Development and feasibility study of an app (Ladle) for weight loss and behaviour change.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rare or narrowly endemic organisms are difficult to monitor and conserve when their total distribution and habitat preferences are incompletely known. One method employed in determining distributions of these organisms is species distribution modeling (SDM). METHODS:Using two species of narrowly endemic bur...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rhoden CM,Peterman WE,Taylor CA

更新日期：2017-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Parallelism is important because it reveals how inherently stochastic adaptation is. Even as we come to better understand evolutionary forces, stochasticity limits how well we can predict evolutionary outcomes. Here we sought to quantify parallelism and some of its underlying causes by adapting a bacteriophage (ID11) ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Miller CR,Nagel AC,Scott L,Settles M,Joyce P,Wichman HA

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Supertree methods enable the reconstruction of large phylogenies. The supertree problem can be formalized in different ways in order to cope with contradictory information in the input. Some supertree methods are based on encoding the input trees in a matrix; other methods try to find minimum cuts in some graph. Recen...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Fleischauer M,Böcker S

更新日期：2018-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The exploration of the evolution of RNA viruses has been aided recently by the discovery of copies of fragments or complete genomes of non-retroviral RNA viruses (Non-retroviral Endogenous RNA Viral Elements, or NERVEs) in many eukaryotic nuclear genomes. Among the most prominent NERVEs are partial copies of the RNA d...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bruenn JA,Warner BE,Yerramsetty P

更新日期：2015-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:On the purpose of enhancing the forensic efficiency of CODIS STR loci, new STR loci have been gradually discovered and developed into some commercial multiplex systems. Recently, 22 STR loci including 18 non-CODIS STR loci and four CODIS STR loci were investigated in 501 unrelated healthy individuals of Kazakh ethnic ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chen C,Guo Y,Jin X,Cui W,Wei Y,Fang Y,Lan Q,Kong T,Xie T,Zhu B

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Hair follicles in cashmere goats are divided into primary and secondary hair follicles (HFs). HF development, which determines the morphological structure, is regulated by a large number of vital genes; however, the key functional genes and their interaction networks are still unclear. Although the vitamin D...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gao Y,Jin M,Niu Y,Yan H,Zhou G,Chen Y

更新日期：2019-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to dominant mode of ecological transition in the evolution of marine mammals, different lineages of toothed whales (Odontoceti) have repeatedly invaded freshwater ecosystems during the Cenozoic era. The so-called 'river dolphins' are now recognized as independent lineages that converged on similar morpholo...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pyenson ND,Vélez-Juarbe J,Gutstein CS,Little H,Vigil D,O'Dea A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Foam cells (FCs) play crucial roles in the process of all stages of atherosclerosis. Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and macrophages are the major sources of FCs. This study aimed to identify the common molecular mechanism in these two types of FCs. Methods:GSE28829, GSE43292, GSE68021, and GSE54666 were include...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhang K,Qin X,Zhou X,Zhou J,Wen P,Chen S,Wu M,Wu Y,Zhuang J

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical ventilation (MV) of patients can cause damage to bronchoalveolar epithelium, leading to a sterile inflammatory response, infection and in severe cases sepsis. Limited knowledge is available on the effects of MV on the innate immune defense system in the human lung. In this study, we demonstrate that cyclic ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Karadottir H,Kulkarni NN,Gudjonsson T,Karason S,Gudmundsson GH

更新日期：2015-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a belligerent carcinoma that is unresponsive to targeted receptor therapies. Development of new treatment strategies would benefit from an expanded repertoire of in vitro cell culture systems, such as those that support tridimensional growth in the presence of hydrogel scaffolds...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jogalekar MP,Serrano EE

更新日期：2018-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitiligo is a chronic asymptomatic disorder affecting melanocytes from the basal layer of the epidermis which leads to a patchy loss of skin color. Even though it is one of the neglected disease conditions, people suffering from vitiligo are more prone to psychological disorders. As of now, various studies have been d...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Srivastava P,Choudhury A,Talwar M,Mohanty S,Narad P,Sengupta A

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Coastal birds are critical ecosystem constituents on sandy shores, yet are threatened by depressed reproductive success resulting from direct and indirect anthropogenic and natural pressures. Few studies examine clutch fate across the wide range of environments experienced by birds; instead, most focus at the small si...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Maslo B,Schlacher TA,Weston MA,Huijbers CM,Anderson C,Gilby BL,Olds AD,Connolly RM,Schoeman DS

更新日期：2016-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Freezing is commonly used for food preservation. It is usually done under constant atmospheric pressure (isobaric). While extending the life of the produce, isobaric freezing has detrimental effects. It causes loss of food weight and changes in food quality. Using thermodynamic analysis, we have developed a ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lyu C,Nastase G,Ukpai G,Serban A,Rubinsky B

更新日期：2017-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A new Primulina species from Guangdong, China with an unusual inflorescence is described here. Primulina anisocymosa is vegetatively most similar to P. bobaiensis. It can be distinguished from all species within Primulina morphologically by its unique zigzag monochasial cyme and infructescence. To confirm the phylogen...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hong X,Keene J,Qiu ZJ,Wen F

更新日期：2019-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated population dynamics, breeding pairs, breeding habitat selection, nest density, distance between neighboring nests, nest survival, reproductive success, and recruitment rate for Black-necked Cranes (BNC, Grus nigricollis) during 2013-2015 in Yanchiwan National Nature Reserve (YCW), Gansu, China. Numbers...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhang L,An B,Shu M,Yang X

