Graded pitch profile for the helicoidal broadband reflector and left-handed circularly polarizing cuticle of the scarab beetle Chrysina chrysargyrea.

abstract：:Given that many fundamental questions in neuroscience are still open, it seems pertinent to explore whether the brain might use other physical modalities than the ones that have been discovered so far. In particular it is well established that neurons can emit photons, which prompts the question whether these biophoto...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kumar S,Boone K,Tuszyński J,Barclay P,Simon C

更新日期：2016-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical presentation of diabetes sometimes overlaps, contributing to ambiguity in the diagnosis. Thus, circulating pancreatic islet-enriched microRNAs (miRNAs) might be useful biomarkers of β-cell injury/dysfunction that would allow more accurate subtyping of diabetes. We measured plasma levels of selected miRNAs...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Seyhan AA,Nunez Lopez YO,Xie H,Yi F,Mathews C,Pasarica M,Pratley RE

更新日期：2016-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased risk of comorbidities has been reported in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (RMD). We aimed to evaluate the prevalence and pattern of comorbidities in RMD patients nationwide, to identify multimorbidity clusters and to evaluate the gap between recommendations and real screening. Cross-sectional, multic...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ziade N,El Khoury B,Zoghbi M,Merheb G,Abi Karam G,Mroue' K,Messaykeh J

更新日期：2020-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxytocin (OXT) is an important neuromodulator of social behaviors via activation of both oxytocin receptors (OXTR) and vasopressin (AVP) 1a receptors (AVPR1a). Marmosets are neotropical primates with a modified OXT ligand (Pro8-OXT), and this ligand shows significant coevolution with traits including social monogamy a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mustoe A,Schulte NA,Taylor JH,French JA,Toews ML

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of free mate choice on the relative magnitude of fitness benefits has been examined among various species. The majority of the data show significant fitness benefits of mating with partners of an individual's own choice, highlighting elevated behavioral compatibility between partners with free mate choice. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sorokowski P,Groyecka A,Karwowski M,Manral U,Kumar A,Niemczyk A,Marczak M,Misiak M,Sorokowska A,Huanca T,Conde E,Wojciszke B,Pawłowski B

更新日期：2017-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal-insulator transition is observed in the La0.8Sr0.2MnO3 thin films with thickness larger than 5 unit cells. Insulating phase at lower temperature appeared in the ultrathin films with thickness ranging from 6 unit cells to 10 unit cells and it is found that the Mott variable range hopping conduction dominates in t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Feng Y,Jin KJ,Gu L,He X,Ge C,Zhang QH,He M,Guo QL,Wan Q,He M,Lu HB,Yang G

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA-130b (miR-130b) downregulation has been identified in diabetes, but the role and mechanisms for miR-130b in mediating renal tubulointerstitial fibrosis in diabetic nephropathy (DN) remain unknown. We demonstrated that plasma miR-130b downregulation exhibited clinical and biological relevance as it was linked ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bai X,Geng J,Zhou Z,Tian J,Li X

更新日期：2016-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the production of ferromagnetic graphene as an extremely important matter in spintronics has made a revolution in future technology, a great deal of efforts has recently been done to reach a simple and cost-effective method. Up to now, controlling the magnetic properties at extremely low temperature have been in...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Alimohammadian M,Sohrabi B

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the magnetic field control of a bipolar resistive switching in Ag/TiO2/FTO based resistive random access memory device through I-V characteristics. Essentially, in the presence of magnetic field and in the low resistance state, an abrupt change in the resistance of the device demands higher voltage, hinti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sahu DP,Jammalamadaka SN

更新日期：2017-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Most risk analysis models systematically underestimate the probability and impact of catastrophic events (e.g., economic crises, natural disasters, and terrorism) by not taking into account interconnectivity and interdependence of risks. To address this weakness, we propose the Cascading Alternating Renewal Process (C...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lin X,Moussawi A,Korniss G,Bakdash JZ,Szymanski BK

更新日期：2017-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly sensitive bismuth/silver nanoparticles/Nafion-modified screen-printed graphene electrode was fabricated and was utilized for the detection of trace lead (Pb) concentrations in river water samples prior to and after remediation using calamansi (Citrofortunella Microcarpa) rinds in different forms viz., ground ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Palisoc ST,Vitto RIM,Noel MG,Palisoc KT,Natividad MT

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT) is a rate-limiting enzyme in the salvage pathway of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide biosynthesis. NAMPT protein is a secreted plasma biomarker in inflammation and in cancer. The NAMPT enzymatic inhibitor, FK866, acts as an inducer of apoptosis and is a cancer therapeuti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhou T,Wang T,Garcia JG

更新日期：2014-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Drugs of abuse represent a growing public health crisis. Accumulating evidence indicates that gabapentin (GBP), a prescription drug, is prone to misuse, abuse, withdrawal, and dependence. Commonly, drugs of abuse modulate the dopaminergic system to induce addiction. In this study, we used the conditioned place prefere...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Althobaiti YS,Alghorabi A,Alshehri FS,Baothman B,Almalki AH,Alsaab HO,Alsanie W,Gaber A,Almalki H,Alghamdi AS,Basfer A,Althobaiti S,Hardy AMG,Shah ZA

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between diverse species that coexist in nature are of utmost interest in the field of ecology. Recent theoretical studies have shown that spatiality plays a key role in maintaining complex systems with multiple differing species. In these models, however, organisms move among habitats randomly, implying t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mougi A

