Kyoto University

Assessing Disaster Preparedness and Recovery from Tropical Cyclones in Zimbabwe: Insights from Cyclone Ana in Nyanga

Abstract Tropical cyclones pose increasing risks in Southern Africa, with impacts shaped not only by hazard intensity but also by underlying vulnerabilities and disaster risk management (DRM) capacity. This study examines preparedness, response, and recovery following Cyclone Ana...

Podocyte injury damages podocytes in chimeric organoids

Abstract We have previously shown that injury to a subset of podocytes can trigger secondary damage in neighboring podocytes, but whether this phenomenon depends on direct intercellular interaction is unknown. To address this, kidney organoids were generated from nephron progenit...

Type-II-like ultrafast demagnetization behavior in NiCo2O4 thin films

Rare-earth-free ferrimagnetic oxides are emerging as attractive platforms for investigating ultrafast spin dynamics. Here, we study the photoinduced magnetization dynamics of epitaxial NiCo2O4 (NCO) thin films by the time-resolved magneto-optical Faraday effect using two independ...

ProvMind: provenance-grounded reasoning for materials synthesis

Materials process optimization requires reasoning over routes, conditions, tools and material-flow dependencies, yet most computational formulations flatten synthesis procedures into text or ordered steps. We introduce MatProcBench, a provenance-grounded benchmark constructed fro...

Submucosal Lidocaine Injection in Colonic Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection: A Single‐Center, Double‐Blind, Randomized Controlled Trial

OBJECTIVES: Colonic spasm is one of the major technical challenges encountered during colonic endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), impairing visualization of the dissection plane and scope maneuverability. Submucosal lidocaine injection may help to overcome this challenge. Thi...

JR4CE: Job Recommendation for Career Exploration

The expanding online job market and the impact of recommender systems highlight the need for practical job recommendations. While diversity is crucial, job recommendations uniquely require high-quality diversity to accelerate career exploration rather than just maximizing quantit...

Development of a defined three-strain nitrifying microbial community for ammonification and nitrification under organic nitrogen conditions

Abstract A simplified synthetic nitrifying microbial community capable of sequential ammonification and nitrification under organic conditions was constructed using three defined strains: Bacillus badius NBRC 15713, Nitrosomonas europaea NBRC 14298, and Nitrobacter winogradskyi N...

Digital Interaction Rituals and the Transformation of Loneliness

ABSTRACT Consumer research has largely treated loneliness as a chronic, trait‐level deficit that consumers compensate for through consumption. Much less is known about situational loneliness, the transient yet emotionally charged form of loneliness that arises within consumption...

Response to “Sample Representativeness and Test–Retest Reliability in the Japanese Everyday Ageism Scale: A Methodological Reconsideration”

The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions.

Case of salvage en bloc vertebrectomy for locally progressive T12 breast cancer metastasis after failed radiotherapy and systemic therapy

Background: Isolated local progression of breast cancer spinal metastases may occur despite adjunctive radiotherapy and systemic therapy. Here, a 71-year-old female underwent a salvage en bloc vertebrectomy for a locally progressive T12 breast cancer spinal metastasis that newly...

Orchestrating Anion–π + Interactions to Accelerate Metal‐Free Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence

ABSTRACT Overcoming the long‐standing trade‐off between efficiency and radiative rate in metal‐free phosphorescence remains a central challenge in molecular photophysics and is pivotal for the next‐generation optoelectronic technologies. Here, we demonstrate that tuning the stren...

Sensory nerves regulate bone homeostasis in response to mechanical unloading or reloading: evidence from a spaceflight experiment and ground-based mechanical unloading models

Mechanical loading is crucial for maintaining bone mass, and understanding how bone remodels in response to mechanical loading is essential for treating musculoskeletal disorders. Recently, sensory nerves inside bone were identified as mechanical regulators of bone homeostasis. H...

Multiple origins and complex evolutionary history of Cryptops centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae) inhabiting East Asian islands, with systematics of Japanese species

Cryptops Leach, 1814 is a genus of generally small, blind centipedes that mostly inhabit epigean habitats. With more than 150 species described worldwide, Cryptops is one of the most widespread and speciose genera within the class Chilopoda. Although previous studies have indicat...

Impact of Response to Hypomethylating Agent‐Based Therapy on Survival Outcomes in the Context of Baseline Clinical‐Molecular Risk and Transplant Status in Patients With Higher‐Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes/Neoplasms: An analysis From the International Consortium for MDS (icMDS)

Baseline IPSS-M risk, response to hypomethylating agent (HMA) therapy, and receipt of allogeneic stem cell transplant (allo-HCT) have all been individually shown to impact overall survival (OS) in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). However, the prognostic impact of re...

Conflict between Scripture and Inference in Argumentation: A Comparison of Nyāya and Mādhva-Vedānta in Medieval India

Abstract This article compares the role assigned to scripture ( āgama ) and to inference ( anumāna ) in the argumentation theory of two medieval Indian traditions: the Nyāya school after Udayana, and the Dvaita-Vedānta school of Madhva and his commentator Jayatīrtha. It argues th...

Housing environments link egg taste through metabolic alterations in laying hens

Farm animal welfare is increasingly recognized as a core component in sustainable protein production. The transition to welfare-friendly housing systems—such as from cage to cage-free systems for laying hens—promotes the expression of motivated behaviors by providing greater spac...

Towards A Universal Analytical Model of Population III Star Formation: A Bridge Between Cosmological Scales and Protostars

Abstract We construct an analytical model of Population III star formation that connects the cosmological radiation background to sub-AU protostellar disk fragmentation, a dynamic range inaccessible to any single simulation. Our approach is based on combining separate models of t...

Institutional enrollment volume and clinical outcomes after surgery or chemoradiotherapy for clinical stage I esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a supplementary analysis of JCOG0502

Abstract Background Surgery and chemoradiotherapy (CRT) are standard options for clinical stage I esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). JCOG0502, a multicenter, non-randomized, parallel-group comparison, demonstrated the non-inferiority of definitive CRT compared with surger...

Prognostic Impact of Circumferential Resection Margin in Minimally Invasive Surgery for Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer: A Multicenter Prospective Study

ABSTRACT Aim Circumferential resection margin (CRM) status is a well‐established prognostic factor in rectal cancer surgery; however, its long‐term oncological relevance has not been prospectively validated in Japan, where upfront surgery has long been widely used. This study ass...

Parental niche construction buffers microbial and competitive challenges and drives offspring dependence in burying beetles

Parents across diverse taxa modify the biotic or abiotic environments of their offspring. Such modifications may constitute ecological inheritance and are central to developmental niche construction, whereby organisms shape developmental conditions and selective pressures experie...