Double attention recurrent convolution neural network for answer selection.

abstract：:Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), an important component of the modern conservation toolkit, is being eroded in indigenous communities around the world. However, the dynamics of TEK loss in response to ecosystem change and disruption to social-ecological systems, and patterns of variation in vulnerability and re...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Turvey ST,Bryant JV,McClune KA

更新日期：2018-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Raster image correlation spectroscopy (RICS) measures the diffusion of fluorescently labelled molecules from stacks of confocal microscopy images by analysing correlations within the image. RICS enables the observation of a greater and, thus, more representative area of a biological system as compared to other single ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Nieves DJ,Li Y,Fernig DG,Lévy R

更新日期：2015-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent identification of the bio-duck call as Antarctic minke whale (AMW) vocalization allows the use of passive acoustic monitoring to retrospectively investigate year-round spatial-temporal patterns in minke whale occurrence in ice-covered areas. Here, we present an analysis of AMW occurrence patterns based on a...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Filun D,Thomisch K,Boebel O,Brey T,Širović A,Spiesecke S,Van Opzeeland I

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial microswimmers powered by magnetic fields have numerous applications, such as drug delivery, biosensing for minimally invasive medicine and environmental remediation. Recently, a Janus microdimer surface walker that can be propelled by an oscillating magnetic field near a surface was reported by Li et al. (A...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yang J

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the pathways of introduction of the African baobab, Adansonia digitata, to the Indian subcontinent, we examined 10 microsatellite loci in individuals from Africa, India, the Mascarenes and Malaysia, and matched this with historical evidence of human interactions between source and destination regions. G...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Bell KL,Rangan H,Kull CA,Murphy DJ

更新日期：2015-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A polycarboxylic/ether composite polymer electrolyte derived from two-arm monomer and polyethylene oxide (PEO) was in situ synthesized on the cathode. The composite electrolyte exhibits a high ionic conductivity of 3.6 × 10-5 S cm-1, high oxidation stability, excellent stability towards Li metal and makes Li/LiFePO4 p...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wang W,Qiu Z,Wang Q,Zhou X,Liu Y,Zhou J,Guo B

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally recognized that dimethylformamide (DMF) and ethanol are good media to uniformly disperse graphene, and therefore have been used widely in the preparation of epoxy/graphene nanocomposites. However, as a solvent to disperse graphene, dichlorobenzene (DCB) has not been fully realized by the polymer commun...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wei J,Saharudin MS,Vo T,Inam F

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymer-based composites with the advantages of ceramics and polymers exhibit high dielectric constant, good processing properties and low dielectric loss. The composites with a varied content of irregular alumina (i-Al2O3) filler were prepared by UV-cured epoxy acrylic (EA). Spherical alumina (s-Al2O3) was used as a ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Bian J,Zhao Q,Hou Z,Dong J,Yang Q,Zhang G

更新日期：2019-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Four model polyurethane (PU) hard segments were synthesized by reaction of butanol with four typical diisocyanates. The four diisocyanates were aromatic 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (4,4'-MDI) and MDI-50 (50% mixture of 2,4'-MDI and 4,4'-MDI), cycloaliphatic 4,4'-dicyclohexylmethane diisocyanate (HMDI) and linear...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Jiang L,Ren Z,Zhao W,Liu W,Liu H,Zhu C

更新日期：2018-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The persistence of homological features in simplicial complex representations of big datasets in R n resulting from Vietoris-Rips or Čech filtrations is commonly used to probe the topological structure of such datasets. In this paper, the notion of homological pers...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Parks AD,Marchette DJ

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of how we attribute observed body parts as our own, and the consequences of this attribution on our sensory-motor processes, is fundamental to understand how our brain distinguishes between self and other. Previous studies have identified interactions between the illusion of ownership, and multi-sensory i...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Aymerich-Franch L,Petit D,Kheddar A,Ganesh G

更新日期：2016-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Organisms continuously acquire and process information from surrounding cues. While some cues complement one another in delivering more reliable information, others may provide conflicting information. How organisms extract and use reliable information from a multitude of cues is largely unknown. We examined movement ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Brant CO,Li K,Johnson NS,Li W

更新日期：2015-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid rise of the CO2 level in the atmosphere has spurred the development of CO2 capture methods such as the use of biomimetic complexes that mimic carbonic anhydrase. In this study, model complexes with tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine (TPA) were synthesized using various transition metals (Zn2+, Cu2+ and Ni2+) to cont...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Park D,Lee MS

更新日期：2019-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unclear whether intertidal organisms are 'preadapted' to cope with the increase of temperature and temperature variability or if they are currently at their thermal tolerance limits. To address the dichotomy, we focused on an important ecosystem engineer of the Arctic intertidal rocky shores, the seaweed Fucus d...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Smolina I,Kollias S,Jueterbock A,Coyer JA,Hoarau G

更新日期：2016-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In ecology, climate and other fields, (sub)systems have been identified that can transition into a qualitatively different state when a critical threshold or tipping point in a driving process is crossed. An understanding of those tipping elements is of great interest given the increasing influence of humans on the bi...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Klose AK,Karle V,Winkelmann R,Donges JF

