Strip rotary tillage with a two-year subsoiling interval enhances root growth and yield in wheat.

abstract：:Climate change significantly impacts the vegetation growth and terrestrial ecosystems. Using satellite remote sensing observations, here we focus on investigating vegetation dynamics and the likelihood of vegetation-related drought under varying climate conditions across China. We first compare temporal trends of Norm...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu Z,Li C,Zhou P,Chen X

更新日期：2016-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitats along linear infrastructure, such as roads and electrical transmission lines, can have high local biodiversity. To determine whether these habitats also contribute to landscape-scale biodiversity, we estimated species richness, evenness and phylogenetic diversity of plant, butterfly and bumblebee communities ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dániel-Ferreira J,Bommarco R,Wissman J,Öckinger E

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Dirt and microorganisms are the major problems in textiles which can generate unpleasant odor during their growth. Here, zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles prepared by sol-gel method were loaded on the cotton fabrics using spin coating technique to enhance their antimicrobial properties and water repellency. The effects o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shaban M,Mohamed F,Abdallah S

更新日期：2018-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing impairment is one of the most common sensory deficits in humans. Hearing aids are helpful to patients but can have poor sound quality or transmission due to insufficient output or acoustic feedback, such as for high frequencies. Implantable devices partially overcome these issues but require surgery with limit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Stahn P,Lim HH,Hinsberger MP,Sorg K,Pillong L,Kannengießer M,Schreiter C,Foth HJ,Langenbucher A,Schick B,Wenzel GI

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical data from 172 cases of uterine fibroids with different appearances on MRI-T2WI and accepted ultrasound guided high intensity focused ultrasound (USgHIFU) treatment were retrospectively analyzed. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical safety and efficacy of ablating different types of fibroids, classified b...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhao WP,Zhang J,Han ZY,Yao JP,Zhou X,Liang P

更新日期：2017-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The studies on the increasing incidence of thyroid abnormalities are scarce. The aim of this current study was to ascertain the effects of geographical region on thyroid abnormalities under the context of universal salt iodization (USI). We randomly selected 1255 participants residing in inland and 1248 in coast, with...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang X,Mo Z,Mao G,Zhu W,Xing M,Li X,Wang Y,Wang Z,Lou X

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The adipogenic process is characterized by the expression of adipocyte differentiation markers that lead to changes in cell metabolism and to the accumulation of lipid droplets. Moreover, during early adipogenesis, cells undergo a strong downregulation of translational activity with a decrease in cell size, proliferat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Marcon BH,Shigunov P,Spangenberg L,Pereira IT,de Aguiar AM,Amorín R,Rebelatto CK,Correa A,Dallagiovanna B

更新日期：2019-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysregulation in acetylation homeostasis has been implicated in the pathogenesis of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal neurodegenerative disorder. It is known that the acetylation of transcriptional factors regulates their activity. The acetylation state of NF-kB RelA has been found to dictate the neurop...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Schiaffino L,Bonafede R,Scambi I,Parrella E,Pizzi M,Mariotti R

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A negative correlation between body size and the latitudinal temperature gradient is well established for extant terrestrial endotherms but less so in the fossil record. Here we analyze the middle Eocene site of Geiseltal (Germany), whose record is considered to span ca. 5 Myrs of gradual global cooling, and generate ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ring SJ,Bocherens H,Wings O,Rabi M

更新日期：2020-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dirac materials, such as graphene and three-dimensional topological insulators, have attracted much attention because they exhibit novel quantum phenomena with their low energy electrons governed by the relativistic Dirac equations. One particular interest is to generate Dirac cone anisotropy so that the electrons...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Feng Y,Wang Z,Chen C,Shi Y,Xie Z,Yi H,Liang A,He S,He J,Peng Y,Liu X,Liu Y,Zhao L,Liu G,Dong X,Zhang J,Chen C,Xu Z,Dai X,Fang Z,Zhou XJ

更新日期：2014-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cooperative behaviors are common in humans, and they are the fundamental basis of our society. Theoretical and experimental studies have modeled environments where the behaviors of humans, or agents, have been restricted to analyze their social behavior. However, it is important that such studies can be generalized to...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Takano M,Wada K,Fukuda I

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A difficult problem in quantum network communications is how to efficiently transmit quantum information over large-scale networks with common channels. We propose a solution by developing a quantum encoding approach. Different quantum states are encoded into a coherent superposition state using quantum linear optics....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Luo MX,Xu G,Chen XB,Yang YX,Wang X

更新日期：2014-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus (ZIKV) is an arboviral infection that has been shown to be sexually transmitted. The study outlined herein aims to determine if accessory sex glands and epididymal epithelial cells are sources of viral persistence in subacute and chronic ZIKV infection, and if infection of these organs is important in sexua...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Clancy CS,Van Wettere AJ,Morrey JD,Julander JG

更新日期：2019-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychrophilic (cold-loving) fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans was discovered more than a decade ago to be the pathogen responsible for white-nose syndrome, an emerging disease of North American bats causing unprecedented population declines. The same species of fungus is found in Europe but without associated mo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ren P,Rajkumar SS,Zhang T,Sui H,Masters PS,Martinkova N,Kubátová A,Pikula J,Chaturvedi S,Chaturvedi V

更新日期：2020-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Detailed measurements of physical, chemical and biological dynamics in groundwater are key to understanding the important processes in place and their influence on water quality - particularly when used for drinking water. Measuring temporal bacterial dynamics at high frequency is challenging due to the limitations in...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Besmer MD,Epting J,Page RM,Sigrist JA,Huggenberger P,Hammes F

