A new varanopid synapsid from the early Permian of Oklahoma and the evolutionary stasis in this clade.

abstract：:Robust imaging techniques for tracking insects have been essential tools in numerous laboratory and field studies on pests, beneficial insects and model systems. Recent innovations in optical imaging systems and associated signal processing have enabled detailed characterization of nocturnal mosquito behaviour around ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Voloshin V,Kröner C,Seniya C,Murray GPD,Guy A,Towers CE,McCall PJ,Towers DP

更新日期：2020-05-13 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：:Quantifying regulatory gene effects on dental morphology and function has implications for the underlying mechanisms that generated dental diversity in mammals. We tested the hypothesis that regulatory gene expression changes lead to differences in molars using a neural crest knockout of bone morphogenetic protein 7 (...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zurowski C,Jamniczky H,Graf D,Theodor J

更新日期：2018-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Predation is the primary source of reproductive failure in many avian taxa and nest defence behaviour against predators is hence an important aspect of parental investment. Nest defence is a complex trait that might consistently differ among individuals (personality), while simultaneously vary within individuals (plas...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Thys B,Lambreghts Y,Pinxten R,Eens M

更新日期：2019-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural selection favours a restricted host breadth in disease vector mosquitoes, indicating that there is an adaptive value associated with maintaining plasticity in host preference. One mechanism to maintain such plasticity is via the detection of generic cues by conserved peripheral olfactory pathways, which when p...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Majeed S,Hill SR,Birgersson G,Ignell R

更新日期：2016-11-09 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 the centuries since the enlightenment, the world has seen an increase in socioeconomic development, measured as increased life expectancy, education, economic development and democracy. While the co-occurrence of these features among nations is well documented, little is known about their origins or co-evolution. H...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ruck DJ,Bentley RA,Lawson DJ

更新日期：2020-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Objects that are briefly flashed around the time of saccades are mislocalized. Previously, robust interactions between saccadic perceptual distortions and stimulus contrast have been reported. It is also known that crowding depends on the contrast of the target and flankers. Here, we investigated how stimulus contrast...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Agaoglu MN,Chung ST

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vocal pitch is used as an important communicative device by humans, as found in the melodic dimension of both speech and song. Vocal pitch is determined by the degree of tension in the vocal folds of the larynx, which itself is influenced by complex and nonlinear interactions among the laryngeal muscles. The relations...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Belyk M,Lee YS,Brown S

更新日期：2018-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient, high-yield and rapid synthesis of (E)-1,5-dimethyl-4-((2-((substituted-2-oxo-2H-chromen-4-yl)methoxy)naphthalen-1-yl)methyleneamino)-2-phenyl-1,2-dihydropyrazol-3-one derivatives (3a-3i) containing Schiff base structures under microwave-irradiation has been described. Schiff base is a potential target to...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chavan RR,Hosamani KM

更新日期：2018-05-02 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：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.191444.]. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ahmed F,Awada C,Ansari SA,Aljaafari A,Alshoaibi A

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Digested sludge, as the main by-product of the sewage sludge anaerobic digestion process, still contains considerable organic compounds. In this protocol, we report a facile method for preparing digested sludge-derived self-doped porous carbon material for high-performance supercapacitor electrodes via a sustainable p...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zhang JJ,Fan HX,Dai XH,Yuan SJ

更新日期：2018-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work is focused on the study of the effect that the casting solution concentration has on the morphology and gas separation performance of poly(ether-block-amide) copolymer membranes (Pebax® MH 1657). With this aim, three different concentrations of Pebax® MH 1657 in the casting solution (1, 3 and 5 wt%) w...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Martínez-Izquierdo L,Malankowska M,Sánchez-Laínez J,Téllez C,Coronas J

更新日期：2019-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, teams of small mobile robots are used to test hypotheses about cooperative transport by ants. This study attempts to explain a decrease in steady-state transport speed with increasing team size that was previously observed in the ant Novomessor cockerelli. Two models of one-dimensional collective towing ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wilson S,Buffin A,Pratt SC,Berman S

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Racing pigeons are exposed to and act as carriers of diseases. Dietary protein requirement for their maintenance has not been determined experimentally despite their being domesticated for over 7000 years. A maintenance nitrogen (protein) requirement (MNR) for pigeons was determined in a balance study using diets cont...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Mabuchi Y,Frankel TL

