With Friends Like These: Protest Strategies and the Left in Brazil and Mexico by Kathleen Bruhn (18888364)

“…Therefore, my findings also suggest the potential fruitfulness of further specifying the contextual conditions under which Left victories result in increased or decreased tendencies to protest. Resumen Este artículo observa el impacto de una victoria de la izquierda y una alianza de partidos de izquierda sobre la protesta de los movimientos populares, con base en datos originales acerca de la protesta en México, DF; Brasilia y São Paulo. …”

First report of interaction of nematophagous fungi onLibyostrongylus douglassii (Nematoda: Trichostrongylidae) by Fabio Ribeiro Braga (5084105)

Effects of Herbicides on the Survival of the Brazilian Native Bee Melipona scutellaris Latreille, 1811 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) by R.C.F. NOCELLI (8075633)

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of the 1/2 the commercial dose; the commercial dose (2,4-D 1,000 g a.i. ha-1, glyphosate 760 g a.i. ha-1, glyphosate + 2,4-D 760 g a.i. ha-1 + 1,000 g a.i. ha-1, and picloram 2% (v/v) and 2x the commercial dose of glyphosate, 2,4-D, picloram, and glyphosate+2,4-D on the survival of bees Melipona scutellaris by contact and oral exposure. …”

Percent changes (Δ-values) in transcript levels, protein levels and proteolytic activity of Separase after IM treatment when compared to the corresponding untreated cells.<sup>1</s... by Wiltrud Haaß (312818)

“…</p>2<p>for representative corresponding immunostained Western blots see <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0042863#pone-0042863-g005" target="_blank">Figure 5</a> panels B and C.…”

Sample allele frequencies at the gene level. by Carlos Eduardo G. Amorim (694871)

“…<p>The expectation (grey) is based on 1000 simulations, assuming no fitness decrease in heterozygotes, but allowing for compound heterozygosity (see <a href="http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006915#sec009" target="_blank">Methods</a> for details). …”

Bifurcation and Stochastic Analysis of Network 1 with constitutive basal expression. by Philippe C. Faucon (603873)

“…(B) As in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0102873#pone-0102873-g005" target="_blank">Figure 5B</a>, the X and Y protein concentrations of stable and unstable steady states are plotted against self-activation strengths. …”

Growth rate and temperature of freshwater phytoplankton from Morphology-based differences in the thermal response of freshwater phytoplankton. by Angel M. Segura (5141309)

“…The whole dataset (<i>N</i> = 563) showed an exponential increase (<i>E</i>_r ∼ 0.5), a break around 24°C and no temperature dependence after the breakpoint (<i>E</i>_f = 0). …”

Nanocomposite Films Based on Flaxseed Gum and Cellulose Nanocrystals by Natália Soares Prado (5889086)

“…The crosslinking process at pH 3.5 led to a lower solubility of FG in water (from 100% to 53%) and an increase in thermal stability (from 160 ºC to 209 ºC). …”

The effect of stretch on the MAP of the fish heart. by Simon M. Patrick (364948)

“…Hearts extrinsically paced at 0.8 Hz show a significant decrease in MAPD25 and a significant increase in MAPD90, representing a classical stretch-induced cross over (<i>p</i><0.05, One-Way ANOVA, Student-Newman-Keuls <i>post hoc</i>, significant differences between columns marked a and b).…”

Averaged traces of laser Doppler flowmetry in C57BL/6J and IP₃R2-KO mice. by Norio Takata (49477)

“…Each experimental condition has N>5 animals. Upon 200 µA stNBM, the cerebral blood flow (CBF) showed an immediate increase, followed by a transient decrease that overshot the baseline both in WT (<b>A</b>) and KO (<b>E</b>). …”

Distribution of ultra-rare SNPs in functional regions. by Mihail Halachev (6444560)

“…Dashed black lines represent the distribution shifts between LBC and VIKING for each of the considered genomic regions. A strictly vertical shift would indicate a proportional increase in the numbers of ultra-rare and known variants from LBC to VIKING, whereas a strictly horizontal shift (no change in the ultra-rare variant density between the two cohorts) would represent a decrease in the number of known variants in VIKING.…”

Involvement of serine/threonine kinase type I receptors. by Lauriane Sèdes (490693)

“…Only GCs transfected with siRNA against <i>Bmpr1a</i> present a significant decrease of AMH response.…”

Energy Transfer on Demand: Photoswitch-Directed Behavior of Metal–Porphyrin Frameworks by Derek E. Williams (1653655)

“…In particular, emission of a framework composed of bis­(5-pyridyl-2-methyl-3-thienyl)­cyclopentene (BPMTC) and tetrakis­(4-carboxyphenyl)­porphyrin (H₄TCPP) ligands anchored by Zn²⁺ ions can be altered as a function of incident light. …”

Nesfatin-1 signaling is involved in mechanisms of PS homeostasis. by Sonia Jego (292109)

“…</i> normal serum in the same rats) done immediately following a 6 h period of PS deprivation (3 pm). Note the PS suppression during a time period of 2 h (5–7 pm) and thus the lack of the expected PS rebound after such deprivation (<b>B</b>, <i>vs.…”

Growth curves and general characterization of GAS CovR/S variants. by Nicola Horstmann (201711)

“…(A) Photographs of indicated strains following overnight growth on 5% sheep blood agar plates. …”

Frequency and carbapenems susceptibility profile of non-fermenting Gram-negative bacilli isolated from clinical samples between 2007 and 2012 by Milena Cristina de Paula (5112071)

“…Conclusion: A. baumannii resistance to carbapenems was not identified; however, there was a decrease in susceptibility to carbapenems over the years for P. aeruginosa.…”

Residual granule cell precursors in the cerebellar cortex of peripuberal rabbits. by Giovanna Ponti (73367)

“…<p>Neuroblasts forming chains in the SPL are immunoreactive for PSA-NCAM (A), DCX (A,B,E), and Map5 (E), partially for Tag1 (B,C) and NeuN (F), but not for CRMP-4 (D). …”

Over-expression and inhibition of miR-221 and miR-222 result in modulation of p27. by Beatrice Cardinali (120407)

“…<p>Western blot analysis of p27 in myotubes derived from (A) QMb-ts and primary QMb and (B) C2C12, L6C5 and MSC myoblasts transfected with control siGFP (siGFP), miR-221 (221), miR-222 (222) or both (221+222) duplex RNAs and allowed to differentiate for two days. p27 expression in (C) QMb-ts myotubes transfected with antisense inhibitors to GFP (aGFP), used as control, miR-221 (a221), miR-222 (a222) or both (a221+a222) and shifted to 35°C for 24 hours and in (D) C2C12 myoblasts transfected with the same duplexes in GM and analysed 24 hours. …”

Network models reveal stability and structural rearrangement of signal recognition particle by Shan Chang (287210)

“…In <i>Escherichia coli</i>, SRP is composed of the Ffh protein and the 4.5S SRP RNA. Ffh is a multidomain protein comprising a methionine-rich (M) domain, a helical N domain, and a Ras-like guanine triphosphatase (GTPase) (G) domain. …”

Prospective analysis of soybean distribution in the Tocantins state considering climate change scenarios by André de Moura Andrade (12682265)

“…Furthermore, a possible decrease in the soybean area in some recognized producing centers was prospected, as well as a scenario of greater distancing of this species cultivated areas, in a near future, from the mosaic of conservation units of Jalapão, which has become of high climatic risk for the soybean grain yields usually demanded by the market.…”