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：:Robust imaging techniques for tracking insects have been essential tools in numerous laboratory and field studies on pests, beneficial insects and model systems. Recent innovations in optical imaging systems and associated signal processing have enabled detailed characterization of nocturnal mosquito behaviour around ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Voloshin V,Kröner C,Seniya C,Murray GPD,Guy A,Towers CE,McCall PJ,Towers DP

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater green algae Chlorella vulgaris was selected as an adsorbent, and a simple, rapid, economical and environmentally friendly method for the detection of heavy metal Cd in water samples based on preconcentration with C. vulgaris combined with energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometry was propose...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Gan T,Zhao N,Yin G,Chen M,Wang X,Hua H

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:This multi-wave study examined the extent that both preference and motivation for time alone shapes ill-being during self-isolation. Individuals in the USA and the UK are self-isolating in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Different motivations may drive their self-isolation: some might see value in it (understood as...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Weinstein N,Nguyen TV

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in biotechnology led to generation of large complex biological and clinical datasets that can be used to infer the underlying mechanism of many diseases and arrive at personalized treatments. One of these datasets are the whole genome profiles, including a good collection of publicly available human ge...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Su S,Shahriyari L

更新日期：2020-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceratopsids are among the most ubiquitous dinosaur taxa from the Late Cretaceous terrestrial formations of the Western Interior of North America, comprising two subfamilies, Chasmosaurinae and Centrosaurinae. The Two Medicine Formation of northwestern Montana has produced numerous remains of centrosaurine dinosaurs, w...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wilson JP,Ryan MJ,Evans DC

更新日期：2020-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic wires in highly dense arrays, possessing unique magnetic properties, are eagerly anticipated for inexpensive and scalable fabrication technologies. This study reports a facile method to fabricate arrays of magnetic wires directly assembled from well-dispersed α″-Fe16N2/Al2O3 and Fe3O4 nanoparticles with avera...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Li Q,Kartikowati CW,Iwaki T,Okuyama K,Ogi T

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Wheat farming provides 28.5% of global cereal production. After steady growth in average crop yield from 1950 to 1990, wheat yields have generally stagnated, which prompts the question of whether further improvements are possible. Statistical studies of agronomic parameters such as crop yield have so far exclusively f...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Mitchell EG,Crout NMJ,Wilson P,Wood ATA,Stupfler G

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Assisted ultrasonic vibration technology has received great interest in the past few years for petroleum and mining engineering related to hard rock breaking. Understanding the fatigue behaviour and damage characteristics of rock subject to ultra-high-frequency loading is vital for its application. In this research, w...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zhou Y,Zhao D,Tang Q,Wang M

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The differences in life-history traits and processes between organisms living in the same or different populations contribute to their ecological and evolutionary dynamics. We developed mixed-effect model formulations of the popular size-at-age von Bertalanffy and Gompertz growth functions to estimate individual and g...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Vincenzi S,Jesensek D,Crivelli AJ

更新日期：2020-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A carefully designed map can reduce pedestrians' cognitive load during wayfinding and may be an especially useful navigation aid in crowded public environments. In the present paper, we report three studies that investigated the effects of map complexity and crowd movement on wayfinding time, accuracy and hesitation u...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zhao H,Thrash T,Grossrieder A,Kapadia M,Moussaïd M,Hölscher C,Schinazi VR

更新日期：2020-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The constraint release (CR) mechanism has important effects on polymer relaxation and the chains will show different relaxation behaviour in conditions of monodisperse, bidisperse and other topological environments. By comparing relaxation data of linear polyisoprene (PI) chains dissolved in very long matrix and monod...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ma T,Lin G,Tan H

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:High levels of genetic variation are often observed in natural populations, suggesting the action of processes such as frequency-dependent selection, heterozygote advantage and variable selection. However, the maintenance of genetic variation in fitness-related traits remains incompletely explained. The extent of gene...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Côté K,Simons AM

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the relationship between vocabulary size and text length in a corpus of 75 literary works in English, authored by six writers, distinguishing between the contributions of three grammatical classes (or 'tags,' namely, nouns, verbs and others), and analyse the progressive appearance of new words of each tag alo...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chacoma A,Zanette DH

更新日期：2020-03-18 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：:Marine mammals and diving birds face several physiological challenges under water, affecting their thermoregulation and locomotion as well as their sensory systems. Therefore, marine mammals have modified ears for improved underwater hearing. Underwater hearing in birds has been studied in a few species, but for the r...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sørensen K,Neumann C,Dähne M,Hansen KA,Wahlberg M

更新日期：2020-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect societies have developed sanitary strategies, one of which is the avoidance of infectious food resources as a primary line of defence. Using binary choices, we investigated whether Myrmica rubra ants can identify prey that has been artificially infected with the entomopathogenic fungus, Metarhizium brunneum. We...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Pereira H,Detrain C

更新日期：2020-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In the centuries since the enlightenment, the world has seen an increase in socioeconomic development, measured as increased life expectancy, education, economic development and democracy. While the co-occurrence of these features among nations is well documented, little is known about their origins or co-evolution. H...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ruck DJ,Bentley RA,Lawson DJ

