Scientific Reports Physics Table of Contents e-alert: June 2012

01 June 2012      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports             The Arab world has a rich history of scientific breakthroughs. Ensure you're part of the scientific and medical community gaining access to a regularly updated list of science jobs and local events in the Middle East. www.nature.com/nmiddleeast/ Follow us: Facebook, Twitter, & Google +               Physical Sciences               Correlative Light and Scanning X-Ray Scattering Microscopy of Healthy and Pathologic Human Bone Sections ▶     C. Giannini, D. Siliqi, O. Bunk et al.     Scanning small and wide angle X-ray scattering (scanning SWAXS) experiments were performed on healthy and pathologic human bone sections. Via crystallographic tools the data were …             Controllable effects of quantum fluctuations on spin free-induction decay at room temperature ▶     Gang-Qin Liu, Xin-Yu Pan, Zhan-Feng Jiang et al.     Fluctuations of local fields cause decoherence of quantum objects. Usually at high temperatures, thermal noises are much stronger than quantum fluctuations unless the thermal …             Porous Iron Oxide Ribbons Grown on Graphene for High-Performance Lithium Storage ▶     Shubin Yang, Yi Sun, Long Chen et al.     A well-designed nanostructure of transition metal oxides has been regarded as a key to solve their problems of large volume changes during lithium insertion-desertion processes …             Computer-assisted and fractal-based morphometric assessment of microvascularity in histological specimens of gliomas ▶     Antonio Di Ieva, Emiliano Bruner, Georg Widhalm et al.     Fractal analysis is widely applied to investigate the vascular system in physiological as well as pathological states. We propose and examine a computer-aided and fractal-based …             Observation of superconductivity at 30~46K in AxFe2Se2 (A=Li, Na, Ba, Sr, Ca, Yb, and Eu) ▶     T. P. Ying, X. L. Chen, G. Wang et al.     New iron selenide superconductors by intercalating smaller-sized alkali metals (Li, Na) and alkaline earths using high-temperature routes have been pursued ever since the …             Characterizing global evolutions of complex systems via intermediate network representations ▶     Koji Iwayama, Yoshito Hirata, Kohske Takahashi et al.     Recent developments in measurement techniques have enabled us to observe the time series of many components simultaneously. Thus, it is important to understand not only the …             Dynamic Mechanism for the Transcription Apparatus Orchestrating Reliable Responses to Activators ▶     Yaolai Wang, Feng Liu, Wei Wang     The transcription apparatus (TA) is a huge molecular machine. It detects the time-varying concentrations of transcriptional activators and initiates mRNA transcripts at …             The phonon theory of liquid thermodynamics ▶     D. Bolmatov, V. V. Brazhkin, K. Trachenko     Heat capacity of matter is considered to be its most important property because it holds information about system's degrees of freedom as well as the regime in which the system …             Template-Cut: A Pattern-Based Segmentation Paradigm ▶     Jan Egger, Bernd Freisleben, Christopher Nimsky et al.     We present a scale-invariant, template-based segmentation paradigm that sets up a graph and performs a graph cut to separate an object from the background. Typically graph-based …             Excellent capability in degrading azo dyes by MgZn-based metallic glass powders ▶     Jun-Qiang Wang, Yan-Hui Liu, Ming-Wei Chen et al.     The lack of new functional applications for metallic glasses hampers further development of these fascinating materials. In this letter, we report for the first time that the …             Wide-band negative permeability of nonlinear metamaterials ▶     Mikhail Lapine, Ilya Shadrivov, Yuri Kivshar     We propose a novel way to achieve an exceptionally wide frequency range where metamaterial possesses negative effective permeability. This can be achieved by employing a nonlinear …             The Network Architecture of Cortical Processing in Visuo-spatial Reasoning ▶     Ehsan Shokri-Kojori, Michael A. Motes, Bart Rypma et al.     Reasoning processes have been closely associated with prefrontal cortex (PFC), but specifically emerge from interactions among networks of brain regions. Yet it remains a …             Projective simulation for artificial intelligence ▶     Hans J. Briegel, Gemma De las Cuevas     We propose a model of a learning agent whose interaction with the environment is governed by a simulation-based projection, which allows the agent to project itself into future …             Microcrystals coating the wing membranes of a living insect (Psocoptera: Psyllipsocidae) from a Brazilian cave ▶     Charles Lienhard, Rodrigo L. Ferreira, Edwin Gnos et al.     