Discovering place-informative scenes and objects using social media photos.

abstract：:Exposed limestone karst landscapes, especially in the tropics, are often home to distinctive and specialized biotas. Among vertebrates, a particularly large number of karst-associated lizard taxa have been described, but for the vast majority, evidence of specific adaptions to karst is lacking. A number of studies, ho...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Nielsen SV,Oliver PM

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In ecology, climate and other fields, (sub)systems have been identified that can transition into a qualitatively different state when a critical threshold or tipping point in a driving process is crossed. An understanding of those tipping elements is of great interest given the increasing influence of humans on the bi...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Klose AK,Karle V,Winkelmann R,Donges JF

更新日期：2020-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes living in stagnant water typically rely on chemical diffusion to draw nutrients from their environment. The sulfur-oxidizing bacterium Thiovulum majus and the ciliate Uronemella have independently evolved the ability to form a 'veil', a centimetre-scale mucous sheet on which cells organize to produce a macros...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Petroff AP,Pasulka AL,Soplop N,Wu XL,Libchaber A

更新日期：2015-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we establish the explicit connection between deterministic trait-based population-level models (in the form of partial differential equations) and species-level models (in the form of ordinary differential equations), in the context of eco-evolutionary systems. In particular, by starting from a populati...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Nordbotten JM,Bokma F,Hermansen JS,Stenseth NC

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we describe the odobenid Nanodobenus arandai gen. et sp. nov., based on a nearly complete left mandible from the mid to late Miocene Tortugas Formation in Baja California Sur. Nanodobenus is distinguished among odobenids by displaying a unique combination of plesiomorphic and derived characters, such as narrow m...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Velez-Juarbe J,Salinas-Márquez FM

更新日期：2018-08-08 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：:This paper has two central aims. The first is to explore philosophical complications that arise when we move from (i) explaining the evolutionary origins of genetically influenced traits associated with human cooperation and altruism, to (ii) explaining present manifestations of human thought, feeling and behaviour in...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： FitzPatrick WJ

更新日期：2017-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne protozoan disease; it mainly originates from the bite of sandfly and initiated when parasite is transmitted to human at metacyclic flagellated promastigote form. In the current study, a synthesis of a series of 4-substituted benzophenone ethers 1-20 was carried out in good yields and th...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Arshia.,Ahad F,Ghouri N,Kanwal.,Khan KM,Perveen S,Choudhary MI

更新日期：2018-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale high-throughput plant phenotyping (sometimes called phenomics) is becoming increasingly important in plant biology and agriculture and is essential to cutting-edge plant breeding and management approaches needed to meet the food and fuel needs for the next century. Currently, the application of these appro...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kuhlgert S,Austic G,Zegarac R,Osei-Bonsu I,Hoh D,Chilvers MI,Roth MG,Bi K,TerAvest D,Weebadde P,Kramer DM

更新日期：2016-10-26 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：: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：:During the Middle and Late Jurassic, pliosaurid plesiosaurs evolved gigantic body size and a series of craniodental adaptations that have been linked to the occupation of an apex predator niche. Cretaceous pliosaurids (i.e. Brachaucheninae) depart from this morphology, being slightly smaller and lacking the macrophago...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Fischer V,Arkhangelsky MS,Stenshin IM,Uspensky GN,Zverkov NG,Benson RB

更新日期：2015-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the relationship between vocabulary size and text length in a corpus of 75 literary works in English, authored by six writers, distinguishing between the contributions of three grammatical classes (or 'tags,' namely, nouns, verbs and others), and analyse the progressive appearance of new words of each tag alo...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chacoma A,Zanette DH

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Robust imaging techniques for tracking insects have been essential tools in numerous laboratory and field studies on pests, beneficial insects and model systems. Recent innovations in optical imaging systems and associated signal processing have enabled detailed characterization of nocturnal mosquito behaviour around ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Voloshin V,Kröner C,Seniya C,Murray GPD,Guy A,Towers CE,McCall PJ,Towers DP

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleurodires or side-necked turtles are today restricted to freshwater environments of South America, Africa-Madagascar and Australia, but in the past they were distributed much more broadly, being found also on Eurasia, India and North America, and marine environments. Two hypotheses were proposed to explain this dist...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ferreira GS,Bronzati M,Langer MC,Sterli J

