Published: July 28, 2018 to August 03, 2018

Shu Zhao, John G. Gibbons

Validation of an abbreviated version of the Lubben Social Network Scale (“LSNS-6”) and its associations with suicidality among older adults in China

Qingsong Chang, Feng Sha, Chee Hon Chan, Paul S. F. Yip

Anthracene biodegradation capacity of newly isolated rhizospheric bacteria Bacillus cereus S₁₃

Nadia Bibi, Muhammad Hamayun, Sumera Afzal Khan, Amjad Iqbal, Badshah Islam, Farooq Shah, Muhammad Aaqil Khan, In-Jung Lee

Aptamer-functionalized AuNPs for the high-sensitivity colorimetric detection of melamine in milk samples

Xinran Hu, Keke Chang, Shun Wang, Xiaoquan Sun, Jiandong Hu, Min Jiang

Conservative finite-difference scheme for the problem of THz pulse interaction with multilevel layer covered by disordered structure based on the density matrix formalism and 1D Maxwell’s equation

Vyacheslav A. Trofimov, Svetlana A. Varentsova, Irina G. Zakharova, Dmitry Yu. Zagursky

Time-course analysis of Drosophila suzukii interaction with endoparasitoid wasps evidences a delayed encapsulation response compared to D. melanogaster

Alessia Iacovone, Nicolas Ris, Marylène Poirié, Jean-Luc Gatti

Making medicines more accessible in China: An empirical study investigating the early progress of essential medicine system

Yan Song, Ying Bian, Tianmin Zhen

GDF15 deficiency promotes high fat diet-induced obesity in mice

Thanhvien Tran, Jingping Yang, Jonitha Gardner, Yumei Xiong

Delivery and evaluation of participatory education for animal keepers led by veterinarians and para-veterinarians around the Kanha Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, India

Andy Hopker, Naveen Pandey, Aniruddha Dhamorikar, Sophie Hopker, Pradeep Gautam, Subash Pandey, Sharad Kumar, Narendra Rahangadale, Prakash Mehta, Rebecca Marsland, Neil Sargison

Effect of increasing workload on knee extensor and flexor muscular activity during cycling as measured with intramuscular electromyography

Julio Cézar Lima da Silva, Maria M. Ekblom, Olga Tarassova, Eva Andersson, Gustaf Rönquist, Helene Grundström, Anton Arndt

Synthesis and characterization of salen-Ti(IV) complex and application in the controllable polymerization of D, L-lactide

Xiang Li, Baojun Yang, Huaili Zheng, Pei Wu, Guoming Zeng

Why is transition between child and adult services a dangerous time for young people with chronic kidney disease? A mixed-method systematic review

David J. Dallimore, Barbara Neukirchinger, Jane Noyes

Uptake and tissue accretion of orally administered free carboxylic acid as compared to ethyl ester form of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in the rat

Anna Lindblom, Cecilia Ericsson, Therese Hagstedt, Ann Kjellstedt, Jan Oscarsson, Nicholas D. Oakes

Factors associated with first- versus second-generation long-acting antipsychotics prescribed under ordinary clinical practice in Italy

Giovanni Ostuzzi, Maria Angela Mazzi, Samira Terlizzi, Federico Bertolini, Andrea Aguglia, Francesco Bartoli, Paola Bortolaso, Camilla Callegari, Mariarita Caroleo, Giuseppe Carrà, Mariangela Corbo, Armando D’Agostino, Chiara Gastaldon, Claudio Lucii, Fabio Magliocco, Giovanni Martinotti, Michela Nosé, Edoardo Giuseppe Ostinelli, Davide Papola, Marco Piero Piccinelli, Alberto Piccoli, Marianna Purgato, Tommaso Tabacchi, Giulia Turrini, Mirella Ruggeri, Corrado Barbui, the STAR Network Investigators

Reversible covalent direct thrombin inhibitors

Mohanram Sivaraja, Nicola Pozzi, Matthew Rienzo, Kenneth Lin, Timothy P. Shiau, Daniel M. Clemens, Lev Igoudin, Piotr Zalicki, Stephanie S. Chang, M. Angels Estiarte, Kevin M. Short, David C. Williams, Anirban Datta, Enrico Di Cera, David B. Kita

