Threshold-like associations as a function of disturbance.

abstract：:The incorporation of feedback into a person's body schema is well established. The crossmodal congruency task (CCT) is used to objectively quantify incorporation without being susceptible to experimenter biases. This visual-tactile interference task is used to calculate the crossmodal congruency effect (CCE) score as ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Blustein D,Gill S,Wilson A,Sensinger J

更新日期：2019-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The amphibian skin microbiome has been the focus of recent studies aiming to better understand the role of these microbial symbionts in host defense against disease. However, host-associated microbial communities are complex and dynamic, and changes in their composition and structure can influence their function. Unde...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Estrada A,Hughey MC,Medina D,Rebollar EA,Walke JB,Harris RN,Belden LK

更新日期：2019-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The proportion of females calving (PFC) each year has been employed as an indicator of population reproductive performance in ungulates, especially for species that breed annually, because it requires less detailed population data than inter-birthing intervals and age at first reproduction. For asynchronous breeders w...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Law PR,Fike B

更新日期：2018-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy serves as a turnover mechanism for the recycling of redundant and/or damaged macromolecules present in eukaryotic cells to re-use them under starvation conditions via a double-membrane structure known as autophagosome. A set of eukaryotic genes called autophagy-related genes (ATGs) orchestrate this highly el...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Aslan E,Küçükoğlu N,Arslanyolu M

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the adverse health effects caused by azo dyes are insufficient and quite contradictory. This work aims to investigate the possible toxic effect of two types of widely used food additives, Sunset Yellow and Allura Red, by assessing the physiological, histopathological and ultrastructural changes in the liver...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Khayyat LI,Essawy AE,Sorour JM,Soffar A

更新日期：2018-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently there are 21 shrimp species in the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea which are considered to belong to the superfamily Oplophoroidea, but the larval development is unknown for most of them. The complete larval development of Systellaspis debilis (Milne-Edwards, 1881), here described and illustrated...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bartilotti C,Dos Santos A

更新日期：2019-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate community shelter effects of two invasive decapod species, Hemigrapsus sanguineus and Carcinus maenas, in the Long Island Sound (LIS), we deployed artificial shelters in the intertidal and immediate subtidal zones. These consisted of five groups during the summer: a control, a resident H. sanguineus mal...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hudson DM,Reagan D,Crivello JF

更新日期：2016-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Although anthophilous Coleoptera are regarded to be unspecialised flower-visiting insects, monkey beetles (Scarabaeidae: Hopliini) represent one of the most important groups of pollinating insects in South Africa's floristic hotspot of the Greater Cape Region. South African monkey beetles are known to feed on floral t...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Karolyi F,Hansal T,Krenn HW,Colville JF

更新日期：2016-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:As coral reefs continue to decline globally, coral restoration practitioners have explored various approaches to return coral cover and diversity to decimated reefs. While branching coral species have long been the focus of restoration efforts, the recent development of the microfragmentation coral propagation techniq...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Koval G,Rivas N,D'Alessandro M,Hesley D,Santos R,Lirman D

更新日期：2020-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we analysed the impact of water regime and soil nutrients on the clonal diversity and genetic variation of the sedge Carex nigra in a central alpine fen. For our analysis, we established 16 study plots randomly distributed over the fen. We determined the exact elevation of each plot as an indicator for t...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Reisch C,Meier S,Schmid C,Bartelheimer M

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The Mountain Pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus) is a critically endangered marsupial, endemic to alpine regions of southern Australia. We investigated the diet of a recently discovered population of the possum in northern Kosciuszko National Park, NSW, Australia. This new population occurs at elevations well bel...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hawke T,Bates H,Hand S,Archer M,Broome L

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The diagnosis of congenital heart defects is challenging, especially for what concerns conotruncal anomalies. Indeed, although the screening techniques of fetal cardiac anomalies have greatly improved, the detection rate of conotruncal anomalies still remains low due to the fact that they are associated with...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Dell'Oro S,Verderio M,Incerti M,Mastrolia SA,Cozzolino S,Vergani P

更新日期：2018-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. Diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypothyroidism are each associated with increased rate of pregnancy complications. However, their combined morbidity during gestation is poorly studied. Therefore, the aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of the combined morbidity of DM & hypothyroidism and whether...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tirosh D,Benshalom-Tirosh N,Novack L,Press F,Beer-Weisel R,Wiznitzer A,Mazor M,Erez O

更新日期：2013-03-19 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：:Phlorotannins are primary and/or secondary metabolites found exclusively in brown seaweeds, but their geographic distribution and abundance dynamic are not very well understood. In this study we evaluated the phlorotannin concentrations among and within-species of brown seaweeds in a broad latitudinal context (range o...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ank G,da Gama BAP,Pereira RC

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) enables the measurement and comparison of gene expression with isoform-level quantification. Differences in the effect of each isoform may make traditional methods, which aggregate isoforms, ineffective. Here, we introduce a variance component-based test that can jointly test multiple isoforms...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Yang S,Shao F,Duan W,Zhao Y,Chen F

