As climate change intensifies and global food security faces pressures, accurate monitoring of crop phenology—especially sowing dates—has become critical for optimizing agricultural management and improving climate resilience. Winter wheat, a staple crop supporting nearly 40% of the global population, relies heavily on timely sowing to maximize yield potential. However, traditional monitoring methods such as field surveys are labor-intensive and unscalable, while existing remote sensing approaches suffer from soil background interference and static environmental data limitations.  

Researchers including those from the University of Tokyo ran a large survey on issues facing entrepreneurs in Japan. The aim was to build data around the topic of harassment in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Analysis of survey results suggests that entrepreneurs face harassment from other parties when there is a power asymmetry, in particular when approaching funding. But unlike issues of sexual harassment, general power harassment did not have a gender-based component. A key finding was that the breadth of an entrepreneur's network correlates negatively with received harassment, but more research is needed to determine the nature of this connection. 

(IDAHO FALLS, Idaho) – The highly anticipated National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments (DOME) test bed is open for business.

The well-being of a supervisor is reflected through supervisor-subordinate relationships in employee motivation and performance, and consequently, in the company’s competitiveness. In his doctoral research at the University of Vaasa, Finland, Project Researcher Jussi Tanskanen demonstrates that an exhausted leader lacks the resources to maintain high-quality relationships with subordinates, leading to a collapse in employee dedication. This phenomenon is particularly pronounced in today’s intensive work environment and remote work settings.

An Osaka Metropolitan University researcher investigated how multimodal travel affects daily physical activity in Senboku New Town, Osaka. The study found that combining Demand-Responsive Transport (DRT) with fixed-route buses was associated with an increase of approximately 1,730 steps per day, more than double the increase seen with DRT alone.