Search as a simple take-the-best heuristic.

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.181295.]. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Hansford JP,Turvey ST

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale high-throughput plant phenotyping (sometimes called phenomics) is becoming increasingly important in plant biology and agriculture and is essential to cutting-edge plant breeding and management approaches needed to meet the food and fuel needs for the next century. Currently, the application of these appro...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kuhlgert S,Austic G,Zegarac R,Osei-Bonsu I,Hoh D,Chilvers MI,Roth MG,Bi K,TerAvest D,Weebadde P,Kramer DM

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In ecology, climate and other fields, (sub)systems have been identified that can transition into a qualitatively different state when a critical threshold or tipping point in a driving process is crossed. An understanding of those tipping elements is of great interest given the increasing influence of humans on the bi...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Klose AK,Karle V,Winkelmann R,Donges JF

更新日期：2020-06-24 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：:There is a new associative learning paradox. The power of associative learning for producing flexible behaviour in non-human animals is downplayed or ignored by researchers in animal cognition, whereas artificial intelligence research shows that associative learning models can beat humans in chess. One phenomenon in w...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Lind J

更新日期：2018-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, enzymatic hydrolysis and cationization with epoxypropyldodecyldimethylammonium chloride of wheat protein, an economic protein complex containing great amount of disulfide bonds, were conducted to improve properties such as solubility and disassociation behaviour for recovery of damaged hair when used in...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wang S,Meng D,Wang S,Zhang Z,Yang R,Zhao W

更新日期：2018-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Foodborne infection is a result of exposure to complex, dynamic food systems. The efficiency of foodborne infection is driven by ongoing shifts in genetic machinery. Next-generation sequencing technologies can provide high-fidelity data about the genetics of a pathogen. However, food safety surveillance systems do not...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Hill AA,Crotta M,Wall B,Good L,O'Brien SJ,Guitian J

更新日期：2017-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Raster image correlation spectroscopy (RICS) measures the diffusion of fluorescently labelled molecules from stacks of confocal microscopy images by analysing correlations within the image. RICS enables the observation of a greater and, thus, more representative area of a biological system as compared to other single ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Nieves DJ,Li Y,Fernig DG,Lévy R

更新日期：2015-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Ants build complex nest structures by reacting to simple, local stimuli. While underground nests result from the space generated by digging, some leaf- and grass-cutting ants also construct conspicuous aboveground turrets around nest openings. We investigated whether the selection of specific building materials occurs...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Römer D,Cosarinsky MI,Roces F

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Many important data types, such as the spike trains recorded from neurons in typical electrophysiological experiments, have a natural notion of distance or similarity between data points, even though there is no obvious coordinate system. Here, a simple Kozachenko-Leonenko estimator is derived for calculating the mutu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Houghton C

更新日期：2015-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Strategic microhabitat selection allows animals in seasonally cold environments to reduce homeostatic energy costs, particularly overnight when thermoregulatory demands are greatest. Suitable sleeping areas may therefore represent important resources for winter survival. Knowledge of microhabitat use and potential imp...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Campbell LAD,Tkaczynski PJ,Mouna M,Derrou A,Oukannou L,Majolo B,van Lavieren E

更新日期：2018-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Varanopids are a basal clade of small- to medium-sized non-therapsid synapsids, whose range extends from the late Pennsylvanian to the late middle Permian, and are found in North America, Russia, Europe and South Africa. The greatest varanopid diversity is observed at the fossiliferous cave deposits near Richards Spur...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Maho S,Gee BM,Reisz RR

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, recent progress in graphic statics is combined with Williot displacement diagrams to create a graphical description of both statics and kinematics for two- and three-dimensional pin-jointed trusses. We begin with reciprocal form and force diagrams. The force diagram is dissected into its component cells...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： McRobie A,Konstantatou M,Athanasopoulos G,Hannigan L

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Arc faults in low-voltage electrical circuits are the main hidden cause of electric fires. Accurate identification of arc faults is essential for safe power consumption. In this paper, a detection algorithm for arc faults is tested in a low-voltage circuit. With capacitance coupling and a logarithmic detector, the hig...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yang JH,Fang HY,Zhang RC,Yang K

更新日期：2018-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection among alternative theoretical models given an observed dataset is an important challenge in many areas of physics and astronomy. Reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC) is an extremely powerful technique for performing Bayesian model selection, but it suffers from a fundamental difficulty and it re...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Farr WM,Mandel I,Stevens D