更新日期：2020-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to explore the factors affecting coal spontaneous combustion, the fractal characteristics of coal samples are tested, and a pore-scale model for oxygen adsorption in coal porous media is developed based on self-similar fractal model. The liquid nitrogen adsorption experiments show that the coal samples indica...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Lv X,Liang X,Xu P,Chen L

更新日期：2020-02-12 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：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171563.]. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Limpanuparb T,Roongruangsree P,Areekul C

更新日期：2020-02-05 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：:The evolution of spoken languages has been studied since the mid-nineteenth century using traditional historical comparative methods and, more recently, computational phylogenetic methods. By contrast, evolutionary processes resulting in the diversity of contemporary sign languages (SLs) have received much less attent...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Power JM,Grimm GW,List JM

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherothrombosis is the cornerstone of cardiovascular diseases and the primary cause of death worldwide. Genetic contribution to disturbances in lipid metabolism, coagulation, inflammation and oxidative stress increase the susceptibility to its development and progression. Given its multifactorial nature, the multiloc...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Camacho-Mejorado R,Gómez R,Torres-Sánchez LE,Alhelí Hernández-Tobías E,Noris G,Santana C,Magaña JJ,Orozco L,de la Peña-Díaz A,de la Luz Arenas-Sordo M,Meraz-Ríos MA,Majluf-Cruz A

更新日期：2020-01-15 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：: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：:Nano-size EVONIK AEROXIDE® P25 titanium dioxide, TiO2, powder was heat-treated at temperatures, 700-900°C, in air. An X-ray diffraction study showed that the P25 powder is composed of approximately 20 and approximately 80 mass% of rutile and anatase phases, respectively. It was also shown that the transformation from ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ishigaki T,Nakada Y,Tarutani N,Uchikoshi T,Tsujimoto Y,Isobe M,Ogata H,Zhang C,Hao D

更新日期：2020-01-15 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：: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：:A denitrifying strain ZY04 with a high nitrite-accumulating rate was isolated and purified from activated sludge in a laboratory-scale A2/O reactor. The strain was characterized and identified as Acinetobacter johnsonii by 16S rDNA phylogenetic analysis. The sequences of the key functional genes (napA, nirB, nirD) inv...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zhang Y,Wang X,Wang W,Sun Z,Li J

更新日期：2019-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180687.]. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Dvurecenska K,Graham S,Patelli E,Patterson EA

更新日期：2019-12-04 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：:The influential hypothesis by Markus & Kitayama (Markus, Kitayama 1991. Psychol. Rev.98, 224) postulates that individuals from interdependent cultures place others above self in interpersonal contexts. This led to the prediction and finding that individuals from interdependent cultures are less egocentric than those f...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wang JJ,Tseng P,Juan CH,Frisson S,Apperly IA

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes, synonymous codons are unevenly used. Such differential usage of optimal or non-optimal codons has been suggested to play a role in the control of translation initiation and elongation, as well as at the level of transcription and mRNA stability. In the case of membrane prote...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sanguinetti M,Iriarte A,Amillis S,Marín M,Musto H,Ramón A

更新日期：2019-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropogenic activities affect fish populations worldwide. River dams have profound impacts on ecosystems by changing habitats and hindering migration. In an effort to counteract such effects, a range of mitigation measures have been installed at hydroelectric power plants. However, not all individuals in a populatio...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Haraldstad T,Haugen TO,Kroglund F,Olsen EM,Höglund E

更新日期：2019-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to produce ethylene using the calcium carbide route, acetylene from calcium carbide and then selective hydrogenation of the high-concentration acetylene to ethylene. A series of catalysts with different supports, such as Al2O3, SiO2 and MCM-41, were prepared using the ethylene glycol reduction method a...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kang L,Cheng B,Zhu M

更新日期：2019-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In the name of meritocracy, modern economies devote increasing amounts of resources to quantifying and ranking the performance of individuals and organizations. Rankings send out powerful signals, which lead to identifying the actions of top performers as the 'best practices' that others should also adopt. However, se...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Livan G

更新日期：2019-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans commonly engage in a variety of search behaviours, for example when looking for an object, a partner, information or a solution to a complex problem. The success or failure of a search strategy crucially depends on the structure of the environment and the constraints it imposes on the individuals. Here, we focu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yahosseini KS,Moussaïd M

更新日期：2019-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen is one of the most important nutrient indicators for the growth of crops, and is closely related to the chlorophyll content of leaves and thus influences the photosynthetic ability of the crops. In this study, five hybrid rice varieties were cultivated during one entire growing period in one experimental fiel...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zhang H,Duan Z,Li Y,Zhao G,Zhu S,Fu W,Peng T,Zhao Q,Svanberg S,Hu J

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Varanopids are a basal clade of small- to medium-sized non-therapsid synapsids, whose range extends from the late Pennsylvanian to the late middle Permian, and are found in North America, Russia, Europe and South Africa. The greatest varanopid diversity is observed at the fossiliferous cave deposits near Richards Spur...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Maho S,Gee BM,Reisz RR

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00