C,N-codoped MoSi2 ceramic with excellent heat resistance for microwaves absorption application.

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate effects of thermal treatments on major phenolics and their antioxidant contributions in Acer truncatum leaves and flowers (ATL and ATF, respectively). With ultra performance liquid chromatography-diode array detector-quadrupole time-of-flight-mass spectrometer/mass spectrometer, phenoli...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yang L,Yin P,Ho CT,Yu M,Sun L,Liu Y

更新日期：2018-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The design and synthesis of a series of theophylline derivatives containing 1,2,3-triazole moieties are presented. The corrosion inhibition activities of these new triazole-theophylline compounds were evaluated by studying the corrosion of API 5 L X52 steel in 1 M HCl medium. The results showed that an increase in the...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Espinoza-Vázquez A,Rodríguez-Gómez FJ,Martínez-Cruz IK,Ángeles-Beltrán D,Negrón-Silva GE,Palomar-Pardavé M,Romero LL,Pérez-Martínez D,Navarrete-López AM

更新日期：2019-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:By 2040, roughly two-thirds of humanity are expected to live in urban areas. As cities expand, humans irreversibly transform natural ecosystems, creating both opportunities and challenges for wildlife. Here, we investigate how the Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) is adjusting to urban environments. We measured a ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Merling de Chapa M,Courtiol A,Engler M,Giese L,Rutz C,Lakermann M,Müskens G,van der Horst Y,Zollinger R,Wirth H,Kenntner N,Krüger O,Chakarov N,Müller AK,Looft V,Grünkorn T,Hallau A,Altenkamp R,Krone O

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:At present, many modification methods have been proposed to improve the performance of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC). In this study, tests on the compressive strength and damping properties of modified RAC with the addition of different proportions of recycled coarse aggregate (RCA) (0, 50, 100%), rubber powder (1...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Lei B,Liu H,Yao Z,Tang Z

更新日期：2019-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual animals can often move more safely or more efficiently as members of a group. This can be as simple as safety in numbers or as sophisticated as aerodynamic or hydrodynamic cooperation. Here, we show that individual plant-animal worms (Symsagittifera roscoffensis) can move to safety more quickly through floc...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Worley A,Sendova-Franks AB,Franks NR

更新日期：2019-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:When addressing their young infants, parents systematically modify their speech. Such infant-directed speech (IDS) contains exaggerated vowel formants, which have been proposed to foster language development via articulation of more distinct speech sounds. Here, this assumption is rigorously tested using both acoustic...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kalashnikova M,Carignan C,Burnham D

更新日期：2017-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Studying animal cognition is meaningful because it helps us understand how animals adapt to the natural environment. Many birds build nests, clean their nests and reject foreign objects from their nests, which provide an optimal opportunity for studying their cognition toward foreign objects in nests. However, hand-ma...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yang C,Liang W,Møller AP

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Foodborne infection is a result of exposure to complex, dynamic food systems. The efficiency of foodborne infection is driven by ongoing shifts in genetic machinery. Next-generation sequencing technologies can provide high-fidelity data about the genetics of a pathogen. However, food safety surveillance systems do not...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Hill AA,Crotta M,Wall B,Good L,O'Brien SJ,Guitian J

更新日期：2017-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We report all-atom molecular dynamics simulations of asymmetric bilayers containing phosphoinositides in the presence of monovalent and divalent cations. We have characterized the molecular mechanism by which these divalent cations interact with phosphoinositides. Ca2+ desolvates more readily, consistent with single-m...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Bradley RP,Slochower DR,Janmey PA,Radhakrishnan R

更新日期：2020-05-20 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：:Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) research has progressed from the detection of relationships to elucidating their drivers and underlying mechanisms. In this context, replacing taxonomic predictors by trait-based measures of functional composition (FC)-bridging functions of species and of ecosystems-is a wi...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Holzwarth F,Rüger N,Wirth C

更新日期：2015-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology and ultrastructure of the shells of two balanid species have been examined, paying special attention to the three types of boundaries between plates: (i) radii-parietes, (ii) alae-sheaths, and (iii) parietes-basal plate. At the carinal surfaces of the radii and at the rostral surfaces of the alae, there...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Checa AG,Salas C,Rodríguez-Navarro AB,Grenier C,Lagos NA

