Smoking does not accelerate leucocyte telomere attrition: a meta-analysis of 18 longitudinal cohorts.

abstract：:Polymer-based composites with the advantages of ceramics and polymers exhibit high dielectric constant, good processing properties and low dielectric loss. The composites with a varied content of irregular alumina (i-Al2O3) filler were prepared by UV-cured epoxy acrylic (EA). Spherical alumina (s-Al2O3) was used as a ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Bian J,Zhao Q,Hou Z,Dong J,Yang Q,Zhang G

更新日期：2019-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The persistence of homological features in simplicial complex representations of big datasets in R n resulting from Vietoris-Rips or Čech filtrations is commonly used to probe the topological structure of such datasets. In this paper, the notion of homological pers...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Parks AD,Marchette DJ

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have conducted a novel study of the influence of energy components (RDX, AP and CL-20) on curing kinetics of glycidyl azide polymer (GAP) spherical propellant based on rheological method. The autocatalytic model was used to describe curing kinetics and the parameters were determined by the model-fitting method. It ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： He L,He W,Ma Z

更新日期：2018-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In its natural habitat, the one-leaf plant Monophyllaea horsfieldii (Gesneriaceae) shows striking postural changes and dramatic loss of stability in response to intermittently occurring droughts. As the morphological, anatomical and biomechanical bases of these alterations are as yet unclear, we examined the influence...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kampowski T,Mylo MD,Poppinga S,Speck T

更新日期：2018-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Comprehensive diagnosis of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin and dibenzofuran (PCDD/F) emissions was systematically conducted on three hazardous waste incinerators (HWIs). Results indicated that PCDD/F mainly existed in the solid phase before the bag filter. This was especially true for higher chlorinated dioxin and fu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Cao X,Ji L,Lin X,Stevens WR,Tang M,Shang F,Tang S,Lu S

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation mechanism of pentazolate anion (PZA) is not yet clear. In order to present the possible formation pathways of PZA, the potential energy surfaces of phenylpentazole (PPZ), phenylpentazole radical (PPZ-R), phenylpentazole radical anion (PPZ-RA), PPZ and m-chloroperbenzoic acid (m-CPBA), p-pentazolylphenola...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yu T,Ma YD,Lai WP,Liu YZ,Ge ZX,Ren G

更新日期：2018-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Low levels of heterozygosity can have detrimental effects on life history and growth characteristics of organisms but more subtle effects such as those on trade-offs of expensive tissues and morphological laterality, especially of the brain, have not been explicitly tested. The objective of the current study was to in...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wiper ML,Lehnert SJ,Heath DD,Higgs DM

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A method developed based on the capillary effect and capillary condensation theory was used to synthesize an innovative Fe/C/Pd composite in this study. This composite (Fe@CNTs@Pd) consists of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with nanoscale zerovalent iron (NZVI) on the inner surface and palladium nanoparticles supported on th...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wang X,Wang W,Lowry G,Li X,Guo Y,Li T

更新日期：2018-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In the aftermath of a flood, fire ants, Solenopsis invicta, cluster into temporary encampments. The encampments can contain hundreds of thousands of ants and reach over 30 ants high. How do ants build such tall structures without being crushed? In this combined experimental and theoretical study, we investigate the sh...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Phonekeo S,Mlot N,Monaenkova D,Hu DL,Tovey C

更新日期：2017-07-12 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：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170128.]. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Taylor PJ,Larner S,Conchie SM,Menacere T

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We model radicalization in a society consisting of two competing religious, ethnic or political groups. Each of the 'sects' is divided into moderate and radical factions, with intra-group transitions occurring either spontaneously or through indoctrination. We also include the possibility of one group violently attack...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Short MB,McCalla SG,D'Orsogna MR

更新日期：2017-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In the paper, the isomorphous S O 4 ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yan C,Zhu L,Dong J,Gu D,Jiang H,Wang B

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:When mothers continue to support their offspring beyond infancy, they can influence the fitness of those offspring, the strength of social relationships within their groups, and the life-history traits of their species. Using up to 30 years of demographic data from 58 groups of gorillas in two study sites, this study ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Robbins AM,Gray M,Breuer T,Manguette M,Stokes EJ,Uwingeli P,Mburanumwe I,Kagoda E,Robbins MM

更新日期：2016-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, nanoflower-like MoS2 grown on the surface of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)/polyaniline (PANI) nano-stem is synthesized via a facile in situ polymerization and hydrothermal method. Such a novel hierarchical structure commendably promotes the contact of PANI and electrolyte for faradaic energy sto...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zhang R,Liao Y,Ye S,Zhu Z,Qian J

