Command Electro-Optical Switching of Photoaligned Liquid Crystal on Photopatterned Graphene.

abstract：:Epilepsy, that comprises a wide spectrum of neuronal disorders and accounts for about one percent of global disease burden affecting people of all age groups, is recognised as apasmara in the traditional medicinal system of Indian antiquity commonly known as Ayurveda. Towards exploring the molecular level complex regu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Choudhary N,Singh V

更新日期：2019-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The brown alga Fucus vesiculosus is a keystone marine species, which is subject to heavy surface colonisation. This study was designed to analyse the surface epibiome of F. vesiculosus in conjunction with the composition and spatial distribution of its surface metabolome. The amplicon sequencing, SEM and CARD-FISH ima...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Parrot D,Blümel M,Utermann C,Chianese G,Krause S,Kovalev A,Gorb SN,Tasdemir D

更新日期：2019-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to identify novel plasma metabolic signatures with possible relevance during multiple myeloma (MM) development and progression. A biochemical quantitative phenotyping platform based on targeted electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry technology was used to aid in the identification o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： da Silva IDCG,de Castro Levatti EV,Pedroso AP,Marchioni DML,Carioca AAF,Colleoni GWB

更新日期：2020-12-14 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 not been fixed in the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Alflen A,Prüfer S,Ebner K,Reuter S,Lopez PA,Scharrer I,Banno F,Stassen M,Schild H,Jurk K,Bosmann M,Beckert H,Radsak MP

更新日期：2018-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting epigenetic reader proteins by small molecule inhibitors represents a new therapeutic concept in autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Although inhibitors targeting bromodomain protein 1 (BRD1) are in development, the function of BRD1 has hardly been studied. We investigated the therapeutic p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Klein K,Kato M,Frank-Bertoncelj M,Kolling C,Ciurea A,Gay S,Ospelt C

更新日期：2018-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of a new series of Gd(III)-arylphosphonium complexes is described and the solution stability of selected compounds is reported. Their lipophilicity and uptake in human glial (SVG p12) and human glioblastoma multiforme (T98G) cell lines are presented. The in vitro cytotoxicity of all complexes was determi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hall AJ,Robertson AG,Hill LR,Rendina LM

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual acuity can be measured in many different ways, including with letters and Vernier offsets. Prior psychophysical work has suggested that the two acuities are strongly linked given that they both depend strongly on retinal eccentricity and both are similarly affected in amblyopia. Here we used high-density EEG re...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Barzegaran E,Norcia AM

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the corneal spherical aberrations in cataract patients with and without high myopia, we conducted a retrospective case series of 502 cataract eyes with high myopia and 1500 age-related cataract eyes and measure their corneal biometric data and axial length using Pentacam and IOLMaster. Both the anterior an...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang M,Qian D,Jing Q,Chen J,Jiang Y

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum Key Distribution is carving its place among the tools used to secure communications. While a difficult technology, it enjoys benefits that set it apart from the rest, the most prominent is its provable security based on the laws of physics. QKD requires not only the mastering of signals at the quantum level, b...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Martinez-Mateo J,Elkouss D,Martin V

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we report for the first time an n-type carbon nanotube field effect transistor which is air- and water-stable, a necessary requirement for electrolyte gated CMOS circuit operation. The device is obtained through a simple process, where the native p-type transistor is converted to an n-type. This conversi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Joshi S,Bhatt VD,Jaworska E,Michalska A,Maksymiuk K,Becherer M,Gagliardi A,Lugli P

更新日期：2018-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Using high resolution powder x-ray and neutron diffraction experiments, we determined the off-centered displacement of the ions within a unit cell and magnetoelectric coupling in nanoscale BiFeO3 (≈20-200 nm). We found that both the off-centered displacement of the ions and magnetoelectric coupling exhibit nonmonotoni...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Goswami S,Bhattacharya D,Ghosh CK,Ghosh B,Kaushik SD,Siruguri V,Krishna PSR

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Hollow microporous organic nanorods (HMORs) with hypercrosslinked polymer (HCPs) shells were synthesized through emulsion polymerization followed by hypercrosslinking. The HMORs have tunable aspect ratios, high BET surface areas and monodispersed morphologies, showing good performance in gas adsorpion. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li Q,Jin S,Tan B

更新日期：2016-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:miRNAs play an indispensable role in human carcinogenesis. Dysregulated miR-1180-3p has been observed in several types of cancer, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). This study intends to correlate the expression level of miR-1180-3p with clinical features and overall survival in HCC patients. The expression and...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhou Z,Zhou X,Jiang Y,Qiu M,Liang X,Lin Q,Guo Q,Nong C,Huo R,Chen Q,Liu H,Liu Y,Zhu S,Wang M,Yu H

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Bee pollination is an indispensable component of global food production and plays a crucial role in sustainable agriculture. The worldwide decline of bee populations, including wild pollinators, poses a threat to this system. However, most studies to date are situated in temperate regions where Apini and Bombini are v...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nunes-Silva P,Piot N,Meeus I,Blochtein B,Smagghe G

更新日期：2016-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The realization of reliable quantum channels, able to transfer a quantum state with high fidelity, is a fundamental step in the construction of scalable quantum devices. In this paper we describe a transmission scheme based on the genuinely quantum effect known as Bloch oscillations. The proposed protocol makes it pos...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tamascelli D,Olivares S,Rossotti S,Osellame R,Paris MG

