Stabilizing gold nanoparticles for use in X-ray computed tomography imaging of soil systems.

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.181113.]. ...

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：2019-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Planar potentiometric NO2 sensors based on 8YSZ (8 mol% Y2O3-doped ZrO2) were prepared with WO3 sensing electrode material. The various electrode microstructures prepared by different sintering temperatures were characterized by field emission scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and the microstructure influences on th...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yang B,Xiao J,Wang C

更新日期：2019-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a neurodevelopmental condition, characterized by lifelong face recognition deficits. Leading research groups diagnose the condition using complementary computer-based tasks and self-report measures. In an attempt to standardize the reporting of self-report evidence, we recently deve...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Gray KL,Bird G,Cook R

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrochemical performance of an energy conversion and storage device like the supercapacitor mainly depends on the microstructure and morphology of the electrodes. In this paper, to improve the capacitance performance of the supercapacitor, the all-pseudocapacitive electrodes of lamella-like Bi18SeO29/BiSe as th...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ma G,Hua F,Sun K,Fenga E,Peng H,Zhang Z,Lei Z

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we describe the odobenid Nanodobenus arandai gen. et sp. nov., based on a nearly complete left mandible from the mid to late Miocene Tortugas Formation in Baja California Sur. Nanodobenus is distinguished among odobenids by displaying a unique combination of plesiomorphic and derived characters, such as narrow m...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Velez-Juarbe J,Salinas-Márquez FM

更新日期：2018-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to explore the factors affecting coal spontaneous combustion, the fractal characteristics of coal samples are tested, and a pore-scale model for oxygen adsorption in coal porous media is developed based on self-similar fractal model. The liquid nitrogen adsorption experiments show that the coal samples indica...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Lv X,Liang X,Xu P,Chen L

更新日期：2020-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Winnerless coevolution of hosts and parasites could exhibit Red Queen dynamics, which is characterized by parasite-driven cyclic switching of expressed host phenotypes. We hypothesize that the application of antibiotics to suppress the reproduction of parasites can provide an opportunity for the hosts to escape such w...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Anzia EL,Rabajante JF

更新日期：2018-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:This study proposes a probabilistic approach for the quantitative assessment of reach- and network-scale hydrological connectivity as dictated by river flow space-time variability. Spatial dynamics of daily streamflows are estimated based on climatic and morphological features of the contributing catchment, integratin...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Garbin S,Celegon EA,Fanton P,Botter G

更新日期：2019-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper develops a closed-form approximate solution for a penny-shaped hydraulic fracture whose behaviour is determined by an interplay of three competing physical processes that are associated with fluid viscosity, fracture toughness and fluid leak-off. The primary assumption that permits one to construct the solu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Dontsov EV

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Many drum communication systems around the world transmit information by emulating tonal and rhythmic patterns of spoken languages in sequences of drumbeats. Their rhythmic characteristics, in particular, have not been systematically studied so far, although understanding them represents a rare occasion for providing ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Seifart F,Meyer J,Grawunder S,Dentel L

更新日期：2018-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the relationship between vocabulary size and text length in a corpus of 75 literary works in English, authored by six writers, distinguishing between the contributions of three grammatical classes (or 'tags,' namely, nouns, verbs and others), and analyse the progressive appearance of new words of each tag alo...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chacoma A,Zanette DH

更新日期：2020-03-18 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：:The differences in life-history traits and processes between organisms living in the same or different populations contribute to their ecological and evolutionary dynamics. We developed mixed-effect model formulations of the popular size-at-age von Bertalanffy and Gompertz growth functions to estimate individual and g...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Vincenzi S,Jesensek D,Crivelli AJ

更新日期：2020-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine mammals and diving birds face several physiological challenges under water, affecting their thermoregulation and locomotion as well as their sensory systems. Therefore, marine mammals have modified ears for improved underwater hearing. Underwater hearing in birds has been studied in a few species, but for the r...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sørensen K,Neumann C,Dähne M,Hansen KA,Wahlberg M

更新日期：2020-02-26 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：:Bats play important ecological roles in tropical systems, yet how these communities are structured is still poorly understood. Our study explores the structure of African bat communities using morphological characters to define the morphospace occupied by these bats and stable isotope analysis to define their dietary ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Monadjem A,Kane A,Taylor P,Richards LR,Hall G,Woodborne S

