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04 June 2013      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports             Nature Outlook: Sleep Researchers are defining the various functions of sleep, from how we learn to the regulation of metabolism and immunity. New ways to treat troubled sleeping are being developed, and better sleep practice can help people with mood disorders. Access the Outlook free online for six months. Produced with support from: ResMed             Jump to the content that matters to you ▼ Biological Sciences   ▼ Chemical Sciences   ▼ Physical Sciences   ▼ Earth & Environmental Sciences   ▼ Health Sciences           Biological Sciences ▲ top               Metabolic scaling in solid tumours ▶     E. Milotti, V. Vyshemirsky, M. Sega et al.     Tumour metabolism is an outstanding topic of cancer research, as it determines the growth rate and the global activity of tumours. Recently, by combining the diffusion of oxygen, …             A non-invasive imaging for the in vivo tracking of high-speed vesicle transport in mouse neutrophils ▶     Kenji Kikushima, Sayaka Kita, Hideo Higuchi     Neutrophils play an essential role in the innate immune response. To understand neutrophil activity, the development of a new technique to observe neutrophils in situ is required. …             Neurotoxic amyloid beta oligomeric assemblies recreated in microfluidic platform with interstitial level of slow flow ▶     Yoon Jung Choi, Sukyung Chae, Jeong Hun Kim et al.     Alzheimer's disease is accompanied by progressive, time-dependent changes of three moieties of amyloid beta. In vitro models therefore should provide same conditions for more …             Ab Initio structure prediction for Escherichia coli: towards genome-wide protein structure modeling and fold assignment ▶     Dong Xu, Yang Zhang     Genome-wide protein structure prediction and structure-based function annotation have been a long-term goal in molecular biology but not yet become possible due to difficulties in …             Filling the gaps of dinosaur eggshell phylogeny: Late Jurassic Theropod clutch with embryos from Portugal ▶     Ricardo Araújo, Rui Castanhinha, Rui M. S. Martins et al.     The non-avian saurischians that have associated eggshells and embryos are represented only by the sauropodomorph Massospondylus and Coelurosauria (derived theropods), thus missing …             Electron beam-assisted healing of nanopores in magnesium alloys ▶     He Zheng, Yu Liu, Fan Cao et al.     Nanopore-based sensing has emerged as a promising candidate for affordable and powerful DNA sequencing technologies. Herein, we demonstrate that nanopores can be successfully …             PRC2 overexpression and PRC2-target gene repression relating to poorer prognosis in small cell lung cancer ▶     Teruyuki Sato, Atsushi Kaneda, Shingo Tsuji et al.     Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a subtype of lung cancer with poor prognosis. Expression array analysis of 23 SCLC cases and 42 normal tissues revealed that EZH2 and other PRC2 …             Digital optical phase conjugation for delivering two-dimensional images through turbid media ▶     Timothy R. Hillman, Toyohiko Yamauchi, Wonshik Choi et al.     Optical transmission through complex media such as biological tissue is fundamentally limited by multiple light scattering. Precise control of the optical wavefield potentially …             Skin Stem Cell Hypotheses and Long Term Clone Survival – Explored Using Agent-based Modelling ▶     X. Li, A. K. Upadhyay, A. J. Bullock et al.     Epithelial renewal in skin is achieved by the constant turnover and differentiation of keratinocytes. Three popular hypotheses have been proposed to explain basal keratinocyte …             A novel protocol for three-dimensional structure prediction of RNA-protein complexes ▶     Yangyu Huang, Shiyong Liu, Dachuan Guo et al.     Three-dimensional structures of RNA-protein complexes are crucial for understanding their diverse functions. However, the number of the RNA-protein complex structures solved by …             L-arginine-NO-cGMP signalling pathway in pancreatitis ▶     Igor Buchwalow, Jürgen Schnekenburger, Katharina Tiemann et al.     The role of nitric oxide (NO) in the human pancreas and in pancreatitis still remains controversial. Furthermore, conflicting conclusions have been reached by different …             A Method for accurate in vivo micro-Raman spectroscopic measurements under guidance of advanced microscopy imaging ▶     Hequn Wang, Anthony M. D. Lee, Harvey Lui et al.     