Migratory passage structures at hydropower plants as potential physiological and behavioural selective agents.

abstract：:When all the individuals in a social group can be easily identified, one of the simplest measures of social interaction that can be recorded is nearest-neighbour identity. Many field studies use sequential scan samples of groups to build up association metrics using these nearest-neighbour identities. Here, I describe...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Rands SA

更新日期：2015-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The vast majority of species within the lanternshark genus Etmopterus harbour complex luminescent markings on their flanks, whose functional significance has long remained obscure. Recent studies, however, suggest these enigmatic photophore aggregations to play a role in intraspecific communication. Using visual model...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Claes JM,Nilsson DE,Mallefet J,Straube N

更新日期：2015-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression profile of miRNAs and their function in condyloma acuminatum (CA) remains unknown. In this study, we aimed to detect the effects of miR-143 and miR-145, the most downregulated in CA samples using high-throughput sequencing, on cell proliferation and apoptosis, to determine a novel therapeutic target for...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Liu X,Zhang Y,Wang S,Liu G,Ruan L

更新日期：2018-08-29 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：:The potential disrupting effects of Azo dye on wastewater nutrients removal deserved more analysis. In this study, 15 days exposure experiments were conducted with alizarin yellow R (AYR) as a model dye to determine whether the dye caused adverse effects on biological removal of both the dye and nutrients in acclimate...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chen A,Yang B,Zhou Y,Sun Y,Ding C

更新日期：2018-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the effect of contact geometry, temperature and displacement amplitude on the fretting behaviour of an aero-turbo oil lubricated cylinder-on-flat contact. To be effective, the lubricant needed both to penetrate the contact and then offer protection. Lubricant penetration into the fretting conta...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Warmuth AR,Sun W,Shipway PH

更新日期：2016-10-19 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Wetlands provide important ecosystem services to rural communities. However, wetlands are often on communal land, so they may become degraded when individual users act to maximize their personal benefit from ecosystem services without bearing the full environmental costs of their actions. Although it is possible to ma...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Owethu Pantshwa A,Buschke FT

更新日期：2019-06-12 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：:How do animals in groups organize their work? Division of labour, i.e. the process by which individuals within a group choose which tasks to perform, has been extensively studied in social insects. Variability among individuals within a colony seems to underpin both the decision over which tasks to perform and the amo...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Doran C,Stumpe MC,Sendova-Franks A,Franks NR

更新日期：2016-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In the name of meritocracy, modern economies devote increasing amounts of resources to quantifying and ranking the performance of individuals and organizations. Rankings send out powerful signals, which lead to identifying the actions of top performers as the 'best practices' that others should also adopt. However, se...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Livan G

更新日期：2019-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In mobile social groups, influence patterns driving group movement can vary between democratic and despotic. The arrival at any single pattern of influence is thought to be underpinned by both environmental factors and group composition. To identify the specific patterns of influence driving travel decision-making in ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Bonnell TR,Clarke PM,Henzi SP,Barrett L

更新日期：2017-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Wildlife researchers often rely on demographic data collected from harvested animals to estimate population dynamics. But demographic data from harvested animals may be non-representative if hunters/trappers have the ability and motivation to preferentially select for certain physical traits. Hunter preference is well...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Allen ML,Roberts NM,Van Deelen TR

更新日期：2018-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We review the current state of knowledge of magnetic fields inside stars, concentrating on recent developments concerning magnetic fields in stably stratified (zones of) stars, leaving out convective dynamo theories and observations of convective envelopes. We include the observational properties of A, B and O-type ma...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Braithwaite J,Spruit HC

更新日期：2017-02-22 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：:Gold nanoparticles provide a user-friendly and efficient surface for immobilization of enzymes and proteins. In this paper, we present a novel approach for enzyme bioconjugation to gold nanostars (AuNSs). AuNSs were modified with l-cysteine (Cys) and covalently bound to N-hydroxysulfosuccinimide (sulfo-NHS) activated ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Moses Phiri M,Wingrove Mulder D,Mason S,Christiaan Vorster B

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology and ultrastructure of the shells of two balanid species have been examined, paying special attention to the three types of boundaries between plates: (i) radii-parietes, (ii) alae-sheaths, and (iii) parietes-basal plate. At the carinal surfaces of the radii and at the rostral surfaces of the alae, there...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Checa AG,Salas C,Rodríguez-Navarro AB,Grenier C,Lagos NA

更新日期：2019-09-04 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：:When we represent real-world systems as networks, the directions of links often convey valuable information. Finding module structures that respect link directions is one of the most important tasks for analysing directed networks. Although many notions of a directed module have been proposed, no consensus has been re...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Takaguchi T,Yoshida Y

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have conducted a novel study of the influence of energy components (RDX, AP and CL-20) on curing kinetics of glycidyl azide polymer (GAP) spherical propellant based on rheological method. The autocatalytic model was used to describe curing kinetics and the parameters were determined by the model-fitting method. It ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： He L,He W,Ma Z

更新日期：2018-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Low levels of heterozygosity can have detrimental effects on life history and growth characteristics of organisms but more subtle effects such as those on trade-offs of expensive tissues and morphological laterality, especially of the brain, have not been explicitly tested. The objective of the current study was to in...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wiper ML,Lehnert SJ,Heath DD,Higgs DM

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The great amount of solid particles contained in a weighting agent is a major cause of the problems in both rheology properties and damage control mechanism of an oil-based drilling fluid (OBM). Therefore, a proper type of weighting agent can be a solution for the application of OBM. In this study, three weighting age...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Xu P,Xu M,Tao Z,Wang Z,Huang T

更新日期：2018-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Science provides a method to learn about the relationships between observed patterns and the processes that generate them. However, inference can be confounded when an observed pattern cannot be clearly and wholly attributed to a hypothesized process. Over-reliance on traditional single-hypothesis methods (i.e. null h...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yanco SW,McDevitt A,Trueman CN,Hartley L,Wunder MB

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance and shape of sesamoid bones within a tendon or ligament wrapping around a joint are understood to be influenced by both genetic and epigenetic factors. Ostriches (Struthio camelus) possess two sesamoid patellae (kneecaps), one of which (the distal patella) is unique to their lineage, making them a good ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chadwick KP,Shefelbine SJ,Pitsillides AA,Hutchinson JR

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the 35-year progression of activities in the Pontal do Paranapanema region of São Paulo State, Brazil. These activities began as a research project on the conservation ecology of the highly endangered Black Lion Tamarin and broadened into a landscape-scale restoration and conservation project invo...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chazdon RL,Cullen L Jr,Padua SM,Padua CV

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the extent to which adolescents who spend time playing violent video games exhibit higher levels of aggressive behaviour when compared with those who do not. A large sample of British adolescent participants (n = 1004) aged 14 and 15 years and an equal number of their carers were intervi...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Przybylski AK,Weinstein N

更新日期：2019-02-13 00:00:00