Author Correction: A Systematic Evaluation of Hospital Performance of Childbirth Delivery Modes and Associated Factors in the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (North-Eastern Italy), 2005-2015.

abstract：:Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are among the most versatile nanomaterials, but their exploitation is hindered by limited dispersibility, especially in aqueous solvents. Here, we show that AP-LYS, a highly cationic soluble derivative of denatured hen egg lysozyme, is a very effective tool for the unbundling and solubilisation...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Siepi M,Donadio G,Dardano P,De Stefano L,Monti DM,Notomista E

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:With the surge of GPS-technology, many studies uncovered space use of mobile animals and shed light on the underlying behavioral mechanisms of habitat selection. Habitat selection and variation in either occurrence or strength of functional responses (i.e. how selection changes with availability) have given new insigh...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： William G,Jean-Michel G,Sonia S,Christophe B,Atle M,Nicolas M,Maryline P,Clément C

更新日期：2018-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Diverse magnetic and electronic properties of halogen-adsorbed silicene are investigated by the first-principle theoretical framework, including the adatom-diversified geometric structures, atom-dominated energy bands, spatial spin density distributions, spatial charge density distributions and its variations, and orb...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nguyen DK,Tran NTT,Chiu YH,Lin MF

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of non-poplar extracts, cutin, and wax layer in the wheat straw outer surface (WOS) greatly limit its application in bio-composite preparation. In this study, a dielectric-barrier-discharge plasma using water vapor as feeding gas was used to fast modify the WOS. The morphology, free radical concentrations...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen W,Xu Y,Shi S,Cao Y,Chen M,Zhou X

更新日期：2018-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Local communities are assembled from larger-scale species pools via dispersal, environmental filtering, biotic interactions, and local stochastic demographic processes. The relative importance, scaling and interplay of these assembly processes can be elucidated by comparing local communities to variously circumscribed...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Feng G,Mi X,Eiserhardt WL,Jin G,Sang W,Lu Z,Wang X,Li X,Li B,Sun I,Ma K,Svenning JC

更新日期：2015-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Machine learning methods provide powerful tools to map physical measurements to scientific categories. But are such methods suitable for discovering the ground truth about psychological categories? We use the science of emotion as a test case to explore this question. In studies of emotion, researchers use supervised ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Azari B,Westlin C,Satpute AB,Hutchinson JB,Kragel PA,Hoemann K,Khan Z,Wormwood JB,Quigley KS,Erdogmus D,Dy J,Brooks DH,Barrett LF

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil heavy metals exhibit significant spatiotemporal variability and are strongly correlated with other soil heavy metals. Thus, other heavy metals can be used to improve the accuracy of predictions when performing spatiotemporal predictions of soil heavy metals within a given area. In this study, we propose the spati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang B,Yang Y

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Celiac disease (CeD) is a multifactorial disease influenced by both genetic and environmental risk factors. CeD genetic components are mainly due to HLA class II genes, which account for approximately 40% of the disease heritability. The environmental factor is linked to gliadin ingestion. Despite genetic and epigenet...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Auricchio R,Galatola M,Cielo D,Amoresano A,Caterino M,De Vita E,Illiano A,Troncone R,Greco L,Ruoppolo M

更新日期：2019-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is an infection-induced systemic inflammatory syndrome and a major cause of death for critically ill patients. Here, we examined whether the absence of Sprouty-related EVH1-domain-containing protein 2 (Spred2), a negative regulator of the Ras/Raf/ERK/MAPK pathway, influences host defense against polymicrobial s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Itakura J,Sato M,Ito T,Mino M,Fushimi S,Takahashi S,Yoshimura T,Matsukawa A

更新日期：2017-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Ion pumps and channels are responsible for a wide variety of biological functions. Ion pumps transport only one ion during each stimulus-dependent reaction cycle, whereas ion channels conduct a large number of ions during each cycle. Ion pumping rhodopsins such as archaerhodopsin-3 (Arch) are often utilized as light-d...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yamanashi T,Maki M,Kojima K,Shibukawa A,Tsukamoto T,Chowdhury S,Yamanaka A,Takagi S,Sudo Y