更新日期：2018-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The gastrointestinal tract (GIT) consists of connected structures that vary in function and physiology, and different GIT sections potentially provide different habitats for microorganisms. Birds possess unique GIT structures, including the oesophagus, proventriculus, gizzard, small intestine, caeca and large intestin...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Grond K,Guilani H,Hird SM

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic wires in highly dense arrays, possessing unique magnetic properties, are eagerly anticipated for inexpensive and scalable fabrication technologies. This study reports a facile method to fabricate arrays of magnetic wires directly assembled from well-dispersed α″-Fe16N2/Al2O3 and Fe3O4 nanoparticles with avera...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Li Q,Kartikowati CW,Iwaki T,Okuyama K,Ogi T

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult body size in holometabolus insects is directly proportional to the time spent during the larval period. The larval duration can be divided into two parts: (i) pre-critical duration-time required to attain a critical size/critical weight that would result in successful completion of development and metamorphosis ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sharma K,Mishra N,Shakarad MN

更新日期：2020-06-10 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：:Bacterial gene expression regulation occurs mostly during transcription, which has two main rate-limiting steps: the close complex formation, when the RNA polymerase binds to an active promoter, and the subsequent open complex formation, after which it follows elongation. Tuning these steps' kinetics by the action of ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Prajapat MK,Ribeiro AS

更新日期：2018-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we investigate the concept of the targeted delivery of pharmaceutical drug aerosols in an anatomically realistic geometry of the human upper and central respiratory system. The geometry considered extends from the mouth inlet to the eighth generation of the bronchial bifurcations and is identical...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kenjereš S,Tjin JL

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The emerging carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have been attracting significant attention for their prominent fluorescence, excellent stability and outstanding biocompatibility. Here, we report a facile one-step synthesis of highly fluorescent CQDs by using phthalic acid and triethylenediamine hexahydrate as precursors throu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yu T,Wang H,Guo C,Zhai Y,Yang J,Yuan J

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the effect of contact geometry, temperature and displacement amplitude on the fretting behaviour of an aero-turbo oil lubricated cylinder-on-flat contact. To be effective, the lubricant needed both to penetrate the contact and then offer protection. Lubricant penetration into the fretting conta...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Warmuth AR,Sun W,Shipway PH

更新日期：2016-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Living kangaroos, wallabies and rat-kangaroos (Macropodoidea) constitute the most ecologically diverse radiation of Australasian marsupials. Indeed, even their hallmark bipedal hopping gait has been variously modified for bounding, walking and climbing. However, the origins of this locomotory adaptability are uncertai...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Den Boer W,Campione NE,Kear BP

更新日期：2019-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mounting evidence suggests that we are experiencing rapidly accelerating global climate change. Understanding how climate change may affect life is critical to identifying species and populations that are vulnerable. Most current research focuses on investigating how organisms may respond to gradual warming, but anoth...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kozlovsky DY,Branch CL,Pitera AM,Pravosudov VV

更新日期：2018-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal limitation, not just environmental selection, plays an important role in microbial biogeography. The distance-decay relationship is thought to be weak in habitats where dispersal is high, such as in the pelagic environment, where ocean currents facilitate microbial dispersal. Most studies of microbial commun...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Djurhuus A,Boersch-Supan PH,Mikalsen SO,Rogers AD

更新日期：2017-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The adaptive significance of zebra stripes has thus far eluded understanding. Many explanations have been suggested, including social cohesion, thermoregulation, predation evasion and avoidance of biting flies. Identifying the associations between phenotypic and environmental factors is essential for testing these hyp...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Larison B,Harrigan RJ,Thomassen HA,Rubenstein DI,Chan-Golston AM,Li E,Smith TB

更新日期：2015-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic structure of a hybrid zone can provide insights into the relative roles of the various factors that maintain the zone. Here, we use a multilocus approach to characterize a hybrid zone between two subspecies of killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus, Walbaum 1792) found along the Atlantic coast of North America. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： McKenzie JL,Dhillon RS,Schulte PM

更新日期：2015-12-09 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：:Herbaria archive a record of changes of worldwide plant biodiversity harbouring millions of specimens that contain DNA suitable for genome sequencing. To profit from this resource, it is fundamental to understand in detail the process of DNA degradation in herbarium specimens. We investigated patterns of DNA fragmenta...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Weiß CL,Schuenemann VJ,Devos J,Shirsekar G,Reiter E,Gould BA,Stinchcombe JR,Krause J,Burbano HA

更新日期：2016-06-22 00:00:00