The movement from the subjects during in vivo confocal Raman spectral measurements could change the measurement volume, leading to non-specific signals and inaccurate …             Complex social contagion makes networks more vulnerable to disease outbreaks ▶     Ellsworth Campbell, Marcel Salathé     Social network analysis is now widely used to investigate the dynamics of infectious disease spread. Vaccination dramatically disrupts disease transmission on a contact network, …             In vivo minimally invasive interstitial multi-functional microendoscopy ▶     Asaf Shahmoon, Shiran Aharon, Oded Kruchik et al.     Developing minimally invasive methodologies for imaging of internal organs is an emerging field in the biomedical examination research. This paper introduces a new …             Molecular Epidemiology of Community-Associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the genomic era: a Cross-Sectional Study ▶     Mattia Prosperi, Nazle Veras, Taj Azarian et al.     Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a leading cause of healthcare-associated infections and significant contributor to healthcare cost. Community-associated-MRSA …                 Chemical Sciences ▲ top               High-performance flexible electrochromic device based on facile semiconductor-to-metal transition realized by WO3·2H2O ultrathin nanosheets ▶     Lin Liang, Jiajia Zhang, Yingying Zhou et al.     Ultrathin nanosheets are considered as one kind of the most promising candidates for the fabrication of flexible electrochromic devices (ECDs) due to their permeable channels, high …             High-Quality Reduced Graphene Oxide by a Dual-Function Chemical Reduction and Healing Process ▶     Surajit Some, Youngmin Kim, Yeoheung Yoon et al.     A new chemical dual-functional reducing agent, thiophene, was used to produce high-quality reduced graphene oxide (rGO) as a result of a chemical reduction of graphene oxide (GO) …             Directed self-assembly of proteins into discrete radial patterns ▶     Garima Thakur, Kovur Prashanthi, Thomas Thundat     Unlike physical patterning of materials at nanometer scale, manipulating soft matter such as biomolecules into patterns is still in its infancy. Self-assembled monolayer (SAM) with …             Hierarchical Oriented Anatase TiO2 Nanostructure arrays on Flexible Substrate for Efficient Dye-sensitized Solar Cells ▶     Wu-Qiang Wu, Hua-Shang Rao, Yang-Fan Xu et al.     The vertically oriented anatase single crystalline TiO2 nanostructure arrays (TNAs) consisting of TiO2 truncated octahedrons with exposed {001} facets or hierarchical TiO2 …             A physical organogel electrolyte: characterized by in situ thermo-irreversible gelation and single-ion-predominent conduction ▶     Young-Soo Kim, Yoon-Gyo Cho, Dorj Odkhuu et al.     Electrolytes are characterized by their ionic conductivity (σi). It is desirable that overall σi results from the dominant contribution of the ions of interest (e.g. Li in lithium …             Rice husks as a sustainable source of nanostructured silicon for high performance Li-ion battery anodes ▶     Nian Liu, Kaifu Huo, Matthew T. McDowell et al.     The recovery of useful materials from earth-abundant substances is of strategic importance for industrial processes. Despite the fact that Si is the second most abundant element …             Enhanced performance and interfacial investigation of mineral-based composite phase change materials for thermal energy storage ▶     Chuanchang Li, Liangjie Fu, Jing Ouyang et al.     A novel mineral-based composite phase change materials (PCMs) was prepared via vacuum impregnation method assisted with microwave-acid treatment of the graphite (G) and bentonite …                         Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from all scientific fields. Submit your manuscript now.               Physical Sciences ▲ top               Tunable Spin-orbit Coupling and Quantum Phase Transition in a Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate ▶     Yongping Zhang, Gang Chen, Chuanwei Zhang     Spin-orbit coupling (SOC), the intrinsic interaction between a particle spin and its motion, is responsible for various important phenomena, ranging from atomic fine structure to …             Facile preparation of hierarchically porous carbons from metal-organic gels and their application in energy storage ▶     Wei Xia, Bin Qiu, Dingguo Xia et al.     Porous carbon materials have numerous applications due to their thermal and chemical stability, high surface area and low densities. However, conventional preparing porous carbon …             A submicron broadband surface-plasmon-polariton unidirectional coupler ▶     Huimin Liao, Zhi Li, Jianjun Chen et al.     