Published: July 28, 2018 to August 03, 2018

Violet N. Chihota, Antoinette Niehaus, Elizabeth M. Streicher, Xia Wang, Samantha L. Sampson, Peter Mason, Gunilla Källenius, Sayoki G. Mfinanga, Marnomorney Pillay, Marisa Klopper, Webster Kasongo, Marcel A. Behr, Nicolaas C. Gey van Pittius, Paul D. van Helden, David Couvin, Nalin Rastogi, Robin M. Warren

Human and the beast—Flight and aggressive responses of European bison to human disturbance

Andżelika Haidt, Tomasz Kamiński, Tomasz Borowik, Rafał Kowalczyk

Prehistoric migrations through the Mediterranean basin shaped Corsican Y-chromosome diversity

Julie Di Cristofaro, Stéphane Mazières, Audrey Tous, Cornelia Di Gaetano, Alice A. Lin, Paul Nebbia, Alberto Piazza, Roy J. King, Peter Underhill, Jacques Chiaroni

Dysregulation of NF-kB in glandular epithelial cells results in Sjögren’s-like features

Xiaoyan Wang, Abeer Shaalan, Silvia Liefers, Julie Coudenys, Dirk Elewaut, Gordon B. Proctor, Hendrika Bootsma, Frans G. M. Kroese, Sarah Pringle

Rapid gastrointestinal loss of Clostridial Clusters IV and XIVa in the ICU associates with an expansion of gut pathogens

Alexandra E. Livanos, Erik J. Snider, Susan Whittier, David H. Chong, Timothy C. Wang, Julian A. Abrams, Daniel E. Freedberg

Can grimace scales estimate the pain status in horses and mice? A statistical approach to identify a classifier

Emanuela Dalla Costa, Riccardo Pascuzzo, Matthew C. Leach, Francesca Dai, Dirk Lebelt, Simone Vantini, Michela Minero

An overview of Phoneutria nigriventer spider venom using combined transcriptomic and proteomic approaches

Marcelo R. V. Diniz, Ana L. B. Paiva, Clara Guerra-Duarte, Milton Y. Nishiyama Jr, Mauricio A. Mudadu, Ursula de Oliveira, Márcia H. Borges, John R. Yates, Inácio de L. Junqueira-de-Azevedo

The scale-free nature of protein sequence space

Patrick C. F. Buchholz, Catharina Zeil, Jürgen Pleiss

Elucidation of the synergistic action of Mentha Piperita essential oil with common antimicrobials

Antonio Rosato, Alessia Carocci, Alessia Catalano, Maria Lisa Clodoveo, Carlo Franchini, Filomena Corbo, Giuseppe Gerardo Carbonara, Antonio Carrieri, Giuseppe Fracchiolla

Matrix metalloproteinase promotes elastic fiber degradation in ligamentum flavum degeneration

Kazuki Sugimoto, Takayuki Nakamura, Takuya Tokunaga, Yusuke Uehara, Tatsuya Okada, Takuya Taniwaki, Toru Fujimoto, Hiroshi Mizuta

Effects of human impacts on habitat use, activity patterns and ecological relationships among medium and small felids of the Atlantic Forest

Paula Cruz, María Eugenia Iezzi, Carlos De Angelo, Diego Varela, Mario S. Di Bitetti, Agustin Paviolo

Gender equality in sickness absence tolerance: Attitudes and norms of sickness absence are not different for men and women

Gøril Kvamme Løset, Harald Dale-Olsen, Tale Hellevik, Arne Mastekaasa, Tilmann von Soest, Kjersti Misje Østbakken

When the FAT goes wide: Right extended Frontal Aslant Tract volume predicts performance on working memory tasks in healthy humans

Federico Varriano, Saül Pascual-Diaz, Alberto Prats-Galino

NorUDCA promotes degradation of α1-antitrypsin mutant Z protein by inducing autophagy through AMPK/ULK1 pathway

