Toyo University

Dehnel's phenomenon is not a simple reduction of size: seasonal change in skull shape of the long-clawed shrew (Soricidae, Mammalia)

Abstract Dehnel's phenomenon—a reversible seasonal reduction and regrowth of body size, skull, brain and visceral organs—is an extreme adaptive strategy, enabling small mammals to survive winter energetic constraints. First described in the common shrew Sorex araneus, similar sea...

Explicit and refined QUBO modeling of anomalously reflective metasurfaces for annealing-assisted design optimization

This paper presents an annealing-assisted optimization framework for anomalously reflective metasurface design based on quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) modeling. First, an explicit QUBO formulation is derived under the physical optics (PO) approximation, enabli...