Extracting h-Backbone as a Core Structure in Weighted Networks.

abstract：:We compared the gut microbial populations in 100 women, from rural Ghana and urban US [50% lean (BMI < 25 kg/m2) and 50% obese (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2)] to examine the ecological co-occurrence network topology of the gut microbiota as well as the relationship of short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) with obesity. Ghanaians consumed...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dugas LR,Bernabé BP,Priyadarshini M,Fei N,Park SJ,Brown L,Plange-Rhule J,Nelson D,Toh EC,Gao X,Dong Q,Sun J,Kliethermes S,Gottel N,Luke A,Gilbert JA,Layden BT

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Potential benefits of carbohydrate counting for glycemic control in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) remain inconclusive. Our aim is to systematically assess the efficacy of carbohydrate counting in patients with T1DM. We searched PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library and the Chinese Biology Me...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fu S,Li L,Deng S,Zan L,Liu Z

更新日期：2016-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Bed bugs are pests of public health importance due to their relentless biting habits that can lead to allergies, secondary infections and mental health issues. When not feeding on human blood bed bugs aggregate in refuges close to human hosts. This aggregation behaviour could be exploited to lure bed bugs into traps f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Weeks ENI,Logan JG,Birkett MA,Caulfield JC,Gezan SA,Welham SJ,Brugman VA,Pickett JA,Cameron MM

更新日期：2020-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-noise millimetre-wave signals are valuable for digital sampling systems, arbitrary waveform generation for ultra-wideband communications, and coherent radar systems. However, the phase noise of widely used conventional signal generators (SGs) will increase as the millimetre-wave frequency increases. Our goal has b...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ishizawa A,Nishikawa T,Goto T,Hitachi K,Sogawa T,Gotoh H

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we report a low complexity compression method that is suitable for compact optical scanning holography (OSH) systems with different optical settings. Our proposed method can be divided into 2 major parts. First, an automatic decision maker is applied to select the rows of holographic pixels to be scanned...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tsang PW,Poon TC,Liu JP,Kim T,Kim YS

更新日期：2016-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we quantify the effects of artisanal fisheries on the ecology of a small cetacean, the Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica, GRD), in a large river system of Nepal. We examine the size-classes of fisheries' catches, behavioural changes in GRD in response to fishing activities, and diel overlap bet...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Paudel S,Koprowski JL,Cove MV

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The modifier protein, ubiquitin (Ub) regulates various cellular pathways by controlling the fate of substrates to which it is conjugated. Ub moieties are also conjugated to each other, forming chains of various topologies. In cells, poly-Ub is attached to proteins and also exists in unanchored form. Accumulation of un...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Blount JR,Libohova K,Marsh GB,Sutton JR,Todi SV

更新日期：2018-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to evaluate the effects of ketorolac, a commonly used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) as patient controlled intravenous infusion analgesia (PCIA) for the patients underwent radical cystectomy (RC) due to bladder cancer regarding post-operational indices of recovery. Total seventy patients...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yu YD,Hwang JH,Seo YE,Song BD,Jung YS,Lee DH,Hong SK,Byun SS,Lee SE,Oh JJ

更新日期：2018-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Anomalous transport in porous media is commonly believed to be induced by the highly complex pore space geometry. However, this phenomenon is also observed in porous media with rather simple pore structure. In order to answer how ubiquitous can anomalous transport be in porous media, we in this work systematically inv...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang XR,Wang Y

更新日期：2019-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the electric rotating magnetoresistance method, the shape anisotropy of a Co microstrip has been systematically investigated. We find that the shape anisotropy is dependent not only on the shape itself, but also on the magnetization distribution controlled by an applied magnetic field. Together with micro-mag...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fan X,Zhou H,Rao J,Zhao X,Zhao J,Zhang F,Xue D

