Advancing environmental sensing with tapered optical fibers: structures, challenges, and applications by Han Tie Xin, Y Zhou, Bakr Ahmed Taha, Nur Nadia Bachok, Nurfarhana Mohd Sapiee, L S Supian, Norhana Arsad

“…Taper-based fiber sensor structures have excellent performance characteristics, which are attributed to their inherent properties, such as their compact size, lightweight design, and flexibility. …”
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Sonographic Verification and Clinical Significance of the Features of Surrounding Structures in Knee Osteoarthritis by E. A. Skripnichenko, V. V. Lyalina, S. G. Pripisnova, V. G. Gоlubev

“…First of all, this is a variety of pain syndromes, among which is the pathology of periarticular structures (AS). To date, the contribution of this type to the clinical picture of OA has been sufficiently studied, primarily due to the fact that the list and frequency of these lesions have not yet been described.Aim: to describe the basis of the main periarticular structures in patients with different radiographic stages of knee OA according to ultrasound data.Materials and methods: The observational study has currently included 88 patients who had an outpatient appointment with a rheumatologist for knee osteoarthritis between 2021 and 2023. …”
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Social Contact Structures and Time Use Patterns in the Manicaland Province of Zimbabwe. by Alessia Melegaro, Emanuele Del Fava, Piero Poletti, Stefano Merler, Constance Nyamukapa, John Williams, Simon Gregson, Piero Manfredi

“…<h4>Background</h4>Patterns of person-to-person contacts relevant for infectious diseases transmission are still poorly quantified in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where socio-demographic structures and behavioral attitudes are expected to be different from those of more developed countries.…”
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Testing nest deterrents for Chihuahuan ravens on H‐frame transmission structures by James F. Dwyer, Diana L. Leiker, Shauna N. D. King

“…ABSTRACT Chihuahuan ravens (Corvus cryptoleucus) regularly perch and nest on electric utility structures. Because ravens perch on overhead shield wires, for which no perch discourager exists, management focuses on nests. …”
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Local Opportunity Structures for Planning-related Protest in Major German Cities by Gerhard Kienast, Grischa Frederik Bertram

“…Representative bodies and referenda are seen as parts of a local planning-political opportunity structure, a theoretical framework built on Eisinger’s political opportunity structures. …”
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Exciton-polaritons in 2d macroporous silicon structures with nano-coatings by L. A. Karachevtseva, O. O. Lytvynenko, V. F. Onyshchenko, V. V. Strelchuk, V. A. Boyko

“…TO (Si–Si–bonds) absorption spectra of 2D macroporous silicon structures consistent fully with data for phonon polaritons in microresonators as a result of resonance interaction of dipole-active vibrations with the frequency of ?…”
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Ensemble learning based sustainable approach to rebuilding metal structures prediction by Tetiana Vlasenko, Taras Hutsol, Vitaliy Vlasovets, Szymon Glowacki, Tomasz Nurek, Iryna Horetska, Savelii Kukharets, Yuriy Firman, Olexandra Bilovod

“…This method has high accuracy and low delay of conclusion (IL = 0.119 s) when predicting the tensile strength limit (MPa) based on the data of non-destructive testing of structural steel products. . …”
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Numerical Study of Flow-induced Vibration in Square Tube Bundle Structures by SUN Junshuai1, SUN Rulei1, QIAO Pengrui2, TAN Sichao1, TIAN Ruifeng1

“…Thus, in order to study the flow-induced vibration behavior of the tube bundle structures, accurately predict the critical flow velocity for the occurrence of fluid-elastic instability, clarify the transformation mechanism of each flow-induced vibration mechanism, and then provide data support for the design and optimization of the tube bundle structures of the steam generators. …”
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IMPROVEMENT OF ADAPTATION TO STRUCTURES REMOVABLE DENTURES IN PATIENTS WITH ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE by N.A. Ryabushko, V.N. Dvornik, I.V. Pavlish, G.N. Balya

“… • (basic) group consisted of 53 patients who underwent orthopedic structures removable dentures (removable partial dentures plastinochnyh (CHZPP) and who had a history of major diseases - coronary heart disease, stable exertional angina FC II - III FC…”
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The Influence of Building Form Compactness on Energy Efficiency in Accommodation Structures: The Case of Türkiye by Erdem Köymen, Özlem Kahraman

