SARS-CoV-2 detection by surface plasmon resonance biosensors based on graphene-multilayer structures by Talia Tene, Marco Guevara, Paul Romero, Alberto Guapi, Lala Gahramanli, Lala Gahramanli, Cristian Vacacela Gomez

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Impact of Local Soil Conditions on the Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Structures: In the Context of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes by Ercan Işık, Fatih Avcil, Aydın Büyüksaraç, Enes Arkan, Ehsan Harirchian

“…The study confirms that variations in soil types, as classified in Eurocode 8, have a major impact on the seismic behavior of reinforced-concrete structures. …”
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Natural Frequency of Monopile Supported Offshore Wind Turbine Structures Under Long-Term Cyclic Loading by Rong Chen, Haitao Yang, Yilong Sun, Jinglong Zou, Boyan Sun, Jialin Xu

“…Offshore wind turbine structures (OWTs) commonly use monopile foundations for support, and long-term exposure to wind–wave cyclic loads may induce changes in foundation stiffness. …”
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Seismic Facies Classification of Salt Structures and Sediments in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Using Self-Organizing Maps by Silas Adeoluwa Samuel, Camelia C. Knapp, James H. Knapp

“…This research focuses on identifying important structural and stratigraphic variations at the Mississippi Canyon Block 118 (MC-118) field, located on the northern slope of the Gulf of Mexico, which is significantly influenced by complex salt tectonics and slope failure. …”
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Community-Based Lung Cancer Screening Program Structure, Quality, and Barriers: The Struggle for Implementation by Candice L. Wilshire, Kerrie E. Buehler, Claire A. Henson, Christopher R. Gilbert, Jed A. Gorden

“…Conclusions: A wide variation in the structure, quality, and resource allocation was identified within the network of LCSPs. …”
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Enhanced Human Action Recognition Using Fusion of Skeletal Joint Dynamics and Structural Features by S. N. Muralikrishna, Balachandra Muniyal, U. Dinesh Acharya, Raghurama Holla

“…The displacement vector of joint locations is used to compute the temporal features. The structural variation features and the temporal variation features are fused using a neural network to perform action classification. …”
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Structure of Needle Highlights Ecological Adaptability and Microevolution of Natural Populations of Cedrus atlantica in Morocco by Nezha El Bakkali, Mohammed Bendriss Amraoui

“…All these results show an adaptation of the structure of the needles of C. atlantica from Morocco to the geographical position and the climatic conditions of the populations.…”
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Simulation test and optimization for structural parameters of circular arc gear discharging fertilizer apparatus by DUN Guoqiang, GAO Zhiyong, GUO Yanling, LIU Yuxuan, MAO Ning, JI Wenyi

“…The optimum structure was selected to do the bench test. The results indicated that the coefficient of variation of the quality changes of discharging fertilizer was 0.27, and the coefficient of determination of fertilizer discharging amount in unit time was 0.998 0. …”
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Experimental Study of an Adaptive Sequential Nonlinear LSE with Unknown Inputs for Structural Damage Tracking by Tengfei Mu, Li Zhou, Jann N. Yang

“…Experimental results demonstrate that the improved ASNLSE-UI approach is capable of tracking the variation of stiffness parameters leading to the detection of structural damages.…”
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Study on Structure Design and Parameter Optimization of Diversion Rifled Feeder Based on CFD-DEM by Wancheng Dong, Xiongye Zhang, Zhen Jiang, Xue Hu, Yun Ge, Lixin Zhang

“…Response surface methodology was employed to optimize key structural parameters, aiming to enhance both air–fertilizer mixture uniformity and fertilizer delivery stability. …”
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Genetic Structure and Diversity of Rice Root Nematode (<i>Hirschmanniella mucronata</i>) in Thailand by Siwakorn Supajariyapong, Hans Jørgen Lyngs Jørgensen, Pornthip Ruanpanun