更新日期：2016-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The general model presented here for the formation of chromatin domains, LADs and TADs, is primarily based on the 3-D structures of the corresponding DNA sequences, the GC-poor and GC-rich isochores. Indeed, the low-heterogeneity GC-poor isochores locally are intrinsically stiff and curved because of the presence of i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bernardi G

更新日期：2018-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbeam radiation therapy is a novel preclinical technique, which uses synchrotron-generated X-rays for the treatment of brain tumours and drug-resistant epilepsies. In order to safely translate this approach to humans, a more in-depth knowledge of the long-term radiobiology of microbeams in healthy tissues is requi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fardone E,Bravin A,Conti A,Bräuer-Krisch E,Requardt H,Bucci D,Le Duc G,Battaglia G,Romanelli P

更新日期：2017-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide a proof for the necessity of quantizing fundamental interactions demonstrating that a quantum version is needed for any non trivial conservative interaction whose strength depends on the relative distance between two objects. Our proof is based on a consistency argument that in the presence of a classical f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Giampaolo SM,Macrì T

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:As a nutritional factor, folic acid can prevent cardiac and neural defects during embryo development. Our previous study showed that arsenic impairs embryo development by down-regulating Dvr1/GDF1 expression in zebrafish. Here, we investigated whether folic acid could protect against arsenic-mediated embryo toxicity. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ma Y,Zhang C,Gao XB,Luo HY,Chen Y,Li HH,Ma X,Lu CL

更新日期：2015-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorite-structured oxides find widespread use for applications spanning nuclear energy and waste containment, energy conversion, and sensing. In such applications the host tetravalent cation is often partially substituted by trivalent cations, with an associated formation of charge-compensating oxygen vacancies. The ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Solomon JM,Shamblin J,Lang M,Navrotsky A,Asta M

更新日期：2016-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants and parenchymatous brown algae the body arises through the activity of an apical meristem (a niche of cells or a single cell). The meristem produces lateral organs in specific patterns, referred to as phyllotaxis. In plants, two different control mechanisms have been proposed: one is position-dependent and r...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Linardić M,Braybrook SA

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Although flowering in rice has been extensively investigated, few studies focused on genetic interactions. Flowering evaluation of two recombinant inbred line (RIL) populations involving photo-insensitive rice cultivars, Bengal and Cypress, and a weedy rice accession, PSRR-1, under natural long-day (LD) conditions, re...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Subudhi PK,De Leon TB,Tapia R,Chai C,Karan R,Ontoy J,Singh PK

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the viewpoint of thermodynamics, the formation of DNA loops and the interaction between them, which are all non-equilibrium processes, result in the change of free energy, affecting gene expression and further cell-to-cell variability as observed experimentally. However, how these processes dissipate free energy ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang L,Liu P,Yuan Z,Zhou T,Yu J

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is characterized by airway inflammation, mucus secretion, remodeling and hyperresponsiveness (AHR). Recent research has established the bronchodilatory effect of bitter taste receptor (TAS2R) agonists in various models. Comprehensive pre-clinical studies aimed at establishing effectiveness of TAS2R agonists in ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sharma P,Yi R,Nayak AP,Wang N,Tang F,Knight MJ,Pan S,Oliver B,Deshpande DA

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Umami taste perception indicates the presence of amino acids, which are essential nutrients. Although the physiology of umami perception has been described in mammals, how insects detect amino acids remains unknown except in Drosophila melanogaster. We functionally characterized a gustatory receptor responding to L-am...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lim S,Jung J,Yunusbaev U,Ilyasov R,Kwon HW

更新日期：2019-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we present a contactless transient carrier spectroscopy and imaging technique for traps in silicon. At each pixel, we fit the transient decay of the trap emission which allows us to obtain both the trap time constant and trap concentration. Here we show that this technique allows for high-resolution imag...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rougieux FE,Kwapil W,Heinz F,Siriwardhana M,Schubert MC

更新日期：2019-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodopseudomonas palustris CGA009 is a purple non-sulfur bacterium that can fix carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen or break down organic compounds for its carbon and nitrogen requirements. Light, inorganic, and organic compounds can all be used for its source of energy. Excess electrons produced during its metabolic pr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Alsiyabi A,Immethun CM,Saha R

更新日期：2019-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of human metaphase-II arrested eggs to activate following fertilisation declines with advancing maternal age. Egg activation is triggered by repetitive increases in intracellular Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)]i) in the ooplasm as a result of sperm-egg fusion. We therefore hypothesised that eggs from older ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Haverfield J,Nakagawa S,Love D,Tsichlaki E,Nomikos M,Lai FA,Swann K,FitzHarris G

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxytocin has a conserved role in regulating animal social behaviour including parental-offspring interactions. Recently an oxytocin-like neuropeptide, nematocin, and its cognate receptors have been identified in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. We provide evidence for a pheromone signal produced by C. elegans larv...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Scott E,Hudson A,Feist E,Calahorro F,Dillon J,de Freitas R,Wand M,Schoofs L,O'Connor V,Holden-Dye L

更新日期：2017-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum neurofilament light chain (NfL) is emerging as an important biomarker in multiple sclerosis (MS). Our objective was to evaluate the prognostic value of serum NfL levels obtained close to the time of MS onset with long-term clinical outcomes. In this prospective cohort study, we identified patients with serum col...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Thebault S,Abdoli M,Fereshtehnejad SM,Tessier D,Tabard-Cossa V,Freedman MS

更新日期：2020-06-25 00:00:00