Strong improvement of the transport characteristics of YBa2Cu3O7-x grain boundaries using ionic liquid gating.

abstract：:Most biodiesel currently in use consists of fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) produced by transesterification of plant oils with methanol. To reduce competition with food supplies, it would be desirable to directly produce biodiesel in microorganisms. To date, the most effective pathway for the production of biodiesel ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sherkhanov S,Korman TP,Clarke SG,Bowie JU

更新日期：2016-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface Temperature (ST) over India has increased by ~0.055 K/decade during 1860-2005 and follows the global warming trend. Here, the natural and external forcings (e.g., natural and anthropogenic) responsible for ST variability are studied from Coupled Model Inter-comparison phase 5 (CMIP5) models during the 20th cen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Basha G,Kishore P,Ratnam MV,Jayaraman A,Agha Kouchak A,Ouarda TBMJ,Velicogna I

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis induced cardiac dysfunction (SIC) is a severe complication to sepsis which significantly worsens patient outcomes. It is known that bacteria have the capacity to release outer membrane vesicles (OMVs), which are nano-sized bilayered vesicles composed of lipids and proteins, that can induce a fatal inflammatory ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Svennerholm K,Park KS,Wikström J,Lässer C,Crescitelli R,Shelke GV,Jang SC,Suzuki S,Bandeira E,Olofsson CS,Lötvall J

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrellite, NaCa2Si4O10F, is a tubular silicate mineral which crystal structure is characterized by extended [Si8O20]8- tubes and has a two-dimensional channel system. The mineral is a representative of a complex silicate family which contains some structural voids but cannot be considered as microporous because of sma...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kaneva E,Bogdanov A,Shendrik R

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Earth's orbital variations on timescales of 104-105 years, known as Milankovitch cycles, have played a critical role in pacing climate change and ecosystem dynamics, through glacial and/or monsoon dynamics. However, the climatic and biotic consequences of these cycles on much longer (~ 107 years) timescales remain unc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ikeda M,Ozaki K,Legrand J

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival analyses for malignancies, including renal cell carcinoma (RCC), have primarily been conducted using the Cox proportional hazards (CPH) model. We compared the random survival forest (RSF) and DeepSurv models with the CPH model to predict recurrence-free survival (RFS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS) in non...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Byun SS,Heo TS,Choi JM,Jeong YS,Kim YS,Lee WK,Kim C

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In glaucoma, retinal ganglion cells degenerate progressively, leading to visual field loss and blindness. Presently, the only treatment strategy for glaucoma is lowering the intraocular pressure. However, there are cases in which patients develop progressive visual field loss even though their intraocular pressures ar...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hasegawa T,Ikeda HO,Iwai S,Sasaoka N,Kakizuka A,Tsujikawa A

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Gait speed in laboratory settings (in-laboratory gait speed) is one of the important indicators associated with the decline in functional abilities in older adulthood. Recently, it has become possible to measure gait speed during daily living (daily gait speed) using accelerometers. However, the relationship between t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Takayanagi N,Sudo M,Yamashiro Y,Lee S,Kobayashi Y,Niki Y,Shimada H

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese has long been employed as a T1-shortening agent in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) applications, but these techniques are limited by the biotoxicity of bulk-manganese. Positron emission tomography (PET) offers superior contrast sensitivity compared with MRI, and recent preclinical PET studies employing 52gM...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Graves SA,Hernandez R,Valdovinos HF,Ellison PA,Engle JW,Barnhart TE,Cai W,Nickles RJ

更新日期：2017-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The optical conversion of incoherent solar radiation into a bright, coherent laser beam enables the application of nonlinear optics to solar energy conversion and storage. Here, we present an architecture for solar pumped lasers that uses a luminescent solar concentrator to decouple the conventional trade-off between ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Reusswig PD,Nechayev S,Scherer JM,Hwang GW,Bawendi MG,Baldo MA,Rotschild C

