Published: April 14, 2018 to April 20, 2018

Georg Bier, Simone Bier, Malte Niklas Bongers, Ahmed Othman, Ulrike Ernemann, Johann-Martin Hempel

Microstructure characterization and corrosion resistance properties of Pb-Sb alloys for lead acid battery spine produced by different casting methods

Asiful H. Seikh, El-Sayed M. Sherif, Sohail M. A. Khan Mohammed, Muneer Baig, Mohammad Asif Alam, Nabeel Alharthi

Association between particulate air pollution exposure during pregnancy and postpartum maternal psychological functioning

Perry E. Sheffield, Rosa Speranza, Yueh-Hsiu Mathilda Chiu, Hsiao-Hsien Leon Hsu, Paul C. Curtin, Stefano Renzetti, Ashley Pajak, Brent Coull, Joel Schwartz, Itai Kloog, Rosalind J. Wright

If you come from a well-known organisation, I will trust you: Exploring and understanding the community’s attitudes towards healthcare research in Cambodia

Sreymom Pol, Shivani Fox-Lewis, Leakhena Neou, Michael Parker, Patricia Kingori, Claudia Turner

Optimization of NO oxidation by H₂O₂ thermal decomposition at moderate temperatures

Hai-qian Zhao, Zhong-hua Wang, Xing-cun Gao, Cheng-hao Liu, Han-bing Qi

High intensity lifestyle intervention and long-term impact on weight and clinical outcomes

Linda Gotthelf, Ya-Ting Chen, Srinivasan Rajagopalan, Elise Chi-Tao Wu, Ishita Doshi, Carol Addy

Brief exposure to Swedish snus causes divergent vascular responses in healthy male and female volunteers

Lukasz Antoniewicz, Mirza Novo, Jenny Bosson, Magnus Lundbäck

Divergent discourse between protests and counter-protests: #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter

Ryan J. Gallagher, Andrew J. Reagan, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds

Chronological reassessment of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and Early Upper Paleolithic cultures in Cantabrian Spain

Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, Joseba Rios-Garaizar, Lawrence G. Straus, Jennifer R. Jones, Marco de la Rasilla, Manuel R. González Morales, Michael Richards, Jesús Altuna, Koro Mariezkurrena, David Ocio

Parametric model fitting-based approach for retinal blood vessel caliber estimation in eye fundus images

Teresa Araújo, Ana Maria Mendonça, Aurélio Campilho

Graph theory applied to the analysis of motor activity in patients with schizophrenia and depression

Erlend Eindride Fasmer, Ole Bernt Fasmer, Jan Øystein Berle, Ketil J. Oedegaard, Erik R. Hauge

Aspirin use and long-term rates of sepsis: A population-based cohort study

Joann Hsu, John P. Donnelly, Ninad S. Chaudhary, Justin X. Moore, Monika M. Safford, Junghyun Kim, Henry E. Wang

Different managements for prepubertal epididymitis based on a preexisting genitourinary anomaly diagnosis

Yong Seung Lee, Sang Woon Kim, Sang Won Han

Comparison of mental health screening tools for detecting antenatal depression and anxiety disorders in South African women

Thandi van Heyningen, Simone Honikman, Mark Tomlinson, Sally Field, Landon Myer

Using the Normalization Process Theory to qualitatively explore sense-making in implementation of the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery programme: "It's not rocket science"

Eileen Sutton, Georgia Herbert, Sorrel Burden, Stephen Lewis, Steve Thomas, Andy Ness, Charlotte Atkinson

Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in China: An up-dated cross-sectional study

Yu Lan, Zanlin Mai, Shiyu Zhou, Yang Liu, Shujue Li, Zhijian Zhao, Xiaolu Duan, Cao Cai, Tuo Deng, Wei Zhu, Wenqi Wu, Guohua Zeng

Spatial alterations of De Novo purine biosynthetic enzymes by Akt-independent PDK1 signaling pathways

Danielle L. Schmitt, Anand Sundaram, Miji Jeon, Bao Tran Luu, Songon An

Ultra-high field MRI of human hippocampi: Morphological and multiparametric differentiation of hippocampal sclerosis subtypes

Clarissa Gillmann, Roland Coras, Karl Rössler, Arnd Doerfler, Michael Uder, Ingmar Blümcke, Tobias Bäuerle

MDR-TB patients in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Cost-effectiveness of 5 models of care

Marian Loveday, Kristina Wallengren, Tarylee Reddy, Donela Besada, James C. M. Brust, Anna Voce, Harsha Desai, Jacqueline Ngozo, Zanele Radebe, Iqbal Master, Nesri Padayatchi, Emmanuelle Daviaud

