Advancing risk assessment: mechanistic dose-response modelling of Listeria monocytogenes infection in human populations.

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：:Using density functional theory approaches, we follow the sequential addition of CF3 functional groups to the surface of the metallic endofullerene species Gd@C60. The presence of gadolinium in the interior of the cage strongly influences the addition sequence. The calculations are able to successfully identify end po...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ewels C,Rio J,Niwa H,Omachi H,Shinohara H,Rayson M,Briddon P

更新日期：2018-09-05 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：:A global response function (GRF) of an elastic network is introduced as a generalization of the response function (RF) of a rigid network, relating the average flow along the network with the pressure difference at its extremes. The GRF can be used to explore the frequency behaviour of a fluid confined in a tree-like ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yáñez D,Travasso RDM,Corvera Poiré E

更新日期：2019-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Four model polyurethane (PU) hard segments were synthesized by reaction of butanol with four typical diisocyanates. The four diisocyanates were aromatic 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (4,4'-MDI) and MDI-50 (50% mixture of 2,4'-MDI and 4,4'-MDI), cycloaliphatic 4,4'-dicyclohexylmethane diisocyanate (HMDI) and linear...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Jiang L,Ren Z,Zhao W,Liu W,Liu H,Zhu C

更新日期：2018-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The exceptional reactivity of animal collectives to predatory attacks is thought to be owing to rapid, but local, transfer of information between group members. These groups turn together in unison and produce escape waves. However, it is not clear how escape waves are created from local interactions, nor is it unders...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Herbert-Read JE,Buhl J,Hu F,Ward AJ,Sumpter DJ

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a novel method to simulate soft tissue deformation for virtual surgery applications. The method considers the mechanical properties of soft tissue, such as its viscoelasticity, nonlinearity and incompressibility; its speed, stability and accuracy also meet the requirements for a surgery simulator. Modifying...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Xu L,Lu Y,Liu Q

更新日期：2018-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Ants build complex nest structures by reacting to simple, local stimuli. While underground nests result from the space generated by digging, some leaf- and grass-cutting ants also construct conspicuous aboveground turrets around nest openings. We investigated whether the selection of specific building materials occurs...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Römer D,Cosarinsky MI,Roces F

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing amount of plastic littered into the sea may provide a new substratum for benthic organisms. These marine fouling communities on plastic have not received much scientific attention. We present, to our knowledge, the first comprehensive analysis of their macroscopic community composition, their primary pr...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Pauli NC,Petermann JS,Lott C,Weber M

更新日期：2017-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression profile of miRNAs and their function in condyloma acuminatum (CA) remains unknown. In this study, we aimed to detect the effects of miR-143 and miR-145, the most downregulated in CA samples using high-throughput sequencing, on cell proliferation and apoptosis, to determine a novel therapeutic target for...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Liu X,Zhang Y,Wang S,Liu G,Ruan L

更新日期：2018-08-29 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：:Difluoromethanesulfonyl hypervalent iodonium ylides 2 were developed as electrophilic difluoromethylthiolation reagents for a wide range of nucleophiles. Enamines, indoles, β-keto esters, silyl enol ethers and pyrroles were effectively reacted with 2 affording desired difluoromethylthio (SCF2H)-substituted compounds i...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Arimori S,Matsubara O,Takada M,Shiro M,Shibata N

更新日期：2016-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolism is the only biological system that can be fully modelled at genome scale. As a result, metabolic models have been increasingly used to study the molecular mechanisms of various diseases. Hypoxia, a low-oxygen tension, is a well-known characteristic of many cancer cells. Pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) controls...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Eyassu F,Angione C

更新日期：2017-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally recognized that dimethylformamide (DMF) and ethanol are good media to uniformly disperse graphene, and therefore have been used widely in the preparation of epoxy/graphene nanocomposites. However, as a solvent to disperse graphene, dichlorobenzene (DCB) has not been fully realized by the polymer commun...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wei J,Saharudin MS,Vo T,Inam F

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of carnivore species are described as solitary, but little is known about their social organization and interactions with conspecifics. We investigated the spatial organization and social interactions as well as relatedness of slender mongooses (Galerella sanguinea) living in the southern Kalahari. This i...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Graw B,Kranstauber B,Manser MB