更新日期：2018-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Four model polyurethane (PU) hard segments were synthesized by reaction of butanol with four typical diisocyanates. The four diisocyanates were aromatic 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (4,4'-MDI) and MDI-50 (50% mixture of 2,4'-MDI and 4,4'-MDI), cycloaliphatic 4,4'-dicyclohexylmethane diisocyanate (HMDI) and linear...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Jiang L,Ren Z,Zhao W,Liu W,Liu H,Zhu C

更新日期：2018-07-25 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：:The utility of characterizing the effects of strain variation and individual/subgroup susceptibility on dose-response outcomes has motivated the search for new approaches beyond the popular use of the exponential dose-response model for listeriosis. While descriptive models can account for such variation, they have li...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Rahman A,Munther D,Fazil A,Smith B,Wu J

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article studies correlated two-person games constructed from games with independent players as proposed in Iqbal et al. (2016 R. Soc. open sci.3, 150477. (doi:10.1098/rsos.150477)). The games are played in a collective manner, both in a two-dimensional lattice where the players interact with their neighbours, and...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Alonso-Sanz R

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The past 5 years have witnessed claims that infants as young as six months of age understand the meaning of several words. To reach this conclusion, researchers presented infants with pairs of pictures from distinct semantic domains and observed longer looks at an object upon hearing its name as compared with the name...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kartushina N,Mayor J

更新日期：2019-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The pod-shaped TiO2 nano burst tubes (TiO2 NBTs) were prepared by the combination of electrospinning and impregnation calcination with oxalic acid (H2C2O4), polystyrene (PS) and tetrabutyl titanate. The silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were loaded onto the surface of TiO2 NBTs by ultraviolet light reduction method to prep...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wang S,Han Z,Di T,Li R,Liu S,Cheng Z

更新日期：2019-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial pathogens continue to attract a great deal of attention to manage the termite population. Every bacterium has its own mode of action and in fact, the mechanisms used by bacteria to attack termites remain elusive at the moment. Hence, the objective of this study was to evaluate the susceptibility of subterran...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chin KL,H'ng PS,Wong WZ,Lee CL,Khoo PS,Luqman AC,Ashaari Z,Gandaseca S

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanofertilization is postulated as a new technology to deal with the environmental problems caused by the intensive use of traditional fertilizers. One of the aims of this new technology is to improve foliar fertilization, which has many environmental advantages, but currently there are numerous factors that limit its...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Rios JJ,Yepes-Molina L,Martinez-Alonso A,Carvajal M

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180442.]. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Tang HM,Tang HL

更新日期：2018-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Assisted ultrasonic vibration technology has received great interest in the past few years for petroleum and mining engineering related to hard rock breaking. Understanding the fatigue behaviour and damage characteristics of rock subject to ultra-high-frequency loading is vital for its application. In this research, w...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zhou Y,Zhao D,Tang Q,Wang M

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Selten's game is a kidnapping model where the probability of capturing the kidnapper is independent of whether the hostage has been released or executed. Most often, in view of the elevated sensitivities involved, authorities put greater effort and resources into capturing the kidnapper if the hostage has been execute...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Iqbal A,Masson V,Abbott D

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:This study uses two in situ techniques to investigate the geometry and phase change behaviour of bundled ultrathin W18O49 nanowires and WO3 nanoparticles. The in situ X-ray diffraction (XRD) results have shown that the phase transition of WO3 nanoparticles occurs in sequence from monoclinic (room temperature) → orthor...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Thummavichai K,Wang N,Xu F,Rance G,Xia Y,Zhu Y

更新日期：2018-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we examined the kinematic function of the morpho- logically unique first thoracic vertebra in giraffes. The first thoracic vertebra of the giraffe displayed similar shape to the seventh cervical vertebra in general ruminants. The flexion experiment using giraffe carcasses demonstrated that the first thoracic vert...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Gunji M,Endo H

更新日期：2016-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne protozoan disease; it mainly originates from the bite of sandfly and initiated when parasite is transmitted to human at metacyclic flagellated promastigote form. In the current study, a synthesis of a series of 4-substituted benzophenone ethers 1-20 was carried out in good yields and th...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Arshia.,Ahad F,Ghouri N,Kanwal.,Khan KM,Perveen S,Choudhary MI

更新日期：2018-05-16 00:00:00