Preconcentration with Chlorella vulgaris combined with energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry for rapid determination of Cd in water.

abstract：:This investigation establishes a system of gold nanoparticles that show good colloidal stability as an X-ray computed tomography (XCT) contrast agent under soil conditions. Gold nanoparticles offer numerous beneficial traits for experiments in biology including: comparatively minimal phytotoxicity, X-ray attenuation o...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Scotson CP,Munoz-Hernando M,Duncan SJ,Ruiz SA,Keyes SD,van Veelen A,Dunlop IE,Roose T

更新日期：2019-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray diffraction data from Silurian conodonts belonging to various developmental stages of the species Dapsilodus obliquicostatus demonstrate changes in crystallography and degree of nanocrystallite ordering (mosaicity) in both lamellar crown tissue and white matter. The exclusive use of a single species in this stud...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Shohel M,McAdams NEB,Cramer BD,Forbes TZ

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial pathogens continue to attract a great deal of attention to manage the termite population. Every bacterium has its own mode of action and in fact, the mechanisms used by bacteria to attack termites remain elusive at the moment. Hence, the objective of this study was to evaluate the susceptibility of subterran...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chin KL,H'ng PS,Wong WZ,Lee CL,Khoo PS,Luqman AC,Ashaari Z,Gandaseca S

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Bats play important ecological roles in tropical systems, yet how these communities are structured is still poorly understood. Our study explores the structure of African bat communities using morphological characters to define the morphospace occupied by these bats and stable isotope analysis to define their dietary ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Monadjem A,Kane A,Taylor P,Richards LR,Hall G,Woodborne S

更新日期：2018-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Miniaturized accelerometers are necessary for evaluating the performance of small devices, such as haptics, robotics and simulators. In this study, we fabricated miniaturized accelerometers using well-aligned ZnO nanowires. The layer of ZnO nanowires is used for active piezoelectric layer of the accelerometer, and cop...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Song S,Kim HC,Kim JW,Kim D,Kim J

更新日期：2017-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, photocatalytic experiments of 20 mg l-1 sulfamethazine (SMN) in aqueous solution containing ZnO with different morphologies, tetra-needle-like ZnO (T-ZnO), flower-like ZnO (F-ZnO) and nanoparticles ZnO (P-ZnO), were performed. The results indicated that photocatalytic degradation of SMN was effective an...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yi Z,Wang J,Jiang T,Tang Q,Cheng Y

更新日期：2018-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Batch experiments were conducted to test the effects of various solution properties, such as pH, temperature, initial concentration and anoxic and aerobic atmosphere, on Cd removal by nanoscale zerovalent iron (nZVI) supported on industrial coal fly ash. Cd (II) could be removed by adsorption on fly ash-nZVI in a very...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ma L,Wei Q,Chen Y,Song Q,Sun C,Wang Z,Wu G

更新日期：2018-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.191444.]. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ahmed F,Awada C,Ansari SA,Aljaafari A,Alshoaibi A

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanofertilization is postulated as a new technology to deal with the environmental problems caused by the intensive use of traditional fertilizers. One of the aims of this new technology is to improve foliar fertilization, which has many environmental advantages, but currently there are numerous factors that limit its...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Rios JJ,Yepes-Molina L,Martinez-Alonso A,Carvajal M

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.140292.]. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Middleburgh SC,King DM,Lumpkin GR

更新日期：2015-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper develops a closed-form approximate solution for a penny-shaped hydraulic fracture whose behaviour is determined by an interplay of three competing physical processes that are associated with fluid viscosity, fracture toughness and fluid leak-off. The primary assumption that permits one to construct the solu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Dontsov EV

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work is focused on the study of the effect that the casting solution concentration has on the morphology and gas separation performance of poly(ether-block-amide) copolymer membranes (Pebax® MH 1657). With this aim, three different concentrations of Pebax® MH 1657 in the casting solution (1, 3 and 5 wt%) w...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Martínez-Izquierdo L,Malankowska M,Sánchez-Laínez J,Téllez C,Coronas J

更新日期：2019-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Trait analysis has become a crucial tool for assessing the extinction risk of species. While some extinction risk-trait relationships have been often identical between different living taxa, a temporal comparison of fossil taxa with related current taxa was rarely considered. However, we argue that it is important to ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Tietje M,Rödel MO

更新日期：2017-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Social insects live in dense groups with a high probability of disease transmission and have therefore faced strong pressures to develop defences against pathogens. For this reason, social insects have been hypothesized to invest in antimicrobial secretions as a mechanism of external immunity to prevent the spread of ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Penick CA,Halawani O,Pearson B,Mathews S,López-Uribe MM,Dunn RR,Smith AA

更新日期：2018-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Leafcutting bees (Megachile: Megachilidae) cut leaves from various trees, shrubs, wildflowers and grasses to partition and encase brood cells in hollow plant stems, decaying logs or in the ground. The identification of preferred plant species via morphological characters of the leaf fragments is challenging and direct...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： MacIvor JS

