Automated Retinal Layer Segmentation Using Graph-based Algorithm Incorporating Deep-learning-derived Information.

abstract：:A Quality Improvement bundle was implemented with the goal of standardizing the multidisciplinary approach to delivery room management. We used a Pre-Post Quality Improvement initiative with the following aims: (1) Placement of a functioning pulse oximeter by two minutes after birth, (2) Delayed intubation, (3) Normot...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sauer CW,Boutin MA,Fatayerji AN,Proudfoot JA,Fatayerji NI,Golembeski DJ

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutions of Asian and Australian monsoons have important significance for understanding the past global change but are still a controversial subject. Here, we explore systematically the effects of plate movement and plateau uplift on the formation and evolution of the Asian and Australian monsoons by numerical simul...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu X,Dong B,Yin ZY,Smith RS,Guo Q

更新日期：2017-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion sequences (ISs) are ubiquitous and abundant mobile genetic elements in prokaryotic genomes. ISs often encode only one protein, the transposase, which catalyzes their transposition. Recent studies have shown that transposases of many different IS families interact with the β sliding clamp, a DNA replication f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Díaz-Maldonado H,Gómez MJ,Moreno-Paz M,San Martín-Úriz P,Amils R,Parro V,López de Saro FJ

更新日期：2015-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Articular chondrocytes are slowly dividing cells that tend to lose their cell type-specific phenotype and ability to produce structurally and functionally correct cartilage tissue when cultured. Thus, culture conditions, which enhance the maintenance of chondrocyte phenotype would be very useful for cartilage research...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Piltti J,Bygdell J,Fernández-Echevarría C,Marcellino D,Lammi MJ

更新日期：2017-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Human travel impacts the spread of infectious diseases across spatial and temporal scales, with broad implications for the biological and social sciences. Individual data on travel patterns have been difficult to obtain, particularly in low-income countries. Travel survey data provide detailed demographic information,...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wesolowski A,Stresman G,Eagle N,Stevenson J,Owaga C,Marube E,Bousema T,Drakeley C,Cox J,Buckee CO

更新日期：2014-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) is the leading cause worldwide of neonatal sepsis. We sought to assess to which extent HIV exposure of neonates is associated with GBS neonatal disease. Furthermore, we assessed to which extent HIV infection in women is associated with maternal rectovaginal GBS carriage, the single most ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cools P,van de Wijgert JHHM,Jespers V,Crucitti T,Sanders EJ,Verstraelen H,Vaneechoutte M

更新日期：2017-10-23 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： Sheu JR,Chen ZC,Jayakumar T,Chou DS,Yen TL,Lee HN,Pan SH,Hsia CH,Yang CH,Hsieh CY

更新日期：2020-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the effects of the estrogen-related receptor γ (ESRRG) rs1890552 A > G polymorphism on dietary advice-mediated changes in fasting glucose and arterial stiffness, 374 subjects with normal fasting glucose (NFG; control group, no treatment) and 142 subjects with impaired fasting glucose (IFG group, dietary a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim M,Yoo HJ,Kim M,Seo H,Chae JS,Lee SH,Lee JH

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The selective arterial calcium injection (SACI) test is useful for patients with functional pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (F-PNETs). This study evaluated which patients with F-PNETs would benefit from the SACI test. We retrospectively analyzed the preoperative findings of patients on computed tomography (CT), magne...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nakano Y,Kitago M,Shinoda M,Nakatsuka S,Kurihara I,Yagi H,Abe Y,Oshima G,Hori S,Yokose T,Kitagawa Y

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of brain glycogen in the progress of chronic stress-induced impairment of hippocampal astrocyte structural plasticity and depression-like behavior is yet to be clarified. The present study designed three experiments to determine the role of brain glycogen in the plasticity and behavioral consequences o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhao Y,Zhang Q,Shao X,Ouyang L,Wang X,Zhu K,Chen L