The CYP1A2 -163C>A polymorphism does not alter the effects of caffeine on basketball performance

Carlos Puente, Javier Abián-Vicén, Juan Del Coso, Beatriz Lara, Juan José Salinero

Alterations in the coupling functions between cerebral oxyhaemoglobin and arterial blood pressure signals in post-stroke subjects

Honglun Su, Congcong Huo, Bitian Wang, Wenhao Li, Gongcheng Xu, Qianying Liu, Zengyong Li

Earlier time to aerobic exercise is associated with faster recovery following acute sport concussion

David Wyndham Lawrence, Doug Richards, Paul Comper, Michael G. Hutchison

Data quality of whole genome bisulfite sequencing on Illumina platforms

Amanda Raine, Ulrika Liljedahl, Jessica Nordlund

Emerging variants of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus genotypes in Kuwait hospitals

Samar S. Boswihi, Edet E. Udo, Stefan Monecke, Bindu Mathew, Bobby Noronha, Tina Verghese, Sajida B. Tappa

Prediction of hemoglobin levels in individual hemodialysis patients by means of a mathematical model of erythropoiesis

Doris H. Fuertinger, Franz Kappel, Hanjie Zhang, Stephan Thijssen, Peter Kotanko

Development of stock correlation networks using mutual information and financial big data

Xue Guo, Hu Zhang, Tianhai Tian

Prevalence of toxoplasmosis and genetic characterization of Toxoplasma gondii strains isolated in wild birds of prey and their relation with previously isolated strains from Turkey

Muhammet Karakavuk, Duygu Aldemir, Aurélien Mercier, Esra Atalay Şahar, Hüseyin Can, Jean-Benjamin Murat, Ömer Döndüren, Şengül Can, Hüseyin Gökhan Özdemir, Aysu Değirmenci Döşkaya, Bayram Pektaş, Marie-Laure Dardé, Adnan Yüksel Gürüz, Mert Döşkaya

The somatostatin receptor 2 antagonist ⁶⁴Cu-NODAGA-JR11 outperforms ⁶⁴Cu-DOTA-TATE in a mouse xenograft model

Svetlana N. Rylova, Christian Stoykow, Luigi Del Pozzo, Keelara Abiraj, Maria Luisa Tamma, Yvonne Kiefer, Melpomeni Fani, Helmut R. Maecke

Prognostic value of C-reactive protein levels in patients with bone neoplasms: A meta-analysis

Wenyi Li, Xujun Luo, Zhongyue Liu, Yanqiao Chen, Zhihong Li

Physiochemical characterization and cytotoxicity evaluation of mercury-based formulation for the development of anticancer therapeuticals

Kannan N, Shanmuga Sundar S, Balaji S, Arul Amuthan, Anil Kumar NV, Balasubramanian N

mus-52 disruption and metabolic regulation in Neurospora crassa: Transcriptional responses to extracellular phosphate availability

Maíra P. Martins, Eriston V. Gomes, Pablo R. Sanches, Wellington R. Pedersoli, Nilce M. Martinez-Rossi, Antonio Rossi

A family of long intergenic non-coding RNA genes in human chromosomal region 22q11.2 carry a DNA translocation breakpoint/AT-rich sequence

Nicholas Delihas

A new species of Peritresius Leidy, 1856 (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Alabama, USA, and the occurrence of the genus within the Mississippi Embayment of North America

Andrew D. Gentry, James F. Parham, Dana J. Ehret, Jun A. Ebersole

Pet dogs’ behavior when the owner and an unfamiliar person attend to a faux rival

Emanuela Prato-Previde, Velia Nicotra, Annalisa Pelosi, Paola Valsecchi

Optimism and self-efficacy mediate the association between shyness and subjective well-being among Chinese working adults

Conghui Liu, Ying Cheng, Anna S. C. Hsu, Chuansheng Chen, Jie Liu, Guoliang Yu

Early improvement of executive test performance during antidepressant treatment predicts treatment outcome in patients with Major Depressive Disorder

Stefanie Wagner, Isabella Helmreich, Daniel Wollschläger, Konstantin Meyer, Sabine Kaaden, Julia Reiff, Sibylle C. Roll, Dieter Braus, Oliver Tüscher, Florian Müller-Dahlhaus, André Tadić, Klaus Lieb

Assessing trade-offs in large marine protected areas

Tammy E. Davies, Graham Epstein, Stacy E. Aguilera, Cassandra M. Brooks, Michael Cox, Louisa S. Evans, Sara M. Maxwell, Mateja Nenadovic, Natalie C. Ban

