Hydrothermally synthesized PZT film grown in highly concentrated KOH solution with large electromechanical coupling coefficient for resonator.

abstract：:Comprehensive diagnosis of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin and dibenzofuran (PCDD/F) emissions was systematically conducted on three hazardous waste incinerators (HWIs). Results indicated that PCDD/F mainly existed in the solid phase before the bag filter. This was especially true for higher chlorinated dioxin and fu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Cao X,Ji L,Lin X,Stevens WR,Tang M,Shang F,Tang S,Lu S

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Winnerless coevolution of hosts and parasites could exhibit Red Queen dynamics, which is characterized by parasite-driven cyclic switching of expressed host phenotypes. We hypothesize that the application of antibiotics to suppress the reproduction of parasites can provide an opportunity for the hosts to escape such w...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Anzia EL,Rabajante JF

更新日期：2018-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in biotechnology led to generation of large complex biological and clinical datasets that can be used to infer the underlying mechanism of many diseases and arrive at personalized treatments. One of these datasets are the whole genome profiles, including a good collection of publicly available human ge...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Su S,Shahriyari L

更新日期：2020-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the immense present day biological diversity of Neotropical rainforests originated from the Miocene onwards, a period of geological and ecological upheaval in South America. We assess the impact of the Andean orogeny, drainage of Lake Pebas and closure of the Panama isthmus on two clades of tropical trees (Cre...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Pirie MD,Maas PJM,Wilschut RA,Melchers-Sharrott H,Chatrou LW

更新日期：2018-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the extent to which adolescents who spend time playing violent video games exhibit higher levels of aggressive behaviour when compared with those who do not. A large sample of British adolescent participants (n = 1004) aged 14 and 15 years and an equal number of their carers were intervi...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Przybylski AK,Weinstein N

更新日期：2019-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Many species worldwide are impacted by habitat loss. This may result in increased competition both within species and between species. Many studies have demonstrated that when two previously non-overlapping species are forced to compete over a resource, one species is likely to become dominant over the other. This stu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Clark HL,Backwell PR

更新日期：2017-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropogenic activities affect fish populations worldwide. River dams have profound impacts on ecosystems by changing habitats and hindering migration. In an effort to counteract such effects, a range of mitigation measures have been installed at hydroelectric power plants. However, not all individuals in a populatio...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Haraldstad T,Haugen TO,Kroglund F,Olsen EM,Höglund E

更新日期：2019-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cooperatively breeding vertebrates occur disproportionately in unpredictable environments, the underlying mechanism shaping this biogeographic pattern remains unclear. Cooperative breeding may buffer against harsh conditions (hard life hypothesis), or additionally allow for sustained breeding under benign con...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Guindre-Parker S,Rubenstein DR

更新日期：2018-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:With the current proliferation of data, the proficient use of statistical and mining techniques offer substantial benefits to capture useful information from any dataset. As numerous approaches make use of information theory concepts, here, we discuss how Fisher information (FI) can be applied to sustainability scienc...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ahmad N,Derrible S,Eason T,Cabezas H

更新日期：2016-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In the paper, the isomorphous S O 4 ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yan C,Zhu L,Dong J,Gu D,Jiang H,Wang B

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We present experimental data on the nematic alignment of Escherichia coli bacteria confined in a slit, with an emphasis on the effect of growth rate and corresponding changes in cell aspect ratio. Global alignment with the channel walls arises from the combination of local nematic ordering of nearby cells, induced by ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sheats J,Sclavi B,Cosentino Lagomarsino M,Cicuta P,Dorfman KD

更新日期：2017-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the evolutionary history of contemporary animal groups is essential for conservation and management of endangered species like caribou (Rangifer tarandus). In central Canada, the ranges of two caribou subspecies (barren-ground/woodland caribou) and two woodland caribou ecotypes (boreal/eastern migratory)...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Klütsch CF,Manseau M,Trim V,Polfus J,Wilson PJ

更新日期：2016-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A denitrifying strain ZY04 with a high nitrite-accumulating rate was isolated and purified from activated sludge in a laboratory-scale A2/O reactor. The strain was characterized and identified as Acinetobacter johnsonii by 16S rDNA phylogenetic analysis. The sequences of the key functional genes (napA, nirB, nirD) inv...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zhang Y,Wang X,Wang W,Sun Z,Li J

更新日期：2019-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.181295.]. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Hansford JP,Turvey ST

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:When addressing their young infants, parents systematically modify their speech. Such infant-directed speech (IDS) contains exaggerated vowel formants, which have been proposed to foster language development via articulation of more distinct speech sounds. Here, this assumption is rigorously tested using both acoustic...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kalashnikova M,Carignan C,Burnham D

