MonteCarloSEM: An R Package to Simulate Data for SEM by Fatih Orçan

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Impact of the board of directors’ structure on the company’s financial results by A. N. Krasnov, I. V. Balynin, L. A. Shmeleva

“…The Board of Directors is the body that controls the activities of management, and the efficiency of management decisions depends on its structure. The aim of the study is to estimate the influence of socio-demographic characteristics of directors on financial results of banks. …”
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PROGRESSIVE COARTICULATION AND EMPHATIC STRESS IN RUSSIAN VCV STRUCTURES by Sergey V. Batalin

“…ANOVA was employed to process the data obtained. It was established that in Russian VCV structures both the front/back dimensionality of the unstressed V1 vowels and the place of obstruction of the intervocalic consonants have a clearly pronounced statistically significant effect on the F2 formant values of the emphatically stressed V2 vowels. …”
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Large-scale Wind-driven Structures in the Orion Nebula by C. R. O’Dell, N. P. Abel

“…A study of [C ii ] 158 μ m and H i 21 cm spectroscopic images plus high-velocity-resolution optical and ultraviolet spectra has shown the structure of the Orion Nebula to be different from that found from the study of those data separately. …”
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Structure function in photoplethysmographic signal dynamics for physiological assessment by Javier de Pedro-Carracedo, David Fuentes-Jimenez, María Fernanda Cabrera-Umpiérrez, Ana Pilar González-Marcos

“…Additionally, it effectively examines the fractal characteristics of short-term signals influenced by the measurement noise often present in biological data. This paper presents a novel investigation into how various parameters of the structure function of the PhotoPlethysmoGraphic (PPG) signal can serve as reliable physiological biomarkers indicative of an individual’s cardiorespiratory activity level. …”
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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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ESTIMATION OF TOPOGRAPHIC DEFECTS DIMENSIONS OF SEMICONDUCTOR SILICON STRUCTURES by S. F. Sianko, V. A. Zelenin

“…The effect of non-flatness of semiconductor wafers on characteristics of manufactured devices is shown through defocusing of an image of a topological layout of a structure being formed and through reduction of resolution at photolithographic processing. …”
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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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Diminishing mangrove forest structures in Davao City, Philippines by John Glen P. Seniel, Lea A. Jimenez, Emily S. Antonio

“…The mangrove forest in Davao City was assessed for its taxonomic list, Importance Value Index, abundance and distribution of mangrove regenerations, forest structure, and species diversity status. The study was conducted in Barangay Bunawan, Lasang, Panacan, Matina Aplaya, 76-A, and Bago Aplaya. …”
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Characteristics of drug demand reduction structures in Britain and Iran by Hooman Narenjiha, Roya Noori, Maziyar Ghiabi, Hamid-Reza Khoddami-Vishteh

“…</p><p>In total, 17 features of efficient structure were obtained as follow: multi-institutional nature, collaborative inter-institutional activities, clear and relevant inter-institutional and intra-institutional job description, the ability to share the experiences, virtual institutions activity, community-based associations activity, mutual relationships, the existence of feedback sys-tems, evaluation, changeability, the ability to collect data rapidly, being rooted in community, flexibility at the local and regional levels, connection with research centers, updated policymaking, empowering the local level, and seeking the maximum benefit and the minimum resources. …”
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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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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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Pattern Recognition in Urban Maps Based on Graph Structures by Xiaomin Lu, Zhiyi Zhang, Haoran Song, Haowen Yan

“…To address these limitations, this study proposes a graph structure-based multi-pattern recognition algorithm for map groups. …”
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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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A Computational Approach to Understanding Agglutinative Structures in Urdu by Muhammad Shoaib Tahir, Mahnoor Amjad

“…This study investigates the computational challenges and opportunities presented by the agglutinative structures in Urdu, a language characterized by its complex system of morpheme-based word formation. …”
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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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