The manipulation of light propagation is a basic subject in optics and has many important applications. With the development of nano-optics, this area has been downscaled to …             High-performance flexible electrochromic device based on facile semiconductor-to-metal transition realized by WO3·2H2O ultrathin nanosheets ▶     Lin Liang, Jiajia Zhang, Yingying Zhou et al.     Ultrathin nanosheets are considered as one kind of the most promising candidates for the fabrication of flexible electrochromic devices (ECDs) due to their permeable channels, high …             Metabolic scaling in solid tumours ▶     E. Milotti, V. Vyshemirsky, M. Sega et al.     Tumour metabolism is an outstanding topic of cancer research, as it determines the growth rate and the global activity of tumours. Recently, by combining the diffusion of oxygen, …             High-Quality Reduced Graphene Oxide by a Dual-Function Chemical Reduction and Healing Process ▶     Surajit Some, Youngmin Kim, Yeoheung Yoon et al.     A new chemical dual-functional reducing agent, thiophene, was used to produce high-quality reduced graphene oxide (rGO) as a result of a chemical reduction of graphene oxide (GO) …             Drastic reduction in the growth temperature of graphene on copper via enhanced London dispersion force ▶     Jin-Ho Choi, Zhancheng Li, Ping Cui et al.     London dispersion force is ubiquitous in nature, and is increasingly recognized to be an important factor in a variety of surface processes. Here we demonstrate unambiguously the …             Near-field ptychography: phase retrieval for inline holography using a structured illumination ▶     Marco Stockmar, Peter Cloetens, Irene Zanette et al.     Inline holography is a common phase-contrast imaging method which uses free-space propagation to encode the phase signal into measured intensities. However, quantitative retrieval …             ‘True’ bosonic coupling strength in strongly correlated superconductors ▶     Hideaki Iwasawa, Yoshiyuki Yoshida, Izumi Hase et al.     Clarifying the coupling between electrons and bosonic excitations (phonons or magnetic fluctuations) that mediate the formation of Cooper pairs is pivotal to understand …             Extremely high-accuracy correction of air refractive index using two-colour optical frequency combs ▶     Guanhao Wu, Mayumi Takahashi, Kaoru Arai et al.     Optical frequency combs have become an essential tool for distance metrology, showing great advantages compared with traditional laser interferometry. However, there is not yet an …             Directed self-assembly of proteins into discrete radial patterns ▶     Garima Thakur, Kovur Prashanthi, Thomas Thundat     Unlike physical patterning of materials at nanometer scale, manipulating soft matter such as biomolecules into patterns is still in its infancy. Self-assembled monolayer (SAM) with …             Probing and tuning frictional aging at the nanoscale ▶     Rosario Capozza, Itay Barel, Michael Urbakh     Time-dependent increase of frictional strength, or frictional aging, is a widely observed phenomenon both at macro and nanoscales. The frictional aging at the nanoscale may result …             Theoretical investigation of graphene-based photonic modulators ▶     Jacek Gosciniak, Dawn T. H. Tan     Integration of electronics and photonics for future applications requires an efficient conversion of electrical to optical signals. The excellent electronic and photonic …             Information dissipation as an early-warning signal for the Lehman Brothers collapse in financial time series ▶     Rick Quax, Drona Kandhai, Peter M. A. Sloot     In financial markets, participants locally optimize their profit which can result in a globally unstable state leading to a catastrophic change. The largest crash in the past …             All optical quantum control of a spin-quantum state and ultrafast transduction into an electric current ▶     K. Müller, T. Kaldewey, R. Ripszam et al.     The ability to control and exploit quantum coherence and entanglement drives research across many fields ranging from ultra-cold quantum gases to spin systems in condensed matter. …             The phase-controlled Raman effect ▶     A. A. Lanin, I. V. Fedotov, A. B. Fedotov et al.     Unlike spontaneous Raman effect, nonlinear Raman scattering generates fields with a well-defined phase, allowing Raman signals from individual scatterers to add up into a highly …             Electron beam-assisted healing of nanopores in magnesium alloys ▶     He Zheng, Yu Liu, Fan Cao et al.     Nanopore-based sensing has emerged as a promising candidate for affordable and powerful DNA sequencing technologies. Herein, we demonstrate that nanopores can be successfully …             Bright betatron X-ray radiation from a laser-driven-clustering gas target ▶     L. M. Chen, W. C. Yan, D. Z. Li et al.     