abstract：:This study investigated lead concentrations in the hairs of radiographers working in the radiological departments of general hospitals that used lead shielding for radiation protection. We collected scalp hair samples from 32 radiographers working in four radiology departments with lead shielding and 18 administration...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hung MC,Chang P

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compares the effects of temperature (constant at 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35 °C) on adult longevity, oviposition, and nymph development of the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens, on susceptible and resistant rice varieties. The resistant variety contained the BPH32 gene. In our experiments, nymphs failed to de...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Horgan FG,Arida A,Ardestani G,Almazan MLP

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The oral environment affects not only oral health, but also general health, and the importance of oral self-care has recently been recognised. Although toothbrushes are the most important self-care product, there are few toothbrushes that have an inhibitory effect on oral bacteria. In the present study, monofilaments ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Matayoshi S,Nomura R,Kitamura T,Okawa R,Nakano K

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Academic research on dinoflagellate, the primary causative agent of harmful algal blooms (HABs), is often hindered by the coexistence with bacteria in laboratory cultures. The development of axenic dinoflagellate cultures is challenging and no universally accepted method suit for different algal species. In this study...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee TC,Chan PL,Tam NF,Xu SJ,Lee FW

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of the human mind affect the quality of scientific knowledge through the insertion of unconscious biases during the research process. These biases frequently cause overestimation of the effects under study, thereby violating the reproducibility of the research and potentially leading to incorrect conclu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zvereva EL,Kozlov MV

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The selective arterial calcium injection (SACI) test is useful for patients with functional pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (F-PNETs). This study evaluated which patients with F-PNETs would benefit from the SACI test. We retrospectively analyzed the preoperative findings of patients on computed tomography (CT), magne...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nakano Y,Kitago M,Shinoda M,Nakatsuka S,Kurihara I,Yagi H,Abe Y,Oshima G,Hori S,Yokose T,Kitagawa Y

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal pollution in drinking water source has been under scrutiny as it seriously affects human health. This work examined 12 dissolved metals in the surface and overlying water of the Xiangjiang River, an important drinking water source in southern China, and characterized their distribution, identified their possible...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang Z,Zheng S,Liu Y,Zhao X,Qiao X,Liu C,Zheng B,Yin D

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation plays central roles in the immune response. Inflammatory response normally requires higher energy and therefore is associated with glucose metabolism. Our recent study demonstrates that lncRNA HOTAIR plays key roles in NF-kB activation, cytokine expression, and inflammation. Here, we investigated if HOTAI...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Obaid M,Udden SMN,Alluri P,Mandal SS

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Fear, anxiety, and preference in fish are generally evaluated by video-based behavioural analyses. We previously proposed a system that can measure bioelectrical signals, called ventilatory signals, using a 126-electrode array placed at the bottom of an aquarium and achieved cameraless real-time analysis of motion and...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Soh Z,Matsuno M,Yoshida M,Furui A,Tsuji T

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognostic value of current multigene assays for breast cancer is limited to hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative early breast cancer. Despite the prognostic significance of immune response-related genes in breast cancer, immune gene signatures have not been incorporated int...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee H,Kwon MJ,Koo BM,Park HG,Han J,Shin YK

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Insects are ectothermal animals that are constrained in their survival and reproduction by external temperature fluctuations which require either active avoidance of or movement towards a given heat source. In Drosophila, different thermoreceptors and neurons have been identified that mediate temperature sensation to ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Buhl E,Kottler B,Hodge JJL,Hirth F

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The inner ear, or cochlea, is a fluid-filled organ housing the mechanosensitive hair cells. Sound stimulation is relayed to the hair cells through waves that propagate on the elastic basilar membrane. Sensorineural hearing loss occurs from damage to the hair cells and cannot currently be cured. Although drugs have bee...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sumner L,Mestel J,Reichenbach T

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A subwoofer generates the lowest frequency range in loudspeaker systems. Subwoofers are used in audio systems for live concerts, movie theatres, home theatres, gaming consoles, cars, etc. During the last decades, numerical simulations have emerged as a cost- and time-efficient complement to traditional experiments in ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bokhari AH,Berggren M,Noreland D,Wadbro E

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used non-invasive methodology for both preclinical and clinical studies. However, MRI lacks molecular specificity. Molecular contrast agents for MRI would be highly beneficial for detecting specific pathological lesions and quantitatively evaluating therapeutic efficacy in ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim JH,Dodd S,Ye FQ,Knutsen AK,Nguyen D,Wu H,Su S,Mastrogiacomo S,Esparza TJ,Swenson RE,Brody DL

