Switchable plasmonic routers controlled by external magnetic fields by using magneto-plasmonic waveguides.

abstract：:The spatio-temporal distribution soil pH is critical for understanding the productivity and long-term sustainability of our agri-ecosystem. This study quantified the spatio-temporal distribution of paddy soil pH in Jiangxi province, China, and the potential driver of the change between 1980 and 2010. Data from the Soi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Guo X,Li H,Yu H,Li W,Ye Y,Biswas A

更新日期：2018-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence indicates that miRNAs play a vital role in biological processes and are closely related to various human diseases. Research on miRNA-disease associations is helpful not only for disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment, but also for new drug identification and lead compound discovery. A novel se...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li J,Chen X,Huang Q,Wang Y,Xie Y,Dai Z,Zou X,Li Z

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma proteins such as fibrinogen induce the aggregation of red blood cells (RBC) into rouleaux, which are responsible for the pronounced shear thinning behavior of blood, control the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) - a common hematological test - and are involved in many situations of physiological relevance su...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Flormann D,Aouane O,Kaestner L,Ruloff C,Misbah C,Podgorski T,Wagner C

更新日期：2017-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Copy number variation (CNV) is a newly discovered form of intra-species genetic polymorphism that is defined as deletions or duplications of genome segments ranging from 1 kbp to several Mbp. CNV accounts for the majority of the genetic variation observed in humans (CNV regions cover more than 10% of the human genome)...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Budzko L,Marcinkowska-Swojak M,Jackowiak P,Kozlowski P,Figlerowicz M

更新日期：2016-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson disease (PD) is characterized by a pivotal progressive loss of substantia nigra dopaminergic neurons and aggregation of α-synuclein protein encoded by the SNCA gene. Genome-wide association studies identified almost 100 sequence variants linked to PD in SNCA. However, the consequences of this genetic variabi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sharma A,Osato N,Liu H,Asthana S,Dakal TC,Ambrosini G,Bucher P,Schmitt I,Wüllner U

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) is well known as a high-priority pollutant. This study explored the impacts of DBP on the metabolic pathways of microbes in black soils in the short term (20 days). The results showed that the microbial communities were changed in black soils with DBP. In nitrogen cycling, the abundances of the...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xu W,You Y,Wang Z,Chen W,Zeng J,Zhao X,Su Y

更新日期：2018-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:As critical primary producers and recyclers of organic matter, the diversity of marine protists has been extensively explored by high-throughput barcode sequencing. However, classification of short metabarcoding sequences into traditional taxonomic units is not trivial, especially for lineages mainly known by their ge...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cai R,Kayal E,Alves-de-Souza C,Bigeard E,Corre E,Jeanthon C,Marie D,Porcel BM,Siano R,Szymczak J,Wolf M,Guillou L

更新日期：2020-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We collected Solidago altissima clones to explore their leaf damage resistance, and as a result identified five accessions that exhibited variable defense abilities against the generalist herbivore Spodoptera litura. In order to characterize molecules involved in such natural variation, we focused on ethylene response...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Takafuji K,Rim H,Kawauchi K,Mujiono K,Shimokawa S,Ando Y,Shiojiri K,Galis I,Arimura GI

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability for magnetite to act as a recyclable electron donor and acceptor for Fe-metabolizing bacteria has recently been shown. However, it remains poorly understood whether microbe-mineral interfacial electron transfer processes are limited by the redox capacity of the magnetite surface or that of whole particles....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Byrne JM,van der Laan G,Figueroa AI,Qafoku O,Wang C,Pearce CI,Jackson M,Feinberg J,Rosso KM,Kappler A

更新日期：2016-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Both heart rate (HR) and brain functioning involve the integrated output of a multitude of regulatory mechanisms, that are not quantified adequately by linear approximations such as means and standard deviations. It was therefore considered whether non-linear measures of HR complexity are more strongly associated with...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Young H,Benton D

更新日期：2015-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the use of metabarcoding to identify taxa in DNA mixtures is widely approved, its reliability in quantifying taxon abundance is still the subject of debate. In this study we investigated the relationships between the amount of pollen grains in mock solutions and the abundance of high-throughput sequence reads...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Baksay S,Pornon A,Burrus M,Mariette J,Andalo C,Escaravage N

更新日期：2020-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss-of-function mutations in the E3 ubiquitin ligase parkin have been implicated in the death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, which is the root cause of dopamine deficit in the striatum in Parkinson's disease. Parkin ubiquitinates proteins on mitochondria that lost membrane potential, promoting the e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kook S,Zhan X,Thibeault K,Ahmed MR,Gurevich VV,Gurevich EV

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of hepatic steatosis (HS) is an important histological feature in a variety of liver disease. It is critical to assess HS accurately, particularly where it plays an integral part in defining the disease. Conventional methods of quantifying HS remain semi-quantitative, with potential limitations in precisi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Goh GB,Leow WQ,Liang S,Wan WK,Lim TKH,Tan CK,Chang PE

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Male Wistar rats were exposed to herbicide, pendimethalin (PND) at varying oral doses of 62.5, 125 and 250 mg/kg b.w. for 14 days. Toxiological effects were assessed in terms of oxidative stress, DNA damage, histopathological alterations and induction of anti-inflammatory and apoptotic responses linked Bax, Bcl-2, IFN...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ahmad MI,Zafeer MF,Javed M,Ahmad M

