Hydrogen storage and stability properties of Pd-Pt solid-solution nanoparticles revealed via atomic and electronic structure.

abstract：:Magnesium-based thermoelectric materials (Mg2X, X = Si, Ge, Sn) have received considerable attention due to their availability, low toxicity, and reasonably good thermoelectric performance. The synthesis of these materials with high purity is challenging, however, due to the reactive nature and high vapour pressure of...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Santos R,Nancarrow M,Dou SX,Aminorroaya Yamini S

更新日期：2017-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'microgenderome' provides a paradigm shift that highlights the role of sex differences in the host-microbiota interaction relevant for autoimmune and neuro-immune conditions. Analysis of cross-sectional self-report and faecal microbial data from 274 patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wallis A,Butt H,Ball M,Lewis DP,Bruck D

更新日期：2016-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Subcutaneous white adipose tissue (scWAT) is the major fat depot in humans and is a central player in regulating whole body metabolism. Skin exposure to UV wavelengths from sunlight is required for Vitamin D synthesis and pigmentation, although it is plausible that longer visible wavelengths that penetrate the skin ma...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ondrusova K,Fatehi M,Barr A,Czarnecka Z,Long W,Suzuki K,Campbell S,Philippaert K,Hubert M,Tredget E,Kwan P,Touret N,Wabitsch M,Lee KY,Light PE

更新日期：2017-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Most published sleep studies use three species: human, house mouse, or Norway rat. The degree to which data from these species captures variability in mammalian sleep remains unclear. To gain insight into mammalian sleep diversity, we examined sleep architecture in the spiny basal murid rodent Acomys cahirinus. First,...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang C,Guerriero LE,Huffman DM,Ajwad AA,Brooks TC,Sunderam S,Seifert AW,O'Hara BF

更新日期：2020-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodontal ligament stem cells (PDLSCs) are a major source of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in adults and are effective for tissue engineering, like promoting angiogenesis and bone regeneration. CXCL12 has been reported to be involved in the recruitment and engraftment of MSCs in wound sites. However, whether CXCL12 ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang L,Zhou Y,Sun X,Zhou J,Yang P

更新日期：2017-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Mumps incidence in mainland China remains at a high level. Genotype F has been the predominant genotype of mumps virus (MuV) in the last 20 years in mainland China. To better understand the genetic characteristics of MuV in China, the sequences of the Small Hydrophobic (SH), Hemagglutinin-Neuraminidase (HN) and Fusion...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cui A,Rivailler P,Zhu Z,Deng X,Hu Y,Wang Y,Li F,Sun Z,He J,Si Y,Tian X,Zhou S,Lei Y,Zheng H,Rota PA,Xu W

更新日期：2017-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:OVGP1 is the major non-serum glycoprotein in the oviduct fluid at the time of fertilization and early embryo development. Its activity differs among species. Here, we show that the C-terminal region of recombinant OVGP1 regulates its binding to the extracellular zona pellucida and affects its activity during fertiliza...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Algarra B,Han L,Soriano-Úbeda C,Avilés M,Coy P,Jovine L,Jiménez-Movilla M

更新日期：2016-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Semi-arid ecosystems are key contributors to the global carbon cycle and may even dominate the inter-annual variability (IAV) and trends of the land carbon sink, driven largely by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The linkages between dynamics of semi-arid ecosystems and climate at the hemispheric scale however...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang A,Jia G,Epstein HE,Xia J

更新日期：2017-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Although copy number variation (CNV) and presence-absence variation (PAV) have been discovered in selected gene families in most crop species, the global prevalence of these polymorphisms in most complex genomes is still unclear and their influence on quantitatively inherited agronomic traits is still largely unknown....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gabur I,Chawla HS,Lopisso DT,von Tiedemann A,Snowdon RJ,Obermeier C

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial cells (ECs) are major modulators of hemostasis by expressing and releasing pro- and anticoagulant mediators into the circulation. Previous studies showed that cultured ECs release procoagulant mediators into cell culture supernatants as evidenced by the reduction of viscoelastic clotting time. This effect ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Holnthoner W,Bonstingl C,Hromada C,Muehleder S,Zipperle J,Stojkovic S,Redl H,Wojta J,Schöchl H,Grillari J,Weilner S,Schlimp CJ

更新日期：2017-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional interplays of microbial activity, genetic diversity and contaminant transformation are poorly understood in reactors for mineralizing halogenated aromatics anaerobically. Here, we investigated abundance and distribution of potential microbes and functional genes associated with pentachlorophenol (PCP) anaer...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li ZL,Nan J,Huang C,Liang B,Liu WZ,Cheng HY,Zhang C,Zhang D,Kong D,Kanamaru K,Kobayashi T,Wang AJ,Katayama A

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:PP2A(Cdc55) is a highly conserved serine-threonine protein phosphatase that is involved in diverse cellular processes. In budding yeast, meiotic cells lacking PP2A(Cdc55) activity undergo a premature exit from meiosis I which results in a failure to form bipolar spindles and divide nuclei. This defect is largely due t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kerr GW,Wong JH,Arumugam P

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The abnormal wing discs (awd) gene encodes the Drosophila homolog of NME1/NME2 metastasis suppressor genes. Awd acts in multiple tissues where its function is critical in establishing and maintaining epithelial integrity. Here, we analysed awd gene function in Drosophila epithelial cells using transgene-mediated RNA i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Romani P,Duchi S,Gargiulo G,Cavaliere V