更新日期：2015-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate the clinical ability of Near-Infrared Light-Transillumination (NILT) for approximal dentinal caries detection and to compare with direct digital-radiography (DDR), as well as to determine whether the combination of both techniques improves the diagnostic capacity of the lesi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Melo M,Pascual A,Camps I,Ata-Ali F,Ata-Ali J

更新日期：2019-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromodulation is an increasingly accepted treatment for neurological and psychiatric disorders but is limited by its invasiveness or its inability to target deep brain structures using noninvasive techniques. We propose a new concept called Multimodal Synchronization Therapy (mSync) for achieving targeted activation...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Markovitz CD,Smith BT,Gloeckner CD,Lim HH

更新日期：2015-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Bats are the only mammals capable of true, powered flight, which drives an extremely high metabolic rate. The "Free Radical Theory of Ageing" (FTRA) posits that a high metabolic rate causes mitochondrial heteroplasmy and the progressive ageing phenotype. Contrary to this, bats are the longest-lived order of mammals gi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jebb D,Foley NM,Whelan CV,Touzalin F,Puechmaille SJ,Teeling EC

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface-mount techniques primarily depend on soldering. However, soldering techniques have encountered some challenges in recent years. These challenges include rare metal recycling, thermal problems, and Pb toxicity. We recently developed a metallic nanowire surface fastener (NSF) to resolve the abovementioned proble...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Toku Y,Ichioka K,Morita Y,Ju Y

更新日期：2019-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces lydicus A02 is used by industry because it has a higher natamycin-producing capacity than the reference strain S. natalensis ATCC 27448. We sequenced the complete genome of A02 using next-generation sequencing platforms, and to achieve better sequence coverage and genome assembly, we utilized single-molec...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu H,Liu W,Shi L,Si K,Liu T,Dong D,Zhang T,Zhao J,Liu D,Tian Z,Yue Y,Zhang H,Xuelian B,Liang Y

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inflammation-associated bone destruction, which is observed in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and periodontitis, is mediated by excessive osteoclastogenesis. We showed previously that γ-glutamyltranspeptidase (GGT), an enzyme involved in glutathione metabolism, acts as an endogenous activator of such pathological o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Moriwaki S,Into T,Suzuki K,Miyauchi M,Takata T,Shibayama K,Niida S

更新日期：2016-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Low Haemoglobin concentration (Hb) among women of reproductive age is a severe public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. This study investigated the effects of putative socio-demographic factors on maternal Hb at different points of the conditional distribution of Hb concentration. We utilised quantile regression t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Amugsi DA,Dimbuene ZT,Kyobutungi C

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that ATM kinase inhibition using AZ31 prior to 9 or 9.25 Gy total body irradiation (TBI) reduced median time to moribund in mice to 8 days. ATR kinase inhibition using AZD6738 prior to TBI did not reduce median time to moribund. The striking finding associated with ATM inhibition prior to TBI was increased cry...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vendetti FP,Leibowitz BJ,Barnes J,Schamus S,Kiesel BF,Abberbock S,Conrads T,Clump DA,Cadogan E,O'Connor MJ,Yu J,Beumer JH,Bakkenist CJ

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little research on coronaviruses has been conducted on wild animals in Africa. Here, we screened a wide range of wild animals collected in six provinces and five caves of Gabon between 2009 and 2015. We collected a total of 1867 animal samples (cave-dwelling bats, rodents, non-human primates and other wild animals). W...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Maganga GD,Pinto A,Mombo IM,Madjitobaye M,Mbeang Beyeme AM,Boundenga L,Ar Gouilh M,N'Dilimabaka N,Drexler JF,Drosten C,Leroy EM

更新日期：2020-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak in the Americas and South Pacific poses a significant burden on human health because of ZIKV's neurotropic effects in the course of fetal development. Vaccine candidates against ZIKV are coming online, but immunological tools to study anti-ZIKV responses in preclinical models, particular...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chahal JS,Fang T,Woodham AW,Khan OF,Ling J,Anderson DG,Ploegh HL

