Principled BCI Decoder Design and Parameter Selection Using a Feedback Control Model.

abstract：:The impact of HULC rs7763881 on colorectal cancer (CRC) susceptibility is not yet known. Also, the biological function of the cancer-related rs6983267 remains unclear. We investigated the association of these SNPs with the risk of CRC and adenomatous polyps (AP), their correlation with CCAT2 and HULC expression, and t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shaker OG,Senousy MA,Elbaz EM

更新日期：2017-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Insects are extremely successful animals whose odor perception is very prominent due to their sophisticated olfactory system. The main chemosensory organ, antennae play a critical role in detecting odor in ambient environment before initiating appropriate behavioral responses. The antennal chemosensory receptor genes ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ahmed T,Zhang T,Wang Z,He K,Bai S

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The early Pliocene shoaling of the Central American Seaway (CAS), ~4.7-4.2 million years ago (mega annum-Ma), is thought to have strengthened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The associated increase in northward flux of heat and moisture may have significantly influenced the evolution of Pliocene cl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bell DB,Jung SJ,Kroon D,Hodell DA,Lourens LJ,Raymo ME

更新日期：2015-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A synergetic approach of employing smooth mesoporous TiO2 microsphere (SμS-TiO2)-nanoparticulate TiO2 (np-TiO2) composite photoanode, and size and defect controlled CdSe quantum dots (QD) to achieve high efficiency (η) in a modified Grätzel solar cell, quantum dot sensitized whisperonic solar cells (QDSWSC), is report...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Das TK,Ilaiyaraja P,Sudakar C

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, mesoporous carbon nitride (MCN) has aroused extensive interest for its potential applications in organocatalysis, photo- and electrochemistry and CO2 capture. However, further surface functionalization of MCN for advanced nanomaterials and catalysis still remains very challenging. Here we show that acidic ca...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhong L,Anand C,Lakhi KS,Lawrence G,Vinu A

更新日期：2015-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Real-time PCR targeting lytA (the major autolysin gene) and piaB (permease gene of the pia ABC transporter) are currently used as the gold-standard culture-independent assays for Streptococcus pneumoniae identification. We evaluated the performance of a new real-time PCR assay - targeting SP2020 (putative transcriptio...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tavares DA,Handem S,Carvalho RJ,Paulo AC,de Lencastre H,Hinds J,Sá-Leão R

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modic change (MC) is considered an independent risk factor for low back pain (LBP) but its aetiology remains unclear. In this cross-sectional, large-scale population-based study we sought to characterise associations between endplate defect (ED) and MC in a population sample of broad age range. The study population co...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Määttä JH,Rade M,Freidin MB,Airaksinen O,Karppinen J,Williams FMK

更新日期：2018-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of legumain which has been shown overexpressed in patients with metastatic gastric cancer is positively correlated to both disease progression and outcome, and negatively correlated to microRNA (miR)-3978 expression. The RNA-binding protein, poly r(C) binding protein 1 (PCBP1) was the most downregulated...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ji FJ,Wu YY,An Z,Liu XS,Jiang JN,Chen FF,Fang XD

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical oesophageal cancer (CEC) is a relatively uncommon malignancy. The biological behaviour and treatment have not been well studied. This retrospective study reviewed the clinicopathological features of 28 patients with CEC who underwent surgical resection to investigate the biological behaviour, treatment and pr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen SB,Yang XH,Weng HR,Liu DT,Li H,Chen YP

更新日期：2017-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The functionalization of graphene remains an important challenge for numerous applications expected by this fascinating material. To keep advantageous properties of graphene after modification or functionalization of its structure, local approaches are a promising road. A novel technique is reported here that allows p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li H,Daukiya L,Haldar S,Lindblad A,Sanyal B,Eriksson O,Aubel D,Hajjar-Garreau S,Simon L,Leifer K

更新日期：2016-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a common complication after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Here we compared the diagnostic rates of ocular GVHD, including its severity, prognosis and the agreement, obtained using three grading scales: the National Institutes of Health (NIH) eye score, Japan...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tatematsu Y,Ogawa Y,Abe T,Kamoi M,Uchino M,Saijo-Ban Y,Yaguchi S,Mukai S,Mori T,Okamoto S,Tsubota K

更新日期：2014-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Flattening of a carbon nanotube results in the formation of a carbon nanoribbon with well-defined edges. In addition, a switching of the flattening direction by about a right angle yields a carbon nanotetrahedron at the switching point in a nanoribbon. Here, we report that chains of carbon nanotetrahedra/nanoribbons a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kohno H,Hasegawa T

更新日期：2015-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The human connectome has become the very frequent subject of study of brain-scientists, psychologists and imaging experts in the last decade. With diffusion magnetic resonance imaging techniques, united with advanced data processing algorithms, today we are able to compute braingraphs with several hundred, anatomicall...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fellner M,Varga B,Grolmusz V

更新日期：2020-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the influence of intratumoral morphological heterogeneity of breast cancer on neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) efficiency was investigated. In particular, we analysed the association of NAC response and pre- and post-NAC expression of the main multidrug resistance (MDR) genes--ABCB1, ABCC1, ABCC5, ABCG1, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Denisov EV,Litviakov NV,Zavyalova MV,Perelmuter VM,Vtorushin SV,Tsyganov MM,Gerashchenko TS,Garbukov EY,Slonimskaya EM,Cherdyntseva NV

更新日期：2014-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Nowadays, one of the main challenges is moving towards an eco-sustainable agriculture, able to preserve the food production through a reduced use of pesticides. Current global food sustenance by intensive agriculture is mainly based on economic crop monocultures and drastically reduces the biodiversity, increasing the...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zambon Y,Contaldo N,Laurita R,Várallyay E,Canel A,Gherardi M,Colombo V,Bertaccini A