更新日期：2019-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of binary response data commonly uses models linear in the logistic transform of probabilities. This paper considers some of the advantages and disadvantages of simple least-squares estimates based on a linear representation of the probabilities themselves, this in particular sometimes allowing a more dir...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Battey HS,Cox DR,Jackson MV

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Science provides a method to learn about the relationships between observed patterns and the processes that generate them. However, inference can be confounded when an observed pattern cannot be clearly and wholly attributed to a hypothesized process. Over-reliance on traditional single-hypothesis methods (i.e. null h...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yanco SW,McDevitt A,Trueman CN,Hartley L,Wunder MB

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Pro-environment policies require public support and engagement, but in countries such as the USA, public support for pro-environment policies remains low. Increasing public scientific literacy is unlikely to solve this, because increased scientific literacy does not guarantee increased acceptance of critical environme...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Drummond A,Palmer MA,Sauer JD

更新日期：2016-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Facial attractiveness is often studied on the basis of the internal facial features alone. This study investigated how this exclusion of the external features affects the perception of attractiveness. We studied the effects of two most commonly used methods of exclusion, where the shape of an occluding mask was define...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Hong Liu C,Chen W

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Wetlands provide important ecosystem services to rural communities. However, wetlands are often on communal land, so they may become degraded when individual users act to maximize their personal benefit from ecosystem services without bearing the full environmental costs of their actions. Although it is possible to ma...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Owethu Pantshwa A,Buschke FT

更新日期：2019-06-12 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：:Fungus-gardening (attine) ants grow fungus for food in protected gardens, which contain beneficial, auxiliary microbes, but also microbes harmful to gardens. Among these potentially pathogenic microorganisms, the most consistently isolated are fungi in the genus Escovopsis, which are thought to co-evolve with ants and...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Meirelles LA,Solomon SE,Bacci M Jr,Wright AM,Mueller UG,Rodrigues A

更新日期：2015-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte of North Greenland contains the first exceptionally preserved mat-ground community of the Cambrian, dominated, in terms of abundance, by trilobites but particularly characterized by iconic arthropods and lobopods, some also occurring in the Burgess shale. High-resolution photography, scan...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Strang KM,Armstrong HA,Harper DA

更新日期：2016-11-16 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：:MCM-41 was prepared through the sol-gel method and encapsulated by polydopamine (PDA) before being coordinated with metal ions to form a highly efficient sustained release system (M-PDA-MCM-41) for triazolone delivery. The characterization results confirmed the existence of the coordination bond between the PDA layer ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chen H,Huang G,Zhou H,Zhou X,Xu H

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Volatile essential oils (EOs), non-volatile rutin (RU), quercetin (QU), kaempferol (KA) and isorhamnetin (IS) were effectively extracted and isolated from seabuckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.) leaves by ionic liquid-based ultrasound/microwave-assisted simultaneous distillation extraction (ILUMASDE). After optimizatio...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Li C,Zhang J,Zhao C,Yang L,Zhao W,Jiang H,Ren X,Su W,Li Y,Guan J

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on personality for long-lived, highly social wild mammals with high cognitive abilities are rare. We investigated the personality structure of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) by using a large sample of semi-captive timber elephants in Myanmar. Data were collected during 2014-2017 using questionnaires, for which...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Seltmann MW,Helle S,Adams MJ,Mar KU,Lahdenperä M

更新日期：2018-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Provisioning wildlife for tourism is a controversial yet widespread practice. We analysed the residency patterns of juvenile whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) in Oslob, Philippines, where provisioning has facilitated a large shark-watching operation since 2011. We identified 208 individual sharks over three years, with a...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Thomson JA,Araujo G,Labaja J,McCoy E,Murray R,Ponzo A

更新日期：2017-09-27 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：:Many drum communication systems around the world transmit information by emulating tonal and rhythmic patterns of spoken languages in sequences of drumbeats. Their rhythmic characteristics, in particular, have not been systematically studied so far, although understanding them represents a rare occasion for providing ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Seifart F,Meyer J,Grawunder S,Dentel L

更新日期：2018-04-25 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：: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：:Recent research has provided evidence that mood can spread over social networks via social contagion, but that, in seeming contradiction to this, depression does not. Here, we investigate whether there is evidence for the individual components of mood (such as appetite, tiredness and sleep) spreading through US adoles...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Eyre RW,House T,Hill EM,Griffiths FE

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00