Youcai Tang, Keith S. Blomenkamp, Peter Fickert, Michael Trauner, Jeffrey H. Teckman

Genetic diversity and origin of the feral horses in Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Igor V. Ovchinnikov, Taryn Dahms, Billie Herauf, Blake McCann, Rytis Juras, Caitlin Castaneda, E. Gus Cothran

Do payments for forest ecosystem services generate double dividends? An integrated impact assessment of Vietnam’s PES program

Thu-Ha Dang Phan, Roy Brouwer, Long Phi Hoang, Marc David Davidson

Correction: Wheezing phenotypes and risk factors in early life: The ELFE cohort

Souheil Hallit, Benedicte Leynaert, Marie Christine Delmas, Steffi Rocchi, Jacques De Blic, Christophe Marguet, Emeline Scherer, Marie Noelle Dufourg, Corinne Bois, Gabriel Reboux, Laurence Millon, Marie Aline Charles, Chantal Raherison

Correction: Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment Reduces Mortality in Elderly Patients with Moderate to Severe Obstructive Severe Sleep Apnea: A Cohort Study

Qiong Ou, Yong-Chi Chen, Sheng-Qing Zhuo, Xiang-Ting Tian, Chun-Huan He, Xi-Lin Lu, Xing-Lin Gao

Antimicrobial activity of essential oils against multidrug-resistant clinical isolates of the Burkholderia cepacia complex

Lakshmi Vasireddy, Lewis E. H. Bingle, Mark S. Davies

Sclerostin is upregulated in the early stage of chondrogenic differentiation, but not required in endochondral ossification in vitro

Yasuteru Yamaguchi, Ken Kumagai, Sosuke Imai, Kazuma Miyatake, Tomoyuki Saito

Colonization efficiency of Pseudomonas putida is influenced by Fis-controlled transcription of nuoA-N operon

Annika Teppo, Andrio Lahesaare, Hanna Ainelo, Kadri Samuel, Maia Kivisaar, Riho Teras

Gender-specific factors related to suicidal ideation among community-dwelling stroke survivors: The 2013 Korean Community Health Survey

Mina Kim, Young-Hoon Lee

Isolation by distance versus landscape resistance: Understanding dominant patterns of genetic structure in Northern Spotted Owls (Strix occidentalis caurina)

Mark P. Miller, Raymond J. Davis, Eric D. Forsman, Thomas D. Mullins, Susan M. Haig

Outcomes of HIV-associated pneumocystis pneumonia at a South African referral hospital

Nondumiso Chiliza, Mariette Du Toit, Sean Wasserman

Accumulation of citrullinated glial fibrillary acidic protein in a mouse model of bile duct ligation-induced hepatic fibrosis

Sung-Eun Kim, Ji Won Park, Mo-Jong Kim, Byungki Jang, Yong-Chul Jeon, Hee-Jun Kim, Akihito Ishigami, Hyoung Su Kim, Ki Tae Suk, Dong Joon Kim, Choong Kee Park, Eun-Kyoung Choi, Myoung-Kuk Jang

Effects of color lenses on visual evoked magnetic fields following bright light

Masaya Suzuki, Naoya Kumagai, Koji Inui, Ryusuke Kakigi

Intimate partner violence victimization increases the risk of under-five morbidity: A stratified multilevel analysis of pooled Tanzania Demographic Health Surveys, 2010-2016

Deogratius Bintabara, Stephen M. Kibusi

RNA variant identification discrepancy among splice-aware alignment algorithms

Ji Hyung Hong, Yoon Ho Ko, Keunsoo Kang

Transcriptional analysis of viral mRNAs reveals common transcription patterns in cells infected by five different filoviruses

César G. Albariño, Lisa Wiggleton Guerrero, Ayan K. Chakrabarti, Stuart T. Nichol

Reference intervals of routine clinical chemistry parameters among apparently healthy young adults in Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia

Molla Abebe, Mulugeta Melku, Bamlaku Enawgaw, Wubet Birhan, Tekalign Deressa, Betelihem Terefe, Habtamu Wondifraw Baynes

Muscle mass and intramuscular fat of the quadriceps are related to muscle strength in non-ambulatory chronic stroke survivors: A cross-sectional study

Naoki Akazawa, Kazuhiro Harada, Naomi Okawa, Kimiyuki Tamura, Hideki Moriyama

Evaluation of allograft decontamination with two different antibiotic cocktails at the Treviso Tissue Bank Foundation

Adolfo Paolin, Lisa Spagnol, Giuseppe Battistella, Diletta Trojan

MALDI-TOF analysis of blood serum proteome can predict the presence of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance

Francisca Barceló, Rosa Gomila, Ivan de Paul, Xavier Gili, Jaume Segura, Albert Pérez-Montaña, Teresa Jimenez-Marco, Antonia Sampol, José Portugal

Greigite nanocrystals produced by hyperthermophilic archaea of Thermococcales order

Aurore Gorlas, Pierre Jacquemot, Jean-Michel Guigner, Sukhvinder Gill, Patrick Forterre, François Guyot

A systematic review and quality analysis of pediatric traumatic brain injury clinical practice guidelines

Roselyn Appenteng, Taylor Nelp, Jihad Abdelgadir, Nelly Weledji, Michael Haglund, Emily Smith, Oscar Obiga, Francis M. Sakita, Edson A. Miguel, Carolina M. Vissoci, Henry Rice, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Catherine Staton

A genome-wide association study of energy intake and expenditure

Lai Jiang, Kathryn L. Penney, Edward Giovannucci, Peter Kraft, Kathryn M. Wilson

Populating the Data Ark: An attempt to retrieve, preserve, and liberate data from the most highly-cited psychology and psychiatry articles

Tom E. Hardwicke, John P. A. Ioannidis

Changes in maternal feelings for children with autism spectrum disorder after childbirth: The impact of knowledge about the disorder

Sarah Tomiyama, Mitsuru Kikuchi, Yuko Yoshimura, Chiaki Hasegawa, Takashi Ikeda, Daisuke N. Saito, Hirokazu Kumazaki, Nobushige Naito, Yoshio Minabe

Age-related changes in estradiol and longitudinal associations with fat mass in men

Albert Wu, Zumin Shi, Sean Martin, Andrew Vincent, Leonie Heilbronn, Gary Wittert

Aberrant DNMT3B7 expression correlates to tissue type, stage, and survival across cancers

Safia Siddiqui, Michael W. White, Aimee M. Schroeder, Nicholas V. DeLuca, Andrew L. Leszczynski, Stacey L. Raimondi

Framework for fusing traffic information from social and physical transportation data

Zhihao Zheng, Chengcheng Wang, Pu Wang, Yusha Xiong, Fan Zhang, Yisheng Lv

Estimated glomerular filtration rate decline and risk of end-stage renal disease in type 2 diabetes

Megumi Oshima, Tadashi Toyama, Masakazu Haneda, Kengo Furuichi, Tetsuya Babazono, Hiroki Yokoyama, Kunitoshi Iseki, Shinichi Araki, Toshiharu Ninomiya, Shigeko Hara, Yoshiki Suzuki, Masayuki Iwano, Eiji Kusano, Tatsumi Moriya, Hiroaki Satoh, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Miho Shimizu, Akinori Hara, Hirofumi Makino, Takashi Wada, The Research Group of Diabetic Nephropathy, Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of Japan

Wavelet multi-resolution approximation for multiobjective optimal control

Wen Zou, Qingbin Zhang, Qingyu Gao, Zhiwei Feng

Development and validation of a risk-prediction nomogram for patients with ureteral calculi associated with urosepsis: A retrospective analysis

Ming Hu, Xintai Zhong, Xuejiang Cui, Xun Xu, Zhanying Zhang, Lixian Guan, Quanyao Feng, Yiheng Huang, Weilie Hu

