Scientific Reports Table of Contents e-alert: 10 September 2013

10 September 2013      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         Frontiers helps you make the most of your valuable professional network through our unique research network. Connect to colleagues, increase your impact and benefit from a 30% increase in downloads of any publication you link to your profile.  Register today           Jump to the content that matters to you ▼ Biological Sciences   ▼ Chemical Sciences   ▼ Physical Sciences   ▼ Earth & Environmental Sciences   ▼ Health Sciences               Biological Sciences ▲ top               Involvement of A20 in the molecular switch that activates the non-canonical NF-кB pathway ▶     Noritaka Yamaguchi, Masaaki Oyama, Hiroko Kozuka-Hata et al.     The non-canonical NF-κB pathway is crucial for the immune system. A critical event in activation of the non-canonical pathway is the attenuation of NF-κB-inducing kinase (NIK) …             Transient and selective suppression of neural activity with infrared light ▶     Austin R. Duke, Michael W. Jenkins, Hui Lu et al.     Analysis and control of neural circuitry requires the ability to selectively activate or inhibit neurons. Previous work showed that infrared laser light selectively excited neural …             Distinct cell shapes determine accurate chemotaxis ▶     Luke Tweedy, Börn Meier, Jürgen Stephan et al.     The behaviour of an organism often reflects a strategy for coping with its environment. Such behaviour in higher organisms can often be reduced to a few stereotyped modes of …             Discovery of an uncovered region in fibrin clots and its clinical significance ▶     Yohei Hisada, Masahiro Yasunaga, Shingo Hanaoka et al.     Despite the pathological importance of fibrin clot formation, little is known about the structure of these clots because X-ray and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analyses are …             Rotation-independent representations for haptic movements ▶     Satoshi Shioiri, Takanori Yamazaki, Kazumichi Matsumiya et al.     The existence of a common mechanism for visual and haptic representations has been reported in object perception. In contrast, representations of movements might be more specific …             The molecular and clinicopathologic characteristics of bilateral breast cancer ▶     S. F. Chen, C. W. Du, P. Yang et al.     In this study, we compared the clinicopathologic characteristics between the bilateral breast cancer (BiBC) and unilateral breast cancer (UBC) and investigated the role of CXC …             Paravascular microcirculation facilitates rapid lipid transport and astrocyte signaling in the brain ▶     Vinita Rangroo Thrane, Alexander S. Thrane, Benjamin A. Plog et al.     In the brain, a paravascular space exists between vascular cells and astroglial end-foot processes, creating a continuous sheath surrounding blood vessels. Using in vivo …             Definition and refinement of the 7q36.3 duplication region associated with schizophrenia ▶     Branko Aleksic, Itaru Kushima, Tamae Ohye et al.     Using a very high-resolution oligonucleotide array for copy number variant (CNV) screening of samples comprising schizophrenic patients, we detected a novel CNV within the …             A single betaproteobacterium dominates the microbial community of the crambescidine-containing sponge Crambe crambe ▶     Julie Croué, Nyree J. West, Marie-Line Escande et al.     Crambe crambe is a marine sponge that produces high concentrations of the pharmacologically significant pentacyclic guanidine alkaloids (PGAs), Crambescines and Crambescidines. …             Analyzing Strawberry Spoilage via its Volatile Compounds Using Longpath Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy ▶     Daming Dong, Chunjiang Zhao, Wengang Zheng et al.     The volatile compounds from fruits vary based on the spoilage stage. We used FTIR spectroscopy to analyze and to attempt to identify the spoilage process of strawberries. To …             Effects of barley chromosome addition to wheat on behavior and development of Locusta migratoria nymphs ▶     Shunji Suematsu, Ken-ichi Harano, Seiji Tanaka et al.     Locusta migratoria feeds on various Poaceae plants but barley. Barley genes related to feeding deterrence may be useful for developing novel resistant crops. We investigated the …             Discovery of a divergent HPIV4 from respiratory secretions using second and third generation metagenomic sequencing ▶     David E. Alquezar-Planas, Tobias Mourier, Christian A. W. Bruhn et al.     Molecular detection of viruses has been aided by high-throughput sequencing, permitting the genomic characterization of emerging strains. In this study, we comprehensively …             Quantitative epigenetic co-variation in CpG islands and co-regulation of developmental genes ▶     Hongbo Liu, Yanjun Chen, Jie Lv et al.     