Impact of Outlet Configuration on Scour at Upstream of Cross River Structure: An Experimental Study by Rana S. Ahmed, Thamer A. Mohammed

“…The sediment transport mechanism, maximum scour depth, volume, and scour area at the upstream of a cross-river structure model with different outlet configurations were investigated. …”
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Edge Effects on Community and Social Structure of Northern Temperate Deciduous Forest Ants by Valerie S. Banschbach, Rebecca Yeamans, Ann Brunelle, Annie Gulka, Margaret Holmes

“…Habitat-dependent changes in social structure of ants represent another possible indicator of ecosystem health.…”
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Structural patterns and regeneration status of woody plant species in the forest of Northwest Ethiopia by Worku Misganaw Tebabal, Getinet Masresha Kassa, Endale Adamu Anteneh

“…Five communities with different species diversity were identified. Structural data analyses showed that small trees and shrubs dominated the forest species. …”
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Assessing character strengths in hungary: exploring factor structure and reliability of VIA-IS-M by Adrienn Molnár, Győző Kurucz, Szilvia Fodor

“…According to exploratory factor analysis, 3-factor solutions were suitable for the data and aligned with recent studies on character strengths’ factor structure. …”
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Hypoplastic Modeling of Soil–Structure Contact Surface Considering Initial Anisotropy and Roughness by Jingtao Yu, Junwang Cao, Zixuan Chen, Jintao Zhu, Yulong Zhang, Pengqiang Yu

“…The development of a constitutive model for soil–structure contact surfaces remains a pivotal area of research within the field of soil–structure interaction. …”
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Investigating the impact of multi-rotor structure shadowing on tidal stream turbine performance by Bryn Townley, Weichao Shi, Qing Xiao, Athanasios Angeloudis, Ian Ashton, Bevan Wray

“…Initially, a transient RANS Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation environment with a sliding mesh is configured and validated against experimental data. A turbine in freestream isolation is simulated as a benchmark case with the modular foundation sequentially introduced to analyse the impact of the structure. …”
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An inevitably ageing world: analysis on the evolutionary pattern of age structure in 200 countries by Jiajun Ma, Qinghua Chen, Xiaosong Chen, Jingfang Fan, Xiaomeng Li

“…This study models age-specific population data as a three-dimensional tensor and applies high-dimensional tensor decomposition to uncover macro-level patterns in demographic systems across 200 countries over the past 70 years. …”
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Structure of a Spumaretrovirus Gag Central Domain Reveals an Ancient Retroviral Capsid. by Neil J Ball, Giuseppe Nicastro, Moumita Dutta, Dominic J Pollard, David C Goldstone, Marta Sanz-Ramos, Andres Ramos, Erik Müllers, Kristin Stirnnagel, Nicole Stanke, Dirk Lindemann, Jonathan P Stoye, William R Taylor, Peter B Rosenthal, Ian A Taylor

“…However, there is a paucity of structural information for FVs and it is unclear how disparate FV and orthoretroviral Gag molecules share the same function. …”
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Spatial Variability of the Hydrochemical Structure in Bottom Gravity Current in the Vema Fracture Zone by Zuev Oleg, Seliverstova Anna M.

“…Such studies of the structure of the bottom gravity flow of Antarctic Bottom Water in the central channel of the Vema Fracture Zone based on high spatial resolution in situ data were made for the first time. …”
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A structural equation modeling of predictive factors of mathematics undergraduates academic achievement by Oluwanife Segun Falebita, Akorede A. Asanre, Admire Chibisa

“…In this study, we assess the factors that predict the academic achievement of mathematics undergraduates through structural equation model (SEM).MethodsA survey was conducted with a sample of 411 randomly selected undergraduates from the Department of Mathematics in public universities in Southwestern Nigeria who were studying mathematical science or mathematics education. …”
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A Control Method for Thermal Structural Tests of Hypersonic Missile Aerodynamic Heating by Chao Lu, Guangming Zhang, Xiaodong Lv