更新日期：2016-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The copper-containing nitrite reductases (CuNIRs) are a class of enzymes that mediate the reduction of nitrite to nitric oxide in biological systems. Metal-ligand complexes that reproduce the salient features of the active site of CuNIRs are therefore of fundamental interest, both for elucidating the possible mode of ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Roger I,Wilson C,Senn HM,Sproules S,Symes MD

更新日期：2017-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Social insects live in dense groups with a high probability of disease transmission and have therefore faced strong pressures to develop defences against pathogens. For this reason, social insects have been hypothesized to invest in antimicrobial secretions as a mechanism of external immunity to prevent the spread of ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Penick CA,Halawani O,Pearson B,Mathews S,López-Uribe MM,Dunn RR,Smith AA

更新日期：2018-02-07 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：:Real-world complex networks are composed of non-random quantitative interactions. Identifying communities of nodes that tend to interact more with each other than the network as a whole is a key research focus across multiple disciplines, yet many community detection algorithms only use information about the presence ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Beckett SJ

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of spoken languages has been studied since the mid-nineteenth century using traditional historical comparative methods and, more recently, computational phylogenetic methods. By contrast, evolutionary processes resulting in the diversity of contemporary sign languages (SLs) have received much less attent...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Power JM,Grimm GW,List JM

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Highwall mining (HWM) technology is an efficient method for exploiting residual coal resources in Chinese open-pit coal mines. However, on-site personnel and equipment can be damaged by the instability of the highwall mining residual coal pillars and subsidence of final end-walls. This paper considers the geological c...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wang F,Zhang C

更新日期：2019-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Batch experiments were conducted to test the effects of various solution properties, such as pH, temperature, initial concentration and anoxic and aerobic atmosphere, on Cd removal by nanoscale zerovalent iron (nZVI) supported on industrial coal fly ash. Cd (II) could be removed by adsorption on fly ash-nZVI in a very...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ma L,Wei Q,Chen Y,Song Q,Sun C,Wang Z,Wu G

更新日期：2018-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique organosiloxane-polyether amine (OPA) was produced and used as mesoporogen to efficiently synthesize hierarchical ZSM-5 zeolites with great mesoporosity. We have employed silica sol and tetraethylorthosilicate, respectively, to investigate the influence of different silicon sources on hierarchical zeolites in ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Song G,Chen W,Dang P,Wang Y,Li F

更新日期：2018-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Mangostin, the extract from pericarp of Garcinia mangostana L . or mangosteen fruit, has been applied in various biomedical products because of its minimal skin irritation, and prominent anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and immune-modulating activities. Owing to its low water solubility, the particle formulations ar...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Bumrung J,Chanchao C,Intasanta V,Palaga T,Wanichwecharungruang S

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive species pose a serious threat to native species. In Europe, invasive grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) have replaced native red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) in locations across Britain, Ireland and Italy. The European pine marten (Martes martes) can reverse the replacement of red squirrels by grey squirre...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Twining JP,Ian Montgomery W,Price L,Kunc HP,Tosh DG

更新日期：2020-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes, synonymous codons are unevenly used. Such differential usage of optimal or non-optimal codons has been suggested to play a role in the control of translation initiation and elongation, as well as at the level of transcription and mRNA stability. In the case of membrane prote...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sanguinetti M,Iriarte A,Amillis S,Marín M,Musto H,Ramón A

更新日期：2019-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanical properties of any substance are essential facts to understand its behaviour and make the maximum use of the particular substance. Rocks are indeed an important substance, as they are of significant use in the energy industry, specifically for fossil fuels and geothermal energy. Attenuation of seismic wa...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wanniarachchi WAM,Ranjith PG,Perera MSA,Rathnaweera TD,Lyu Q,Mahanta B

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In the field of evaluative conditioning (EC), two opposing theories-propositional single-process theory versus dual-process theory-are currently being discussed in the literature. The present set of experiments test a crucial prediction to adjudicate between these two theories: Dual-process theory postulates that eval...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Heycke T,Aust F,Stahl C

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans subtly synchronize body movement during face-to-face conversation. In this context, bodily synchrony has been linked to affiliation and social bonding, task success and comprehension, and potential conflict. Almost all studies of conversational synchrony involve dyads, and relatively less is known about the str...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Dale R,Bryant GA,Manson JH,Gervais MM

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00