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Rice Terrace Experience in Japan: An Ode to the Beauty of Seasonality and Nostalgia

Land
Rice terraces are a time-honored agricultural feature that overcomes rough terrain and hostile growing conditions. In addition to playing an essential role in agricultural production and land conservation, rice terraces have been recognized as living ...
Qian Wang, Xiaoqi Yang, Xinyu Liu, Katsunori Furuya   +3 more
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Unveiling the Role of Zoos in Smart Cities: A Quantitative Analysis of the Degree of Smartness in Kyoto City Zoo

Land, 2023
The rapid pace of urbanization and the emergence of social challenges, including an aging population and increased labor costs resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, have underscored the urgency to explore smart city solutions.
Yuxuan Lin, Ruochen Yang, Ryosuke Shimoda, Zheng Xian, Shuhao Liu   +4 more
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3D Printing Innovations in Polymeric Porous and Patterned Architecture

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Polymeric foams occupy a unique structural space between dense solids and open networks, where engineered void fraction governs mechanical compliance, thermal resistance, and mass transport. Additive manufacturing now enables precise spatial control over cellular architecture, unlocking designer foam structures across applications spanning crash ...
Dhanush Patil, Sri Vaishnavi Thummalapalli, Clarissa Westover, Arunachalam Ramanathan, M. Taylor Sobzcak, Roumika Patil, Qixuan Xiang, Tiantian Li, Sui Yang, Timothy E. Long, Hongyue Sun, Xianqiao Wang, Yang Liu, Kenan Song   +13 more
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Immunoinflammatory Mechanisms and Biocompatibility of Bioactive Dental Biomaterials: From Fundamental Insights to Clinical Translation

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Surface‐host dialogue at the implant interface governs biological fate and osseointegration. Surface physicochemical properties of titanium (Ti) dental implants, including microgrooves, nanopatterns, nanotopography, roughness, and wettability, modulate the initial adsorption of proteins and the formation of a dynamic biointerface.
Daniela Moreira Cunha, Amanda Paino Santana, Marta Maria Alves Pereira, Mariana Martins Guerreiro, Jose Mauro Granjeiro, Jamil Awad Shibli, Jeroen J. J. P. van den Beucken, Anton Sculean, Rafael Scaf de Molon, Erica Dorigatti de Avila   +9 more
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Behavior of Male Gamete Fusogen GCS1/HAP2 and the Regulation in Arabidopsis Double Fertilization

Biomolecules, 2023
In the sexual reproduction of flowering plants, two independent fertilization events occur almost simultaneously: two identical sperm cells fuse with either the egg cell or the central cell, resulting in embryo and endosperm development to produce a seed.
Yuka Shiba, Taro Takahashi, Yukino Ohashi, Minako Ueda, Amane Mimuro, Jin Sugimoto, Yuka Noguchi, Tomoko Igawa   +7 more
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Natural Biomaterials for Osteochondral Repair: From Source to Strategy

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Biological origin‐guided overview of natural biomaterials and therapeutic strategies for osteochondral tissue engineering. The circular diagram categorizes representative materials and strategies into plant/algae‐derived, microbial‐derived, animal‐derived, and human‐derived sources, centered on an osteochondral defect repair model.
Hengyu Liu, Hanyang Zhang, Wenbo Yang, Hao Chen, Jincheng Wang, Fei Chang   +5 more
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Participant 271 Community Conversations Interview

, 2021
In this interview, Participant 271 discusses challenges they have faced caring for two children with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The participant and their partner are healthcare providers, which the participant shares has been an ...
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Opportunities of Semiconducting Oxide Nanostructures as Advanced Luminescent Materials in Photonics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The review discusses the challenges of wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconducting oxides as a suitable material platform for photonics. They offer great versatility in terms of tuning microstructure, native defects, doping, anisotropy, and micro‐ and nano‐structuring. The review focuses on their light emission, light‐confinement in optical cavities, and
Ana Cremades, Pedro Hidalgo, David Maestre, Ruth Martínez‐Casado, Emilio Nogales, Beatriz Rodríguez, G. Cristian Vásquez, Bianchi Méndez   +7 more
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Differences of Cell Growth and Cell Cycle Regulators Induced by Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor Between Nifedipine Responders and Non-responders

Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2007
Differences of cell proliferation, cell cycle, and G1/S transition regulatory proteins of gingival fibroblasts derived from nifedipine-reactive patient (NIFr) and nifedipine-non-reactive patient (NIFn) in the presence of basic fibroblast growth factor ...
Reiri Takeuchi, Hiroko Matsumoto, Hidehiko Okada, Mami Hori, Akihiko Gunji, Kosuke Hakozaki, Yoshiaki Akimoto, Akira Fujii   +7 more
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2D Co‐Mo‐Hydroxide‐Based Multifunctional Material for the Development of H2‐Based Clean Energy Technologies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
2D α‐Co(OH)2 interleaved with Mo species displays an appealing dual functionality for the production and use of green hydrogen.Mo incorporation greatly benefits the electrochemical behaviour in Oxygen Evolution Reaction for H2 production, while the magnetocaloric response at liquid H2 temperature paves the way for alternative cryogenic refrigerants ...
Daniel Muñoz‐Gil, Celia Castillo‐Blas, Dawid Krystian Feler, Isabel Gómez‐Recio, Miguel Tinoco, Ana Querejeta‐Fernández, Rodrigo González‐Prieto, Felipe Gándara, Romualdo Santos Silva Jr, Pilar Ferrer, Carlos Prieto, Luc Lajaunie, José Luis Martinez‐Peña, María Luisa Ruiz‐González, José María González‐Calbet   +14 more
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