更新日期：2017-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The fecal microbiota from obese individuals can induce obesity in animal models. In addition, studies in humans, animal models and dogs have revealed that the fecal microbiota of subjects with obesity is different from that of lean subjects and changes after weight loss. However, the impact of weight loss on...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bermudez Sanchez S,Pilla R,Sarawichitr B,Gramenzi A,Marsilio F,Steiner JM,Lidbury JA,Woods GRT,German AJ,Suchodolski JS

更新日期：2020-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Sprint performance is an essential skill to target within soccer, which can be likely achieved with a variety of methods, including different on-field training options. One such method could be heavy resisted sprint training. However, the effects of such overload on sprint performance and the related kinetic...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lahti J,Huuhka T,Romero V,Bezodis I,Morin JB,Häkkinen K

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Despite clinical trials with antioxidant supplementation, few studies have been conducted to evaluate the nutritional status of antioxidant vitamins and minerals, and none have reported on the status of these serum antioxidants associated with the dietary intake of antioxidants by non-alcoholic fatty liver d...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Coelho JM,Cansanção K,Perez RM,Leite NC,Padilha P,Ramalho A,Peres W

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) is a widely accepted technique of non-invasive respiratory support in premature infants with respiratory distress syndrome due to lack of lung surfactant. If this approach fails, the next step is often intubation, mechanical ventilation (MV) and intratrache...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Walther FJ,Hernández-Juviel JM,Waring AJ

更新日期：2014-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The cost of enzymes makes enzymatic hydrolysis one of the most expensive steps in the production of lignocellulosic ethanol. Diverse studies have used commercial enzyme cocktails assuming that change in total protein concentration during hydrolysis was solely due to adsorption of endo- and exoglucanases onto the subst...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rosales-Calderon O,Trajano HL,Duff SJ

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Because cancer evolution underlies the therapeutic difficulties of cancer, it is clinically important to understand the evolutionary dynamics of cancer. Thus far, a number of evolutionary processes have been proposed to be working in cancer evolution. However, there exists no simulation model that can describe the dif...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Niida A,Hasegawa T,Innan H,Shibata T,Mimori K,Miyano S

更新日期：2020-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of people suffering from eye fatigue induced by visual display terminal (VDT) viewing is expected to increase in the modern world. Eye dysfunction is suggested to induce a decrease in cognitive function, at least in the long term. Furthermore, considering other previous findings, it may be reasonable to thi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Akagi R,Tonotsuka M,Horie R,Hirata K,Ando S

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations that cause an error in the splicing of a messenger RNA (mRNA) can lead to diseases in humans. Various computational models have been developed to recognize the sequence pattern of the splice sites. In recent studies, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures were shown to outperform other existing mod...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Thanapattheerakul T,Engchuan W,Chan JH

更新日期：2020-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:At the turn of February and March 2020, COVID-19 pandemic reached Europe. Many countries, including Poland imposed lockdown as a method of securing social distance between potentially infected. Stay-at-home orders and movement control within public space not only affected the touristm industry, but also the everyday l...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Szczepanek R

更新日期：2020-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Wearable activity trackers are regarded as a new opportunity to deliver health promotion interventions. Indeed, while the prediction of active behaviors is currently primarily relying on the processing of accelerometer sensor data, the emergence of smart clothes with multi-sensing capacities is offering new ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ren D,Aubert-Kato N,Anzai E,Ohta Y,Tripette J

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Sexual development in Flammulina velutipes is controlled by two different mating type loci (HD and PR). The HD locus contains homeodomain (Hd) genes on two separate HD subloci: HD-a and HD-b. While the functionality of the HD-b sublocus has been largely confirmed, the status and content of the HD-a sublocus ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wang W,Mukhtar I,Chou T,Jiang S,Liu X,van Peer AF,Xie B

更新日期：2019-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：Background:This study evaluates the generalizability of an eight-station progress clinical skills examination and assesses the growth in performance for six clinical skills domains among first- and second-year medical students over four time points during the academic year. Methods:We conducted a generalizability stud...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Laird-Fick HS,Chang C,Wang L,Parker C,Malinowski R,Emery M,Solomon DJ

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Overweight (OW) is considered a risk for various metabolic diseases. However, its effects as a mechanism that alters the metabolite profiles remain unclear. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects that OW has on the lipid and metabolite profiles in young adults. Methods:The serum metabolite ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pasanta D,Chancharunee S,Tungjai M,Kim HJ,Kothan S

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:As other spiny lobsters, Panulirus argus is supposed to use preferentially proteins and lipids in energy metabolism, while carbohydrates are well digested but poorly utilized. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of dietary carbohydrate level on digestion and metabolism in the spiny lobster P. argus. We us...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rodríguez-Viera L,Perera E,Montero-Alejo V,Perdomo-Morales R,García-Galano T,Martínez-Rodríguez G,Mancera JM

更新日期：2017-11-03 00:00:00