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The Milky Way as Seen by Classical Cepheids. I. Distances Based on Mid-infrared Photometry

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Classical Cepheids are the archetype of the standard candle, thanks to the period–luminosity relation, which allows us to measure their intrinsic brightness.
Dorota M. Skowron, Ronald Drimmel, Shourya Khanna, Alessandro Spagna, Eloisa Poggio, Pau Ramos   +5 more
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Response of Fecal Bacteria and Fungi to Tannin‐Rich Diets in Sika Deer (Cervus nippon): Evidence from Both Feeding Experiments and Field Investigations

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Feeding with tannin‐rich diets altered the fecal microbial composition and increased the relative abundance of tannin‐degrading microbes. We hypothesize that fecal bacteria and fungi may play important roles in helping herbivores adapt to tannin‐rich diets but respond to different tannin concentrations varies.
Di Zhu, Feng Wu, Peiying Wen, Haiyang Gao, Xiaoran Hao, Hongfang Wang   +5 more
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Tracing Galaxy Evolution in the Nearby Universe: The Role of Dark Matter

The Astronomical Journal
Using a sample of ∼126,000 late-type galaxies (LTGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we analyzed stellar mass as a function of the dynamical mass. Stellar masses are estimated using eight stellar population synthesis (SPS) models with constant initial
A. Nigoche-Netro, P. Lagos, R. J. Diaz, E. de la Fuente, M. P. Agüero, A. Ruelas-Mayorga, S. N. Kemp, R. A. Marquez-Lugo, R. Ibarra-Nuño   +8 more
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Galaxy Superclusters Detected in the Modified PF-Catalog Using the FOF Method

Open Astronomy, 2011
The Modified Catalog of Galaxy Clusters and Groups (Panko & Flin 2006, PF), covering an area of 5000 square degrees in the southern sky, was used as the input for the search of galaxy superclusters.
Panko E.
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The Great Cosmic Silence: What Does the Fermi Paradox Tell About the Future of Humanity?

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how institutional time horizons shape the long‐term survival prospects of human technological civilisation. While research on global catastrophic and existential risks has expanded, the temporal structures of political‐economic institutions remain underexamined.
Heikki Patomäki
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Silkscreen: Direct Measurements of Galaxy Distances from Survey Image Cutouts

The Astronomical Journal
With upcoming wide field surveys from the ground and space, the number of known dwarf galaxies at ≲25 Mpc is expected to dramatically increase. Insight into their nature and analyses of these systems’ intrinsic properties will rely on reliable distance ...
Tim B. Miller, Imad Pasha, Ava Polzin, Pieter van Dokkum   +3 more
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Genotyping Contemporary Captive and Historical Wild Western Lowland Gorillas Indicates Captive Breeding Is Maintaining Genetic Diversity in a Critically Endangered Primate

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Captive populations of threatened species risk losing genetic diversity over time. We evaluated the genetic status of contemporary captive western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) at Howletts and Port Lympne and compared this with specimens from a historical wild population.
Jaimie Morris, Tony King, John Hills, Simon C. Harvey, Jane Hopper, Rodrigo Vega   +5 more
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Limits on evolution of the fine-structure constant in runaway dilaton models from Sunyaev–Zeldovich observations

Physics Letters B, 2017
In this paper, new bounds on possible variations of the fine structure constant, α, for a class of runaway dilaton models are performed. By considering a possible evolution with redshift, z, such as Δαα=−γln⁡(1+z), where in γ are the physical properties ...
R.F.L. Holanda, L.R. Colaço, R.S. Gonçalves, J.S. Alcaniz   +3 more
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Story2Board: A Training‐Free Approach for Expressive Visual Storytelling

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract We present Story2Board, a training‐free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. Existing methods narrowly focus on subject identity, overlooking key aspects of visual storytelling such as spatial composition, background evolution, and narrative pacing.
D. Dinkevich, M. Levy, O. Avrahami, D. Samuel, D. Lischinski   +4 more
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FaceIt: Real‐Time On‐Device Identity‐Preserving Portrait Animation

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
A real‐time, on‐device algorithm for animating a single portrait image using detailed facial expressions and motions from a driving video achieving visual quality that can outperform even techniques with significantly higher computational overhead. Abstract Recently, significant progress has been made in generating expressive and temporally coherent ...
M. Dvorožňák, D. Sýkora, C. Curtis, B. Curless, Y. Xu, Z. Zhou, O. Sorkine‐Hornung, D. Salesin   +7 more
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