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of digital breast tomosynthesis-guided vacuum assisted breast biopsy (DBT-VABB) of screening detected suspicious mammographic abnormalities comprising of calcifications, asymmetric densities, architectural distortions and spiculated masses. In this institutionally ap...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bohan S,Ramli Hamid MT,Chan WY,Vijayananthan A,Ramli N,Kaur S,Rahmat K

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Graphene oxide-silver (Ag-GO) nanocomposite has emerged as a vital antibacterial agent very recently. In this work, we report a facile one step route of Ag-GO nanocomposite formation excluding the aid of surfactants and reductants and was successfully applied to negative Escherichia Coli (E coli) to investigate antiba...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ahmad MA,Aslam S,Mustafa F,Arshad U

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a new approach to the generation of acoustic frequency combs (AFC)-signals with spectra containing equidistant coherent peaks. AFCs are essential for a number of sensing and measurement applications, where the established technology of optical frequency combs suffers from fundamental physical limitations. O...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nguyen BQH,Maksymov IS,Suslov SA

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquaculture has become imperative to cover the demands for dietary animal protein. Simultaneously, it has to overcome prejudices from excessive use of antibiotics and environmental impacts. Natural supplements are traditionally applied orally. In this study, we demonstrated another pathway: the gills. Humic substances...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lieke T,Steinberg CEW,Pan B,Perminova IV,Meinelt T,Knopf K,Kloas W

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:High-altitude-adapted ectotherms can escape competition from dominant species by tolerating low temperatures at cooler elevations, but climate change is eroding such advantages. Studies evaluating broad-scale impacts of global change for high-altitude organisms often overlook the mitigating role of biotic factors. Yet...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Muluvhahothe MM,Joseph GS,Seymour CL,Munyai TC,Foord SH

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Automated vehicles (AVs) will change the role of the driver, from actively controlling the vehicle to primarily monitoring it. Removing the driver from the control loop could fundamentally change the way that drivers sample visual information from the scene, and in particular, alter the gaze patterns generated when un...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mole C,Pekkanen J,Sheppard WEA,Markkula G,Wilkie RM

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Probing the cellular structure of in vivo biological tissue is a fundamental problem in biomedical imaging and medical science. This work introduces an approach for analyzing diffusion magnetic resonance imaging data acquired by the novel tensor-valued encoding technique for characterizing tissue microstructure. Our a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ning L,Szczepankiewicz F,Nilsson M,Rathi Y,Westin CF

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Glacial refugia are centers of high biodiversity. Therefore, knowledge on their locations and reactions of associated populations and landscapes to climatic changes is crucial for conservation management. We here investigated the biogeography of a butterfly species linked to open forest habitats. Using mitochondrial a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wendt M,Husemann M,Kramp K,Schmitt T

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-genome sequencing is likely to become increasingly used by local clinical microbiology laboratories, where sequencing volume is low compared with national reference laboratories. Here, we describe a universal protocol for simultaneous DNA extraction and sequencing of numerous different bacterial species, allowin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Raven KE,Girgis ST,Akram A,Blane B,Leek D,Brown N,Peacock SJ

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Calotropis gigantea (C. gigantea) extract with an ecofriendly nanotechnology approach could provide promising antimicrobial activity against skin pathogens. This study investigates the antimicrobial capability of green synthesized binary ZnO-CuO nanocomposites from C. gigantea against non-MDR (Staphylococcus aureus an...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Govindasamy GA,Mydin RBSMN,Sreekantan S,Harun NH

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to assess both anatomic and functional outcomes between short-pulse continuous wavelength and infrared micropulse lasers in the treatment of DME. This was a prospective interventional study from tertiary care eye hospital-King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia). Patients...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Al-Barki A,Al-Hijji L,High R,Schatz P,Do D,Nguyen QD,Luttrull JK,Kozak I

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The spreading of invasive species in new continents can vary from slow and limited diffusion to fast colonisations over vast new areas. We studied the sacred ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus along a 31-year period, from 1989 to 2019, with particular attention to the first area of release in NW Italy. We collected data on...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cucco M,Alessandria G,Bissacco M,Carpegna F,Fasola M,Gagliardi A,Gola L,Volponi S,Pellegrino I

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Dogs (Canis familiaris) are the first animals to be domesticated by humans and the only ones domesticated by mobile hunter-gatherers. Wolves and humans were both persistent, pack hunters of large prey. They were species competing over resources in partially overlapping ecological niches and capable of killing each oth...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lahtinen M,Clinnick D,Mannermaa K,Salonen JS,Viranta S

