MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF MICROFINANCE BANKS’ CAPITAL STRUCTURE IN NIGERIA by Alade Ayodeji Ademokoya, Saheed Olayinka, Olusegun Opeyemi Oni

“…However, these institutions operate in a dynamic and often unstable macroeconomic environment, which significantly influences their capital structure decisions. This study investigates the macroeconomic determinants of capital structure among Nigerian MFBs, focusing specifically on inflation, exchange rates, gross domestic product (GDP), and lending rates. …”
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Software pipeline for predicting and analyzing the structure of the receptor–ligand by A.S. Kozlova, A.R. Mukhametgalieva, A.N. Fattakhova, N.I. Akberova

“…Such a pipeline involves a complex algorithm, from predicting the structure of the receptor to searching and analyzing the interaction of ligands with the receptor. …”
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Urban villages in the structure of a post-industrial agglomeration by Iwona Kantor-Pietraga, Paulina Kandzia

“…The study aimed to present the relics of old villages as willingly inhabited areas in the structure of a post-industrial agglomeration. Despite intensive urbanisation processes, such areas have retained features typical of rural centres. …”
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Modeling of Transport and Logistics Systems and the Study of the Structural Stability by D. V. Yatskin, A. A. Kochkarov, R. A. Kochkarov

“…A computer simulation of structural destruction on test data sets was carried out. …”
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Atmospheric turbulence structure above urban nonhomogeneous surface by Drozd I., Repina I., Gavrikov A., Stepanenko V., Artamonov A., Pashkin A., Varentsov A.

“…The mast is located inside the urban area and makes it possible to analyze the structure of atmospheric turbulence in a heterogeneous urban condition. …”
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Challenges of Soil-Structure Interaction Problems– A Review by Bushra S. Albusoda, A'amal A. H. Al-Saidi, Ban H. Al-Khayyat

“…The cost and time of dynamic soil structure analysis can be reduced by using the equivalent pier method, Mohr Columb Model in ABAQUS software, multi step and data-based method and there is a need to add guidelines on the implementation of soil structural interaction in seismic codes in order to include it in the regular design practice of structures. …”
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Market Structure and Technical Efficiency of Banks in the MENA Region by José Manuel Maside-Sanfiz, Ana Iglesias-Casal, Qusay Ayman Sulaiman Mazahreh, Carmen López-Andión

“…This study examines the influence of market structure (concentration and competition) on efficiency in a sample of 239 banks operating in the MENA region over a period from 2011 to 2020. …”
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Structural Damage Detection Based on Sparrow Search Algorithm by Ziyan Ma, Xi Peng, Fengjiang Qin, Qiuwei Yang, Bin Xu

“…Vibration modal parameters are widely used in structural damage identification due to their ease of measurement, facilitating rapid structural damage assessment in engineering practice. …”
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The effects of flight training on flying cadets' brain structure. by Liang Wang, Chengshi Yang, Dongfeng Yan, Lu Ye, Xi Chen, Shan Ma

“…The structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) data from 39 flying cadets and 37 general college students underwent analysis using voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and surface-based morphometry (SBM) methods to quantitatively detect and compute multiple indicators, including gray matter volume (GMV), curvature, mean curvature of the white matter surface (MC-WMS), the percentage of surface white matter gray matter (WM-GM percentage), surface Jacobi (S-Jacobi), and Gaussian curvature of white matter surface (GC-WMS). …”
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LAND STRUCTURAL CHANGES AND DEVELOPMENT OF VEGETABLE PRODUCERS IN BULGARIA by Teodora STOEVA, Violeta DIRIMANOVA

“…Land structural changes and development of small farmers are public phenomena arising on the basis of land use as an indispensable mean of production in the agricultural sector. …”
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Crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis of the fungicide metconazole by Thaluru M. Mohan Kumar, Chaluvarangaiah Sowbhagya, Hemmige S. Yathirajan, Sean Parkin

“…Despite its agricultural significance, detailed crystallographic data remain scarce. This study reports the crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis of racemic cis-metconazole [(1S,5R)/(1R,5S)], determined in the monoclinic space group P21/c with two independent molecules in the asymmetric unit (Z′ = 2). …”
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Structure and biological action of analogs and derivatives of biogenic polyamines by O. S. Egorov, N. Yu. Borisova, E. Ya. Borisova, M. L. Rezhabbaev, E. Yu. Afanas’eva, E. V. Arzamastsev

“…The purpose of this review is to summarize the results of the studies devoted to understanding the biological activity of compounds of the polyamine series, comparing their biological action with action on certain molecular targets. Due to the structural diversity of this group of substances, it is impossible to fully reflect the currently available data in one review. …”
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Structural transitions in systems with a triple-well potential by L. M. Ozherelkova, E. S. Savin, I. R. Tishaeva, V. V. Shevelev

“…The paper aims to study the influence of the external field specified by the interatomic triple-well potential on the equilibrium structure of a chain of interacting atoms.Methods. …”
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On the structure of species-function participation in multilayer ecological networks by Sandra Hervías-Parejo, Mar Cuevas-Blanco, Lucas Lacasa, Anna Traveset, Isabel Donoso, Ruben Heleno, Manuel Nogales, Susana Rodríguez-Echeverría, Carlos J. Melián, Victor M. Eguíluz

“…Its application to recently collected data of an islet ecosystem—reporting 1537 interactions between 691 plants, animals and fungi across six different functions (pollination, herbivory, seed dispersal, decomposition, nutrient uptake, and fungal pathogenicity)—unveils a non-random, nested structure in the way plant species participate across different functions. …”
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DETERMINANTS OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE IN NIGERIAN OIL AND GAS SECTOR by Adeoba Asaolu Adepoju

“…The prime of place of this sector’s performance makes its funding (capital structure) very vital to the respective companies and overall performance of the economy. …”
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Structural Challenges of Attracting and Retaining Sponsorship in Professional Sports by Somayeh Mohammadi, Behzad Izadi

“…The coding technique and NVIVO software were used for data analysis. Following the identification and ranking of challenges, an AHP questionnaire was designed and distributed to 16 experts in the sports and marketing industry.Findings: The results indicated that structural challenges to attracting sponsors in professional sports were identified across six themes: the marketing literacy of managers and human resources, strategic thinking, inefficiencies in the financial system and legal issues, the need for quick adaptation to changes, university positioning and research, as well as the role of politics and government. …”
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Structure controlled enhanced photocatalytic activity of polyaniline (PANI) by Sadia Rafiq, Masuma Akther Lovely, Samiya Rahman Mim, Md Shofiqul Islam, Mahbub Hasan, Md Muktadir Billah

“…Analyzing experimental data in addition to percent crystallinity, bond structure, particle morphology and optical band gap were studied. …”
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Study on the Dynamic Deformation Characteristics of Artificial Structural Loess by Yu Xi, Mingming Sun, Xueqing Hua, Yao Zhang, Ye Yuan

“…The good agreement between trial data and the predicted results demonstrates that the H-D hyperbolic model is appropriate for representing the DM-E of artificially structured loess. …”
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Epidemical process and aetiological structure of salmonelloses in the Zaporizhzhia region by N. M. Polishchuck, N. L. Kolycheva, A. S. Dehen, O. V. Melnikova, N. P. Kryazheva

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Effect of Heat on Physical, Structural, and Microscopic Properties of Sandstone by Soumen Paul, Nageswara R. Kolikipogu, Hajime Ikeda, Autar K. Raina, Vinod A. Mendhe, Somnath Chattopadhyaya, V. M. S. R. Murthy

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