Multi-scale comparison of the fine particle removal capacity of urban forests and wetlands.

abstract：:Yield-phenology relation is a critical issue affecting rainfed maize field productivity in semiarid east African Plateau (EAP). We first introduced Chinese ridge-furrow mulching (RFM) system to EAP, using three maize cultivars with early-, mid- and late-maturing traits as test materials. A two-year field experiment wa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mo F,Wang JY,Li FM,Nguluu SN,Ren HX,Zhou H,Zhang J,Kariuki CW,Gicheru P,Kavagi L,Cheruiyot WK,Xiong YC

更新日期：2017-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of drugs are administered on different mucosal surfaces. However, due to the poor mucoadhesion of the current formulations, their bioavailability is often very low. The development of efficient mucoadhesive drug delivery systems is thus crucial for improving the performance of these drugs. The mucoadhes...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ouellette M,Masse F,Lefebvre-Demers M,Maestracci Q,Grenier P,Millar R,Bertrand N,Prieto M,Boisselier É

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Graphite pencil stroked electrodes for paper-based Microfluidic devices are gaining immense attention due to their electrochemical properties, cost efficiency, and ease-of-use. However, their widespread use has been hindered by the challenges associated with their manual fabrication such as non-uniformity in graphite ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rao LT,Rewatkar P,Dubey SK,Javed A,Goel S

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase (GMP) catalyzed the formation of GDP-mannose, which serves as a donor for the biosynthesis of mannose-containing polysaccharides. In this study, three GMP genes from Dendrobium officinale (i.e., DoGMPs) were cloned and analyzed. The putative 1000 bp upstream regulatory region of these DoG...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： He C,Yu Z,Teixeira da Silva JA,Zhang J,Liu X,Wang X,Zhang X,Zeng S,Wu K,Tan J,Ma G,Luo J,Duan J

更新日期：2017-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-directed RNA polymerase II (pol II) is composed of ten core and two dissociable subunits. The dissociable subcomplex is a heterodimer of Rpb4/Polr2d and Rpb7/Polr2g, which are encoded by RPB4/polr2d and RPB7/polr2g genes, respectively. Functional studies of Rpb4/Polr2d in yeast have revealed that Rpb4 plays a role...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Maeta M,Kataoka M,Nishiya Y,Ogino K,Kashima M,Hirata H

更新日期：2020-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex systems, arising in many contexts in the computer, life, social, and physical sciences, have not shared a generally-accepted complexity measure playing a fundamental role as the Shannon entropy H in statistical mechanics. Superficially-conflicting criteria of complexity measurement, i.e. complexity-randomness ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ke DG

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistant starch (RS) has been reported to reduce body fat in obese mice. However, this effect has not been demonstrated in humans. In this study, we tested the effects of RS in 19 volunteers with normal body weights. A randomized, double-blinded and crossover design clinical trial was conducted. The study subjects we...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang L,Ouyang Y,Li H,Shen L,Ni Y,Fang Q,Wu G,Qian L,Xiao Y,Zhang J,Yin P,Panagiotou G,Xu G,Ye J,Jia W

更新日期：2019-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The restoration of biodiversity within previously improved grasslands is an important objective worldwide. In some areas farmers receive remuneration for using specific strategies but the environmental responses to them are still uncertain. This study explored the short and long-term impacts of sheep grazing and/or ha...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rosa García R,Fraser MD

更新日期：2019-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying similarities and differences in choice behavior across species is informative about how basic mechanisms give rise to more complex processes. In the present study, we compared pre- and post-choice latencies between rats and humans under two paradigms. In Experiment 1, we used a cued choice paradigm where s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fam J,Westbrook F,Arabzadeh E

更新日期：2016-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural cardiac remodeling, accompanying cytoskeletal reorganization of cardiac cells, is a major clinical outcome of diastolic heart failure. A highly local Ca2+ influx across the plasma membrane has been suggested to code signals to induce Rho GTPase-mediated fibrosis, but it is obscure how the heart specifically...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Numaga-Tomita T,Kitajima N,Kuroda T,Nishimura A,Miyano K,Yasuda S,Kuwahara K,Sato Y,Ide T,Birnbaumer L,Sumimoto H,Mori Y,Nishida M

