Scientific Reports Table of Contents e-alert: 27 November 2012

27 November 2012      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         Jump to the content that matters to you ▼ Biological Sciences   ▼ Chemical Sciences   ▼ Physical Sciences   ▼ Earth & Environmental Sciences         Biological Sciences ▲ top               Witnessing Quantum Coherence: from solid-state to biological systems ▶     Che-Ming Li, Neill Lambert, Yueh-Nan Chen et al.     Quantum coherence is one of the primary non-classical features of quantum systems. While protocols such as the Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) and quantum tomography can be used to …             Who needs a referee? How incorrect basketball actions are automatically detected by basketball players' brain ▶     Alice Mado Proverbio, Nicola Crotti, Mirella Manfredi et al.     While the existence of a mirror neuron system (MNS) representing and mirroring simple purposeful actions (such as reaching) is known, neural mechanisms underlying the …             A Hydration-Based Biophysical Index for the Onset of Soil Microbial Coexistence ▶     Gang Wang, Dani Or     Mechanistic exploration of the origins of the unparalleled soil microbial biodiversity represents a vast and uncharted scientific frontier. Quantification of candidate mechanisms …             Spectral pattern of urinary water as a biomarker of estrus in the giant panda ▶     Kodzue Kinoshita, Mari Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Morita et al.     Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has been successfully used for non-invasive diagnosis of diseases and abnormalities where water spectral patterns are found to play an important …             Regulation of autophagy by nucleoporin Tpr ▶     Tatsuyoshi Funasaka, Eriko Tsuka, Richard W. Wong     The nuclear pore complex (NPC) consists of a conserved set of ~30 different proteins, termed nucleoporins, and serves as a gateway for the exchange of materials between the …             Fibrin Clots Are Equilibrium Polymers That Can Be Remodeled Without Proteolytic Digestion ▶     Irina N. Chernysh, Chandrasekaran Nagaswami, Prashant K. Purohit et al.     Fibrin polymerization is a necessary part of hemostasis but clots can obstruct blood vessels and cause heart attacks and strokes. The polymerization reactions are specific and …             Broadband and broadangle SPP antennas based on plasmonic crystals with linear chirp ▶     J.-S Bouillard, S. Vilain, W. Dickson et al.     Plasmonic technology relies on the coupling of light to surface electromagnetic modes on smooth or structured metal surfaces. While some applications utilise the resonant nature …                 Chemical Sciences ▲ top               TiO2-Coated Carbon Nanotube-Silicon Solar Cells with Efficiency of 15% ▶     Enzheng Shi, Luhui Zhang, Zhen Li et al.     Combining carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene or conducting polymers with conventional silicon wafers leads to promising solar cell architectures with rapidly improved power …             Broadband and broadangle SPP antennas based on plasmonic crystals with linear chirp ▶     J.-S Bouillard, S. Vilain, W. Dickson et al.     Plasmonic technology relies on the coupling of light to surface electromagnetic modes on smooth or structured metal surfaces. While some applications utilise the resonant nature …                         Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from all scientific fields. Submit your manuscript now.               Physical Sciences ▲ top               Changes in Cross-Correlations as an Indicator for Systemic Risk ▶     Zeyu Zheng, Boris Podobnik, Ling Feng et al.     The 2008–2012 global financial crisis began with the global recession in December 2007 and exacerbated in September 2008, during which the U.S. stock markets lost 20% of value from …             Lightning in superconductors ▶     J. I. Vestgården, D. V. Shantsev, Y. M. Galperin et al.     Crucially important for application of type-II superconductor films is the stability of the vortex matter – magnetic flux lines penetrating the material. If some vortices get …             Witnessing Quantum Coherence: from solid-state to biological systems ▶     Che-Ming Li, Neill Lambert, Yueh-Nan Chen et al.     Quantum coherence is one of the primary non-classical features of quantum systems. While protocols such as the Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) and quantum tomography can be used to …             TiO2-Coated Carbon Nanotube-Silicon Solar Cells with Efficiency of 15% ▶     Enzheng Shi, Luhui Zhang, Zhen Li et al.     Combining carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene or conducting polymers with conventional silicon wafers leads to promising solar cell architectures with rapidly improved power …             Quantum interferometry with three-dimensional geometry ▶     Nicolò Spagnolo, Lorenzo Aparo, Chiara Vitelli et al.     Quantum interferometry uses quantum resources to improve phase estimation with respect to classical methods. Here we propose and theoretically investigate a new quantum …             Spectral pattern of urinary water as a biomarker of estrus in the giant panda ▶     Kodzue Kinoshita, Mari Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Morita et al.     Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has been successfully used for non-invasive diagnosis of diseases and abnormalities where water spectral patterns are found to play an important role.             Solitons Beyond Binary: Possibility of Fibre-Optic Transmission of Two Bits per Clock Period ▶     Philipp Rohrmann, Alexander Hause, Fedor Mitschke     Optical telecommunication employs light pulses travelling down optical fibres; in a binary format logical Ones and Zeroes are represented by the presence or absence of a light …             Oscillons, solitons, and domain walls in arrays of nonlinear plasmonic nanoparticles ▶     Roman Noskov, Pavel Belov, Yuri Kivshar     The study of metal nanoparticles plays a central role in the emerging novel technologies employing optics beyond the diffraction limit. Combining strong surface plasmon …             Broadband and broadangle SPP antennas based on plasmonic crystals with linear chirp ▶     J.-S Bouillard, S. Vilain, W. Dickson et al.     Plasmonic technology relies on the coupling of light to surface electromagnetic modes on smooth or structured metal surfaces. While some applications utilise the resonant nature …             Fibrin Clots Are Equilibrium Polymers That Can Be Remodeled Without Proteolytic Digestion ▶     Irina N. Chernysh, Chandrasekaran Nagaswami, Prashant K. Purohit et al.     Fibrin polymerization is a necessary part of hemostasis but clots can obstruct blood vessels and cause heart attacks and strokes. The polymerization reactions are specific and …               Earth & Environmental Sciences ▲ top               A Hydration-Based Biophysical Index for the Onset of Soil Microbial Coexistence ▶     Gang Wang, Dani Or     Mechanistic exploration of the origins of the unparalleled soil microbial biodiversity represents a vast and uncharted scientific frontier. 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