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The Impacts of Weather Variability and Shocks on Farmers and Indigenous Peoples' Consumption: Evidence From Panama

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Weather variability and shocks pose significant challenges for tropical developing countries, making it crucial to understand their effects on consumption to address the existing deficiencies among the most vulnerable groups. This study examines the impact of weather variability and shocks on household consumption in Panama, utilizing repeated
Ambar Lineth Chavez Espinosa, Akira Hibiki   +1 more
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Investigations of the Crystallographic Orientation on the Martensite Variant Reorientation of the Single-Crystal Ni-Mn-Ga Cube and Its Composites for Actuator Applications

Actuators, 2023
High-speed actuators are greatly required in this decade due to the fast development of future technologies, such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) and robots.
Wan-Ting Chiu, Motoki Okuno, Masaki Tahara, Tomonari Inamura, Hideki Hosoda   +4 more
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On Kotzig's Perfect Set Problem of Hamiltonian Cycle Decompositions of the Complete Graph

Journal of Combinatorial Designs, Volume 34, Issue 8, Page 388-409, August 2026.
ABSTRACT A Hamiltonian cycle decomposition (HCD) of K n is a set of Hamiltonian cycles in which each 1‐path of K n appears exactly once. A Dudeney set of K n is a set of Hamiltonian cycles in which each 2‐path of K n appears exactly once. Kotzig's perfect set of HCDs of K n is a set of HCDs whose union forms a Dudeney set.
Nobuaki Mutoh
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Human Impact on the Twenty-Four-Hour Patterns of Steller Sea Lions’ Use of a Haulout in Hokkaido, Japan

Animals
Steller sea lions (SSLs) migrate to the Hokkaido coast to spend the winter there, leading to conflicts arising with fishermen over herring. This study analyzed the trends in the SSLs’ use of a haulout as a rest site under human pressure.
Yuko Chayahara, Yumiko Nakanowataru, Sara Abe, Runa Kurosawa, Sayuki Suma, Nana Murasato, Rin Oyamada, Natsuki Ebashi, Masatoshi Tsunokawa, Mayu Sakurama, Takanori Kooriyama   +10 more
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Magnetic scattering and electron pair breaking by rare-earth-ion substitution in BaFe2As2 epitaxial films

New Journal of Physics, 2013
The effect of electron doping by trivalent charge state rare-earth-ion (RE = La, Ce, Pr and Nd) substitutions on the superconductivity in BaFe _2 As _2 was examined using epitaxial films.
Takayoshi Katase, Hidenori Hiramatsu, Toshio Kamiya, Hideo Hosono   +3 more
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Fundamental Investigations of the Deformation Behavior of Single-Crystal Ni-Mn-Ga Alloys and Their Polymer Composites via the Introduction of Various Fields

Applied Sciences, 2023
To meet the great requirements of future technologies, such as robots, single-crystal (SC) Ni-Mn-Ga alloys and their composites were designed and investigated in this study.
Wan-Ting Chiu, Motoki Okuno, Masaki Tahara, Tomonari Inamura, Hideki Hosoda   +4 more
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Increasing Precision of Division Property

IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, 2020
In this paper we propose new techniques related to division property. We describe for the first time a practical algorithm for computing the propagation tables of 16-bit Super-Sboxes, increasing the precision of the division property by removing a lot of
Patrick Derbez, Pierre-Alain Fouque
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Microbial Pressure and Social Immunity: Bumble Bees Increase Brood Hygiene After Exposure to a Bacillus thuringiensis‐Based Biopesticide

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 6, June 2026.
In social insect colonies, diseased or dead brood is identified and removed by workers to prevent the infection of the whole colony. Here, bumble bee larvae exposed to a bacterium (Bacillus thuringiensis ssp. aizawai (strain: ABTS‐1857)) based biopesticide were removed more frequently than wounded or untreated control larvae. This shows that bumble bee
Michelle Scheffler, Karoline Wueppenhorst, Doreen Babin, Abdulrahim T. Alkassab, Silvio Erler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Low-temperature active site formation for oxygen reduction reaction in (Fe, N)-doped carbon black via rapid thermal annealing

Carbon Trends
Nitrogen- and iron- doped carbon-based materials are promising oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts that can replace precious platinum-based catalysts.
Guanyu Wang, Lijie Zhang, Atsunori Ikezawa, Hajime Arai, Keiko Waki   +4 more
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Multi-color single-molecule tracking and subtrajectory analysis for quantification of spatiotemporal dynamics and kinetics upon T cell activation

Scientific Reports, 2017
The dynamic properties of molecules in living cells are attracting increasing interest. We propose a new method, moving subtrajectory analysis using single-molecule tracking, and demonstrate its utility in the spatiotemporal quantification of not only ...
Yuma Ito, Kumiko Sakata-Sogawa, Makio Tokunaga   +2 more
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