Long-term dynamics of urban thermal comfort in China's four major capital cities across different climate zones.

abstract：:Construction of hydropower stations has been an important approach to meet China's increasing power demand, but the impact of construction of hydropower stations on river microbiota is not fully understood. To evaluate this, the microbial composition from 18 sampling sites in the downstream of Jinsha River of China, u...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chen X,He D,Zhou L,Cao Y,Li Z

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study is to provide a report on scientific production during the period 2010-2014 in order to identify the major topics as well as the predominant actors (journals, countries, continents) involved in the field of eye disease. METHODS:A PubMed search was carried out to extract articles re...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Boudry C,Denion E,Mortemousque B,Mouriaux F

更新日期：2016-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 is a western Atlantic species with a disjointed natural geographic range from Massachusetts, USA to Venezuela (distribution area 1) and from Alagoas, Brazil to northern Argentina (distribution area 2). It is the only species of portunid crab commercially harvested in the continental U...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Windsor AM,Moore MK,Warner KA,Stadig SR,Deeds JR

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Constant reviews of the caring behavior of nurses and patient satisfaction help to improve the quality of nursing. The aim of our research was to explore relationships between the level of nursing education, the perception of nurses and nursing assistants of Watson's carative factors, and patient satisfactio...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pajnkihar M,Štiglic G,Vrbnjak D

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies of low prevalence disease problems are often hindered by the high cost of diagnostic testing. The objective of this study was to evaluate PCR screening of both individual and pooled fecal samples from culled dairy cows for the invA gene of Salmonella followed by culture to determine if the sens...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Adaska JM,Ekong PS,Clothier KA,Williams DR,Rossitto PV,Lehenbauer TW,Atwill ER,Li X,Aly SS

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:This study aimed to examine differences between track and field (T&F) runners and foot-orienteers (Foot-O) in the walking and running tests in the absence of vision and hearing. We attempted to determine whether experienced foot orienteers show better ability to maintain the indicated direction compared to trac...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Machowska W,Cych P,Siemieński A,Migasiewicz J

更新日期：2019-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The family Pseudopimelodidae is widely distributed in South America and includes 51 described species organized in seven genera. Only two of four species of the genus Pseudopimelodus have been recorded for the trans-Andean basins of Colombia, Pseudopimelodus bufonius and P. schultzi, whose similarity in external morph...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Restrepo-Gómez AM,Rangel-Medrano JD,Márquez EJ,Ortega-Lara A

更新日期：2020-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Corbicula consists of estuarine or freshwater clams native to temperate/tropical regions of Asia, Africa, and Australia that collectively encompass both sexual species and clonal (androgenetic) lineages. The latter have become globally invasive in freshwater systems and they represent some of the most succes...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Haponski AE,Ó Foighil D

更新日期：2019-08-22 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：:The massive influx of pelagic Sargassum spp. (sargasso) into the Mexican Caribbean Sea has caused major deterioration of the coastal environment and has affected the tourism industry as well as livelihoods since 2015. Species of Sargassum have high capacity to absorb metals; thus, leachates of sargasso may contribute ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rodríguez-Martínez RE,Roy PD,Torrescano-Valle N,Cabanillas-Terán N,Carrillo-Domínguez S,Collado-Vides L,García-Sánchez M,van Tussenbroek BI

更新日期：2020-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Trans-acting small interfering RNAs (ta-siRNAs) are transcribed from protein non-coding genomic TAS loci and belong to a plant-specific class of endogenous small RNAs. These siRNAs have been found to regulate gene expression in most taxa including seed plants, gymnosperms, ferns and mosses. In this study, bioinformati...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Morozov SY,Milyutina IA,Erokhina TN,Ozerova LV,Troitsky AV,Solovyev AG

更新日期：2018-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：Background:As the most frequently occurred tumor in biliary tract, cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is mainly characterized by its late diagnosis and poor outcome. It is therefore urgent to identify specific genes and pathways associated with its progression and prognosis. Materials and Methods:The differentially expressed ge...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Liu J,Liu W,Li H,Deng Q,Yang M,Li X,Liang Z

更新日期：2019-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete, articulated crinoids from the Ordovician peri-Gondwanan margin are rare. Here, we describe a new species, Iocrinus africanus sp. nov., from the Darriwilian-age Taddrist Formation of Morocco. The anatomy of this species was studied using a combination of traditional palaeontological methods and non-destructiv...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zamora S,Rahman IA,Ausich WI

更新日期：2015-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Coastal habitats in Chile are hypothesized to support a number of diadromous fish species. The objective of this study was to document migratory life histories of native galaxiids and introduced salmonids from a wide latitudinal range in Chilean Patagonia (39-48°S). Otolith microchemistry data were analysed using a re...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Alò D,Correa C,Samaniego H,Krabbenhoft CA,Turner TF

更新日期：2019-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is a federally protected area found in central southern Utah. Designated in 1996 by President William J. Clinton, it was recently reduced in size by President Donald J. Trump in a proclamation that turned the one large monument into three smaller ones. A long-term, standardi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wilson JS,Kelly M,Carril OM