Two specimens of Psyllipsocus yucatan with black wings were found with normal individuals of this species on guano piles produced by the common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus. …             Reduction of N2 by supported tungsten clusters gives a model of the process by nitrogenase ▶     Junichi Murakami, Wataru Yamaguchi     Metalloenzymes catalyze difficult chemical reactions under mild conditions. Mimicking their functions is a challenging task and it has been investigated using homogeneous systems …             Formation of Nano-Bio-Complex as Nanomaterials Dispersed in a Biological Solution for Understanding Nanobiological Interactions ▶     Mingsheng Xu, Jie Li, Hideo Iwai et al.     Information on how cells interface with nanomaterials in biological environments has important implications for the practice of nanomedicine and safety consideration of …             Emotional persistence in online chatting communities ▶     Antonios Garas, David Garcia, Marcin Skowron et al.     How do users behave in online chatrooms, where they instantaneously read and write posts? We analyzed about 2.5 million posts covering various topics in Internet relay channels, …             High spatial and temporal resolution wide-field imaging of neuron activity using quantum NV-diamond ▶     L. T. Hall, G. C. G. Beart, E. A. Thomas et al.     A quantitative understanding of the dynamics of biological neural networks is fundamental to gaining insight into information processing in the brain. While techniques exist to …             Natural Cork Agglomerate Employed as an Environmentally Friendly Solution for Quiet Sandwich Composites ▶     James Sargianis, Hyung-ick Kim, Jonghwan Suhr     Carbon fiber-synthetic foam core sandwich composites are widely used for many structural applications due to their superior mechanical performance and low weight. Unfortunately …             Structure and Properties of Dense Silica Glass ▶     Min Wu, Yunfeng Liang, Jian-Zhong Jiang et al.     The O K-edge x-ray Raman scattering (XRS), Brillouin scattering and diffraction studies on silica glass at high pressure have been elucidated in a unified manner using model …             The universal definition of spin current ▶     Z. An, F. Q. Liu, Y. Lin et al.     The spin current, orbit angular momentum current and total angular momentum current in a tensor form have been universally defined according to the quantum electrodynamics. Their …             Multifunctional graphene woven fabrics ▶     Xiao Li, Pengzhan Sun, Lili Fan et al.     Tailoring and assembling graphene into functional macrostructures with well-defined configuration are key for many promising applications. We report on a graphene-based woven …             Targeting the dynamics of complex networks ▶     Ricardo Gutiérrez, Irene Sendiña-Nadal, Massimiliano Zanin et al.     We report on a generic procedure to steer (target) a network's dynamics towards a given, desired evolution. The problem is here tackled through a Master Stability Function …             Universal features of correlated bursty behaviour ▶     Márton Karsai, Kimmo Kaski, Albert-László Barabási et al.     Inhomogeneous temporal processes, like those appearing in human communications, neuron spike trains, and seismic signals, consist of high-activity bursty intervals alternating …             Transverse electric field dragging of DNA in a nanochannel ▶     Makusu Tsutsui, Yuhui He, Masayuki Furuhashi et al.     Nanopore analysis is an emerging single-molecule strategy for non-optical and high-throughput DNA sequencing, the principle of which is based on identification of each constituent …             Solution-processed, Self-organized Organic Single Crystal Arrays with Controlled Crystal Orientation ▶     Akichika Kumatani, Chuan Liu, Yun Li et al.     A facile solution process for the fabrication of organic single crystal semiconductor devices which meets the demand for low-cost and large-area fabrication of high performance …             Quantum Computing Without Wavefunctions: Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory for Universal Quantum Computation ▶     David G. Tempel, Alán Aspuru-Guzik     We prove that the theorems of TDDFT can be extended to a class of qubit Hamiltonians that are universal for quantum computation. The theorems of TDDFT applied to universal …             Interplay of the Glass Transition and the Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition in Water ▶     Nicolas Giovambattista, Thomas Loerting, Boris R. Lukanov et al.     Water has multiple glassy states, often called amorphous ices. Low-density (LDA) and high-density (HDA) amorphous ice are separated by a dramatic, first-order like phase …             The J-triplet Cooper pairing with magnetic dipolar interactions ▶     Yi Li, Congjun Wu     Recently, cold atomic Fermi gases with the large magnetic dipolar interaction have been laser cooled down to quantum degeneracy. Different from electric-dipoles which are classic …                         Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from all scientific fields. 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