Understanding climate-sensitive tick development and diapause with a structured population model by Kamil Erguler, Anastasios Saratsis, Gerhard Dobler, Lidia Chitimia-Dobler

“…Understanding the environmental factors that sustain tick populations is crucial for enhancing prevention and control measures.MethodsThis study presents a multi-process structured population model that simulates nymph activity, development, and diapause in response to temperature and photoperiod. …”
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Introduction of Objective Structured Viva Examination in Anatomy of First-phase MBBS Students by Bashir Ahmad Shah, Parvez Ahmad Lone, Samia Bashir, S. M. Muhalil

“…Background: The introduction of the objective structured viva examination (OSVE) in anatomy aims to enhance the objectivity, fairness, and efficiency of medical education assessments. …”
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Traditional Versus Objective Structured Clinical Examination on Pediatric Nursing Students’ Performance by Khadiga M. Said, Safaa F. Draz

“…Four tools were utilized to collect data for the current study. A Structured Questionnaire Sheet, A modified Self-administered Questionnaire, Pediatric Nursing Students' Practice Observational Checklists, and Clinical Scenarios were designed to assess the pediatric nursing student OSCE exam and compare between the traditional method and OSCE method of exams. …”
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Structured expert judgement approach of the health impact of various chemicals and classes of chemicals. by Deniz Marti, David Hanrahan, Ernesto Sanchez-Triana, Mona Wells, Lilian Corra, Howard Hu, Patrick N Breysse, Amalia Laborde, Jack Caravanos, Roberto Bertollini, Kate Porterfield, Richard Fuller

“…<h4>Structured expert judgment (sej) process</h4>A Structured Expert Judgment (Research Outreach, 2021) process was performed to provide plausible estimates of health impacts for 16 commonly found pollutants: asbestos, arsenic, benzene, chromium, cadmium, dioxins, fluoride, highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs), lead, mercury, polycyclic-aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAs), phthalates, endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), and brominated flame retardants (BRFs). …”
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Correlating pore space morphology with numerically computed soil gas diffusion for structured loam and sand, including stochastic 3D microstructure modeling by Benedikt Prifling, Matthias Weber, Maximilian Rötzer, Nadja Ray, Alexander Prechtel, Maxime Phalempin, Steffen Schlüter, Doris Vetterlein, Volker Schmidt

Subjects: “…Structure–property relationship…”
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Toward an Efficient and Robust Process–Structure Prediction Framework for Filigree L-PBF 316L Stainless Steel Structures by Yu Qiao, Marius Grad, Aida Nonn

“…Additive manufacturing (AM), particularly laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF), provides unmatched design flexibility for creating intricate steel structures with minimal post-processing. However, adopting L-PBF for high-performance applications is difficult due to the challenge of predicting microstructure evolution. …”
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Analyzing the function of metaverse technology in the retention and absorption of knowledge using the integrated approach of interpretive structural modeling and structural equatio... by Seyed Mojtaba Hosseinibamakan, Hajar Soleymanizadeh, Mehran Ziaeian

“…This problem affects the validity of interpretive structural modeling approach. To solve this problem and in order to validate the presented model resulting from the interpretive structural modeling approach, the structural equation modeling approach and Smart PLS software were used. …”
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Local Structural Indices Changes During Different Periods of Postherpetic Neuralgia: A Graphical Study in Structural Covariance Networks by Xiong J, Gu L, Jiang X, Kuang H, Lv H, Li Z, Xie Y, Luo Q, Jiang J

“…Eglobal and Lp can be considered as potential imaging markers for future clinical restaging of PHN.Keywords: herpes zoster, postherpetic neuralgia, structural covariance network, graph theory, small world, cortical thickness…”
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Faster computation of left-bounded shortest unique substrings by Larissa L. M. Aguiar, Felipe A. Louza

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Analysis of aeromagnetic data for interpretation of seismicity at Fayoum-Cairo area, Egypt by Ahmed Bakr Khalil, Mostafa Toni, Awad Hassoup, Khamis Mansour

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What determines export structure in the EU countries? The use of gravity model in international trade based on the panel data for the years 1995-2015 by Marek Maciejewski, Krzysztof Wach

