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From Cytoskeletal Remodeling to Oocyte Quality: The Emerging Role of Mechanics

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Mechanical properties of the oocyte are increasingly recognized as critical determinants of meiotic success and developmental potential. How actomyosin remodeling controls oocyte mechanics, how these properties are altered in pathological conditions, and how they could serve as markers in reproductive medicine are examined.
Anastasia Shihabi, Rose Bulteau, Lucie Barbier, Marie‐Emilie Terret   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition [PDF]

The trade-off between child quantity and education is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern growth.
Ludger Woessmann, Francesco Cinnirella, Sascha O. Becker   +2 more
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Nonlinear Transverse Transport in a Ferromagnetic Polar Metal

Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
This work reports the observation of a nonlinear transverse response in ferromagnetic polar SrRuO3(111) thin films. The nonlinear signal exhibits a sharp enhancement across the magnetic phase transition. Through detailed scaling and theoretical analysis, the authors attribute this behavior to a sign reversal of the Berry curvature triple, establishing ...
Xuyang Sha, Xuejin Zhang, Hao Liu, Jin Cao, Ruohan Chen, Jinfeng Zhai, Dingfu Shao, Shiwei Wu, Zhen Wang, Cong Xiao, Shengyuan A. Yang, Pan He, Hangwen Guo, Jian Shen   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia [PDF]

While  women’s  employment  opportunities,  relative  wages,  and  the child quantity quality trade-off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little  attention.
Becker, Sascha O; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger
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Advancing Fruit Bioimpedance Monitoring With Sustainable, Soft, And Bio‐Based Electrodes Beyond ECG

Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
Electrical impedance spectroscopy enables non‐destructive fruit quality monitoring, but conventional ECG and needle electrodes compromise signal stability, fruit physiology, and sustainability. This perspective highlights the transition toward soft, biocompatible, and biodegradable electrode interfaces based on natural substrates, bio‐derived ...
Sundus Riaz, Ahmed Rasheed, Angelo Zanella, Almudena Rivadeneyra, Paolo Lugli, Luisa Petti, Pietro Ibba   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of the One-Child Policy on Fertility in China: Identification Based on the Differences-in-Differences [PDF]

This paper measures the effect of China's one-child policy on fertility by exploring the natural experiment that has been created by China's unique affirmative birth control policy, which is possibly the largest social experiment in human history ...
Yi Zhu, Junsen Zhang, Hongbin Li
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Mechanisms of Alkali Ionic Transport in Amorphous Oxyhalides Solid State Conductors

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
Large‐scale machine learning‐based molecular dynamics simulations are used to investigate isovalent amorphous oxyhalides, revealing a remarkable chemically independent ionic conductivity. A rigorous analysis of alkali residence times across different metal–anion environments identifies divalent anions as key diffusion bottlenecks.
Luca Binci, KyuJung Jun, Bowen Deng, Gerbrand Ceder   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

PM2.5 exposure reprograms cell cycle dynamics in uterine immune cells at single-cell resolution

Frontiers in Immunology
BackgroundFine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure has been associated with adverse effects on reproduction, yet the underlying cellular mechanisms remain poorly understood.MethodsUsing single-cell RNA sequencing, we systematically investigated cell ...
Lin Zhang, Lin Zhang, Lin Zhang, Jiaqi Tian, Jiaqi Tian, Jiaqi Tian, Yongfei Zheng, Shuyin Duan   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cultivation of cover crops is one of the new Eco‐scheme practices introduced in Sweden. This study examines how the design of policy attributes of these schemes influences farmers' willingness to grow cover crops on arable land, with particular focus on the potential impact of a glyphosate ban.
Vivian Wei Huang, Anna Kristina Edenbrandt, Elin Röös   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang, Lena Kuhn, Hang Xiong, Zhanli Sun, Thomas Glauben   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source