更新日期：2017-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a lack of evidence that either conventional observational rating scale or biomechanical system is a better tremor assessment tool. This work focuses on comparing a biomechanical system and the Movement Disorder Society-sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale in terms of test-retest ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chan PY,Mohd Ripin Z,Abdul Halim S,Kamarudin MI,Ng KS,Eow GB,Tan K,Cheah CF,Then L,Soong N,Hor JY,Yahya AS,Arifin WN,Tharakan J,Mustapha M

更新日期：2019-05-31 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：:Although gut microbiota and early life events are likely involved in the development of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), it remains unclear how these factors interact in the pathophysiology of IBS. In the present study, using rats subjected to maternal separation (MS) as a model of IBS, we investigated interrelationshi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fukui H,Oshima T,Tanaka Y,Oikawa Y,Makizaki Y,Ohno H,Tomita T,Watari J,Miwa H

更新日期：2018-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The exovesicles (EVs) are involved in pathologic host-parasite immune associations and have been recently used as biomarkers for diagnosis of infectious diseases. The release of EVs by Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, has recently been described, with different protein cargoes including the MA...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Díaz Lozano IM,De Pablos LM,Longhi SA,Zago MP,Schijman AG,Osuna A

更新日期：2017-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disease that causes blood glucose (BG) concentration to make dangerous excursions outside its physiological range. Measuring the fraction of time spent by BG outside this range, and, specifically, the time-below-range (TBR), is a clinically common way to quantify the effectiveness of th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Camerlingo N,Vettoretti M,Facchinetti A,Sparacino G,Mader JK,Choudhary P,Del Favero S

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin burns are a significant source of injury in both military and civilian sectors. They are especially problematic in low resource environments where non-fatal injuries can lead to high morbidity rates, prolonged hospitalization, and disability. These multifaceted wounds can be highly complex and must be quickly dia...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nguyen JQ,Marks HL,Everett T,Haire T,Carlsson A,Chan R,Evans CL

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Charged particles such as protons and carbon ions are an increasingly important tool in radiotherapy. There are however unresolved physics issues impeding optimal implementation, including estimation of dose deposition in non-homogeneous tissue, an essential aspect of treatment optimization. Monte Carlo (MC) methods c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Grimes DR,Warren DR,Partridge M

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Propagation of coherent light through a disordered network is accompanied by randomization and possible conversion into thermal light. Here, we show that network topology plays a decisive role in determining the statistics of the emerging field if the underlying lattice is endowed with chiral symmetry. In such lattice...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kondakci HE,Abouraddy AF,Saleh BEA

更新日期：2017-08-21 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：:Utilization of computational approach in the study of social behaviour of animals is increasing and we attempted such an approach in our study of tree-dwelling bats. These bats live in highly dynamic fission-fusion societies that share multiple roosts in a common home range. The key behavioural component associated wi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zelenka J,Kasanický T,Budinská I,Kaňuch P

更新日期：2020-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Postmortem diagnosis of cantharidin-induced myocardial injury and postmortem interval estimation (PMI) are the challenges in forensic science. Cardiac biomarkers play an important role in the prediction and diagnosis of myocardial injury and can be used to determine the PMI. Based on the evidence, we aimed to explore ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Y,Yu Y,Zhang J,Guan C,Liu L,Ren L

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the observation of a large linear magnetoresistance in the ohmic regime in commonplace commercial n-type silicon wafer with a P dopant density of (1.4±0.1) ×10(15) cm(-3), and report measurements of it in the temperature range 30-200 K. It arises from the deformation of current paths, which causes a part of ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Porter NA,Marrows CH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study provides a pore-scale investigation of two-phase flow dynamics during primary drainage in a realistic heterogeneous rock sample. Using the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method, a series of three-dimensional (3D) immiscible displacement simulations are conducted and three typical flow patterns are identified and ma...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bakhshian S,Hosseini SA,Shokri N

更新日期：2019-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential host responses may be critical determinants of distinct pathologies of West Nile virus (WNV) NY99 (pathogenic) and WNV Eg101 (non-pathogenic) strains. We employed RNA-seq technology to analyze global differential gene expression in WNV-infected mice brain and to identify the host cellular factors leading ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kumar M,Belcaid M,Nerurkar VR

更新日期：2016-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Detailed structural analyses of the mushroom body which plays critical roles in olfactory learning and memory revealed that it is directly connected with multiple primary sensory centers in Drosophila. Connectivity patterns between the mushroom body and primary sensory centers suggest that each mushroom body lobe proc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yagi R,Mabuchi Y,Mizunami M,Tanaka NK

更新日期：2016-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The parietal cortex is thought to be involved in visuomotor adaptation, yet it remains unclear whether it is specifically modulated by visuomotor prediction errors (i.e. PEs; mismatch between the predicted and actual visual consequences of the movement). One reason for this is that PEs tend to be associated with task ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Savoie FA,Thénault F,Whittingstall K,Bernier PM

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to evaluate the association of plasma biomarkers linked to inflammation (bacterial translocation, inflammatory response, and endothelial dysfunction), coagulopathy, and angiogenesis with the severity of liver cirrhosis (assessed by the Child-Pugh-Turcotte score, CTP) and Child-Pugh B cirrhosis (CTP 7-9) in pa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Salgüero S,Medrano LM,González-García J,Berenguer J,Montes ML,Diéz C,Garcia-Broncano P,Llop-Herrera E,Pérez-Latorre L,Bellóno JM,Jiménez-Sousa MÁ,Resino S

更新日期：2020-06-25 00:00:00