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abstract：:Under the current amphibian biodiversity crisis, common species provide an opportunity to measure population dynamics across a wide range of environmental conditions while examining the processes that determine abundance and structure geographical ranges. Studying species at their range limits also provides a window f...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Hernández-Pacheco R,Sutherland C,Thompson LM,Grayson KL

更新日期：2019-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceratopsids are among the most ubiquitous dinosaur taxa from the Late Cretaceous terrestrial formations of the Western Interior of North America, comprising two subfamilies, Chasmosaurinae and Centrosaurinae. The Two Medicine Formation of northwestern Montana has produced numerous remains of centrosaurine dinosaurs, w...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wilson JP,Ryan MJ,Evans DC

更新日期：2020-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregation into amyloid deposits and oxidative stress are key features of many neurodegenerative disorders including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. We report here the creation of four highly sensitive bifunctional fluorescent probes, capable of H2O2 and/or amyloid aggregate detection. These bifunctional...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Needham LM,Weber J,Fyfe JWB,Kabia OM,Do DT,Klimont E,Zhang Y,Rodrigues M,Dobson CM,Ghandi S,Bohndiek SE,Snaddon TN,Lee SF

更新日期：2018-02-07 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：:The ability to attribute intentions to others is a hallmark of human social cognition but is altered in paranoia. Paranoia is the most common positive symptom of psychosis but is also present to varying degrees in the general population. Epidemiological models suggest that psychosis risk is associated with low social ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Saalfeld V,Ramadan Z,Bell V,Raihani NJ

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：:By the slight adjustment of oxides constituting thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) substrate glass, including equal mole fraction substitution of Al2O3, GeO2, B2O3, P2O5 and ZrO2 for SiO2, as well as the substitution of CaO for SrO with the total contents unchanged, the structural and physico-chemic...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Cui J,Cao X,Shi L,Zhong Z,Wang P,Ma L

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Stochastic fluctuations in reaction-diffusion processes often have substantial effect on spatial and temporal dynamics of signal transductions in complex biological systems. One popular approach for simulating these processes is to divide the system into small spatial compartments assuming that molecules react only wi...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Lo WC,Zheng L,Nie Q

更新日期：2016-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans subtly synchronize body movement during face-to-face conversation. In this context, bodily synchrony has been linked to affiliation and social bonding, task success and comprehension, and potential conflict. Almost all studies of conversational synchrony involve dyads, and relatively less is known about the str...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Dale R,Bryant GA,Manson JH,Gervais MM

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Food quality control is a mandatory task in the food industry and relies on the availability of simple, cost-effective and stable sensing platforms. In the present work, the applicability of bare glassy carbon electrodes for routine analysis of food samples was evaluated as a valid alternative to chromatographic techn...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Redivo L,Stredanský M,De Angelis E,Navarini L,Resmini M,Švorc Ĺ

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We combined clinical, cytokine, genomic, methylation and dietary data from 43 young adult monozygotic twin pairs (aged 22-36 years, 53% female), where 25 of the twin pairs were substantially weight discordant (delta body mass index > 3 kg m-2). These measurements were originally taken as part of the TwinFat study, a s...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kibble M,Khan SA,Ammad-Ud-Din M,Bollepalli S,Palviainen T,Kaprio J,Pietiläinen KH,Ollikainen M

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider a directed graph model for the human brain's neural architecture that is based on small scale, directed, strongly connected sub-graphs (SCGs) of neurons, that are connected together by a sparser mesoscopic network. We assume transmission delays within neuron-to-neuron stimulation, and that individual neuro...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Grindrod P,Lee TE

更新日期：2017-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, an environmentally friendly extraction method for flavonoid compound from Ixora javanica, as a new raw material candidate for herbal medicine and cosmetics, was developed. The objectives of the present work were to provide recommendations for the optimal extraction conditions and to investigate the effe...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Oktaviyanti ND,Kartini K,Hadiyat MA,Rachmawati E,Wijaya AC,Hayun H,Mun'im A

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Provisioning wildlife for tourism is a controversial yet widespread practice. We analysed the residency patterns of juvenile whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) in Oslob, Philippines, where provisioning has facilitated a large shark-watching operation since 2011. We identified 208 individual sharks over three years, with a...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Thomson JA,Araujo G,Labaja J,McCoy E,Murray R,Ponzo A

