Author Correction: Epoxy toughening through high pressure and shear rate preprocessing.

abstract：:Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are promising electrochemical devices that enable the highest fuel-to-electricity conversion efficiencies under high operating temperatures. The concept of multi-stage electrochemical oxidation using SOFCs has been proposed and studied over the past several decades for further improving ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Matsuzaki Y,Tachikawa Y,Somekawa T,Hatae T,Matsumoto H,Taniguchi S,Sasaki K

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis, a severe infectious disease caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis, arouses huge concerns globally. In this study, a total of 331,594 TB cases in Zhejiang Province were notified during the period of 2009-2018 with the gender ratio of male to female 2.16:1. The notified TB incidences demonstrated a cont...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu K,Li T,Vongpradith A,Wang F,Peng Y,Wang W,Chai C,Chen S,Zhang Y,Zhou L,Chen X,Bian Q,Chen B,Wang X,Jiang J

更新日期：2020-05-04 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： Nzou G,Wicks RT,VanOstrand NR,Mekky GA,Seale SA,El-Taibany A,Wicks EE,Nechtman CM,Marrotte EJ,Makani VS,Murphy SV,Seeds MC,Jackson JD,Atala AJ

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of intravitreal aflibercept for active polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) without active polyps and to identify prognostic factors. We enrolled 40 eyes from 40 patients who manifested PCV with exudation but without active polyps after prior treatment with pho...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee SE,Jang JW,Kang SW,Park KH,Lee DW,Kim JH,Bae K

更新日期：2019-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The AMP-activated kinase (AMPK) is a major energy sensor metabolic enzyme that is activated early during T cell immune responses but its role in the generation of effector T cells is still controversial. Using both in vitro and in vivo models of T cell proliferation, we show herein that AMPK is dispensable for early T...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lepez A,Pirnay T,Denanglaire S,Perez-Morga D,Vermeersch M,Leo O,Andris F

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Giardia is a worldwide spread protozoan parasite colonizing in small intestines of vertebrates, causing Giardiasis. The controversy about whether it is an extremely primitive eukaryote or just a highly evolved parasite has become a fetter to its uses as a model for both evolutionary and parasitological studies for yea...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ye Q,Tian H,Chen B,Shao J,Qin Y,Wen J

更新日期：2017-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Aortic stenosis (AS) is the most common form of valve disease. Once symptoms develop, there is an inexorable deterioration with a poor prognosis; currently there are no therapies capable of modifying disease progression, and aortic valve replacement is the only available treatment. Our goal is to study the progression...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mourino-Alvarez L,Iloro I,de la Cuesta F,Azkargorta M,Sastre-Oliva T,Escobes I,Lopez-Almodovar LF,Sanchez PL,Urreta H,Fernandez-Aviles F,Pinto A,Padial LR,Akerström F,Elortza F,Barderas MG

更新日期：2016-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Among patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), best supportive care (BSC) is well-known to improve patient's quality of life and prolong survival. This study aimed to clarify (1) the decision-making factors of BSC alone and (2) the prognostic factors after selection of no further anticancer therapies. We retr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kitazawa H,Takeda Y,Naka G,Sugiyama H

更新日期：2019-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraines are a common and undertreated disease and often have psychiatric comorbidities; however, the abnormal mechanism of emotional processing in migraine patients has not been well clarified. This study sought to investigate the different brain functional activation to neutral, positive and negative emotional stim...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang M,Su J,Zhang J,Zhao Y,Yao Q,Zhang Q,Zhang H,Wang S,Li GF,Liu JR,Du X

更新日期：2017-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A new ether-based electrolyte to match lithium metal electrode is prepared by introducing 1, 4-dioxane as co-solvent into lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide/1,2-dimethoxyethane solution. Under the synergetic effect of solvents and salt, this simple liquid electrolyte presents stable Li cycling with dendrite-free Li depo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Miao R,Yang J,Xu Z,Wang J,Nuli Y,Sun L

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to evaluate the radiation dosimetry of a new technetium-99m‒labelled small-molecule inhibitor of prostate-specific membrane antigen (HYNIC-Glu-Urea-A, 99mTc-HYNIC-PSMA) and its feasibility as a tumor-imaging agent in prostate cancer (PCa) patients. A total of 15 PCa patients were enrolled in this study...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang J,Zhang J,Xu X,Lu L,Hu S,Liu C,Cheng J,Song S,Zhang Y,Shi LQ

更新日期：2020-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a highly ordered surface modification layer for polymers based on ambient solution-processed triptycene (Trip) derivatives for high-mobility organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs). The nested packing of Trip molecules results in the formation of 2D hexagonal arrays, which stack one-dimensionally on the surfa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kondo M,Kajitani T,Uemura T,Noda Y,Ishiwari F,Shoji Y,Araki T,Yoshimoto S,Fukushima T,Sekitani T

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has not been fixed in the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Coggins NB,Stultz J,O'Geen H,Carvajal-Carmona LG,Segal DJ

更新日期：2018-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a reporter system that can be used in a dual manner in visualizing mature osteoblast formation. The system is based on a helper-dependent adenoviral vector (HDAdV), in which a fluorescent protein, Venus, is expressed under the control of the 19-kb human osteocalcin (OC) genomic locus. By infecting human a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sone T,Shin M,Ouchi T,Sasanuma H,Miyamoto A,Ohte S,Tsukamoto S,Nakanishi M,Okano H,Katagiri T,Mitani K

更新日期：2019-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to their unique properties, Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are promising materials for the future electronics. Currently, the two types (I and II) of WSMs are discovered experimentally. These types of WSMs differ from each other in their topological properties. In this paper we showed that a coexistence of types I and II ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Alisultanov ZZ