更新日期：2017-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Gold nanoparticles provide a user-friendly and efficient surface for immobilization of enzymes and proteins. In this paper, we present a novel approach for enzyme bioconjugation to gold nanostars (AuNSs). AuNSs were modified with l-cysteine (Cys) and covalently bound to N-hydroxysulfosuccinimide (sulfo-NHS) activated ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Moses Phiri M,Wingrove Mulder D,Mason S,Christiaan Vorster B

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studying animal cognition is meaningful because it helps us understand how animals adapt to the natural environment. Many birds build nests, clean their nests and reject foreign objects from their nests, which provide an optimal opportunity for studying their cognition toward foreign objects in nests. However, hand-ma...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yang C,Liang W,Møller AP

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many drum communication systems around the world transmit information by emulating tonal and rhythmic patterns of spoken languages in sequences of drumbeats. Their rhythmic characteristics, in particular, have not been systematically studied so far, although understanding them represents a rare occasion for providing ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Seifart F,Meyer J,Grawunder S,Dentel L

更新日期：2018-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Plague remains a threat to public health and is considered as a re-emerging infectious disease today. Rodents play an important role as major hosts in plague persistence and driving plague outbreaks in natural foci; however, few studies have tested the association between host diversity in ecosystems and human plague ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sun Z,Xu L,Schmid BV,Dean KR,Zhang Z,Xie Y,Fang X,Wang S,Liu Q,Lyu B,Wan X,Xu J,Stenseth NC,Xu B

更新日期：2019-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhythm is an essential component of human speech and music but very little is known about its evolutionary origin and its distribution in animal vocalizations. We found a regular rhythm in three multisyllabic vocalization types (echolocation call sequences, male territorial songs and pup isolation calls) of the neotro...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Burchardt LS,Norton P,Behr O,Scharff C,Knörnschild M

更新日期：2019-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The shapes of vertebrate teeth are often used as hallmarks of diet. Here, however, we demonstrate evidence of frequent piscivory by cartilaginous fishes with pebble-like teeth that are typically associated with durophagy, the eating of hard-shelled prey. High-resolution micro-computed tomography observation of a jaw s...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Dean MN,Bizzarro JJ,Clark B,Underwood CJ,Johanson Z

更新日期：2017-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research has provided evidence that mood can spread over social networks via social contagion, but that, in seeming contradiction to this, depression does not. Here, we investigate whether there is evidence for the individual components of mood (such as appetite, tiredness and sleep) spreading through US adoles...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Eyre RW,House T,Hill EM,Griffiths FE

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that the spin-wave spectrum in an elliptical helix has a band character. The size of the first band gap calculated using the perturbation theory is shown to scale as square root of the eccentricity. Curved magnonic waveguides of the kind considered here could be used as structural elements of future three-dime...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Golovchan AV,Kruglyak VV,Tkachenko VS,Kuchko AN

更新日期：2018-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we establish the explicit connection between deterministic trait-based population-level models (in the form of partial differential equations) and species-level models (in the form of ordinary differential equations), in the context of eco-evolutionary systems. In particular, by starting from a populati...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Nordbotten JM,Bokma F,Hermansen JS,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:During the Middle and Late Jurassic, pliosaurid plesiosaurs evolved gigantic body size and a series of craniodental adaptations that have been linked to the occupation of an apex predator niche. Cretaceous pliosaurids (i.e. Brachaucheninae) depart from this morphology, being slightly smaller and lacking the macrophago...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Fischer V,Arkhangelsky MS,Stenshin IM,Uspensky GN,Zverkov NG,Benson RB

更新日期：2015-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, recent progress in graphic statics is combined with Williot displacement diagrams to create a graphical description of both statics and kinematics for two- and three-dimensional pin-jointed trusses. We begin with reciprocal form and force diagrams. The force diagram is dissected into its component cells...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： McRobie A,Konstantatou M,Athanasopoulos G,Hannigan L

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Possible links between adhesive properties and the pre-sliding (static) friction response of cartilage are not fully understood in the literature. The aims of this study are to investigate the relation between adhesion and relaxation time in articular cartilage, and the effect of relaxation-dependent adhesion on the p...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Han G,Eriten M

更新日期：2018-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a stochastic model, we investigate the probability of fixation, and the average time taken to achieve fixation, of a mutant in a population of wild-types. We do this in a context where the environment in which the competition takes place is subject to stochastic change. Our model takes into account interactions ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Baron JW,Galla T

更新日期：2018-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Butterfly eyespots are known to function in predator deflection and predator intimidation, but it is still unclear what factors cause eyespots to serve one function over the other. Both functions have been demonstrated in different species that varied in eyespot size, eyespot number and wing size, leaving the contribu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ho S,Schachat SR,Piel WH,Monteiro A

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Wetlands provide important ecosystem services to rural communities. However, wetlands are often on communal land, so they may become degraded when individual users act to maximize their personal benefit from ecosystem services without bearing the full environmental costs of their actions. Although it is possible to ma...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Owethu Pantshwa A,Buschke FT

更新日期：2019-06-12 00:00:00