A formation criterion for Order-Disorder (OD) phases of the Long-Period Stacking Order (LPSO)-type in Mg-Al-RE (Rare Earth) Ternary Systems.

abstract：:Functional dyspepsia (FD) is one of the most prevalent functional gastrointestinal disorders, and more and more multicomponent drugs represented by traditional Chinese medicines have provided a favorable therapeutic effect in its treatment. However, their precise localization in the clinic, as well as corresponding me...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wei J,Man Q,Guo F,Xian M,Wang T,Tang C,Zhang Y,Li D,Tang D,Yang H,Huang L

更新日期：2019-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Organotypic, three-dimensional (3D) cancer models have enabled investigations of complex microtissues in increasingly realistic conditions. However, a drawback of these advanced models remains the poor biological relevance of cancer cell lines, while higher clinical significance would be obtainable with patient-derive...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ahonen I,Åkerfelt M,Toriseva M,Oswald E,Schüler J,Nees M

更新日期：2017-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:It remains a grand challenge to achieve both high activity and durability in Pt electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cells. Here we develop a class of Pt highly concave cubic (HCC) nanocrystals, which are enriched with high-index facets, to enable high ORR activity. The durability of HCC nanocr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang C,Ma L,Liao L,Bai S,Long R,Zuo M,Xiong Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two of the important traits for wheat yield are tiller and fertile tiller number, both of which have been thought to increase cereal yield in favorable and unfavorable environments. A total of 6,349 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers from the 15 K wheat Infinium array were employed for genome-wide associatio...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bilgrami SS,Ramandi HD,Shariati V,Razavi K,Tavakol E,Fakheri BA,Mahdi Nezhad N,Ghaderian M

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon dioxide supercritical fluid extraction (CO2 SFE) is a clean and cost-effective method of extracting cannabinoids from cannabis. Using design of experiment methodologies an optimised protocol for extraction of medicinal cannabis bud material (population of mixed plants, combined THC:CBD approximately 1:1.5) was ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rochfort S,Isbel A,Ezernieks V,Elkins A,Vincent D,Deseo MA,Spangenberg GC

更新日期：2020-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Many systems biology studies lack context-relevant data and as a consequence the predictive capabilities can be limited in developing targeted cancer therapeutics. Production of colon crypt in vitro is ideal for studying colon systems biology. This report presents the first production of, to our knowledge, physiologic...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tan CW,Hirokawa Y,Burgess AW

更新日期：2015-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality assessment of protein models using no other information than the structure of the model itself has been shown to be useful for structure prediction. Here, we introduce two novel methods, ProQRosFA and ProQRosCen, inspired by the state-of-art method ProQ2, but using a completely different description of a prote...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Uziela K,Shu N,Wallner B,Elofsson A

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a medically important pathogen with an abundance of virulence factors that are necessary for survival within a host, including the production of cytolytic toxins. The regulation of toxin production is mediated by the Agr quorum sensing system, and a poorly defined post-exponential growth phase...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Stevens E,Laabei M,Gardner S,Somerville GA,Massey RC

更新日期：2017-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the changes and clinical significance of brain structural abnormalities in patients with Meige syndrome and related depressive symptoms. We retrospectively analysed clinical data, imaging examinations, and Hamilton Depression Rating scale scores in 46 patients with Meige syndrome from January 2017 to Ja...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu J,Li L,Chen L,Liu R,Jiang Y,Fang J,Wang D,Liu Z,Ouyang J

更新日期：2020-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In dentistry, the wet-bonding approach relies on water to maintain demineralized collagen expanded for proper resin infiltration; nevertheless, hydrolytic instability of the resin-dentin interface is inevitable with current bonding techniques. Considering dimethyl sulfoxide's (DMSO) ability to "biomodify" collagen and...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Stape THS,Seseogullari-Dirihan R,Tjäderhane L,Abuna G,Martins LRM,Tezvergil-Mutluay A

更新日期：2018-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To study quantitatively replicative senescence as a tumor suppressor mechanism, we investigate the distribution of a growing clonal cell population restricted by Hayflick's limit. We find that in the biologically relevant range of parameters, if the imbalance between cell division and death is moderate or low (high de...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rodriguez-Brenes IA,Wodarz D,Komarova NL

更新日期：2015-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term daylight deprivation such as during the Antarctic winter has been shown to lead to delayed sleep timing and sleep fragmentation. We aimed at testing whether retinal sensitivity, sleep and circadian rest-activity will change during long-term daylight deprivation on two Antarctic bases (Concordia and Halley VI...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kawasaki A,Wisniewski S,Healey B,Pattyn N,Kunz D,Basner M,Münch M

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity, often represented by higher body mass index (BMI), is not yet fully understood as a potential risk factor for poor clinical outcomes of prostate cancer (PCa) after radical prostatectomy (RP). This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between BMI and biochemical recurrence (BCR)-free survival in RP patient...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yu YD,Byun SS,Lee SE,Hong SK

更新日期：2018-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:GABA is a key regulator of adult-born dentate granule cell (abDGC) maturation so mapping the functional connectivity between abDGCs and local interneurons is required to understand their development and integration into the hippocampal circuit. We recorded from birthdated abDGCs in mice and photoactivated parvalbumin ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Remmers CL,Castillon CCM,Armstrong JN,Contractor A

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) plays an essential role in many exotic and interesting phenomena in condensed matter physics. In neutral-atom-based quantum simulations, synthetic SOC constitutes a key enabling element. The strength of SOC realized so far is limited by various reasons or constraints. This work reports tunabl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu LN,Luo XY,Xu ZF,Ueda M,Wang R,You L