“…Nonetheless, there is limited information about the genetic diversity and structure of these nematodes, including in Thailand, where the current study explored the diversity and structure of <i>Hirschmanniella</i> spp. from 57 paddy fields in major rice-growing areas across the country. …”
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Population Genetic Structure of Three‐Spined Sticklebacks in the St. Lawrence: A Gradient of Change by Sann Delaive, Florent Sylvestre, Amanda Xuereb, Laurie Lecomte, Brian Boyle, Christian Otis, Louis Bernatchez, Nicolas Derome

“…Salinity emerged as a key driver of genetic structure, with clinal variation in allele frequencies suggesting ongoing adaptation along the gradient. …”
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VARIABILITY STRUCTURE AND GENETIC DETERMINATION OF PLANT PHENOLOGICAL TYPE (ACCORDING TO RESULTS OF TOBACCO RESEARCH) by A. E. Shpakov, Yu. A. Volchkov, V. V. Drobyshev

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Structural and Mechanical Properties of Hot Rolled CuAlBe Non-Spark Alloy Explosion by G.R. Chelariu, N. Cimpoeșu, P. Paraschiv, B.A. Prisecariu, I. Rusu, I. Știrbu, G.I. Sandu, M. Benchea, C. Bejinariu

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A Multi-Scale Unsupervised Feature Extraction Network with Structured Layer-Wise Decomposition by Yusuf Şevki Günaydın, Baha Şen

“…This decomposition enhances the information richness of input data while preserving its structural integrity, making it especially beneficial for grayscale or low-resolution images. …”
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Revealing the Structure and Biodiversity Patterns of Fish Communities in River Networks Based on Environmental DNA by Ziyu Liu, Yongsheng Wu, Wenhui You, Shuxin Li, Ge Shi, Chen Zhang

“…This study utilized eDNA metabarcoding to investigate fish communities in three subtropical mountain rivers, aiming to uncover the community structure and spatiotemporal dynamics of the multidimensional biodiversity of fish communities across varying positions within the river network. …”
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Structural Response of the Metro Tunnel under Local Dynamic Water Environment in Loess Strata by Junling Qiu, Yiwen Qin, Jinxing Lai, Ke Wang, Fangyuan Niu, Hao Wang, Guanglong Zhang

“…In recent years, Xi’an city, China, has taken the leadership in large-scale construction of subway lines in the loess strata. To study the structural response of the tunnel in loess region under local hydrodynamic environment, an experimental testing in 1g as well as a numerical simulation were performed, in which the achieved results were verified and were found to be in good agreement. …”
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Community structure of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) in a mangrove area in the coastal zone of Tamaulipas, Mexico by Blas Antonio Pérez-Urbina, Juana María Coronado-Blanco, Enrique Ruíz-Cancino, Crystian Sadiel Venegas-Barrera, Alfonso Correa-Sandoval, Jorge Víctor Horta-Vega

“…Our results showed that the mangrove area had the highest potential species richness, and that there were significant differences among the 3 ichneumonid communities. The community structures depend primarily on the biogeographical distribution of species and secondarily on the month of collection, whereas the type of vegetation contributed with lower variation. …”
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Study on the Changing Rules of Silty Clay’s Pore Structure under Freeze-Thaw Cycles by Zongfang Chen, Huie Chen, Jinfeng Li, Hui Li, Wenliang Ma

“…The related data of pore structures under different test conditions were acquired through mercury injection porosimetry (MIP) tests, and the effects of the number of freeze-thaw cycles and freezing temperature on the change of the soil’s pore structure were investigated in detail in combination with fractal theory. …”
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The Structural Defects and Optical Performance of Polarization-Maintaining Hollow-Core Photonic Bandgap fiber by Lidong Wang, Meisong Liao, Fei Yu, Liang Chen, Yazhou Wang, Dakun Wu, Tianxing Wang, Lili Hu, Weiqing Gao

“…According to analyzing the optical performance variation to structural deformation rate, we conducted that the diameter defect has the greatest impact on the fiber properties, while the core-side hole defect has the weakest impact. …”
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