更新日期：2015-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Many systems biology studies lack context-relevant data and as a consequence the predictive capabilities can be limited in developing targeted cancer therapeutics. Production of colon crypt in vitro is ideal for studying colon systems biology. This report presents the first production of, to our knowledge, physiologic...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tan CW,Hirokawa Y,Burgess AW

更新日期：2015-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Wnt/β-catenin signalling plays a prominent role in maintaining self-renewal and pluripotency of mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs). microRNAs (miRNAs) have critical roles in maintaining pluripotency and directing reprogramming. To investigate the effect of GSK3 inhibitors on miRNA expression, we analysed the miRNA exp...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu Y,Liu F,Liu Y,Liu X,Ai Z,Guo Z,Zhang Y

更新日期：2015-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic encephalopathy is a neuropsychiatric syndrome evolving from cerebral osmotic disturbances and oxidative/nitrosative stress. Ammonia, the main toxin of hepatic encephalopathy, triggers astrocyte senescence in an oxidative stress-dependent way. As miRNAs are critically involved in cell cycle regulation and their...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Oenarto J,Karababa A,Castoldi M,Bidmon HJ,Görg B,Häussinger D

更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL) inhibits mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and induces autophagy and apoptosis in vascular endothelial cells (VECs) that play very critical roles for the cardiovascular homostasis. We recently defined 3-benzyl-5-((2-nitrophenoxy) methyl)-dihydrofuran-2(3H)-one (3BDO) as a ne...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Peng N,Meng N,Wang S,Zhao F,Zhao J,Su L,Zhang S,Zhang Y,Zhao B,Miao J

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a hepatic phenotype of the metabolic syndrome, and increases the risk of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Although increasing evidence points to the therapeutic implications of certain types of anti-diabetic agents in NASH, it remains to be elucidated whether their e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kawakubo M,Tanaka M,Ochi K,Watanabe A,Saka-Tanaka M,Kanamori Y,Yoshioka N,Yamashita S,Goto M,Itoh M,Shirakawa I,Kanai S,Suzuki H,Sawada M,Ito A,Ishigami M,Fujishiro M,Arima H,Ogawa Y,Suganami T

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional (3D) cell cultures produce more in vivo-like multicellular structures such as spheroids that cannot be obtained in two-dimensional (2D) cell cultures. Thus, they are increasingly employed as models for cancer and drug research, as well as tissue engineering. It has proven challenging to stabilize sph...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lou YR,Kanninen L,Kaehr B,Townson JL,Niklander J,Harjumäki R,Jeffrey Brinker C,Yliperttula M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to have a devastating effect on the health and well-being of the global population. A critical step in the fight against COVID-19 is effective screening of infected patients, with one of the key screening approaches being radiology examination using chest radi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang L,Lin ZQ,Wong A

更新日期：2020-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing rationally controlled bottom-up device fabrication processes is essential for the achievement of high performance optimal devices. We report a controlled, seedless and site-selective hydrothermal technique to fabricate high-performance nanostructured ZnO UV-detectors directly on-chip. We demonstrate that by...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Alenezi MR,Henley SJ,Silva SR

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Conflicting results of survival outcomes for primary and secondary muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) have been reported in previous studies. Primary MIBC is defined as presentation of muscle-invasive disease at initial diagnosis while secondary MIBC presumes that non-muscle invasive disease later progressed to MIB...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ge P,Wang L,Lu M,Mao L,Li W,Wen R,Lin J,Wang J,Chen J

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Duck Tembusu virus (DTMUV), a mosquito-borne Flavivirus, has caused serious economic losses for the Chinese poultry industry. The genome is translated into a polyprotein that is cleaved to mature protein by host and viral proteases in the host cell, and this proteolytic process is important for the viral life cycle. H...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang B,Zhang W,Wu Y,Wang T,Wang M,Jia R,Zhu D,Liu M,Zhao X,Yang Q,Wu Y,Zhang S,Liu Y,Zhang L,Yu Y,Pan L,Chen S,Cheng A