更新日期：2017-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bisphenol (BP)A is an endocrine disruptor (ED) widely used in thermal papers. Regulatory restrictions have been established to prevent risks for human health, leading to BPA substitution by structural analogues, like BPS and BPF. We previously demonstrated that oral perinatal exposure to BPA had long-term consequences...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Malaisé Y,Lencina C,Cartier C,Olier M,Ménard S,Guzylack-Piriou L

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The chorioallantoic-membrane (CAM)-assay is an established model for in vivo tumor research. Contrary to rodent-xenograft-models, the CAM-assay does not require breeding of immunodeficient strains due to native immunodeficiency. This allows xenografts to grow on the non-innervated CAM without pain or impairment for th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Eckrich J,Kugler P,Buhr CR,Ernst BP,Mendler S,Baumgart J,Brieger J,Wiesmann N

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Free carriers, polarons (P), in conjugated polymers play a key role in the performance of optoelectronic devices. Here, we present solid evidence that P can be predominantly generated from polaron pairs (PP) in a poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) film under zero electric field. P formation from PP strongly depends on temp...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ogata Y,Kawaguchi D,Tanaka K

更新日期：2015-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal cardiac fibrosis indicates cardiac dysfunction and poor prognosis in myocardial infarction (MI) patients. Many studies have demonstrated that the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) plays a significant role in the pathogenesis of fibrosis. Ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCHL1), a member of the UPS, is relat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lei Q,Yi T,Li H,Yan Z,Lv Z,Li G,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:It is usually assumed that metabolic constraints restrict deep-sea corals to cold-water habitats, with 'deep-sea' and 'cold-water' corals often used as synonymous. Here we report on the first measurements of biological characters of deep-sea corals from the central Red Sea, where they occur at temperatures exceeding 2...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Roder C,Berumen ML,Bouwmeester J,Papathanassiou E,Al-Suwailem A,Voolstra CR

更新日期：2013-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen-doped graphene (N-graphene) has attractive properties that has been widely studied over the years. However, its possible formation process still remains unclear. Here, we propose a highly feasible formation mechanism of the graphitic-N doing in thermally treated graphene with ammonia by performing ab initio m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li XF,Lian KY,Liu L,Wu Y,Qiu Q,Jiang J,Deng M,Luo Y

更新日期：2016-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterile liver inflammation and fibrosis are associated with many liver disorders of different etiologies. Both type 1 and type 2 inflammatory responses have been reported to contribute to liver pathology. However, the mechanisms controlling the balance between these responses are largely unknown. Natural killer T (NKT...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nilsson J,Hörnberg M,Schmidt-Christensen A,Linde K,Nilsson M,Carlus M,Erttmann SF,Mayans S,Holmberg D

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Small ruminants, including sheep and goats are natural hosts of scrapie, and the progression of scrapie pathogenesis is strongly influenced by polymorphisms in the prion protein gene (PRNP). Although Korean native goats have been consumed as meat and health food, the evaluation of the susceptibility to scrapie in thes...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim SK,Kim YC,Won SY,Jeong BH

更新日期：2019-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated in this paper a novel bilayer composite obtained by sol-gel and spin coating of the ferroelectric 0.92Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-0.08BaTiO3 (abbreviated as BNT-BT0.08) and ferromagnetic CoFe2O4 phases, for miniature low-frequency magnetic sensors and piezoelectric sensors. This heterostructure, deposited on Si-Pt ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cernea M,Vasile BS,Surdu VA,Trusca R,Bartha C,Craciun F,Galassi C

更新日期：2018-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:To construct a machine learning algorithm model of lymph node metastasis (LNM) in patients with poorly differentiated-type intramucosal gastric cancer. 1169 patients with postoperative gastric cancer were divided into a training group and a test group at a ratio of 7:3. The model for lymph node metastasis was establis...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhou CM,Wang Y,Ye HT,Yan S,Ji M,Liu P,Yang JJ

