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Open AccessShould I stay or should I go? The influence of environmental conditions on green turtle residence time and outward transit in foraging areas
Foraging animals move through the environment to satisfy their requirements for food, rest, reproduction and risk-avoidance. Understanding how animals respond to changing environmental conditions can help to c...
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Open AccessElectronic strengthening mechanism of covalent Si via excess electron/hole do**
Brittle fracture of a covalent material is ultimately governed by the strength of the electronic bonds. Recently, attempts have been made to alter the mechanical properties including fracture strength by exces...
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Sky glow disrupts the orientation of Australian flatback turtles Natator depressus on nesting beaches
Light pollution may disorientate animals at night, resulting in higher mortality and lowered reproductive success. As artificial night lighting ensues from rapid coastal development, there is concern for anima...
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Open AccessA review of how the biology of male sea turtles may help mitigate female-biased hatchling sex ratio skews in a warming climate
In a warming climate, male sea turtles may become increasingly rare due to temperature-dependent sex determination with females being produced at warmer temperatures. Hence there is widespread concern that a l...
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Open AccessSatellite tagging and flipper tag recoveries reveal migration patterns and foraging distribution of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) from eastern Australia
Marine turtles encounter different threats during various life-history stages. Therefore, understanding their movements and spatial distribution is crucial for effectively managing these long-lived migratory o...
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Open AccessLinear-superelastic Ti-Nb nanocomposite alloys with ultralow modulus via high-throughput phase-field design and machine learning
The optimal design of shape memory alloys (SMAs) with specific properties is crucial for the innovative application in advanced technologies. Herein, inspired by the recently proposed design concept of concent...
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Reversible control of intrinsic shear strength of a ZnO single crystal through electron-beam-induced hole state
Material strength depends on the interatomic bond strength of a material; therefore, desired mechanical properties of the material can be designed if the bond strength can be altered. In this study, we experim...
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Selective excitation of two-wave structure depending on crystal orientation under shock compression
Single crystals subjected to shock compression exhibit responses with distinct two-wave structures for certain crystal orientations. However, little is known to date regarding how the shock response depends on...
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An Atomic-Level Unified Criterion for Brittle Fracture
This paper aims to propose a unified criterion for brittle fracture of general (blunt) notches and ideal (sharp) cracks. A new fracture parameter, i.e., atomic energy release rate (ERR), for which the atomic d...
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Open AccessAntidiabetic and cardiovascular beneficial effects of a liver-localized mitochondrial uncoupler
Inducing mitochondrial uncoupling (mUncoupling) is an attractive therapeutic strategy for treating metabolic diseases because it leads to calorie-wasting by reducing the efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation...
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Open AccessElectron engineering of metallic multiferroic polarons in epitaxial BaTiO3
The coexistence of ferroelectricity, conductivity, and magnetism in a single-phase material has attracted considerable attention due to fundamental interest and tremendous technological potential. However, the...
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Investigation into the Breakdown of Continuum Fracture Mechanics at the Nanoscale: Synthesis of Recent Results on Silicon
The present contribution reviews some recent results on the experimental characterisation of the nanoscale fracture toughness of silicon by using pre-cracked specimens and alternatively the theory of critical ...
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Open AccessGiant magnetoelectric effect at the graphone/ferroelectric interface
Multiferroic heterostructures combining ferromagnetic and ferroelectric layers are promising for applications in novel spintronic devices, such as memories with electrical writing and magnetic reading, assumin...
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Open AccessMultiferroic Phases and Transitions in Ferroelectric Lead Titanate Nanodots
Discovery of novel phases and their associated transitions in low-dimensional nanoscale systems is of central interest as the origin of emergent phenomena and new device paradigms. Although typical ferroelectr...
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Introduction
Multiphysics, which is the phenomenon where different physical properties are correlated with each other, is drawing much attention not only of scientific researchers but also of engineers. In the discussion o...
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Ferroelectric Nanostructures
Ferroelectricity is known to be sensitive to strain, and therefore, salient effects of nanostructures on ferroelectric properties can be expected. We introduce recent first-principles calculations of ferroelec...
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Multiferroic Nanostructures
Multiferroics, two or more ferroic orders such as ferroelectricity and antiferromagnetism coexist and coupled with each other, is a tremendously fascinating topic in terms of scientific interests as well as po...
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Methodology of Quantum Mechanics/Atomic Simulations
Methodology for electronic structure calculations is overviewed. We place focus on first-principles calculation method based on the density-functional theory, which is most widely used for calculations of mult...
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Strain Engineering on Nanosemiconductors
A lot of scientific investigations have been dedicated to strain engineering on semiconductors to alter and tune band gap energies and electronic structures by the application of strain. It also attracts much ...
