Morphogenetic and structural characteristics of signal grass in response to liming and defoliation severity by Lilian Elgalise Techio Pereira (5222381)

“…Increased liming rates do not result in benefits to the herbage mass, tiller population density or a faster canopy recovering. The average tiller weight decreases, while the duration of regrowth linearly increases, with increasing liming rates, particularly in late spring. …”

Flexible Optical Waveguides in Heterocyclic Schiff Base Self-Assembled Hydrogen-Bonded Solvates by Yang Ye (175530)

“…In addition, the flexible fluorescent solvate exhibits a good waveguide property. A bent crystal was found to have a larger optical loss coefficient than a straight crystal. …”

Role of eye movements (Exp. 2). by Anton L. Beer (51215)

“…<p>A) Perceived peripheral motion varied with central patterns in both fixation conditions. …”

Opinion limits study for the multi-selection bounded confidence model by Jiangbo Zhang (139180)

“…It shows that the opinion consensus probability almost always decreases as the confidence bound decreases. Secondly, the opinion consensus probability is larger than the one for the opinion evolution of the Deffuant-Weisbuch model. …”

Reducing inherent biases introduced during DNA viral metagenome analyses of municipal wastewater by Nichole E. Brinkman (5052314)

“…Results showed recoveries in wastewater matrix ranged between 60–100%. A bias towards small single stranded DNA (ssDNA; polyomavirus) virus types vs larger double stranded DNA (dsDNA; adenovirus) viruses was also observed with a total estimated recovery of small circular viruses to be as much as 173-fold higher. …”

Effectiveness and treatment moderators of internet interventions for adult problem drinking: An individual patient data meta-analysis of 19 randomised controlled trials by Heleen Riper (314641)

“…</p><p>Methods and findings</p><p>Systematic searches were performed in medical and psychological databases to 31 December 2016. A one-stage individual patient data meta-analysis (IPDMA) was conducted with a linear mixed model complete-case approach, using baseline and first follow-up data. …”

Combining precursor similarity with domain similarity is an effective strategy to group RiPP subclasses. by Alexander M. Kloosterman (9910104)

“…<p>Starting at precursor similarity bitscore cutoffs of 20 and Jaccard scores of overlapping protein domains found in MIBiG RiPP BGCs of 0.4, the number of intraclass homologies is larger than the number of crossclass homologies. Combining the 2 methods greatly decreases the number of cross-class homologies found, proving it as an effective method to group RiPP BGCs of different subtypes. …”

Plant Species Loss Affects Life-History Traits of Aphids and Their Parasitoids by Jana S. Petermann (244274)

“…<div><p>The consequences of plant species loss are rarely assessed in a multi-trophic context and especially effects on life-history traits of organisms at higher trophic levels have remained largely unstudied. …”

The dependance of the mean mRNA copy numbers , and the ratio <i>r</i>* on the timing of gene duplication during <i>S</i> phase. by Qiwen Sun (6408368)

“…<p>(A) The mean level stays nearly at a constant level, while decreases linear as the gene duplication time increases from 35 min to 53 min in <i>S</i> phase. …”

Data_Sheet_1_Inverse association of serum carotenoid levels with prevalence of hypertension in the general adult population.pdf by Xu Zhu (424407)

“…Dose-response analyses demonstrated a linear inverse association of all carotenoids with hypertension (p for non-linearity > 0.05). …”

Table_1_Consistently Low Levels of Osteocalcin From Late Pregnancy to Postpartum Are Related to Postpartum Abnormal Glucose Metabolism in GDM Patients.docx by Yujia Gong (12203174)

“…Objective<p>Increasing evidence suggests that osteocalcin (OC), a marker of bone formation, plays an important role in glucose homoeostasis. …”

Regulation of targets by EWS in vivo. by Sujitha Duggimpudi (699551)

“…The level of transcript was measured by qRT-PCR after knocking down for 24 hours followed by treatment with actinomycin D. The linear regression and slopes were calculated and the data is presented as Mean and SEM on a linear scale. …”

Data_Sheet_1_Sex-specific differences in bone mineral density loss after sleeve gastrectomy.docx by Di Yang (126672)

“…Linear mixed models revealed significant sex × time interaction effects in total hip BMD and SHBG, showing that men had a significantly greater reduction in total hip BMD and less increase in SHBG after sleeve gastrectomy than women. …”

Study on the correlation between maternal serum uric acid and foetal birth weight in Naqu, Tibet by Yong-Chang Yang (14552737)

“…Fitting smoothing curve analysis showed that there was a negative linear correlation between SUC and birth weight in primiparas and female foetuses. …”

Data_Sheet_1_Synchronization Through Uncorrelated Noise in Excitatory-Inhibitory Networks.pdf by Lucas Rebscher (12046079)

“…Therefore, we investigated the effect of uncorrelated noise on the communication between excitatory-inhibitory networks producing gamma oscillations via a PING mechanism. Our results suggest that, at least in a certain range of noise strengths and natural frequency differences between the regions, synaptic noise can have a supporting role in facilitating inter-regional communication, similar to the ING case for a slightly larger parameter range. …”

The sensitivities of quadruplets (xBB'y) composed of central tandem mismatches BB' and edging WC pairings, x,y. by Hans Binder (128524)

“…Part a and b: The central tandem mismatches formed by B and B' cause considerably larger scattering than the adjacent WC pairings formed by x and y. …”

Visual summary of enriched pathways in CoRL following podocyte ablation. by Aaron D. McClelland (4678303)

“…<p>A gene set was considered upregulated if the expression of most of its member genes increased after injury, whereas downregulated gene sets were those with decreased gene expression. …”

The Effects of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme on Maternal and Infant Health Care Utilization by Igna Bonfrer (178181)

“…<div><p>Increasing equitable access to health care is a main challenge African policy makers are facing. …”

Relationship between PCNT and F-actin expression following exposure to ERK inhibitor (PD98095). by Yuan Zu (756047)

“…<b>(C)</b> F-actin and PCNT staining showed a linear relationship following exposure to the ERK inhibitor PD98085. …”

Quantitative changes of ancient forest species along time gradient. by Ewa Stefańska-Krzaczek (6945182)

“…Black dashed line–species of increasing cover; grey solid line–species of decreasing cover; species codes–abbreviation of the species name consists of three letters of the genus name and three letters of the species name (see <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0219620#pone.0219620.s002" target="_blank">S2 Table</a>).…”