Termite
Colonies of Hodotermopsis sjostedti were collected from Amami-Oshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan (colonies KM103, KM107, KM112, KM113, KM240, KM244, KM269, MT675 and MT681). Termites were extracted by dissecting decayed wood,…
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Monitoring water crisis from space across a Mediterranean region
Essa, Y. H., Hirschi, M., Thiery, W., El-Kenawy, A. M. & Yang, C. Drought characteristics in Mediterranean under future climate change. npj Climate Atmos. Sci. 6(1), 133 (2023).
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Anyonic braiding in a chiral Mach–Zehnder interferometer
Halperin, B. I. Quantized Hall conductance, current-carrying edge states, and the existence of extended states in a two-dimensional disordered potential. Phys. Rev. B 25, 2185–2190 (1982).
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Factors influencing user acceptance of virtual reality in preserving Wuhu iron painting from the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology perspective
UNESCO. Basic Texts of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (UNESCO, 2003).
Ma, L. The inheritance strategy of intangible cultural heritage based on internet and information technolog—taking wuhu iron…
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General practitioners’ recommendation of HPV vaccination to adolescents aged 11–14 may be gender-biased as suggested by a qualitative study in France
We conducted 15 interviews between February and May 2022. The number of interviews was not predetermined, as it was guided by the principle of data saturation, defined as the point in a series of interviews at which few or no new ideas, themes,…
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Bodily maps of exercise-induced feelings
Cabanac, M. Sensory pleasure optimizes muscular work. In: Clinical and Investigative Medicine [Internet]. pp. 110–6. (2006). Available from: https://europepmc.org/article/med/16737087
Day, J., Burns, J. & Weed, M. The sentient, skilled and…
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First detection and entomological characterisation of invasive malaria vector Anopheles stephensi in sympatry with other vectors in Gayi Southern Niger Republic
Study site and sampling
Our team from the Ecology, Health, and Environment (ECOSEN) group, Université André Salifou, Zinder, embarked on a study of biodiversity of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Gayi (13.2402° N, 9.3499 °E), Wacha commune,…
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Nanofabrication of all-dielectric metasurfaces through pulsed thermal scanning probe lithography
The results obtained in this work are divided in two subsections. The first one presents the investigation regarding the pulsed tSPL and shows all-dielectric metasurfaces fabricated with the proposed methodology. The second section of results…
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Optimization of air conditioning mechanical ventilation using simulated annealing for enhanced energy efficiency and cost reduction
Ashrae reference installation
The simulated annealing optimization method was initially applied to the ASHRAE reference installation4. The results of the optimized duct sizing using multi-objective criteria are presented in Table 3, which lists…
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Practical techniques for high-precision measurements on near-term quantum hardware and applications in molecular energy estimation
Unbiased estimators through informationally complete measurements
Any quantum measurement is defined by a positive operator-valued measure (POVM), defined by a set of positive operators \({\{{\Pi }_{i}\}}_{i = 1}^{r}\) called measurement effects….
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