Refining the genetic structure and relationships of European cattle breeds through meta-analysis of worldwide genomic SNP data, focusing on Italian cattle.

abstract：:Bemisia tabaci is a cryptic whitefly-species complex that includes some of the most damaging pests and plant-virus vectors of a diverse range of food and fibre crops worldwide. We combine experimental evidence of: (i) differences in reproductive compatibility, (ii) hybrid verification using a specific nuclear DNA mark...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vyskočilová S,Tay WT,van Brunschot S,Seal S,Colvin J

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute heart failure (AHF) emerges either de novo or from worsening of chronic heart failure (CHF). The aim of the present study was to evaluate the association between worsening of CHF and mortality in AHF patients. Out of 152 included AHF patients, 47 (30.9%) were de novo AHF patients and 105 (69%) were AHF patients ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Degoricija V,Trbušić M,Potočnjak I,Radulović B,Terešak SD,Pregartner G,Berghold A,Tiran B,Frank S

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Chiral optical response is an inherent property of molecules and nanostructures, which cannot be superimposed on their mirror images. In specific cases, optical chirality can be observed also for symmetric structures. This so-called extrinsic chirality requires that the mirror symmetry is broken by the geometry of the...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hakkarainen T,Petronijevic E,Rizzo Piton M,Sibilia C

更新日期：2019-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Blueberry juice is a healthy and nutritious food that has become increasingly popular worldwide. However, little is known about the microbial groups of this juice that can cause its spoilage. This study aimed to identify the main spoilage microorganisms in blueberry juice and explore whether a microchip pulsed electri...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhu N,Yu N,Zhu Y,Wei Y,Hou Y,Zhang H,Sun AD

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential vulnerability among motor neuron (MN) subtypes is a fundamental feature of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): fast-fatigable (FF) MNs are more vulnerable than fast fatigue-resistant (FR) or slow (S) MNs. The reason for this selective vulnerability remains enigmatic. We report here that the extracellular...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Morisaki Y,Niikura M,Watanabe M,Onishi K,Tanabe S,Moriwaki Y,Okuda T,Ohara S,Murayama S,Takao M,Uchida S,Yamanaka K,Misawa H

更新日期：2016-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to report patients' survival after surgical resection of eSCC and to ascertain the clinical, imaging, and pathological factors related to patient prognosis. This retrospective study included 435 patients with eSCC of

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jeong DY,Lee KS,Choi JY,Chung MJ,Min YW,Kim HK,Zo JI,Shim YM,Sun JM

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We combine matter-wave interferometry and cavity optomechanics to propose a coherent matter-light interface based on mechanical motion at the quantum level. We demonstrate a mechanism that is able to transfer non-classical features imprinted on the state of a matter-wave system to an optomechanical device, transducing...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xuereb A,Ulbricht H,Paternostro M

更新日期：2013-11-29 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： Qiao Y,Berg AL,Wang P,Ge Y,Quan S,Zhou S,Wang H,Liu Z,Gong R

更新日期：2020-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have proposed a scheme and presented the first experimental demonstration of acoustic illusion, by using anisotropic metamaterials to manipulate the acoustic field near boundaries of arbitrary curved geometry. Numerical simulations and experimental results show that in the presence of an illusion cloak, any object ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kan W,Liang B,Zhu X,Li R,Zou X,Wu H,Yang J,Cheng J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans bargaining over money tend to reject unfair offers, whilst chimpanzees bargaining over primary rewards of food do not show this same motivation to reject. Whether such reciprocal fairness represents a predominantly human motivation has generated considerable recent interest. We induced either moderate or severe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wright ND,Hodgson K,Fleming SM,Symmonds M,Guitart-Masip M,Dolan RJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adiponectin is an adipokine that regulates apoptosis, glucose and lipid metabolism, and insulin sensitivity in metabolic diseases. As recent studies have associated changes in adipokines and other metabolites in the central nervous system with a risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD), we investigated the effects of adipone...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang M,Jo J,Song J

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here a broadband, wide-angle, and polarization-independent nearly perfect absorber consisting of mirror-backed nanoporous alumina. By electrochemically anodizing the disordered multicomponent aluminum and properly tailoring the thickness and air-filling fraction of nanoporous alumina, according to the Maxwe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Farhat M,Cheng TC,Le KQ,Cheng MM,Bağcı H,Chen PY

更新日期：2016-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone is the most common site of distant relapse in breast cancer, leading to severe complications which dramatically affect the patients' quality of life. It is believed that the crosstalk between metastatic breast cancer cells and osteoclasts is critical for breast cancer-induced osteolysis. In this study, the effect...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Feng MX,Hong JX,Wang Q,Fan YY,Yuan CT,Lei XH,Zhu M,Qin A,Chen HX,Hong D

更新日期：2016-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:During action observation, several visual features of observed actions can modulate the level of sensorimotor reactivity in the onlooker. Among possibly relevant parameters, one of the less investigated in humans is the visual perspective from which actions are observed. In the present EEG study, we assessed the react...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Angelini M,Fabbri-Destro M,Lopomo NF,Gobbo M,Rizzolatti G,Avanzini P

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-computer interface (BCI) systems having the ability to classify brain waves with greater accuracy are highly desirable. To this end, a number of techniques have been proposed aiming to be able to classify brain waves with high accuracy. However, the ability to classify brain waves and its implementation in real-...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kumar S,Sharma A,Tsunoda T