更新日期：2020-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantifying regulatory gene effects on dental morphology and function has implications for the underlying mechanisms that generated dental diversity in mammals. We tested the hypothesis that regulatory gene expression changes lead to differences in molars using a neural crest knockout of bone morphogenetic protein 7 (...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zurowski C,Jamniczky H,Graf D,Theodor J

更新日期：2018-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Polylactic electrospun porous fibres have been widely used in tissue engineering scaffolds. However, the application of linear polylactic is limited due to its poor hydrophilicity, which leads to phase separation and has been seldom used in porous fibre preparation. Instead, branching polylactic acts as a new effectiv...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Shen W,Zhang G,Ge X,Li Y,Fan G

更新日期：2018-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive species pose a serious threat to native species. In Europe, invasive grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) have replaced native red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) in locations across Britain, Ireland and Italy. The European pine marten (Martes martes) can reverse the replacement of red squirrels by grey squirre...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Twining JP,Ian Montgomery W,Price L,Kunc HP,Tosh DG

更新日期：2020-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent availability of large-scale call detail record data has substantially improved our ability of quantifying human travel patterns with broad applications in epidemiology. Notwithstanding a number of successful case studies, previous works have shown that using different mobility data sources, such as mobile p...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Panigutti C,Tizzoni M,Bajardi P,Smoreda Z,Colizza V

更新日期：2017-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The emerging carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have been attracting significant attention for their prominent fluorescence, excellent stability and outstanding biocompatibility. Here, we report a facile one-step synthesis of highly fluorescent CQDs by using phthalic acid and triethylenediamine hexahydrate as precursors throu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yu T,Wang H,Guo C,Zhai Y,Yang J,Yuan J

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes living in stagnant water typically rely on chemical diffusion to draw nutrients from their environment. The sulfur-oxidizing bacterium Thiovulum majus and the ciliate Uronemella have independently evolved the ability to form a 'veil', a centimetre-scale mucous sheet on which cells organize to produce a macros...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Petroff AP,Pasulka AL,Soplop N,Wu XL,Libchaber A

更新日期：2015-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent works revealed that the energy required to control a complex network depends on the number of driving signals and the energy distribution follows an algebraic scaling law. If one implements control using a small number of drivers, e.g. as determined by the structural controllability theory, there is a high prob...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chen YZ,Wang LZ,Wang WX,Lai YC

更新日期：2016-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Using density functional theory approaches, we follow the sequential addition of CF3 functional groups to the surface of the metallic endofullerene species Gd@C60. The presence of gadolinium in the interior of the cage strongly influences the addition sequence. The calculations are able to successfully identify end po...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ewels C,Rio J,Niwa H,Omachi H,Shinohara H,Rayson M,Briddon P

更新日期：2018-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient, high-yield and rapid synthesis of (E)-1,5-dimethyl-4-((2-((substituted-2-oxo-2H-chromen-4-yl)methoxy)naphthalen-1-yl)methyleneamino)-2-phenyl-1,2-dihydropyrazol-3-one derivatives (3a-3i) containing Schiff base structures under microwave-irradiation has been described. Schiff base is a potential target to...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chavan RR,Hosamani KM

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale high-throughput plant phenotyping (sometimes called phenomics) is becoming increasingly important in plant biology and agriculture and is essential to cutting-edge plant breeding and management approaches needed to meet the food and fuel needs for the next century. Currently, the application of these appro...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kuhlgert S,Austic G,Zegarac R,Osei-Bonsu I,Hoh D,Chilvers MI,Roth MG,Bi K,TerAvest D,Weebadde P,Kramer DM

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to obtain an electrochemical device between the electrostatic interaction of the electropolymerized porphyrin {CoTPyP[RuCl3(dppb)]4}, where TPyP = 5,10,15, 20-tetrapyridilphorphyrin and dppb = 1,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane, and gold nanoparticles (AuNPsn-), to be used as a voltammetric sen...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sousa LM,Vilarinho LM,Ribeiro GH,Bogado AL,Dinelli LR

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The copper-containing nitrite reductases (CuNIRs) are a class of enzymes that mediate the reduction of nitrite to nitric oxide in biological systems. Metal-ligand complexes that reproduce the salient features of the active site of CuNIRs are therefore of fundamental interest, both for elucidating the possible mode of ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Roger I,Wilson C,Senn HM,Sproules S,Symes MD

更新日期：2017-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudohyphal growth of the dimorphic yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is analysed using two-dimensional top-down binary images. The colony morphology is characterized using clustered shape primitives (CSPs), which are learned automatically from the data and thus do not require a list of predefined features or a priori k...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Gontar A,Bottema MJ,Binder BJ,Tronnolone H

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Conservation management agencies are faced with acute trade-offs when dealing with disturbance from human activities. We show how agencies can respond to permanent ecosystem disruption by managing for Pimm resilience within a conservation budget using a model calibrated to a metapopulation of a coral reef fish species...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Little LR,Grafton RQ

更新日期：2015-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Digested sludge, as the main by-product of the sewage sludge anaerobic digestion process, still contains considerable organic compounds. In this protocol, we report a facile method for preparing digested sludge-derived self-doped porous carbon material for high-performance supercapacitor electrodes via a sustainable p...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zhang JJ,Fan HX,Dai XH,Yuan SJ

更新日期：2018-04-11 00:00:00