Author Correction: A cross-sectional study to characterize local HIV-1 dynamics in Washington, DC using next-generation sequencing.

abstract：:Multinational corporations use highly complex structures of parents and subsidiaries to organize their operations and ownership. Offshore Financial Centers (OFCs) facilitate these structures through low taxation and lenient regulation, but are increasingly under scrutiny, for instance for enabling tax avoidance. There...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Garcia-Bernardo J,Fichtner J,Takes FW,Heemskerk EM

更新日期：2017-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Geochemical discrimination has recently been recognised as a potentially useful proxy for identifying tsunami deposits in addition to classical proxies such as sedimentological and micropalaeontological evidence. However, difficulties remain because it is unclear which elements best discriminate between tsunami and no...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kuwatani T,Nagata K,Okada M,Watanabe T,Ogawa Y,Komai T,Tsuchiya N

更新日期：2014-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of fertilisation and other management techniques on a weed community were evaluated during wheat growth in a rice-wheat cropping system. Fertiliser treatments were C0 (C means chemical, C0 means zero chemical fertiliser.), CN (N fertiliser), CNK (N plus K fertiliser), CNPK (N plus P and K fertiliser), CNP (N p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang M,Liu T,Huang N,Shen X,Shen M,Dai Q

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to establish the collective influence of four lifestyle practices (physical activity, diet, smoking and alcohol consumption) on the prevalence and incidence of AMD. At baseline, 2428 participants aged 49+ with complete lifestyle and AMD data were examined, and of these, 1903 participants were re-examined 15 y...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gopinath B,Liew G,Flood VM,Joachim N,Burlutsky G,Mitchell P

更新日期：2017-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:High operating temperatures can have very deleterious effects on the long-term performance of high-Cr, creep-resistant steels used, for example, in the structural components of power plants. For the popular creep-resistant steel X20CrMoV12.1 we analysed the processes of carbide growth using a variety of analytical tec...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Godec M,Skobir Balantič DA

更新日期：2016-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The Centiloid (CL) is a method for standardizing amyloid beta (Aβ) quantification through different ligands and methods. To find the most appropriate reference region to reduce the variance in the Aβ CL unit between 18F-florbetaben (FBB) and 18F-flutemetamol (FMM), we conducted head-to-head comparisons from 56 partici...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cho SH,Choe YS,Park S,Kim YJ,Kim HJ,Jang H,Kim SJ,Kim JP,Jung YH,Kim BC,Na DL,Moon SH,Seo SW

更新日期：2020-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformational landscapes of p53 peptide variants and phage derived peptide (12/1) variants, all known to bind to MDM2, are studied using hamiltonian replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations. Complementing earlier observations, the current study suggests that the p53 peptides largely follow the 'conformatio...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yadahalli S,Li J,Lane DP,Gosavi S,Verma CS

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant traits can influence the interactions between herbivore arthropods and their natural enemies. In these interactions generalist predators are often present, preying on herbivores and also on other arthropods in the same trophic guild. Variation in the strength of intraguild predation (IGP) may be related to habit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pozzebon A,Loeb GM,Duso C

更新日期：2015-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) networks, which use a node and edge representation, lack some valuable information about the mechanistic details of biological processes. Mapping protein structures to these PPI networks not only provides structural details of each interaction but also helps us to find the...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Halakou F,Kilic ES,Cukuroglu E,Keskin O,Gursoy A

更新日期：2017-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysregulation of iron metabolism, and resultant cytotoxicity, has been implicated in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurodegenerative processes. Iron accumulation promotes cytotoxicity through various mechanisms including oxidative stress and glutamate toxicity, and occurs in both MS patients an...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Khan RS,Baumann B,Dine K,Song Y,Dunaief JL,Kim SF,Shindler KS

更新日期：2019-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:PEA3 transcription factor subfamily is present in a variety of tissues with branching morphogenesis, and play a particularly significant role in neural circuit formation and specificity. Many target genes in axon guidance and cell-cell adhesion pathways have been identified for Pea3 transcription factor (but not for E...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kandemir B,Gulfidan G,Arga KY,Yilmaz B,Kurnaz IA

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Crosslinking is an effective way to fabricate high-selective CO2 separation membranes because of its unique crosslinking framework. Thus, it is essentially significant to study the influence of crosslinking degree on the permeation selectivities of CO2. Herein, we report a successful and facile synthesis of a series o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li J,Chen Z,Umar A,Liu Y,Shang Y,Zhang X,Wang Y

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocytes/macrophages have been found to be an important component of colitis. However, the key chemokine that initiates the CCR2+ monocytes migration from circulation to colitis tissue remains to be undiscovered. PC3-secreted microprotein (PSMP) is a novel chemokine whose receptor is CCR2. The physiological and patho...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pei X,Zheng D,She S,Ma J,Guo C,Mo X,Zhang Y,Song Q,Zhang Y,Ma D,Wang Y

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline mutations in Mir96, one of three co-expressed polycistronic miRNA genes (Mir96, Mir182, Mir183), cause hereditary hearing loss in humans and mice. Transgenic FVB/NCrl- Tg(GFAP-Mir183,Mir96,Mir182)MDW1 mice (Tg1MDW), which overexpress this neurosensory-specific miRNA cluster in the inner ear, were developed as...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Weston MD,Tarang S,Pierce ML,Pyakurel U,Rocha-Sanchez SM,McGee J,Walsh EJ,Soukup GA