Cardiovascular effects of H₃ histamine receptor inverse agonist/ H₄ histamine receptor agonist, clobenpropit, in hemorrhage-shocked rats

Bartosz Wanot, Karolina Jasikowska, Ewa Niewiadomska, Agnieszka Biskupek-Wanot

Insights into venous thromboembolism prevention in hospitalized cancer patients: Lessons from a prospective study

Rocío Figueroa, Ana Alfonso, José López-Picazo, Ignacio Gil-Bazo, Alberto García-Mouriz, José Hermida, José Antonio Páramo, Ramón Lecumberri

Evolution of platelet functions in cirrhotic patients undergoing liver transplantation: A prospective exploration over a month

Daniel Eyraud, Ludovic Suner, Axelle Dupont, Christilla Bachelot-Loza, David M. Smadja, Dominique Helley, Sébastien Bertil, Ovidiu Gostian, Jean Szymezak, Yann Loncar, Louis Puybasset, Pascal Lebray, Corinne Vezinet, Jean-Christophe Vaillant, Benjamin Granger, Pascale Gaussem

Quality and technical efficiency do not evolve hand in hand in Spanish hospitals: Observational study with administrative data

Sophie Gorgemans, Micaela Comendeiro-Maaløe, Manuel Ridao-López, Enrique Bernal-Delgado

Home-based record (HBR) ownership and use of HBR recording fields in selected Kenyan communities: Results from the Kenya Missed Opportunities for Vaccination Assessment

David W. Brown, Collins Tabu, Kibet Sergon, Stephanie Shendale, Isaac Mugoya, Zorodzai Machekanyanga, Peter Okoth, Iheoma Ukachi Onuekwusi, Ikechukwu Udo Ogbuanu

Genetic and environmental influences on the size-fecundity relationship in Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae): Impacts on population growth estimates?

Katie S. Costanzo, Katie M. Westby, Kim A. Medley

Enhancing ventilation detection during cardiopulmonary resuscitation by filtering chest compression artifact from the capnography waveform

Jose Julio Gutiérrez, Mikel Leturiondo, Sofía Ruiz de Gauna, Jesus María Ruiz, Luis Alberto Leturiondo, Digna María González-Otero, Dana Zive, James Knox Russell, Mohamud Daya

Maximizing tree harvesting benefit from forests under insect infestation disturbances

Maria C. A. Leite, Benito Chen-Charpentier, Folashade B. Agusto

Assessing genetic architecture and signatures of selection of dual purpose Gir cattle populations using genomic information

Amanda Marchi Maiorano, Daniela Lino Lourenco, Shogo Tsuruta, Alejandra Maria Toro Ospina, Nedenia Bonvino Stafuzza, Yutaka Masuda, Anibal Eugenio Vercesi Filho, Joslaine Noely dos Santos Goncalves Cyrillo, Rogério Abdallah Curi, Josineudson Augusto II de Vasconcelos Silva

Evaluation of serum sphingolipids and the influence of genetic risk factors in age-related macular degeneration

Luciana M. Pujol-Lereis, Gerhard Liebisch, Tina Schick, Yuchen Lin, Felix Grassmann, Koji Uchida, Peter F. Zipfel, Sascha Fauser, Christine Skerka, Bernhard H. F. Weber

ECAP growth function to increasing pulse amplitude or pulse duration demonstrates large inter-animal variability that is reflected in auditory cortex of the guinea pig

Victor Adenis, Boris Gourévitch, Elisabeth Mamelle, Matthieu Recugnat, Pierre Stahl, Dan Gnansia, Yann Nguyen, Jean-Marc Edeline

Brain region-dependent gene networks associated with selective breeding for increased voluntary wheel-running behavior

Pan Zhang, Justin S. Rhodes, Theodore Garland Jr., Sam D. Perez, Bruce R. Southey, Sandra L. Rodriguez-Zas

Transforming growth factor-β1 gene promoter -509C/T polymorphism in association with expression affects colorectal cancer development and depends on gender

