Pleasantness and trigeminal sensations as salient dimensions in organizing the semantic and physiological spaces of odors.

abstract：:The Killari Earthquake (Moment magnitude 6.1) of September 30, 1993, occurred in the state of Maharashtra, India, has an epicenter (18°03' N, 76°33' E) located at ~ 40 km SSW of Killari Town. The ~ 125 km long basin of Tirna River, close to the Killari Town, currently occupies the area that has witnessed episodic intr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lakshmi BV,Deenadayalan K,Gawali PB,Misra S

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles (NPs)-reduced graphene oxide (RGO), α-FeOOH nanorods (NRs)-RGO and porous α-Fe2O3 NRs-RGO could be selectively synthesized by hydrothermal method. The investigations indicated that the obtained α-Fe2O3 NPs, α-FeOOH NRs and porous α-Fe2O3 NRs were either attached on the surface of R...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hu Q,Qi X,Cai H,Xie R,Long L,Bai Z,Jiang Y,Qin S,Zhong W,Du Y

更新日期：2017-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein, we propose a new strategy of maskless lithographic approach to fabricate micro/nano-porous structures by phase separation of polystyrene (PS)/Polyethylene glycol (PEG) immiscible polymer blend. Its simple process only involves a spin coating of polymer blend followed by a development with deionized water rinse...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Guo X,Liu L,Zhuang Z,Chen X,Ni M,Li Y,Cui Y,Zhan P,Yuan C,Ge H,Wang Z,Chen Y

更新日期：2015-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A potted experiment with Populus × euramericana 'Neva' was carried out to assess whether there are positive effects of magnetic treatment of saline water (MTSW) on nitrogen metabolism under controlled conditions in a greenhouse. Growth properties, nitrogen contents, enzyme activities and metabolite concentrations were...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu X,Zhu H,Wang L,Bi S,Zhang Z,Meng S,Zhang Y,Wang H,Song C,Ma F

更新日期：2019-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-wavelength luminescence is essential for high-performance optoelectronic device applications. There have been efforts to obtain intense ultraviolet (UV) emission by encapsulating ZnO one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures with materials such as ZnS. However, the encapsulation of ZnS 1D nanostructures with ZnO has n...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee JK,Sun GJ,Lee WS,Hyun SK,Kim KK,Choi SB,Lee C

更新日期：2017-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant chloroplasts proliferate through binary fission, and the stromal-side molecules that are involved in chloroplast division are bacterial derivatives. As in bacteria, the prokaryotic tubulin homolog FtsZ assembles into a ring-like structure (Z ring) at mid-chloroplast, and this process is followed by constriction....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Irieda H,Shiomi D

更新日期：2017-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Baited remote underwater video cameras were deployed in the Eastern Canadian Arctic, for the purpose of estimating local densities of the long-lived Greenland shark within five deep-water, data-poor regions of interest for fisheries development and marine conservation in Nunavut, Canada. A total of 31 camera deploymen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Devine BM,Wheeland LJ,Fisher JAD

更新日期：2018-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Over-exploitation of groundwater and marked changes in climate over the years have imposed immense pressure on the global groundwater resources. As demand of potable water increases across the globe for human consumption, agriculture and industrial uses, the need to evaluate the groundwater potential and productivity ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Arulbalaji P,Padmalal D,Sreelash K

更新日期：2019-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have successfully grown centimeter-sized layered [Formula: see text] single crystals under high oxygen pressures of 120-150 bar by the floating zone technique. This enabled us to perform neutron scattering experiments where we observe close to quarter-integer magnetic peaks below [Formula: see text] that are accomp...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Guo H,Li ZW,Chang CF,Hu Z,Kuo CY,Perring TG,Schmidt W,Piovano A,Schmalzl K,Walker HC,Lin HJ,Chen CT,Blanco-Canosa S,Schlappa J,Schüßler-Langeheine C,Hansmann P,Khomskii DI,Tjeng LH,Komarek AC

