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EU and US Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Genome-edited Apples

New Plant Engineering Techniques (NPETs) refers to new biotechnology tools that allow alterations to a plant’s genome by adding, resequencing, or silencing some of its genes or combined with genes from a crossable plant (so-called cisgenesis). NPETs include genome editing (GenEd)...

Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on Nebraska Land Auctions and Implications for Future Farm Real Estate Sales in 2021

The Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Survey and Report 2020-2021 provides insight into recent trends on the market value of agricultural land and cash rental rates across the state. Each year, the special feature section from this report covers topics on new or emerging issues re...

Joint Bidding in Conservation Auctions: An Experimental Study of Policy Design and Performance

This study is one of the few to focus on the impact of joint bidding on conservation auction performance. With a few caveats, results indicate that the nature of incentives associated with rewarding spatial coordination in the first place will influence the environmental effectiv...

Crop Insurance Premium Subsidies Are a Means of Income Redistribution

The U.S. federal crop insurance is a major farm policy aimed at providing risk protection/reduced risk expo-sure to agricultural producers. A key component of this policy is the provision of multiple contract options and premium subsidies that reduce the cost of crop insurance to...

Is Nebraska Farmland a Good Investment?

Economists analyze the performance of financial in-vestments in a variety of ways. Probably the most significant analysis undertaken is the quantification of the tradeoff between risk and return. While individuals are generally thought to prefer investments offering higher return...

Why Do People Follow Popular, or Fad, Diets?

The tradition of goal setting at the start of a year—New Year’s resolutions—is deeply engrained in American society: estimates suggest that between 40 and 50% of adults set New Year’s Resolutions. Many of the most common goals relate to weight management—initiating exercise progr...

Nonnegative Ricci curvature, Euclidean volume growth, and the fundamental groups of open 4-manifolds

Abstract Let 𝑀 be a 4-dimensional open manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature. In this paper, we prove that if the universal cover of 𝑀 has Euclidean volume growth, then the fundamental group π 1 ⁢ ( M ) \pi_{1}(M) is finitely generated. This result confirms Pan–Rong’s conject...

Sex determination through metric analysis of teeth crown

Teeth that are resistant to external stimuli and have little diversity for individuals can be an important identification factor. This study aimed to present a method that can be used easily and accurately to identify individuals using their teeth, specifically to determine their...

New Heegaard Floer slice genus and clasp number bounds

We define several concordance invariants using knot Floer homology, which give improvements over known slice genus and clasp number bounds from Heegaard Floer homology. We also prove that the involutive correction terms of Hendricks and Manolescu give both a slice genus and a cla...

Impacts of Sea Surface Temperature Warming Pattern Biases on Tropical Cyclone Activity and Hazard

Abstract Most climate models simulate greater warming in the equatorial eastern Pacific than in the west under historical forcing, resulting in a reduced zonal sea surface temperature (SST) gradient and a weakened Walker circulation. This contrasts with observed trends and highli...

Thermomagnonic torques in insulating altermagnets

We develop a symmetry-controlled theory of anisotropic thermomagnonic torques in insulating altermagnets. We identify a spin-splitter magnonic torque linked to thermally generated, sublattice-odd spin currents and an anisotropic entropic torque dictated by crystal symmetry. These...

Stratosphere–troposphere exchange and surface ozone pollution over tropical regions: a case study of Rossby wave breaking and tropopause folding

Abstract. Stratosphere-troposphere exchange (STE) is a key process by which ozone-rich stratospheric air enters the troposphere, influencing surface air quality. This study analyses an atypical STE event over North America between 6 and 14 March 2016, coinciding with a Phase I oz...

Managing the Noise: Harnessing the Power of Graph Neural Networks to Detect Subsurface Damage under Noisy Experimental Settings

Abstract Aging infrastructure with limited budgets has driven stakeholders to explore new methods for monitoring structural health. Structural health monitoring represents a strategy to address this challenge using physical measurements to characterize performance. This approach...

Findings from a randomized pilot of a full factorial trial of ASCENT: acceptability, feasibility, and intervention adherence

Abstract Background Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors (AYACS) are at a heightened risk for depressive symptoms yet tailored mental health interventions for this population remain scarce. The AYA Survivors' Coping and Emotional Needs Toolkit (ASCENT) was developed as a d...

Partial replacement of concentrate with fermented cassava products in Thai native × Lowline Angus cattle: effects on nutrient utilization and rumen fermentation

Context In tropical regions where cassava (Manihot esculenta) is widely cultivated, its byproducts (tops and pulp) represent underutilized feed resources despite their nutritional potential. Aim The study evaluated the effects of replacing concentrate with dried cassava tops ferm...

Incomplete thermal flows and thermal-clock existence: On equations (17)–(18) of Forget time

This record contains questions on the thermal-time construction in Carlo Rovelli’s Forget time (2011, DOI: 10.1007/s10701-011-9561-4), the detailed mathematical analysis supporting those questions, and Isabelle proof assets. The questions and detailed analysis are provided in Eng...

Accurate and Robust Measurement of Single-Molecule Fluorescence Spectral Heterogeneity

Abstract Understanding single-molecule fluorescence spectral heterogeneity (smFLUSH) is vital for developing new probes for multidimensional super-resolution microscopy and decoding nanoscopic environments. However, traditional analysis methods distort the data and fail to distin...

Predicting Cognitive Performance from Circadian-Relevant Lifestyle Factors

Circadian rhythm regulates sleep and alertness through a 24-hour cycle, and disruption of thiscycle has been associated with reduced cognitive performance. As night-shift work and irregularschedules become more common, identifying which sleep and lifestyle factors are most closel...

Cyclophilin D deficiency exacerbates diet-induced obesity and selectively enhances skeletal muscle mitochondrial respiration in male mice

Abstract Mitochondrial dysfunction is a hallmark of obesity-associated metabolic disease, with the mitochondrial permeability transition pore serving as a key regulator of cellular energy homeostasis. Cyclophilin D, encoded by Ppif , is the principal regulatory component of this...

Current Discussion on Research Data and Research Software in Germany

A presentation on current topics in the field of research data and research software from a German perspective. The lecture was delivered by invitation on 13th October 2026, at Ilia State University in Tbilisi.