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:New ionic liquids with multiple Brönsted acid sites were synthesized in ≥98% yield, and their inhibiting properties for the corrosion of carbon steel in 0.5 M HCl solution had been evaluated using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, potentiodynamic polarization and weight loss method, finally the possible inhibiti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cao S,Liu D,Zhang P,Yang L,Yang P,Lu H,Gui J

更新日期：2017-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Curvature components derived from satellite gravity gradients provide new global views of Earth's structure. The satellite gravity gradients are based on the GOCE satellite mission and we illustrate by curvature images how the Earth is seen differently compared to seismic imaging. Tectonic domains with similar seismic...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ebbing J,Haas P,Ferraccioli F,Pappa F,Szwillus W,Bouman J

更新日期：2018-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Entanglement is at the heart of many unusual and counterintuitive features of quantum mechanics. Once two quantum subsystems have become entangled, it is no longer possible to ascribe an independent state to either; instead, the subsystems are completely described only as part of a greater, composite system. As a cons...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bouchard F,Harris J,Mand H,Bent N,Santamato E,Boyd RW,Karimi E

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we propose an angle- and polarization-insensitive metamaterial absorber. We design a metamaterial unit cell that is based on a split ring cross resonator (SRCR). We observe that the absorption frequency and absorption ratio are insensitive to incident angles when a via array surrounds the SRR. We demons...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lim D,Lee D,Lim S

更新日期：2016-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Published data have shown inconsistent results about the pharmacogenetics of XRCC1 gene on clinical outcomes of advanced lung cancer patients treated with platinum-based chemotherapy. This meta-analysis aimed to summarize published findings and provide more reliable association. A total of 53 eligible studies includin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yuan Z,Li J,Hu R,Jiao Y,Han Y,Weng Q

更新日期：2015-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We present measurements of the outdoor stability of PCDTBT:PC71BM based bulk heterojunction organic solar cells for over the course of a year. We find that the devices undergo a burn-in process lasting 450 hours followed by a TS80 lifetime of up to 6200 hours. We conclude that in the most stable devices, the observed ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Y,Bovill E,Kingsley J,Buckley AR,Yi H,Iraqi A,Wang T,Lidzey DG

更新日期：2016-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation of visual responses enhances visual information processing mainly by preserving the full dynamic range of neuronal responses during changing light conditions and is found throughout the whole visual system. Although adaptation in the primate superior colliculus neurons has received much attention little is ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bytautiene J,Baranauskas G

更新日期：2018-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Sludge bulking is a major problem that restricts the development of the activated sludge process. The microbial community responsible for sludge bulking varies depending on water quality and operational conditions. This study analysed the microbial community of bulking sludge in oxidation ditch with ultra-low sludge l...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang M,Yao J,Wang X,Hong Y,Chen Y

更新日期：2019-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:GABAergic and glutamatergic dysfunction in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) are thought to be the core pathophysiological mechanisms of schizophrenia. Recently, we have established a method to index these functions from the DLPFC using the paired transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) paradigms of short int...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Noda Y,Barr MS,Zomorrodi R,Cash RFH,Farzan F,Rajji TK,Chen R,Daskalakis ZJ,Blumberger DM

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between active element Zr and W damages the W fibers and the interface and decreases the mechanical properties, especially the tensile strength of the W fibers reinforced Zr-based bulk metallic glass composites (BMGCs). From the viewpoint of atomic interaction, the W-Zr interaction can be restrained by...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li ZK,Fu HM,Sha PF,Zhu ZW,Wang AM,Li H,Zhang HW,Zhang HF,Hu ZQ

更新日期：2015-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cas13 endonuclease activity depends on the RNA local secondary structure with strong preference for single-stranded (SS) regions. Hence, it becomes indispensable to identify the SS regions for effective Cas13 mediated RNA knockdown. We herein present rational gRNA design by integrating experimental structure-seq data ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bandaru S,Tsuji MH,Shimizu Y,Usami K,Lee S,Takei NK,Yoshitome K,Nishimura Y,Otsuki T,Ito T

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) induces free radicals and oxidative stress in animals, leading to a range of illnesses. In this study, Ganoderma Microsporum immunomodulatory (GMI) proteins were administered to alleviate PM2.5-induced inflammatory responses in mother rats, and PM2.5-induced inflammatory responses a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tseng CY,Yu JY,Chuang YC,Lin CY,Wu CH,Liao CW,Yang FH,Chao MW

更新日期：2019-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the complex nature of the interaction between gas and solid atoms, the development of nanoscale science and technology has engendered a need for further understanding of gas transport behavior through nanopores and more tractable models for large-scale simulations. In the present paper, we utilize molecular dyna...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu T,Zhang D

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well recognized that osteocytes communicate with each other via gap junctions and that connxin43 (Cx43) shows its great potential in gap junction for the contribution enabling transmission of small molecules and operating in an autocrine/a paracrine manner. Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) play significant roles...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu XY,Li X,Bai MR,Chen X,Wang CL,Xie J,Ye L

更新日期：2018-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a combined experimental and theoretical study of the electronic properties of close-spaced dangling-bond (DB) pairs in a hydrogen-passivated Si(001):H p-doped surface. Two types of DB pairs are considered, called "cross" and "line" structures. Our scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) data show that, althou...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Engelund M,Zuzak R,Godlewski S,Kolmer M,Frederiksen T,García-Lekue A,Sánchez-Portal D,Szymonski M

更新日期：2015-09-25 00:00:00