更新日期：2017-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Multituberculate mammals thrived during the Mesozoic, but their diversity declined from the mid-late Paleocene onwards, becoming extinct in the late Eocene. The radiation of superficially similar, eutherian rodents has been linked to multituberculate extinction through competitive exclusion. However, characteristics p...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Adams NF,Rayfield EJ,Cox PG,Cobb SN,Corfe IJ

更新日期：2019-03-27 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：:Building information modelling (BIM) can be applied to tunnel engineering to address a number of problems, including complex structure, extensive design, long construction cycle and increased security risks. To promote the development of tunnel engineering in China, this paper combines actual cases, including the Xing...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zhou W,Qin H,Qiu J,Fan H,Lai J,Wang K,Wang L

更新日期：2017-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the chemical and nutritional profile and antioxidative properties of cultivated Coprinus comatus. Proximate analysis revealed that C. comatus is rich in carbohydrates, dietary fibres and proteins, and could also be a valuable source of phenolics. Additionally, fat content is low, consisting mai...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Stilinović N,Čapo I,Vukmirović S,Rašković A,Tomas A,Popović M,Sabo A

更新日期：2020-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanofertilization is postulated as a new technology to deal with the environmental problems caused by the intensive use of traditional fertilizers. One of the aims of this new technology is to improve foliar fertilization, which has many environmental advantages, but currently there are numerous factors that limit its...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Rios JJ,Yepes-Molina L,Martinez-Alonso A,Carvajal M

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of how we attribute observed body parts as our own, and the consequences of this attribution on our sensory-motor processes, is fundamental to understand how our brain distinguishes between self and other. Previous studies have identified interactions between the illusion of ownership, and multi-sensory i...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Aymerich-Franch L,Petit D,Kheddar A,Ganesh G

更新日期：2016-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Many important data types, such as the spike trains recorded from neurons in typical electrophysiological experiments, have a natural notion of distance or similarity between data points, even though there is no obvious coordinate system. Here, a simple Kozachenko-Leonenko estimator is derived for calculating the mutu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Houghton C

更新日期：2015-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans are often considered egocentric creatures, particularly (and ironically) when we are supposed to take another person's perspective over our own (i.e. when we use our theory of mind). We investigated the underlying causes of this phenomenon. We gave young adult participants a false belief task (Sandbox Task) in ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Samuel S,Legg EW,Lurz R,Clayton NS

更新日期：2018-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1665, Huygens observed that two identical pendulum clocks, weakly coupled through a heavy beam, soon synchronized with the same period and amplitude but with the two pendula swinging in opposite directions. This behaviour is now called anti-phase synchronization. This paper presents an analysis of the behaviour of ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Willms AR,Kitanov PM,Langford WF

更新日期：2017-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:When we represent real-world systems as networks, the directions of links often convey valuable information. Finding module structures that respect link directions is one of the most important tasks for analysing directed networks. Although many notions of a directed module have been proposed, no consensus has been re...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Takaguchi T,Yoshida Y

更新日期：2016-11-30 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：: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：:Archosauria (birds, crocodilians and their extinct relatives) form a major part of terrestrial ecosystems today, with over 10 000 living species, and came to dominate the land for most of the Mesozoic (over 150 Myr) after radiating following the Permian-Triassic extinction. The archosaur skull has been essential to th...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sookias RB,Dilkes D,Sobral G,Smith RMH,Wolvaardt FP,Arcucci AB,Bhullar BS,Werneburg I

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Metacommunity theory highlights the potential of β-diversity as a useful link to empirical research, especially in diverse systems where species exhibit a range of stage-dependent dispersal characteristics. To investigate the importance of different components and scales of β-diversity in community assembly, we conduc...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chiantore M,Thrush SF,Asnaghi V,Hewitt JE

更新日期：2018-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Volatile essential oils (EOs), non-volatile rutin (RU), quercetin (QU), kaempferol (KA) and isorhamnetin (IS) were effectively extracted and isolated from seabuckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.) leaves by ionic liquid-based ultrasound/microwave-assisted simultaneous distillation extraction (ILUMASDE). After optimizatio...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Li C,Zhang J,Zhao C,Yang L,Zhao W,Jiang H,Ren X,Su W,Li Y,Guan J

更新日期：2018-07-18 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