更新日期：2019-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a definite relationship between alcohol consumption and colorectal cancer (CRC) development. We investigated effect of alcohol consumption on CRC patients' progression and prognosis by utilizing epidemiological data and found patients with alcohol consumption increased risks of tumor-node-metastasis (TNM), or...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhao H,Chen D,Cao R,Wang S,Yu D,Liu Y,Jiang Y,Xu M,Luo J,Wang S

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve the performance of solar photovoltaic devices one should mitigate three types of losses: optical, electrical and thermal. However, further reducing the optical and electrical losses in modern photovoltaic devices is becoming increasingly costly. Therefore, there is a rising interest in minimizing the therma...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vaillon R,Dupré O,Cal RB,Calaf M

更新日期：2018-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid formation is associated with various pathophysiological conditions like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases as well as many useful functions. The hallmark of amyloid assemblies is a conformational transition of the constituent proteins into a β - sheet rich filament. Accounting for this conformational transit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ranganathan S,Ghosh D,Maji SK,Padinhateeri R

更新日期：2016-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Urban climate is determined by a variety of factors, whose knowledge can help to attenuate heat stress in the context of ongoing urbanization and climate change. We study the influence of city size and urban form on the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon in Europe and find a complex interplay between UHI intensity and...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhou B,Rybski D,Kropp JP

更新日期：2017-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The establishment of a healthy gastrointestinal milieu may not only offer an opportunity to reduce swine production costs but could also open the way for a lifetime of human health improvement. This study investigates the effects of feeding soluble fibre from flaxseed meal-containing diet (FM) and insoluble fibre from...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ndou SP,Tun HM,Kiarie E,Walsh MC,Khafipour E,Nyachoti CM

更新日期：2018-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The widespread use of electric light and electronic devices has resulted in an excessive exposure to light during the late-evening and at night. This late light exposure acutely suppresses melatonin and sleepiness and delays the circadian clock. Here we investigate whether the acute effects of late-evening light expos...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Te Kulve M,Schlangen LJM,van Marken Lichtenbelt WD

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The microwave emitting Radio Electric Asymmetric Conveyor (REAC) is a technology able to interact with biological tissues at low emission intensity (2 mW at the emitter and 2.4 or 5.8 GHz) by inducing radiofrequency generated microcurrents. It shows remarkable biological effects at many scales from gene modulations up...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zippo AG,Rinaldi S,Pellegata G,Caramenti GC,Valente M,Fontani V,Biella GE

更新日期：2015-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroinflammation is involved in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) and other neurodegenerative disorders. We show that lack of PINK1- a mitochondrial kinase linked to recessive familial PD - leads to glia type-specific abnormalities of innate immunity. PINK1 loss enhances LPS/IFN-γ stimulated pro-inflammato...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sun L,Shen R,Agnihotri SK,Chen Y,Huang Z,Büeler H

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1α and HIF-2α play an important role in liver fibrosis. von Hippel-Lindau protein (VHL), a key mediator of HIF-α, regulates fibrosis in an organ- and cell-specific way. In this study, human liver samples were collected from hepatitis C-, alcoholic-, and cholestatic-associated fibrotic an...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang J,Lu Z,Xu Z,Tian P,Miao H,Pan S,Song R,Sun X,Zhao B,Wang D,Ma Y,Song X,Zhang S,Liu L,Jiang H

更新日期：2017-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated lead concentrations in the hairs of radiographers working in the radiological departments of general hospitals that used lead shielding for radiation protection. We collected scalp hair samples from 32 radiographers working in four radiology departments with lead shielding and 18 administration...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hung MC,Chang P

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation mechanisms, the dynamics of C functional groups and macroaggregation were studied synchronously through aggregate fractionation and (13)C NMR spectroscopy in sandy loam soil following an 18-year application of compost and fertilizer in China. Compared with no fertilize...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yu H,Ding W,Chen Z,Zhang H,Luo J,Bolan N

更新日期：2015-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention can be directed at features and feature dimensions to facilitate perception. Here, we investigated whether feature-based-attention (FBA) can also dynamically weight feature-specific representations within multi-feature objects held in visual working memory (VWM). Across three experiments, participants retain...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Niklaus M,Nobre AC,van Ede F

更新日期：2017-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Different marine habitats are characterised by different soundscapes. How or which differences may be representative of the habitat characteristics and/or community structure remains however to be explored. A growing project in passive acoustics is to find a way to use soundscapes to have information on the habitat an...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bertucci F,Parmentier E,Lecellier G,Hawkins AD,Lecchini D

更新日期：2016-09-15 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 been fixed in the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhou G,Zhu Y,Yin Y,Su M,Li M

更新日期：2018-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Belgian Malinois (BM), one of the excellent military dog breeds in South Korea, is usually castrated before sexual maturation. Therefore, the transfer of their genetic features to the next generation is difficult. To overcome this, testicular cells from 4-month-old BMs were frozen. Testicular cells were thawed after 3...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee KH,Lee WY,Kim DH,Lee SH,Do JT,Park C,Kim JH,Choi YS,Song H

更新日期：2016-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of efficient green light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is of paramount importance for the realization of colour-mixing white LEDs with a high luminous efficiency. While the insertion of an InGaN/GaN superlattice (SL) with a lower In content before the growth of InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells (MQWs) is known...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhou S,Liu X,Yan H,Gao Y,Xu H,Zhao J,Quan Z,Gui C,Liu S

更新日期：2018-07-23 00:00:00