Limiting stochastic processes of shift-periodic dynamical systems.

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 persistence of homological features in simplicial complex representations of big datasets in R n resulting from Vietoris-Rips or Čech filtrations is commonly used to probe the topological structure of such datasets. In this paper, the notion of homological pers...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Parks AD,Marchette DJ

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Under the current amphibian biodiversity crisis, common species provide an opportunity to measure population dynamics across a wide range of environmental conditions while examining the processes that determine abundance and structure geographical ranges. Studying species at their range limits also provides a window f...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Hernández-Pacheco R,Sutherland C,Thompson LM,Grayson KL

更新日期：2019-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Interlocutors converge on names to refer to entities. For example, a speaker might refer to a novel looking object as the jellyfish and, once identified, the listener will too. The hypothesized mechanism behind such referential precedents is a subject of debate. The common ground view claims that listeners register th...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kronmüller E,Noveck I,Rivera N,Jaume-Guazzini F,Barr D

更新日期：2017-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The Internet not only has changed the dynamics of our collective attention but also through the transactional log of online activities, provides us with the opportunity to study attention dynamics at scale. In this paper, we particularly study attention to aircraft incidents and accidents using Wikipedia transactional...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： García-Gavilanes R,Tsvetkova M,Yasseri T

更新日期：2016-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) bone cement has been widely used in clinics as bone repair materials for its excellent mechanical properties and good injection properties. However, it also has defects such as poor biological performance, high temperature, and the monomer has certain toxicity. Our study tried to modify ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Liu X,Cheng C,Peng X,Xiao H,Guo C,Wang X,Li L,Yu X

更新日期：2019-10-02 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：:Estimating effects of nitrogen (N) deposition is essential for understanding human impacts on biodiversity. However, studies relating atmospheric N deposition to plant diversity are usually restricted to small plots of high conservation value. Here, we used data on 381 randomly selected 1 km(2) plots covering most hab...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Roth T,Kohli L,Rihm B,Amrhein V,Achermann B

更新日期：2015-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Waptia fieldensis Walcott, 1912 is one of the iconic animals from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale biota that had lacked a formal description since its discovery at the beginning of the twentieth century. This study, based on over 1800 specimens, finds that W. fieldensis shares general characteristics with pancrustac...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Vannier J,Aria C,Taylor RS,Caron JB

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-transcriptome technologies have been widely used in behavioural genetics to identify genes associated with the performance of a behaviour and provide clues to its mechanistic basis. Here, we consider the genetic basis of sex allocation behaviour in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis. Female Nasonia facultat...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Cook N,Boulton RA,Green J,Trivedi U,Tauber E,Pannebakker BA,Ritchie MG,Shuker DM

更新日期：2018-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to attribute intentions to others is a hallmark of human social cognition but is altered in paranoia. Paranoia is the most common positive symptom of psychosis but is also present to varying degrees in the general population. Epidemiological models suggest that psychosis risk is associated with low social ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Saalfeld V,Ramadan Z,Bell V,Raihani NJ

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many scientists communicate with the public about risks associated with scientific issues, but such communication may have unintended consequences for how the public views the political orientations and the credibility of the communicating scientist. We explore this possibility using an experiment with a nationally re...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Vraga E,Myers T,Kotcher J,Beall L,Maibach E

更新日期：2018-02-21 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：:A novel polyamine-type starch/glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) copolymer with a high capacity for the adsorption of heavy metal ions was prepared via graft copolymerization of GMA and corn starch and a subsequent amination reaction between amino group of diethylenetriamine and epoxy group in GMA. The copolymers were charac...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chen Y,Zhao W,Wang H,Meng X,Zhang L

更新日期：2018-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170128.]. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Taylor PJ,Larner S,Conchie SM,Menacere T

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of how we attribute observed body parts as our own, and the consequences of this attribution on our sensory-motor processes, is fundamental to understand how our brain distinguishes between self and other. Previous studies have identified interactions between the illusion of ownership, and multi-sensory i...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Aymerich-Franch L,Petit D,Kheddar A,Ganesh G