Assessing sleep health in a European population: Results of the Catalan Health Survey 2015

Mireia Dalmases, Ivan D. Benítez, Anna Mas, Oriol Garcia-Codina, Antonia Medina-Bustos, Joan Escarrabill, Esteve Saltó, Daniel J. Buysse, Núria Roure, Manuel Sánchez-de-la-Torre, Montse Rué, Ferran Barbé, Jordi de Batlle

Cardiovascular and respiratory effects of lumbosacral epidural bupivacaine in isoflurane-anesthetized dogs: The effects of two volumes of 0.25% solution

Raquel Sartori Gonçalves Dias, João Henrique Neves Soares, Douglas dos Santos e Castro, Maria Alice Kuster de Albuquerque Gress, Marcela Lemos Machado, Pablo E. Otero, Fabio Otero Ascoli

Relationship between food waste, diet quality, and environmental sustainability

Zach Conrad, Meredith T. Niles, Deborah A. Neher, Eric D. Roy, Nicole E. Tichenor, Lisa Jahns

The impact of routine data quality assessments on electronic medical record data quality in Kenya

Veronica Muthee, Aaron F. Bochner, Allison Osterman, Nzisa Liku, Willis Akhwale, James Kwach, Mehta Prachi, Joyce Wamicwe, Jacob Odhiambo, Fredrick Onyango, Nancy Puttkammer

Effect of post-transplant glycemic control on long-term clinical outcomes in kidney transplant recipients with diabetic nephropathy: A multicenter cohort study in Korea

Yong Chul Kim, Nara Shin, Sunhwa Lee, Huh Hyuk, Young Hoon Kim, Hyosang Kim, Su-Kil Park, Jang-Hee Cho, Chan-Duck Kim, Jongwon Ha, Dong-Wan Chae, Jung Pyo Lee, Yon Su Kim

The efficacy and tolerability of rotigotine on patients with periodic limb movement in sleep: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Meng-Ni Wu, Ping-Tao Tseng, Tien-Yu Chen, Yen-Wen Chen, Li-Min Liou, Pao-Yen Lin, Chung-Yao Hsu

On the security of consumer wearable devices in the Internet of Things

Hasan Tahir, Ruhma Tahir, Klaus McDonald-Maier

Do we treat our patients or rather periodontal microbes with adjunctive antibiotics in periodontal therapy? A 16S rDNA microbial community analysis

Daniel Hagenfeld, Raphael Koch, Sebastian Jünemann, Karola Prior, Inga Harks, Peter Eickholz, Thomas Hoffmann, Ti-Sun Kim, Thomas Kocher, Jörg Meyle, Doğan Kaner, Ulrich Schlagenhauf, Benjamin Ehmke, Dag Harmsen

Using machine learning on cardiorespiratory fitness data for predicting hypertension: The Henry Ford ExercIse Testing (FIT) Project

Sherif Sakr, Radwa Elshawi, Amjad Ahmed, Waqas T. Qureshi, Clinton Brawner, Steven Keteyian, Michael J. Blaha, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah

Age at natural menopause and associated factors in adult women: Findings from the China Kadoorie Biobank study in Zhejiang rural area

Meng Wang, Wei-Wei Gong, Ru-Ying Hu, Hao Wang, Yu Guo, Zheng Bian, Jun Lv, Zheng-Ming Chen, Li-Ming Li, Min Yu

Transportation assimilation revisited: New evidence from repeated cross-sectional survey data

Dafeng Xu

Correlated network of networks enhances robustness against catastrophic failures

Byungjoon Min, Muhua Zheng

Population scale retrospective analysis reveals distinctive antidepressant and anxiolytic effects of diclofenac, ketoprofen and naproxen in patients with pain

Tigran Makunts, Isaac V. Cohen, Kelly C. Lee, Ruben Abagyan

New data on Amynodontidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from Eastern Europe: Phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographic implications around the Eocene-Oligocene transition

Jérémy Tissier, Damien Becker, Vlad Codrea, Loïc Costeur, Cristina Fărcaş, Alexandru Solomon, Marton Venczel, Olivier Maridet

Differing patterns of stress and craving across the day in moderate-heavy alcohol consumers during their typical drinking routine and an imposed period of alcohol abstinence

Rhiannon E. Mayhugh, W. Jack Rejeski, Meredith R. Petrie, Paul J. Laurienti, Lise Gauvin

