Cultural influence of social information use in pedestrian road-crossing behaviours.

abstract：:Adult body size in holometabolus insects is directly proportional to the time spent during the larval period. The larval duration can be divided into two parts: (i) pre-critical duration-time required to attain a critical size/critical weight that would result in successful completion of development and metamorphosis ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sharma K,Mishra N,Shakarad MN

更新日期：2020-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper develops a closed-form approximate solution for a penny-shaped hydraulic fracture whose behaviour is determined by an interplay of three competing physical processes that are associated with fluid viscosity, fracture toughness and fluid leak-off. The primary assumption that permits one to construct the solu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Dontsov EV

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Possible links between adhesive properties and the pre-sliding (static) friction response of cartilage are not fully understood in the literature. The aims of this study are to investigate the relation between adhesion and relaxation time in articular cartilage, and the effect of relaxation-dependent adhesion on the p...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Han G,Eriten M

更新日期：2018-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The theory of evolution by natural selection can help explain why people care about other species. Building upon recent insights that morality evolves to secure fitness advantages of cooperation, we propose that conservation ethics (moral beliefs, attitudes, intuitions and norms regarding other species) could be adapt...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Hare D,Blossey B,Reeve HK

更新日期：2018-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Metacommunity theory highlights the potential of β-diversity as a useful link to empirical research, especially in diverse systems where species exhibit a range of stage-dependent dispersal characteristics. To investigate the importance of different components and scales of β-diversity in community assembly, we conduc...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chiantore M,Thrush SF,Asnaghi V,Hewitt JE

更新日期：2018-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the relationship between vocabulary size and text length in a corpus of 75 literary works in English, authored by six writers, distinguishing between the contributions of three grammatical classes (or 'tags,' namely, nouns, verbs and others), and analyse the progressive appearance of new words of each tag alo...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chacoma A,Zanette DH

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cooperation behaviour is an important topic in society as well as in the biological field, and many factors yield cooperation. Many social phenomena constitute Stackelberg games, but there is little literature on the relationship between Stackelberg games and cooperation. This article shows that in the repeated dynami...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Nie PY,Wang C,Cui T

更新日期：2019-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of carnivore species are described as solitary, but little is known about their social organization and interactions with conspecifics. We investigated the spatial organization and social interactions as well as relatedness of slender mongooses (Galerella sanguinea) living in the southern Kalahari. This i...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Graw B,Kranstauber B,Manser MB

更新日期：2019-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanical properties of any substance are essential facts to understand its behaviour and make the maximum use of the particular substance. Rocks are indeed an important substance, as they are of significant use in the energy industry, specifically for fossil fuels and geothermal energy. Attenuation of seismic wa...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wanniarachchi WAM,Ranjith PG,Perera MSA,Rathnaweera TD,Lyu Q,Mahanta B

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, plant fructokinases (FRKs) are considered to be the main gateway of fructose metabolism as they can phosphorylate fructose to fructose-6-phosphate. Chinese white pears (Pyrus bretschneideri) are one of the popular fruits in the world market; sugar content is an important factor affecting the quality of the ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Cao Y,Li S,Han Y,Meng D,Jiao C,Abdullah M,Li D,Jin Q,Lin Y,Cai Y

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromium oxide coatings prepared by radiofrequency reactive magnetron sputtering on stainless steel substrates were exposed to Ringer's physiological solution and tested for their electrochemical corrosion stability using an open circuit potential measurement, potentiodynamic polarization, electrochemical impedance sp...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Oje AM,Ogwu AA

更新日期：2017-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to a wide range of applications, sand casting occupies an important position in modern casting practice. The main purpose of this study was to optimize the performance parameters of sand casting based on grey relational analysis and predict the missing data using back propagation (BP) neural network. First, the in...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Xu Q,Xu K,Li L,Yao X

更新日期：2019-08-07 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：:Stochastic fluctuations in reaction-diffusion processes often have substantial effect on spatial and temporal dynamics of signal transductions in complex biological systems. One popular approach for simulating these processes is to divide the system into small spatial compartments assuming that molecules react only wi...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Lo WC,Zheng L,Nie Q

更新日期：2016-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Bats play important ecological roles in tropical systems, yet how these communities are structured is still poorly understood. Our study explores the structure of African bat communities using morphological characters to define the morphospace occupied by these bats and stable isotope analysis to define their dietary ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Monadjem A,Kane A,Taylor P,Richards LR,Hall G,Woodborne S

更新日期：2018-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cryptic species have been discovered in various taxonomic groups based on molecular phylogenetic analyses and mating experiments. Some sympatric cryptic species share equivalent resources, which contradicts the competitive exclusion principle. Two major theories have been proposed to explain the apparent lack of ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kurushima H,Yoshimura J,Kim JK,Kim JK,Nishimoto Y,Sayama K,Kato M,Watanabe K,Hasegawa E,Roff DA,Shimizu A