更新日期：2019-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The exovesicles (EVs) are involved in pathologic host-parasite immune associations and have been recently used as biomarkers for diagnosis of infectious diseases. The release of EVs by Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, has recently been described, with different protein cargoes including the MA...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Díaz Lozano IM,De Pablos LM,Longhi SA,Zago MP,Schijman AG,Osuna A

更新日期：2017-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoacoustic (optoacoustic) imaging can visualize vasculature deep in tissue using the high contrast of hemoglobin to light, with the high-resolution possible with ultrasound detection. Since angiogenesis, one of the hallmarks of cancer, leads to increased vascularity, photoacoustics holds promise in imaging breast c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Heijblom M,Piras D,Brinkhuis M,van Hespen JC,van den Engh FM,van der Schaaf M,Klaase JM,van Leeuwen TG,Steenbergen W,Manohar S

更新日期：2015-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have indicated that different post-translational modifications (PTMs) synergistically orchestrate specific biological processes by crosstalks. However, the preference of the crosstalk among different PTMs and the evolutionary constraint on the PTM crosstalk need further dissections. In this study, the i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pan Z,Liu Z,Cheng H,Wang Y,Gao T,Ullah S,Ren J,Xue Y

更新日期：2014-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecalis, an organism generally not pathogenic for healthy humans, has the potential to cause disease in susceptible hosts. While it seems to be equipped to interact with and circumvent host immune defense, most of the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the enterococcal infectious process remain...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nunez N,Derré-Bobillot A,Gaubert S,Herry JM,Deschamps J,Wei Y,Baranek T,Si-Tahar M,Briandet R,Serror P,Archambaud C

更新日期：2018-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain metastasis is a significant unmet clinical problem in breast cancer treatment. It is always associated with poor prognosis and high morbidity. Recently, Slit2/Robo1 pathway has been demonstrated to be involved in the progression of breast carcinoma. However, until present, there are no convincing reports that su...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Qin F,Zhang H,Ma L,Liu X,Dai K,Li W,Gu F,Fu L,Ma Y

更新日期：2015-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting myeloid differentiation protein 2 (MD-2) or Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) with small molecule inhibitor rescues the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) in sepsis due to infection with Gram-negative bacteria but not other microbes. Herein, we provided IκB kinase β (IKKβ) in innate immune process as a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Choi JH,Park SH,Jung JK,Cho WJ,Ahn B,Yun CY,Choi YP,Yeo JH,Lee H,Hong JT,Han SB,Kim Y

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) extruded from neutrophils upon activation are composed of chromatin associated with cytosolic and granular proteins, which ensnare and kill microorganisms. This microbicidal mechanism named classical netosis has been shown to dependent on reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation b...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rochael NC,Guimarães-Costa AB,Nascimento MT,DeSouza-Vieira TS,Oliveira MP,Garcia e Souza LF,Oliveira MF,Saraiva EM

更新日期：2015-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental impacts from ecotourism and outdoor recreation activities on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems are well-reported in the literature, but less is known regarding the impacts of outdoor environmental education activities. Student activity during stream classes may cause substrate disruption and localized i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bossley JP,Smiley PC Jr

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging hemorrhagic fever caused by the SFTS phlebovirus (SFTSV). SFTS patients were first reported in China, followed by Japan and South Korea. In 2017, cats were diagnosed with SFTS for the first time, suggesting that these animals are susceptible to SFTSV. T...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Park ES,Shimojima M,Nagata N,Ami Y,Yoshikawa T,Iwata-Yoshikawa N,Fukushi S,Watanabe S,Kurosu T,Kataoka M,Okutani A,Kimura M,Imaoka K,Hanaki K,Suzuki T,Hasegawa H,Saijo M,Maeda K,Morikawa S