Hard X-ray sources from femtosecond (fs) laser-produced plasmas, including the betatron X-rays from laser wakefield-accelerated electrons, have compact sizes, fs pulse duration …             Hierarchical Oriented Anatase TiO2 Nanostructure arrays on Flexible Substrate for Efficient Dye-sensitized Solar Cells ▶     Wu-Qiang Wu, Hua-Shang Rao, Yang-Fan Xu et al.     The vertically oriented anatase single crystalline TiO2 nanostructure arrays (TNAs) consisting of TiO2 truncated octahedrons with exposed {001} facets or hierarchical TiO2 …             A physical organogel electrolyte: characterized by in situ thermo-irreversible gelation and single-ion-predominent conduction ▶     Young-Soo Kim, Yoon-Gyo Cho, Dorj Odkhuu et al.     Electrolytes are characterized by their ionic conductivity (σi). It is desirable that overall σi results from the dominant contribution of the ions of interest (e.g. Li in lithium …             Waveguide integrated low noise NbTiN nanowire single-photon detectors with milli-Hz dark count rate ▶     Carsten Schuck, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, Hong X. Tang     Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors are an ideal match for integrated quantum photonic circuits due to their high detection efficiency for telecom wavelength photons. …             Rice husks as a sustainable source of nanostructured silicon for high performance Li-ion battery anodes ▶     Nian Liu, Kaifu Huo, Matthew T. McDowell et al.     The recovery of useful materials from earth-abundant substances is of strategic importance for industrial processes. Despite the fact that Si is the second most abundant element …             Ultrafine Sulfur Nanoparticles in Conducting Polymer Shell as Cathode Materials for High Performance Lithium/Sulfur Batteries ▶     Hongwei Chen, Weiling Dong, Jun Ge et al.     We report the synthesis of ultrafine S nanoparticles with diameter 10 ~ 20 nm via a membrane-assisted precipitation technique. The S nanoparticles were then coated with conducting …             Real-Time Imaging of Quantum Entanglement ▶     Robert Fickler, Mario Krenn, Radek Lapkiewicz et al.     Quantum Entanglement is widely regarded as one of the most prominent features of quantum mechanics and quantum information science. Although, photonic entanglement is routinely …             Experimental Observation of Negative Effective Gravity in Water Waves ▶     Xinhua Hu, Jiong Yang, Jian Zi et al.     The gravity of Earth is responsible for the formation of water waves and usually difficult to change. Although negative effective gravity was recently predicted theoretically in …             Digital optical phase conjugation for delivering two-dimensional images through turbid media ▶     Timothy R. Hillman, Toyohiko Yamauchi, Wonshik Choi et al.     Optical transmission through complex media such as biological tissue is fundamentally limited by multiple light scattering. Precise control of the optical wavefield potentially …             Graphene/elastomer composite-based photo-thermal nanopositioners ▶     James Loomis, Xiaoming Fan, Farhad Khosravi et al.     The addition of nanomaterials to polymers can result not only in significant material property improvements, but also assist in creating entirely new composite functionalities. By …             On-chip time resolved detection of quantum dot emission using integrated superconducting single photon detectors ▶     G. Reithmaier, S. Lichtmannecker, T. Reichert et al.     We report the routing of quantum light emitted by self-assembled InGaAs quantum dots (QDs) into the optical modes of a GaAs ridge waveguide and its efficient detection on-chip via …             Enhanced performance and interfacial investigation of mineral-based composite phase change materials for thermal energy storage ▶     Chuanchang Li, Liangjie Fu, Jing Ouyang et al.     A novel mineral-based composite phase change materials (PCMs) was prepared via vacuum impregnation method assisted with microwave-acid treatment of the graphite (G) and bentonite …             Lateral displacement induced disorder in L10-FePt nanostructures by ion-implantation ▶     N. Gaur, S. Kundu, S. N. Piramanayagam et al.     Ion implantation is a promising technique for fabricating high density bit patterned media (BPM) as it may eliminate the requirement of disk planarization. However, there has not …             Graphene as an atomically thin interface for growth of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes ▶     Rahul Rao, Gugang Chen, Leela Mohana Reddy Arava et al.     