Phylogenetic Structure Shifts Across Life-History Stages in Response to Microtopography and Competition in Subtropical Forests by Weiqi Meng, Haonan Zhang, Lianhao Sun, Jianing Xu, Yajun Qiao, Haidong Li

“…This study focuses on a subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest in China, utilizing a large permanent plot established in the Yaoluoping National Nature Reserve. By integrating data from a full-stem census and total station surveying, we analyzed the phylogenetic structure of the plant community as a whole and across different life-history stages (saplings, juveniles, and adults) while quantitatively assessing microtopographic variables and an interspecific competition index. …”
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Re-Os age of molybdenite from the Hannivka deposit, Kryvyi Rih structure, Ukrainian Shield by Yu. Ye. Khomych, V. V. Sukach, L. V. Shumlyanskyy, S. M. Bondarenko, V. O. Syomka, S. Tessalina, M. M. Reshetnyk

“…These events were active in the Inhul megablock and expressed themselves in the Kryvyi Rih-Kremenchuk suture zone and Kryvyi Rih structure through the intrusion of veins and lenses of Kropyvnytskyi granitoid complex (dated at 1959 ± 36 Ma) and aplite-pegmatoid granites (dated at 1.8 Ga).…”
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Relationships between structural stigma, societal stigma, and minority stress among gender minority people by Kristen D. Clark, Mitchell R. Lunn, Jae M. Sevelius, Carol Dawson-Rose, Sandra J. Weiss, Torsten B. Neilands, Micah E. Lubensky, Juno Obedin-Maliver, Annesa Flentje

“…We tested variables identified in the literature as measures of structural stigma inclusive of societal stigma (LGBT + Business Climate Index, state voting behaviors, and Google Trends search data), the most commonly used structural stigma variable (State Policy Environment Tally), and proxy variables (region, population density) for comparison. …”
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Considerations for Establishing a Behavioral Policy-Making and Nudge Institution within the Country's Executive Structure by Seyed Kamal Vaezi, Maryam Darbandi

“…Through this rigorous interview process, a wealth of qualitative data was gathered to assess both the potential and the challenges associated with forming a dedicated behavioral insight institution.ResultsThe literature review summarizes the experiences of countries with behavioral insight teams, presenting them in three areas: operational goals and tasks, institutional and organizational structure, and legal frameworks. …”
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The structure of an amyloid precursor protein/talin complex indicates a mechanical basis of Alzheimer’s disease by Charles Ellis, Natasha L. Ward, Matthew Rice, Neil J. Ball, Pauline Walle, Chloé Najdek, Devrim Kilinc, Jean-Charles Lambert, Julien Chapuis, Benjamin T. Goult

“…Here, we report the crystal structure of an APP/talin1 complex identifying a new way to couple the cytoskeletal machinery to synaptic sites through APP. …”
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Tracing the aggregation pathway of the scaffold protein DISC1: Structural implications for chronic mental illnesses by Abhishek Cukkemane, Nina Becker, Tatsiana Kupreichyk, Henrike Heise, Dieter Willbold, Oliver H. Weiergräber

“…Disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) is a pleiotropic scaffold protein that is postulated to comprise large disordered regions and four distinct structured segments with a high proportion of helical or coiled-coil fold. …”
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Development and distribution characteristics of geohazards based on sedimentary-structural evolution in Xide County, southwest Sichuan by Xiaohui XIONG, Yongjian BAI, Yongbo TIE, Yanchao GAO, Hua GE, Wei XU, Lingfeng GONG, Jiazhu WANG, Kai TIAN, Menglong HE, Zhihua ZHU

“…The wide and gentle fold structures in red beds are the disaster-prone environment for landslide. …”
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Comparative Whole-Genome Analysis of Production Traits and Genetic Structure in Baiyu and Chuanzhong Black Goats by Jing Luo, Qi Min, Xueliang Sun, Xinyu Guo, Meijun Song, Xuehui Zeng, Jiazhong Guo, Hongping Zhang, Yanguo Han, Li Li