更新日期：2016-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Language has long been identified as a powerful communicative tool among humans. Yet, pre-linguistic communication, which is common in many species, is also used by human infants prior to the acquisition of language. The potential communicational value of pre-linguistic vocal interactions between human infants and mot...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Bourvis N,Singer M,Saint Georges C,Bodeau N,Chetouani M,Cohen D,Feldman R

更新日期：2018-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceratopsids are among the most ubiquitous dinosaur taxa from the Late Cretaceous terrestrial formations of the Western Interior of North America, comprising two subfamilies, Chasmosaurinae and Centrosaurinae. The Two Medicine Formation of northwestern Montana has produced numerous remains of centrosaurine dinosaurs, w...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wilson JP,Ryan MJ,Evans DC

更新日期：2020-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Highwall mining (HWM) technology is an efficient method for exploiting residual coal resources in Chinese open-pit coal mines. However, on-site personnel and equipment can be damaged by the instability of the highwall mining residual coal pillars and subsidence of final end-walls. This paper considers the geological c...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wang F,Zhang C

更新日期：2019-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Bears produce the most altricial neonates of any placental mammal. We hypothesized that the transition from colostrum to mature milk in bears reflects a temporal and biochemical adaptation for altricial development and immune protection. Comparison of bear milks with milks of other eutherians yielded distinctive prote...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Griffiths K,Hou R,Wang H,Zhang Z,Zhang L,Zhang T,Watson DG,Burchmore RJ,Loeffler IK,Kennedy MW

更新日期：2015-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:MCM-41 was prepared through the sol-gel method and encapsulated by polydopamine (PDA) before being coordinated with metal ions to form a highly efficient sustained release system (M-PDA-MCM-41) for triazolone delivery. The characterization results confirmed the existence of the coordination bond between the PDA layer ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chen H,Huang G,Zhou H,Zhou X,Xu H

更新日期：2018-07-11 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：:We show that the spin-wave spectrum in an elliptical helix has a band character. The size of the first band gap calculated using the perturbation theory is shown to scale as square root of the eccentricity. Curved magnonic waveguides of the kind considered here could be used as structural elements of future three-dime...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Golovchan AV,Kruglyak VV,Tkachenko VS,Kuchko AN

更新日期：2018-01-31 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：:In this study, enzymatic hydrolysis and cationization with epoxypropyldodecyldimethylammonium chloride of wheat protein, an economic protein complex containing great amount of disulfide bonds, were conducted to improve properties such as solubility and disassociation behaviour for recovery of damaged hair when used in...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wang S,Meng D,Wang S,Zhang Z,Yang R,Zhao W

更新日期：2018-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Social insects live in dense groups with a high probability of disease transmission and have therefore faced strong pressures to develop defences against pathogens. For this reason, social insects have been hypothesized to invest in antimicrobial secretions as a mechanism of external immunity to prevent the spread of ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Penick CA,Halawani O,Pearson B,Mathews S,López-Uribe MM,Dunn RR,Smith AA

更新日期：2018-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The design and synthesis of a series of theophylline derivatives containing 1,2,3-triazole moieties are presented. The corrosion inhibition activities of these new triazole-theophylline compounds were evaluated by studying the corrosion of API 5 L X52 steel in 1 M HCl medium. The results showed that an increase in the...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Espinoza-Vázquez A,Rodríguez-Gómez FJ,Martínez-Cruz IK,Ángeles-Beltrán D,Negrón-Silva GE,Palomar-Pardavé M,Romero LL,Pérez-Martínez D,Navarrete-López AM

更新日期：2019-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We review the current state of knowledge of magnetic fields inside stars, concentrating on recent developments concerning magnetic fields in stably stratified (zones of) stars, leaving out convective dynamo theories and observations of convective envelopes. We include the observational properties of A, B and O-type ma...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Braithwaite J,Spruit HC

更新日期：2017-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Facial attractiveness is often studied on the basis of the internal facial features alone. This study investigated how this exclusion of the external features affects the perception of attractiveness. We studied the effects of two most commonly used methods of exclusion, where the shape of an occluding mask was define...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Hong Liu C,Chen W

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:How do animals in groups organize their work? Division of labour, i.e. the process by which individuals within a group choose which tasks to perform, has been extensively studied in social insects. Variability among individuals within a colony seems to underpin both the decision over which tasks to perform and the amo...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Doran C,Stumpe MC,Sendova-Franks A,Franks NR

更新日期：2016-01-27 00:00:00