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyzing heart rate variability (HRV) in preterm infants can help track maturational changes and subclinical signatures of disease. We conducted an observational study to characterize the effect of demographic and cardiorespiratory factors on three features of HRV using a linear mixed-effects model. HRV-features were...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Joshi R,Kommers D,Guo C,Bikker JW,Feijs L,van Pul C,Andriessen P

更新日期：2019-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The endo-levanase BT1760 of a human gut commensal Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron randomly cuts a β-2,6-linked fructan, levan, into fructo-oligosaccharides providing a prebiotic substrate for gut microbiota. Here we introduce the crystal structure of BT1760 at resolution of 1.65 Å. The fold of the enzyme is typical for G...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ernits K,Eek P,Lukk T,Visnapuu T,Alamäe T

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative polyadenylation has been recognized as a key contributor of gene expression regulation by generating different transcript isoforms with altered 3' ends. Although polyadenylation is well known for marking the end of a 3' UTR, an increasing number of studies have reported previously less-addressed polyadenyl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Guo C,Spinelli M,Liu M,Li QQ,Liang C

更新日期：2016-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Friction stir processing (FSP) was used to achieve grain refinement on Mg-Al-Zn alloys, which also brought in significant texture modification. The different micro-texture characteristics were found to cause irregular micro-hardness distribution in FSPed region. The effects of texture and grain size were investigated ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Peng J,Zhang Z,Liu Z,Li Y,Guo P,Zhou W,Wu Y

更新日期：2018-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenotransplantation of human cancers into immunodeficient mice is a very useful approach for studying human tumor biology. However, the occasional occurrence of lymphomagenesis in some mice can spoil the model and must be investigated in detail. We found that a high percentage (32.5%, 26/80) of cancer patient-derived ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang L,Liu Y,Wang X,Tang Z,Li S,Hu Y,Zong X,Wu X,Bu Z,Wu A,Li Z,Li Z,Huang X,Jia L,Kang Q,Liu Y,Sutton D,Wang L,Luo L,Ji J

更新日期：2015-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The dispersion of organic N-benzyl-2-methyl-4-nitroaniline (BNA) in nematic liquid crystals (LCs) is studied. BNA doping decreases the threshold voltage of cell because of the reduced splay elastic constant and increased dielectric anisotropy of the LC mixture. When operated in the high voltage difference condition, t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Selvaraj P,Subramani K,Srinivasan B,Hsu CJ,Huang CY

更新日期：2020-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel amorphous iron hydrides (AIHs) are synthesized for the first time under ambient conditions by employing novel "quiescent reaction", without stirring for mixing solutions, during a conventional aqueous reduction-precipitation process. The kind and morphology of AIHs are dependent on the processing condition, wher...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Taguchi K,Shinozaki K,Okumura H,Michioka C,Yoshimura K,Ishihara KN

更新日期：2020-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements (TEs) are genomic sequences that can move, multiply, and often form sizable fractions of vertebrate genomes. Fish belong to a unique group of vertebrates, since their karyotypes and genome sizes are more diverse and complex, with probably higher diversity and evolution specificity of TE. To inves...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shao F,Han M,Peng Z

更新日期：2019-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecule and energetic ion is a subject of interest in different areas of modern physics. Here, we present measurements of energy and angular distributions of absolute double differential electron emission cross section for coronene (C24H12) and fluorene (C13H1...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Biswas S,Champion C,Weck PF,Tribedi LC

更新日期：2017-07-17 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： Ludwig E,Harder J,Lacorcia M,Honkpehedji YJ,Nouatin OP,van Dam GJ,Corstjens PLAM,Sartono E,Esen M,Lobmaier SM,Adegnika AA,Prazeres da Costa C

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In Duchenne muscular dystrophy, progressive loss of muscle tissue is accompanied by fibrosis, chronic inflammation and reduced muscle regenerative capacity. Although much is known about the development of fibrosis and chronic inflammation in muscular dystrophy, less is known about how they are mechanistically linked t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Arecco N,Clarke CJ,Jones FK,Simpson DM,Mason D,Beynon RJ,Pisconti A

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The synaptic protein SHANK3 encodes a multidomain scaffold protein expressed at the postsynaptic density of neuronal excitatory synapses. We previously identified de novo SHANK3 mutations in patients with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and showed that SHANK3 represents one of the major genes for ASD. Here, we analyze...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gouder L,Vitrac A,Goubran-Botros H,Danckaert A,Tinevez JY,André-Leroux G,Atanasova E,Lemière N,Biton A,Leblond CS,Poulet A,Boland A,Deleuze JF,Benchoua A,Delorme R,Bourgeron T,Cloëz-Tayarani I

更新日期：2019-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Network analysis is an important tool to analyze the structure of complex systems such as tropical forests. Here, we infer spatial proximity networks in tropical forests by using network science. First, we focus on tree neighborhoods to derive spatial tree networks from forest inventory data. In a second step, we cons...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Schmid JS,Taubert F,Wiegand T,Sun IF,Huth A

更新日期：2020-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on density functional theory and non-equilibrium Green's function formalism, we explore the effect of Fe atom in Au-Fe@C20-Au monomer and dimer systems in comparison with the C20 fullerene molecular junctions. We calculate the spin-dependent transmission coefficient, spin polarization and also their spin thermoe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Khalatbari H,Vishkayi SI,Soleimani HR

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Spiders can cause trophic cascades affecting litter decomposition rates. However, it remains unclear how spiders with different foraging strategies influence faunal communities, or present cascading effects on decomposition. Furthermore, increased dry periods predicted in future climates will likely have important con...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu S,Chen J,Gan W,Schaefer D,Gan J,Yang X

更新日期：2015-07-23 00:00:00