Rural houses infestation by Triatoma infestans in northwestern Argentina: Vector control in a high spatial heterogeneous infestation area

María José Cavallo, Ivana Amelotti, Luciana Abrahan, Gerardo Cueto, David E. Gorla

Proteomic analysis identifies transcriptional cofactors and homeobox transcription factors as TBX18 binding proteins

Reginaldo Rivera-Reyes, Marc-Jens Kleppa, Andreas Kispert

Germline single nucleotide polymorphisms in ERBB3 and BARD1 genes result in a worse relapse free survival response for HER2-positive breast cancer patients treated with adjuvant based docetaxel, carboplatin and trastuzumab (TCH)

Damien Coté, Alex Eustace, Sinead Toomey, Mattia Cremona, Malgorzata Milewska, Simon Furney, Aoife Carr, Joanna Fay, Elaine Kay, Susan Kennedy, John Crown, Bryan Hennessy, Stephen Madden

The role of AKT and FOXO3 in preventing ovarian toxicity induced by cyclophosphamide

Bao-fang Zhang, YaXin Hu, Xinyan Liu, Zhuo Cheng, Yu Lei, YongMei Liu, Xueke Zhao, Mao Mu, Lei Yu, Ming-liang Cheng

Comparison of the upper and lower airway microbiota in children with chronic lung diseases

Bushra Ahmed, Michael J. Cox, Leah Cuthbertson, Phillip L. James, William O. C. Cookson, Jane C. Davies, Miriam F. Moffatt, Andrew Bush

Tangled history of a multigene family: The evolution of ISOPENTENYLTRANSFERASE genes

Kanae Nishii, Frank Wright, Yun-Yu Chen, Michael Möller

Interactive effects of precipitation and nitrogen enrichment on multi-trophic dynamics in plant-arthropod communities

Kaitlin A. Griffith, Joshua B. Grinath

An efficient outlier removal method for scattered point cloud data

Xiaojuan Ning, Fan Li, Ge Tian, Yinghui Wang

Bridging immunogenetics and immunoproteomics: Model positional scanning library analysis for Major Histocompatibility Complex class II DQ in Tursiops truncatus

Colette T. Dooley, Tatiana Ferrer, Heidi Pagán, Gregory M. O’Corry-Crowe

Leaf phosphorus content of Quercus wutaishanica increases with total soil potassium in the Loess Plateau

Kaixiong Xing, Mingfei Zhao, Chen Chen, Yuhang Wang, Feng Xue, Yiping Zhang, Xiaobin Dong, Yuan Jiang, Han Y. H. Chen, Muyi Kang

Independent association between subjective cognitive decline and frailty in the elderly

Tsung-Jen Hsieh, Hsing-Yi Chang, I-Chien Wu, Chu-Chih Chen, Hui-Ju Tsai, Yen-Feng Chiu, Shu-Chun Chuang, Chao A. Hsiung, Chih-Cheng Hsu

Long-term stability and computational analysis of migration patterns of L-MYC immortalized neural stem cells in the brain

Russell C. Rockne, Vikram Adhikarla, Lusine Tsaturyan, Zhongqi Li, Meher B. Masihi, Karen S. Aboody, Michael E. Barish, Margarita Gutova

Using clustered data to develop biomass allometric models: The consequences of ignoring the clustered data structure

Ioan Dutcă, Petru Tudor Stăncioiu, Ioan Vasile Abrudan, Florin Ioraș

Association between primary care coverage and breast cancer mortality in Brazil

Francisco Winter dos Santos Figueiredo, Tábata Cristina do Carmo Almeida, Jean Henri Maselli Schoueri, Caio Luisi, Fernando Adami

Jailed in the mountains: Genetic diversity and structure of an endemic newt species across the Pyrenees