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Due to intensive sluice construction and other human disturbances, lakeshore vegetation has been destroyed and ecosystems greatly changed. Rhizospheric microbiota constitute a key part of a functioning rhizosphere ecosystem. Maintaining rhizosphere microbial diversity is a central, critical issue for sustain...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhang X,Wang H,Li Z,Xie J,Ni J

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：Background:High heel shoes (HHS) can affect human postural control because elevated heel height (HH) may result in plantar flexed foot and limit ankle joint range of motion during walking. Effects of HH and HHS wearing experience on postural stability during self-initiated and externally triggered perturbations are les...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chen Y,Li JX,Wang L

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenerational effects are important for phenotypic plasticity and adaptation of marine invertebrates in the changing ocean. Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation is an increasing threat to marine invertebrates. For the first time, we reported positive and negative transgenerational effects of UV-B radiation on egg size, ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ding J,Zhang L,Sun J,Shi D,Chi X,Yang M,Chang Y,Zhao C

更新日期：2019-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in behavior are often the proximate response of animals to human disturbance, with variability in tolerance levels leading some species to exhibit striking shifts in life history, fitness, and/or survival. Thus, elucidating the effects of disturbance on animal behavior, and how this varies among taxonomically ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Matich P,Schalk CM

更新日期：2019-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines are fundamental for a functioning immune system, and thus potentially serve as important indicators of animal health. Quantitation of mRNA using quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) is an established immunological technique. It is particularly suitable for detecting the expr...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tsai MA,Chen IH,Wang JH,Chou SJ,Li TH,Leu MY,Ho HK,Yang WC

更新日期：2017-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Tethering a fly for stationary flight allows for exquisite control of its sensory input, such as visual or olfactory stimuli or a punishing infrared laser beam. A torque meter measures the turning attempts of the tethered fly around its vertical body axis. By punishing, say, left turning attempts (in a homogeneous env...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Colomb J,Brembs B

更新日期：2016-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The NDUFS4 gene encodes an 18-kD subunit of mitochondria complex I, and mutations in this gene lead to the development of a severe neurodegenerative disease called Leigh syndrome (LS) in humans. To investigate the disease phenotypes and molecular mechanisms of Leigh syndrome, the Ndufs4 knockout (KO) mouse h...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wang M,Huang YP,Wu H,Song K,Wan C,Chi AN,Xiao YM,Zhao XY

更新日期：2017-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how structural and functional alterations of individual tissues impact on whole-joint function is challenging, particularly in humans where direct invasive experimentation is difficult. Finite element (FE) computational models produce quantitative predictions of the mechanical and physiological behaviour...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Peters AE,Akhtar R,Comerford EJ,Bates KT

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Multimodal imaging enables sensitive measures of the architecture and integrity of the human brain, but the high-dimensional nature of advanced brain imaging features poses inherent challenges for the analyses and interpretations. Multivariate age prediction reduces the dimensionality to one biologically informative s...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Richard G,Kolskår K,Sanders AM,Kaufmann T,Petersen A,Doan NT,Monereo Sánchez J,Alnæs D,Ulrichsen KM,Dørum ES,Andreassen OA,Nordvik JE,Westlye LT

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Much genomic-scale, especially transcriptomic, data on spider phylogeny has accumulated in the last few years. These data have recently been used to investigate the diverse architectures and the origin of spider webs, concluding that the ancestral spider spun no foraging web, that spider webs evolved de novo 10-14 tim...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Coddington JA,Agnarsson I,Hamilton CA,Bond JE

更新日期：2019-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental question in ecology is how the success of a taxon changes through time and what drives this change. This question is commonly approached using trajectories averaged over a group of taxa. Using results from probability theory, we show analytically and using examples that averaged trajectories will be more...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hohmann N,Jarochowska E

更新日期：2019-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Laminitis is a common equine disease characterized by foot pain, and is commonly diagnosed using a five-grade Obel system developed in 1948 using sepsis-related cases. However, endocrinopathic laminitis is now the most common form of the disease and clinical signs may be mild, or spread across two Obel grade...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Meier A,de Laat M,Pollitt C,Walsh D,McGree J,Reiche DB,von Salis-Soglio M,Wells-Smith L,Mengeler U,Mesa Salas D,Droegemueller S,Sillence MN

更新日期：2019-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Nurses are often the first to activate the chain of survival when a cardiorespiratory arrest happens. That is why it is crucial that they keep their knowledge and skills up-to-date and their attitudes to resuscitation are very important. The main aim of this study was to analyse whether the level of theoreti...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tíscar-González V,Blanco-Blanco J,Gea-Sánchez M,Rodriguez Molinuevo A,Moreno-Casbas T

更新日期：2019-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to accurately identify and label emotions in the self and others is crucial for successful social interactions and good mental health. In the current study we tested the longitudinal relationship between early language skills and recognition of facial and vocal emotion cues in a representative UK populatio...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Griffiths S,Goh SKY,Norbury CF,the SCALES team.

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia (HB) may cause severe neurological damage, but serious consequences are effectively controlled by phototherapy and blood exchange transfusion. HB is still a serious health problem in economically compromised parts of the world. The long term outcome has been regarded favorable b...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hokkanen L,Launes J,Michelsson K

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00