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Autoencoder-Augmented Graph Neural Networks for Accurate and Scalable Structure Recognition in Analog/Mixed-Signal Schematics by Mohamed Salem, Witesyavwirwa Vianney Kambale, Ali Deeb, Sergii Tkachov, Anjeza Karaj, Joachim Pichler, Manuel Ludwig Lexer, Kyandoghere Kyamakya

“…The increasing complexity of Analog/Mixed-Signal (AMS) schematics has been posing significant challenges in structure recognition, particularly in the intellectual property (IP) industry, where data scarcity and confidentiality constraints limit model training. …”
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WORKLOAD DYNAMICS OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS IN BULGARIAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: EVIDENCES FROM AGGREGATE DATA by Nikolay Atanasov, Krikor Indjian

“…Basic econometric methods, such as tests for structural breaks and dynamic rows modeling based on "macro-" or aggregate data, are implemented. …”
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Structuring and centralizing breast cancer real-world biomarker data from pathology reports through C-LAB artificial intelligence platform by Florent Le Borgne, Camille Garnier, Camille Morisseau, Yanis Navarrete, Yanina Echeverria, Juan Mir, Jaume Calafell, Tanguy Perennec, Olivier Kerdraon, Jean-Sébastien Frenel, Judith Raimbourg, Mario Campone, Maria Fe Paz, François Bocquet

“…Results C-LAB ® achieved over 80% agreement with human extractions (precision, recall, and F1-score) in structuring biomarker data from complex, unstructured pathology reports, despite dataset variability and optical character recognition errors. …”
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Multi-temporal high-resolution data products of ecosystem structure derived from country-wide airborne laser scanning surveys of the Netherlands by Y. Shi, J. Wang, W. D. Kissling

“…<p>Recent years have seen a rapid surge in the use of light detection and ranging (lidar) technology for characterizing the structure of ecosystems. Even though repeated airborne laser scanning (ALS) surveys are becoming increasingly available across several European countries, so far, only a few studies have derived data products of ecosystem structure at a national scale, possibly due to a lack of free and open-source tools and the computational challenges involved in handling the large volumes of data. …”
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Estimating fine age structure and time trends in human contact patterns from coarse contact data: The Bayesian rate consistency model. by Shozen Dan, Yu Chen, Yining Chen, Melodie Monod, Veronika K Jaeger, Samir Bhatt, André Karch, Oliver Ratmann, Machine Learning & Global Health network

“…The Bayesian rate consistency model provides a model-based, non-parametric, computationally tractable approach for estimating the fine structure and longitudinal trends in social contacts and is applicable to contemporary survey data with coarsely reported age of contacts as long as the exact age of survey participants is reported.…”
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Seasonal genetic variation and genetic structure of Spodoptera exigua in Liaoning Province, Northeast China: insights from 11 years of microsatellite data by Ming-Li Yu, Xian-Zhi Xiu, Jin-Yang Wang, Xin-Yi Cao, Fa-Liang Qin, Xing-Ya Wang, Li-Hong Zhou

“…To control this pest effectively, it is crucial to investigate its seasonal genetic variation and population genetic structure in northern China. Methods In this study, we used eight nuclear microsatellite loci to investigate the seasonal genetic variation and genetic structure of BAW in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, Northeast China, from 2012–2022, collected from a single location on Welsh onion. …”
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The glucose-lowering therapy structure in special groups of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients based on data from the Moscow region register by Inna V. Misnikova, Yulia A. Kovaleva, Mikhail А. Isakov, Alexander V. Dreval

“…BACKGROUND: Data of real clinical practice in diabetes mellitus (DM) register allow to evaluate features and trends in structure of glucose-lowering therapy (GLT). …”
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Data Assimilation Informed Model Structure Improvement (DAISI) for Robust Prediction Under Climate Change: Application to 201 Catchments in Southeastern Australia by Julien Lerat, Francis Chiew, David Robertson, Vazken Andréassian, Hongxing Zheng

Subjects: “…model structure…”
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Structural Feedback Analysis Based on Monitoring Data from Units with Different Spiral Case Embedding Methods at Three Gorges Hydropower Station by CHEN Qin, SU Hai-dong, DUAN Guo-xue, CUI Jian-hua, ZHOU Shi-hua

“…As the supporting system of hydroelectric generators, both the steel spiral cases and surrounding reinforced concrete structures have significant differences in construction processes and structural bearing characteristics due to different embedding methods. …”
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