Radiation Dosimetry of Inhaled Radioactive Aerosols: CFPD and MCNP Transport Simulations of Radionuclides in the Lung.

abstract：:Long-term all-cause mortality and dependency after complex surgical procedures have not been assessed in the framework of value-based medicine. The aim of this study was to investigate the postoperative and long-term outcomes after surgical procedures lasting for more than six hours. Retrospective cohort study of pati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cornellà N,Sancho J,Sitges-Serra A

更新日期：2017-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:To fabricate high-performance metal-halide perovskite solar cells, a thermal annealing process is indispensable in preparing high quality perovskite film. And usually such annealing is performed on hot plate. However hot-plate annealing could cause problems such as inhomogeneous heating (induced by non-tight...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhou Q,Jin Z,Li H,Wang J

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Small for gestational age (SGA) newborns are often born from hypertensive pregnancies. This study aimed to compare the systemic metabolism of cortisol (F) in pregnancies with SGA and appropriate for gestational age (AGA) infants, considering both the normotensive (NT) and hypertensive patients. We hypothesized that th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Siemiątkowska A,Kosicka K,Szpera-Goździewicz A,Krzyścin M,Bręborowicz GH,Główka FK

更新日期：2019-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The northern microrefugia that existed during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) are a key factor in the demographic history of species. Pinus koraiensis has a unique distribution in northeast Asia. The Changbai Mountains and the Korean peninsula (CM/KP) are usually considered to be the LGM refugia for P. koraiensis. Howe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bao L,Kudureti A,Bai W,Chen R,Wang T,Wang H,Ge J

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Site conditions and forest management affect dendrometric parameters of chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) coppices, but there is modest knowledge on the effect of stand dendrometric characters on physical and mechanical wood characteristics. The aim of this study was to verify these relationships in chestnut coppices t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Marini F,Manetti MC,Corona P,Portoghesi L,Vinciguerra V,Tamantini S,Kuzminsky E,Zikeli F,Romagnoli M

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is a promising device in energy harvesting and self-powered sensing. In this work, we demonstrate a magnetic-assisted TENG, utilizing the magnetic force for electric generation. Maximum power density of 541.1 mW/m(2) is obtained at 16.67 MΩ for the triboelectric part, while the e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Han M,Zhang XS,Sun X,Meng B,Liu W,Zhang H

更新日期：2014-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term monitoring of host-parasite interactions is important for understanding the consequences of infection on host fitness and population dynamics. In an eight-year survey of the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) population nesting in Cabo Verde, we determined the spatiotemporal variation of Ozobranchus mar...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lockley EC,Fouda L,Correia SM,Taxonera A,Nash LN,Fairweather K,Reischig T,Durão J,Dinis H,Roque SM,Lomba JP,Dos Passos L,Cameron SJK,Stiebens VA,Eizaguirre C

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the anxiolytic-like effects of Xiaoyaosan, a Chinese herbal formula, have been described in many previous studies, its underlying mechanism remains undefined. The cytokine tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and its closely associated janus kinase 2 (JAK2)-signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT3)...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li XJ,Ma QY,Jiang YM,Bai XH,Yan ZY,Liu Q,Pan QX,Liu YY,Chen JX

更新日期：2017-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:It is our contention that for multiscale modelling of infectious disease systems to evolve and expand in scope, it needs to be founded on a theory. Such a theory would improve our ability to describe infectious disease systems in terms of their scales and levels of organization, and their inter-relationships. In this ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Garira W

更新日期：2019-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Charged particles such as protons and carbon ions are an increasingly important tool in radiotherapy. There are however unresolved physics issues impeding optimal implementation, including estimation of dose deposition in non-homogeneous tissue, an essential aspect of treatment optimization. Monte Carlo (MC) methods c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Grimes DR,Warren DR,Partridge M

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The frontal lobes are essential for human volition and goal-directed behavior, yet their function remains unclear. While various models have highlighted working memory, reinforcement learning, and cognitive control as key functions, a single framework for interpreting the range of effects observed in prefrontal cortex...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Alexander WH,Brown JW

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tsetse flies are the transmitting vector of trypanosomes causing human sleeping sickness and animal trypanosomiasis in sub-saharan Africa. 3-alkylphenols are used as attractants in tsetse fly traps to reduce the spread of the disease. Here we present an inexpensive production method for 3-ethylphenol (3-EP) and 3-prop...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hitschler J,Grininger M,Boles E

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades, which play crucial roles in plant development processes, are universal modules of signal transduction in eukaryotes and consist of a core module of three sequentially phosphorylated kinases: MAPK, MAPK kinase (MAPKK), and MAPKK kinase (MAPKKK). This is the first re...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jing T,Wang L,Liu H,Wuyun TN,Du H

更新日期：2017-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Denitrification in coastal sediments can provide resilience to eutrophication in estuarine ecosystems, but this key ecosystem function is impacted directly and indirectly by increasing stressors. The erosion and loading of fine sediments from land, resulting in sedimentation and elevated sediment muddiness, presents a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Douglas EJ,Lohrer AM,Pilditch CA

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytic acid (PA) is the primary phosphorus (P) storage compound in the seeds of cereals and legumes. Low PA crops, which are considered an effective way to improve grain nutrient availability and combat environmental issues relating to seed P have been developed using mutational and reverse genetics approaches. Here, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Perera I,Fukushima A,Akabane T,Horiguchi G,Seneweera S,Hirotsu N

更新日期：2019-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Ambient seismic noise is characterized by randomness incurred by the random position and strength of the noise sources as well as the heterogeneous properties of the medium through which it propagates. Here we use ambient noise data recorded prior to the 1996 Gjálp eruption in Iceland in order to show that a reduction...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Glynn CC,Konstantinou KI