Chloroplast variation is incongruent with classification of the Australian bloodwood eucalypts (genus Corymbia, family Myrtaceae)

Tanja M. Schuster, Sabrina D. Setaro, Josquin F. G. Tibbits, Erin L. Batty, Rachael M. Fowler, Todd G. B. McLay, Stephen Wilcox, Peter K. Ades, Michael J. Bayly

Gene-based molecular analysis of COX1 in Echinococcus granulosus cysts isolated from naturally infected livestock in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Dina M. Metwally, Latifa E. Qassim, Isra M. Al-Turaiki, Rafa S. Almeer, Manal F. El-Khadragy

Exclusion zone and heterogeneous water structure at ambient temperature

Seong G. Hwang, Jun Ki Hong, Abha Sharma, Gerald H. Pollack, GunWoong Bahng

Efficacy and safety of biosimilar insulins compared to their reference products: A systematic review

Carolyn Tieu, Eleanor J. Lucas, Mindi DePaola, Lori Rosman, G. Caleb Alexander

Plants regulate the effects of experimental warming on the soil microbial community in an alpine scrub ecosystem

Zhiliang Ma, Wenqiang Zhao, Chunzhang Zhao, Dong Wang, Mei Liu, Dandan Li, Qing Liu

A wavelet based time frequency analysis of electromyograms to group steps of runners into clusters that contain similar muscle activation patterns

Vinzenz von Tscharner, Martin Ullrich, Maurice Mohr, Daniel Comaduran Marquez, Benno M. Nigg

The minimal-ABC trees with B1-branches

Darko Dimitrov, Zhibin Du, Carlos M. da Fonseca

Association of body mass index with incident tuberculosis in Korea

Soo Jung Kim, Shinhee Ye, Eunhee Ha, Eun Mi Chun

From local uncertainty to global predictions: Making predictions on fractal basins

Asaf Levi, Juan Sabuco, Michael Small, Miguel A. F. Sanjuán

Prognostic value of hematological parameters in patients with acute myocardial infarction: Intrahospital outcomes

José Gildo de Moura Monteiro Júnior, Dilênia de Oliveira Cipriano Torres, Maria Cleide Freire Clementino da Silva, Cyntia Maria de Holanda Martins, Izadora Karina da Silva, Monique Evelyn Mendonça do Nascimento, Ana Célia Oliveira dos Santos, Ulisses Ramos Montarroyos, Dário Celestino Sobral Filho

Socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of biomarkers of cardio-metabolic disease in South Korea: Comparison of the Health Examinees Study to a nationally representative survey

Sujin Kim, Juhwan Oh, Jongho Heo, Hwa-Young Lee, Jong-Koo Lee, S. V. Subramanian, Daehee Kang

Cryptocurrency price drivers: Wavelet coherence analysis revisited

Ross C. Phillips, Denise Gorse

Response of soil organic carbon fractions, microbial community composition and carbon mineralization to high-input fertilizer practices under an intensive agricultural system

Jing Li, Xueping Wu, Mesfin Tsegaye Gebremikael, Huijun Wu, Dianxiong Cai, Bisheng Wang, Baoguo Li, Jiancheng Zhang, Yongshan Li, Jilong Xi

A degree-based block model and a local expansion optimization algorithm for anti-community detection in networks

Jiajing Zhu, Yongguo Liu, Changhong Yang, Wen Yang, Zhi Chen, Yun Zhang, Shangming Yang, Xindong Wu

Psychometric properties of the Dutch version of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy in women with pregnancies ending in birth

Joline Goossens, Sofie Verhaeghe, Ann Van Hecke, Geraldine Barrett, Ilse Delbaere, Dimitri Beeckman

The influences of the M₂R-GIRK4-RGS6 dependent parasympathetic pathway on electrophysiological properties of the mouse heart

Kanchan Kulkarni, Xueyi Xie, Ezequiel Marron Fernandez de Velasco, Allison Anderson, Kirill A. Martemyanov, Kevin Wickman, Elena G. Tolkacheva

A longitudinal ¹H-NMR metabolomics analysis of urine from newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy undergoing hypothermia therapy. Clinical and medical legal insights

Emanuela Locci, Antonio Noto, Melania Puddu, Giulia Pomero, Roberto Demontis, Cristina Dalmazzo, Antonio Delogu, Vassilios Fanos, Ernesto d’Aloja, Paolo Gancia

Correlated metabolomic, genomic, and histologic phenotypes in histologically normal breast tissue

Xuezheng Sun, Delisha A. Stewart, Rupninder Sandhu, Erin L. Kirk, Wimal W. Pathmasiri, Susan L. McRitchie, Robert F. Clark, Melissa A. Troester, Susan J. Sumner