更新日期：2019-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma is a common type of malignancy with a poor prognosis. Identification and utilisation of markers for monitoring and diagnosis are urgently needed. Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and Protein Induced by Vitamin K Absence or Antagonist-II (PIVKA-II) have been proved to be efficient biomarkers for hepatit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang G,Lu X,Du Q,Zhang G,Wang D,Wang Q,Guo X

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Rice yield have been affected by the increased extreme precipitation events in recent decades. Yet, the spatio-temporal patterns of extreme precipitation by rice type and phenology remain elusive. Here, we investigate the characteristics of four extreme precipitation indices across China's rice paddy and their potenti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jian Y,Fu J,Li B,Zhou F

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of dose rate on radiation cataractogenesis has yet to be extensively studied. One recent epidemiological investigation suggested that protracted radiation exposure increases radiation-induced cataract risk: cumulative doses of radiation mostly <100 mGy received by US radiologic technologists over 5 years...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Barnard SGR,McCarron R,Moquet J,Quinlan R,Ainsbury E

更新日期：2019-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes a new two-step process to cool the thermal vibration of microcantilevers. The process combines active mechanical feedback cooling and optical cavity cooling. A micro-Fabry-Perot interferometer, built in-house, is set atop a microcantilever to measure the vibration amplitude, the high optical power...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kawamura Y

更新日期：2019-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The cholinergic system plays a major anti-inflammatory role in many diseases through acetylcholine (Ach) release after vagus nerve stimulation. Osteoarthritis (OA) is associated with local low-grade inflammation, but the regulatory mechanisms are unclear. Local Ach release could have anti-inflammatory activity since a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Courties A,Belle M,Senay S,Cambon-Binder A,Sautet A,Chédotal A,Berenbaum F,Sellam J

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a novel and facile method to synthesize sulfur-doped titanium oxide sheets and realize TiS2-TiO2 heterostructures by means of a sequential sulfurization and oxidation step in a dual-zone chemical vapor deposition furnace. The inclusion of chlorine and argon gases during the growth of such titanium-based comp...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Etghani SA,Ansari E,Mohajerzadeh S

更新日期：2019-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Without any root contact with the soil, epiphytic bryophytes must experience and explore poor, patchy, and heterogeneous habitats; while, the nitrogen (N) uptake and use strategies of these organisms remain uncharacterized, which obscures their roles in the N cycle. To investigate the N sources, N preferences, and res...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Song L,Lu HZ,Xu XL,Li S,Shi XM,Chen X,Wu Y,Huang JB,Chen Q,Liu S,Wu CS,Liu WY

更新日期：2016-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) demonstrated that screening with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is associated with a 20% reduction in lung cancer mortality. One potential limitation of LDCT screening is overdiagnosis of slow growing and indolent cancers. In this study, peritumoral and intratumoral radiom...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pérez-Morales J,Tunali I,Stringfield O,Eschrich SA,Balagurunathan Y,Gillies RJ,Schabath MB

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly invasive animal based test procedures for risk assessment such as the Draize eye test are under increasing criticism due to poor transferability for the human organism and animal-welfare concerns. However, besides all efforts, the Draize eye test is still not completely replaced by alternative animal-free metho...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lotz C,Kiesewetter L,Schmid FF,Hansmann J,Walles H,Groeber-Becker F

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We are presenting a compact radar range system with a scale factor of 105. Replacing the radio frequency (RF) by optical wavelength (300 THz), the system easily fit on a tabletop. We used interferometric time-of-flight to reproduce radar ranging measurements. Sub-micron range accuracy was achieved with a 100 fs laser ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Blanche PA,Neifeld M,Tuo M,Xin H,Peyghambarian N

更新日期：2018-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence on behavioural abnormalities in children exposed to secondhand smoke is limited. This study examined the relation between infant/ toddler cotinine concentration, a biomarker of secondhand smoke exposure, and behavioural problems in preschoolers who were unexposed to maternal smoking during gestation. A prospe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Luk TT,Wang MP,Suen YN,Koh DS,Lam TH,Chan SS

更新日期：2018-10-18 00:00:00