Author Correction: Grandmothers' smoking in pregnancy is associated with a reduced prevalence of early-onset myopia.

abstract：:Decadal climate predictability in the South Atlantic is explored by performing reforecast experiments using a coupled general circulation model with two initialization schemes; one is assimilated with observed sea surface temperature (SST) only, and the other is additionally assimilated with observed subsurface ocean ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Morioka Y,Doi T,Storto A,Masina S,Behera SK

更新日期：2018-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tan FN,Gan WL,Ang CCI,Wong GDH,Liu HX,Poh F,Lew WS

更新日期：2019-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Law of the Minimum is often implemented using t-norm or fuzzy intersection. We propose the use of t-conorm or fuzzy union for climate suitability assessment of a grass species using annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) as an example and evaluate the performance for alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) and sorghum (So...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim H,Hyun SW,Hoogenboom G,Porter CH,Kim KS

更新日期：2018-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xie J,Wang M,Cheng A,Zhao XX,Liu M,Zhu D,Chen S,Jia R,Yang Q,Wu Y,Zhang S,Liu Y,Yu Y,Zhang L,Sun K,Chen X

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The weak correlation between pain and structural changes in knee osteoarthritis is widely reported. In a previous within-person, knee-matched case-control study among Caucasians, the severity of radiographic osteoarthritis (ROA) was strongly associated with both the presence of frequent knee pain and pain severity. We...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang K,Kim HA,Felson DT,Xu L,Kim DH,Nevitt MC,Yoshimura N,Kawaguchi H,Lin J,Kang X,Zhang Y

更新日期：2018-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the relevance of complex root microbial communities for plant health, growth and productivity, the molecular basis of these plant-microbe interactions is not well understood. Verrucomicrobia are cosmopolitans in the rhizosphere, nevertheless their adaptations and functions are enigmatic since the proportion of...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bünger W,Jiang X,Müller J,Hurek T,Reinhold-Hurek B

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The favourable kinetics of 18F-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (FDG) permits to depict cancer glucose consumption by a single evaluation of late tracer uptake. This standard procedure relies on the slow radioactivity loss, usually attributed to the limited tumour expression of G6P-phosphatase (G6Pase). However, this classical i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Scussolini M,Bauckneht M,Cossu V,Bruno S,Orengo AM,Piccioli P,Capitanio S,Yosifov N,Ravera S,Morbelli S,Piana M,Sambuceti G,Caviglia G,Marini C

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal sulfides are of great interest for future electrode materials in supercapacitor and solar cell applications owing to their superior electrochemical activity and excellent electrical conductivity. With this scope, a binary transition metal sulfide (CoS) is prepared via one-step hydrothermal synthesis. Hexagonal p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ashok Kumar K,Pandurangan A,Arumugam S,Sathiskumar M

更新日期：2019-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to analyse plasma levels of peripheral blood microRNAs (miRs) as biomarkers of ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) due to type-1 myocardial infarction as a model situation of vulnerable plaque (VP) rupture. Samples of 20 patients with STEMI were compared both with a group of patients without a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Horváth M,Horváthová V,Hájek P,Štěchovský C,Honěk J,Šenolt L,Veselka J

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate how consensus is reached on a large self-organized peer-to-peer network, we extended the naming game model commonly used in language and communication to Naming Game in Groups (NGG). Differing from other existing naming game models, in NGG everyone in the population (network) can be both speaker and hea...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gao Y,Chen G,Chan RH

更新日期：2014-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortuary practices in human evolution record cognitive, social changes and technological innovations. The Neolithic Revolution in the Levant was a watershed in this domain that has long fascinated the archaeological community. Plaster modelled skulls are well known at Jericho and several other Neolithic sites, and in ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Solazzo C,Courel B,Connan J,van Dongen BE,Barden H,Penkman K,Taylor S,Demarchi B,Adam P,Schaeffer P,Nissenbaum A,Bar-Yosef O,Buckley M

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired immune function contributes to the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Disease progression is further exacerbated by pathogen infections due to impaired immune responses. Elimination of infected cells is achieved by cytotoxic CD8(+)  T cells that are activated by MHC I-mediated presen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Keller IE,Vosyka O,Takenaka S,Kloß A,Dahlmann B,Willems LI,Verdoes M,Overkleeft HS,Marcos E,Adnot S,Hauck SM,Ruppert C,Günther A,Herold S,Ohno S,Adler H,Eickelberg O,Meiners S

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the main challenges in quantum technologies is the ability to control individual quantum systems. This task becomes increasingly difficult as the dimension of the system grows. Here we propose a general setup for cyclic permutations Xd in d dimensions, a major primitive for constructing arbitrary qudit gates. U...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Isdrailă TA,Kusko C,Ionicioiu R

更新日期：2019-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-standing problem in modeling of shock response of metals is the ability to model defect nucleation and evolution mechanisms during plastic deformation and failure at the mesoscales. This paper demonstrates the capability of the "quasi-coarse-grained dynamics" (QCGD) simulation method to unravel microstructural ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Agarwal G,Valisetty RR,Namburu RR,Rajendran AM,Dongare AM

更新日期：2017-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is associated with a high prevalence of mood disorders such as anxiety and depression. Both stress and high fat diet can alter the gut microbiota and contribute to obesity. To examine the interrelationships between obesity, stress, gut microbiota and mood disorders, obesity was induced in mice using a high fat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bridgewater LC,Zhang C,Wu Y,Hu W,Zhang Q,Wang J,Li S,Zhao L

