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Are Empty-Nest Elders Unhappy? Re-examining Chinese Empty-Nest Elders’ Subjective Well-Being Considering Social Changes

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Aging, the one-child policy, and migration have altered Chinese family structure and the number of empty-nest elders is increasing. Since living without children runs in the opposite direction of filial piety, empty-nest elders have typically been ...
Yan Zhang
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Intelligent Orthopedics: Machine Learning in Diagnosis of Bone Disease, Implants, and Bone Health Monitoring

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Efficient recovery from traumatic or degenerative diseases is a great challenge, even after all the advancements in bone and cartilage regeneration. Machine learning (ML) algorithms have presented opportunities to enhance these aspects by accurately analyzing imaging data.
Maryam Kamaei, Hesam Mohammadi, Shamim Golafshan, Mojtaba Alehosseini, Mahsa Mohammadzadeh, Atefeh Golshirazi, Nasim Golafshan, Tatiane Eufrásio‐da‐Silva, Alireza Dolatshahi‐Pirouz, Gorka Orive   +9 more
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First confirmed reproduction by a translocated female Siamese Crocodile Crocodylus siamensis (Crocodylidae: Crocodilia) with observations of nest attendance and nest-associated fauna

Journal of Threatened Taxa
The Siamese Crocodile Crocodylus siamensis is considered one of the most imperiled and poorly-studied crocodilians in the world. Translocations (reintroductions) - often in conjunction with head-starting of juveniles - are a critical component of ...
Steven G. Platt, Sounantha Boutxakittilah , Oudomxay Thongsavath, Samuel C. Leslie, Lonnie D. McCaskill , Randeep Singh, Thomas R. Rainwater   +6 more
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Advancing Human Skin Equivalents: The Crucial Role of Neurovascular Integration

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review discusses the importance of integrating vascular and peripheral nerve systems into human skin equivalents (HSEs) to better recapitulate native skin physiology. Recent advances in vascularized, innervated, and neurovascularized HSEs are highlighted, together with emerging bioengineering strategies, current challenges, and future ...
Hao Wu, Lorenzo Moroni, Nicolas Lebonvallet, Vincent Flacher, Paul Wieringa   +4 more
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Habitat selection taking nest-box age into account: a field experiment in secondary hole-nesting birds

Folia Zoologica, 2014
The widespread use of nest-boxes significantly improved our understanding of the ecology and behaviour of secondary cavity-nesting birds. Although former investigations showed that nest-box characteristics (e.g. physical dimensions, material) may determine where birds will roost or breed, biological consequences of the age of nest-boxes have been ...
Anna Ekner-Grzyb, Katarzyna M. Zolnierowicz, Dawid Lisicki, Marcin Tobolka   +3 more
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Breeding of the Red-breasted Flycatcher (Ficedula parva) in an old House Martin nest (Delichon urbicum) on a building wall in Slovakia

Tichodroma, 2022
Breeding of the Red-breasted Flycatcher in holes in building walls is mentioned in the ornithological literature, but not for central Europe or the former Czechoslovakia.
Iveta Dolná, Martin Korňan
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Latitudinal variation in day length and working day length has a confounding effect when comparing nest attentiveness in tropical and temperate species [PDF]

, 2014
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the British Ornithologists’ Union and the African Bird Club.During incubation, tropical passerines have been shown to have lower levels of nest attentiveness than their counterparts at north ...
Cresswell, Will, Shaw, Philip
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Wood‐Derived Nanocellulose‐Biocarbon Fresnel‐Zone Plate Lenses for Sub‐THz Frequency Applications

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Wood‐derived nanocellulose and lignin‐based biocarbon were combined to fabricate fully bio‐based Fresnel zone plate (FZP) lenses for sub‐terahertz frequencies. These sustainable FZP lenses exhibit low dielectric loss and high directivity, achieving performance comparable to that of metallic references, and remain functional under environmental stress ...
Riikka Haataja, Mikko Kokkonen, Niina Halonen, Sami Myllymäki, Umair Rafique, Mandeep Singh, Ossi Laitinen, Heli Jantunen, Kristiina Oksman, Henrikki Liimatainen   +9 more
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Do Bewick´s Wren (Thryomanes bewickii) nestlings experience thermal stress in nest-boxes in a tropical urban city?

Huitzil
Urban areas present thermal environments that may be challenging for altricial nestlings, particularly in early development. We aimed to evaluate whether altricial Bewick's Wren (Thryomanes bewickii) nestlings experienced thermal stress in the nest-box ...
Alberto Stefano Salgado-Amezcua, José Leonel Molina Valladares, Miguel Angel Salinas-Melgoza, Vicente Salinas-Melgoza, Alejandro Salinas Melgoza   +4 more
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Advanced Flexible Robotic Systems for the Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Flexible surgical robots are advancing minimally invasive interventions for cardiovascular diseases and cancer by enabling precise navigation through complex, submillimeter anatomical pathways. This review highlights recent innovations in actuation, bio‐integrated sensing, AI‐assisted control, and friction‐reduction technologies, discusses current ...
Hermione Truong, Chi Cong Nguyen, Hannah Thuy Truong, Kefan Zhu, Adrienne Ji, James Davies, Emanuele Nicotra, Bibhu Sharma, Jingjing Wan, Patrick Pruscino, Shing Wai Wong, Hoang‐Phuong Phan, Phuoc Thien Phan, Nigel H. Lovell, Thanh Nho Do   +14 more
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