“…Furthermore, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of genetic diversity, population structure, and selection signatures using whole-genome resequencing data. …”
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Genomic structural equation modeling reveals latent phenotypes in the human cortex with distinct genetic architecture by Rajendra A. Morey, Yuanchao Zheng, Henry Bayly, Delin Sun, Melanie E. Garrett, Marianna Gasperi, Adam X. Maihofer, C. Lexi Baird, Katrina L. Grasby, Ashley A. Huggins, Courtney C. Haswell, Paul M. Thompson, Sarah Medland, Daniel E. Gustavson, Matthew S. Panizzon, William S. Kremen, Caroline M. Nievergelt, Allison E. Ashley-Koch, Mark W. Logue

“…Even though we observed model instability in our application of genomic SEM to high-dimensional data, jointly modeling the genetic architecture of complex traits and investigating multivariate genetic links across neuroimaging phenotypes offers new insights into the genetics of cortical structure and relationships to psychopathology.…”
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Presence of Pain Shows Greater Effect than Tendon Structural Alignment During Landing Dynamics by Silvia Ortega-Cebrián, Diogo C. F. Silva, Daniela F. Carneiro, Victor Zárate, Leonel A. T. Alves, Diana C. Guedes, Carlos A. Zárate-Tejero, Aïda Cadellans-Arróniz, António Mesquita Montes

“…This study aims to investigate the relationship between tendon structure, presence of pain, and sex differences in landing kinematics and kinetics during countermovement jumps (CMJ) and tuck jump tests (TJT) in professional volleyball players. …”
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Structural placental changes in women with intra-pregnancy novel coronavirus infection COVID-19 (review) by A. V. Yakimova, S. Yu. Borovaya, V. R. Mukhamedshina, N. S. Datsenko, S. G. Kucherenko, I. M. Pozdnyakov, E. V. Nikitenko

“…In those that were excluded from the review, information about the clinical course of pregnancy and its outcome during novel coronavirus infection prevailed, or isolated cases of studying insignificant placental structural changes were discussed. Studies with a small number of observations were selected only in the case of the uniqueness of the published data, the absence of scientific papers where similar studies would have been conducted in larger sample.Results. …”
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Impact of the fishing ban on fish diversity and population structure in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, China by Juan Du, Juan Du, Huiwu Tian, Zhiyuan Xiang, Kangshun Zhao, Kangshun Zhao, Lixiong Yu, Xinbin Duan, Daqing Chen, Jun Xu, Jun Xu, Mingdian Liu

“…Fish monitoring data collected from 2017–2019 (pre-ban) and 2021–2023 (post-ban) were analyzed to evaluate changes in fish body size, species diversity, and community structure. …”
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The structural and functional brain alternations in tobacco use disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Longyao Ma, Longyao Ma, Qiuying Tao, Qiuying Tao, Jinghan Dang, Jinghan Dang, Jieping Sun, Jieping Sun, Xiaoyu Niu, Xiaoyu Niu, Mengzhe Zhang, Mengzhe Zhang, Yimeng Kang, Yimeng Kang, Weijian Wang, Weijian Wang, Jingliang Cheng, Jingliang Cheng, Yong Zhang, Yong Zhang

“…Consequently, it is important to utilize relevant coordinate data for a comprehensive meta-analysis to identify the shared patterns of structural, functional, and multimodal alternations in TUD.MethodThe present study conducted a systematic retrieval of studies published on PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus from January 1, 2010, to December 12, 2023, to identify studies on voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) for TUD. …”
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Sea-Ice Surface Types Characterization and SAR Volume Backscattering Properties in Response to Sea States Interactions Using Structural Feature Fusion by Iman Heidarpour Shahrezaei, Hyun-Cheol Kim