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying early-warning signals of a critical transition for a complex system is difficult, especially when the target system is constantly perturbed by big noise, which makes the traditional methods fail due to the strong fluctuations of the observed data. In this work, we show that the critical transition is not t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu R,Chen P,Aihara K,Chen L

更新日期：2015-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral microbiome dysbiosis has been associated with various local and systemic human diseases such as dental caries, periodontal disease, obesity, and cardiovascular disease. Bacterial composition may be affected by age, oral health, diet, and geography, although information about the natural variation found in the gen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Burcham ZM,Garneau NL,Comstock SS,Tucker RM,Knight R,Metcalf JL,Genetics of Taste Lab Citizen Scientists.

更新日期：2020-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mapping near-field profiles and dynamics of surface plasmon polaritons is crucial for understanding their fundamental optical properties and designing miniaturized photonic devices. This requires a spatial resolution on the sub-wavelength scale because the effective polariton wavelength is shorter than free-space exci...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Du L,Lei DY,Yuan G,Fang H,Zhang X,Wang Q,Tang D,Min C,Maier SA,Yuan X

更新日期：2013-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A major translational challenge in the fields of therapeutic angiogenesis and regenerative medicine is the need to create functional microvasculature. The purpose of this study was to assess whether a potentially autologous endothelial cell (EC) source derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC-ECs) can f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bezenah JR,Kong YP,Putnam AJ

更新日期：2018-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite non-structural carbohydrate (NSC) importance for tree productivity and resilience, little is known about their seasonal regulations and trade-off with growth and reproduction. We characterize the seasonal dynamics of NSC in relation to the aboveground phenology and temporal growth patterns of three deciduous M...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tixier A,Guzmán-Delgado P,Sperling O,Amico Roxas A,Laca E,Zwieniecki MA

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Food constitutes a fuel of life for human beings. It is therefore of chief importance that their recognition system readily identifies the most relevant properties of food by drawing on semantic memory. One of the most relevant properties to be considered is the level of processing impressed by humans on food. We hypo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vignando M,Aiello M,Rinaldi A,Cattarruzza T,Mazzon G,Manganotti P,Eleopra R,Rumiati RI

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingobium sp. strain TCM1 can degrade tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP) to inorganic phosphate and 2-chloroethanol. A phosphotriesterase (PTE), phosphodiesterase (PDE) and phosphomonoesterase (PME) are believed to be involved in the degradation of TCEP. The PTE and PME that respectively catalyze the first and thi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Abe K,Mukai N,Morooka Y,Makino T,Oshima K,Takahashi S,Kera Y

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:There are large health, societal, and economic costs associated with attrition from psychological services. The recently emerged, innovative statistical tool of complex network analysis was used in the present proof-of-concept study to improve the prediction of attrition. Fifty-eight patients undergoing psychological ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lutz W,Schwartz B,Hofmann SG,Fisher AJ,Husen K,Rubel JA

更新日期：2018-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:It is highly important to understand the heterogeneous wettability properties of porous media for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). However, wettability measurements are still challenging in directly investigating the wettability of porous media. In this paper, we propose a multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang J,Xiao L,Liao G,Zhang Y,Guo L,Arns CH,Sun Z

更新日期：2018-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Arctic and alpine environments present extreme, but different, challenges to survival. We therefore studied the ecological adaptation of the arctic-alpine fritillary Boloria napaea in northern Sweden and compared these results with the eastern Alps. Using mark-release-recapture, we analysed phenology, mobility, activi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ehl S,Holzhauer SIJ,Ryrholm N,Schmitt T

更新日期：2019-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum key distribution involving decoy-states is a significant application of quantum information. By using three-intensity decoy-states of single-photon-added coherent sources, we propose a practically realizable scheme on quantum key distribution which approaches very closely the ideal asymptotic case of an infini...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang D,Li M,Guo GC,Wang Q