Emilio Valbuena-Ureña, Neus Oromi, Anna Soler-Membrives, Salvador Carranza, Fèlix Amat, Sebastià Camarasa, Mathieu Denoël, Olivier Guillaume, Delfí Sanuy, Adeline Loyau, Dirk S. Schmeller, Sebastian Steinfartz

Projected effectiveness of mandatory industrial fortification of wheat flour, milk, and edible oil with multiple micronutrients among Mongolian adults

Sabri Bromage, Davaasambuu Ganmaa, Janet Wilson Rich-Edwards, Bernard Rosner, Jorick Bater, Wafaie Wahib Fawzi

Parental high dietary arachidonic acid levels modulated the hepatic transcriptome of adult zebrafish (Danio rerio) progeny

Anne-Catrin Adam, Kaja Helvik Skjærven, Paul Whatmore, Mari Moren, Kai Kristoffer Lie

Identifying risk factors for 30-day readmission events among American Indian patients with diabetes in the Four Corners region of the southwest from 2009 to 2016

Caroline King, Sidney Atwood, Mia Lozada, Adrianne Katrina Nelson, Chris Brown, Samantha Sabo, Cameron Curley, Olivia Muskett, Endel John Orav, Sonya Shin

Exploring the biological roles of Dothideomycetes ABC proteins: Leads from their phylogenetic relationships with functionally-characterized Ascomycetes homologs

Gaurav Dube, Narendra Kadoo, Ramya Prashant

Robotic selection for the rapid development of stable CHO cell lines for HIV vaccine production

Sara M. O’Rourke, Gabriel Byrne, Gwen Tatsuno, Meredith Wright, Bin Yu, Kathryn A. Mesa, Rachel C. Doran, David Alexander, Phillip W. Berman

Towards unambiguous reporting of complications related to deep brain stimulation surgery: A retrospective single-center analysis and systematic review of the literature

Katja Engel, Torge Huckhagel, Alessandro Gulberti, Monika Pötter-Nerger, Eik Vettorazzi, Ute Hidding, Chi-un Choe, Simone Zittel, Hanna Braaß, Peter Ludewig, Miriam Schaper, Kara Krajewski, Christian Oehlwein, Katrin Mittmann, Andreas K. Engel, Christian Gerloff, Manfred Westphal, Christian K. E. Moll, Carsten Buhmann, Johannes A. Köppen, Wolfgang Hamel

A discussion on significance indices for contingency tables under small sample sizes

Natalia L. Oliveira, Carlos A. de B. Pereira, Marcio A. Diniz, Adriano Polpo

Enhanced preservation of the human intestinal microbiota by ridinilazole, a novel Clostridium difficile-targeting antibacterial, compared to vancomycin

Cheleste M. Thorpe, Anne V. Kane, Justin Chang, Albert Tai, Richard J. Vickers, David R. Snydman

Associations between increased intervention coverage for mothers and newborns and the number and quality of contacts between families and health workers: An analysis of cluster level repeat cross sectional survey data in Ethiopia

Elizabeth Allen, Joanna Schellenberg, Della Berhanu, Simon Cousens, Tanya Marchant

Distinct mechanisms survey the structural integrity of HLA-B*27:05 intracellularly and at the surface

Zeynep Hein, Britta Borchert, Esam Tolba Abualrous, Sebastian Springer

The Ferric uptake regulator (Fur) and iron availability control the production and maturation of the antibacterial peptide microcin E492

Andrés E. Marcoleta, Sergio Gutiérrez-Cortez, Felipe Hurtado, Yerko Argandoña, Gino Corsini, Octavio Monasterio, Rosalba Lagos

Correction: A Chinese version of the Language Screening Test (CLAST) for early-stage stroke patients

Hongyan Yang, Shenghua Tian, Constance Flamand-Roze, Ling Gao, Wei Zhang, Yan Li, Jiajia Wang, Zhou Sun, Ying Su, Libin Zhao, Zhihou Liang

Correction: The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Geert A. Buijze, Inger N. Sierevelt, Bas C. J. M. van der Heijden, Marcel G. Dijkgraaf, Monique H. W. Frings-Dresen

Correction: Risk score based on ten lncRNA-mRNA expression predicts the survival of stage II-III colorectal carcinoma

Ruigang Diao, Xiaodong Mu, Tingting Wang, Shuqing Li

Correction: Association of serum BDNF levels and the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism with the sleep pattern in healthy young adults

Kaori Saitoh, Ryuji Furihata, Yoshiyuki Kaneko, Masahiro Suzuki, Sakae Takahashi, Makoto Uchiyama

Correction: Does growth path influence beef lipid deposition and fatty acid composition?