The genome-wide variation of multiple epigenetic modifications in CpG islands (CGIs) and the interactions between them are of great interest. Here, we optimized an entropy-based …             Glucocorticoid Paradoxically Recruits Adipose Progenitors and Impairs Lipid Homeostasis and Glucose Transport in Mature Adipocytes ▶     Jorge-Tonatiuh Ayala-Sumuano, Cristina Velez-delValle, Alicia Beltrán-Langarica et al.     Chronic treatment with glucocorticoids increases the mass of adipose tissue and promotes metabolic syndrome. However little is known about the molecular effects of dexamethasone …                 UCSD Clinical and Translational Research Institute and Nature Medicine present: Bench to Bedside 2013: Cancer Therapeutics November 4-6, 2013 Estancia La Jolla Hotel La Jolla, CA, USA Click here for more information or to register for this conference today!         Chemical Sciences ▲ top               Highly sensitive and selective fluoride detection in water through fluorophore release from a metal-organic framework ▶     Florian M. Hinterholzinger, Bastian Rühle, Stefan Wuttke et al.     The detection, differentiation and visualization of compounds such as gases, liquids or ions are key challenges for the design of selective optical chemosensors. Optical chemical …             Non-Destructive Monitoring of Charge-Discharge Cycles on Lithium Ion Batteries using 7Li Stray-Field Imaging ▶     Joel A. Tang, Sneha Dugar, Guiming Zhong et al.     Magnetic resonance imaging provides a noninvasive method for in situ monitoring of electrochemical processes involved in charge/discharge cycling of batteries. Determining how the …             A time-temperature integrator based on fluorescent and polymorphic compounds ▶     Denis Gentili, Margherita Durso, Cristian Bettini et al.     Despite the variety of functional properties of molecular materials, which make them of interest for a number of technologies, their tendency to form inhomogeneous aggregates in …             Analyzing Strawberry Spoilage via its Volatile Compounds Using Longpath Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy ▶     Daming Dong, Chunjiang Zhao, Wengang Zheng et al.     The volatile compounds from fruits vary based on the spoilage stage. We used FTIR spectroscopy to analyze and to attempt to identify the spoilage process of strawberries. To …             Surface chirality induced by rotational electrodeposition in magnetic fields ▶     Iwao Mogi, Ryoichi Morimoto, Ryoichi Aogaki et al.     The surfaces of minerals could serve important catalytic roles in the prebiotic syntheses of organic molecules, such as amino acids. Thus, the surface chirality is responsible for …             Three-dimensional dynamics of a fermionic Mott wedding-cake in clean and disordered optical lattices ▶     A. Kartsev, D. Karlsson, A. Privitera et al.     Non-equilibrium quantum phenomena are ubiquitous in nature. Yet, theoretical predictions on the real-time dynamics of many-body quantum systems remain formidably challenging, …             A unique platinum-graphene hybrid structure for high activity and durability in oxygen reduction reaction ▶     Chengming Wang, Liang Ma, Lingwen Liao et al.     It remains a grand challenge to achieve both high activity and durability in Pt electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cells. Here we develop a class of Pt …                     Physical Sciences ▲ top               First demonstration of laser engagement of 1-Hz-injected flying pellets and neutron generation ▶     Osamu Komeda, Yasuhiko Nishimura, Yoshitaka Mori et al.     Pellet injection and repetitive laser illumination are key technologies for realizing inertial fusion energy. Numerous studies have been conducted on target suppliers, injectors, …             On the safety of ITER accelerators ▶     Ge Li     Three 1 MV/40A accelerators in heating neutral beams (HNB) are on track to be implemented in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). ITER may produce 500 MWt …             Active display and encoding by integrated plasmonic polarizer on light-emitting-diode ▶     L. Wang, T. Li, R. Y. Guo et al.     An electrical pumped microscopic active display with integration of plasmonic polarizer and light-emitting-diode is proposed. Thanks to the strong polarized emission through the …             Standardization of surface potential measurements of graphene domains ▶     Vishal Panchal, Ruth Pearce, Rositza Yakimova et al.     We compare the three most commonly used scanning probe techniques to obtain a reliable value of the work function in graphene domains of different thickness. The surface potential …             Modified Li chains as atomic switches ▶     Thomas Wunderlich, Berna Akgenc, Ulrich Eckern et al.     