Towards an integrated food safety surveillance system: a simulation study to explore the potential of combining genomic and epidemiological metadata.

abstract：:Estimating effects of nitrogen (N) deposition is essential for understanding human impacts on biodiversity. However, studies relating atmospheric N deposition to plant diversity are usually restricted to small plots of high conservation value. Here, we used data on 381 randomly selected 1 km(2) plots covering most hab...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Roth T,Kohli L,Rihm B,Amrhein V,Achermann B

更新日期：2015-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we perform a comprehensive theoretical study on adsorption of representative 10-electron molecules H2O, CH4 and NH3 onto defective single-walled carbon nanotubes. Results of adsorption energy and charge transfer reveal the existence of both chemical adsorption (CA) and physical adsorption (PA). While PA ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Li D,Wang F,Zhang Z,Jiang W,Zhu Y,Wang Z,Zhang RQ

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The persistence of homological features in simplicial complex representations of big datasets in R n resulting from Vietoris-Rips or Čech filtrations is commonly used to probe the topological structure of such datasets. In this paper, the notion of homological pers...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Parks AD,Marchette DJ

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine mammals and diving birds face several physiological challenges under water, affecting their thermoregulation and locomotion as well as their sensory systems. Therefore, marine mammals have modified ears for improved underwater hearing. Underwater hearing in birds has been studied in a few species, but for the r...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sørensen K,Neumann C,Dähne M,Hansen KA,Wahlberg M

更新日期：2020-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Waptia fieldensis Walcott, 1912 is one of the iconic animals from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale biota that had lacked a formal description since its discovery at the beginning of the twentieth century. This study, based on over 1800 specimens, finds that W. fieldensis shares general characteristics with pancrustac...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Vannier J,Aria C,Taylor RS,Caron JB

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies investigating micromechanical properties in mouse cortical bone often solely focus on the mechanical behaviour along the long axis of the bone. Therefore, data on the anisotropy of mouse cortical bone is scarce. The aim of this study is the first-time evaluation of the anisotropy ratio between the longitudinal...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Casanova M,Balmelli A,Carnelli D,Courty D,Schneider P,Müller R

更新日期：2017-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans subtly synchronize body movement during face-to-face conversation. In this context, bodily synchrony has been linked to affiliation and social bonding, task success and comprehension, and potential conflict. Almost all studies of conversational synchrony involve dyads, and relatively less is known about the str...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Dale R,Bryant GA,Manson JH,Gervais MM

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Discs of gas and dust around million-year-old stars are a by-product of the star formation process and provide the raw material to form planets. Hence, their evolution and dispersal directly impact what type of planets can form and affect the final architecture of planetary systems. Here, we review empirical constrain...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ercolano B,Pascucci I

更新日期：2017-04-26 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：:A series of ordered mesoporous silica such as MCM-41, SBA-3 and SBA-15, in addition to silica micro- (SM) and nano- (SN) mesoporous particles, were prepared. The preparation conditions were found to greatly influence the physical-surface properties including morphological structure, porosity, particle size, aggregate ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Morsi RE,Mohamed RS

更新日期：2018-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Miniaturized accelerometers are necessary for evaluating the performance of small devices, such as haptics, robotics and simulators. In this study, we fabricated miniaturized accelerometers using well-aligned ZnO nanowires. The layer of ZnO nanowires is used for active piezoelectric layer of the accelerometer, and cop...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Song S,Kim HC,Kim JW,Kim D,Kim J

更新日期：2017-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial microswimmers powered by magnetic fields have numerous applications, such as drug delivery, biosensing for minimally invasive medicine and environmental remediation. Recently, a Janus microdimer surface walker that can be propelled by an oscillating magnetic field near a surface was reported by Li et al. (A...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yang J

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Migration is essential for maintaining genetic diversity among populations, and pumas (Puma concolor) provide an excellent model for studying the genetic impacts of migrants on populations isolated by increasing human development. In densely populated southern California, USA, puma populations on the east and west sid...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Gustafson KD,Vickers TW,Boyce WM,Ernest HB

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

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：: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：: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：:Here we examined the kinematic function of the morpho- logically unique first thoracic vertebra in giraffes. The first thoracic vertebra of the giraffe displayed similar shape to the seventh cervical vertebra in general ruminants. The flexion experiment using giraffe carcasses demonstrated that the first thoracic vert...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Gunji M,Endo H