更新日期：2017-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The usage of gelatin hydrogel is limited due to its instability and poor mechanical properties, especially under physiological conditions. Divalent metal ions present in gelatin such as Ca(2+) and Fe(2+) play important roles in the gelatin molecule interactions. The objective of this study was to determine the impact ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xing Q,Yates K,Vogt C,Qian Z,Frost MC,Zhao F

更新日期：2014-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Glacial vicariance is regarded as one of the most prevalent drivers of phylogeographic structure and speciation among high-latitude organisms, but direct links between ice advances and range fragmentation have been more difficult to establish in marine than in terrestrial systems. Here we investigate the evolution of ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Neiva J,Paulino C,Nielsen MM,Krause-Jensen D,Saunders GW,Assis J,Bárbara I,Tamigneaux É,Gouveia L,Aires T,Marbà N,Bruhn A,Pearson GA,Serrão EA

更新日期：2018-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholine binding proteins (AChBPs) are unique spatial homologs of the ligand-binding domains of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs), and they reproduce some pharmacological properties of nAChRs. X-ray crystal structures of AСhBP in complex with α-conotoxins provide important insights into the interactions ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lin B,Xu M,Zhu X,Wu Y,Liu X,Zhangsun D,Hu Y,Xiang SH,Kasheverov IE,Tsetlin VI,Wang X,Luo S

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper presents the experimental results of studying the dynamics of electron energy relaxation in structures made of thin (d ≈ 6 nm) disordered superconducting vanadium nitride (VN) films converted to a resistive state by high-frequency radiation and transport current. Under conditions of quasi-equilibrium superco...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pentin I,Vakhtomin Y,Seleznev V,Smirnov K

更新日期：2020-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A reliable method for the diagnosis of minimal cardiac ischemia would meet a strong demand for the sensitive diagnosis of coronary artery disease in cardiac stress testing and risk stratification in patients with chest pain but unremarkable ECGs and biomarkers. We hypothesized that platelets accumulate early on in isc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ziegler M,Alt K,Paterson BM,Kanellakis P,Bobik A,Donnelly PS,Hagemeyer CE,Peter K

更新日期：2016-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Low Haemoglobin concentration (Hb) among women of reproductive age is a severe public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. This study investigated the effects of putative socio-demographic factors on maternal Hb at different points of the conditional distribution of Hb concentration. We utilised quantile regression t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Amugsi DA,Dimbuene ZT,Kyobutungi C

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepadnaviruses, including human hepatitis B virus (HBV), replicate their tiny DNA genomes by protein-primed reverse transcription of a pregenomic (pg) RNA. Replication initiation as well as pgRNA encapsidation depend on the interaction of the viral polymerase, P protein, with the ε RNA element, featuring a lower and a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gajer M,Dörnbrack K,Rösler C,Schmid B,Beck J,Nassal M

更新日期：2017-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional abnormalities in brain structure and function, as well as disrupted connectivity, have been found repeatedly in adolescents with conduct disorder (CD). Yet, the large-scale brain topology associated with CD is not well characterized, and little is known about the systematic neural mechanisms of CD. We employe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang Y,Liu W,Ming Q,Gao Y,Ma R,Zhang X,Situ W,Wang X,Yao S,Huang B

更新日期：2016-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer survivors display altered inflammatory responses to immune challenges relative to cancer-naive controls likely due to previous cancer treatments, stress associated with cancer, and/or tumor physiology. Proper inflammatory responses are necessary for adaptive sickness behaviors (e.g., fatigue, anorexia, a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Santos JC,Bever SR,Pereira-da-Silva G,Pyter LM

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the correlation between penile hypersensitivity and premature ejaculation (PE), a total of 420 consecutive subjects attending our andrologic clinic for suspected PE were enrolled. The entire cohort was asked to complete the self-report intravaginal ejaculation latency time (IELT) by stopwatch. According to t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Guo L,Liu Y,Wang X,Yuan M,Yu Y,Zhang X,Zhao S

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The Przewalski's gazelle (Procapra przewalskii) is one of the most endangered ungulates in the world, with fewer than 2,000 individuals surviving in nine habitat fragments on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and isolated by human settlements and infrastructure. In particular, the Qinghai-Tibet railway, which crosses the larg...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yu H,Song S,Liu J,Li S,Zhang L,Wang D,Luo SJ

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We herein report that supported copper nanoparticles (CuNPs) on commercially available controlled pore glass (CPG), which exhibit high mechanical, thermal and chemical stability as compared to other silica-based materials, serve as a useful heterogeneous catalyst system for 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions ("click" reaction...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rafi AA,Ibrahem I,Córdova A

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyzing heart rate variability (HRV) in preterm infants can help track maturational changes and subclinical signatures of disease. We conducted an observational study to characterize the effect of demographic and cardiorespiratory factors on three features of HRV using a linear mixed-effects model. HRV-features were...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Joshi R,Kommers D,Guo C,Bikker JW,Feijs L,van Pul C,Andriessen P

更新日期：2019-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:αβ T cells respond to peptide epitopes presented by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules. The role of T cell receptor (TCR) germline complementarity determining regions (CDR1 and 2) in MHC restriction is not well understood. Here, we examine T cell development, MHC restriction and antigen recognition where...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Attaf M,Holland SJ,Bartok I,Dyson J

更新日期：2016-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:An accurate and efficient solution of the radiative transport equation is proposed for modeling the propagation of photons in the three-dimensional anisotropically scattering half-space medium. The exact refractive index mismatched boundary condition is considered and arbitrary rotationally invariant scattering functi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liemert A,Kienle A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00