更新日期：2015-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The influential hypothesis by Markus & Kitayama (Markus, Kitayama 1991. Psychol. Rev.98, 224) postulates that individuals from interdependent cultures place others above self in interpersonal contexts. This led to the prediction and finding that individuals from interdependent cultures are less egocentric than those f...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wang JJ,Tseng P,Juan CH,Frisson S,Apperly IA

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Conservation management agencies are faced with acute trade-offs when dealing with disturbance from human activities. We show how agencies can respond to permanent ecosystem disruption by managing for Pimm resilience within a conservation budget using a model calibrated to a metapopulation of a coral reef fish species...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Little LR,Grafton RQ

更新日期：2015-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial communities are often highly diverse with several closely related species (or strains) coexisting together. These bacteria compete for resources and the competitive exclusion principle predicts that all but the fastest-growing bacteria will go extinct. When exposed to phage, it is predicted that bacterial st...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Eriksen RS,Krishna S

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The Coral Triangle is widely considered the most important centre of marine biodiversity in Asia while areas on its periphery such as the South China Sea, have received much less interest. Here, we demonstrate that a small population of the knobbly sea star Protoreaster nodosus in Singapore has similarly high levels o...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Tay YC,Chng MW,Sew WW,Rheindt FE,Tun KP,Meier R

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen is one of the most important nutrient indicators for the growth of crops, and is closely related to the chlorophyll content of leaves and thus influences the photosynthetic ability of the crops. In this study, five hybrid rice varieties were cultivated during one entire growing period in one experimental fiel...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zhang H,Duan Z,Li Y,Zhao G,Zhu S,Fu W,Peng T,Zhao Q,Svanberg S,Hu J

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge in robotic design is enabling robots to immediately adapt to unexpected physical damage. However, conventional robots require considerable time (more than several tens of seconds) for adaptation because the process entails high computational costs. To overcome this problem, we focus on a brittle star...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kano T,Sato E,Ono T,Aonuma H,Matsuzaka Y,Ishiguro A

更新日期：2017-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160759.]. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： McRobie A

更新日期：2017-05-10 00:00:00

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：:It is generally recognized that dimethylformamide (DMF) and ethanol are good media to uniformly disperse graphene, and therefore have been used widely in the preparation of epoxy/graphene nanocomposites. However, as a solvent to disperse graphene, dichlorobenzene (DCB) has not been fully realized by the polymer commun...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wei J,Saharudin MS,Vo T,Inam F

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on domestication are blooming, but the developmental bases for the generation of domestication traits and breed diversity remain largely unexplored. Some phenotypic patterns of human neurocristopathies are suggestive of those reported for domesticated mammals and disrupting neural crest developmental programme...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sánchez-Villagra MR,Geiger M,Schneider RA

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metacommunity theory highlights the potential of β-diversity as a useful link to empirical research, especially in diverse systems where species exhibit a range of stage-dependent dispersal characteristics. To investigate the importance of different components and scales of β-diversity in community assembly, we conduc...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chiantore M,Thrush SF,Asnaghi V,Hewitt JE

更新日期：2018-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:High levels of genetic variation are often observed in natural populations, suggesting the action of processes such as frequency-dependent selection, heterozygote advantage and variable selection. However, the maintenance of genetic variation in fitness-related traits remains incompletely explained. The extent of gene...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Côté K,Simons AM

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Stochastic fluctuations in reaction-diffusion processes often have substantial effect on spatial and temporal dynamics of signal transductions in complex biological systems. One popular approach for simulating these processes is to divide the system into small spatial compartments assuming that molecules react only wi...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Lo WC,Zheng L,Nie Q

更新日期：2016-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Wheat farming provides 28.5% of global cereal production. After steady growth in average crop yield from 1950 to 1990, wheat yields have generally stagnated, which prompts the question of whether further improvements are possible. Statistical studies of agronomic parameters such as crop yield have so far exclusively f...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Mitchell EG,Crout NMJ,Wilson P,Wood ATA,Stupfler G

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomedical device-associated infection (BAI) and lack of osseointegration are the main causes of implant failure. Therefore, it is imperative for implants not only to depress microbial activity and biofilm colonization but also to prompt osteoblast functions and osseointegration. As part of the coating development for...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zhang W,Wang S,Ge S,Chen J,Ji P

更新日期：2018-04-11 00:00:00