更新日期：2017-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Metals can transmit light by tunnelling when they possess skin-depth thickness. Tunnelling can be resonantly enhanced if resonators are added to each side of a metal film, such as additional dielectric layers or periodic structures on a metal surface. Here we show that, even with no additional resonators, tunnelling r...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kang JH,Park QH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditional genome engineering in the human malaria pathogen Plasmodium falciparum remains highly challenging. Here we describe a strategy for facile and rapid functional analysis of genes using an approach based on the Cre/lox system and tailored for organisms with short and few introns. Our method allows the conditi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jones ML,Das S,Belda H,Collins CR,Blackman MJ,Treeck M

更新日期：2016-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid formation is associated with various pathophysiological conditions like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases as well as many useful functions. The hallmark of amyloid assemblies is a conformational transition of the constituent proteins into a β - sheet rich filament. Accounting for this conformational transit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ranganathan S,Ghosh D,Maji SK,Padinhateeri R

更新日期：2016-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to assess both anatomic and functional outcomes between short-pulse continuous wavelength and infrared micropulse lasers in the treatment of DME. This was a prospective interventional study from tertiary care eye hospital-King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia). Patients...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Al-Barki A,Al-Hijji L,High R,Schatz P,Do D,Nguyen QD,Luttrull JK,Kozak I

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a novel stochastic global optimization algorithm with applications to the refinement stage of protein docking prediction methods. Our approach can process conformations sampled from multiple clusters, each roughly corresponding to a different binding energy funnel. These clusters are obtained using a densit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zarbafian S,Moghadasi M,Roshandelpoor A,Nan F,Li K,Vakli P,Vajda S,Kozakov D,Paschalidis IC

更新日期：2018-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrafast thermomechanical responses and spallation behaviours of monocrystal copper films irradiated by femtosecond laser pulse are investigated using molecular dynamics simulation (MDS). Films with 〈100〉, 〈110〉 and 〈111〉 crystal orientations along the thickness direction were studied. The results show that the cryst...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xiong QL,Li Z,Kitamura T

更新日期：2017-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Various important topological properties of healthy brain connectome have recently been identified. However, the manner in which brain lesion changes the functional network topology is unknown. We examined how critical specific brain areas are in the maintenance of network topology using multivariate support vector re...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yuan B,Fang Y,Han Z,Song L,He Y,Bi Y

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a design methodology for a multi-optical probe confocal imaging system was developed. To develop an imaging system that has the required resolving power and imaging area, this study focused on a design methodology to create a scalable and easy-to-implement confocal imaging system. This system overcomes ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Choi W,Shin R,Lim J,Kang S

更新日期：2016-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is associated with substantial morbidity, costs, and decreased life expectancy, and continues to rise worldwide. While etiological understanding is needed for prevention, epidemiological studies indicated that colonization with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) may affect body mass index (BMI), but with inconsis...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： den Hollander WJ,Broer L,Schurmann C,Meyre D,den Hoed CM,Mayerle J,Hofman A,Homuth G,Uitterlinden AG,Lerch MM,Kuipers EJ

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) bacteria significantly improve the efficiency and reduce cost of nitrogen removal in wastewater treatment plants. However, their slow growth and vulnerable activity limit the application of anammox technology. In this paper, the enhancement of biotin on the nitrogen removal activ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li Q,Chen J,Liu GH,Xu X,Zhang Q,Wang Y,Yuan J,Li Y,Qi L,Wang H

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Potassium channel tetramerization domain containing 12 (KCTD12), the auxiliary GABAB receptor subunit, is identified as a susceptibility gene for bipolar I (BPI) disorder in the Han Chinese population. Moreover, the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs17026688 in glutamate decarboxylase-like protein 1 (GADL1) is sh...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu TN,Chen CK,Lee CS,Wu BJ,Sun HJ,Chang CH,Chen CY,Wu LS,Cheng AT

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To appraise the content and pollution level of cadmium (Cd), arsenic (As), mercury (Hg), nickel (Ni) and lead (Pb) in bus stop dusts, representative samples (n = 53) were collected from the city of Qingyang in Gansu province, NW China. The Cd, As, Hg, Ni, and Pb contents and physicochemical properties (particle size, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu Y,Lu X

更新日期：2018-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Prosthesis embodiment, the perception of a prosthesis as part of one's body, may be an important component of functional recovery for individuals with upper limb absence. This work determined whether embodiment differs between body-powered and myoelectric prosthesis users. In a sample of nine individuals with transrad...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Engdahl SM,Meehan SK,Gates DH

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Social animals, including humans, structure social groups where social hierarchy exists. Recognizing social rank of other group members is a crucial ability to subsist in such environments. Here we show preliminary evidence with a relatively small number of samples that children with autism spectrum disorder, a neurod...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ogawa S,Iriguchi M,Lee YA,Yoshikawa S,Goto Y

更新日期：2019-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is a serious global problem, and pathogen factors involved in the transmission of isoniazid (INH)-resistant TB have not been fully investigated. We performed whole genome sequencing of 332 clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) isolates collected from patients newly diagnosed with s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hang NTL,Hijikata M,Maeda S,Thuong PH,Ohashi J,Van Huan H,Hoang NP,Miyabayashi A,Cuong VC,Seto S,Van Hung N,Keicho N

更新日期：2019-10-25 00:00:00