Intelligent Hybrid SHM-NDT Approach for Structural Assessment of Metal Components by Romaine Byfield, Ahmed Shabaka, Milton Molina Vargas, Ibrahim Tansel

“…Structural health monitoring (SHM) plays a pivotal role in ensuring the integrity and safety of critical infrastructure and mechanical components. …”
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An Unsupervised Fake News Detection Framework Based on Structural Contrastive Learning by Yajie Guo, Shujuan Ji, Xianwen Fang, Dickson K. W. Chiu, Ning Cao, Hofung Leung

“…To deal with this problem, in this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised fake news detection framework based on structural contrastive learning by combining the propagation structure of news and contrastive learning to achieve unsupervised training. …”
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Myopia and age-related macular degeneration: structural and anatomical changes of the eye by I. B. Alekseev, Ju. A. Nam

“…The purpose of the study was to find out how age-related macular degeneration and medium-high degree myopia affect the structural and anatomical parameters of the eyeball, and to find whether a relationship exists between various types of myopic staphylomas and changes of visual functions.Material and methods. 120 patients (236 eyes), with medium and high degree myopia and age-related retinal changes, aged 44 to 81 years were tested for two groups of parameters: quantitative and qualitative. …”
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Protein structural domain-disease association prediction based on heterogeneous networks by Jingpu Zhang, Lianping Deng, Lei Deng

“…Abstract Background Domains can be viewed as portable units of protein structure, folding, function, evolution, and design. …”
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Structural and External Barriers to Pakistan’s Economic Growth: Pathways to Sustainable Development by Naveed Ali, Olivier Karl Butzbach, Habib Ali Katohar, Hassan Imran Afridi

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Polyprenylated acylphloroglucinols from Garcinia species and structural revision of seven analogues by Yong-Ge Fu, Yi-Qi Huang, Zhi-Hong Xu, Xia Liu, Xing-Wei Yang

“…Their structures were elucidated by interpretation of NMR and MS spectroscopic data. …”
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IWOA-LSTM based intrinsic structural identification of steel fiber concrete by Ping Li, Jie Feng, Shiwei Duan

“…The degree of approximation between the IWOA-LSTM model’s prediction and experimental data shows that the trained model has a high learning accuracy and good generalization capability, making it appropriate for use in structural engineering applications.…”
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Peculiarities of the current structural and functional organization of the commercial ichthyocenosis of Kamianske Reservoir by V. Hurbyk, M. Maksymenko, O. Nazarov, I. Burjak

“…A comprehensive analysis of the current structural and functional organization of the dominant complex of the commercial ichthyocenosis of Kamianske Reservoir was conducted and original data were obtained on parameters that characterize the processes of formation and exploitation of the fishery base within the framework of scientific support for the stable state of aquatic bioresources of national importance. …”
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The contributions of brain structural and functional variance in predicting age, sex and treatment by Ning-Xuan Chen, Gui Fu, Xiao Chen, Le Li, Michael P. Milham, Su Lui, Chao-Gan Yan

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Structural Relationships between Attachment Styles and Marital Satisfaction with the Mediation of Loneliness by Leili Tardast, Vahid Ahmadi, Shahram Mami, Arash Nademi

“…Aim: The present study aimed to determine the structural relationships between attachment styles and marital satisfaction with the mediation of loneliness. …”
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Investigating the multivariate nature of NHL player performance with structural equation modeling. by Sean N Riley

“…To garner a better understanding of hockey's multifaceted nature, two structural equation models (SEMs) assessing the interrelations between offense, defense, and possession were built from three seasons of NHL data. …”
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Study on the influence of blasting on the structural stability of newly-built and adjacent tunnels by Zi-qiang Li, Jia-shuai Zhang, Gui-quan Ma, Ze-lin Zhou, Sheng-peng Pu, Ceng Zeng

“…Using numerical models constructed with LS-DYNA and ANSYS, this study systematically analyzed the dynamic response characteristics of the blasting process of the newly-built tunnel and its effect on the structural stability of adjacent tunnels. Finite element simulation results using intelligent detection data matched the measured excavation contour with over 85% accuracy, revealing the correlation between the blasthole position offset and overbreak position and amount. …”
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Research on quantitative prediction method of structural fractures in metamorphic rock reservoirs by Qinghong Yang, Qi Cheng, Guanjie Zhang, Xinwu Liao, Ning Shi, Lei Zhang, Xiang Wang, Wenchao Liu, Jingshou Liu

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Structural Optimization and Comparative Analysis of B-type Metro Bogie Frame by Qingwei SONG, Chunyou GAO, Jing ZHANG, Zhuo CHEN, Wei WEI

“…According to the service life of bogie frame of a project can not meet the operation requirements, by comparing and analyzing the time-domain and frequency-domain diagrams of line dynamic stress test data, the optimal structure scheme was put forward. …”
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A performance measurement using balanced scorecard and structural equation modeling by Rosha Makvandi, Payam Makvandi

“…This paper presents a hybrid of BSC and structural equation modeling (SEM) to measure the performance of an Iranian university in province of Alborz, Iran. …”
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A Structural Model for Customer Perceived Value in E-banking Service by Long Kim, Teerasak Jindabot, Sook Fern Yeo, Kanyanit Wichianrat

“…Furthermore, the study used the structural equation model to analyse the data. The results reveal that staff behaviour, physical evidence and IT transaction showed significant effects on perceived risk. …”
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Structural Damage Identification Based on Rough Sets and Artificial Neural Network by Chengyin Liu, Xiang Wu, Ning Wu, Chunyu Liu

“…The proposed approach is tested with a 14-bay steel truss model for structural damage detection. The experimental results show that the damage features can be extracted efficiently from the combined utilization of RS and ANN methods even the volume of measurement data is enormous and with uncertainties.…”
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CREDIT SUPPORT FOR THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN BULGARIA: STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS by Hristo KOSTOV, Nadezhda BLAGOEVA, Vanya GEORGIEVA

“…This paper examines the dynamics and significance of lending in the agricultural sector of the Republic of Bulgaria and its connection with the sector's economic contribution. Using data from the Bulgarian National Bank and FAO for 2000-2023, the analysis focuses on the structure of loans by size and term and a comparative analysis of Bulgaria with EU-27 countries. …”
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The effects of alternating heads of state on structural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa by Saturnin Bertrand Nguenda Anya, Fabrice Nzepang

“…The objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of alternating heads of state on structural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). …”
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Identification of Structural Damage in Bridges Using High-Frequency Vibrational Responses by Ivana Mekjavić

“…The present research aims to develop an effective and applicable structural damage detection method. A damage identification approach using only the changes of measured natural frequencies is presented. …”
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