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.