“…This paper presents an intelligent proportional-derivative adaptive global nonsingular fast-terminal sliding-mode control (IPDAGNFTSMC) for tracking temperature trajectories of a hypersonic missile in thermal structural tests. Firstly, the numerical analyses on a hypersonic missile’s aerodynamic heating are based on three different external flow fields via the finite element calculation, which provides the data basis for the thermal structural test of hypersonic vehicles; secondly, due to temperature trajectory differences of a hypersonic missile and the thermal inertia and nonlinear characteristics of quartz lamps in thermal structural test, IPDAGNFTSMC is proposed, consisting of three components: (i) the mathematical model of the thermal structural test is established and further replaced via an intelligent proportional-derivative with a nonlinear extended state observer (NESO) for online unknown disturbances observation; (ii) compared with the traditional sliding-mode control method, the AGNFTSMC method eliminates the reaching phase and the initial control state is trapped on the sliding-mode surface. …”
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Influence of dark matter on the structure of strange quark stars in one-fluid model by J. Sedaghat, G. H. Bordbar, M. Haghighat, S. M. Zebarjad

“…Abstract This work studies the influence of scalar dark matter on the structural properties of strange quark stars (SQS) within a one-fluid framework, considering Yukawa interactions between dark matter and quark matter. …”
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Seismic protection of buildings and structures using metamaterials: current status and development prospects by V. A. Mitroshin

“…Some researchers conditionally divide these methods into two groups: the first performs the tasks of masking, when the wave front deviates and wraps around the protected object, and the second creates an artificial shadow zone where seismic waves are damped without significantly affecting buildings and structures. Since the development of seismic metamaterials is still a new but certainly promising area of research for Russian science, the purpose of this review was to systematise the available data on the methods of effective protection of buildings and structures from wave impacts.…”
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ConsensuSV-ONT – A modern method for accurate structural variant calling by Antoni Pietryga, Mateusz Chiliński, Sachin Gadakh, Dariusz Plewczynski

“…Abstract Improvements in sequencing technology make the development of new tools for detection of structural variance more and more common. However, since the tools available for the long-read Oxford Nanopore sequencing are limited, and the selection of the optimal tool presents a challenge, there is a need to create a tool based on Consensus that combines existing work to identify a set of high-quality, reliable structural variants that can be used for further downstream analysis. …”
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Voxelization and one-dimensional lattice structures for industrial components using function representation by Antonio Bacciaglia, Alfredo Liverani, Alessandro Ceruti

“…This method eliminates the need for boundary representations of lattice structure models, leading to more efficient data handling. …”
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MRI-based insights into brain structural and functional alterations in schizophrenia treated with risperidone by Hangyu Li, Xinyue Chen, Shiji Peng, Ying Li, Rui Yu, Kaike Liao, Nian Liu

“…This review offers a summary of current findings on the impact of risperidone treatment on gray matter, white matter, and functional brain activity and connectivity in SZ patients, including its neural mechanisms, therapeutic benefits, and potential side effects.MethodsLiteratures on the use of risperidone for treating schizophrenia were searched in PubMed, Embase and Web of Science analyzing and summarizing the alterations in brain structure and function associated with risperidone.ResultsThrough the analysis and summary, it was found that risperidone treatment in SZ patients can have a marked effect on different structural and functional regions including the prefrontal lobe, temporal lobe, cingulate gyrus, corona radiata, basal ganglia, and corpus callosum.ConclusionMost research has focused on short-term effects, with limited longitudinal data to assess long-term efficacy and side effects, more researches could be added in the future. …”
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‘There’s no onboarding, no orientation:’ the role of neoliberal university structures in the lives of precarious academics by Rebekah Willson, Heidi Julien, Owen Stewart-Robertson, Lisa M. Given

“…To gain a better understanding of the academic context, semi-structured interviews were conducted with twelve heads of academic units working in various disciplines and across Canadian universities. …”
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Keys for effective multistakeholder science committees: The importance of structure, processes and desired behaviours by Garry Scrimgeour, Kelly Munkittrick, Frederick Wrona, Mark McMaster

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Preparation and characterization of pH-responsive metal-polyphenol structure coated nanoparticles by Qile Xia, Yan Liang, Ailing Cao, Yan Cao, Luyun Cai

“…In this paper, tannic acid (TA) and Fe3+ were added to form a layer of metal-polyphenol network structure on the surface of the nanoparticles which were fabricated by zein and carbon quantum dots (CQDs) encapsulating phlorotannins (PTN). pH-Responsive nanoparticles were prepared successfully (zein-PTN-CQDs-FeIII). …”
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Assessment and forecasting of particulate matter emissions and structural health monitoring of buildings in Bangalore by L. Pinky Devi, R. Chandana, Din Bandhu

“…This study focuses on assessing PM emissions, forecasting Air Quality Index (AQI) levels, and evaluating the structural health of buildings in Bangalore. Data from 12 monitoring stations across the city, collected between 2013 and 2021, were analysed to identify key pollutants, seasonal variations, and their impact on buildings. …”
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