steps of the viral cycle including cell-to-cell movement, symptom induction and suppression of antiviral RNA silencing. Previous studies demonstrated the presence of 2b protein in the nucleus and in cytoplasm as well. Phosphorylation site of 2b protein i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nemes K,Gellért Á,Almási A,Vági P,Sáray R,Kádár K,Salánki K

更新日期：2017-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Rs1042522 (Arg72Pro) is a functional polymorphism of TP53. Pro72 has been associated with lower all-cause mortality and lower mortality after cancer. We hypothesized that TP53 Pro72 is associated with lower mortality after cancer, lower all-cause mortality, and with increased cancer incidence in the general population...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kodal JB,Vedel-Krogh S,Kobylecki CJ,Nordestgaard BG,Bojesen SE

更新日期：2017-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Solar cells based on epitaxial silicon layers as the absorber attract increasing attention because of the potential cost reduction. In this work, we studied the influence of the deposition rate on the structural properties of epitaxial silicon layers produced by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (epi-PECVD) us...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen W,Cariou R,Hamon G,Léal R,Maurice JL,Cabarrocas PR

更新日期：2017-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the pathogenicity and low incidence of avian influenza virus infections in humans, the immune correlates of protection for avian influenza vaccines cannot be determined from clinical studies. Here, we used the ferret model to address this for an avian influenza H5N1 vaccine. Using oil-in-water adjuvants, we...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wong SS,Duan S,DeBeauchamp J,Zanin M,Kercher L,Sonnberg S,Fabrizio T,Jeevan T,Crumpton JC,Oshansky C,Sun Y,Tang L,Thomas P,Webby R

更新日期：2017-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Improving the prevention efficacy of health screening campaigns by increasing their attendance rate represents a challenge that calls for new strategies. This paper analyzes the response to a Pap test screening campaign of 155,000 women over the last decade. Using a mathematical model of statistical physics origins we...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Burioni R,Contucci P,Fedele M,Vernia C,Vezzani A

更新日期：2015-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypocotyl elongation is considered an important typical seedling trait contributing directly to an increase in and stabilization of the yield in Brassica napus, but its molecular genetic mechanism is poorly understood. In the present study, hypocotyl lengths of 210 lines were measured in an illuminated culture room. A...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Luo X,Xue Z,Ma C,Hu K,Zeng Z,Dou S,Tu J,Shen J,Yi B,Fu T

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural representation of auditory duration remains unknown. Here, we used electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings to investigate neural oscillations during the maintenance of auditory duration in working memory (WM). EEG analyses indicated that the auditory duration length was not associated with changes in the thet...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yu X,Chen Y,Qiu J,Li X,Huang X

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone fracture repair is a multifaceted, coordinated physiological process that requires new bone formation and resorption, eventually returning the fractured bone to its original state. Currently, a variety of different approaches are pursued to accelerate the repair of defective bones, which include the use of 'gold ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jahan K,Manickam G,Tabrizian M,Murshed M

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an increased need for improved and affordable insect repellents to reduce transmission of rapidly spreading diseases with high mortality rates. Natural products are often used when DEET cannot be afforded or accessed and when consumers choose not to use a synthetic repellent. The essential oils from two newly...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Reichert W,Ejercito J,Guda T,Dong X,Wu Q,Ray A,Simon JE

更新日期：2019-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Nickel-titanium-oxide (Ni-Ti-O) nanotube arrays (NTAs) prepared on nearly equiatomic NiTi alloy shall have broad application potential such as for energy storage and biomedicine, but their precise structure control is a great challenge because of the high content of alloying element of Ni, a non-valve metal that canno...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hang R,Liu Y,Zhao L,Gao A,Bai L,Huang X,Zhang X,Tang B,Chu PK

更新日期：2014-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) applying flow cytometry to separate cells on a molecular basis is a widespread method. We demonstrate that both fluorescent and unlabeled live cells in a Petri dish observed with a microscope can be automatically recognized by computer vision and picked up by a computer-contr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Környei Z,Beke S,Mihálffy T,Jelitai M,Kovács KJ,Szabó Z,Szabó B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of many ion channels to phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) levels in the cell membrane suggests that PIP2 fluctuations are important and general signals modulating neuronal excitability. Yet the PIP2 dynamics of central neurons in their native environment remained largely unexplored. Here, we...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hackelberg S,Oliver D

更新日期：2018-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain metastasis is a significant unmet clinical problem in breast cancer treatment. It is always associated with poor prognosis and high morbidity. Recently, Slit2/Robo1 pathway has been demonstrated to be involved in the progression of breast carcinoma. However, until present, there are no convincing reports that su...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Qin F,Zhang H,Ma L,Liu X,Dai K,Li W,Gu F,Fu L,Ma Y

