On 5 February 2020, in Yokohama, Japan, a cruise ship hosting 3,711 people underwent a
2-week quarantine after a former passenger was found with COVID-19 post-disembarking. …

Background Since the first cluster of cases was identified in Wuhan City, China, in December
2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) rapidly spreads globally. Scientists have …

Objectives The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) originating from Wuhan spread rapidly
throughout China. While its origin remains uncertain, accumulating evidence links a wet market …

BackgroundSince the first cluster of cases was identified in Wuhan City, China, in December,
2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) rapidly spread around the world. Despite the …

The potential infectiousness of asymptomatic COVID-19 cases together with a substantial
fraction of asymptomatic infections among all infections, have been highlighted in clinical …

Animals initiate behavior not only reflexively but also spontaneously in the absence of external
stimuli. In vertebrates, electrophysiological data on the neuronal activity associated with …

How do animals initiate voluntary behavior? A key phenomenon in neuroscience is the
readiness or preparatory neural activity in specific regions of the animal brain. The neurons and …

Soft continuum bodies have demonstrated their effectiveness in generating flexible and
adaptive functionalities by capitalizing on the rich deformability of soft material. Compared with a …

Rapid movements of limbs and appendages, faster than those produced by simple muscle
contraction alone, are generated through mechanical networks consisting of springs and …

Soft body generates diverse dynamics that can be used as a computational resource based
on the framework of physical reservoir computing. In this study, we set up an experimental …