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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
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Drought Stress Mediated Changes in Food Crops: Mechanisms and Remediation Strategies

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This work presents a multi‐scale framework for flavonoid‐mediated drought tolerance in staple food crops, integrating ROS redox regulation, antioxidant defense, rhizosphere microbial interactions, and sustainable agronomic practices. This interdisciplinary model provides core insights to develop climate‐resilient cropping systems and enhance global ...
Xiaoyi Duan, Litao Wang, Tuuli‐Marjaana Koski, Lizhe An, Thomas Efferth, Yujie Fu   +5 more
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From Top to Bottom: Manufacturing Process‐Context Aware Resolution of Energy Device Electrodes Through a 3D Diffusion Generative Model

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
The application of a generative diffusion model, enhanced with a training data augmentation pipeline retaining the manufacturing process context of electrode microstructures, leads to improved fidelity of the through‐plane tortuosity factor in the AI generated samples.
Victor Ramirez‐Camacho, Siwar Ben Hadj Ali, Maxence Desnoyers, Francisco Fernandez, Nassima Benammar, Alejandro A. Franco   +5 more
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Sex ratio and parental investment in Trypoxylon (Trypargilum) agamemnon Richards (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae)

Brazilian Journal of Biology
The life history and sex ratio data of the solitary wasp Trypoxylon agamemnon nesting in trap-nests in southern Brazil was recorded from January 2002 to December 2007.
MLT Buschini, ACB Bergamaschi
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Animal‐Based Brands Taking the Plant‐Based Opportunity: A Tasting Experiment Exploring Consumer Acceptance of Plant‐Based Brand Extensions

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how consumer taste and brand equity perceptions shape the acceptance of plant‐based milk products. Using a blind/informed tasting experiment, we evaluated consumers' willingness to buy (WTB) and taste perception of a plant‐based milk alternative produced by a traditional dairy brand, compared with competing plant‐based ...
Federico Parmiggiani, Mirta Casati, Elena Castellari, Fosca Vezzulli, Veronica Vitali, Milena Lambri, Claudio Soregaroli   +6 more
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Brooding duration does not depend on cat predation risk but is related to weather and phenology in the wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans)

Ecology and Evolution
Parental investment increases offspring fitness at the expense of the parent's ability to invest in other offspring. In many animal species, parents guard their offspring after birth.
Charlotte Bourgoin, Christophe Barbraud, Tobie Getti, Karine Delord, Frédéric Angelier, Aymeric Bodin, Pierrick Blanchard   +6 more
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When the River Runs Low: Heterogeneous Impacts of Transportation Disruptions on Local Grain Basis

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A substantial share of U.S. soybean and corn exports from the Midwest moves by barge along the Mississippi River system to export terminals in the Louisiana Gulf. Transportation costs between Midwestern grain elevators and export terminals create a wedge between prices at these locations, and shocks to these costs are partially passed on to ...
Yuan Zhang, Andrew E. Anderson, Nicholas J. Pates, Eunchun Park   +3 more
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Machine learning–driven design of catalytic processes for sulfur dioxide oxidation: Lessons from the trenches

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the growing use of ML in chemical engineering, the catalytic conversion of sulfur dioxide (SO2) to sulfur trioxide (SO3) remains underexplored from a data‐driven modeling perspective. This study evaluates an integrated workflow for literature‐derived SO2 oxidation data, combining data curation, preprocessing assessment, machine ...
Farough Agin, Jules Thibault, Clémence Fauteux‐Lefebvre   +2 more
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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
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The Herfindahl neutral point: A firm‐level threshold for managing market concentration with evidence from US hog packing

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper derives a firm‐level threshold, the Herfindahl Neutral Point, from the standard concentration index used in merger review. At this threshold, a marginal expansion leaves the index unchanged. Firms below the threshold reduce concentration when they expand; firms above it increase concentration.
Andrew J. Keller, Krishna P. Paudel
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