Ana S. H. Costa, Paulo Costa, Susana P. Alves, Cristina M. Alfaia, José A. M. Prates, Veronica Vleck, Isabelle Cassar-Malek, Jean-François Hocquette, Rui J. B. Bessa

Correction: Patients with stage 3 compared to stage 4 liver fibrosis have lower frequency of and longer time to liver disease complications

Page Axley, Sandhya Mudumbi, Shabnam Sarker, Yong-Fang Kuo, Ashwani K. Singal

Evolution of prehistoric dryland agriculture in the arid and semi-arid transition zone in northern China

Yige Bao, Xinying Zhou, Hanbin Liu, Songmei Hu, Keliang Zhao, Pia Atahan, John Dodson, Xiaoqiang Li

Genome-wide identification and analysis of the ALTERNATIVE OXIDASE gene family in diploid and hexaploid wheat

Rhoda A. T. Brew-Appiah, Zara B. York, Vandhana Krishnan, Eric H. Roalson, Karen A. Sanguinet

Accessibility of pediatric inpatient services in Japan

Akira Ehara

Raman chemical imaging, a new tool in kidney stone structure analysis: Case-study and comparison to Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy

Vincent Castiglione, Pierre-Yves Sacré, Etienne Cavalier, Philippe Hubert, Romy Gadisseur, Eric Ziemons

Developmental changes in the categorical processing of positive and negative facial expressions

Michael Vesker, Daniela Bahn, Franziska Degé, Christina Kauschke, Gudrun Schwarzer

Neurochemical characterization of myenteric neurons in the juvenile gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) intestine

Chiara Ceccotti, Cristina Giaroni, Michela Bistoletti, Manuela Viola, Francesca Crema, Genciana Terova

Promotion and suppression of autobiographical thinking differentially affect episodic memory consolidation

Samarth Varma, Sander M. Daselaar, Roy P. C. Kessels, Atsuko Takashima

Radical change of apoptotic strategy following irradiation during later period of embryogenesis in medaka (Oryzias latipes)

Takako Yasuda, Yuta Ishikawa, Noriko Shioya, Kazusa Itoh, Miyuki Kamahori, Kento Nagata, Yoshiro Takano, Hiroshi Mitani, Shoji Oda

NF-κB activation is an early event of changes in gene regulation for acquiring drug resistance in human adenocarcinoma PC-9 cells

Masashi Fukuoka, Katsuji Yoshioka, Hirohiko Hohjoh

Clinical characteristics and prognostic factors of pneumonia in patients with and without rheumatoid arthritis

Aya Wakabayashi, Takashi Ishiguro, Yotaro Takaku, Yosuke Miyahara, Naho Kagiyama, Noboru Takayanagi

How does binding of agonist ligands control intrinsic molecular dynamics in human NMDA receptors?

Zoltan Palmai, Kimberley Houenoussi, Sylvia Cohen-Kaminsky, Luba Tchertanov

Prevalence of newly detected diabetes in pregnancy in Qatar, using universal screening

Mohammed Bashir, Manar E. Abdel-Rahman, Mahmoud Aboulfotouh, Fatin Eltaher, Khalid Omar, Isaac Babarinsa, Kwabena Appiah-Sakyi, Tarek Sharaf, Eman Azzam, Mohammad Abukhalil, Malika Boumedjane, Wigdan Yousif, Warda Ahmed, Sadaf Khan, Justin C. Konje, Abdul-Badi Abou-Samra

Why do women want to be beautiful? A qualitative study proposing a new “human beauty values” concept