更新日期：2016-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A chronic antigenic stimulation is believed to sustain the leukemogenic development of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and most of lymphoproliferative malignancies developed from mature B cells. Reproducing a proliferative stimulation ex vivo is critical to decipher the mechanisms of leukemogenesis in these maligna...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Schleiss C,Ilias W,Tahar O,Güler Y,Miguet L,Mayeur-Rousse C,Mauvieux L,Fornecker LM,Toussaint E,Herbrecht R,Bertrand F,Maumy-Bertrand M,Martin T,Fournel S,Georgel P,Bahram S,Vallat L

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly sensitive microwave near-field sensor based on electrically-small planar resonators is proposed for highly accurate characterization of dielectric materials. The proposed sensor was developed in a robust complete-cycle topology optimization procedure wherein first the sensing area was pixelated. By maximizing...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Saadat-Safa M,Nayyeri V,Ghadimi A,Soleimani M,Ramahi OM

更新日期：2019-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Pluripotency can be induced in vitro from adult somatic mammalian cells by enforced expression of defined transcription factors regulating and initiating the pluripotency network. Despite the substantial advances over the last decade to improve the efficiency of direct reprogramming, exact mechanisms underlying the co...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Raab S,Klingenstein M,Möller A,Illing A,Tosic J,Breunig M,Kuales G,Linta L,Seufferlein T,Arnold SJ,Kleger A,Liebau S

更新日期：2017-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the developing proteome has been complicated by a lack of tools that can be easily employed to label and identify newly synthesized proteins within complex biological mixtures. Here, we demonstrate that the methionine analogs azidohomoalanine and homopropargylglycine can be globally incorporated into the p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Calve S,Witten AJ,Ocken AR,Kinzer-Ursem TL

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The Leading Edge Vortex (LEV) is a universal mechanism enhancing lift in flying organisms. LEVs, generally illustrated as a single vortex attached to the wing throughout the downstroke, have not been studied quantitatively in freely flying insects. Previous findings are either qualitative or from flappers and tethered...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Johansson LC,Engel S,Kelber A,Heerenbrink MK,Hedenström A

更新日期：2013-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the most common inflammatory diseases resulting from habitual smoking. Impaired clearance of apoptotic cell by airway macrophages contributes to lung inflammation. Milk fat globule-EGF factor 8 (MFG-E8), as a link between apoptotic cells and phagocytes, facilitate...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang Y,Luo G,Chen J,Jiang R,Zhu J,Hu N,Huang W,Cheng G,Jia M,Su B,Zhang N,Cui T

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Colistin remains one of the few antibiotics effective against multi-drug resistant (MDR) hospital pathogens, such as Klebsiella pneumoniae. Yet resistance to this last-line drug is rapidly increasing. Characterized mechanisms of colR in K. pneumoniae are largely due to chromosomal mutations in two-component regulators...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cain AK,Boinett CJ,Barquist L,Dordel J,Fookes M,Mayho M,Ellington MJ,Goulding D,Pickard D,Wick RR,Holt KE,Parkhill J,Thomson NR

更新日期：2018-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess whether the immunosuppressive effects of atorvastatin outweigh its antibacterial ones in an infection, mice were infected with Escherichia coli and administered atorvastatin; survival rates were then monitored. Mice treated with atorvastatin post-infection showed a remarkable decrease in their survival rate....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hussein HM,Al-Khoury DK,Abdelnoor AM,Rahal EA

更新日期：2019-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional coactivator PGC-1α and its splice variant NT-PGC-1α play crucial roles in regulating cold-induced thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue (BAT). PGC-1α and NT-PGC-1α are highly induced by cold in BAT and subsequently bind to and coactivate many transcription factors to regulate expression of genes involv...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chang JS,Ghosh S,Newman S,Salbaum JM

更新日期：2018-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. However, it remains unproven whether psychological factors have an influence on breast cancer incidence. In our earlier study, subjects possessing two personality traits, decisiveness and "ikigai" (a Japanese word meaning something that makes one's life worth living), ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sawada T,Nishiyama T,Kikuchi N,Wang C,Lin Y,Mori M,Tanno K,Tamakoshi A,Kikuchi S

更新日期：2016-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed fisheries are the dominant type of fishery worldwide. Overexploitation in mixed fisheries occurs when catches continue for available quota species while low quota species are discarded. As EU fisheries management moves to count all fish caught against quota (the "landing obligation"), the challenge is to catch a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dolder PJ,Thorson JT,Minto C

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Photodynamic therapy is attracting increasing attention, but how to increase its tumor-specificity remains a daunting challenge. Herein we report a theranostic probe (azo-PDT) that integrates pyropheophorbide α as a photosensitizer and a NIR fluorophore for tumor imaging. The two functionalities are linked with a hypo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang C,Wang S,Wang Y,Wu H,Bao K,Sheng R,Li X

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The most downstream elements of the Hippo pathway, the TEAD transcription factors, are regulated by several cofactors, such as Vg/VGLL1-3. Earlier findings on human VGLL1 and here on human VGLL3 show that these proteins interact with TEAD via a conserved amino acid motif called the TONDU domain. Surprisingly, our stud...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mesrouze Y,Aguilar G,Bokhovchuk F,Martin T,Delaunay C,Villard F,Meyerhofer M,Zimmermann C,Fontana P,Wille R,Vorherr T,Erdmann D,Furet P,Scheufler C,Schmelzle T,Affolter M,Chène P

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine-to-Inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing is the most prevalent post-transcriptional modification of RNA molecules. Researchers have attempted to find reliable RNA editing using next generation sequencing (NGS) data. However, most of these attempts suffered from a high rate of false positives, and they did not conside...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hwang W,Calza S,Silvestri M,Pawitan Y,Lee Y

更新日期：2019-03-25 00:00:00