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene overexpression through the targeting of transcription activation domains to regulatory DNA via catalytically defective Cas9 (dCas9) represents a powerful approach to investigate gene function as well as the mechanisms of gene control. To date, the most efficient dCas9-based activator is the Synergistic Activation...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sajwan S,Mannervik M

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous stress represents a major source of genome instability, but is in essence difficult to apprehend. Incorporation of labeled radionuclides into DNA constitutes a tractable model to analyze cellular responses to endogenous attacks. Here we show that incorporation of [(3)H]thymidine into CHO cells generates oxi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Saintigny Y,Chevalier F,Bravard A,Dardillac E,Laurent D,Hem S,Dépagne J,Radicella JP,Lopez BS

更新日期：2016-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3D cell culture is preferred to 2D cell culture since it allows cells to grow in all directions in vitro, similar to how they would in vivo. 3D cell culture plates currently used in tissue engineering research have limited access to control the geometry. Furthermore, 3D cell culture plate manufacturing methods are r...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee D,Pathak S,Jeong JH

更新日期：2019-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic airway infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa contribute to the progression of pulmonary disease in individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF). In the setting of CF, within-patient adaptation of a P. aeruginosa strain generates phenotypic diversity that can complicate microbiological analysis of patient sample...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Clark ST,Diaz Caballero J,Cheang M,Coburn B,Wang PW,Donaldson SL,Zhang Y,Liu M,Keshavjee S,Yau YC,Waters VJ,Elizabeth Tullis D,Guttman DS,Hwang DM

更新日期：2015-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike MoS2 ultra-thin films, where solution-based single source precursor synthesis for electronic applications has been widely studied, growing uniform and large area few-layer WS2 films using this approach has been more challenging. Here, we report a method for growth of few-layer WS2 that results in continuous and...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Abbas OA,Zeimpekis I,Wang H,Lewis AH,Sessions NP,Ebert M,Aspiotis N,Huang CC,Hewak D,Mailis S,Sazio P

更新日期：2020-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus (SRBSDV), a newly emerged fijivirus causing great loss to rice production in eastern and southeastern Asian countries in recent years, is efficiently transmitted by a rice pest, white-backed planthopper (WBPH, Sogatella furcifera) in a persistent, circulative propagative manner...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xu D,Zhong T,Feng W,Zhou G

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The indirect interactions between insect vectors, such as whiteflies, and the viruses they transmit, such as begomoviruses, via host plants may produce a range of outcome depending on the species/strain of each of the three organisms involved, and the mechanisms underlying the variations are not well understood. Here,...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sun YC,Pan LL,Ying FZ,Li P,Wang XW,Liu SS

更新日期：2017-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing prevalence of resistance to antibiotics motivates the search for new antibacterial agents. Antimicrobial peptides are a diverse class of well-studied membrane-active peptides which function as part of the innate host defence system, and form a promising avenue in antibiotic drug research. Some antimicrobia...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Timmons PB,Hewage CM

更新日期：2020-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a scheme for generating an entangled state for two atoms trapped in two separate cavities coupled to each other. The scheme is based on the competition between the unitary dynamics induced by the classical fields and the collective decays induced by the dissipation of two non-local bosonic modes. In this sc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jin Z,Su SL,Zhu AD,Wang HF,Shen LT,Zhang S

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is an essential cellular mechanism that degrades cytoplasmic proteins and organelles to recycle their components; however, the contribution of autophagy during meiosis has not been studied in porcine oocytes maturing in vitro. In this study, we observed that the autophagy-related gene, LC3, was expressed in ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shen XH,Jin YX,Liang S,Kwon JW,Zhu JW,Lei L,Kim NH

更新日期：2018-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Active immunotherapy targeting β-amyloid (Aβ) is the most promising strategy to prevent or treat Alzheimer's disease (AD). Based on pre-clinical studies and clinical trials, a safe and effective AD vaccine requires a delicate balance between providing therapeutically adequate anti-Aβ antibodies and eliminating or supp...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu S,Shi D,Wang HC,Yu YZ,Xu Q,Sun ZW

更新日期：2015-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Sustainable wastewater treatment has been attracting increasing attentions over the past decades. However, the production of nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent GHG, from the energy-efficient granule-based autotrophic nitrogen removal is largely unknown. This study applied a previously established N2O model, which incorpora...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Peng L,Sun J,Liu Y,Dai X,Ni BJ

更新日期：2017-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Invisibility cloak capable of hiding an object can be achieved by properly manipulating electromagnetic field. Such a remarkable ability has been shown in transformation and ray optics. Alternatively, it may be realistic to create a spatial cloak by means of confining electromagnetic field in three-dimensional arrayed...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Feng Z,Wu BH,Zhao YX,Gao J,Qiao LF,Yang AL,Lin XF,Jin XM

更新日期：2016-06-22 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：:Hemodialysis patients are a special group of patients with higher mortality rates. Hemodialysis patients with vitamin D deficiency {plasma levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] below 20 ng/mL} are associated with even higher mortality rates. The prognostic importance of vitamin D deficiency in hemodialysis patients ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hsu HJ,Wu IW,Hsu KH,Sun CY,Chen CY,Lee CC

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of a mechanical oscillator with the operation actions and environment fields will give rise to the splitting of normal modes. In this study, we investigate the normal mode splitting behaviour of a moving-particles-pumped single-span clamped-hinged elastic homogeneous beam based on the proposed multi-oc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sun Z

更新日期：2018-06-28 00:00:00