Sunwoo Kim, Yuri Lee

Personal failure makes society seem fonder: An inquiry into the roots of social interdependence

Edward Orehek, Arie W. Kruglanski

A model for rapid, active surveillance for medically-attended acute gastroenteritis within an integrated health care delivery system

Mark A. Schmidt, Holly C. Groom, Allison L. Naleway, Christianne Biggs, S. Bianca Salas, Kayoko Shioda, Zachary Marsh, Judy L. Donald, Aron J. Hall

Combination of a six microRNA expression profile with four clinicopathological factors for response prediction of systemic treatment in patients with advanced colorectal cancer

Maarten Neerincx, Dennis Poel, Daoud L. S. Sie, Nicole C. T. van Grieken, Ram C. Shankaraiah, Floor S. W. van der Wolf - de Lijster, Jan-Hein T. M. van Waesberghe, Jan-Dirk Burggraaf, Paul P. Eijk, Cornelis Verhoef, Bauke Ylstra, Gerrit A. Meijer, Mark A. van de Wiel, Tineke E. Buffart, Henk M. W. Verheul

Quantitative genetics in the monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) from central Argentina: Estimation of heritability and maternal effects on external morphological traits

Juan J. Martínez, María C. de Aranzamendi, Enrique H. Bucher

Microbiota influence the development of the brain and behaviors in C57BL/6J mice

Jing Lu, Sylvia Synowiec, Lei Lu, Yueyue Yu, Talitha Bretherick, Silvia Takada, Vasily Yarnykh, Jack Caplan, Michael Caplan, Erika C. Claud, Alexander Drobyshevsky

Neural responses when learning spatial and object sequencing tasks via imitation

Elizabeth Renner, Jessica P. White, Antonia F. de C. Hamilton, Francys Subiaul

Short-term recovery pattern of plasma fibrinogen after cardiac surgery: A prospective observational study

Gabor Erdoes, Wulf Dietrich, Monika Pia Stucki, Tobias Michael Merz, Anne Angelillo-Scherrer, Michael Nagler, Thierry Carrel, Balthasar Eberle

Direct, indirect and total effectiveness of bivalent HPV vaccine in women in Galicia, Spain

M. Jesus Purriños-Hermida, María Isolina Santiago-Pérez, Mercedes Treviño, Rafaela Dopazo, Angelina Cañizares, Isolina Bonacho, Matilde Trigo, M. Eva Fernández, Ana Cid, David Gómez, Patricia Ordóñez, Amparo Coira, M. J. Armada, Magdalena Porto, Sonia Perez, Alberto Malvar-Pintos, on behalf of the HPV Vaccine Impact Surveillance Working Group of Galicia

Call and be counted! Can we reliably estimate the number of callers in the indri's (Indri indri) song?

Valeria Torti, Daria Valente, Chiara De Gregorio, Carlo Comazzi, Longondraza Miaretsoa, Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Cristina Giacoma, Marco Gamba

The selectivity of galardin and an azasugar-based hydroxamate compound for human matrix metalloproteases and bacterial metalloproteases

Ingebrigt Sylte, Rangita Dawadi, Nabin Malla, Susannah von Hofsten, Tra-Mi Nguyen, Ann Iren Solli, Eli Berg, Olayiwola A. Adekoya, Gunbjørg Svineng, Jan-Olof Winberg

The use of in-strip digestion for fast proteomic analysis on tear fluid from dry eye patients

Zhu Huang, Chi-Xin Du, Xiao-Dong Pan

Pristionchus nematodes occur frequently in diverse rotting vegetal substrates and are not exclusively necromenic, while Panagrellus redivivoides is found specifically in rotting fruits

Marie-Anne Félix, Michael Ailion, Jung-Chen Hsu, Aurélien Richaud, John Wang

Clinical magnetic resonance-enabled characterization of mono-iodoacetate-induced osteoarthritis in a large animal species

Mark D. Unger, Naveen S. Murthy, Rahul Kanwar, Kasey A. Strand, Timothy P. Maus, Andreas S. Beutler