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost all extant testudinids are highly associated with terrestrial habitats and the few tortoises with high affinity to aquatic environments are found within the genus Manouria. Manouria belongs to a clade which forms a sister taxon to all remaining tortoises and is suitable as a model for studying evolutionary tran...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Natchev N,Tzankov N,Werneburg I,Heiss E

更新日期：2015-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of small unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) for ecological studies and wildlife population assessments is increasing. These methods can provide significant benefits in terms of costs and reductions in human risk, but little is known if UAS-based approaches cause disturbance of animals during operations. To addr...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Arona L,Dale J,Heaslip SG,Hammill MO,Johnston DW

更新日期：2018-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Introduced predators at seabird colonies and parasites may have lethal and/or sub-lethal consequences for bird populations. We assessed the potential sub-lethal negative effects of these stressors in a native seabird listed as vulnerable in its south-eastern pacific distribution. This study was conducted in ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Luna N,Varela AI,Luna-Jorquera G,Brokordt K

更新日期：2020-07-08 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：:Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L.) is a fibrous crop, grown in tropical climate having huge biomass and can be a good candidate for the phytoremediation of different heavy metals. Consequently, the present study was conducted to explore morpho-physiological traits, photosynthetic pigments, gaseous exchange attributes, ant...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Saleem MH,Fahad S,Rehman M,Saud S,Jamal Y,Khan S,Liu L

更新日期：2020-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Accommodation resistance is a training technique that may improve strength and power gains beyond those achieved by traditional free weights. In this method, chains are either added on a free-weight bar and combined with traditional plates or added to the bar as the entire load. Purpose. The aim of the current study w...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ataee J,Koozehchian MS,Kreider RB,Zuo L

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The problem of access to medical information, particularly in low-income countries, has been under discussion for many years. Although a number of developments have occurred in the last decade (e.g., the open access (OA) movement and the website Sci-Hub), everyone agrees that these difficulties still persist...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Boudry C,Alvarez-Muñoz P,Arencibia-Jorge R,Ayena D,Brouwer NJ,Chaudhuri Z,Chawner B,Epee E,Erraïs K,Fotouhi A,Gharaibeh AM,Hassanein DH,Herwig-Carl MC,Howard K,Kaimbo Wa Kaimbo D,Laughrea PA,Lopez FA,Machin-Mastromatteo

更新日期：2019-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Harmine is the β-carboline alkaloid with the highest concentration in the psychotropic plant decoction Ayahuasca. In rodents, classical antidepressants reverse the symptoms of depression by stimulating neuronal proliferation. It has been shown that Ayahuasca presents antidepressant effects in patients with depressive ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Dakic V,Maciel RM,Drummond H,Nascimento JM,Trindade P,Rehen SK

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex differences in some preferences and motivations are well established, but it is unclear whether they persist in selective sub-populations, such as expert financial decision makers, top scientists, or elite athletes. We addressed this issue by studying competitiveness in 1,147 varsity intercollegiate distance runne...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Deaner RO,Lowen A,Rogers W,Saksa E

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：Background:E-health technology applications are essential tools of modern information technology that improve quality of healthcare delivery in hospitals of both developed and developing countries. However, despite its positive benefits, studies indicate that the rate of the e-health adoption in some developing countri...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zayyad MA,Toycan M

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between different exercise modes and visuospatial working memory in healthy older adults. A cross-sectional design was adopted. A total of 111 healthy older adults were enrolled in the study. They were classified by the exercise-related questionnaire to be i...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Guo W,Wang B,Lu Y,Zhu Q,Shi Z,Ren J

更新日期：2016-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Profiling of microbial communities via metagenomic shotgun sequencing has enabled researches to gain unprecedented insight into microbial community structure and the functional roles of community members. This study describes a method and basic analysis for a metagenomic adaptation of the double digest restr...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Liu MY,Worden P,Monahan LG,DeMaere MZ,Burke CM,Djordjevic SP,Charles IG,Darling AE

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Child undernutrition and flooding are highly prevalent public health issues in many developing countries, yet we have little understanding of preventive strategies for effective coping in these circumstances. Education has been recently highlighted as key to reduce the societal impacts of extreme weather e...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rodriguez-Llanes JM,Ranjan-Dash S,Mukhopadhyay A,Guha-Sapir D

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila melanogaster P transposable element provides one of the best cases of horizontal transfer of a mobile DNA sequence in eukaryotes. Invasion of natural populations by the P element has led to a syndrome of phenotypes known as P-M hybrid dysgenesis that emerges when strains differing in their P element com...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bergman CM,Han S,Nelson MG,Bondarenko V,Kozeretska I

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In arid environments, plant primary productivity is generally low and highly variable both spatially and temporally. Resources are not evenly distributed in space and time (e.g., soil nutrients, water), and depend on global (El Niño/ Southern Oscillation) and local climate parameters. The launch of the Senti...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Funghi C,Heim RHJ,Schuett W,Griffith SC,Oldeland J

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00