更新日期：2018-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Oceanic vortices are ubiquitous in the ocean. They dominate the sub-inertial energy spectrum, and their dynamics is key for the evolution of the water column properties. The merger of two like-signed coherent vortices, which ultimately results in the formation of a larger vortex, provides an efficient mechanism for th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： de Marez C,Carton X,L'Hégaret P,Meunier T,Stegner A,Le Vu B,Morvan M

更新日期：2020-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the local indistinguishability problem of quantum states. By introducing an easily calculated quantity, non-commutativity, we present an criterion which is both necessary and sufficient for the local indistinguishability of a complete set of pure orthogonal product states. A constructive distinguishing proced...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ma T,Zhao MJ,Wang YK,Fei SM

更新日期：2014-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a formulation of electromagnetic spin-orbit coupling in magneto-optic media, and propose an alternative source of spin-orbit coupling to non-paraxial optics vortices. Our treatment puts forth a formulation of nonreciprocal transverse-spin angular-momentum-density shifts for evanescent waves in magneto-optic...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Levy M,Karki D

更新日期：2017-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Floating macrophytes, including water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), are dominant invasive organisms in tropical aquatic systems, and they may play an important role in modifying the gas exchange between water and the atmosphere. However, these systems are underrepresented in global datasets of greenhouse gas (GHG) ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Attermeyer K,Flury S,Jayakumar R,Fiener P,Steger K,Arya V,Wilken F,van Geldern R,Premke K

更新日期：2016-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of well-organized structures with high luminescent properties in the solid and aggregated states is of both scientific and technological interest due to their applications in nanotechnology. In this paper we described the synthesis of amphiphilic and dumbbell shaped AIE-active tetraphenylethylene (TPE)...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Salimimarand M,La DD,Kobaisi MA,Bhosale SV

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ncb2, the β subunit of NC2 complex, a heterodimeric regulator of transcription was earlier shown to be involved in the activated transcription of CDR1 gene in azole resistant isolate (AR) of Candida albicans. This study examines its genome-wide role by profiling Ncb2 occupancy between genetically matched pair of azole...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shariq M,Dhamgaye S,Nair R,Goyal N,Jain V,Mukhopadhyay A,Mondal AK,Mukhopadhyay G,Prasad R

更新日期：2017-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The repeated measurements of heart rate variability (HRV) is more relevant than a single HRV measurement in predicting patient prognosis but is less addressed previously. This prospective study aimed to investigate the association between repeated measurements of HRV and long-term mortality in chronic hemodialysis pat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chang YM,Huang YT,Chen IL,Yang CL,Leu SC,Su HL,Kao JL,Tsai SC,Jhen RN,Shiao CC

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromodulation is an increasingly accepted treatment for neurological and psychiatric disorders but is limited by its invasiveness or its inability to target deep brain structures using noninvasive techniques. We propose a new concept called Multimodal Synchronization Therapy (mSync) for achieving targeted activation...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Markovitz CD,Smith BT,Gloeckner CD,Lim HH

更新日期：2015-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual spores are important for the dispersal and population dynamics of fungi. They show remarkable morphological diversity, but the underlying forces driving spore evolution are poorly known. We investigated whether trophic status and substrate associations are associated with morphology in 787 macrofungal genera. W...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Calhim S,Halme P,Petersen JH,Læssøe T,Bässler C,Heilmann-Clausen J

更新日期：2018-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work the chalcopyrite CuIn3Se5-xTex (x = 0~0.5) with space group through isoelectronic substitution of Te for Se have been prepared, and the crystal structure dilation has been observed with increasing Te content. This substitution allows the anion position displacement ∆u = 0.25-u to be zero at x ≈ 0.15. Howe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lu Y,Chen S,Wu W,Du Z,Chao Y,Cui J

更新日期：2017-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Nature within cities will have a central role in helping address key global public health challenges associated with urbanization. However, there is almost no guidance on how much or how frequently people need to engage with nature, and what types or characteristics of nature need to be incorporated in cities for the ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shanahan DF,Bush R,Gaston KJ,Lin BB,Dean J,Barber E,Fuller RA

更新日期：2016-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The SMC (Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes) complexes are composed of SMC dimers, kleisin and kleisin-interacting (HAWK or KITE) subunits. Mutual interactions of these subunits constitute the basal architecture of the SMC complexes. In addition, binding of ATP molecules to the SMC subunits and their hydrolysis dri...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vondrova L,Kolesar P,Adamus M,Nociar M,Oliver AW,Palecek JJ

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In low-resource hospitals of central Africa, neurological disorders are frequent and etiologies very diverse. The difficulty to identify invasive bacterial infections in this setting results in major antibiotic overuse. Biomarkers such as C-reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin (PCT) may help discriminate these con...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bottieau E,Mukendi D,Kalo JL,Lutumba P,Barbé B,Ramadan K,Van Esbroeck M,Jacobs J,Yansouni CP,Chappuis F,Boelaert M,Winkler AS,Verdonck K

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Toughening of Fe-based amorphous coatings meanwhile maintaining a good corrosion resistance remains challenging. This work reports a novel approach to improve the toughness of a FeCrMoCBY amorphous coating through in-situ formation of amorphous carbon reinforcement without reducing the corrosion resistance. The Fe-bas...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang W,Zhang C,Zhang ZW,Li YC,Yasir M,Wang HT,Liu L

更新日期：2017-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipose tissue dysfunction is considered an important contributor to systemic insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes (T2D). Recently, a novel family of endogenous lipids, palmitic acid hydroxy stearic acids (PAHSAs), was discovered. These have anti-diabetic and anti-inflammatory effects in mice and are reduced in seru...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hammarstedt A,Syed I,Vijayakumar A,Eliasson B,Gogg S,Kahn BB,Smith U

更新日期：2018-10-25 00:00:00