Spaska Stanilova, Noyko Stanilov, Alexander Julianov, Irena Manolova, Lyuba Miteva

Association between beliefs about medicines and self-medication with analgesics among patients with dental pain

Piyush Mittal, Oi Yun Chan, Sham Kishor Kanneppady, Rohit Kumar Verma, Syed Shahzad Hasan

Impact of a non-return-to-work prognostic model (WORRK) on allocation to rehabilitation clinical pathways: A single centre parallel group randomised trial

Chantal Plomb-Holmes, Roger Hilfiker, Bertrand Leger, François Luthi

Anticipatory response before competition in Standardbred racehorses

Zsófia Bohák, Andrea Harnos, Kinga Joó, Ottó Szenci, Levente Kovács

Positive and negative affect as predictors of social functioning in Spanish children

Ricardo Sanmartín, Cándido J. Inglés, María Vicent, Carolina Gonzálvez, Ángela Díaz-Herrero, José Manuel García-Fernández

Impacts of demographic and laboratory parameters on key hematological indices in an adult population of southern Taiwan: A cohort study

Ming-Chung Wang, Cih-En Huang, Meng-Hung Lin, Yao-Hsu Yang, Chang-Hsien Lu, Ping-Tsung Chen, Yu-Ying Wu, Hsing-Yi Tsou, Chia-Chen Hsu, Chih-Cheng Chen

A low-cost, battery-powered acoustic trap for surveilling male Aedes aegypti during rear-and-release operations

Brian J. Johnson, Barukh B. Rohde, Nicholas Zeak, Kyran M. Staunton, Tim Prachar, Scott A. Ritchie

Identification of three Daphne species by DNA barcoding and HPLC fingerprint analysis

Yanpeng Li, Lu Geng, Yuanyan Liu, Mingyang Chen, Qirui Mu, Xu Zhang, Zhongyi Zhang, Guangxi Ren, Chunsheng Liu

A novel trust-scoring system using trustability co-efficient of variation for identification of secure agent platforms

Adri Jovin John Joseph, Marikkannan Mariappan

Recreational fisheries economics between illusion and reality: The case of Algeria

Nadhéra Babali, Mohamed Kacher, Dyhia Belhabib, Ferial Louanchi, Daniel Pauly

The "face race lightness illusion": An effect of the eyes and pupils?

Bruno Laeng, Kenneth Gitiye Kiambarua, Thomas Hagen, Agata Bochynska, Jamie Lubell, Hikaru Suzuki, Matia Okubo

Acinetobacter spp. porin Omp33-36: Classification and transcriptional response to carbapenems and host cells

Katarina Novović, Sanja Mihajlović, Miroslav Dinić, Milka Malešević, Marija Miljković, Milan Kojić, Branko Jovčić

Spatial distribution and correlation characteristics of heavy metals in the seawater, suspended particulate matter and sediments in Zhanjiang Bay, China

Jibiao Zhang, Fengxia Zhou, Chunliang Chen, Xingli Sun, Yuzhen Shi, Hui Zhao, Fajin Chen

Study of the ichthyotoxic microalga Heterosigma akashiwo by transcriptional activation of sublethal marker Hsp70b in Transwell co-culture assays

Allisson Astuya, Alejandra Rivera, Karina Vega-Drake, Carla Aburto, Fernando Cruzat, Viviana Ulloa, Teresa Caprile, Juan J. Gallardo-Rodríguez

Neural activity and fundamental learning, motivated by monetary loss and reward, are intact in mild to moderate major depressive disorder

Michael Moutoussis, Robb B. Rutledge, Gita Prabhu, Louise Hrynkiewicz, Jordan Lam, Olga-Therese Ousdal, Marc Guitart-Masip, Peter Fonagy, Raymond J. Dolan