Correction: Stroke survivors' and informal caregivers' experiences of primary care and community healthcare services - A systematic review and meta-ethnography

Dominika M. Pindus, Ricky Mullis, Lisa Lim, Ian Wellwood, A. Viona Rundell, Noor Azah Abd Aziz, Jonathan Mant

Correction: Combined bulked segregant sequencing and traditional linkage analysis for identification of candidate gene for purple leaf sheath in maize

Pengcheng Li, Cancan Du, Yingying Zhang, Shuangyi Yin, Enying Zhang, Huimin Fang, Dezhou Lin, Chenwu Xu, Zefeng Yang

Correction: Monitoring butterflies using counts of puddling males: A case study of the Rajah Brooke’s Birdwing (Trogonoptera brookiana albescens)

The PLOS ONE Staff

Correction: Worldwide increased prevalence of human adenovirus type 3 (HAdV-3) respiratory infections is well correlated with heterogeneous hypervariable regions (HVRs) of hexon

Ezazul Haque, Urmila Banik, Tahmina Monowar, Leela Anthony, Arun Kumar Adhikary

Correction: Molecular adaptation in Rubisco: Discriminating between convergent evolution and positive selection using mechanistic and classical codon models

Sahar Parto, Nicolas Lartillot

Correction: Cortical movement of Bicoid in early Drosophila embryos is actin- and microtubule-dependent and disagrees with the SDD diffusion model

Xiaoli Cai, Mira Akber, Alexander Spirov, Stefan Baumgartner

Correction: The role of cGMP as a mediator of lipolysis in bovine oocytes and its effects on embryo development and cryopreservation

Kátia R. L. Schwarz, Fernanda C. de Castro, Letícia Schefer, Ramon C. Botigelli, Daniela M. Paschoal, Hugo Fernandes, Cláudia L. V. Leal

Correction: Novel Naja atra cardiotoxin 1 (CTX-1) derived antimicrobial peptides with broad spectrum activity

The PLOS ONE Staff

Correction: The mediating role of rumination in the relation between attentional bias towards thin female bodies and eating disorder symptomatology

Laura Dondzilo, Elizabeth Rieger, Romina Palermo, Susan Byrne, Jason Bell

Spoken language identification based on the enhanced self-adjusting extreme learning machine approach

Musatafa Abbas Abbood Albadr, Sabrina Tiun, Fahad Taha AL-Dhief, Mahmoud A. M. Sammour

Comparative genomic and transcriptomic analysis of selected fatty acid biosynthesis genes and CNL disease resistance genes in oil palm

Rozana Rosli, Nadzirah Amiruddin, Mohd Amin Ab Halim, Pek-Lan Chan, Kuang-Lim Chan, Norazah Azizi, Priscilla E. Morris, Eng-Ti Leslie Low, Meilina Ong-Abdullah, Ravigadevi Sambanthamurthi, Rajinder Singh, Denis J. Murphy

Induction of salivary antibody levels in Dutch adolescents after immunization with monovalent meningococcal serogroup C or quadrivalent meningococcal serogroup A, C, W and Y conjugate vaccine

Mariëtte B. van Ravenhorst, Gerco den Hartog, Fiona R. M. van der Klis, Debbie M. van Rooijen, Elisabeth A. M. Sanders, Guy A. M. Berbers

Amplification of the basic reproduction number in cattle farm networks

Beatriz Vidondo

A practice-changing culture method relying on shaking substantially increases mitochondrial energy metabolism and functionality of human liver cell lines

Aziza A. A. Adam, Vincent A. van der Mark, Joanne M. Donkers, Manon E. Wildenberg, Ronald P. J. Oude Elferink, Robert A. F. M. Chamuleau, Ruurdtje Hoekstra

The impact of affect labelling on responses to aversive flying-cues

Michelle Azoum, Gavin I. Clark, Adam J. Rock

Exogenous pentraxin-3 inhibits the reactive oxygen species-mitochondrial and apoptosis pathway in acute kidney injury

Hyung Ho Lee, Sook Young Kim, Joon Chae Na, Young Eun Yoon, Woong Kyu Han

Estimating parametric phenotypes that determine anthesis date in Zea mays: Challenges in combining ecophysiological models with genetics

Abhishes Lamsal, Stephen M. Welch, Jeffrey W. White, Kelly R. Thorp, Nora M. Bello

The tempo and mode of the taxonomic correction process: How taxonomists have corrected and recorrected North American bird species over the last 127 years