更新日期：2016-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether the stress-loading of faults to failure in earthquakes appears to be random or to an extent explainable, given constraints on fault/shear-zone interaction and the build-up and release of stress over many earthquake cycles, is a key question for seismic hazard assessment. Here we investigate earthquake recurren...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sgambato C,Faure Walker JP,Mildon ZK,Roberts GP

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The current standard of care for head and neck cancer includes surgical resection of the tumor followed by targeted head and neck radiation. This radiotherapy results in a multitude of negative side effects in adjacent normal tissues. Autophagy is a cellular mechanism that could be targeted to ameliorate these side ef...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Morgan-Bathke M,Hill GA,Harris ZI,Lin HH,Chibly AM,Klein RR,Burd R,Ann DK,Limesand KH

更新日期：2014-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth in salmon aquaculture over the past two decades has raised concerns regarding the potential impacts of the industry on neighboring ecosystems and wild fish productivity. Despite limited evidence, sea lice have been identified as a major cause for the decline in some wild Pacific salmon populations on the west c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nekouei O,Vanderstichel R,Thakur K,Arriagada G,Patanasatienkul T,Whittaker P,Milligan B,Stewardson L,Revie CW

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether 2nd-line-chemotherapy (2LCTX) + best-supportive-care (BSC) benefits patients with advanced biliary tract cancer (aBTC) more than BSC alone is unclear. We therefore conducted a propensity-score-based comparative effectiveness analysis of overall survival (OS) outcomes in 80 patients with metastatic, recurrent, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Moik F,Riedl JM,Winder T,Terbuch A,Rossmann CH,Szkandera J,Bauernhofer T,Kasparek AK,Schaberl-Moser R,Reicher A,Prinz F,Pichler M,Stöger H,Stotz M,Gerger A,Posch F

更新日期：2019-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Sesame is prized for its oil. Genetic improvement of sesame can be enhanced through marker-assisted breeding. However, few simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers and SSR-based genetic maps were available in sesame. In this study, 7,357 SSR markers were developed from the sesame genome and transcriptomes, and a genetic m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang L,Zhang Y,Zhu X,Zhu X,Li D,Zhang X,Gao Y,Xiao G,Wei X,Zhang X

更新日期：2017-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Black phosphorus (BP) has recently been rediscovered as a new and interesting two-dimensional material due to its unique electronic and optical properties. Here, we study the linear and nonlinear optical properties of BP flakes. We observe that both the linear and nonlinear optical properties are anisotropic and can b...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li D,Jussila H,Karvonen L,Ye G,Lipsanen H,Chen X,Sun Z

更新日期：2015-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) is the leading cause worldwide of neonatal sepsis. We sought to assess to which extent HIV exposure of neonates is associated with GBS neonatal disease. Furthermore, we assessed to which extent HIV infection in women is associated with maternal rectovaginal GBS carriage, the single most ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cools P,van de Wijgert JHHM,Jespers V,Crucitti T,Sanders EJ,Verstraelen H,Vaneechoutte M

更新日期：2017-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Maculinea (=Phengaris) are endangered butterflies that are characterized by a very complex biological cycle. Maculinea larvae behave as obligate parasites whose survival is strictly dependent on both particular food plants and species-specific Myrmica ants. In this interaction, Maculinea caterpillars induce Myrmica wo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Di Salvo M,Calcagnile M,Talà A,Tredici SM,Maffei ME,Schönrogge K,Barbero F,Alifano P

更新日期：2019-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report results on systematic analysis of DNA substrate preferences of three N6-adenine β-class DNA methyltransferases that are part of the type II restriction-modification systems. The studied enzymes were: M.EcoVIII, M.HindIII and M.LlaCI, which although found in phylogenetically distant bacteria (γ-proteoba...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wons E,Mruk I,Kaczorowski T

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In January 2016, the Arctic experienced an extremely anomalous warming event after an extraordinary increase in air temperature at the end of 2015. During this event, a strong intrusion of warm and moist air and an increase in downward longwave radiation, as well as a loss of sea ice in the Barents and Kara seas, were...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim BM,Hong JY,Jun SY,Zhang X,Kwon H,Kim SJ,Kim JH,Kim SW,Kim HK