更新日期：2015-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has been fixed in the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sameni S,Malacrida L,Tan Z,Digman MA

更新日期：2018-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In the central nervous system of vertebrates, cell bodies of neurons are often assembled as nuclei or cellular layers that play specific roles as functional units. The purpose of this work was to selectively highlight such cell assemblies by magnetic resonance imaging using signals from water protons that are associat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Watanabe T,Wang X,Tan Z,Frahm J

更新日期：2019-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Spin-coated self-assemblies of colloidal particles have been developed recently as an attractive close-packed monolayer of the particles for a variety of applications, but they are limited by the small area of their monolayers, especially given their low uniformity and monolayer coverage on large-area substrates. We r...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Park B,Na SY,Bae IG

更新日期：2019-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of personality have suggested that dissimilarities in ability to cope with stressful situations results in differing tendency to develop addictive behaviors. The present study used selectively bred stress-resilient, socially-dominant (Dom) and stress-vulnerable, socially-submissive (Sub) mice to investigate th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yanovich C,Kirby ML,Michaelevski I,Yadid G,Pinhasov A

更新日期：2018-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious disease of livestock affecting animal production and trade throughout Asia and Africa. Understanding FMD virus (FMDV) global movements and evolution can help to reconstruct the disease spread between endemic regions and predict the risks of incursion into FMD-free co...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bachanek-Bankowska K,Di Nardo A,Wadsworth J,Mioulet V,Pezzoni G,Grazioli S,Brocchi E,Kafle SC,Hettiarachchi R,Kumarawadu PL,Eldaghayes IM,Dayhum AS,Meenowa D,Sghaier S,Madani H,Abouchoaib N,Hoang BH,Vu PP,Dukpa K,Gu

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermis of snakes efficiently protects against dehydration and mechanical stress. However, only few proteins of the epidermal barrier to the environment have so far been identified in snakes. Here, we determined the organization of the Epidermal Differentiation Complex (EDC), a cluster of genes encoding protein ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Holthaus KB,Mlitz V,Strasser B,Tschachler E,Alibardi L,Eckhart L

更新日期：2017-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Exosomes are nano-sized endosome-derived small intraluminal vesicles, which are important facilitators of intercellular communication by transporting contents, such as protein, mRNA, and microRNAs, between neighboring cells, such as in the tumor microenvironment. The purpose of this study was to understand the mechani...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Su MJ,Aldawsari H,Amiji M

更新日期：2016-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncertainties over future climatic conditions pose significant challenges when selecting appropriate conservation strategies for heritage sites. Choosing effective strategies is especially important for earthen heritage sites located in dryland regions, as many are experiencing rapid environmentally-driven deteriorati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Richards J,Bailey R,Mayaud J,Viles H,Guo Q,Wang X

更新日期：2020-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal diseases generally are vision-threatening conditions that warrant appropriate clinical decision-making which currently solely dependents upon extensive clinical screening by specialized ophthalmologists. In the era where molecular assessment has improved dramatically, we aimed at the identification of biomarke...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kuiper JJ,Beretta L,Nierkens S,van Leeuwen R,Ten Dam-van Loon NH,Ossewaarde-van Norel J,Bartels MC,de Groot-Mijnes JD,Schellekens P,de Boer JH,Radstake TR

更新日期：2017-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Automatic release and vertical transferring of silicon/silicon oxide nanowire arrays with a high integrity are demonstrated by an Ag-assisted ammonia etching method. By adding a water steaming step between Ag-assisted HF/H2O2 and ammonia etching to form a SiOx protective layer sheathing Si nanowires, we can tune the c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu L,Li S,He W,Teng D,Wang K,Ye C

更新日期：2014-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetite (Fe3O4) is an iron ore mineral that is globally mined especially for steel production. It is denser (5.15 g/cm3) than Earth's crust (~2.7 g/cm3) and is expected to accumulate at the bottom of melt-rich magma reservoirs. However, recent studies revealed heterogeneous fluid bubble nucleation on oxide minerals ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Knipping JL,Webster JD,Simon AC,Holtz F

更新日期：2019-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-performance and novel photocatalyst of BiVO4-reduced Graphene Oxide (BiVO4-rGO) nanocomposite was prepared by a facile hydrothermal method. The photocatalyst was characterized by X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electronic microscopy, UV-Vis diffusi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fang D,Li X,Liu H,Xu W,Jiang M,Li W,Fan X

更新日期：2017-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Radix Astragali is commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine, and its quality is closely related to ecological factors, such as climate and soil, in the production area. To provide high-quality Radix Astragali to Chinese and foreign markets, we used maximum entropy model and statistical analysis method, combined w...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang M,Li Z,Liu L,Bo A,Zhang C,Li M

更新日期：2020-07-27 00:00:00