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The parasitic salmon louse, and its resistance to chemical delousing agents, represents one of the largest challenges to the salmon aquaculture industry. We genotyped lice sampled from wild salmon and sea trout throughout Norway with the recently identified Phe362Tyr mutation that conveys resistance to organophosphate...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fjørtoft HB,Besnier F,Stene A,Nilsen F,Bjørn PA,Tveten AK,Finstad B,Aspehaug V,Glover KA

更新日期：2017-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The geometry of metal nanoparticles greatly affects the properties of the localized surface plasmon resonance and surface-enhanced Raman scattering. The synthesis of metal nanoparticles with controllable geometry has thus attracted extensive attentions. In this work, we report a modified polyol synthesis approach of s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu F,Wang W,Xu Z,Li F

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the spring 2018, a large part of Europe has been in the midst of a record-setting drought. Using long-term observations, we demonstrate that the occurrence of the 2018-2019 (consecutive) summer drought is unprecedented in the last 250 years, and its combined impact on the growing season vegetation activities is ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hari V,Rakovec O,Markonis Y,Hanel M,Kumar R

更新日期：2020-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultra-short proton pulses originating from laser-plasma accelerators can provide instantaneous dose rates at least 10(7)-fold in excess of conventional, continuous proton beams. The impact of such extremely high proton dose rates on A549 human lung cancer cells was compared with conventionally accelerated protons and ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Raschke S,Spickermann S,Toncian T,Swantusch M,Boeker J,Giesen U,Iliakis G,Willi O,Boege F

更新日期：2016-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:This work reports a facile method for preparing the new photoactive In(2)O(3) films as well as their implementation in photoelectrochemical (PEC) application. We firstly investigated the relationship between oxygen vacancies (V(O)) and PEC performance and revealed a rule between them. We found that the optimized In(2)...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gan J,Lu X,Wu J,Xie S,Zhai T,Yu M,Zhang Z,Mao Y,Wang SC,Shen Y,Tong Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the influence of chemical weathering on CO2 consumption, an analysis was performed of water chemistry by applying water chemistry equilibria methods in the Bishuiyan subterranean basin, SW China. The average value of total ion concentrations (TZ+) was 1,854.97 μEq/L, which was significantly higher than ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang P,Yu G,Zhang Q,Zou Y,Tang Q,Kang Z,Sytharith P,Xiao H

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertical vergence is generally associated with one of three mechanisms: vestibular activation during a head tilt, induced by vertical visual disparity, or as a by-product of ocular torsion. However, vertical vergence can also be induced by seemingly unrelated visual conditions, such as optokinetic rotations. This stud...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wibble T,Pansell T

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma patients with BRAF mutations respond to treatment with vemurafenib, thus creating a need for accurate testing of BRAF mutation status. We carried out a blinded study to evaluate various BRAF mutation testing methodologies in the clinical setting. Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded melanoma samples were macrodi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Richter A,Grieu F,Carrello A,Amanuel B,Namdarian K,Rynska A,Lucas A,Michael V,Bell A,Fox SB,Hewitt CA,Do H,McArthur GA,Wong SQ,Dobrovic A,Iacopetta B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the current studies on myocardial strain are mainly applied in patients with sinus rhythm because the image quality of arrhythmias obtained with conventional scanning sequences does not meet diagnostic needs. Here, we intend to assess left ventricular (LV) global myocardial strain in patients with arrhythmias ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen H,Xie RM,Zhao L,Zhang XY,Zhao YK,Wang Z,Xie GX,Ma XH

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Warburg effect or aerobic glycolysis provides selective growth advantage to aggressive cancers. However, targeting oncogenic regulators of Warburg effect has always been challenging owing to the wide spectrum of roles of these molecules in multitude of cells. In this study, we present ADP-dependent glucokinase (ADPGK)...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tandon A,Birkenhagen J,Nagalla D,Kölker S,Sauer SW

更新日期：2020-08-12 00:00:00