Nanobiofertilization as a novel technology for highly efficient foliar application of Fe and B in almond trees.

abstract：:In plants, plant fructokinases (FRKs) are considered to be the main gateway of fructose metabolism as they can phosphorylate fructose to fructose-6-phosphate. Chinese white pears (Pyrus bretschneideri) are one of the popular fruits in the world market; sugar content is an important factor affecting the quality of the ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Cao Y,Li S,Han Y,Meng D,Jiao C,Abdullah M,Li D,Jin Q,Lin Y,Cai Y

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) bone cement has been widely used in clinics as bone repair materials for its excellent mechanical properties and good injection properties. However, it also has defects such as poor biological performance, high temperature, and the monomer has certain toxicity. Our study tried to modify ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Liu X,Cheng C,Peng X,Xiao H,Guo C,Wang X,Li L,Yu X

更新日期：2019-10-02 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：: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：: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：: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：:Lignocellulosic bioethanol production results in huge amounts of stillage, a potentially polluting by-product. Stillage, rich in heavy metals and, mainly, inhibitors, requires specific toxicity studies to be adequately managed. To this purpose, we applied an FTIR ecotoxicological bioassay to evaluate the toxicity of l...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Roscini L,Favaro L,Corte L,Cagnin L,Colabella C,Basaglia M,Cardinali G,Casella S

更新日期：2019-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has long been an essential tool for understanding the structure of materials. Over the past couple of decades, this venerable technique has undergone a number of revolutions, such as the development of aberration correction for atomic level imaging, the realization of cryogenic T...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Pu S,Gong C,Robertson AW

更新日期：2020-01-15 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：:Answer selection is one of the key steps in many question answering (QA) applications. In this paper, a new deep model with two kinds of attention is proposed for answer selection: the double attention recurrent convolution neural network (DARCNN). Double attention means self-attention and cross-attention. The design ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Bao G,Wei Y,Sun X,Zhang H

更新日期：2020-05-20 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：:Humans subtly synchronize body movement during face-to-face conversation. In this context, bodily synchrony has been linked to affiliation and social bonding, task success and comprehension, and potential conflict. Almost all studies of conversational synchrony involve dyads, and relatively less is known about the str...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Dale R,Bryant GA,Manson JH,Gervais MM

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient-specific modelling of haemodynamics in arterial networks has so far relied on parameter estimation for inexpensive or small-scale models. We describe here a Bayesian uncertainty quantification framework which makes two major advances: an efficient parallel implementation, allowing parameter estimation for more...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Larson K,Bowman C,Papadimitriou C,Koumoutsakos P,Matzavinos A

更新日期：2019-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerial habitats present a challenge to find food across a large potential search volume, particularly for insectivorous bats that rely on echolocation calls with limited detection range and may forage at heights over 1000 m. To understand how bats use vertical space, we tracked one to five foraging flights of eight co...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： O'Mara MT,Wikelski M,Kranstauber B,Dechmann DKN

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A shift-periodic map is a one-dimensional map from the real line to itself which is periodic up to a linear translation and allowed to have singularities. It is shown that iterative sequences xn+1 = F(x n ) generated by such maps display rich dynamical behaviour. The intege...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Stadlmann J,Erban R

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:This article studies correlated two-person games constructed from games with independent players as proposed in Iqbal et al. (2016 R. Soc. open sci.3, 150477. (doi:10.1098/rsos.150477)). The games are played in a collective manner, both in a two-dimensional lattice where the players interact with their neighbours, and...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Alonso-Sanz R

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) from the Americas have long been recognized as descendants of European chickens, transported by early Europeans since the fifteenth century. However, in recent years, a possible pre-Columbian introduction of chickens to South America by Polynesian seafarers has also been suggested. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Herrera MB,Kraitsek S,Alcalde JA,Quiroz D,Revelo H,Alvarez LA,Rosario MF,Thomson V,Jianlin H,Austin JJ,Gongora J

更新日期：2020-02-05 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：:The gastrointestinal tract (GIT) consists of connected structures that vary in function and physiology, and different GIT sections potentially provide different habitats for microorganisms. Birds possess unique GIT structures, including the oesophagus, proventriculus, gizzard, small intestine, caeca and large intestin...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Grond K,Guilani H,Hird SM

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-transcriptome technologies have been widely used in behavioural genetics to identify genes associated with the performance of a behaviour and provide clues to its mechanistic basis. Here, we consider the genetic basis of sex allocation behaviour in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis. Female Nasonia facultat...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Cook N,Boulton RA,Green J,Trivedi U,Tauber E,Pannebakker BA,Ritchie MG,Shuker DM

更新日期：2018-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that whale and dolphin watching activities have detrimental effects on targeted cetacean populations. In Egypt, spinner dolphins regularly occur in the resting areas of Samadai, Satayah and Qubbat'Isa reefs. In-water human interactions with dolphins are regulated with a time-area closure s...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Fumagalli M,Cesario A,Costa M,Harraway J,Notarbartolo di Sciara G,Slooten E

更新日期：2018-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:By the slight adjustment of oxides constituting thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) substrate glass, including equal mole fraction substitution of Al2O3, GeO2, B2O3, P2O5 and ZrO2 for SiO2, as well as the substitution of CaO for SrO with the total contents unchanged, the structural and physico-chemic...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Cui J,Cao X,Shi L,Zhong Z,Wang P,Ma L

更新日期：2020-01-15 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：:We have conducted a novel study of the influence of energy components (RDX, AP and CL-20) on curing kinetics of glycidyl azide polymer (GAP) spherical propellant based on rheological method. The autocatalytic model was used to describe curing kinetics and the parameters were determined by the model-fitting method. It ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： He L,He W,Ma Z

更新日期：2018-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Heteroepitaxial growth of aluminum nitride (AIN) has been explored by experiments, but the corresponding growth mechanism is still unrevealed. Here, we use molecular dynamics simulations to study effects of temperature and N : Al flux ratio on deposited AlN. When the temperature increases from 1000 K to 2000 K with an...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zhang L,Yan H,Zhu G,Liu S,Gan Z

更新日期：2018-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Declines in pollinator abundance and diversity are not only a conservation issue, but also a threat to crop pollination. Maintained infrastructure corridors, such as those containing electricity transmission lines, are potentially important wild pollinator habitat. However, there is a lack of evidence comparing the ab...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Hill B,Bartomeus I

更新日期：2016-11-23 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：:In evolutionary biomechanics it is often considered that gaits should evolve to minimize the energetic cost of travelling a given distance. In gait simulation this goal often leads to convincing gait generation. However, as the musculoskeletal models used get increasingly sophisticated, it becomes apparent that such a...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sellers WI,Hirasaki E

更新日期：2018-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Mangostin, the extract from pericarp of Garcinia mangostana L . or mangosteen fruit, has been applied in various biomedical products because of its minimal skin irritation, and prominent anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and immune-modulating activities. Owing to its low water solubility, the particle formulations ar...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Bumrung J,Chanchao C,Intasanta V,Palaga T,Wanichwecharungruang S

更新日期：2020-11-18 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