更新日期：2020-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Heo S,Lee J,Lee GH,Heo CJ,Kim SH,Yun DJ,Park JB,Kim K,Kim Y,Lee D,Park GS,Cho HY,Shin T,Yun SY,Kim S,Jin YW,Park KB

更新日期：2020-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial tuning properties of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are sharpened by lateral inhibition originating at both the outer and inner plexiform layers. Lateral inhibition in the retina contributes to local contrast enhancement and sharpens edges. In this study, we used dynamic clamp recordings to examine the contribu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang JY,Protti DA

更新日期：2016-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive elements (RE) constitute the majority of the human genome and have a range of functions both structural and regulatory on genomic function and gene expression. RE overexpression has been observed in several neurodegenerative diseases, consistent with the observation of aberrant expression of RE posing a mut...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Billingsley KJ,Lättekivi F,Planken A,Reimann E,Kurvits L,Kadastik-Eerme L,Kasterpalu KM,Bubb VJ,Quinn JP,Kõks S,Taba P

更新日期：2019-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Seagrass meadows are threatened by coastal development and global change. In the face of these pressures, molecular techniques such as reverse transcription quantitative real-time PCR (RT-qPCR) have great potential to improve management of these ecosystems by allowing early detection of chronic stress. In RT-qPCR, the...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Schliep M,Pernice M,Sinutok S,Bryant CV,York PH,Rasheed MA,Ralph PJ

更新日期：2015-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with scirrhous gastric cancer (SGC) frequently develop peritoneal dissemination, which leads to poor prognosis. The secreted protein angiopoietin-like-4 (ANGPTL4), which is induced by hypoxia, exerts diverse effects on cancer progression. Here, we aimed to determine the biological function of ANGPTL4 in SGC c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Baba K,Kitajima Y,Miyake S,Nakamura J,Wakiyama K,Sato H,Okuyama K,Kitagawa H,Tanaka T,Hiraki M,Yanagihara K,Noshiro H

更新日期：2017-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The Late Pleistocene Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) super-eruption (Southern Italy) is the largest known volcanic event in the Mediterranean area. The CI tephra is widely dispersed through western Eurasia and occurs in close stratigraphic association with significant palaeoclimatic and Palaeolithic cultural events. Here we...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Giaccio B,Hajdas I,Isaia R,Deino A,Nomade S

更新日期：2017-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the relationship between aqueous cytokine levels, changes in ocular blood flow, and morphological and functional improvements after intravitreal ranibizumab injection (IRI) in treatment-naïve eyes with center-involving diabetic macular edema (DME). Thirty-three eligible patients with DME (33 eyes) were...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mizui T,Noma H,Yasuda K,Kanemaki T,Goto H,Shimura M

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports suggest that offspring of mothers who smoke during pregnancy have greater risk of developing depression. However, it is unclear whether this is due to intrauterine effects. Using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) from the UK (N = 2,869), the Nord-Trøndelag health s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Taylor AE,Carslake D,de Mola CL,Rydell M,Nilsen TIL,Bjørngaard JH,Horta BL,Pearson R,Rai D,Galanti MR,Barros FC,Romundstad PR,Davey Smith G,Munafò MR

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A major goal of biology is to develop a quantitative ligand-binding assay that does not involve the use of radioactivity. Existing fluorescence-based assays have a serious drawback due to fluorescence quenching that accompanies the binding of fluorescently-labeled ligands to their receptors. This limitation of existin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Breen CJ,Raverdeau M,Voorheis HP

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-standing challenge for forming Al-based BMGs and their matrix composites with a critical size larger than 1 mm have not been answered over the past three decades. In this paper, we reported formation of a series of BMG matrix composites which contain a high Al content up to 55 at.%. These composites can be ca...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen ZP,Gao JE,Wu Y,Wang H,Liu XJ,Lu ZP

更新日期：2013-11-27 00:00:00