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of La1-xCexCoO3 perovskite nanoparticles with rhombohedral phases was synthesized via sol-gel chemical process. X-ray diffraction (XRD), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Electron Diffraction Spectroscopy (EDS), Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA), UV-Vis spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared spectra (F...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ansari AA,Adil SF,Alam M,Ahmad N,Assal ME,Labis JP,Alwarthan A

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Human CD4+ T cells play an important role in the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). However, little is known about the spectratyping characteristics of the CD4+ T-cell receptor (TCR) α- and β-chains CDR3 region in tuberculosis (TB) patients. We sorted MTB peptide E7-bound CD4+ T cells by using E7/HLA...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gan Y,Wang C,Fang Y,Yao Y,Tu X,Wang J,Huang X,Tan Y,Chen T,Zhang K,Shen Y,Zhou L,Liu J,Lai X

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in commercial arrays have often been discovered in a small number of samples from selected populations. This ascertainment skews patterns of nucleotide diversity and affects population genetic inferences. We propose a demographic inference pipeline that explicitly models the SNP ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Quinto-Cortés CD,Woerner AE,Watkins JC,Hammer MF

更新日期：2018-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The interpenetrating morphology formed by the electron donor and acceptor materials is critical for the performance of polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunction (BHJ) photovoltaic (PV) cells. In this work we carried out a systematic investigation on a high PV efficiency (>6%) BHJ system consisting of a newly developed 5,6...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xiao T,Xu H,Grancini G,Mai J,Petrozza A,Jeng US,Wang Y,Xin X,Lu Y,Choon NS,Xiao H,Ong BS,Lu X,Zhao N

更新日期：2014-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergence and time evolution of micro-structured new-phase domains play a crucial role in determining the macroscopic physical and mechanical behaviors of iron under shock compression. Here, we investigate, through molecular dynamics simulations and theoretical modelings, shock-induced phase transition process of iron...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pang WW,Zhang P,Zhang GC,Xu AG,Zhao XG

更新日期：2014-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In using nanostructures to design solar thermal absorbers, computational methods, such as rigorous coupled-wave analysis and the finite-difference time-domain method, are often employed to simulate light-structure interactions in the solar spectrum. However, those methods require heavy computational resources and CPU ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Seo J,Jung PH,Kim M,Yang S,Lee I,Lee J,Lee H,Lee BJ

更新日期：2019-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA methyltransferase DNMT3A R882H mutation is observed in 25% of all AML patients. DNMT3A is active as tetramer and the R882H mutation is located in one of the subunit/subunit interfaces. Previous work has reported that formation of mixed wildtype/R882H complexes leads to a strong loss of catalytic activity obser...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Emperle M,Dukatz M,Kunert S,Holzer K,Rajavelu A,Jurkowska RZ,Jeltsch A

更新日期：2018-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Organotypic, three-dimensional (3D) cancer models have enabled investigations of complex microtissues in increasingly realistic conditions. However, a drawback of these advanced models remains the poor biological relevance of cancer cell lines, while higher clinical significance would be obtainable with patient-derive...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ahonen I,Åkerfelt M,Toriseva M,Oswald E,Schüler J,Nees M

更新日期：2017-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this work was to develop a mathematical model to predict Kaplan-Meier survival curves for chemotherapy combined with radiation in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer patients for use in clinical trial design. The Gompertz model was used to describe tumor growth, radiation effect was simulated by the linear-quadrati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Geng C,Paganetti H,Grassberger C

更新日期：2017-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a difficult-to-treat infection. Increasing efforts have been taken to mitigate the epidemics and to avoid potential outbreaks in low endemic settings. Understanding the population dynamics of MRSA is essential to identify the causal mechanisms driving the epidemics...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rocha LEC,Singh V,Esch M,Lenaerts T,Liljeros F,Thorson A

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolution of resistance threatens sustainability of transgenic crops producing insecticidal proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). The fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) is a devastating pest of corn in the Western Hemisphere initially controlled by transgenic Bt corn producing the Cry1Fa insectic...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Banerjee R,Hasler J,Meagher R,Nagoshi R,Hietala L,Huang F,Narva K,Jurat-Fuentes JL

更新日期：2017-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial detoxification has been proposed as a new alternative for removing toxins and pollutants. In this study, the biodetoxification activities of yeasts against aflatoxin B1 and zinc were evaluated by HPLC and voltammetric techniques. The strains with the best activity were also subjected to complementary assays,...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： García-Béjar B,Arévalo-Villena M,Guisantes-Batan E,Rodríguez-Flores J,Briones A

更新日期：2020-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonal cell analysis defines the potential of single cells and the diversity they can produce. To achieve this, we have developed a novel adaptation of the genetic tracing strategy, UbC-StarTrack, which attributes a specific and unique color-code to single neural precursors, allowing all their progeny to be tracked. W...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Figueres-Oñate M,García-Marqués J,López-Mascaraque L

更新日期：2016-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein interface is key to understand protein function, providing a vital insight on how proteins interact with each other and with other molecules. Over the years, many computational methods to compare protein structures were developed, yet evaluating interface similarity remains a very difficult task. Here, we ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Budowski-Tal I,Kolodny R,Mandel-Gutfreund Y

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain lacks a traditional lymphatic system for metabolite clearance. The existence of a "glymphatic system" where metabolites are removed from the brain's extracellular space by convective exchange between interstitial fluid (ISF) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) along the paravascular spaces (PVS) around cerebral bl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kedarasetti RT,Drew PJ,Costanzo F

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00