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial induced calcite precipitation (MICP) based on ureolysis has a high potential for many applications, e.g. restoration of construction materials. The gram-positive bacterium Sporosarcina pasteurii is the most commonly used microorganism for MICP due to its high ureolytic activity. However, Sporosarcina pasteur...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lapierre FM,Schmid J,Ederer B,Ihling N,Büchs J,Huber R

更新日期：2020-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapies targeting somatic bystander genetic events represent a new avenue for cancer treatment. We recently identified a subset of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients who are heterozygous for a wild-type and a low activity allele (NAT2*6) but lack the wild-type allele in their tumors due to loss of heterozygosity (LOH)...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rendo V,Kundu S,Rameika N,Ljungström V,Svensson R,Palin K,Aaltonen L,Stoimenov I,Sjöblom T

更新日期：2020-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycocalyx regulates the interaction of mammalian cells with extracellular molecules, such as cytokines. However, it is unknown to which extend the glycocalyx of distinct cancer cells control the binding and uptake of nanoparticles. In the present study, exome sequencing data of cancer patients and analysis of dis...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： von Palubitzki L,Wang Y,Hoffmann S,Vidal-Y-Sy S,Zobiak B,Failla AV,Schmage P,John A,Osorio-Madrazo A,Bauer AT,Schneider SW,Goycoolea FM,Gorzelanny C

更新日期：2020-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroblastoma is the most common and deadly childhood tumor. Relapsed or refractory neuroblastoma has a very poor prognosis despite recent treatment advances. To investigate genomic alterations associated with relapse and therapy resistance, whole-genome sequencing was performed on diagnostic and relapsed lesions toge...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fransson S,Martinez-Monleon A,Johansson M,Sjöberg RM,Björklund C,Ljungman G,Ek T,Kogner P,Martinsson T

更新日期：2020-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we apply homodyne detection to investigate the frequency-resolved photon statistics of a cw light field emitted by a driven-dissipative semiconductor system in real time. We demonstrate that studying the frequency dependence of the photon number noise allows us to distinguish intrinsic noise properties o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lüders C,Aßmann M

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy ([Formula: see text]) center shows excellent spin properties and sensing capabilities on the nanoscale even at room temperature. Shallow implanted [Formula: see text] centers can effectively be protected from surface noise by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond overgrowth, i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Findler C,Lang J,Osterkamp C,Nesládek M,Jelezko F

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The public goods game is a famous example illustrating the tragedy of the commons (Hardin in Science 162:1243-1248, 1968). In this game cooperating individuals contribute to a pool, which in turn is distributed to all members of the group, including defectors who reap the same rewards as cooperators without having mad...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hintze A,Staudacher J,Gelhar K,Pothmann A,Rasch J,Wildegger D

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantum Internet enables networking based on the fundamentals of quantum mechanics. Here, methods and procedures of resource prioritization and resource balancing are defined for the quantum Internet. We define a model for resource consumption optimization in quantum repeaters, and a strongly-entangled network str...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gyongyosi L,Imre S

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) belong to the most common medication in geriatric medicine. They are known to reduce osteoclast activity and to delay fracture healing in young adult mice. Because differentiation and proliferation in fracture healing as well as pharmacologic actions of drugs markedly differ in the elderl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Menger MM,Bremer P,Scheuer C,Rollmann MF,Braun BJ,Herath SC,Orth M,Später T,Pohlemann T,Menger MD,Histing T

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ordered/disordered phase separation occurring in bio-membranes has piqued researchers' interest because these ordered domains, called lipid rafts, regulate important biological functions. The structure of the ordered domain has been examined with artificial membranes, which undergo macroscopic ordered/disordered phase...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kinoshita M,Yamaguchi S,Matsumori N

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize the molecular mechanisms underlying life-stage transitions in Phytophthora infestans, we initiated a chemical genetics approach by screening for a stage-specific inhibitor of morphological development from microbial culture extracts prepared mostly from actinomycetes from soil in Japan. Of the more tha...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tani S,Nishio N,Kai K,Hagiwara D,Ogata Y,Tojo M,Sumitani JI,Judelson HS,Kawaguchi T

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Many environmental flow (e-flow) studies and applications have predominantly used state-(i.e., at a single time point) and rate-(i.e., temporal change) based demographic characteristics of species representing lower trophic levels (e.g., fish communities) to build flow-ecology relationships, rather than using a proces...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Paudel S,Koprowski JL,Thakuri U,Sigdel R,Gautam RC

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, flying occurs soon after the last imaginal molt and precedes the mating behavior in natural conditions. Here, we tested the hypothesis that flying may improve subsequent behavioral performance in a novel environment in female crickets. We developed a behavioral set-up to test female...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mezheritskiy M,Vorontsov D,Lapshin D,Dyakonova V

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00