Cui Yin

Abstract Attention distraction mitigates pain, yet its neural basis remains elusive. We established cricket hunting as an attention-demanding paradigm that alleviates acute and chronic pain in male mice. Activity tagging revealed that cricket hunting activated a subset of glutamatergic neurons in the superior colliculus (SC). Selective stimulation of these hunting-activated neurons alleviated chronic hyperalgesia, primarily mediated by their projections to the zona incerta (ZI).

A male stone lion statue (left), believed to have been looted from China, stands at the entrance of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo, with its right front paw treading on an embroidered ball. A female stone lion statue (right), believed to have been looted from China, also stands at the entrance, with its left front paw caressing a lion cub.

Abstract This study addresses the optimal capacity configuration of wind–photovoltaic–storage (WPS) systems under complex nonlinear constraints and economic requirements in grids with a high share of renewable energy. A multi-energy collaborative capacity planning model is developed, together with an energy management formulation that captures the coupling among wind, PV, and storage.