Growth of vertically aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) forests is highly sensitive to the nature of the substrate. This constraint narrows the range of available materials to just a …             Transformation optics for antennas: why limit the bandwidth with metamaterials? ▶     Oscar Quevedo-Teruel, Wenxuan Tang, Rhiannon C. Mitchell-Thomas et al.     In the last decade, a technique termed transformation optics has been developed for the design of novel electromagnetic devices. This method defines the exact modification of …             DebtRank-transparency: Controlling systemic risk in financial networks ▶     Stefan Thurner, Sebastian Poledna     Nodes in a financial network, such as banks, cannot assess the true risks associated with lending to other nodes in the network, unless they have full information on the riskiness …             In vivo minimally invasive interstitial multi-functional microendoscopy ▶     Asaf Shahmoon, Shiran Aharon, Oded Kruchik et al.     Developing minimally invasive methodologies for imaging of internal organs is an emerging field in the biomedical examination research. This paper introduces a new …               Earth & Environmental Sciences ▲ top               Man made deltas ▶     Vittorio Maselli, Fabio Trincardi     The review of geochronological and historical data documents that the largest southern European deltas formed almost synchronously during two short intervals of enhanced anthropic …             Filling the gaps of dinosaur eggshell phylogeny: Late Jurassic Theropod clutch with embryos from Portugal ▶     Ricardo Araújo, Rui Castanhinha, Rui M. S. Martins et al.     The non-avian saurischians that have associated eggshells and embryos are represented only by the sauropodomorph Massospondylus and Coelurosauria (derived theropods), thus missing …             Hadal disturbance in the Japan Trench induced by the 2011 Tohoku–Oki Earthquake ▶     Kazumasa Oguri, Kiichiro Kawamura, Arito Sakaguchi et al.     In situ video observations and sediment core samplings were performed at two hadal sites in the Japan Trench on July, 2011, four months after the Tohoku–Oki earthquake. Video …             Late Jurassic ocean anoxic event: evidence from voluminous sulphide deposition and preservation in the Panthalassa ▶     Tatsuo Nozaki, Yasuhiro Kato, Katsuhiko Suzuki     The historically productive copper-bearing Besshi-type sulphide deposits in the Japanese accretionary complex were formed as volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits on the deep-sea …               Health Sciences ▲ top               CODUSA - Customize Optimal Donor Using Simulated Annealing In Heart Transplantation ▶     Daniel Ansari, Bodil Andersson, Mattias Ohlsson et al.     In heart transplantation, selection of an optimal recipient-donor match has been constrained by the lack of individualized prediction models. Here we developed a customized …             PRC2 overexpression and PRC2-target gene repression relating to poorer prognosis in small cell lung cancer ▶     Teruyuki Sato, Atsushi Kaneda, Shingo Tsuji et al.     Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a subtype of lung cancer with poor prognosis. Expression array analysis of 23 SCLC cases and 42 normal tissues revealed that EZH2 and other PRC2 …             Complex social contagion makes networks more vulnerable to disease outbreaks ▶     Ellsworth Campbell, Marcel Salathé     Social network analysis is now widely used to investigate the dynamics of infectious disease spread. Vaccination dramatically disrupts disease transmission on a contact network, …             Molecular Epidemiology of Community-Associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the genomic era: a Cross-Sectional Study ▶     Mattia Prosperi, Nazle Veras, Taj Azarian et al.     Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a leading cause of healthcare-associated infections and significant contributor to healthcare cost. Community-associated-MRSA …             L-arginine-NO-cGMP signalling pathway in pancreatitis ▶     Igor Buchwalow, Jürgen Schnekenburger, Katharina Tiemann et al.     The role of nitric oxide (NO) in the human pancreas and in pancreatitis still remains controversial. Furthermore, conflicting conclusions have been reached by different …             In vivo minimally invasive interstitial multi-functional microendoscopy ▶     Asaf Shahmoon, Shiran Aharon, Oded Kruchik et al.     Developing minimally invasive methodologies for imaging of internal organs is an emerging field in the biomedical examination research. This paper introduces a new …             A Method for accurate in vivo micro-Raman spectroscopic measurements under guidance of advanced microscopy imaging ▶     Hequn Wang, Anthony M. D. 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