We present electronic structure and transport calculations for hydrogen and lithium chains, using density functional theory and scattering theory on the Green's function level, to …             Highly sensitive and selective fluoride detection in water through fluorophore release from a metal-organic framework ▶     Florian M. Hinterholzinger, Bastian Rühle, Stefan Wuttke et al.     The detection, differentiation and visualization of compounds such as gases, liquids or ions are key challenges for the design of selective optical chemosensors. Optical chemical …             Flexible asymmetric supercapacitors based on ultrathin two-dimensional nanosheets with outstanding electrochemical performance and aesthetic property ▶     Shan Shi, Chengjun Xu, Cheng Yang et al.     Flexible asymmetric supercapacitors with excellent electrochemical performance and aesthetic property are realized by using ultrathin two-dimensional (2D) MnO2 and graphene …             Towards intrinsic magnetism of graphene sheets with irregular zigzag edges ▶     Lianlian Chen, Liwei Guo, Zhilin Li et al.     The magnetism of graphene has remained divergent and controversial due to absence of reliable experimental results. Here we show the intrinsic magnetism of graphene edge states …             Non-Destructive Monitoring of Charge-Discharge Cycles on Lithium Ion Batteries using 7Li Stray-Field Imaging ▶     Joel A. Tang, Sneha Dugar, Guiming Zhong et al.     Magnetic resonance imaging provides a noninvasive method for in situ monitoring of electrochemical processes involved in charge/discharge cycling of batteries. Determining how the …             Contrast and Raman spectroscopy study of single- and few-layered charge density wave material: 2H-TaSe2 ▶     Parviz Hajiyev, Chunxiao Cong, Caiyu Qiu et al.     In this article, we report the first successful preparation of single- and few-layers of tantalum diselenide (2H-TaSe2) by mechanical exfoliation technique. Number of layers is …             Integrated Ring Oscillators based on high-performance Graphene Inverters ▶     Daniel Schall, Martin Otto, Daniel Neumaier et al.     The road to the realization of complex integrated circuits based on graphene remains an open issue so far. Current graphene based integrated circuits are limited by low …             Nanohole-array-based device for 2D snapshot multispectral imaging ▶     Mohamadreza Najiminaini, Fartash Vasefi, Bozena Kaminska et al.     We present a two-dimensional (2D) snapshot multispectral imager that utilizes the optical transmission characteristics of nanohole arrays (NHAs) in a gold film to resolve a …             Crystallographic anisotropy of the resistivity size effect in single crystal tungsten nanowires ▶     Dooho Choi, Matthew Moneck, Xuan Liu et al.     This work demonstrates an anisotropic increase in resistivity with decreasing width in single crystal tungsten (W) nanowires having a height of 21 nm. Nanowire-widths were in the …             Geometry of Quantum Computation with Qutrits ▶     Bin Li, Zu-Huan Yu, Shao-Ming Fei     Determining the quantum circuit complexity of a unitary operation is an important problem in quantum computation. By using the mathematical techniques of Riemannian geometry, we …             Liquid metal nanodroplet dynamics inside nanocontainers ▶     Hyun Young Jung, Hyunkyung Chun, Sora Park et al.     Here we report direct observations of spatial movements of nanodroplets of Pb metal trapped inside sealed carbon nanocontainers. We find drastic changes in the mobility of the …             In Vitro Hematological and In Vivo Vasoactivity Assessment of Dextran Functionalized Graphene ▶     Sayan Mullick Chowdhury, Shruti Kanakia, Jimmy D. Toussaint et al.     The intravenous, intramuscular or intraperitoneal administration of water solubilized graphene nanoparticles for biomedical applications will result in their interaction with the …             A time-temperature integrator based on fluorescent and polymorphic compounds ▶     Denis Gentili, Margherita Durso, Cristian Bettini et al.     Despite the variety of functional properties of molecular materials, which make them of interest for a number of technologies, their tendency to form inhomogeneous aggregates in …             Analyzing Strawberry Spoilage via its Volatile Compounds Using Longpath Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy ▶     Daming Dong, Chunjiang Zhao, Wengang Zheng et al.     The volatile compounds from fruits vary based on the spoilage stage. We used FTIR spectroscopy to analyze and to attempt to identify the spoilage process of strawberries. To …             Strong correlation induced charge localization in antiferromagnets ▶     Zheng Zhu, Hong-Chen Jiang, Yang Qi et al.     The fate of a hole injected in an antiferromagnet is an outstanding issue of strongly correlated physics. It provides important insights into doped Mott insulators closely related …             Surface chirality induced by rotational electrodeposition in magnetic fields ▶     Iwao Mogi, Ryoichi Morimoto, Ryoichi Aogaki et al.     The surfaces of minerals could serve important catalytic roles in the prebiotic syntheses of organic molecules, such as amino acids. Thus, the surface chirality is responsible for …             Three-dimensional dynamics of a fermionic Mott wedding-cake in clean and disordered optical lattices ▶     A. Kartsev, D. Karlsson, A. Privitera et al.     Non-equilibrium quantum phenomena are ubiquitous in nature. Yet, theoretical predictions on the real-time dynamics of many-body quantum systems remain formidably challenging, …             Supercapacitor Operating At 200 Degrees Celsius ▶     Raquel S. Borges, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Marco-Tulio F. Rodrigues et al.     The operating temperatures of current electrochemical energy storage devices are limited due to electrolyte degradation and separator instability at higher temperatures. Here we …             Fatigue-Induced Damage in Zr-Based Bulk Metallic Glasses ▶     Chih-Pin Chuang, Tao Yuan, Wojciech Dmowski et al.     In the present work, we investigate the effect of "fatigue" on the fatigue behavior and atomic structure of Zr-based BMGs. Fatigue experiments on the failed-by-fatigue samples …             A unique platinum-graphene hybrid structure for high activity and durability in oxygen reduction reaction ▶     Chengming Wang, Liang Ma, Lingwen Liao et al.     It remains a grand challenge to achieve both high activity and durability in Pt electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cells. Here we develop a class of Pt …             On the growth mode of two-lobed curvilinear graphene domains at atmospheric pressure ▶     Kitu Kumar, Eui-Hyeok Yang     We demonstrate the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of 2-lobed symmetrical curvilinear graphene domains specifically on Cu{100} surface orientations at atmospheric pressure. …             All-carbon sp-sp2 hybrid structures: Geometrical properties, current rectification, and current amplification ▶     Zhenhua Zhang, Junjun Zhang, Gordon Kwong et al.     All-carbon sp-sp2 hybrid structures comprised of a zigzag-edged trigonal graphene (ZTG)and carbon chains are proposed and constructed as nanojunctions. It has been found that such …               Earth & Environmental Sciences ▲ top               A single betaproteobacterium dominates the microbial community of the crambescidine-containing sponge Crambe crambe ▶     Julie Croué, Nyree J. West, Marie-Line Escande et al.     Crambe crambe is a marine sponge that produces high concentrations of the pharmacologically significant pentacyclic guanidine alkaloids (PGAs), Crambescines and Crambescidines. …             The role of industrial nitrogen in the global nitrogen biogeochemical cycle ▶     Baojing Gu, Jie Chang, Yong Min et al.     Haber-Bosch nitrogen (N) has been increasingly used in industrial products, e.g., nylon, besides fertilizer. Massive numbers of species of industrial reactive N (Nr) have emerged …               Health Sciences ▲ top               Discovery of an uncovered region in fibrin clots and its clinical significance ▶     Yohei Hisada, Masahiro Yasunaga, Shingo Hanaoka et al.     Despite the pathological importance of fibrin clot formation, little is known about the structure of these clots because X-ray and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analyses are …             The molecular and clinicopathologic characteristics of bilateral breast cancer ▶     S. F. Chen, C. W. Du, P. Yang et al.     In this study, we compared the clinicopathologic characteristics between the bilateral breast cancer (BiBC) and unilateral breast cancer (UBC) and investigated the role of CXC …             Definition and refinement of the 7q36.3 duplication region associated with schizophrenia ▶     Branko Aleksic, Itaru Kushima, Tamae Ohye et al.     Using a very high-resolution oligonucleotide array for copy number variant (CNV) screening of samples comprising schizophrenic patients, we detected a novel CNV within the …             Glucocorticoid Paradoxically Recruits Adipose Progenitors and Impairs Lipid Homeostasis and Glucose Transport in Mature Adipocytes ▶     Jorge-Tonatiuh Ayala-Sumuano, Cristina Velez-delValle, Alicia Beltrán-Langarica et al.     Chronic treatment with glucocorticoids increases the mass of adipose tissue and promotes metabolic syndrome. 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