更新日期：2016-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider a directed graph model for the human brain's neural architecture that is based on small scale, directed, strongly connected sub-graphs (SCGs) of neurons, that are connected together by a sparser mesoscopic network. We assume transmission delays within neuron-to-neuron stimulation, and that individual neuro...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Grindrod P,Lee TE

更新日期：2017-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The past 5 years have witnessed claims that infants as young as six months of age understand the meaning of several words. To reach this conclusion, researchers presented infants with pairs of pictures from distinct semantic domains and observed longer looks at an object upon hearing its name as compared with the name...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kartushina N,Mayor J

更新日期：2019-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanical properties of any substance are essential facts to understand its behaviour and make the maximum use of the particular substance. Rocks are indeed an important substance, as they are of significant use in the energy industry, specifically for fossil fuels and geothermal energy. Attenuation of seismic wa...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wanniarachchi WAM,Ranjith PG,Perera MSA,Rathnaweera TD,Lyu Q,Mahanta B

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we perform a comprehensive theoretical study on adsorption of representative 10-electron molecules H2O, CH4 and NH3 onto defective single-walled carbon nanotubes. Results of adsorption energy and charge transfer reveal the existence of both chemical adsorption (CA) and physical adsorption (PA). While PA ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Li D,Wang F,Zhang Z,Jiang W,Zhu Y,Wang Z,Zhang RQ

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential disrupting effects of Azo dye on wastewater nutrients removal deserved more analysis. In this study, 15 days exposure experiments were conducted with alizarin yellow R (AYR) as a model dye to determine whether the dye caused adverse effects on biological removal of both the dye and nutrients in acclimate...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chen A,Yang B,Zhou Y,Sun Y,Ding C

更新日期：2018-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, an environmentally friendly extraction method for flavonoid compound from Ixora javanica, as a new raw material candidate for herbal medicine and cosmetics, was developed. The objectives of the present work were to provide recommendations for the optimal extraction conditions and to investigate the effe...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Oktaviyanti ND,Kartini K,Hadiyat MA,Rachmawati E,Wijaya AC,Hayun H,Mun'im A

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In several group-living species, individuals' social preferences are thought to be influenced by cooperation. For some societies with fission-fusion dynamics, sex-specific association patterns reflect sex differences in cooperation in within- and between-group contexts. In our study, we investigated this hypothesis fu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Surbeck M,Girard-Buttoz C,Boesch C,Crockford C,Fruth B,Hohmann G,Langergraber KE,Zuberbühler K,Wittig RM,Mundry R

更新日期：2017-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a neurodevelopmental condition, characterized by lifelong face recognition deficits. Leading research groups diagnose the condition using complementary computer-based tasks and self-report measures. In an attempt to standardize the reporting of self-report evidence, we recently deve...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Gray KL,Bird G,Cook R

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Todiramphus chloris is the most widely distributed of the Pacific's 'great speciators'. Its 50 subspecies constitute a species complex that is distributed over 16 000 km from the Red Sea to Polynesia. We present, to our knowledge, the first comprehensive molecular phylogeny of this enigmatic radiation of kingfishers. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Andersen MJ,Shult HT,Cibois A,Thibault JC,Filardi CE,Moyle RG

更新日期：2015-02-04 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 characterization of diet for the giant manta ray Manta birostris has been problematic given their large-scale movement patterns and the difficulty in obtaining stomach contents from this species. The large majority of existing information is based on observational data limited to feeding events at the sea surface ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Burgess KB,Couturier LI,Marshall AD,Richardson AJ,Weeks SJ,Bennett MB

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1665, Huygens observed that two identical pendulum clocks, weakly coupled through a heavy beam, soon synchronized with the same period and amplitude but with the two pendula swinging in opposite directions. This behaviour is now called anti-phase synchronization. This paper presents an analysis of the behaviour of ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Willms AR,Kitanov PM,Langford WF

更新日期：2017-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Some species of criocerine beetles have a hyper-elongated part of the intromittent organ called a flagellum. In resting position, the flagellum is stored in a specialized internal sac in the intromittent organ. This specialized state of the flagellum and internal sac is indispensable during copulation for flagellar in...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Matsumura Y,Kubo T

更新日期：2017-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrochemical performance of an energy conversion and storage device like the supercapacitor mainly depends on the microstructure and morphology of the electrodes. In this paper, to improve the capacitance performance of the supercapacitor, the all-pseudocapacitive electrodes of lamella-like Bi18SeO29/BiSe as th...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ma G,Hua F,Sun K,Fenga E,Peng H,Zhang Z,Lei Z

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:During the Middle and Late Jurassic, pliosaurid plesiosaurs evolved gigantic body size and a series of craniodental adaptations that have been linked to the occupation of an apex predator niche. Cretaceous pliosaurids (i.e. Brachaucheninae) depart from this morphology, being slightly smaller and lacking the macrophago...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Fischer V,Arkhangelsky MS,Stenshin IM,Uspensky GN,Zverkov NG,Benson RB

更新日期：2015-12-23 00:00:00