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid histopathological evaluation of fresh, unfixed human tissue using optical sectioning microscopy would have applications to intraoperative surgical margin assessment. Microscopy with ultraviolet surface excitation (MUSE) is a low-cost optical sectioning technique using ultraviolet illumination which limits fluore...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yoshitake T,Giacomelli MG,Quintana LM,Vardeh H,Cahill LC,Faulkner-Jones BE,Connolly JL,Do D,Fujimoto JG

更新日期：2018-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Global change is predicted to cause shifts in species distributions and biodiversity in arctic tundra. We applied factorial warming and nutrient manipulation to a nutrient and species poor alpine/arctic heath community for seven years. Vascular plant abundance in control plots increased by 31%. There were also notable...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Alatalo JM,Little CJ,Jägerbrand AK,Molau U

更新日期：2015-05-07 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： Guo Z,Liu H,Ni H,Wang X,Su M,Guo W,Wang K,Jiang T,Qian Y

更新日期：2020-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Locusts have excellent jumping and kicking abilities to survive in nature, which are achieved through the energy storage and release processes occurring in cuticles, especially in the semi-lunar processes (SLP) at the femorotibial joints. As yet, however, the strain energy-storage mechanisms of the SLP cuticles remain...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wan C,Hao Z,Feng X

更新日期：2016-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-branch attraction (LBA) is a major obstacle in phylogenetic reconstruction. The phylogenetic relationships among Juniperus (J), Cupressus (C) and the Hesperocyparis-Callitropsis-Xanthocyparis (HCX) subclades of Cupressoideae are controversial. Our initial analyses of plastid protein-coding gene matrix revealed bo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Qu XJ,Jin JJ,Chaw SM,Li DZ,Yi TS

更新日期：2017-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Recovering the position of a source from the fluxes of diffusing particles through small receptors allows a biological cell to determine its relative position, spatial localization and guide it to a final target. However, how a source can be recovered from point fluxes remains unclear. Using the Narrow Escape approach...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dobramysl U,Holcman D

更新日期：2018-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Globally, Aedes aegypti is one of the most dangerous mosquitoes that plays a crucial role as a vector for human diseases, such as yellow fever, dengue, and chikungunya. To identify (1) transcriptomic basis of midgut (2) key genes that are involved in the toxicity process by a comparative transcriptomic analysis betwee...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Batool K,Alam I,Wu S,Liu W,Zhao G,Chen M,Wang J,Xu J,Huang T,Pan X,Yu X,Guan X,Xu L,Zhang L

更新日期：2018-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a framework to convert an arbitrary integer factorization problem to an executable Ising model by first writing it as an optimization function then transforming the k-bit coupling (k ≥ 3) terms to quadratic terms using ancillary variables. Our resource-efficient method uses [Formula: see text] binary...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang S,Britt KA,McCaskey AJ,Humble TS,Kais S

更新日期：2018-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains one of the most lethal malignancies. The genomic landscape of the PDAC genome features four frequently mutated genes (KRAS, CDKN2A, TP53, and SMAD4) and dozens of candidate driver genes altered at low frequency, including potential clinical targets. Circulating cell-free...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Takai E,Totoki Y,Nakamura H,Morizane C,Nara S,Hama N,Suzuki M,Furukawa E,Kato M,Hayashi H,Kohno T,Ueno H,Shimada K,Okusaka T,Nakagama H,Shibata T,Yachida S

更新日期：2015-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change and human activity are dooming species at an unprecedented rate via a plethora of direct and indirect, often synergic, mechanisms. Among these, primary extinctions driven by environmental change could be just the tip of an enormous extinction iceberg. As our understanding of the importance of ecological...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Strona G,Bradshaw CJA

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Population structure and biogeography of marine organisms are formed by different drivers than in terrestrial organisms. Yet, very little information is available even for common marine organisms and even less for their associated parasites. Here we report the first analysis of population structure of both a cephalopo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Drábková M,Jachníková N,Tyml T,Sehadová H,Ditrich O,Myšková E,Hypša V,Štefka J

更新日期：2019-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the synergistic effect on the corrosion protection properties of Mg alloys subjected to plasma electrolytic oxidation and chemically treated with thiourea as an inhibitor is investigated by surface microstructure analysis, evaluation of the electrochemical performance, and chemical quantum calcul...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Al Zoubi W,Ko YG

更新日期：2018-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection of hepatocytes promotes liver fibrosis by activation of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) and excessive deposition of extracellular matrix in liver tissue. Whether or not host factors released from the HCV-infected hepatocytes play role in HSCs activation is unclear. In this study, HSCs w...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cheng JC,Tseng CP,Liao MH,Peng CY,Yu JS,Chuang PH,Huang JT,Chen JJW

更新日期：2017-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to assess the ankle-brachial index (ABI) in patients with Graves' disease. In the cross-sectional assessments, 81 patients with drug-naïve Graves' disease and 235 with euthyroidism were enrolled. ABI and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) levels were assessed. In the prospective follow-up, 32 patients...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li YH,Lee IT

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A major goal of biology is to develop a quantitative ligand-binding assay that does not involve the use of radioactivity. Existing fluorescence-based assays have a serious drawback due to fluorescence quenching that accompanies the binding of fluorescently-labeled ligands to their receptors. This limitation of existin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Breen CJ,Raverdeau M,Voorheis HP

更新日期：2016-05-10 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