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced fibrosis and portal hypertension influence short-term mortality. Lipocalin 2 (LCN2) regulates infection response and increases in liver injury. We explored the role of intrahepatic LCN2 in human alcoholic hepatitis (AH) with advanced fibrosis and portal hypertension and in experimental mouse fibrosis. We foun...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen J,Argemi J,Odena G,Xu MJ,Cai Y,Massey V,Parrish A,Vadigepalli R,Altamirano J,Cabezas J,Gines P,Caballeria J,Snider N,Sancho-Bru P,Akira S,Rusyn I,Gao B,Bataller R

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to develop a prognostic risk prediction model for the development of silicosis among workers exposed to silica dust in China. The prediction model was performed by using retrospective cohort of 3,492 workers exposed to silica in an iron ore, with 33 years of follow-up. We developed a risk score system ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tse LA,Dai J,Chen M,Liu Y,Zhang H,Wong TW,Leung CC,Kromhout H,Meijer E,Liu S,Wang F,Yu IT,Shen H,Chen W

更新日期：2015-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical spreading depolarization (SD) involves activation of NMDA receptors and elicit neurovascular unit dysfunction. NMDA cannot trigger SD in newborns, thus its effect on neurovascular function is not confounded by other aspects of SD. The present study investigated if NMDA affected hypercapnia-induced microvascul...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Remzső G,Németh J,Tóth-Szűki V,Varga V,Kovács V,Domoki F

更新日期：2019-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Although physiological changes are the most evident indicators of skin aging by alteration of the skin's structure and function, we question whether skin aging is also affected by the structure and assembly process of the skin microbiome. We analysed the skin microbiomes of 73 healthy Chinese women in two age groups (...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim HJ,Kim JJ,Myeong NR,Kim T,Kim D,An S,Kim H,Park T,Jang SI,Yeon JH,Kwack I,Sul WJ

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:An impairment of cardiac function is a key feature of the cardiovascular failure associated with sepsis. Although there is some evidence that suppression of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATP-ase (SERCA2) contributes to septic cardiomyopathy, it is not known whether prevention of the down-regulation of SERCA2 improves ou...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Martin L,Horst K,Chiazza F,Oggero S,Collino M,Brandenburg K,Hildebrand F,Marx G,Thiemermann C,Schuerholz T

更新日期：2016-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider the finite-temperature properties of the extended Bose-Hubbard model realized recently in an ETH experiment [Nature 532, 476 (2016)]. Competing short- and global-range interactions accommodate fascinating collective phenomena. We formulate a self-consistent mean-field theory to describe the behaviors of th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen HJ,Yu YQ,Zheng DC,Liao R

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We design a novel long-range hybrid wedge plasmonic (LRHWP) waveguide composed of two identical dielectric nanowires symmetrically placed on two opposed wedges of a diamond shaped metal wire. With strong coupling between the dielectric nanowire mode and long-range surface plasmon polariton (SPP) mode, both deep subwav...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Z,Wang J

更新日期：2014-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Beside its unique nutritional content breast milk also contains live cells from the mother. Fate of these cells in the offspring has not been adequately described. In this study, we aimed to detect and identify maternal cells in the suckling's blood and the brain. Green fluorescent protein expressing transgenic female...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Aydın MŞ,Yiğit EN,Vatandaşlar E,Erdoğan E,Öztürk G

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of personality have suggested that dissimilarities in ability to cope with stressful situations results in differing tendency to develop addictive behaviors. The present study used selectively bred stress-resilient, socially-dominant (Dom) and stress-vulnerable, socially-submissive (Sub) mice to investigate th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yanovich C,Kirby ML,Michaelevski I,Yadid G,Pinhasov A

更新日期：2018-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast growth factor-21 (FGF21) is closely related to various metabolic and cardiovascular disorders. However, the direct targets and mechanisms linking FGF21 to blood pressure control and hypertension are still elusive. Here we demonstrated a novel regulatory function of FGF21 in the baroreflex afferent pathway (...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： He JL,Zhao M,Xia JJ,Guan J,Liu Y,Wang LQ,Song DX,Qu MY,Zuo M,Wen X,Yu X,Huo R,Pan ZW,Ban T,Zhang Y,Zhu JX,Shou W,Qiao GF,Li BY

更新日期：2016-07-08 00:00:00