更新日期：2016-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent study reported on a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in a largely Inuit village. Among newly infected individuals, exposure to additional active cases was associated with an increasing probability of developing active disease within a year. Using binomial risk models, we evaluated two potential mechanisms by which ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ackley SF,Lee RS,Worden L,Zwick E,Porco TC,Behr MA,Pepperell CS

更新日期：2019-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:If an artificial intelligence aims to maximize risk-adjusted return, then under mild conditions it is disproportionately likely to pick an unethical strategy unless the objective function allows sufficiently for this risk. Even if the proportion η of available unethical strategies is small, the probability p ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Beale N,Battey H,Davison AC,MacKay RS

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When addressing their young infants, parents systematically modify their speech. Such infant-directed speech (IDS) contains exaggerated vowel formants, which have been proposed to foster language development via articulation of more distinct speech sounds. Here, this assumption is rigorously tested using both acoustic...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kalashnikova M,Carignan C,Burnham D

更新日期：2017-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Language has long been identified as a powerful communicative tool among humans. Yet, pre-linguistic communication, which is common in many species, is also used by human infants prior to the acquisition of language. The potential communicational value of pre-linguistic vocal interactions between human infants and mot...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Bourvis N,Singer M,Saint Georges C,Bodeau N,Chetouani M,Cohen D,Feldman R

更新日期：2018-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The broad biogeographic distribution of Hesperornis fossils in Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway deposits has prompted questions about whether they endured polar winters or migrated between mid- and high latitudes. Here, we compare microstructures of hesperornithiform long bones from Kansas and the Arctic to inv...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wilson LE,Chin K

更新日期：2014-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:It is recently demonstrated that amorphous Ge anode shows higher reversible Na-ion storage capacity (590 mA h g-1) than crystallized Ge anode (369 mA h g-1). Here, amorphous GeO x anode is prepared by a simple wet-chemistry reduction route at room temperature. The obtained...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Shen K,Lin N,Xu T,Han Y,Qian Y

更新日期：2018-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the framework of The Heterogeneous dust Evolution Model for Interstellar Solids (THEMIS), this work explores the surface processes and chemistry relating to core/mantle interstellar and cometary grain structures and their influence on the nature of these fascinating particles. It appears that a realistic consid...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Jones AP

更新日期：2016-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the chemical and nutritional profile and antioxidative properties of cultivated Coprinus comatus. Proximate analysis revealed that C. comatus is rich in carbohydrates, dietary fibres and proteins, and could also be a valuable source of phenolics. Additionally, fat content is low, consisting mai...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Stilinović N,Čapo I,Vukmirović S,Rašković A,Tomas A,Popović M,Sabo A

更新日期：2020-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans stand out among animals for their unique capacities in domains such as language, culture and imitation, yet it has been difficult to identify cognitive elements that are specifically human. Most research has focused on how information is processed after it is acquired, e.g. in problem solving or 'insight' tasks...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ghirlanda S,Lind J,Enquist M

更新日期：2017-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The basic reproduction number R 0 of the coronavirus disease 2019 h...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kochańczyk M,Grabowski F,Lipniacki T

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)-based gas sensor was decorated with Pt nanoparticles (NPs) for high sensitivity and low limit of detection (LOD) for specific gases (NH3 and H2S). The two-dimensional MoS2 film was grown at 400°C using metal organic gas vapour deposition. To fabricate the MoS2 gas sensor, ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Park J,Mun J,Shin JS,Kang SW

更新日期：2018-12-12 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：: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：:Ligninolytic enzymes, including laccase (Lac), manganese peroxidase (MnP) and lignin peroxidase (LiP), have attracted much attention in the degradation of contaminants. Genes of Lac (1827 bp), MnP (1134 bp) and LiP (1119 bp) were cloned from Aspergillus sp. TS-A, and the recombinant Lac (69 kDa), MnP (45 kDa) and LiP ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Liu S,Xu X,Kang Y,Xiao Y,Liu H

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00