System for automatic gait analysis based on a single RGB-D camera

Ana Patrícia Rocha, Hugo Miguel Pereira Choupina, Maria do Carmo Vilas-Boas, José Maria Fernandes, João Paulo Silva Cunha

A set of conformationally well-defined L/D-peptide epitopes provides a serological bar code for autoantibody subtypes

Andreas Schrimpf, Dörte Brödje, Petra Pfefferle, Armin Geyer

Walking along the road with anonymous users in similar attributes

Xingchao Bian, Lei Zhang, Lili Yu, Binli Zhang

Scalable preprocessing of high volume environmental acoustic data for bioacoustic monitoring

Alexander Brown, Saurabh Garg, James Montgomery

Inappropriately prescribed and over-the-counter antimicrobials in the Brazilian Amazon Basin: We need to promote more rational use even in remote places

Abel Santiago Muri-Gama, Albert Figueras, Silvia Regina Secoli

The health care utilization of people in prison and after prison release: A population-based cohort study in Ontario, Canada

Fiona G. Kouyoumdjian, Stephanie Y. Cheng, Kinwah Fung, Aaron M. Orkin, Kathryn E. McIsaac, Claire Kendall, Lori Kiefer, Flora I. Matheson, Samantha E. Green, Stephen W. Hwang

Individually-tailored multifactorial intervention to reduce falls in the Malaysian Falls Assessment and Intervention Trial (MyFAIT): A randomized controlled trial

Pey June Tan, Ee Ming Khoo, Karuthan Chinna, Nor I’zzati Saedon, Mohd Idzwan Zakaria, Ahmad Zulkarnain Ahmad Zahedi, Norlina Ramli, Nurliza Khalidin, Mazlina Mazlan, Kok Han Chee, Imran Zainal Abidin, Nemala Nalathamby, Sumaiyah Mat, Mohamad Hasif Jaafar, Hui Min Khor, Norfazilah Mohamad Khannas, Lokman Abdul Majid, Kit Mun Tan, Ai-Vyrn Chin, Shahrul Bahyah Kamaruzzaman, Philip Poi, Karen Morgan, Keith D. Hill, Lynette MacKenzie, Maw Pin Tan

Web monitoring of emerging animal infectious diseases integrated in the French Animal Health Epidemic Intelligence System

Elena Arsevska, Sarah Valentin, Julien Rabatel, Jocelyn de Goër de Hervé, Sylvain Falala, Renaud Lancelot, Mathieu Roche

Combined bacterial and fungal intestinal microbiota analyses: Impact of storage conditions and DNA extraction protocols

Cécile Angebault, Amine Ghozlane, Stevenn Volant, Françoise Botterel, Christophe d’Enfert, Marie-Elisabeth Bougnoux

Ostracized but why? Effects of attributions and empathy on connecting with the socially excluded

Michael J. Bernstein, Zhansheng Chen, Kai-Tak Poon, Jacob A. Benfield, Henry K. S. Ng

Stochastic response analysis for nonlinear vibration systems with adjustable stiffness property under random excitation

Shenlong Wang, Kaixin Han

Quenching of tryptophan fluorescence in a highly scattering solution: Insights on protein localization in a lung surfactant formulation

Luca Ronda, Barbara Pioselli, Silvia Catinella, Fabrizio Salomone, Marialaura Marchetti, Stefano Bettati

DiTeX: Disease-related topic extraction system through internet-based sources

Jungwon Yoon, Jong Wook Kim, Beakcheol Jang

Effect of inhibition of CBP-coactivated β-catenin-mediated Wnt signalling in uremic rats with vascular calcifications

Eva Gravesen, Anders Nordholm, Maria Mace, Marya Morevati, Estrid Høgdall, Carsten Nielsen, Andreas Kjær, Klaus Olgaard, Ewa Lewin

Identification and control of a multiplace hyperbaric chamber

Luis Gracia, Carlos Perez-Vidal, Jose M. de Paco, Luis M. de Paco

Correction: Acute exhaustive aerobic exercise training impair cardiomyocyte function and calcium handling in Sprague-Dawley rats

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