Institution
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Recent research
- Materials & Energy
ABSTRACT Planar aromatic side chains offer a promising strategy for regulating polymer topology and segmental dynamics. Here, a pyrene‐substituted trimethylene carbonate (TMCM‐Py) was synthesized and polymerized by DBU‐catalyzed ring‐opening polymerization using benzyl alcohol as...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Abstract Recent advances have made it possible to generate speech directly from images without relying on text as a bridge, which is particularly beneficial for unwritten languages. These methods leverage speech units as intermediate representations and jointly train image-to-uni...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
CAM: A Causality-Based Analysis Framework for Multi-agent Code Generation Systems
Despite the remarkable success that Multi-Agent Code Generation Systems (MACGS) have achieved, the inherent complexity of multi-agent architectures produces substantial volumes of intermediate outputs. To date, the individual importance of these intermediate outputs to the system...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Introduction SONIALVISION G4 is a fluoroscopic imaging system equipped with a bone densitometry function calibrated against GE Healthcare dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) measurements. However, evidence supporting the validity of in vivo bone mineral density (BMD)...
- Climate & Environment
Assembly-Pathway Regulation Dictates pH-Responsive Actuation in the R-Body Protein Machinery
Abstract Refractile bodies (R-bodies) are protein assemblies that form intracellular rolls and extend into spirals in response to environmental stimuli. Type 51 R-body assembles from four Reb proteins and undergoes rapid, repeatable ∼50-fold extension. Although R-bodies were desc...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Photoinduced Ion Pair Generator Based on Triangle Terarylene
Photoresponsive systems capable of generating ion pairs provide promising opportunities for light-controlled catalysts, yet the structural factors governing ion-pair formation and stability remain poorly understood. Here we report a series of terarylene derivatives (1o-3o) that u...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Abstract Free-radical copolymerization is widely used industrially, but scale transfer can alter polymer properties through changes in mixing and heat transfer. We developed a digitally controlled flow–batch platform integrating a micromixer, heated tubular reactor, and batch rea...
- Biology
Abstract Protein folding is initiated with a volume contraction called collapse. While the microsecond collapse of horse cyt c has been intensely studied, its molecular mechanism remains elusive. To characterize the structural change, we prepared three cyt c variants labeled with...
- BiologyOpen access
The outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria acts as a permeability barrier against toxic compounds. Its integrity is maintained by various outer membrane proteins (OMPs), which are inserted into the OM by the β-barrel assembly machinery (BAM) complex. The periplasmic chaper...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
This paper investigates whether a custom varifocal display can improve 3D pointing performance in augmented reality (AR), where the vergence-accommodation conflict (VAC) is known to impair interaction. Varifocal displays have been hypothesized to alleviate the VAC by dynamically...
- BiologyOpen access
Event-related potentials to emotional incongruence in dogs using non-invasive EEG
Abstract Previous behavioral and autonomic studies suggest that dogs are sensitive to their human emotional expressions, yet the neural mechanisms underlying how such information is processed across modalities remain unclear. This study investigated whether dogs exhibit different...
- BiologyOpen access
Summary Reciprocal iron–sulfur regulation in durum wheat converges on a few metabolic hubs that integrate nutrient status with plant growth and performance. Iron and sulfur availabilities were factorially modulated in hydroponically grown wheat to establish how each nutrient and...