“…Cold climate region structures were preferred because compactness is more comparable in terms of form and provides a constraining plane. …”
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Structures of Community Life in Portuguese Home-Villages: Two Case Studies by Ana Bordalo

“… This study aims to investigate the structures of community life in Portuguese Home-Villages and the consequences of an ageing demographic population; the need to implement home structures for the elderly and on how these can contribute to a revitalization of the depopulated territories. …”
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A spectral–structural characterization of European temperate, hemiboreal, and boreal forests by M. Rautiainen, A. Hovi, D. Schraik, D. Schraik, J. Hanuš, P. Lukeš, Z. Lhotáková, L. Homolová

“…In this data description paper, we present a dataset on the structural and spectral properties of 58 stands in temperate, hemiboreal, and boreal European forests. …”
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Synchronization lag in post stroke: relation to motor function and structural connectivity by Xin Wang, Caio Seguin, Andrew Zalesky, Wan-wa Wong, Winnie Chiu-wing Chu, Raymond Kai-yu Tong

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Yerevan Brickwork Residential Building Architecture and the Importance of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Preservation of Architectural Monuments and Structures by Evlin Ordoukhanian, Shahen Shahinyan

“…This research aims to gather and maintain accurate information about brick structures, which significantly impacts their preservation. …”
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Machine learning-based classification of geological structures from magnetic anomaly data: Case study of Northern Nigeria basement complex by Ema Abraham, Ayatu Usman, Ifunanya Amano

“…This study applies a machine learning framework to geomagnetic data to enhance the identification of subsurface mineralized structures. …”
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Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO): Expanding Defense Cooperation between European Union Countries by Łukasz Potocki

“… The main objective of the present study is to analyze the European Union defense policy on the example of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO). It will be possible thanks to a comprehensive analysis of individual PESCO projects, participating countries, determinants and perspectives for the development of defense policy. …”
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STRUCTURAL-COMPOSITIONAL MODEL OF THE NYURBINSKAYA KIMBERLITE PIPE FORMATION (SREDNE-MARKHA AREA OF THE YAKUTIAN DIAMONDIFEROUS PROVINCE) by A. S. Gladkov, D. A. Koshkarev, A. V. Cheremnykh, F. João, M. A. Karpenko, M. V. Marchuk, I. A. Potekhina

“…Analysis of different faults and tectonic fracturing allowed to reconstruct the tectonic stress fields acting at the stage of the kimberlite body formation and to determine their occurrence sequence in time. The data obtained about regularities of the Nyurbinskaya pipe compositional structure and results of geologo-structural studies are combined in a single structural-compositional model of the deposit formation. …”
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Crashworthiness simulation dataset of re-entrant crash box with combined in-plane and out-of-plane filling structureMendeley Data. by Arif Rochman Fachrudin, Moch. Agus Choiron, Anindito Purnowidodo, Yudy Surya Irawan

“…This article presents a dataset generated from finite element simulations of square aluminum crash box with various re-entrant infill structures. The configurations include in-plane, out-of-plane and combined in-plane and out-of-plane geometries. …”
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Optimisation of the performance and structure of soluble ball seat metal sealing rings based on response surface by CHEN Zhen, RAN Qingjie, CHEN Nengpeng, WANG Qiaomu

“…On this basis, the Box-Behnken design is used to construct a four-factor and three-level experimental scheme, and a second-order response surface agent model is established by 25 sets of simulation data, with the dual optimization objectives of minimizing the equivalent force and maximizing the contact pressure, and the relationship between the structural parameters and the equivalent force and the contact pressure as the optimization function, and the range of geometrical parameters as the boundary conditions. …”
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scHiCSRS: a self-representation smoothing method with Gaussian mixture model for imputing single cell Hi-C data by Qing Xie, Wang Meng, Shili Lin

“…Results We propose scHiCSRS, a self-representation smoothing method that improves data quality, and a Gaussian mixture model that identifies structural zeros among observed zeros. scHiCSRS not only takes spatial dependencies of a scHi-C data matrix into account but also borrows information from similar single cells. …”
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