更新日期：2018-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents simplified finite-element analysis procedures based on geometrical nonlinearity and ductile Mohr-Coulomb-Davis plasticity for analysis of bending behaviour of steel pipes subjected to lateral soil loading. A simple, and easy to implement, user-defined subroutine to represent soil stiffness using th...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Almahakeri M,Moore ID,Fam A

更新日期：2019-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Social information use is common in a wide range of group-living animals, notably in humans. The role it plays in decision-making could be a key to understanding how social groups make collective decisions. The observation of road-crossing behaviours in the presence of other individuals is an ideal means to study the ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Pelé M,Bellut C,Debergue E,Gauvin C,Jeanneret A,Leclere T,Nicolas L,Pontier F,Zausa D,Sueur C

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that whale and dolphin watching activities have detrimental effects on targeted cetacean populations. In Egypt, spinner dolphins regularly occur in the resting areas of Samadai, Satayah and Qubbat'Isa reefs. In-water human interactions with dolphins are regulated with a time-area closure s...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Fumagalli M,Cesario A,Costa M,Harraway J,Notarbartolo di Sciara G,Slooten E

更新日期：2018-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Archosauria (birds, crocodilians and their extinct relatives) form a major part of terrestrial ecosystems today, with over 10 000 living species, and came to dominate the land for most of the Mesozoic (over 150 Myr) after radiating following the Permian-Triassic extinction. The archosaur skull has been essential to th...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sookias RB,Dilkes D,Sobral G,Smith RMH,Wolvaardt FP,Arcucci AB,Bhullar BS,Werneburg I

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Wildlife researchers often rely on demographic data collected from harvested animals to estimate population dynamics. But demographic data from harvested animals may be non-representative if hunters/trappers have the ability and motivation to preferentially select for certain physical traits. Hunter preference is well...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Allen ML,Roberts NM,Van Deelen TR

更新日期：2018-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Science provides a method to learn about the relationships between observed patterns and the processes that generate them. However, inference can be confounded when an observed pattern cannot be clearly and wholly attributed to a hypothesized process. Over-reliance on traditional single-hypothesis methods (i.e. null h...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yanco SW,McDevitt A,Trueman CN,Hartley L,Wunder MB

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudohyphal growth of the dimorphic yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is analysed using two-dimensional top-down binary images. The colony morphology is characterized using clustered shape primitives (CSPs), which are learned automatically from the data and thus do not require a list of predefined features or a priori k...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Gontar A,Bottema MJ,Binder BJ,Tronnolone H

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, photocatalytic experiments of 20 mg l-1 sulfamethazine (SMN) in aqueous solution containing ZnO with different morphologies, tetra-needle-like ZnO (T-ZnO), flower-like ZnO (F-ZnO) and nanoparticles ZnO (P-ZnO), were performed. The results indicated that photocatalytic degradation of SMN was effective an...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yi Z,Wang J,Jiang T,Tang Q,Cheng Y

更新日期：2018-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that the spin-wave spectrum in an elliptical helix has a band character. The size of the first band gap calculated using the perturbation theory is shown to scale as square root of the eccentricity. Curved magnonic waveguides of the kind considered here could be used as structural elements of future three-dime...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Golovchan AV,Kruglyak VV,Tkachenko VS,Kuchko AN

更新日期：2018-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The constraint release (CR) mechanism has important effects on polymer relaxation and the chains will show different relaxation behaviour in conditions of monodisperse, bidisperse and other topological environments. By comparing relaxation data of linear polyisoprene (PI) chains dissolved in very long matrix and monod...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ma T,Lin G,Tan H

更新日期：2020-03-18 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：:Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent types of cancer today in women. The main avenue of diagnosis is through manual examination of histopathology tissue slides. Such a process is often subjective and error-ridden, suffering from both inter- and intraobserver variability. Our objective is to develop an automatic ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chan A,Tuszynski JA

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurobiological and molecular studies suggest a dichromatic colour vision in canine species, which appears to be similar to that of human red-green colour blindness. Here, we show that dogs exhibit a behavioural response similar to that of red-green blind human subjects when tested with a modified version of a test co...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Siniscalchi M,d'Ingeo S,Fornelli S,Quaranta A

更新日期：2017-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Zeolitic-imidazole frameworks (ZIFs), as novel porous materials, are attracting much attention in several fields due to their special advantages such as large specific surface area, versatile porosity and well-connected networks. Here, we develop a porous ZIF-derived catalytic thin film, which was coated on the conduc...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Xu W,Sun Y,Ding B,Zhang J

更新日期：2018-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Bats play important ecological roles in tropical systems, yet how these communities are structured is still poorly understood. Our study explores the structure of African bat communities using morphological characters to define the morphospace occupied by these bats and stable isotope analysis to define their dietary ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Monadjem A,Kane A,Taylor P,Richards LR,Hall G,Woodborne S

更新日期：2018-12-19 00:00:00