Toyo University

Renewable Electricity and CO2 Emissions in Tajikistan: Evidence from an ARDL–STIRPAT Framework

Tajikistan relies heavily on hydropower for electricity generation, but increasing energy demand, winter electricity shortages, rising coal consumption, and climate-related changes in water availability pose significant challenges to the country’s energy system and environment. I...

Effects of sexual and romantic imaginations on gender differences in response to partners’ infidelity: testing the sexual imagination hypothesis

Men are more sensitive to their partners’ sexual infidelity than women, whereas women are more sensitive to their partner’s emotional (romantic) infidelity than men. The sexual imagination hypothesis predicts that such gender differences in jealousy stem from the fact that explic...

Microbial communities and ecological functions shift with glacier retreat in the Canadian High Arctic

Abstract Glaciers are rapidly retreating under climate warming, raising concerns about the loss of unique microbial ecosystems in both glacier ice and forelands. However, the changes in microbial diversity, community structure, and functional traits across the glacier ice-forelan...

Flexible reconfiguration of variability structures between multiple solution manifolds in skilled soccer athletes' throw-ins

Skilled performers can produce highly consistent outcomes despite substantial variability within the motor control system. Previous studies have demonstrated that such consistency is achieved by structuring variability in execution variables so that it lies within the solution ma...

Relationships Between Coping Flexibility, Distress, and Bedtime Procrastination: A Longitudinal Study

Bedtime procrastination–the tendency to delay or put off going to bed–causes or promotes poor sleep quality and leads to distress. Coping flexibility, which is the ability to modify coping strategies according to stressful situations, can reduce distress induced by stressful situ...

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...