更新日期：2016-02-03 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

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that whale and dolphin watching activities have detrimental effects on targeted cetacean populations. In Egypt, spinner dolphins regularly occur in the resting areas of Samadai, Satayah and Qubbat'Isa reefs. In-water human interactions with dolphins are regulated with a time-area closure s...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Fumagalli M,Cesario A,Costa M,Harraway J,Notarbartolo di Sciara G,Slooten E

更新日期：2018-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A new Triassic neopterygian is described on the basis of a large three-dimensional neurocranium from the Rhaetian (Late Triassic) of the Kössen Formation (Schesaplana, Grisons, Switzerland). CT scanning reveals neurocranial features similar to Dapedium, suggesting that this new genus, Scopulipiscis saxciput gen. et sp...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Latimer AE,Giles S

更新日期：2018-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The gastrointestinal tract (GIT) consists of connected structures that vary in function and physiology, and different GIT sections potentially provide different habitats for microorganisms. Birds possess unique GIT structures, including the oesophagus, proventriculus, gizzard, small intestine, caeca and large intestin...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Grond K,Guilani H,Hird SM

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to compare young and adult sprinters on several biomechanical parameters that were previously highlighted as performance-related and to determine the behaviour of several muscle-tendon units (MTU) in the first stance phase following a block start in sprint running. The ground reaction force (...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Aeles J,Jonkers I,Debaere S,Delecluse C,Vanwanseele B

更新日期：2018-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the effect of contact geometry, temperature and displacement amplitude on the fretting behaviour of an aero-turbo oil lubricated cylinder-on-flat contact. To be effective, the lubricant needed both to penetrate the contact and then offer protection. Lubricant penetration into the fretting conta...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Warmuth AR,Sun W,Shipway PH

更新日期：2016-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Low levels of heterozygosity can have detrimental effects on life history and growth characteristics of organisms but more subtle effects such as those on trade-offs of expensive tissues and morphological laterality, especially of the brain, have not been explicitly tested. The objective of the current study was to in...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wiper ML,Lehnert SJ,Heath DD,Higgs DM

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have reported multiple cases of molecular adaptation in cetaceans related to their aquatic abilities. However, none of these has included the hippopotamus, precluding an understanding of whether molecular adaptations in cetaceans occurred before or after they split from their semi-aquatic sister taxa. H...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Tsagkogeorga G,McGowen MR,Davies KT,Jarman S,Polanowski A,Bertelsen MF,Rossiter SJ

更新日期：2015-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect societies have developed sanitary strategies, one of which is the avoidance of infectious food resources as a primary line of defence. Using binary choices, we investigated whether Myrmica rubra ants can identify prey that has been artificially infected with the entomopathogenic fungus, Metarhizium brunneum. We...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Pereira H,Detrain C

更新日期：2020-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Interlocutors converge on names to refer to entities. For example, a speaker might refer to a novel looking object as the jellyfish and, once identified, the listener will too. The hypothesized mechanism behind such referential precedents is a subject of debate. The common ground view claims that listeners register th...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kronmüller E,Noveck I,Rivera N,Jaume-Guazzini F,Barr D

更新日期：2017-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A key challenge in the fabrication of ferromagnetically filled carbon nano-onions (CNOs) is the control of their thickness, dimensions and electric properties. Up to now literature works have mainly focused on the encapsulation of different types of ferromagnetic materials including α-Fe, Fe3C, Co, FeCo, FePd3 and oth...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Medranda D,Borowiec J,Zhang X,Wang S,Yan K,Zhang J,He Y,Ivaturi S,Boi FS

更新日期：2018-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of geolocated information and communication technologies opens the possibility of exploring how people use space in cities, bringing an important new tool for urban scientists and planners, especially for regions where data are scarce or not available. Here we apply a functional network approach to determin...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Lenormand M,Picornell M,Cantú-Ros OG,Louail T,Herranz R,Barthelemy M,Frías-Martínez E,San Miguel M,Ramasco JJ

更新日期：2015-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1665, Huygens observed that two identical pendulum clocks, weakly coupled through a heavy beam, soon synchronized with the same period and amplitude but with the two pendula swinging in opposite directions. This behaviour is now called anti-phase synchronization. This paper presents an analysis of the behaviour of ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Willms AR,Kitanov PM,Langford WF

更新日期：2017-09-06 00:00:00