更新日期：2015-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat fragmentation is considered as major threat to biodiversity worldwide. Biodiversity can be described as taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity. However, the effect of forest fragmentation on taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity is barely understood. We compare the response of taxonomic (s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bełcik M,Lenda M,Amano T,Skórka P

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced glycation end-products (AGEs)-induced mesangial cell death is one of major causes of glomerulus dysfunction in diabetic nephropathy. Both endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and autophagy are adaptive responses in cells under environmental stress and participate in the renal diseases. The role of ER stress and ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chiang CK,Wang CC,Lu TF,Huang KH,Sheu ML,Liu SH,Hung KY

更新日期：2016-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor growth and metastasis are responsible for most cancer patients' deaths. Here, we report that eupolyphaga sinensis walker has an essential role in resisting hepatocellular carcinoma growth and metastasis. Compared with proliferation, colony formation, transwell assay and transplantable tumor in nude mouse in vitr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Y,Zhan Y,Zhang D,Dai B,Ma W,Qi J,Liu R,He L

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting regions at risk from introductions of non-native species and the subsequent invasions is a fundamental aspect of horizon scanning activities that enable the development of more effective preventative actions and planning of management measures. The Asian cyprinid fish topmouth gudgeon Pseudorasbora parva ha...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fletcher DH,Gillingham PK,Britton JR,Blanchet S,Gozlan RE

更新日期：2016-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals have evolved limb proportions adapted to different environments, but it is not yet clear to what extent these proportions are directly influenced by the environment during prenatal development. The developing skeleton experiences mechanical loading resulting from embryo movement. We tested the hypothesis that ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pollard AS,Charlton BG,Hutchinson JR,Gustafsson T,McGonnell IM,Timmons JA,Pitsillides AA

更新日期：2017-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:High throughput sequencing techniques are poorly adapted for in vivo studies of parasites, which require prior in vitro culturing and purification. Trypanosomatids, a group of kinetoplastid protozoans, possess a distinctive feature in their transcriptional mechanism whereby a specific Spliced Leader (SL) sequence is a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cuypers B,Domagalska MA,Meysman P,Muylder G,Vanaerschot M,Imamura H,Dumetz F,Verdonckt TW,Myler PJ,Ramasamy G,Laukens K,Dujardin JC

更新日期：2017-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In most species, fertilization induces Ca2+ transients in the egg. In mammals, the Ca2+ rises are triggered by phospholipase Cζ (PLCζ) released from the sperm; IP3 generated by PLCζ induces Ca2+ release from the intracellular Ca2+ store through IP3 receptor, termed IP3-induced Ca2+ release. Here, we developed new fluo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Matsu-Ura T,Shirakawa H,Suzuki KGN,Miyamoto A,Sugiura K,Michikawa T,Kusumi A,Mikoshiba K

更新日期：2019-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear factor-kB (NF-kB) is a crucial transcription factor in the signal transduction cascade of the inflammatory signaling. Activation of NF-κB depends on the phosphorylation of IκBα by IκB kinase (IKKβ) followed by subsequent ubiquitination and degradation. This leads to the nuclear translocation of the p50- p65 su...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Baig MS,Roy A,Saqib U,Rajpoot S,Srivastava M,Naim A,Liu D,Saluja R,Faisal SM,Pan Q,Turkowski K,Darwhekar GN,Savai R

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:It is frequently assumed that in the limit of vanishing cooling rate, the glass transition phenomenon becomes a thermodynamic transition at a temperature TK. However, with any finite cooling rate, the system falls out of equilibrium at temperatures near Tg(>TK), implying that the very existence of the putative thermod...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chakrabarty S,Karmakar S,Dasgupta C

更新日期：2015-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the efficacy and tolerability of intravenous ibuprofen in the improvement of post-operative pain control and the reduction of opioid usage. Patients were randomly divided into placebo, ibuprofen 400 mg and ibuprofen 800 mg groups. All patients received patient-controlled intravenous morphine analge...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu X,Wang X,Zhao W,Wei L,Zhang P,Han F

更新日期：2018-07-05 00:00:00