“…The simulation results show that the entire routine, encompassing RPM modeling, MIZ characterization, structural fusion, and SAR raw data generation, yields promising results in the realm of sea-ice remote sensing. …”
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Divergent trajectories to structural diversity impact patient survival in high grade serous ovarian cancer by Ailith Ewing, Alison Meynert, Ryan Silk, Stuart Aitken, Devin P. Bendixsen, Michael Churchman, Stuart L. Brown, Alhafidz Hamdan, Joanne Mattocks, Graeme R. Grimes, Tracy Ballinger, Robert L. Hollis, C. Simon Herrington, John P. Thomson, Kitty Sherwood, Thomas Parry, Edward Esiri-Bloom, Clare Bartos, Ian Croy, Michelle Ferguson, Mairi Lennie, Trevor McGoldrick, Neil McPhail, Nadeem Siddiqui, Rosalind Glasspool, Melanie Mackean, Fiona Nussey, Brian McDade, Darren Ennis, The Scottish Genomes Partnership, Lynn McMahon, Athena Matakidou, Brian Dougherty, Ruth March, J. Carl Barrett, Iain A. McNeish, Andrew V. Biankin, Patricia Roxburgh, Charlie Gourley, Colin A. Semple

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Pharmacological and structural characterization of vibostolimab, a novel anti-TIGIT blocking antibody for cancer immunotherapy by Hongmei Wang, Maribel Beaumont, Wendy Blumenschein, Laurence Fayadat-Dilman, Mingmei Cai, Jing Yuan, Douglas Wilson, Thierry O Fischmann, Jeanne Baker, Tanya Keenan, Daniel Malashock, Eunseon Ahn, Komal Pradhan, Jeffery Grein, Srishti Chakravorty, Soheila Bahmanjah, David Ban, Ellen Chien, Mark Hsieh, Todd Mayhood, Janica C Wong, Mark A McCoy, Sybil M G Williams, Wolfgang Seghezzi, Jin-Hwan Han

“…The mouse surrogate anti-TIGIT antibodies were identified and used to extensively investigate the mechanism of action of anti-TIGIT antibodies as monotherapy or in combination with anti-programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) antibody in vivo by gene expression profiling and flow cytometry analyses with a mouse syngeneic tumor model.Results Structural analyses with solution NMR and X-ray crystallography revealed that vibostolimab binds the CC’C’’FG loop interface of TIGIT, completely competing for the binding site of CD155 with a larger coverage area than another anti-TIGIT antibody tiragolumab, consistent with surface plasmon resonance analysis, though mouse models with similar antibodies revealed no functional difference in antitumor efficacy. …”
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Explaining the Effects of Geotourism on the Development of Entrepreneurship in City- Village Ghori-Ghalhe with Structural Equation Approach by Davood Jamini, Mmnad Salari, Himan Shahabi

“…Finally, the results of final model of fitted structural equation for geotourism effect (as the independent variable of studdy) on entrepreneurship development (as dependent variable) among households of QuriQalhe showed that geotourism, at a confidence level of 99%, has a significant effect on the development of entrepreneurship and its indicators. …”
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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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Characteristics of demersal fish community structure during summer hypoxia in the Pearl River Estuary, China by Han Lai, Sheng Bi, Huadong Yi, Haiyang Li, Xuchong Wei, Gongpei Wang, Dingli Guo, Xuange Liu, Jiahui Chen, Qiuxian Chen, Zhilun Zhang, Shuang Liu, Chenlei Huang, Li Lin, Guifeng Li

“…Further analysis demonstrated that dissolved oxygen had a significantly stronger effect on fish community structure at hypoxic sites than in the whole PRE. Moreover, other environmental variables also had significant effects on the fish community structure and interacted with dissolved oxygen in the hypoxia area. …”
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Seismic Mitigation Performance and Damage of Prefabricated Base Isolation Structure Based on the Shaking Table Test by WU Zhongtie, FAN pingping, LIU Yanhui, LI Wanrun

“…Secondly, Shaking table tests were conducted on the prefabricated base isolation structural model. And acceleration sensors and laser displacement transducers were installed on the test specimen to collect dynamic response data. …”
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