更新日期：2019-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Trait analysis has become a crucial tool for assessing the extinction risk of species. While some extinction risk-trait relationships have been often identical between different living taxa, a temporal comparison of fossil taxa with related current taxa was rarely considered. However, we argue that it is important to ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Tietje M,Rödel MO

更新日期：2017-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal switching of traffic lights on a network of junctions is a computationally intractable problem. In this research, road traffic networks containing signallized junctions are simulated. A computer game interface is used to enable a human 'player' to control the traffic light settings on the junctions within the ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Box S

更新日期：2014-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a neurodevelopmental condition, characterized by lifelong face recognition deficits. Leading research groups diagnose the condition using complementary computer-based tasks and self-report measures. In an attempt to standardize the reporting of self-report evidence, we recently deve...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Gray KL,Bird G,Cook R

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We model radicalization in a society consisting of two competing religious, ethnic or political groups. Each of the 'sects' is divided into moderate and radical factions, with intra-group transitions occurring either spontaneously or through indoctrination. We also include the possibility of one group violently attack...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Short MB,McCalla SG,D'Orsogna MR

更新日期：2017-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation establishes a system of gold nanoparticles that show good colloidal stability as an X-ray computed tomography (XCT) contrast agent under soil conditions. Gold nanoparticles offer numerous beneficial traits for experiments in biology including: comparatively minimal phytotoxicity, X-ray attenuation o...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Scotson CP,Munoz-Hernando M,Duncan SJ,Ruiz SA,Keyes SD,van Veelen A,Dunlop IE,Roose T

更新日期：2019-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We report all-atom molecular dynamics simulations of asymmetric bilayers containing phosphoinositides in the presence of monovalent and divalent cations. We have characterized the molecular mechanism by which these divalent cations interact with phosphoinositides. Ca2+ desolvates more readily, consistent with single-m...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Bradley RP,Slochower DR,Janmey PA,Radhakrishnan R

更新日期：2020-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we construct a generalization of the Blum-François Beta-splitting model for evolutionary trees, which was itself inspired by Aldous' Beta-splitting model on cladograms. The novelty of our approach allows for asymmetric shares of diversification rates (or diversification 'potential') between two sister...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sainudiin R,Véber A

更新日期：2016-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In the name of meritocracy, modern economies devote increasing amounts of resources to quantifying and ranking the performance of individuals and organizations. Rankings send out powerful signals, which lead to identifying the actions of top performers as the 'best practices' that others should also adopt. However, se...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Livan G

更新日期：2019-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this article is to present an analytical method, namely the improved F-expansion method combined with the Riccati equation, for finding exact solutions of nonlinear evolution equations. The present method is capable of calculating all branches of solutions simultaneously, even if multiple solutions are ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Islam MS,Khan K,Akbar MA,Mastroberardino A

更新日期：2014-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Low levels of heterozygosity can have detrimental effects on life history and growth characteristics of organisms but more subtle effects such as those on trade-offs of expensive tissues and morphological laterality, especially of the brain, have not been explicitly tested. The objective of the current study was to in...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wiper ML,Lehnert SJ,Heath DD,Higgs DM

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Among social mammals, humans uniquely organize themselves into communities of households that are centred around enduring, predominantly monogamous unions of men and women. As a consequence of this social organization, individuals maintain social relationships both within and across households, and potentially there i...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Koster J

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of multicellularity was a major transition in evolution and set the stage for unprecedented increases in complexity, especially in land plants and animals. Here, we explore the genetics underlying a de novo origin of multicellularity in a microbial evolution experiment carried out on the green alga Chlam...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Herron MD,Ratcliff WC,Boswell J,Rosenzweig F

更新日期：2018-08-29 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：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170128.]. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Taylor PJ,Larner S,Conchie SM,Menacere T

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Science provides a method to learn about the relationships between observed patterns and the processes that generate them. However, inference can be confounded when an observed pattern cannot be clearly and wholly attributed to a hypothesized process. Over-reliance on traditional single-hypothesis methods (i.e. null h...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yanco SW,McDevitt A,Trueman CN,Hartley L,Wunder MB

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00