Dietary cadmium exposure assessment in rural areas of Southwest China

Jiao Huo, Zhenzhen Huang, Renjia Li, Yang Song, Zhen Lan, Sijia Ma, Yongning Wu, Jinyao Chen, Lishi Zhang

“In a tree by the brook, there’s a songbird who sings”: Woodlands in an agricultural matrix maintain functionality of a wintering bird community

Biang La Nam Syiem, Varun R. Goswami, Divya Vasudev

Improved glucose metabolism by Eragrostis tef potentially through beige adipocyte formation and attenuating adipose tissue inflammation

Mengistu Lemecha, Katsutaro Morino, Daniel Seifu, Takeshi Imamura, Fumiyuki Nakagawa, Aki Nagata, Takuya Okamato, Osamu Sekine, Satoshi Ugi, Hiroshi Maegawa

Iron deficiency associates with deterioration in several symptoms independently from hemoglobin level among chronic hemodialysis patients

Shuta Motonishi, Kentaro Tanaka, Takashi Ozawa

Structural and biological features of a novel plant defensin from Brugmansia x candida

Siriporn Kaewklom, Mathira Wongchai, Sawang Petvises, Warunee Hanpithakphong, Ratchaneewan Aunpad

BioNet: A Python interface to NEURON for modeling large-scale networks

Sergey L. Gratiy, Yazan N. Billeh, Kael Dai, Catalin Mitelut, David Feng, Nathan W. Gouwens, Nicholas Cain, Christof Koch, Costas A. Anastassiou, Anton Arkhipov

Evaluating lifetime nitrogen use efficiency of dairy cattle: A modelling approach

Andreas Foskolos, Jon M. Moorby

Human iPS cell-derived cardiac tissue sheets for functional restoration of infarcted porcine hearts

Masanosuke Ishigami, Hidetoshi Masumoto, Takeshi Ikuno, Takayuki Aoki, Masahide Kawatou, Kenji Minakata, Tadashi Ikeda, Ryuzo Sakata, Jun K. Yamashita, Kenji Minatoya

Spanish adaptation and psychometric properties of the child version of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire

Mireia Orgilés, Alexandra Morales, Iván Fernández-Martínez, Juan Manuel Ortigosa-Quiles, José P. Espada

Development of an automated image analysis protocol for quantification of intracellular forms of Leishmania spp.

Ana G. Gomes-Alves, André F. Maia, Tânia Cruz, Helena Castro, Ana M. Tomás

A disruptive approach to eliminating weapon-grade plutonium – Pu burning in a molten salt fast reactor

Bruno Merk, Dzianis Litskevich

A behavioral study on tonal working memory in musicians and non-musicians

Yue Ding, Kathleen Gray, Alexander Forrence, Xiaoqin Wang, Juan Huang

Performance of a highly sensitive rapid diagnostic test (HS-RDT) for detecting malaria in peripheral and placental blood samples from pregnant women in Colombia

Ana María Vásquez, Ana Catalina Medina, Alberto Tobón-Castaño, Maritza Posada, Gabriel Jaime Vélez, Ana Campillo, Iveth J. González, Xavier Ding

An experimental study of turtle shell rattle production and the implications for archaeofaunal assemblages

Andrew Gillreath-Brown, Tanya M. Peres

fNIRS measurement of cortical activation and functional connectivity during a visuospatial working memory task

Joseph M. Baker, Jennifer L. Bruno, Andrew Gundran, S. M. Hadi Hosseini, Allan L. Reiss

Association of serum concentrations of irisin and the adipokines adiponectin and leptin with epicardial fat in cardiovascular surgery patients

Hiroyuki Kaneda, Toshiaki Nakajima, Akiko Haruyama, Ikuko Shibasaki, Takaaki Hasegawa, Tatsuya Sawaguchi, Toshiyuki Kuwata, Syoutarou Obi, Takuo Arikawa, Masashi Sakuma, Hirohisa Amano, Shigeru Toyoda, Hirotsugu Fukuda, Teruo Inoue

A population genomic characterization of copy number variation in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus