Mechanisms of shear band formation in heterogeneous materials under compression: the role of pre-existing mechanical flaws by Manaska Mukhopadhyay (14240234)

“…We also demonstrate the effects of global strain-rate on the band evolution in heterogeneous systems. Decreasing strain-rates replace the composite bands by well-defined homogeneous shear bands, containing a core of uniform shear, bordered by weakly sheared narrow zones, grading into almost undeformed walls. …”

Data_Sheet_1_Nonlinear Probability Weighting in Depression and Anxiety: Insights From Healthy Young Adults.pdf by Kosuke Hagiwara (10321961)

“…As the symptoms of depression increased, subjects’ tendency to overweight small probabilities and underweight large probabilities decreased. Neither depression nor anxiety was associated with utility sensitivity. …”

Image_1_Voxel-Based Morphometry of Cerebellar Lobules in Essential Tremor.tiff by Richard Ågren (9380167)

“…ET patients demonstrated reduced volumes of lobules I-II, left Crus II, left VIIB, and an increased volume of right X when compared with the HC group.</p>Conclusion<p>A large cohort of ET patients demonstrated subtle signs of decreased cerebellar lobule volumes. …”

Dynamic trajectory and parameter sensitivity ranking in the SSA simulation. by Xianli Chen (5410013)

“…T1 indicates the time point at which the system starts to transform to a high state, T2 represents the time at which the first mean value of high steady state is reached, and FPT is a value between T1 and T2, and indicating the time when Bax₄ ^MOM number first reaches 80% of mean value of high state. …”

Measuring LDH release into the serum free media when cells are exposed to wires for 1hr. by Michael Bezuidenhout (631731)

“…The results for the L929 cells above (B) indicate a significant decrease in the LDH release into the media in which 4 µM displays a mean of 97.68±0.5237 N = 12 **P≤0.01 and 7 µM displays a mean of 94.83±0.3497 N = 12 *P≤0.5.…”

Size distribution of α-syn aggregates in endosomal vesicles in time. by Mihaela M. Apetri (2623366)

“…(d) A decrease in α-syn cluster size is observed in the mean average FWHM of α-syn clusters in time (median and 50% interval).…”

Cold pressor, 4 group. by Paul M. Macey (316393)

“…For females (<b>B</b>) and males (<b>C</b>), changes in BOLD signals relative to baseline (group mean ± SE), with time-points of significant increase or decrease relative to baseline within-group, and time-points of between-group differences (RMANOVA, <i>p</i><0.05).…”

Growth of three different microbial species following exposure to whole blood collected from Anna’s Hummingbirds. by Andrea M. DeRogatis (8962751)

“…Values shown represent a percent change in microbial growth, where a negative value indicates a decrease in the percentage of microbial growth following incubation with whole blood.…”

Structural and biochemical evidences for the effect of exercise and intermittent hypobaric hypoxia on the recovery from eccentric exercise-induced muscle damage in trained rats by David Rizo-Roca (601393)

“…<p>In rat soleus muscle, a recuperation programme of IHH combined with light exercise seems to induce a faster<br>recovery of the mean muscle fibres size and a significant decrease in the percentage of abnormal fibres, without affecting neither the percentage of fibre types nor the fibre shape.…”

Delay of wound closure and epithelialization in septic animals. by Katharina Sommer (463202)

“…Percentage of closed wound area on day 0–16 (measured every second day). Septic mice have a highly significant delay in epithelialization as there is a decrease in percentage of closed wound area from day 2 to day 12 after wounding. …”

Experiment 1. by Jiehui Qian (294581)

“…<p>a) Two bars were presented during the 30-s adaptation phase; two converging lines were shown during the afterimage phase. b) Left: the perceive stimuli during the afterimage phase; Right: the purple bar indicates the mean illusory decrease of the lower bar length in Experiment 1, 15.05%; the shadowed bar indicates the illusory effect of a similar size-distance illusion reported in our previous study [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0159228#pone.0159228.ref010" target="_blank">10</a>]. …”

Feature weights for the LD classification algorithm in predicting high- vs. low- perceived naturalness of the images. by Marc G. Berman (650667)

“…A positive weight indicates that that increasing this feature would lead to increased perceived naturalness; a negative weight indicates that increasing this feature would lead to a decrease in perceived naturalness. …”

IIM-derived cells show diminished oxygen consumption rate, high mitochondrial membrane potential but similar total ATP levels than control-derived cells. by Carla Basualto-Alarcón (9667079)

“…<b>(B)</b> Oxygen consumption rate (OCR) in control and IIM-derived cells from biopsy samples showed a significant decrease of ATP-linked OCR and a marked tendency to decrease basal and maximal OCR when compared to controls. …”

Fig 3 - by Melinda Liu Perkins (6116204)

“…<p><b>(a) Temporal decrease in the morphogen concentration at every point in space can “sweep away” imprecision in the expression boundary</b>. …”

mEPSC amplitude and frequency change in Hu97/18 SPNs. by Karolina Kolodziejczyk (550934)

“…(E) The mean mEPSC frequency trended towards a decrease in Hu97/18 SPNs but did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.052). …”

Social forces, interaction network and predator-prey interaction. by Pascal P. Klamser (10305732)

“…Their weight is proportional to their probability of capture, which decreases linear with distance and is zero for <i>r</i> ≥ <i>r</i>_<i>catch</i> (). …”

RanBP2 Modulates Cox11 and Hexokinase I Activities and Haploinsufficiency of <em>RanBP2</em> Causes Deficits in Glucose Metabolism by Azamat Aslanukov (274571)

“…<div><p>The Ran-binding protein 2 (RanBP2) is a large multimodular and pleiotropic protein. Several molecular partners with distinct functions interacting specifically with selective modules of RanBP2 have been identified. …”

Kinetic profile of PIU. by Nadav Ben-Dov (167666)

“…The cells were initially loaded with Dextran-FITC by mean of PIU. The time dependent exponential decrease in cellular fluorescence suggests the involvement of efflux mechanisms which are concentration dependent, while the dependence on temperature suggests the efflux to be a methabolic driven process. …”

Supplementary file 1_Ecological effects of interplanted sweet alyssum and alfalfa in an organic day-neutral strawberry production system.docx by Matthew G. Gullickson (22604003)

Jumping in aquatic environment after sciatic nerve compression: nociceptive evaluation and morphological characteristics of the soleus muscle of Wistar rats by Jéssica Aline Malanotte (4649086)

“…The combination of the two protocols led to decrease in diameter and area of the muscle fiber.</p></div>…”