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a central mediator of protein synthesis in skeletal muscle. We utilized immunofluorescence approaches to study mTOR cellular distribution and protein-protein co-localisation in human skeletal muscle in the basal state as well as immediately, 1 and 3 h after an acute bout o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Song Z,Moore DR,Hodson N,Ward C,Dent JR,O'Leary MF,Shaw AM,Hamilton DL,Sarkar S,Gangloff YG,Hornberger TA,Spriet LL,Heigenhauser GJ,Philp A

更新日期：2017-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the lack of a proper imaging approach, a veracious pH map of normal and abnormal cell is still rare. In this work, we presented a rhodamine-salicylaldehyde combination (Rh-SA2) as a novel pH probe, which has dual sensitive units for both acidic and basic environment. This dual sensitive probe acts like a chamel...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yu KK,Hou JT,Li K,Yao Q,Yang J,Wu MY,Xie YM,Yu XQ

更新日期：2015-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural materials used for safety critical applications require high strength and simultaneously high resistance against crack growth, referred to as damage tolerance. However, the two properties typically exclude each other and research efforts towards ever stronger materials are hampered by drastic loss of fractu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hohenwarter A,Völker B,Kapp MW,Li Y,Goto S,Raabe D,Pippan R

更新日期：2016-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbiome analysis using metagenomic sequencing has revealed a vast microbial diversity associated with plants. Identifying the molecular functions associated with microbiome-plant interaction is a significant challenge concerning the development of microbiome-derived technologies applied to agriculture. An alternati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Armanhi JS,de Souza RS,de Araújo LM,Okura VK,Mieczkowski P,Imperial J,Arruda P

更新日期：2016-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to evaluate the radiation dosimetry of a new technetium-99m‒labelled small-molecule inhibitor of prostate-specific membrane antigen (HYNIC-Glu-Urea-A, 99mTc-HYNIC-PSMA) and its feasibility as a tumor-imaging agent in prostate cancer (PCa) patients. A total of 15 PCa patients were enrolled in this study...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang J,Zhang J,Xu X,Lu L,Hu S,Liu C,Cheng J,Song S,Zhang Y,Shi LQ

更新日期：2020-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatic asialoglycoprotein receptor (ASGP-R) is posttranslationally modified in the Golgi en route to the plasma membrane, where it mediates clearance of desialylated serum glycoproteins. It is known that content of plasma membrane-associated ASGP-R is decreased after ethanol exposure, although the mechanisms rema...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Petrosyan A,Cheng PW,Clemens DL,Casey CA

更新日期：2015-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The IκB kinase (IKK) complex acts as the gatekeeper of canonical NF-κB signaling, thereby regulating immunity, inflammation and cancer. It consists of the catalytic subunits IKKα and IKKβ and the regulatory subunit NEMO/IKKγ. Here, we show that the ubiquitin binding domain (UBAN) in NEMO is essential for IKK/NF-κB act...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vincendeau M,Hadian K,Messias AC,Brenke JK,Halander J,Griesbach R,Greczmiel U,Bertossi A,Stehle R,Nagel D,Demski K,Velvarska H,Niessing D,Geerlof A,Sattler M,Krappmann D

更新日期：2016-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the results of an experiment on radio-tracking of individual grey field slugs in an arable field and associated data modelling designed to investigate the effect of slug population density in their movement. Slugs were collected in a commercial winter wheat field in which a 5x6 trapping grid had been establi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ellis J,Petrovskaya N,Forbes E,Walters KFA,Petrovskii S

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:During skin healing, periostin facilitates myofibroblast differentiation through a β1 integrin/FAK dependent mechanism and continued expression is associated with scarring. In contrast to skin, gingival tissue does not typically scar upon injury, but the role of periostin in gingival healing has never been investigate...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim SS,Nikoloudaki GE,Michelsons S,Creber K,Hamilton DW

更新日期：2019-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluid strategy is the key to the successful management of patients with sepsis. However, previous studies failed to consider individualized treatment strategy, and clinical trials typically included patients with sepsis as a homogeneous study population. We aimed to develop sequential decision rules for managing fluid...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Z,Zheng B,Liu N

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00